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Torbina Etya (1926)

Personal data
SurnameTorbina
NameEtya
Birth year1926
Birth month5
Birth day28
Birth placeKremenchug
SexF

Torbina Etya Lvovna (28 May 1926, Kremenchug, Poltava Region) — physician (otolaryngologist).

Etya Torbina moved to Dnepropetrovsk in 1932. In 1934, she entered Secondary School No. 58 in Dnepropetrovsk. In 1941, she was evacuated to Samarkand, where she completed the 10th grade. In 1939, she enrolled in the medical faculty of the Dnepropetrovsk Medical Institute.

From 5 August 1950 to 17 July 1951, she served as head of the Balabino medical district in the Ukrainian SSR. From 18 February 1952 to 5 May 1952, she worked as an otolaryngologist at the 4th Riga Polyclinic. From 28 May 1952 to 3 August 1952, she was an otolaryngologist at the resort polyclinic “Riga Seaside.” From August 1952, she worked as an otolaryngologist at the 2nd Riga City Polyclinic.

Her husband was Anatoly Yakovlevich Torbin, a technologist at Factory No. 42 in Riga.

Her father was Lev Abramovich Keymen, head of the “Krasny Shveinik” artel in Dnepropetrovsk.