Starozhiltseva Anna Mordukhovna (22 February 1921, Novosibirsk) — physician.

Anna Starozhiltseva was born into the family of wage workers Zina Mordukhovna and Matvey Yakovlevich Starozhiltsev. In 1929, she entered school, which she completed in 1939 in Vitebsk.

From 1939 to 1941, she studied at the Vitebsk Medical Institute. At the outbreak of the war, she evacuated to Novosibirsk, where she continued her studies.

In 1943, she moved to Moscow, where she graduated from a medical institute as a general practitioner. From 24 September 1944 to 1 November 1946, she worked as a resident physician at a clinical hospital in Moscow; from 5 November 1945 to 5 November 1946, she also worked as a resident physician at the outpatient clinic of the Moscow Metro.

Afterwards, she moved to Sovetsk, where she worked at the city dermatovenereological dispensary until May 1948. From May 1948, she worked as a resident physician at the Riga City Dermatovenereological Dispensary.

Her husband was Robert Abramovich Vessat, head of a workshop at the Riga factory “Turbomekhanik.”

Archival source: Latvian State Historical Archives, Fund 283, Inventory 10, File 243, Sheet 26.