Krislav (née Khazan) Lyudmila (Ludmila) Petrovna (b. 6 July 1946, Kharkov, Ukraine) — educator.

Lyudmila Krislav was born into a family of physicians, Pierre Lvovich Khazan (b. 1921, Kazatin, Vinnitsa Region, Ukraine) and Stasia Abramovna Meilikhova (b. 1921, Kharkov).

She completed 11 grades at Riga Secondary School No. 57 (1964), and then graduated from the Faculty of Foreign Languages of the Latvian State University (1969). She worked as an English instructor at the Riga District Officers’ House Language Courses (1969–1971), served as acting senior lecturer at the Department of Foreign Languages at the Riga Polytechnic Institute (1971–1972), completed advanced teacher training courses for foreign language instructors at the Latvian State University (1972–1974), and worked as a part-time lecturer at the same institute’s Department of Foreign Languages (1974–1977). Since 1977, she was a homemaker.

Married to Semyon Yefimovich Krislav (b. 1937, Vitebsk, Belarus). They had two children:

– Irina Semyonovna Krislav (b. 1969, Riga)

– Roman Semyonovich Krislav (b. 1976, Riga).

In 1978, Lyudmila Krislav received permission to emigrate to Israel, where her husband’s cousin, Tanya Isaakovna Sorokin (née Makhtina) (b. 1923, Lyubonichi), had been living since the 1950s. Later, Lyudmila moved to the United States.

Family:

Pierre Lvovich Khazan (b. 1921) - father

Stasia Abramovna Meilikhova (b. 1921) - mother

Vladimir Petrovich Khazan (b. 1955, Chernyakhovsk, Kaliningrad Region) - brother

Semyon Yefimovich Krislav (b. 1937) - husband

Irina Semyonovna Krislav (b. 1969) - daughter

Roman Semyonovich Krislav (b. 1976) - son

Tanya Isaakovna Sorokin (née Makhtina) (b. 1923, Lyubonichi) - husband’s cousin