Background
Rafael Grugman was born in Odessa, Ukraine, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and graduated from Novosibirsk Electrotechnical Institute (NETI) in Russia (now Novosibirsk State Technical University, NSTU).
Rafael Grugman was born in Odessa, Ukraine, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics and graduated from Novosibirsk Electrotechnical Institute (NETI) in Russia (now Novosibirsk State Technical University, NSTU).
During student years he worked as a journalist for several Novosibirsk newspapers. In 1971 he returned to Odessa to work as an engineer for more than twenty years, authoring and contributing to more than 50 patents and scientific articles that were published in Moscow technical magazines. He was the first editor of a Jewish newspaper "Ha-Meletz" (Russian: "Ха-Мелиц"), published in Odessa after the collapse of the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics. He lives in the United States since 1996.
He has held various positions working as a programmer, journalist and writer
Presently, he is teaching at a local college in New New York Rafael Grugman the author of fiction and non-fiction books that were published in Russia, Ukraine, United States of America and Israel.
Nontraditional Love — New York: Liberty Publishing House, 2008.
In the mid-1980s, during the years of social and political reforms in the Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics, known as the Perestroika, he again becomes a journalist, publishing his work in leading newspapers in Odessa, and conducted interviews with diplomats and military and political figures.