Pyotr Shafranov

Pyotr Grigoryevich Shafranov
Shafranov in 1965
Born	22 January [O.S. 9 January] 1901 Bolshoye Frolovoye, Tetyushsky Uyezd, Kazan Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	4 November 1972(1972-11-04) (aged 71) Moscow, Soviet Union
Allegiance	Russian SFSR Soviet Union
Service/branch	Red Army (later Soviet Army)
Years of service	1919–1965
Rank	Colonel general
Commands held	16th Guards Rifle Division 36th Guards Rifle Corps 5th Army 31st Army 28th Army Ural Air Defense Army Military Command Academy of the Air Defense Forces
Battles/wars	Russian Civil War World War II
Awards	Hero of the Soviet Union Order of Lenin (2) Order of the Red Banner (3) Order of Suvorov, 2nd class Order of Kutuzov, 2nd class Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky, 2nd class

Pyotr Grigoryevich Shafranov (Russian: Пётр Григорьевич Шафранов; 22 January [O.S. 9 January] 1901 – 4 November 1972) was a Soviet Army colonel general and Hero of the Soviet Union.

Drafted into the Red Army in 1919, Shafranov fought in the Russian Civil War as an infantryman. During the 1920s he became a junior commander in artillery units and served in artillery staff positions during the late 1930s. After the beginning of Operation Barbarossa, he was sent to command an artillery regiment and in late 1941 became commander of the artillery of the 249th Rifle Division, which became the 16th Guards Rifle Division. Shafranov commanded the latter between 1942 and 1943, the 36th Guards Rifle Corps from 1943 to 1944, the 5th Army for a brief period in late 1944, and the 31st Army from January 1945. For his leadership of the 31st Army in the East Prussian Offensive, Shafranov was made a Hero of the Soviet Union. Postwar, he served in command positions in the National Air Defense Forces and ended his career as representative of the Supreme Commander of the Unified Armed Forces of the Warsaw Treaty Organization to the Hungarian People's Republic, retiring in 1965.