Taubina (née Fogelman) Riva (Riwa) Aronovna (30 December 1922, Riga) — pediatrician.

Riva’s father, Aron Fogelman (1888–1966), was a bookbinder, and her mother, Basya Fogelman (née Becker) (1890–1959), was a knitter. Her elder brother, Barukh (1920), moved to Palestine in 1939, enrolling in the Haifa Polytechnic Institute. The planned emigration of the whole family did not take place: in June 1941, her parents were deported to Krasnoyarsk, and she was forced to interrupt her secondary education.

In 1943, she was mobilized for construction work in Vladivostok. In 1945, she returned to the Krasnoyarsk region and married Boris Taubin (1920). In the spring of 1946, she graduated from the Krasnoyarsk school for working youth, while simultaneously working there as an accountant. In the same year, she entered the Krasnoyarsk Medical Institute and graduated in 1951 as a physician.

She worked as a pediatrician in Krasnoyarsk, Kansk, and, after returning in 1957, in Riga (Children’s Polyclinic No. 8). Her son Moisei was born in 1952, and her daughter Liya in 1956.

From 1955, her parents applied for permission to emigrate to Israel. The permission granted in 1960 was used by her father; her mother had died in 1959 in Riga.

In 1970, her son Moisei passed the entrance examinations to the Riga Polytechnic Institute with the highest possible score (15 out of 15), but was not admitted: since 1963, the family had been applying annually to OVIR for permission to emigrate to Israel to join her brother.

Family:

Boris Moiseevich Taubin (1920) — husband
Moisei Taubin (1952) — son
Liya Taubina (1956) — daughter
Barukh Fogelman (1920) — brother
Aron Fogelman (1888–1966) — father
Basya Fogelman (née Becker) (1890–1959) — mother