Mikhail Grigorievich Girshovich ( 1904 , Kutno , Warsaw province (now Poland ) - 1947 , Moscow ) - Soviet military leader, major general .
| Mikhail Grigorievich Girshovich | |||||||
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| Date of Birth | 1904 | ||||||
| Place of Birth | Kutno , Warsaw Province , Russian Empire (now in the одódз Voivodeship , Poland ) | ||||||
| Date of death | 1947 | ||||||
| Place of death | Khabarovsk , USSR | ||||||
| Affiliation |  the USSR | ||||||
| Type of army | Air defense | ||||||
| Years of service | 1920 - 1947 | ||||||
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| Battles / wars | Civil war in Russia , The Great Patriotic War | ||||||
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Biography
Born into a poor Jewish family. In the Red Army since 1920, he graduated from an artillery school.
During the Great Patriotic War - deputy commander of the Air Defense Army, chief of staff of the Moscow Air Defense Front ( 1942 - 1943 ), chief of staff of the Special Moscow Air Defense Army . In 1944 - 1945 - Chief of the Central Headquarters of the Air Defense of the Red Army. He died in this post in 1947 .