Academy for the final decade of his life. He died in Moscow on 20 March 1953. References External links Iosif Markovich Ratner at generals.dk 1901 births 1953 deaths People from Smolensk Oblast People from Klimovichskiy Uyezd Belarusian Jews Belarusian military personnel Bolsheviks Communist Party of the Soviet Union members People of the Russian Civil War Soviet Jews Soviet major generals Soviet military personnel of World War II Soviet people of the Second Sino-Japanese War Soviet people of the Spanish Civil War Soviet Jews in the military Frunze Military Academy alumni