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Klyachko Sofya Zalmanovna (1931)

Personal data
SurnameKlyachko
NameSofya
PatronymZalmanovna
Birth year1931
Birth month5
Birth day30
Birth placeMoscow
SexF

Klyachko (née Genfon) Sofya Zalmanovna (b. May 30, 1931, Moscow) — engineer.

Sofya Klyachko was born into the family of Zalman Aronovich Genfon (1902, Dvinsk [now Daugavpils] – 1959, Tula; died aboard a train traveling from Moscow to Melitopol, Zaporizhzhia region), an engineer–chemist, and Elizaveta Ilinichna Levit (b. 1910, Moscow), a homemaker.

In 1941, she was evacuated to Krasnoyarsk, where she completed seven grades of secondary school (1947) and later graduated from the Krasnoyarsk Mining Technical School (1951).

From 1951 to 1958, she worked as a technician at the “Portstroy” office in Dudinka (Krasnoyarsk region).

After moving to Melitopol, she was employed as an engineer in the production and technical department (PTO) at SMU-11 of the Melitopolstroy Trust (1958–1967), and later as an engineer at the Technological Equipment Management Department of the Melitopolmashstroy Trust (1967–1969).

After relocating to Latvia, she worked as a safety engineer in the Road Repair and Construction Department (1969–1971, Jūrmala).

In marriage with Boris Zinovyevich Klyachko (b. 1920, Petrograd [today St. Petersburg]), she had a daughter, Alisa Borisovna Klyachko (b. 1955, Dudinka).

In 1971, Sofya Klyachko received permission to emigrate to Israel, where since 1935 her husband’s brother, Yakov Zinovyevich Klyachko (b. 1917, Petrograd), had been living.

Family:

Zalman Aronovich Genfon (1902, Dvinsk – 1959, Tula) — father
Elizaveta Ilinichna Levit (b. 1910, Moscow) — mother
Boris Zinovyevich Klyachko (b. 1920, Petrograd) — husband
Alisa Borisovna Klyachko (b. 1955, Dudinka) — daughter
Yakov Zinovyevich Klyachko (b. 1917, Petrograd) — husband’s brother

After relocating to Latvia, she worked as a safety engineer in the Road Repair and Construction Department (1969–1971, Jūrmala).

In marriage with Boris Zinovyevich Klyachko (b. 1920, Petrograd [today St. Petersburg]), she had a daughter, Alisa Borisovna Klyachko (b. 1955, Dudinka).

In 1971, she received permission to emigrate to Israel, where since 1935 her husband’s brother, Yakov Zinovyevich Klyachko (b. 1917, Petrograd), had been living.

Family:

Zalman Aronovich Genfon (1902, Dvinsk – 1959, Tula) — father
Yelizaveta Ilinichna Levit (b. 1910, Moscow) — mother
Boris Zinovyevich Klyachko (b. 1920, Petrograd) — husband
Alisa Borisovna Klyachko (b. 1955, Dudinka) — daughter
Yakov Zinovyevich Klyachko (b. 1917, Petrograd) — husband’s brother