Krutik (née Lipshits) Liya Abramovna (November 15, 1953, Riga) — teacher.

Liya Krutik is the daughter of Abram Lipshits (1919, Bauska) and Nina Lipshits (née Zislina) (1928, Gorky).

In 1972, she worked as an English-language instructor at the “Mara” enterprise and as an educator at the Combined Children's Institution No. 170 in Riga. From 1972 to 1974, she was an English teacher at Riga Secondary School No. 51, and from 1976 to 1977 — an English teacher at Riga Secondary School No. 21.

In 1978, she graduated from the evening department of the Faculty of Foreign Languages of the Latvian State University.

Married to Isaak Ilyich Krutik (1945, Riga); their son Daniel Isaakovich Krutik was born in 1972 in Riga.

In 1979, Krutik received permission to emigrate to Israel, invited by her mother’s sister, Rivka Saporta (née Zislina) (1916), who had emigrated to Palestine from Leningrad in the 1930s. In the 1980s, she lived in Sydney and worked as an English teacher.

Family:

– Isaak Ilyich Krutik (1945, Riga) — husband
– Daniel Isaakovich Krutik (1972, Riga) — son
– Abram Lipshits (1919, Bauska) — father
– Nina Lipshits (née Zislina) (1928, Gorky) — mother
– Ilya Lipshits (1950, Riga) — brother
– Rivka Saporta (née Zislina) (1916) — mother’s sister