Vasily Michurin | |
Birth Date: | 15 July 1916 |
Birth Place: | Kuzmino, Kostroma Governorate, Russian Empire |
Death Place: | Minsk, Belarus |
Birth Name: | Vasily Sergeyevich Michurin |
Serviceyears: | 1939–73 |
Rank: | Colonel |
Unit: | 13th Army |
Vasily Sergeyevich Michurin (ru|Васи́лий Серге́евич Мичу́рин; 15 July 1916 – 16 December 2021) was a Red Army man of the 13th Army[1] and later a colonel in the Soviet Army. He was the last of the surviving Hero of the Soviet Union to receive this title for the Winter War and before the start of the Great Patriotic War.[2]