Yefim Trotsenko

Yefim Grigoryevich Trotsenko (; – 25 January 1972) was a Soviet military leader.

Biography Born to a peasant family in the Don region of the Russian Empire on 27 March 1901, Yefim Trotsenko joined the Red Army in 1918, fought in the Russian Civil War, and joined the Russian Communist Party (b) in 1920. He subsequently graduated from the Krasnodar Commanders Courses in 1922 and the Vladikavkaz Infantry School in 1925, and the Frunze Military Academy in 1931.

With post-war changes in organization, Trotsenko was appointed chief of staff for the Transbaikal-Amur Military District in September 1945. It was reorganized into the recreated Transbaikal Military District in 1947, with Trotsenko as first deputy commander until 1952 and commander from February 1952 until December 1956.

He was made colonel-general in 1954 and appointed first deputy chief of the Department of Personnel at the Ministry of Defense of the USSR in 1956, where he remained until retiring in 1965.

He died in Moscow on 25 January 1972 and was interred at the Novodevichy Cemetery.