Lisnyanskaya Bella Grigorievna (10 April 1944, Irkutsk) – economist.

Bella Lisnyanskaya was born into the family of Hirsh Freydenson (1920, Daugavpils) and Sonya Freidenson (née Bik) (1922, Daugavpils). In1945 her parents moved to Riga.

In 1961–62 she worked as a nursing aide and medical registrar at the Riga City Dental Polyclinic. In 1963 she completed the first year of the Faculty of Dentistry at the Riga Medical Institute. In 1963 she was a proofreader at the Riga branch of the “Teploelektroproekt” Institute. In 1964–66 she was a trainee quality controller at the textile combine “Rīgas Manufaktūra”. In 1966–68 she worked as an operator at the semiconductor device plant in Riga. In 1969 she served as a guard with the Security Department of the Proletarsky District Police Department in Riga. In 1971 she was a master’s assistant at Construction Directorate No. 1 of the Road Construction Trust in Riga.

In 1972 she graduated from the Faculty of Engineering Economics of the Riga Polytechnic Institute. In 1972–79 she worked as an economist and later head of the planning department of the trust “Stroimekhanizatsiya” in Riga.

In her marriage to Elik Lisnyansky (1944, Melekes, Ulyanovsk Region) the children Mark Lisnyansky (1965, Riga) and Rimma Lisnyanskaya (1976, Riga) were born.

In 1980 Bella Lisnyanskaya received permission to emigrate to Israel to join her grandfather Mikhail Israely (1898, Daugavpils), who had left Latvia in 1936 for what is now the State of Israel.

Family:

Elik Lisnyansky (1944, Melekes, Ulyanovsk Region) – husband
Mark Lisnyansky (1965, Riga) – son
Rimma Lisnyanskaya (1976, Riga) – daughter
Hirsh Khirsh Freydenson (1920, Daugavpils) – father
Sonya Freidenson (née Bik) (1922, Daugavpils) – mother
Evgenia Kopilenko (née Freydenson) (1947, Riga) – sister
Mikhail Israely (1898, Daugavpils) – grandfather