Vitaliy Markovich Primakov (Russian: Виталий Маркович Примаков, romanized: Vitaliy Markovich Primakov; Ukrainian: Віталій Маркович Примаков, romanized: Vitalii Markovych Prymakov) (3 December 1897 – 12 June 1937) was a Soviet revolutionary, military leader of the Red Army, and commander of the Red Cossacks.

Vitaly Primakov was born in 1897 in Semenivka, Novozybkovsky Uyezd, Chernigov Governorate as part of a family with a Russian background.

[1] In 1914 he joined the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party and was exiled to Siberia for political reasons in 1915.

While being a delegate of Second Congress of Soviets in Petrograd he was assigned commander of one of the squadrons participating in the assault on the Winter Palace.

For a successful breach of the White Army defense line near Fatezh in November 1919, he was awarded his first Order of the Red Banner.

Primakov then received his third Order of the Red Banner for fighting the Basmachi movement in Central Asia.