Vitebskaya Rakhil Shmerkovna (born 1911, Berdychiv – date of death unknown)

Rakhil Vitebskaya began her working career in 1929 at the “Khimikus” enterprise in Kremenchuk. From 1930 to 1932, she was employed as a packer at a chemical-pharmaceutical factory. In 1932, she enrolled at the Kharkiv Institute of Engineering and Economics, graduating in 1937 with a degree in economics.

From 1938 to 1939, Vitebskaya worked as an engineer-economist at a coking chemical plant. Between 1939 and 1940, she held the same position at the Kharkiv Komintern Plant. From 1941 to 1943, she was evacuated due to the war. In 1943, she moved to Moscow and took up the position of senior economist at Factory No. 30.

In 1945, she relocated to Riga, where she worked as a senior engineer in the department of the Ministry of Light Industry of the Latvian SSR. From 1949, she was employed at the Riga Jewellery and Watch Factory.