Stepan Povetkin

Stepan Ivanovich Povetkin
Born	15 August 1895 Russkaya Zhuravka, Pavlovsky Uyezd, Voronezh Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	1 May 1965(1965-05-01) (aged 69) Moscow, Soviet Union
Allegiance	Russian Empire Russian SFSR Soviet Union
Service / branch	Imperial Russian Army Red Army
Years of service	1915–1917 1918–1946
Rank	Lieutenant general
Commands	85th Rifle Division 51st Rifle Corps 47th Rifle Corps 6th Rifle Corps (became 19th Guards Rifle Corps)
Battles / wars	World War I Russian Civil War World War II
Awards	Order of Lenin (2) Order of the Red Banner Order of Suvorov, 2nd class Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class

Stepan Ivanovich Povetkin (Russian: Степа́н Ива́нович Пове́ткин; 15 August 1895 – 1 May 1965) was a Red Army lieutenant general.

Conscripted into the Imperial Russian Army during World War I, Povetkin rose from private to ensign during the war. Joining the Red Army during the Russian Civil War, he served as a junior commander and held command positions stationed in the North Caucasus during the 1920s and early 1930s. Povetkin rose to division and then corps command by the late 1930s. At the outbreak of Operation Barbarossa he commanded the 47th Rifle Corps in Belarus and was severely wounded in the first month of the war. He returned to the front in late 1941 as an army deputy commander and in 1942–1943 commanded a corps before becoming deputy commander of the Belorussian Military District. Relieved of this post in early 1945 for drunkenness and neglecting his duties, he briefly returned to the front as a corps deputy commander and retired shortly after the end of the war.