Sergey Ivanovich Iovlev (Russian: Сергей Иванович Иовлев; 30 September 1899 – May 1979) was a Red Army major general.

After rising to junior command positions during the Russian Civil War, Iovlev spent most of the 1920s and 1930s with the Soviet Border Troops.

Captured by the Czechs in battle in the vicinity in June, Iovlev spent three months in the Samara prison, then was transferred to the Totskoye camp.

He fought on the Southern Front with the unit against the Armed Forces of South Russia on the Don River, then in the Voronezh–Kastornoye and Donbass Operations.

After graduating from the school, Iovlev became chief of the administrative and mobilization directorate of the Revolutionary Military Council of the puppet Khorezm Soviet Republic in May 1921.

[2] Studying at the Lenin Combined Military School in Tashkent from November 1922, Iovlev fought in the elimination of Basmachi in the Chatkal valley with a cadet detachment.

For his "courage and heroism" in the exit from encirclement of the garrison of south Lemetti as part of the detachment of Kombrig Kozlov, he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner on 20 May 1940.

In December he was appointed commander of the 1st Guards Motor Rifle Division of the 33rd Army, leading it in the Soviet counteroffensive during the Battle of Moscow.

[2] Returning to the army, Iovlev, promoted to major general on 27 January 1943,[3] was appointed commander of the 215th Rifle Division on 23 February.