Rybnik Yakov Abramovich (09.04.1904, Lejasciems, Alūksne District) — reclaimed materials procurer. Completed 4 grades of incomplete secondary school; from 1918 to 1923, worker at a sawmill enterprise in Valga. From 1923 to 1925, served in the bourgeois Estonian army in Tartu. From 1926 to 1932 — broker for the timber enterprises of Shein, Rozovsky and Blumenstein in Latvia and Estonia (Valga and Valka). From 1932 to 1941, R. worked as shopkeeper at Goldberg's shop in Karsava. Latvian citizen; in 1940 took Soviet citizenship. In evacuation, from 1941 to 1944, worked at a collective farm in the Tatar ASSR. In 1944, was convicted under Art. 107 of the RSFSR Criminal Code for speculation and served his sentence in Kazan until 1947. After release by amnesty, in 1948 R. moved to Riga and until 1952 worked as a reclaimed materials collector at “Glavutilsyrye.” Subsequently was a procurer of reclaimed materials at the “Ausma” cooperative (1952–56) and at the procurement office of Latpotrebsoyuz (1956–65).

R.'s mother, Rybnik Gita (1861–1941), and sister Rybnik Tirda (1906–1941) perished in 1941 in Valga, Estonian SSR. R.'s sister, Rybnik Nekha (1897–1942), died in 1942 in the Tatar ASSR. R.'s sister, Rybnik Tirtsa (1906–1941), perished in 1941 in Lejasciems.

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Rybnik (Valk) Blyuma (1904) — wife
Rybnik Abram (1861–1916) — father
Rybnik Gita (1861–1941) — mother
Rybnik Efroim (1933) — son
Rybnik Lazar (1896–1912) — brother
Rybnik Nekha (1897–1942) — sister
Rybnik Samuel (1900–1941) — brother
Rybnik Tirtsa (1906–1941) — sister