On September 27, 1885, Efim Shchadenko, a revolutionary, a Soviet military and statesman was born. Personal business Efim Afanasevich Schadenko (1885-1951) was born in the village of Kamenskaya (now the city of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Rostov region) in a poor family. His father, Afanasy Sidorovich Shchadenko, was engaged in, as they said then, with black work - he drove water, took out garbage from the yards. Mother was a tan. At the age of 8, Efima was sent to a parish school.