Dmitry Karbyshev
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Dmitry Mikhaylovich Karbyshev (Russian: Дмитрий Михайлович Карбышев) ( October 26 [O.S. October 14] 1880, Omsk — February 18, 1945, Mauthausen, Austria) was a Red Army general, Hero of the Soviet Union (posthumously). Killed by the Nazis on February 17th, 1945 in an Austrian concentration camp Mauthausen.
A minor planet 1959 Karbyshev discovered in 1972 by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Zhuravlyova is named after him. [1]
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- ^ Schmadel, Lutz D. (2003). Dictionary of Minor Planet Names, 5th, New York: Springer Verlag, p. 158. ISBN 3540002383.
