Ivan Volodymyrovych Omelianovych-Pavlenko[a] (August 31, 1881 – September 8, 1962) was a colonel general in the army of the Ukrainian People's Republic.

[1] Ivan Pavlenko was born on 31 August 1881 in the city of Baku, then in the Caucasus Viceroyalty within the Russian Empire.

His father was a Bessarabian noble of Georgian descent and a lieutenant general in the Imperial Russian Army.

[3][4] In December 1918, the Pavlenko brothers travelled to the West Ukrainian People's Republic, where they participated in the Battle of Lemberg.

[2] After the Ukrainian People's Republic was defeated, Omelianovych-Pavlenko lived in a refugee camp in the Polish city of Kalisz.