Ivan Stepanovich Kosobutsky (Russian: Иван Степанович Кособуцкий; 19 March 1895 – 15 November 1974) was a Soviet Army lieutenant general who held corps command during World War II.

His corps was stationed as an occupation force in Bulgaria from late 1944 and Kosobutsky held a series of training posts before leaving service in the early 1950s.

[1] Kosobutsky was conscripted into the Red Army in June 1918 during the Russian Civil War and appointed assistant commander of the Senno People's Infantry Regiment.

In the summer of 1919 Kosobutsky and the division were involved in fighting in the region of Vilno, Molodechno, and the Western Dvina, and on the Zhlobin axis that fall.

With the division, he took part in the August offensive on the Minsk, Slonim, Volkovysk, Siedlce and Warsaw axis, and the fight against Bulak-Balakhovich's army between November 1920 and May 1921.

While at the academy, Kosobutsky was dispatched on an official trip on the orders of Deputy People's Commissar of Defense Yefim Shchadenko between January and August 1940.

As German troops approached Pskov on 8 July, they threatened the left flank of the corps' 118th Rifle Division, commanded by Major General Nikolay Glovatsky.

[5] Accused of tolerating mistakes in the corps headquarters and allowing the surrender of Pskov without a fight, he was deprived of his rank by the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union and sentenced to ten years in the Gulag on 26 July.

For his performance in this position, front commander Rodion Malinovsky recommended Kosobutsky for the Order of the Red Banner, awarded on 26 October 1943.

During the period of offensive battles from 27 January 1944 to 10 February 1944, the corps liberated nineteen settlements, including the major district center of Stalindorf, and inflicted a defeat on the enemy: 1,221 soldiers and officers killed, 31 taken prisoner.

For skillful conduct of the breakthrough of the enemy fortified zone, organization of the corps' offensive operations that gave the opportunity to inflict great losses on the enemy in personnel and equipment and to take the major industrial center of Ukraine - the city of Krivoi Rog, Major General Kosobutsky is deserving of the award of the Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky, 2nd class.

For his performance in the Second Jassy–Kishinev offensive, 46th Army commander Ivan Shlyomin recommended Kosobutsky for the Order of Kutuzov, 2nd class, awarded on 13 September.

The recommendation read:[9]Major General Kosobutsky, with his corps, from April 1944, held a bridgehead on the right bank of the Dniester in the region of Raskaets-Purkar.

For skillful leadership of the corps, successful accomplishment of combat objectives, as a result of which a number of settlements of Soviet Moldavia were liberated, and inflicting a significant defeat on the enemy in personnel and equipment, Major General Kosobutsky is deserving of the award of the Order of Kutuzov, 2nd class.Kosobutsky, promoted to lieutenant general on 13 September,[10] was evaluated by superiors as follows:[1] During the battles on the territory of Ukraine he showed...ability to accomplish difficult objectives of offensive battle in combination with skillful organization of combined arms cooperation.

[1] After the end of the war, Kosobutsky served as chief of staff of the Combat and Physical Training Directorate of the Southern Group of Forces from August 1945.