Dmitry Kanishchev
1926–1945 (age 19)
Biography
Dmitry Kanishchev was born in 1926 and died in 1945 in Poland during World War II. He was a teenager when Nazi Germany invaded the Soviet Union, and he lived through the war's most devastating years before his death in its final year.
Kanishchev's brief life was consumed by the Second World War, which claimed him in Poland in 1945. His death represents the enormous cost paid by the Soviet Union and the profound loss of youth during the conflict.