Shirman Mark Moiseyevich (6.09.1953, Kryvyi Rih, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) – worker. Born into the family of physician Shirman Moisei Mordkovich (1922, Chernyakhov, Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine) and teacher Shirman (Nenadovskaya) Tatyana Ionovna (1931, Kryvyi Rih). He finished Riga secondary school No. 38 (1970), studied at the Riga Polytechnic Institute (1971–1974), while also working as a cashier-receiver at “Rīgas Ekspresis” (1972–1973), as a laboratory assistant at the machine-building equipment department of RPI (1973), and as a worker at “Rīgas Ekspresis” (1974–1975).

In 1975 he received permission to emigrate to Israel, where his cousin (his mother's sister's son), Fishman Alexander Abramovich (1953, Riga), had lived since 1970.

N. Voronova

Shirman Moisei Mordkovich (1922) – father
Shirman (Nenadovskaya) Tatyana Ionovna (1931) – mother
Fishman Alexander Abramovich (1953) – cousin