Vasily Yushkevich

Vasily Alexandrovich Yushkevich
Yushkevich in 1942
Born	28 February [O.S. 16 February] 1897 Vilna, Russian Empire
Died	15 March 1951(1951-03-15) (aged 54) Moscow, Soviet Union
Buried	Novodevichy Cemetery
Allegiance	Russian Empire Russian SFSR Soviet Union
Service/branch	Imperial Russian Army Red Army (later Soviet Army)
Years of service	1915–1917 1919–1938 1939–1950
Rank	Colonel general
Commands	100th Rifle Division 13th Rifle Corps 44th Rifle Corps 22nd Army 31st Army 3rd Shock Army Odessa Military District Volga Military District
Battles/wars	World War I Russian Civil War Spanish Civil War World War II
Awards	Order of Lenin (2) Order of the Red Banner (4) Order of Suvorov, 1st class Order of Kutuzov, 1st class Order of the Red Star Order of Saint Stanislaus, 3rd class

Vasily Alexandrovich Yushkevich (Russian: Василий Александрович Юшкевич; 28 February [O.S. 16 February] 1897 – 15 March 1951) was a Soviet Army colonel general.

Conscripted into the Imperial Russian Army during World War I, Povetkin rose from private to second lieutenant during the war. Drafted into the Red Army during the Russian Civil War, he served as a battalion and regimental commander. Yushkevich held regimental commands in the 1920s and division and corps commands in the 1930s before a stint as an advisor in the Spanish Civil War. He was arrested after returning from Spain due to the Great Purge, but reinstated in 1939. At the outbreak of Operation Barbarossa he commanded the 44th Rifle Corps in Belarus. Yushkevich subsequently commanded the 22nd and 31st Armies in the Battle of Moscow and the Battles of Rzhev, and the 3rd Shock Army in the Baltic Offensive. He was relieved of command in August 1944 due to illness and became commander of the rear-area Odessa Military District. Postwar, he commanded the Volga Military District before retiring in 1950.