Dmitry Karbyshev
Dmitry Mikhaylovich Karbyshev was an officer of the Russian Imperial Army, a Red Army general, professor of the Soviet General Staff Academy , and Hero of the Soviet Union . 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 wellknown 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 in 1898 and went on to attend the SaintPetersburg Nikolaev Military Engineering College , from which he graduated in 1900. He was assigned to serve in the 1st East Siberian Sapper Battalion, in charge of battlefield telegraph operations , and was stationed in Manchuria.
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