Turkov Izrail Solomonovich (1903, village of Nagartov, Kherson Province — ?) — shoemaker.

Izrail Turkov joined a self-defense unit at the age of 16 and took part in operations against White Guard detachments. From 1919, he served in the Red Army, from which he was demobilized due to injury.

From 1922 to 1930, he worked as a shoemaker at factories in Kherson and Mykolaiv. In 1930, he was mobilized as part of the so-called “twenty-five-thousanders” and sent to rural areas to assist in the organization of collective farms and the dekulakization campaign.

From 1942 to 1943, he worked in hospitals of the Don and Stalingrad fronts.

In Riga, from 1947 to 1956, he worked as a master of a shoe workshop in the artel “Rīgas Apavnieks.”