Rud (née Tsirkind, first married Gokhman) Ludmila Yuryevna (23 November 1946, Osipovichi, Mogilev Region, Belarus) — economist.

Ludmila Rud was born into the family of Yury Mikhailovich Tsirkind (1911, Kobchitsy village, Polesia Region, Belarus — 1972, Riga) and Faina Lvovna Tsirkind (née Shapiro; 1925, Osipovichi).

In 1949 she moved with her family to Vorkuta, where she attended Secondary School No. 7 (1953–1958). After moving to Riga, she graduated from Secondary School No. 37 in 1963. From 1963 to 1966 she worked at the Semiconductor Devices Plant. In 1964 she also completed the 11th grade at Riga Evening School for Working Youth No. 10. In 1971 she graduated from the evening department of the Faculty of Economics of the Latvian State University.

Ludmila Rud worked as senior storekeeper at the VEF plant (1966–1968), then as a timekeeper in the labour and wages department of Military Plant No. 145 (1968–1970). In 1970–1972 she was a homemaker by her husband. In 1972–1974 she worked as a senior engineer in the planning and economic department of the Production-Technical Association NOTsnab of the USSR State Supply Committee (Gossnab).

In her first marriage to Lazar Volfovich Gokhman (born 1944) she had a daughter, Rimma Lazarevna Gokhman (1964, Riga). The marriage ended in divorce in 1967. Her former husband emigrated to Israel in 1971.

In her second marriage to Meyer Skhorievich (Sakharyevich) Rud (1946, Vinnytsia, Ukraine) she had a daughter, Ada Meerovna Rud (1969, Riga).

In 1974 she received permission to emigrate to Israel, where since 1971 lived her husband’s mother, Esther Leibovna Rosenman (née Pikhotnik, first married Rud; 1925) and her husband’s maternal half-sister, Anna Mendelevna Rosenman (1955, Riga). Later Ludmila Rud (Tsirkind) emigrated to the United States.

Family:

Yury Mikhailovich Tsirkind (1911–1972) — father
Faina Lvovna Tsirkind (née Shapiro; 1925) — mother
Mikhail Yuryevich Tsirkind (1952, Osipovichi) — brother
Lazar Volfovich Gokhman (1944) — first husband
Rimma Lazarevna Gokhman (1964) — daughter from first marriage
Meyer Skhorievich (Sakharyevich) Rud (1946) — second husband
Ada Meerovna Rud (1969) — daughter from second marriage
Esther Leibovna Rosenman (née Pikhotnik, first married Rud; 1925) — mother of second husband
Anna Mendelevna Rosenman (1955) — husband’s half-sister