Trofim Ivanovich Tanaschishin | |
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| Born | 31 January 1903 Yaryshev, Mogilyovsky Uyezd, Podolia Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 31 March 1944 (aged 41) Voznesensk area, Voznesensk Raion, Nikolayev Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
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| Service | Red Army |
| Years of service | 1918–1944 |
| Rank | Lieutenant general |
| Commands | 13th Tank Corps (later 4th Guards Mechanized Corps) |
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Trofim Ivanovich Tanaschishin (Russian: Трофим Иванович Танасчишин; Ukrainian: Трохим Іванович Танасчішин, romanized: Trokhym Ivanovych Tanaschishyn; 31 January 1903 – 31 March 1944) was a Red Army lieutenant general killed during World War II.
Tanaschishin joined a Soviet partisan unit during the Russian Civil War and was transferred to the Red Army, with which he fought in the Polish–Soviet War, being captured by Polish troops but released. During the interwar period he held cavalry command positions and in the early 1930s became an officer of the armored forces. When Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began, Tanaschishin commanded a tank regiment encircled in Belarus. He escaped and was decorated for his leadership of a motorcycle regiment during the Battle of Moscow. After commanding a tank brigade on the Southwestern Front in mid-1942, Tanaschishin was appointed commander of the 13th Tank Corps. For his leadership of the corps, which became the 4th Guards Mechanized Corps for its actions in the Battle of Stalingrad, Tanaschishin was again decorated and promoted to major general. He continued to lead the 4th Guards Mechanized in combat until he was mortally wounded in an air raid at the end of March 1944.