Yuriy Edelshtein was born in Ovruch, Ukraine (USSR) to Leyb. Prior to WWII he lived in Ovruch, Ukraine (USSR). During the war he was in the Soviet armed forces. Yuriy was killed in military service in WWII. Place of death: Stalingrad, Russia (USSR), 1943.
Large numbers of Jewish soldiers serving in the Allied military forces, many of them in the Soviet army, were killed in combat or died of battle wounds.