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| Dina Lazarevna |
Father: Lazar PavlovichTsirlin
Mother: Fanya Izrailevna Tsirlin
Spouse: Pavel Isaakovich Kalika
Child
Biographical information:
Born July 22, 1902 in Rzhishchev. (Copy of birth record, 1916.)
In the documentation the name is given as Dina Leizorovna Tsyrlina; she always used Tsirlina.
Secondary education at the Commercial Collegae of the 1st Pedagogic Association, 1911-1919. Entered the Women's Medical Insitute, a division of the Higher Women's School, later merged with St. Vladimir University (1920), and subsequently the Bogomelets Medical University.
Ph.D. at the Pirogov medical institute, Moscow at the Chair of Surgery under Professor Spasokukotsky, a famous surgeon. Dina is considered a member of the Spasokukotsky school.
Further information comes from the recollections of Leonid Zolotarevsky; dates are undocumented.
Dina married Pavel (Pinkhus) Issakovich Kalika (1898-1988), a fellow student. She specialized in anatomical pathology and forensic medicine.
War service, lieutenant colonel: Autumn 1939 hospital, Vilna; 1939-1940 hospital, Kingisepp; 1941-1945 hospital 290 western front, then 3rd Byelorussian front, various locations including Kaunas.
1948, responded to accident at Shatura electrical plant.
Some time in the interval 1948–1956 the family adopted an orphan, Vera Komarov.
1945$ndash;1948: 3rd Medical Institute Moscow. D. Sc. thesis (habilitation). Fell victim to 1953 persecution of Jewish medical professionals.
Worked as head of surgery chairs in Dzaudzhikau (Vladikavkaz, Northern Osetia), and then Karaganda (Kazhakhstan), where among other things she studied occupational diseases of miners.
Returned to Moscow in 1962 as head of the surgery division in No. 2 Sokolinaya Gora clinics until her retirement.
Died 1989.
Kept her maiden name as married name.
Sources:
Galina Tsirlin (2014, 2017)
See Documents
2014; 2017