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Mikhail Krichevsky
Jewish-Ukrainian supercentenarian From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Mikhail Yefimovich Krichevsky (Ukrainian: Михайло Юхимович Кричевський, Russian: Михаил Ефимович Кричевский; 25 February 1897[1] – 26 December 2008)[2] was a Jewish-Ukrainian supercentenarian and the last surviving World War I veteran who fought for the Russian Empire.[1][2]
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Career
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.
Personal life
After the October Revolution he returned home, where he settled and lived in Donetsk with his son and daughter-in-law.
Mikhail Krichevsky died in 2008 at the age of 111 years, 305 days.[1][3]
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