Ivan Shepetov

Ivan Mikhailovich Shepetov
Born(1902-07-11)11 July 1902
Kamenskoye, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire (now Dniprodzerzhynsk, Ukraine)
Died21 May 1943(1943-05-21) (aged 40)
Flossenbürg concentration camp, Germany
Allegiance Soviet Union
Branch Red Army
Years of service1918–1942
RankMajor-general
Commands96th Mountain Rifle Division (March 1941 – May 1942)
Battles / warsWorld War II
AwardsHero of the Soviet Union

Ivan Mikhailovich Shepetov (Russian: Иван Михайлович Шепетов; 11 July 1902 21 May 1943) was a Soviet infantry officer who enlisted in the Red Army as a Civil War volunteer in 1918 and rose to command the 96th Mountain Rifle Division in the months following the German invasion of the Soviet Union.