Dmitry Karbyshev
| Dmitry Mikhaylovich Karbyshev | |
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General Dmitry Karbyshev in 1940
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| Born |
October 14, 1880 Omsk, Russian Empire |
| Died | February 18, 1945 (aged 64) Mauthausen, Upper Austria, Nazi Germany |
| Allegiance |
 Russian Empire Soviet Union
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| Service/branch | Russian Imperial Army, Red Army |
| Rank |
Lieutenant General of Engineer Corps (1940) Lieutenant Colonel (1916) |
| Battles/wars |
Russo-Japanese War World War I Russian Civil War Winter War World War II |
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Dmitry Mikhaylovich Karbyshev (Russian: Дмитрий Михайлович Карбышев) (October 26 [O.S. October 14] 1880, Omsk — February 18, 1945, Mauthausen, Austria) was an officer of the Russian Imperial Army, a Red Army general, professor of the Soviet General Staff Academy (Doctor of Military Sciences), and Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously). He is best known for being left outside to freeze to death while imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp, becoming a role model of patriotism in Soviet propaganda.
Karbyshev was born in Omsk to the well-known Siberian Cossack starshyna family of Kryashen origin and spoke both Russian and Kryashen dialect of Tatar. His father died when he was twelve, and he was raised by his mother. Despite financial difficulties, he graduated from the Siberian Cadet Corps (today Omsk Cadet Corps of Ministry of Defense) in 1898 and went on to attend the Saint-Petersburg Nikolaev Military Engineering College (Uchilishche), from which he graduated in 1900. He was assigned to serve in the 1st East Siberian Sapper Battalion, in charge of battlefield telegraph operations (chief of cable section of a telegraph company), and was stationed in Manchuria.
During the Russo-Japanese War 1904-1905), Karbyshev was responsible in building bridges, and conducting reconnaissance patrols, as well as telegraph operations. He was at the Battle of Mukden and was decorated for bravery. He was promoted to Lieutenant (poruchik) at the end of the war.
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