Pasternak Samuil Osipovich (1896 – 1970, exact birth and death dates unknown; presumed to have died in Krāslava) — worker, serviceman, and party activist.

Samuil Pasternak began working in 1910 as a labourer at a bristle factory, where he remained until 1918. From 1918 to 1922, he served in the Red Army, including on the Southern Front and with the 61st Cavalry Regiment. After demobilisation, from 1923 to 1930, he worked as a puller at a bristle factory.

He joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU) in 1925, and from 1926 to 1931, he was elected as a deputy to the Vitebsk Regional Council.

Between 1931 and 1942, he served as an instructor in the sorting shop of the Bristle Combine named after Kuibyshev, as well as a supplier of raw materials and in other roles in Vitebsk (Belarus) and Bogorodsk (Russia).

In 1942, Pasternak was called up again for military service in the Soviet Army, where he served as a private and was wounded by shell shock (concussion). After the end of active combat, from 1944 to 1946, he worked at the bristle factory in Bogorodsk.

From 1946 to 1958, he headed the mill of the Krāslava District Industrial Combine. For three years he was elected Secretary of the primary party organisation of the Krāslava Industrial Combine.

Samuil Pasternak was awarded the medals “For Courage,” “For the Victory over Germany,” and “For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945,” and in 1967 he received the Order of the Red Star. He was recognised as a personal pensioner of republican significance.