Shub Rafail Lvovich (1903, Kherson Governorate – 1973, Riga), obstetrician-gynecologist. Doctor of Medical Sciences (1940), professor (1946). In 1927 he graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Medical Knowledge. In 1927–41 – resident physician, assistant (from 1932), and associate professor (from 1935) at the department of obstetrics and gynecology of the Leningrad Medical-Sanitary-Hygienic Institute.
In 1941–45 – in the army. In 1945–50 – senior research associate, professor at the Institute of Obstetrics and Gynecology of the USSR Academy of Medical Sciences (Leningrad). In 1950–73 – head of the department of obstetrics and gynecology at the Riga Medical Institute. He was one of the first in the USSR to comprehensively study the role of vitamins, enzymes, and trace elements in the physiology and pathology of the female organism, the fetus, and the newborn. He developed an effective method for preventing and treating cracked nipples in nursing mothers, trichomonas infections, and other inflammatory diseases in women using vitamins and nitrofurans, and helped introduce these into obstetric-gynecological practice, including during pregnancy and the postpartum period. Chief obstetrician-gynecologist of the Latvian SSR, chairman of the Latvian and a board member of the All-Union scientific societies of obstetricians-gynecologists.

Works: The Importance of Vitamins for Pregnant and Nursing Mothers. Leningrad, 1940; The Importance of Vitamins and Nitrofurans in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Moscow, 1961.

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