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Solomyak Leya Borisovna (1922)

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SurnameSolomyak
NameLeya
PatronymBorisovna
Birth year1922
Birth month5
Birth day29
Birth placeRiga
SexF

Solomyak (Solomjak) Leya (Leja) Borisovna (29 May 1922, Riga) — physician.

In 1941, Leya Solomyak graduated from a city school. From 1938 to 1939, she studied at the Latvian Conservatoire, specialising in piano. During the war, she was evacuated to Stalinabad. In 1943, she entered the Stalinabad Medical Institute, where she studied until 1945.

From 1946 to 1951, she studied at the Riga Medical Institute, qualifying as a physician (therapist). She was assigned to work at the 5th Riga United City Hospital as a district resident physician.

Her husband was Yuzek Movshovich Fel, head of the textile workshop of the “Daugava” invalids’ artel and instructor for the employment of disabled veterans of the Second World War and labour.

Fond 283, inventory 10, file 242, sheet 208, photograph