Mikhail Krichevsky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Soviet scientist and inventor, last surviving Ukrainian World War I veteran
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Place of Birth: Karlivka, Poltava Oblast, Ukraine
About Mikhail Krichevsky
- Mikhail Efimovich Krichevsky (Ukrainian: ??????? ???????? ???????????, Russian: ?????? ???????? ??????????; 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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