Mikhail Seryugin

Mikhail Petrovich Seryugin (Russian: Михаил Петрович Серюгин; 6 November 1906 – 27 March 1975) was a Soviet Army lieutenant general who held division command during World War II.

Conscripted into the Red Army in the late 1920s, Seryugin became an officer and served in Azerbaijan and Ukraine before World War II. A regimental commander when the war began, he escaped encirclement in the Second Battle of Kharkov while a division chief of staff. Seryugin became commander of the 160th Rifle Division in mid-1942, leading the unit, which became the 89th Guards Rifle Division in early 1943, for the rest of the war. Postwar, he commanded divisions and a corps, rising to deputy commander of an army before his retirement.