Sergey Ilyich Gorshkov (Russian: Сергей Ильич Горшков; 20 September 1902 – 25 June 1993) was a Red Army lieutenant general who held division and corps command during World War II.

Gorshkov served in the final stages of the Russian Civil War as a cadet, holding command and staff positions with cavalry units in Ukraine during the interwar period.

During the Russian Civil War, the area was occupied by the Armed Forces of South Russia until August 1919, and Gorshkov remained engaged in agricultural work.

After being appointed assistant commander of the 14th Cavalry Division in April 1938, Gorshkov served as chief of the personnel department of the staff of the Kiev Special Military District from August of that year.

Gorshkov reached Soviet lines in the sector of the 21st Army on 20 November, still armed and in uniform with his documents and decorations.

In late 1942 it joined the Black Sea Group of Forces of the Transcaucasian Front, defending the passes of the Greater Caucasus and then in actions in the Rostov-on-Don region.

During the Donbass Strategic Offensive in September, the corps broke through German defenses on the Kalmius, recapturing Volnovakha and Gulyai Pole.

Transferred to serve in the same capacity with the 4th Guards Cavalry Corps on 19 November 1943, Gorshkov, promoted to major general in December,[2] participated with it in the Bereznegovatoye–Snigirevka Offensive and the raid on the Axis rear at Odessa in March 1944 as part of the Cavalry-Mechanized Group of the 3rd Ukrainian Front, under the command of General Issa Pliyev.