Levit (Lewit) Lev Mikhailovich (born 4 December 1949, Riga) — mechanical engineer.

After graduating from Riga Secondary School No. 27, Lev Levit worked from 1967 to 1969 as a fitter-radioman at the Riga Bus Park. From 1969 to 1971 he served in the Soviet Army. Between 1971 and 1978 he worked as a fitter, electrician, engineer and workshop foreman at Motor Transport Combines No. 5 and No. 4.

In 1977 he completed the evening–correspondence programme of the Mechanical and Construction Faculty of the Riga Polytechnic Institute, qualifying as a mechanical engineer.From 1978 to 1981 he served as head of the Sales and Finance Department at the Darba Spars Production Association, and from 1981 to 1986 worked as a fitter at the Riga Textile Machinery Plant.

Lev Levit became a member of the CPSU in 1976 and was expelled in 1985 after applying for an exit permit to Israel.

From 1972 to 1985 he was married to Maya Iosifovna Preigermakh (born 1954, Bessarabskaya). The marriage was childless.

Family:

Mozus Leonidovich Levit — father
Gesya Zelikovna Levit (née Druyan) — mother
Maliya Mikhailovna Nadel — sister, emigrated in 1983 to Israel (Be’er Sheva)