Levina Braina Isaakovna (25 August 1927, village of Lukomel, Vitebsk region, Belarus) — employee.
Briana Levina into the family of tailor Isaak Efimovich Levin (1902, Lukomel – 1952, Riga) and seamstress Rakhil Abramovna Levina (née Liukhter) (1902, Lukomel – 1982, Riga).
She studied at Vitebsk Secondary School No. 22 (1936–1941). In 1941 she was evacuated to Kungur, Molotov Region (now Perm Krai), where she worked as a seamstress’s apprentice and as a clerk at District Workshop No. 16 (1942–1944), then as a secretary-typist at NKO Warehouse No. 566 (1944–1945), and as a bookkeeper in Kindergarten No. 3 (1945).
After moving to Latvia, Briana Levina worked in Riga as a personnel inspector at the Globus factory (1946–1947). She was on maternity leave (1947–1949), then worked as a bookkeeper and senior cashier at Military Unit No. 30961 (1949–1952). In 1952 she was supported by her husband, then worked as a cashier for the District Council of the Baltic Military District (1953). She worked as a manicurist at the Voentorg Industrial Combine (1953–1956), at the Household Services Trust (1956–1958), and as a women’s workshop master at the Laimadota industrial association (1958–1988).
In her marriage to Gennady Vasilyevich Kotlechkov (1924–1973, Kungur), she had a son, Alexander Gennadyevich Kotlechkov (1946, Riga), who emigrated to Israel in 1979 and later to the USA. The marriage was dissolved in 1952.
In her second marriage, to Grigory Samuilovich Rubin (1926, Minsk – 1981, Riga), she had a son, Igor Grigoryevich Rubin (1959, Riga).
In 1988 Briana Levina received permission to travel to the FRG to visit her nephew, Igor (Garik) Mikhailovich Liukhter (1954, Riga), who emigrated with his family to Israel in 1979 and later settled in the FRG.
Family:
– Isaak Efimovich Levin (1902–1952) — father
– Rakhil Abramovna Levina (née Liukhter) (1902–1982) — mother
– Anna Isaakovna Dyadko (née Levina) (1924, Lukomel – 1983, Riga) — sister
– Gennady Vasilyevich Kotlechkov (1924–1973) — first husband
– Aleksandr Gennadyevich Kotlechkov (1946) — son of first marriage
– Grigory Samuilovich Rubin (1926–1981) — second husband
– Igor Grigoryevich Rubin (1958/1959) — son of second marriage
– Igor (Garik) Mikhailovich Liukhter (1954) — nephew