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Nakhimovskaya Liya Izrailovna (1932)

Personal data
SurnameNakhimovskaya
NameLiya
PatronymIzrailovna
Birth year1932
Birth month5
Birth day11
Birth placeDaugavpils
SexF

Nakhimovskaya (Nachimowskaya) Liya (Lija) Izrailovna (11 May 1932, Daugavpils) — nurse.

In 1941, Liya’s father, Izrail Nakhimovsky (1899, Daugavpils – 1973, Riga), together with his wife, Bluma Nakhimovskaya (née Pitum) (1883, Preili – 1970, Riga), and their children, was sent to special settlement in the village of Dzerzhinskoye, Krasnoyarsk Krai, as a former co-owner of a shop and a major trader in rubber goods, whose enterprise had an annual turnover of 617,000 lats.

In 1950 Liya Nakhimovskaya completed eight grades of secondary school in Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Krai. In the 1950s her father was transferred to Tashkent, where he worked as an accountant at a raw hides base. In 1953 Liya Nakhimovskaya graduated from a midwifery school in Tashkent. From 1953 to 1956 she worked as a nurse at the medical unit of the Chkalov Plant in Tashkent. From 1957 to 1959 she was an instructor at a shooting range attached to the city committee of DOSAAF in Tashkent. From 1962 to 1964 she worked as a dietary nurse at the medical unit of the Tashkent Textile Combine. From 1964 to 1966 she was a dietary nurse at the hospital in the town of Saryagash, South Kazakhstan Region. From 1969 to 1973 she worked as a nurse at the Salaspils outpatient clinic, and from 1975 to 1977 at the Ropaži outpatient clinic. From 1977 she was a homemaker.

In marriage with Mikhail Davidov (1930, Tashkent) she had four children: Elmira Shreiber(g) (née Davidova) (1956, Dzhambul, Kazakh SSR), Nelya Smirnova (née Davidova) (1959, Tashkent), Faina Gruz (née Davidova) (1963, Tashkent), and Murad Davidov (1967, Tashkent).

In 1978 Liya Nakhimovskaya, together with her husband and her younger daughter and son, received permission to emigrate to Israel at the invitation of her brother, Isaak Nakhimovsky (1921, Daugavpils). Subsequently she lived in Ashkelon and worked as a nurse. In the 1990s she lived in Canada.

Family:

Mikhail Davidov (1930, Tashkent) — husband
Elmira Shreiber(g) (née Davidova) (1956, Dzhambul, Kazakh SSR) — daughter
Nelya Smirnova (née Davidova) (1959, Tashkent) — daughter
Faina Gruz (née Davidova) (1963, Tashkent) — daughter
Murad Davidov (1967, Tashkent) — son
Izrail Nakhimovsky (1899, Daugavpils – 1973, Riga) — father
Bluma Nakhimovskaya (née Pitum) (1883, Preili – 1970, Riga) — mother
Isaak Nakhimovsky (1921, Daugavpils) — brother
Feiga Nakhimovskaya (1923, Daugavpils – 1946 (?), Daugavpils) — sister
Asya Wolfson (née Nakhimovskaya) (1925, Daugavpils) — sister
Semyon Nakhimovsky (1927, Daugavpils) — brother