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Smirina Nina Markovna (1926-2005)

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SurnameSmirina
NameNina
PatronymMarkovna
Birth year1926
Birth month7
Birth day15
Birth placeDisna
Death year2005
Death month12
Death day21
Death placeJūrmala
SexF

Smirina (née Gram) Nina Markovna (15 July 1926, Disna, Vilnius Voivodeship — 21 December 2005, Jūrmala) — pedagogue.

In 1936, Nina Gram completed a four-year Jewish (Yiddish-language) primary school in Disna. In 1939, in the town of Luzhki (Disna district), she graduated from a seven-year Polish primary school. In the same year, following the incorporation of Western Belarus into the USSR, she was sent to study at the Minsk Pedagogical Technical School, department of primary education.

With the start of the Nazi invasion, she was evacuated. She began her teaching career at the age of 15: on 1 September 1941, she started working as a physical education teacher and primary school teacher at the Suksun Secondary School (Perm/Molotov region).

From 1942, she taught at the Klyuchevskaya Secondary School (Sverdlovsk region), and from 1944, at the Shakhunya Railway School (Gorky region).

From autumn 1947, she worked as a primary school teacher at a seven-year school in Disna (Miory district, Vitebsk region), while studying by correspondence at the natural-geographical faculty of the Vitebsk Teachers’ Institute. She did not complete these studies at that time but resumed her education in the 1960s, studying by correspondence at the geographical faculty of the Mogilev State Pedagogical Institute.

From 1952, she worked as a boarding school educator at the Disna secondary school, where she also taught singing and home economics.

From 1965, she lived in Jūrmala, where she worked as an educator in children’s institutions, including the children’s sanatorium “Sparīte” (1969–1977) and the Republican Children’s Hospital “Avoti” (1977–1992).