Vasily Nikolayevich Fedotov (Russian: Василий Николаевич Федотов; 22 December 1915 – 9 January 1997) was a major general of the Soviet Army, who was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union for his actions in battle in the Second World War while he was a Lieutenant Colonel.

Vasily Fedotov was born on 22 December 1915 in Kamen, Tomsk Governorate to a working-class Russian family.

Immediately after the German invasion of the Soviet Union, in July 1941, he was sent into combat in the Second World War.

During the Battle of the Dnieper on 23 September 1943, Fedotov's regiment moved across the Dnieper in the area of the village of Zarubintsy, Kaniv Raion (currently Cherkasy Raion) of Cherkasy Oblast of the Ukrainian SSR, he seized a bridgehead on the west bank and repelled four German counterattacks.

During the attack from the bridgehead the next day, Fedotov's regiment moved forward and expelled German forces from the village of Trakhtemyriv.