Krupkina (née Zaka, divorced Kretzer) Frida Grigoryevna (1896 – after 1941)

Frida Krupkina was born on 14 December 1896 in St. Petersburg into the family of a pharmacist; father – Grigory, mother – Sicilya. From 1906 she attended secondary school and in 1913 graduated from the Orlovskaya Women’s Gymnasium. In 1916 she began her studies at the Faculty of Law of the Moscow Higher Women’s Courses, and in 1917–1919 continued at Moscow University. For two years she worked as a clerk and secretary in the Legal Department of the Council of the All-Russian Cooperative Congress.

In 1921 she began studying law at the University of Latvia, graduating in 1926. During her studies, she worked as a secretary and correspondent in various private offices, and from 1924 in the office of sworn advocate B. Petkovich. From 20 October 1926 she was assistant to sworn advocate B. Petkovich. From 6 November 1935 she was a sworn advocate in Riga. She was active in the Russian Legal Society in Latvia, serving as a member of the auditing commission.

During the Soviet occupation, in January 1941 she was admitted to the Collegium of Advocates. Her subsequent fate is unknown.

In 1920 she married an official, Pavel Kretzer (b. 1896), but the marriage ended in divorce. In 1930 she married for the second time, to physician Samuel Krupkin (b. 13 April 1894).

Work:

Civiprocesa nolikuma 239. panta kārtībā iesniedzamo prasību piekritība un pārsūdzības kārtība. – Riga, 1935.