Grigoriy Fedotovich Krivosheyev (Russian: Григорий Федотович Кривошеев) (born 1929), is a Russian military historian and a retired Colonel General of the Russian military. He is mostly known in the West via an alternative transliteration of his name Krivosheev, as the editor of a book on Soviet military losses in the 20th century, which was translated and published in English.
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Grigoriy Krivosheyev was born the Kinterep village in Legostayevsky (now Iskitimsky) District of Novosibirsk Oblast (province) in Western Siberia.
He is a graduate of the Frunze Military Academy. A Ph. D. (Kandidat nauk) in the Military science, from 1995 Krivosheyev is a professor in the Russian Academy of Military Sciences.
Common alternative transliterations of his name are Krivosheyeva, Krivosheev and Krivosheeva
General Krivosheyev became widely known after the 1993 publication of the book, originally in Russian, about Soviet military losses in various conflicts of the twentieth century, particularly in the Second World War.[1] With Krivosheyev being the general editor of the book, this analysis prepared by historians based on declassified Soviet archival data represents the first comprehensive attempt to scientifically address the losses in the Armed Forces of the former Soviet Union during the Second World War. Previously, the number of human casualties were mostly a matter of political speculations, and widely fluctuated with changes in political expediencies. In 1997 the Krivosheev's book was translated and published in English under a title Soviet casualties and combat losses in the twentieth century.[2]
A follow-up book under editorship of professor general-colonel G. F. Krivosheyev addressed Russian and USSR combat losses in the wars of the 20th century, titled Russia and USSR In The Wars Of The 20es Century. Losses in Armed Forces. Statistical research was published in Moscow in 2001.[3]