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NameBeola
PatronymYankelevna
Birth year1940
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Pikus Raisa Veniaminovna (1919-2007)

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SurnamePikus
NameRaisa
PatronymVeniaminovna
Birth year1919
birth_placeUzda
Death year2007

Pikus Raisa Veniaminovna (b. 1919, Uzda, Uzda District, Minsk Region, Belarus – d. 2007, [location unspecified]) – physician.

In 1937, Raisa Pikus entered the Minsk Medical Institute. At the start of World War II, she was evacuated to Saratov, where she worked as a nurse and completed her 5th year at the Saratov Medical Institute with a specialization in surgery.

From October 1942, she served as a military surgeon in hospitals on the Bryansk and 2nd Baltic Fronts.

In December 1945, she was demobilized with the rank of Captain in the Medical Service and assigned to the Daugavpils War Veterans Hospital, where she worked from January 1946 to October 1951 as head of the surgical department.

She later worked at the Daugavpils Central City Hospital as a surgeon and head of the blood transfusion department.

She retired in July 1991.