Kuzma Yevdokimovich Grebennik (Russian: Кузьма Евдокимович Гребенник; 18 February 1900 – 22 September 1974) was a Red Army lieutenant general and Hero of the Soviet Union.

[2] Kuzma Grebennik was born on 18 February 1900 in the village of Bryansk in Slavyanoserbsk Uyezd in the Yekaterinoslav Governorate in a working-class family of Russian ethnicity.

In 1914, his family moved to the village of Kremen in Kharkov Governorate, where Grebennik graduated from a two-year college in 1915.

With the regiment, Grebennik fought against the White Army commanded by Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel.

In August 1938, he led the border detachment in repelling the first Japanese attacks during the Battle of Lake Khasan.

[1][2] During the East Prussian Offensive in early 1945, the division fought as part of 65th Army's 18th Rifle Corps.

He organized the division's crossing of the Oder on 20 April and established a bridgehead over the river during the Berlin Offensive.

Grebennik was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union and the Order of Lenin on 29 May for his actions during the Berlin Offensive.

Grebennik became the head of the 1st Department of the Main Directorate of Border and Internal Troops of the USSR in October 1956.

During the crushing of the Hungarian Revolution of 1956 in Operation Whirlwind, Grebennik commanded the Soviet forces in the Budapest region and was wounded.

In July, he was promoted to lieutenant general and became the head of the KGB Border Troops in the Southwestern Frontier District.

From January 1960, Grebennik was the head of the operational group of the KGB Border Troops in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.