Rabinovich (Rabinowitsch) Moisey (Abram-Moisey) Tuvievich (3 November 1882, Korsovka, Vitebsk Province — ?) public figure and a municipal official in Kraslava.

Moisey Rabinovich served as Mayor from 1927 to 1932. He came from a family of adherents of the Haskalah. At the Military Medical Academy in St Petersburg, he passed the examinations for the certificate of assistant pharmacist. He was largely self-educated and, in 1910–1915, attended the advanced St Petersburg Psychoneurological Institute. In 1913–1915, he was the administrator of the first municipal power station in Kraslava, owned by Count G. Boel-Plater.

In May 1921, together with his wife and son Isaak, he returned to Kraslava under the refugee repatriation agreement and immediately assumed the post of Deputy Head of the local council. In 1922, he succeeded in obtaining town status for Karsava and was the author of the concept and design of the town’s coat of arms. He devoted considerable attention to ensuring the proper functioning of national general-education schools in Kraslava and closely supervised the construction of a new municipal power station (the previous one having been dismantled and evacuated to Oryol Province in 1915).

In 1927, following the resignation of the previous mayor, the town council elected Moisey Rabinovich as the new mayor. In 1932, the council removed him from office by majority vote. Until autumn 1940, he lived in Karsava as a private citizen. In autumn 1940, he accepted the position of manager of a pharmacy in Bukmuizha, Kraslava district.

In 1941,Moisey Rabinovich was executed by the Nazis together with his wife and younger son Samuel.

Lit.: Pašvaldības Balss. 1927. № 2. p. 109.

Moisey Rabinovich