Alexey Ilyich Muravyov | |
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 Muravyov in the late 1930s | |
| Born | 28 October 1900 Zhelanya village, Yukhnovsky Uyezd, Smolensk Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 25 June 1941 (aged 40) Belorussian SSR, Soviet Union |
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| Service/ | Red Army |
| Years of service | 1919–1941 |
| Rank | Colonel |
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| Awards | Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army" |
Alexey Ilyich Muravyov (Russian: Алексей Ильич Муравьёв; 28 October 1900 – 25 June 1941) was a Red Army colonel killed in World War II.
Drafted into the Red Army during the Russian Civil War, Muravyov fought on the Eastern Front and in the Polish–Soviet War as a cavalryman, ending the war as a junior commander. He served in command positions with cavalry units between the wars, and had a stint as a staff officer during the early 1930s. In the late 1930s he quickly advanced from regimental to command to temporary commander of two rifle divisions and in 1941 became commander of the 209th Motorized Division in Belarus. Muravyov's division saw comparatively little action in the opening days of Operation Barbarossa, but despite this he was killed in action on the third day of the war.