Sergey Gorshkov (general)

Sergey Ilyich Gorshkov
Gorshkov, c. 1945
Born	20 September 1902 Olshanka, Don Host Oblast, Russian Empire
Died	25 June 1993(1993-06-25) (aged 90) Rostov-on-Don, Russia
Allegiance	Russian SFSR Soviet Union
Service/branch	Red Army
Years of service	1920–1946
Rank	Lieutenant general
Commands	206th Rifle Division 15th Cavalry Division (became 11th Guards Cavalry Division) 5th Guards Cavalry Corps
Battles/wars	Russian Civil War World War II
Awards	Order of Lenin (2) Order of the Red Banner (4) Order of Kutuzov, 1st class Order of Suvorov, 2nd class Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky, 2nd class Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class

Sergey Ilyich Gorshkov (Russian: Сергей Ильич Горшков; 20 September 1902 – 25 June 1993) was a Red Army lieutenant general who held division and corps command during World War II.

Gorshkov served in the final stages of the Russian Civil War as a cadet, holding command and staff positions with cavalry units in Ukraine during the interwar period. When Operation Barbarossa began, he was commander of the 206th Rifle Division, which was destroyed during the Battle of Kiev. Gorshkov escaped the encirclement and was sent to the North Caucasus to command the new 15th Cavalry Division. Decorated for his command of the division, converted into the 11th Guards Cavalry Division, in the Battle of the Caucasus, Gorshkov served as a corps deputy commander during 1943 and early 1944. Afterwards, he became commander of the 5th Guards Cavalry Corps, which he led for the remainder of the war. Due to illness, Gorshkov retired shortly after its end.