Manelis Arkady Lipolovich (1939, Moscow — date of death unknown).

From 1957 to 1962, Arkady Manelis studied at the Riga Industrial Polytechnic College, specialising as a mechanical technician in equipment repair. In 1956, he worked as a trainee milling-machine operator at the Riga Jewellery Factory. In 1957, he obtained the qualification of third-grade milling-machine operator and was transferred to the repair and mechanical workshop. In 1958, he was awarded fourth-grade status. In 1959, he was transferred to the technical department as a tracer. In January 1960, he was appointed senior technician–technologist of the technical department. In 1962, he was transferred to the post of technician-designer in the Mechanisation Bureau. In May 1963, he was appointed senior technician-designer in the Mechanisation Bureau. In 1963, he enrolled at the Kaliningrad Technological Institute, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.