Vaingauz (Weinhous) Leia Meerovna (1910, Odessa – ?) — civil engineer.

After graduating from the Odessa Institute of Civil and Municipal Engineering in 1936–37, Leia Vaingauz worked as a civil engineer at an industrial enterprise (Kiev), and in 1940–41 as a civil engineer at Ukrproekt (Kiev). In 1942, she served as the commandant of evacuation hospital No. 3317 (Abdulino, Kuybyshev region). From 1943 to 1946, she worked as an engineer for the Capital Construction Department of Plant No. 62 (Kemerovo), and from 1947 to 1955 as an engineer for the Housing and Utilities Administration of the Riga district. Between 1957 and 1968, she was an engineer-accountant at the Riga Thermal Power Project Institute. She was awarded the Medal “For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945”.

Husband: Mikhail Lazarevich Tartakovsky (1905, Korsun – ?, ?).

Daughter: Bella Mikhailovna Zilberman (b. 1938, Kiev).

Father: Meir-Ari Srulevich Vainhaus (1864, Odessa – 1912, Odessa).

Mother: Golda Elievna Vainhaus (née Shchigol) (1868, Zvenigorodka – 1950, Riga).

Brothers:

Semyon Meerovich Vainhaus (1902, Odessa – 1966, ?),

Ilya Meerovich Vainhaus (1893, Odessa – 1942, ?) died in combat,

Berl Meerovich Vainhaus (1897, Odessa – 1926, ?),

Shmul Meerovich Vainhaus (1900, Odessa – 1919, ?),

Grigory Meerovich Vainhaus (1907, Odessa – 1963, Odessa).

Sisters:

Dvoira-Ides Meerovna Bernstein (1895, Odessa – ?, ?),

Berta Markovna Vainhaus (1912, Odessa – ?, ?).

Cousin: Sara Iosifovna Rudnitski (1900, Odessa – ?, ?) emigrated to Israel (Tel Aviv).