Tarasova (née Gorenstein) Sofya (Sofia) Shlemovna (16 April 1947, Nikolaevsk-on-Amur) — librarian.

In 1965, Sofya Tarasova began working in Riga. She later enrolled in and in 1971 graduated from the Pskov State Pedagogical Institute with a specialization as a teacher of Russian language and literature.

From 1971 to 1979, she worked at the Latvian State Library as a librarian, senior librarian, senior editor, and chief bibliographer.

Her sister lived in Kyiv and emigrated to Israel in 1977. Sofya Tarasova herself emigrated with her family to the United States in 1979.

Family:

Vladislav Tarasov (1947) — husband
Petr Tarasov (1972) — son
Gleb Tarasov (1974) — son
Shlema Gorenstein (1917–1976) — father
Perl Brodskaya (1922–1976) — mother
Irina Pogrebivskaya (née Gorenstein) (1944) — sister