Rivkind (Riwkind) Robert Grigoryevich (28 June 1952, Riga)

Robert Rivkind was born into the family of musician Grigory Isakovich Rivkind (1924, Daugavpils) and physician Valentina Feodosevna Kruglenko (1927, Dnipro).

He graduated from Secondary School No. 18 in Riga (1959–1969) and studied at the Riga Polytechnic Institute (1969–1972). He worked as a storekeeper-accountant at the factory “Rīgas Filcs” in 1969 and was dependent on his mother (1969–1972).

In 1972 he received permission to emigrate to Israel, where his relatives were living: his grandmother (father’s cousin) Genya Abramovna Garber (1905, Mandatory Palestine, today Israel), his second cousin once removed Tzadek Levin (1906, Palestine), and since 1969 his third cousin and fiancée Sofiya Iosifovna Bentsel (1954, Riga).

Family:

Grigory Isakovich Rivkind (1924) - father

Valentina Feodosevna Kruglenko (1927) - mother

Genya Abramovna Garber (1905) - grandmother

Tzadek Levin (1906) - cousin uncle

Sofiya Iosifovna Bentsel (1954) - third cousin and fiancée