1 November] 1856 – 21 May 1927) was an Imperial Russian Army division and corps commander who achieved the rank of general of the cavalry.

At the beginning of the war, his corps thrown into battle without artillery, but saved Russian troops at Pyasechny.

As the Imperial Russian Army conducted a massive strategic withdrawal during the "Great Retreat" of July–September 1915, the 1st Siberian Rifle Corps saw action on the Narew in July 1915, in which Pleshkov's the 2nd and 11th Siberian Rifle Divisions withstood the onslaught of the numerically superior German 12th Army.

On 3 July 1917, allegedly due to illness, he was transferred to the reserve of the headquarters of the Minsk Military District.

He also took part in battles with Red Army forces on the eastern front of the Russian Civil War.

He settled in Harbin, where he worked in the management of the Chinese Eastern Railway and in 1922 became a member of the Society of Guard Officers in the Far East.

This formation served as the basis for the deployment in 1924 under the leadership of the warlord General Zhang Zongchang of the 1st Separate Russian (Nechaevsky) Brigade.