Medvinskaya Liliya Mikhailovna (born 27 November 1923, Odessa) — technologist.
Liliya Medvinskaya was born into the family of an office employee, Mikhail Ovseyevich Medvinsky (1883–1933, Leningrad), and Rozaliya Yudkovna Medvinskaya (née Meyerovich) (born 1891, Odessa). She graduated from Odessa Secondary School No. 130 in 1941. In the same year she was evacuated to Tashkent, where in 1942 she worked as a copyist at the Tashselmash plant. From 1942 to 1944 she studied at the Kazakh Medical Institute in Alma-Ata.
After moving to Riga, she was a homemaker from 1945 to 1964. She worked as a procurement specialist for perfumery liquids at the Dzintars factory (1964–1965), as a laboratory assistant in the perfumery and cosmetics department of the Special Design Bureau for Chemicalization of the Administration of the Chemical Industry of the Latvian SSR (1965–1966), and as an engineer in the perfumery products department of the Dzintars factory (1966–1971). At the same time, from 1965 to 1968, she completed her studies at the Riga Mechanical and Technological Technical School. From 1971 to 1978 she worked at the Young Spectator Theatre as a freelance ticket distributor.
In her marriage to Mikhail Anisimovich Vugman (born 1913, Odessa), two children were born: a daughter, Larisa Mikhailovna Shargorodskaya (née Vugman) (born 1945, Riga), and a son, Anatoly Mikhailovich Vugman (born 1952, Riga). The marriage was dissolved in 1978.
In 1979 she received permission to emigrate to Israel, where since 1972 her aunt, Dina Khaimovna Balkina (née Pliner) (born 1903, Rezekne), had been living.
Family:
Mikhail Ovseyevich Medvinsky (1883–1933) — father
Rozaliya Yudkovna Medvinskaya (née Meerovich) (born 1891) — mother
Elga Mikhailovna Dementyeva (née Medvinskaya) (born 1911, Odessa) — sister
Dorothea Mikhailovna Axelrod (née Medvinskaya) (born 1914, Odessa) — sister
Dina Khaimovna Balkina (née Pliner) (born 1903, Rezekne) — aunt
Mikhail Anisimovich Vugman (born 1913) — former husband
Larisa Mikhailovna Shargorodskaya (née Vugman) (born 1945) — daughter
(emigrated from Leningrad in 1978, first to Israel and then to Switzerland)
Anatoly Mikhailovich Vugman (born 1952) — son(emigrated in 1979 to Israel and subsequently to Switzerland)