Ilya Chertin was born to An Gersh and Khasya. He was single. Prior to WWII he lived in Ingulets, Ukraine (USSR). During the war he was in the Soviet armed forces. Ilya was killed in military service in WWII. Place of death: unknown, 1944.
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.