Dmitry Akimovich Lukyanov (Russian: Дмитрий Акимович Лукьянов; 15 February 1900 – 7 October 1985) was a Soviet Army major general who held division command during World War II.

He worked as an unskilled laborer in the Levinson textile shop in the Sokolniki District of Moscow, and joined the Moscow-Saratov Regiment of the Red Army on 5 April 1918 during the Russian Civil War.

Lukyanov was captured by the Whites on 25 July in the battle near Tornovka, Balashovsky Uyezd, and sent to a prisoner of war camp in Azov.

[1] After the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, the division was assigned to the Northern Front and on the night of 24–25 June sent to the port of Kunda on the Gulf of Finland to eliminate a landing there.

On 15 July the division entered battle in the area of Losevaya Gora when German mechanized units broke through and held the line for three days.

From 31 July to 22 August the division was assigned to the Kingisepp defense sector of the Northern Front and repulsed repeated German attacks.

Subsequently, its units, assigned to the 8th Army of the Leningrad Front, fought sustained defensive battles in the regions of Khabino and Ropsha, and near the cities of Petergof and Oranienbaum.

[1] Lukyanov was treated in a hospital in Chelyabinsk until 5 January 1942, and on his recovery was appointed commander of the 2nd Rifle Division, forming in the Arkhangelsk Military District.

However, Lukyanov was relieved of command of the division by the 59th Army military council on 12 February for "absence of organization and loss of control in battle.

The citation read:[2] Major General D. A. Lukyanov has been on the front of the Patriotic War from its first days, and a division commander since March 1941.

[1] The citation read:[4] Major General Lukyanov has served as deputy commander of the 122nd Rifle Corps since 23 August 1944.

On 23 and 24 August, during the battles for the city of Elva, Estonian SSR, Major General Lukyanov, being in the 189th Rifle Division, took an active and decisive part in the organization of the repulse of enemy counterattacks of the tank group of the "great" Strachwitz.

During the battles from 14 September 1944 to 1 October 1944 Major General Lukyanov was with the units the entire time, rendering practical assistance in the carrying out of assigned objectives.

On 17 and 18 September 1944, the 189th Rifle Division, forcing a crossing of the Okhneiygi river line, met strong and organized enemy resistance.

Until 13 February 1945 its units, concentrated in the region of Kraukli, Raknis, and Megori, conducted combat training and guarded state enterprises in Riga.

Afterwards, the 85th, assigned to the 2nd Baltic Front, fought in offensive and defensive battles in the region of Riga at Baloži, Kreyli and Slugi.

In the second half of April the division handed over its defense sector north of Auce and was relocated to Romania, where it remained for final weeks of the war.

In June, Lukyanov was appointed deputy commander of the 131st Rifle Corps of the White Sea Military District at Kem.