Mikhail Krichevsky

Mikhail Yefimovich Krichevsky
Born(1897-02-25)25 February 1897
Karlovka, Konstantinograd uyezd, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire
Died(2008-12-26)26 December 2008
(aged 111 years, 305 days)
Donetsk, Ukraine
AllegianceRussian Empire Russian Empire
Service/branchRussian Empire Imperial Russian Army
Years of service1917
Rank Praporshchik
UnitEngineering corps
Battles/warsWorld War I

Mikhail Yefimovich Krichevsky (Ukrainian: Михайло Юхимович Кричевський, Russian: Михаил Ефимович Кричевский; 25 February 1897?, Karlovka, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire – 26 December 2008, Donetsk, Donetsk Oblast, Ukraine) was a Jewish-Ukrainian supercentenarian and the last surviving World War I veteran who fought for the Russian Empire. Krichevsky was mobilized into the Imperial Russian Army in 1917 and was sent to the Southwestern Front, after graduating from the Kiev Military Engineering School as an engineer-praporshchik. After the October Revolution he returned home, where he settled and lived in Donetsk and died in 2008 at the claimed age of 111 years old.

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