Shperlin Abram Elyevich (1900 — ?) — participant in the Civil War and the revolutionary movement (associates — Ye.Ya. Vinholde, Z.K. Klyatskin). In 1923 he came to bourgeois Latvia. He worked as a tailor in Krāslava and Daugavpils, and from 1926 in Riga. He was a member of left-wing trade unions; in 1928 he was a board member, and in 1930—1931 deputy chairman of the board of the garment workers' trade union. In 1928 he stood as a candidate for deputy of the Saeima of bourgeois Latvia on behalf of the Union of Left-Wing Workers and the Working Peasantry. In 1926—1940 A. Shperlin's apartment was used for illegal gatherings, meetings, and rendezvous.
In 1940—1941 he was head of ammunition supply for the headquarters of the Local Air Defense (MPVO) of Riga's Lenin District. In 1941—1942 he worked at a collective farm in Kirov Region, and in 1942—1945 he fought on the fronts of the Great Patriotic War. He was wounded. He was awarded the medals “For Courage,” “For Combat Merit,” “For the Victory over Germany,” and “For Valiant Labor, in Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of V.I. Lenin.” He was a member of the CPSU from 1944. From 1945 he worked as a tailor at various enterprises (in Riga?). He was a personal pensioner, first of local and later of republic-wide significance.

I. Bazhul