Mikhail Petrovich Amelin (Russian: Михаи́л Петро́вич Аме́лин; December 4, 1896 – September 8, 1937) was a Soviet political officer.
[1] Amelin was born to a poor peasant family in Solomino village, Kursk Governorate.
He was an emergency commissioner for the supply of troops of the Yekaterinoslav sector, deputy chairman of the Odessa military tribunal, authorized by the Revolutionary Military Council of the 3rd Ukrainian Army, commissar of the 30th rifle regiment, and head of the Bobrinsky combat sector.
From 1930 to 1934 he was a member of the Central Control Commission of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine ("CP(b)U").
On June 19, 1937, he was arrested in connection with the testimony of Ilya Shelekhes, deputy chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Ukrainian SSR.
On September 8, 1937, according to the verdict of the visiting session of the USSR All-Union Military Commission in Kyiv, he was sentenced to death; he was shot the next evening.