Mikhail Konstantinovich Puteiko (Russian: Михаил Константинович Путейко; 8 November 1913 – 21 April 1945) was a Belarusian Red Army major general killed in action during World War II.

After briefly working as a mechanic in his youth, Puteiko entered the Red Army in 1934 and graduated from an officer training school.

[1] When Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began on 22 June 1941, the division and its corps were in the rear, mobilizing near Porkhov and Dno.

From the beginning of July it fought in defensive battles with the 27th and then 11th Armies of the Northwestern Front at the Pskov and Ostrov Fortified Regions, then retreated towards Novgorod.

From 17 July, Puteiko, then a senior lieutenant, commanded a battalion of the 140th Rifle Regiment before temporarily serving as head of the 1st staff department of the 180th from 24 August.

[1] Puteiko transferred to the staff of the 11th Army on 3 October, initially serving as assistant head of the 1st section of its operational department.

In April, he was appointed senior assistant head of the operational department of the staff of the 11th Army for the study of combat experience.

Withdrawn to the second echelon of the 52nd Army on 10 June, the division fought in the Second Jassy–Kishinev Offensive from 20 August, surrounding Axis troops near Iași, Kishinev, and Huși.

On 20 April, while leading the 936th Rifle Regiment in an attack to capture Bautzen, Puteiko was mortally wounded in the chest by a sniper's bullet.