Laznik (née Jakobson) Maria Lazarevna (15 February 1917, Moscow) — psychiatrist.

In the late 1910s, her parents — Lazar Jakobson (1870–1940) and Anna Jakobson (née Belenkaya) (1879–1940) — returned to Riga, where the family had lived before the First World War.

Maria Laznik studied abroad: in Italy (University of Bologna, 1934–1935; University of Pisa, 1937–1939), and in Switzerland (University of Basel, 1936–1937).

From 1939 to 1940, she worked as a teacher in Riga.

From 1941 to 1942, she was a teacher at a collective farm school in the village of Burbal’sk, Uzbek SSR.

In 1942, she served as a medical orderly in the Gorokhovets camps.

From 1942 to 1943, she worked as a medical orderly at the front near Staraya Russa.

In 1946, Laznik graduated from the Kazan Medical Institute, and from 1946 to 1977 she worked as a physician at the Riga Psychiatric Hospital.

She was awarded the medals “For Victory over Germany”, “20 Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War”, and “50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR”.

Her parents, Lazar Jakobson (1870–1940) and Anna (Belenkaya) Jakobson (1879–1940), were killed in Riga during the war.

Her sister, Rufina Jakobson (1912), lived and worked in Italy.

Family:

Chaim Laznik (1915) — husband
Anna Lavrinenok (Laznik) (1947) — daughter
Lazar Jakobson (1870–1940) — father
Anna Jakobson (Belenkaya) (1879–1940) — mother
Rufina Jakobson (1912) — sister