Yury Vladimirovich Novoselsky (Russian: Юрий Владимирович Новосельский; 17 August 1895 – 10 December 1975) was a Red Army general-leytenant who held corps and divisional commands during World War II.

He rose through command positions in the interwar Red Army and led the 86th Motor Rifle Division during the Winter War.

When Germany invaded the Soviet Union, Novoselsky was in command of the 2nd Mechanized Corps, destroyed in the Battle of Uman.

After graduating from the school in February 1916, Novoselsky was posted to the 191st Reserve Infantry Regiment in Moscow, where he serve as a junior officer and assistant chief of the training detachment.

[1][2] Novoselsky was freed in a prisoner exchange on 4 December 1918 and returned to Moscow in the midst of the Russian Civil War.

After catching typhus in March 1920 he was sent to the infantry inspectorate of the army, and a month later appointed commander of the Separate Novocherkassk Battalion of Convalescents.

[3] Novoselsky was appointed chief of the Vystrel course on 14 May 1940, but did not actually take the position and in early June took command of the 2nd Mechanized Corps of the Odessa Military District at Tiraspol.

[8] After Germany invaded the Soviet Union on 22 June, Novoselsky led the corps in defensive battles in the region of Beltsy, Khristinovka, and Uman as part of the 9th Army of the Southern Front.

On 10 August, changing into civilian clothes, he buried his decorations and documents in the region of Chistopolye, Kirovograd Oblast, and with a small group reached Soviet lines.

After leaving the encirclement he was placed at the disposal of the Southern Front Military Council in September and in the first half of October was sent to the Academy of the General Staff.

Novoselsky was in the group of officers with Kliment Voroshilov and from 15 January 1942 formed the 146th Rifle Division at Kazan in the Volga Military District.

The recommendation read:[9]Under the command of Lieutenant General Novoselsky, the troops of the corps as a result of bitter fighting, beginning on 14 January 1944, broke through the permanent first and second defensive zones of the enemy in the region of the station of...The units of the corps advanced 13 to 15 kilometers, cut the Dno–Novosokolniki railroad, and liberated 46 settlements.

The 331st Infantry Division of the enemy was destroyed, up to 5,000 soldiers and officers wiped out...For successful fulfillment of combat missions, skillful leadership and displaying selflessness in this, he is worthy of the award of the Order of Suvorov, 2nd class.

Novoselsky led the corps in the Sandomierz–Silesian Offensive, during which its units, advancing on Oppeln, flanked the German troops in Silesia, enabling their encirclement.

In the final months of the war the corps took part in the Upper Silesian Offensive, encircling and destroying the German troops around Oppeln.