Yevgeny Zhuravlev

Yevgeny Petrovich Zhuravlev (Russian: Евгений Петрович Журавлев), (October 8, 1896 - May 11, 1983) was a Soviet lieutenant-general in World War II.

Zhuravlev was born in the village of Roudkovka in the Chernigov Governorate in the Russian Empire, now in Ukraine.

In 1915, he was drafted into the Imperial Russian Army and fought in World War I on the Southwestern Front.

During World War II, he commanded the 5th Mechanised Corps in August 1941, which he led out of the Smolensk Pocket.

In March 1955, he was appointed to the post of Chief of the Land Force Personnel Department, until December 1960, when he retired.