Moisey Shepshelevich Lyakhovitsky

Moisey Shepshelevich Lyakhovitsky was a Yiddish Soviet writer, power engineer and inventor. Born on 27 November 1893 in the small Jewish town of Shchedrin in the Minsk governorate, he moved in his youth to Yekaterinoslav, passed the gymnasium course as an external student in 1917 and took part in political life as a member of the Jewish social democratic party Poale Zion. In 1921 he moved to Moscow to obtain higher education, became a power engineer, defended a candidate dissertation, registered a number of inventions and was awarded the Order of Lenin. He died on 16 December 1991 and is buried at the Vostryakovo cemetery in Moscow. After retiring at the age of 78 he began to write in Yiddish for the magazine Sovetish Heymland, and his best known work is a chronicle of Shchedrin published in 1982. He is included here for his career as a Soviet power engineer and inventor.