Grigory Nikolaevich Oriol (Russian: Григорий Николаевич Орёл, 16 September 1904 – 3 February 1974) was a Soviet armored corps general.

[2] At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War he headed the Armoured Automobiles department in the General Staff, and later became the commander of the armored and mechanized divisions in the 16th Army, under General Rokossovsky.

[8] When Marshal Georgy Zhukov replaced Rokossovsky, Oriol headed the tank formations under his command during Vistula-Oder Offensive and the Battle of Berlin.

[11][12] After the war, Oriol was appointed inspector-general the armored and mechanized forces stationed in all the USSR's Military Districts.

At 1961, he became an inspector in the Ministry of Defense and was given his final promotion to Colonel-General on 1962.