Pyotr Akhlyustin

Pyotr Nikolayevich Akhlyustin (Russian: Пётр Николаевич Ахлюстин; 12 June 1896 – 28 July 1941) was a Red Army major general.

At the outbreak of Operation Barbarossa, he commanded the 13th Mechanized Corps, destroyed during the Battle of Białystok–Minsk in late June and early July 1941.

During World War I, he was drafted into the Imperial Russian Army in August 1915 and sent to the Western Front, where he fought with the 2nd Pavlograd Life Hussar Regiment as a private, junior unter-ofitser and assistant platoon commander.

[1][2] After Operation Barbarossa, the German invasion of the Soviet Union, began, Akhlyustin's corps fought in the Battle of Białystok–Minsk and was almost completely wiped out, encircled in the Bialystok pocket.

On 28 July, while organizing the breakout from the encirclement of the corps, which had run out of ammunition, fuel, and lubricants, Akhlyustin was killed while attempting to cross the Sozh River near Propoysk.