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. ==References==