Levin (Lewin) Efim Isaakovich
(18 October 1932, Riga) — engineer.
Efim Levin was born into the family of Minukha Levina (Olkhovskaya) (1900, Nevel — 1962, Belovo) and Isaak Levin (1901, Dvinsk — 1955, Tomsk).
In 1941, together with his mother, his brother Solomon Levin (1920, Vologda — …), and his sister Musya Fistul (née Levina) (1921, Riga), Efim Levin was deported to the village of Kargasok, Tomsk Oblast. Before the Soviet annexation of Latvia, Efim’s mother had owned a ready-made clothing warehouse with an annual turnover of 110,800 lats.
1950–1952 — electrician at an industrial plant and the state seed station in Kolpashevo, Tomsk Oblast
1955–1957 — served in the Soviet Army
1959 — graduated from Tomsk Forestry Technical School as an electrical mechanic
1959–1963 — installer, foreman, senior foreman at the Belovo installation site, Kemerovo Region
1963–1965 — senior foreman and deputy chief engineer in Abay, Karaganda Region
1966–1972 — senior foreman at installation sites in Pridneprovsk, Krivoy Rog, and Ladyzhin
In 1972 Efim Levin moved to Latvia. Until 1981, he worked as an electrician and foreman at the RAF automobile plant in Jelgava. In 1981–1988, he was an electrician at the Kuldīga reinforced concrete plant (ЖБК «Кулдига»). Since 1988, he worked as an engineer at the Latvian Construction Research Institute (Latvian NII Stroitelstva) in Riga.
He was divorced. His son Sergey Levin (1955, Tomsk) lived and worked in Belovo (Russian Federation) in the 1980s. His daughter Zhanna Levina (1962, Belovo) lived and worked in Lesosibirsk (Russian Federation) in the 1980s.
In 1983, Efim Levin was convicted under Article 198 of the Criminal Code of the Latvian SSR for violating civil status registration rules and sentenced to one year of corrective labor.
In 1990, Efim Levin received permission to emigrate to Israel at the invitation of his sister, Musya Fistul (née Levina) (1921, Riga), who had left Latvia in 1971.
Relatives:
Musya Fistul (née Levina) (1921, Riga) — sister (?)
Alexander Levin (1942, Tomsk Oblast) — brother
Sergey Levin (1955, Tomsk) — son
Zhanna Levina (1962, Belovo) — daughter