Vasily Ivanovich Shorin (Russian: Василий Иванович Шорин; 26 December 1870 [7 January 1871], Kalyazin – 29 June 1938, Leningrad) was a Soviet military commander, who commanded several military units of the Red Army during the Russian Civil War.
Shorin successfully reorganized the army and directed her actions in the Izhevsk-Votkinsk operation in 1918 during the spring offensive of Admiral Kolchak's troops.
Since May 1919 he was the commander of the Northern Group of the Eastern Front, and led the Perm and the Ekaterinburg operations.
From May 1920 to January 1921 he was an assistant to the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Far Eastern Republic, led the suppression of anti-Soviet uprisings (Grigory Rogov in Prichumyshye 1920, the People's Insurgent Army in the Altay Steppe 1920, the Western Siberia Uprising of 1921) and the struggle with the troops of Baron Ungern von Sternberg.
From January 1922, he commanded the troops of the Turkestan Front and participated in the struggle against the Basmachi, in particular in November 1922, when Enver Pasha was liquidated.