Ripenbein Grigory Veniaminovich (1939, village of Verkhneye, Verkhnensky district, Luhansk region — unknown) — technician.

From 1954 to 1958 Grigory Ripenbein studied at the Kramatorsk Machine-Building Technical School (Kramatorsk), specializing as a mechanical technician. In 1958 he was drafted into the Soviet Army, where he served as a senior radiotelephone operator in military unit 30100.

In 1962 he moved to Riga, where he worked as a design technician at the Riga Experimental Plant of Hydrometeorological Instruments (UREMP). In 1963 he entered the Riga Polytechnic Institute, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering.

From 1962 to 1964 he worked as a senior design technician at the Riga Experimental Plant of Hydrometeorological Instruments (UREMP). From 1964 he worked at the Riga Jewelry Factory.