Stepan Dmitrievich Rybalchenko (Russian: Степа́н Дми́триевич Рыба́льченко; 11 July 1903 – 1986) was a Soviet military officer.
[1] A career military officer, he first joined the Red Army in his teens in 1919, taking part in the Civil War.
[2] He subsequently joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1927 and graduated from Frunze Military Academy in 1936.
[1] During World War II, Rybalchenko first served as a staff officer in Leningrad.
He was appointed to lead the 13th Air Army around Leningrad in the Soviet defense of the area during the Nazi siege in November 1942 and was in charge of the force as a lieutenant general when the Thirteenth Air Army, then in possession of some 400 planes, provided support for the Soviet pushback in 1944.