Smolyar (Smolar) Mikhail (Michael) Mikhailovich (Moiseevich) (b. 17 December 1929, Korosten, Zhytomyr Region) — engineer.

From 1941 to 1945, Mikhail Smolyar was in evacuation, first in the village of Novokievka, Panfilovo station, Stalingrad Region, and then in the town of Cheremkhovo, Irkutsk Region. After graduating from the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Kyiv Polytechnic Institute, from 1952 to 1954 he worked as an engineer at Plant P/O Box 114 (Rostov-on-Don); from 1954 to 1960 as an engineer and senior engineer at the VEF plant; and from 1960 to 1963 as a Category I engineer at the Popov Plant.

In 1957, he married to Khaya Borukhovna Smolyar (née Kaplan) (b. 1935, Riga).

Their daughter is Ilana Mikhailovna Smolyar (b. 22 May 1961, Riga), and their son is Boris Mikhailovich Smolyar (b. 19 April 1963, Riga).

Mikhail Smolyar was born into the family of Mikhail Borisovich Smolyar (1904, Korosten — ?, ?) and Tsipa Tsudikovna Smolyar (née German) (1900, Pogoreloye, KorostenDistrict, Ukraine — 1963, Riga).

His sister Klara Mikhailovna Smolyar (b. 1927, Korosten) emigrated to Israel in 1974.

His mother-in-law Musya Abramovna Kaplan (? — ?) emigrated to Israel in 1960.

He emigrated to Israel in 1967.

Family:

Khaya Borukhovna Smolyar (née Kaplan) (b. 1935, Riga) — wife
Boris Mikhailovich Smolyar (b. 19 April 1963, Riga) — son
Ilana Mikhailovna Smolyar (b. 22 May 1961, Riga) — daughter
Mikhail Borisovich Smolyar (1904, Korosten — ?, ?) — father
Tsipa Tsudikovna Smolyar (née German) (1900, Pogoreloye, Korosten District, Ukraine — 1963, Riga) — mother
Klara Mikhailovna Smolyar (b. 1927, Korosten) — sister
Musya Abramovna Kaplan (? — ?) — mother-in-law