Lipeles Lazar (Lasar) Leibovich (born 20 November 1946, Riga) – worker.

From 1960, Lazar Lipeles worked as an electrician's apprentice at the Riga tram and trolleybus trust. He graduated from secondary school for working youth in 1963 and enrolled in the full-time programme at the Riga Polytechnic Institute. In 1964, he transferred to the part-time division and was soon expelled for non-attendance. He worked as an electrician at the Rīgas Audums combine. In 1965, he moved to the VEF factory as an electrical fitter and later as a senior technician. In 1966, Lazar Lipeles dissolved his first marriage (concluded in 1965) with Roza Leybovna Lipeles (née Silberman) (1945). In the same year, he took a position as an engineer in the design department of the Design and Construction Bureau of the Main Administration of Public Services, and at the end of 1965 moved to the design institute Latkommunprojekt.

In 1967, Lazar Lipeles registered his second marriage with Miliya Mikhalinovna Lipeles (née Yudelson) (1948). Until 1968 he worked as an engineer for staff training at the Directorate of the Heat Supply Service of the Housing Administration of the Riga City Executive Committee. From 1969, he was employed as a plumbing fitter at the City of Riga Maintenance and Repair Service (RSU) and at the Riga Experimental Plant of RAF. From 1970 to 1972, L. worked at the Rīgas Apavi footwear combine as a shoemaker.

In 1975, Lazar Lipeles was convicted under Article 204, Part 2 of the Criminal Code of the Latvian SSR for aggravated hooliganism and sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment in a general-regime corrective labour colony. In 1976, he was conditionally released and assigned to construction sites of the national economy. He worked on the construction of the Kēkava poultry farm. From 1977, he worked at the Riga Electric Lamp Plant.

Family:

Miliya Mikhalinovna Lipeles (née Yudelson) (1948) - second wife

Tatyana Lipeles (1974) - daughter

Elena Lipeles (1977) - daughter

Leib Lipeles (1904–1968) - father

Mikhalina Lipeles (1914) - mother

Roza Leybovna Lipeles (née Silberman) (1945) - first wife