Livshits (Livschitz) Isaak Efimovich (1917 – date of death unknown).

In 1935 Isaak Livshits joined the Communist Youth Union of Romania, distributing leaflets and illegal literature among students at G. Lazăr High School. From 1937 to 1940 he studied at the University of Bucharest. In November 1939 he became secretary of the faculty party cell, and from January 1940 he was a member of the student communist organisation’s party bureau in Bucharest.

After the occupation of Bessarabia by the Red Army, with Romania’s permission, he moved to the USSR and worked as a translator for the intelligence department of the Black Sea Fleet (1940–1944). From 1944 to 1947 he worked as a translator-referent for the naval department of the Allied Control Commission in Bucharest.

In 1947 Isaak Livshits moved to Riga, where he worked as senior instructor at the Committee for Cultural and Educational Institutions under the Council of Ministers of the Latvian SSR. From 1953 to 1954 he was a lecturer at the Republican Society for the Dissemination of Political and Scientific Knowledge of the Latvian SSR and taught courses for divers at the Riga Operations Section. From 1954 to 1978 he taught at the P. Dauge Medical College.

He was active in public and political life, serving as secretary of the college party organisation and as a member of the board of the Latvian branch of the Society of Soviet–Romanian Friendship. He retired in 1978.

Isaak Livshits was awarded government honours, including the Orders of the Red Star and the Patriotic War, 2nd class, as well as seven medals.