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Volotsky Miliy Yakovlevich (1938)

Personal data
SurnameVolotsky
NameMiliy
PatronymYakovlevich
Birth year1938
Birth month2
Birth day24
Birth placeDnipropetrovsk
SexM

Volotsky Miliy Yakovlevich (b. 24 February 1938, Dnipropetrovsk) – engineer.

Miliy Volotsky was the son of Milya Burt (b. 1910, Olshanka – d. 1938, Dnipropetrovsk) and Yakov Volotsky (b. 1910, Oleksandriia, Kirov Oblast – d. 1961, Dnipropetrovsk).

In 1960, Volotsky graduated from the Dnipropetrovsk Institute of Railway Engineers with a degree in construction engineering. From 1960 to 1961, he worked as a site supervisor at SMU-4 of the Baltstroy Trust in Kaliningrad. Between 1961 and 1965, he was a structural engineer and then senior engineer at the Prydniprovskiy Promstroyproyekt Institute. From 1965 to 1968, he worked as a senior engineer at the Dnipropetrovsk branch of the GPI “Proektstalkonstruktsiya.” Between 1968 and 1970, he was a postgraduate researcher at the Kucherenko Central Research Institute of Building Structures (TsNIISK) in Moscow. From 1970 to 1980, he held positions as a senior engineer and team leader at GPI “Dneproproektstalkonstruktsiya.” Between 1981 and 1986, he was a senior research fellow at the Latvian Research Institute of Construction under the State Construction Committee (Gosstroy).

In the 1980s, MiliyVolotsky repeatedly applied for emigration to Israel.

Family:

Grinchenko (née Kirilyuk) Maya (b. 1945, Dnipropetrovsk) – wife
Burt Milya (b. 1910, Olshanka – d. 1938, Dnipropetrovsk) – mother
Volotsky Yakov (b. 1910, Oleksandriia, Kirov Oblast – d. 1961, Dnipropetrovsk) – father