Ivan Andreyevich Rubanyuk (Russian: Иван Андреевич Рубанюк; 29 August 1896 – 3 October 1959) was a Soviet colonel general who rose to field army command during the Cold War.

Ivan Andreyevich Rubanyuk was born on 29 August 1896 in the village of Ognarovo, Antopolsky volost, Kobrinsky Uyezd, Grodno Governorate.

During World War I, he entered the Imperial Russian Army as a one-year volunteer on 15 May 1915 and was sent to the Life Guards Jager Regiment.

[1] During the Russian Civil War, Rubanyuk was conscripted into the Red Army on 20 July 1918 and sent to the newly formed 21st Rifle Regiment of the 1st Kaluga Brigade.

From October 1921 he commanded a company in the 4th Special Purpose Regiment, in which he fought in battles against the anti-Soviet forces of Popov in the area of Belopolye.

[1] From February 1922 Rubanyuk served as adjutant of the 7th Regiment of the VChK, and from June as acting head clerk of the operational section of a separate special purpose company.

After being freed he was restored to the Red Army, being assigned as a commander of a cadet battalion at the Odessa Infantry School in October.

Then, entering the 37th Army of the Transcaucasian Front, the division concentrated in the Mozdok region, where it repulsed German attempts to break through the main ridge of the Caucasus.

He led it in the North Caucasus Offensive, then from 11 February 1943 commanded the 10th Guards Rifle Corps, then part of the 56th Army of the Transcaucasian Front.

[1] After the end of the war Rubanyuk continued to command the corps in the Southern Group of Forces, then in the Odessa Military District.