Mikhail Krichevsky
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Mikhail Yefimovich Krichevsky | |
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Born | Karlovka, Konstantinograd uyezd, Poltava Governorate, Russian Empire | 25 February 1897
Died | (aged 111 years, 305 days) Donetsk, Ukraine | 26 December 2008
Allegiance | Russian Empire |
Service/ | Imperial Russian Army |
Years of service | 1917 |
Rank | Praporshchik |
Unit | Engineering corps |
Battles/wars | World 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.
See also
- 1890s births
- 2008 deaths
- Russian military personnel of World War I
- Ukrainian centenarians
- Dnipro Polytechnic alumni
- Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour
- People from Poltava Oblast
- People from Poltava Governorate
- Jews from the Russian Empire
- Ukrainian Jews
- Soviet Jews
- Ukrainian people of World War I
- Longevity claims
- Russian military personnel stubs
- Ukrainian people stubs