Ivan Sidorovich Lazarenko, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Soviet general
Date of Birth: 08-Oct-1895
Place of Birth: Krasnodar Krai, Russia
Date of Death: 26-Jun-1944
Profession: military personnel
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Ivan Sidorovich Lazarenko
- Ivan Sidorovich Lazarenko (Russian: ???? ????????? ?????????; 8 October 1895 – 26 June 1944) was a Red Army major general and a posthumous Hero of the Soviet Union. From 1940 to 1941 he was the commander of the 42nd Rifle Division.
- After his division was destroyed near Brest, Belarus, during the German invasion of the Soviet Union (see also Defense of Brest Fortress), in 1941 he was court-martialed and condemned to death, but the sentence was canceled.
- In 1943 he became the commander of the 369th Rifle Division; he was killed in action in 1944.
- Lazarenko was posthumously awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for his leadership of the division in the Mogilev Offensive.
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