Stepanenko Raisa Lazarovna (7 June 1887, Novozybkov, Chernigov region) — physician.

In 1910, she graduated from the Kyiv feldsher school and worked as a feldsher at the Kyiv Alexandrovskaya Hospital until 1912. From 1913 to 1918, she worked as a feldsher in the provincial zemstvo of Ekaterinoslav, and from 1918 to 1925 — at a district polyclinic in Dnepropetrovsk.

From 1926 to 1930, she studied at the Dnepropetrovsk Medical Institute, after which she worked as a general practitioner (therapist) in various medical institutions in Dnepropetrovsk.

In 1941, she was evacuated to Saratov, and later to Shumerlya (Chuvash ASSR), where she worked as a therapist in a polyclinic.

In the early 1950s, she moved to Riga, where until 1954 she worked as a resident physician in seasonal polyclinics of the Riga seaside.

She was awarded the medal “For Valiant Labour during the Great Patriotic War.”

Archival source: Latvian State Historical Archives, Fund 283, Inventory 10, File 243, Sheet 183 (photo).