Mayofis Mark Sholomovich (17 February 1946, Riga) — design engineer.

Mark Mayofis was born into the family of Sholom Khaimovich Mayofis (born 1917, Ludza, Latvia) and Mira Benyaminovna Mayofis (née Weinstein) (born 1919, Ludza). He completed an evening secondary school for working youth in 1963 and then studied at the Riga Polytechnic Institute from 1963 to 1968.

He worked as a labourer and then as a draughtsman at the Central Design and Technology Bureau of the Council of National Economy of the Latvian SSR (1962–1963), was a milling-machine apprentice and later a milling-machine operator at the Riga Experimental Hydrometeorological Instrument Plant (1963–1965), and subsequently worked as a design technician, design engineer and senior design engineer at the Central Design and Engineering Bureau for Mechanisation and Automation (1968–1977).

In marriage to Lubov Gertsevna Mayofis (née Neishlos) (born 1946, Riga) he had two sons: Dan Markovich Mayofis (born 1971, Riga) and Alon Markovich Mayofis (born 1976, Riga).

In 1978 he received permission to emigrate to Israel, where since 1971 his wife’s cousin (her father’s nephew), Isak Arkadyevich Neishlos (born 1948, Riga), had been living.

Family:

Sholom Khaimovich Mayofis (born 1917) — father
Mira Benyaminovna Mayofis (née Weinstein) (born 1919; emigrated to the USA in 1999) — mother
Gina Sholomovna Taranushchenko (née Maifois) (born 1941, Borisogleb, Yaroslavl Region; emigrated to the USA in 1999) — sister
Lubov Gertsevna Mayofis (née Neishlos) (born 1946) — wife
Dan Markovich Mayofis (born 1971) — son
Alon Markovich Mayofis (born 1976) — son
Isak Arkadyevich Neishlos (born 1948) — wife’s cousin