Zinovy Grigoryevich Kolobanov (Russian: Зино́вий Григо́рьевич Колоба́нов) (7 January 1911– 8 August 1994) was a Soviet-Russian tank commander and veteran of World War II.

The vanguard of the German 8th, 6th and 1st Panzer Divisions was approaching Krasnogvardeysk near Leningrad (now St Petersburg), and the only Soviet force available to stop it consisted of five well-hidden KV-1 tanks, dug in within a grove at the edge of a swamp.

Although the Germans now knew where they were being attacked from, they could not spot Lieutenant Kolobanov's tank, and now attempted to engage an unseen enemy.

The German tanks got bogged down when they moved off the road onto the surrounding soft ground making them easy targets.

However, a nomination of Kolobanov for Hero of the Soviet Union was rejected by military superiors who initially found his after-action report to be unbelievable, thinking that he must have exaggerated the enemy forces.

Kolobanov continued to score successes on the battlefield in the following month, destroying at least three enemy tanks and four anti-tank guns.

On 15 September 1941, behind the frontlines, he was badly wounded in the head and spine near Pushkin, Saint Petersburg by an explosion of tank ammunition; he spent most of the rest of the war in hospital.

Due to popular demand by the villagers of Noviy Uchkhoz, a battle monument was dedicated in 1980 at the place where Kolobanov's KV-1 was dug in.