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Nakhimovsky Isaak Izrailovich (1921)

Personal data
SurnameNakhimovsky
NameIsaak
PatronymIzrailovich
Birth year1921
Birth month12
Birth day26
Birth placeDaugavpils
SexM

Nakhimovsky (Nachimowsky) Isaak Izrailovich (26 December 1921, Daugavpils) — teacher.

In 1940 Isaak Nakhimovsky completed nine grades of secondary school. From 1940 to 1941 he worked at the Daugavpils branch of the Latvian Railways. In 1941 N.’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 major trader in rubber goods whose enterprise had an annual turnover of 617,000 lats. He was removed from the settlement register in 1947 and returned to Riga.

From 1948 to 1949 Isaak Nakhimovsky worked as a cost clerk at the Riga Trust of Canteens. From 1949 to 1952 he was a cost clerk at the Jelgava branch of the Riga Meat Combine. From 1952 to 1953 he worked as a standards engineer at a plant producing industrial building materials in Tashkent. From 1953 to 1955 he studied full-time at the Tashkent Pedagogical Institute. From 1955 to 1957 he studied full-time at the Riga Pedagogical Institute; in 1959 he transferred and in the same year graduated by correspondence from the Vilnius Pedagogical Institute, obtaining the qualification of secondary-school teacher of English.

From 1957 to 1960 Isaak Nakhimovsky taught at Secondary School No. 1 in Bauska. From 1960 to 1972 he was a teacher at Riga Secondary School No. 25.

In marriage with Betya Nakhimovskaya (née Mirman) (1931, Liepāja) (dissolved in 1970) two children were born: Yakov Nakhimovsky (1957, Riga) and Genya Nakhimovskaya (1963, Riga).

In 1973 Isaak Nakhimovsky received permission to emigrate to Israel. In the late 1970s he lived in Jaffa and worked as a secondary-school teacher.

Family:

Betya Nakhimovskaya (née Mirman) (1931, Liepāja) — wife
Yakov Nakhimovsky (1957, Riga) — son
Genya Nakhimovskaya (1963, Riga) — daughter
Izrail Nakhimovsky (1899, Daugavpils – 1973, Riga) — father
Bluma Nakhimovskaya (née Pitum) (1883, Preili – 1970, Riga) — mother
Feiga Nakhimovskaya (1923, Daugavpils – 1946, Daugavpils) — sister
Asya Wolfson (née Nakhimovskaya) (1925, Daugavpils) — sister
Liya Nakhimovskaya (1932, Daugavpils) — sister
Semyon Nakhimovsky (1927, Daugavpils) — brother