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NameBeola
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Birth year1940
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Kugel Grigory Samuilovich (1923)

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SurnameKugel
NameGrigory
PatronymSamuilovich
Birth year1923
Birth month8
Birth day27
birth_placeSmolevichi
SexM

Kugel Grigory Samuilovich (August 27, 1923, Smolevichi, Minsk Region) — lawyer.

In 1929, Kugel’s family moved to Mogilev. In 1941, he graduated from Mogilev Secondary School No. 1. During the Great Patriotic War (1941–45), he served on the Northwestern and 2nd Baltic Fronts.

From 1945 to 1947, he worked as a statistician, order and cost technician, and assembler at the Riga Tractor Repair Plant. In 1952, he graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Latvian State University.

In 1952–53, Kugel worked as a mechanic at the Sarkana Zvaigzne factory. In 1953, he served as a bailiff of the People’s Court of the 2nd District of the Kirov Region of Riga. From 1954 to 1992, he worked as a lawyer at the 4th and 2nd Legal Consultations of the Bar Association of the Latvian SSR.

He was awarded the medal “For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941–45.” Kugel’s parents and four sisters perished in the Holocaust during the war.

Member of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union since 1951.