Smushkovich (Smuschkowitsch) Sarra Iosifovna (1915) — participant in the revolutionary movement, political prisoner, medical worker.

From 1933 to 1940, sSarra Smushkovich worked as an embroiderer and as a sales assistant in a bookshop in Daugavpils. She distributed illegal literature and put up and displayed red flags. In the summer of 1932, a regional conference of MOPR was held in her flat. In 1934, she was arrested for distributing illegal literature and sentenced to six months’ imprisonment.

From 1941 to 1945, she worked as a nurse at a district sanitary-epidemiological station in Uzbekistan. From 1945 to 1948, she was an assistant sanitary inspector. She became a member of the CPSU in 1946.

From 1949, she worked as a nurse and senior nurse at a children’s hospital in Daugavpils. She took an active part in public life: from 1953 to 1961, she served as secretary of a primary Party organisation; from 1963, as chair of a public control assistance group and chair of a comrades’ court.

From 1972 to 1973, she worked as a nurse-dispatcher at the 3rd Riga City Hospital. She was a personal pensioner, first of local and later of republican significance.