Mikhail Petrov (general)

Mikhail Petrov
Native name	Михаил Петрович Петров
Born	15 January 1898 Zalustezhye, Gdovsky Uyezd, Saint Petersburg Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	October/November 1941 (aged 43) Karachevsky District, Oryol Oblast, RSFSR, Soviet Union
Allegiance	Soviet Union
Service/branch	Red Army
Years of service	1918–1941
Rank	Major general
Commands held	5th Mechanized Corps 17th Mechanized Corps 20th Rifle Corps 50th Army Bryansk Front
Battles/wars	Russian Revolution October Revolution Russian Civil War Spanish Civil War World War II Soviet invasion of Poland Operation Barbarossa Battle of Białystok–Minsk Battle of Moscow Bryansk Pocket  (DOW)
Awards	Hero of the Soviet Union Order of Lenin Order of the Red Star

Mikhail Petrovich Petrov (Russian: Михаил Петрович Петров; 15 January 1898 – October/November 1941)^{[N 1]} was a Red Army major general and a Hero of the Soviet Union. Born to a peasant family, he moved to Petrograd and became a metalworker at the Putilov Plant, where he became a Red Guard squad leader and fought in the storming of the Winter Palace. He joined the Red Army and fought in the Russian Civil War. During the interwar period Petrov became an armored corps officer and fought as a tank battalion commander during the Spanish Civil War. For his leadership, he received the title Hero of the Soviet Union on 21 June 1937.

Petrov returned to the Soviet Union and became a tank corps commander, which he led in the Soviet invasion of Poland. He led a mechanized corps in the initial stages of Operation Barbarossa and became commander of the 50th Army in August 1941. He became commander of the Bryansk Front in October 1941 and was fatally wounded during the breakout from the Bryansk Pocket.
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