Mikhail Krichevsky

Mikhail Yefimovich Krichevsky was a Jewish-Ukrainian supercentenarian and the last surviving World War I veteran who fought for the Russian Empire.

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.