Mikhail Anufririevich Tymoshchenko was born in 1926, drafted into the army in 1943 by the Idrinsky district military commissariat. He participated in the liberation of China from the Japanese imperialists as part of the troops of the Second Far Eastern Front with the rank of sergeant, squad leader. Awarded: the Order of the Patriotic War, 2nd degree, the medal "For Victory over Japan", jubilee medals. He was discharged from the army in 1950.