Feofan Parkhomenko

Feofan Agapovich Parkhomenko (Russian: Феофан Агапович Пархоменко; 24 December 1893 – 7 June 1962) was a Soviet Army lieutenant general.

He fought in the Caucasus campaign of World War I and rose from private to ensign in the Imperial Russian Army.

After his division suffered heavy losses in the first weeks of the war, he was sent to the North Caucasus and led a cavalry corps in the Barvenkovo–Lozovaya Offensive of early 1942.

In July the detachment was absorbed into the Red Army and he was appointed assistant commander of the 1st Don-Stavropol Brigade, fighting in the Battle of Tsaritsyn.

[3] He graduated from the Novocherkassk Cavalry Officers Improvement Course (KUKS) in 1929 and the Higher Academic Course at the Frunze Military Academy in 1930.

Investigated by the NKVD and held in a remand prison between 21 October 1938 and 7 December 1939 as an "enemy of the people" during the Great Purge, due to a lack of evidence for his guilt Parkhomenko was exonerated and in March 1940 appointed assistant commander of the 4th Cavalry Division, now part of the Western Special Military District.

[1][2] After the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, on 22 June 1941, Parkhomenko led the division in the Battle of Białystok–Minsk as part of the 13th Army of the Western Front.

From July he commanded the 5th Cavalry Corps of the 9th Army, leading it in the repulse of German attacks in the Donbas and the Don bend.

With the army he fought in the Battle of Stalingrad, and in March 1943 was transferred to the Far Eastern Front to command the 18th Cavalry Corps, covering the Soviet-Japanese border.

However, Parkhomenko was again placed at the disposal of the Ground Forces Cadre Directorate in August 1946 after the 43rd Army was disbanded and in February 1947 became military commissar of Saratov Oblast.