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| Native name | Франц Иосифович Перхорович |
| Born | 27 May 1894 Zalazy village, Borisovsky Uyezd, Minsk Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 11 October 1961 (aged 67) Moscow, Soviet Union |
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| Rank | Lieutenant general |
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Franz Iosifovich Perkhorovich (Russian: Франц Иосифович Перхорович; 27 May 1894 – 11 October 1961) was a Belarusian Soviet Army lieutenant general and a Hero of the Soviet Union.
Perkhorovich served in World War I as an Imperial Russian Army junior officer, then joined the Bolsheviks in the subsequent Russian Civil War. He became a Red Army officer and was briefly captured in the Polish–Soviet War. Perkhorovich continued to serve in the interwar period, but was dismissed from the Red Army during the Great Purge. Reinstated in 1939, he successively commanded two regiments after the German invasion of the Soviet Union in June 1941. Perkhorovich took command of the 100th Rifle Division in May 1942, the 52nd Rifle Corps in June 1943, and the 3rd Guards Rifle Corps in May 1944. In November of that year he became commander of the 47th Army, and for his leadership in the Vistula–Oder Offensive in January 1945 was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union, the highest Soviet distinction. Postwar, Perkhorovich continued to serve, becoming chief of the General Staff's Combat Training Directorate before his 1951 retirement.
Perkhorovich was born on 27 May 1894 in the village of Zalazy in Minsk Governorate (now Dokshytsy Raion, Minsk Region) to a working class family. Of Polish descent, he was a member of the hereditary nobility. In 1912, he graduated from the Lepiel City School. In March 1915, Perkhorovich was drafted into the Imperial Russian Army as a private and was assigned to the 232nd Reserve Infantry Battalion at Kharkov, where he graduated from training courses and became a junior unteroffizier. Perkhorovich graduated from the 2nd Moscow School of Praporshchiks and from two-month sapper courses with the 5th Sapper Battalion in 1916. In February, he became a junior officer in the 242nd Reserve Battalion. Perkhorovich was sent to the Northwestern Front in the fall of 1916, where he became a half-company commander and acting company commander in the 437th Sestroretsk Infantry Regiment, and the 743rd Tirul Infantry Regiment. Both units were fighting on the Riga front. In May 1917, Perkhorovich was gassed and evacuated to a hospital in Tver. When the Imperial Army collapsed as a result of the Russian Revolution, he was a lieutenant.
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