Pyotr Filatov

Pyotr Mikhailovich Filatov
Filatov between 1938 and 1940
Born	18 August 1893 Rzhev, Tver Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	14 July 1941(1941-07-14) (aged 47) Moscow, Soviet Union
Buried	Novodevichy Cemetery
Allegiance	Russian Empire Russian SFSR Soviet Union
Service / branch	Imperial Russian Army Red Army
Years of service	1914–1917 1918–1941
Rank	Lieutenant general
Commands	17th Rifle Division 26th Rifle Division 27th Rifle Division 15th Rifle Corps 13th Army
Battles / wars	World War I Russian Civil War Polish–Soviet War World War II
Awards	Order of the Red Banner (2) Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class Order of the Red Star

Pyotr Mikhailovich Filatov (Russian: Пётр Михайлович Филатов; 18 August 1893 – 14 July 1941) was a Red Army lieutenant general. A veteran of World War I, Filatov rose to brigade command during the Russian Civil War and was decorated for his actions. He held division command in the 1920s and 1930s between military education and served as a corps commander and deputy commander of an army and a front in the late 1930s. Shortly before the beginning of Operation Barbarossa in June 1941, he became commander of the 13th Army in Belarus, which suffered heavy losses in the opening weeks of the war. He was mortally wounded in an air raid on 8 July and died a week later.