Vasily Gerasimenko

Vasily Gerasimenko
Born24 April 1900
Poltava Governorate,
Russian empire
Died13 February 1961(1961-02-13) (aged 60)
Kiev, USSR
Allegiance Soviet Union
Years of service1918 - 1953
RankLieutenant general
CommandsKiev Military District
Volga Military District
21st Army
13th Army
Stalingrad Military District
28th Army
Kharkov Military District

Vasily Filippovich Gerasimenko (Russian: Василий Филиппович Герасименко) was a Soviet Army lieutenant general who held field army command during World War II.

A Ukrainian, he was nominally and temporarily appointed the People's Commissar of Defense of the Ukrainian SSR in 1944-45.