Shvorina Minna Iosifovna (23.11.1928, Berdychiv, Ukraine) — accountant-economist. She was born into a family of office workers. In 1950 she enrolled at the accounting-economics faculty of the G.V. Plekhanov Moscow Institute of National Economy (today — the G.V. Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics), which she completed in 1954 with a specialization in “accountant-economist.” She had a good command of German. In 1954—1956 she worked as a bookkeeper at the Riga branch of the Military Trade Office, in 1957 — as a record-keeper at the “Dinamo” sporting goods factory, and in 1958—1959 — as a bookkeeper at the Household Services Combine of the Moscow District of Riga.

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