Ilya Yegorov
1924–1945 (age 21)
Biography
Ilya Yegorov was born in 1924 and died in 1945 in Poland during World War II. He was a young man when the war claimed his life, having lived through the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union and the subsequent years of intense conflict.
Yegorov's brief life was defined by the extraordinary circumstances of the Second World War. His death in Poland in 1945 represents the sacrifice of countless young Soviet citizens who perished in the final stages of the European conflict.