Pliner Leiba Abramovich (born 5 September 1937, Zilupe, Latvia) - mechanical engineer.
Leiba Pliner was born into a working-class family to Abram Leibovich Pliner (born 1907, Zilupe) and Zaida Meerovna Pliner (née Fuks) (born 1907, Shkyaune settlement, Lucyn (Ludza) Uezd, Vitebsk Governorate).
During the Second World War he was evacuated first to Kirov (1941–1942), and then, together with his mother and sisters, moved to Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR (1942), where he started school in 1945. After returning to Latvia, he graduated from Riga Railway School No. 1 in 1955. He then completed the Mechanical Faculty of the Riga Polytechnic Institute in 1960, followed by the evening programme in Automation and Computer Engineering at the same institute (1961–1965).
From 1960 to 1964, Pliner worked as an engineer at the VEF plant. Between 1964 and 1972, he was an engineer at the Computing Centre of the Latvian State University. In 1968, he enrolled in a correspondence postgraduate programme at the Riga Polytechnic Institute, from which he was dismissed in 1972.
He married Raisa Barukhovna Pliner (née Raisina) (born 1939, Indra station, Kraslava District, Latvia). They had two daughters: Bella Leibovna Pliner (born 1963, Jūrmala) and Marina Leibovna Pliner (born 1967, Riga).
In 1972, Leiba Pliner received permission to emigrate to Israel, where from the spring of that year lived his sister Rosa Abramovna Mostova (née Pliner) (born 1935, Ludza, Latvia), as well as his cousin Elias Lvovich Mezel’sky (born 1936, Zilupe) and his wife’s uncle, Kalman Isaakovich Raisin (born 1910, Ludza).
Family:
Abram Leibovich Pliner (born 1907) — father
Zaida Meerovna Pliner (née Fuks) (born 1907) — mother
Riva Abramovna Druyan (née Pliner) (born 1931, Rēzekne, Latvia) — sister
Rosa Abramovna Mostova (née Pliner) (born 1935, Ludza, Latvia) — sister
Elias Lvovich Mezel’sky (born 1936) — cousin
Raisa Barukhovna Pliner (née Raisina) (born 1939) — wife
Bella Leibovna Pliner (born 1963) — daughter
Marina Leibovna Pliner (born 1967) — daughter
Kalman Isaakovich Raisin (born 1910) — wife’s uncle