Georgy Pavlovich Sofronov (Russian: Георгий Павлович Софронов; 19 April 1893 – 17 March 1973) was a Soviet general.
In his memoirs, he recalled that they had all lived in a single room, his mother sleeping on a wooden bed, his father on a chest of drawers, someone else on the stove, and the others on the floor.
In his youth he worked as a railway clerk, a maintenance worker, and then, beginning in 1912, an accountant in the Serpukhov municipal government.
He began to be active in Marxist circles in 1910, and in 1912 joined the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP), its Bolshevik faction.
After an interval of study, as noted above, at the Third Moscow School of Ensigns, which he attended from July to November 1915, he returned to active duty in early 1916.
While on the Romanian front, Sofronov was an active participant in the revolutionary events of 1917, leading a Red Guard detachment to Odessa and taking part in the Bolshevik uprising in that city on January 15-18, 1918.
In April 1919, after completing one course at the Academy, he returned to the Eastern Front, where he fought against the troops of Admiral A. V. Kolchak.
Beginning in January 1921, he served as Assistant Chief of Staff of the Donetsk Labor Army and participated in hostilities against the Makhnovists and various gangs in the Donbas.
When World War II began, most of the soldiers in the Baltic Special Military District were transformed into the North-Western Front under Sofronov’s command.
In early October 1941, Sofronov had a severe heart attack after receiving news of the death of his only son in battle.