Sterlina Basya Fadeevna (30 June 1914, Nevel, Velikiye Luki region) — physician.

From 1928, Basya Sterlina lived in Leningrad. Between 1930 and 1932, she studied at the School of Maritime Apprenticeship at the Leningrad Commercial Port, where she qualified as a model-maker in fittings work. From 1932 to 1936, she studied at a workers’ faculty (rabfak), and from 1936 to 1941 at the general medicine and desease prevention faculty of the Arkhangelsk Medical Institute, graduating as a physician.

From 1941 to 1946, she worked as head of a rural medical district in the Krasnopolsky district of the Arkhangelsk region. From June 1946 to February 1948, she worked as a therapist at the Baldone sanatorium in the Latvian SSR.

From March 1948, she worked as a district therapist at the 11th Riga City Polyclinic and as a resident physician in the therapeutic department of the Riga State Clinical Hospital.

Archival source: Latvian State Historical Archives, Fund 283, Inventory 10, File 243, Sheet 218.