Mikhail Khatskilevich

Mikhail Georgyevich Khatskilevich (Russian: Михаил Георгиевич Хацкилевич; 21 November 1895 – 25 June 1941) was a Red Army major general.

Khatskilevich commanded the 6th Mechanized Corps in Belarus at the outbreak of Operation Barbarossa, and was killed in action three days into the war during the Battle of Białystok–Minsk.

During World War I, he served in the Imperial Russian Army as a one-year volunteer between September 1916 and March 1917, becoming a clerk at the headquarters of the 10th Artillery Brigade.

From August 1919 he served as regimental commander and chief of staff of the brigade as part of the 9th and 17th Cavalry Divisions of the 12th Army.

[1] At the outbreak of Operation Barbarossa on 22 June 1941, Khatskilevich led the corps as part of the 10th Army in the Battle of Białystok–Minsk.

Khatskilevich (3rd from left, behind Semyon Budyonny) with a group of former senior commanders of the 1st Cavalry Army at the Seventh All-Union Congress of Soviets , 1935