Mikhail Seryugin

Mikhail Petrovich Seryugin (Russian: Михаил Петрович Серюгин; 6 November 1906 – 27 March 1975) was a Soviet Army lieutenant general who held division command during World War II.

[1][2] When Operation Barbarossa began on 22 June 1941, then-Major Seryugin commanded the regiment on the Southwestern Front, leading it in the Border Battles west of Stanislav and in the Vinnytsia sector south of Uman.

Seryugin was instead appointed chief of staff of the 212th Rifle Division, with which he fought in the Donbass Defensive and Barvenkovo–Lozovaya offensive as part of the 6th Army of the Southwestern Front.

He was wounded on 18 February 1943 while departing for reconnaissance in the area of Height 179.6 and evacuated to a hospital for treatment, being replaced by deputy division commander Colonel Aleksei Baksov.

He was evaluated as having "skillfully led divisional units" in the breakthrough of Axis defenses in the Kishinev sector and the repulse of tank counterattacks.

The army and the division were withdrawn to the Reserve of the Supreme High Command on 5 September and in late October joined the 1st Belorussian Front, being relocated to the Magnuszew bridgehead.

As part of the shock group of the army, the division played an active role in the Warsaw-Poznan offensive, during which it reached the Oder and captured a bridgehead northwest of Kustrin after breaking through German defenses.