Allegiance Soviet Union Battles and wars World War II Years of service 1918 - 1942 Service/branch Red Army | Battles/wars World War II Rank Major general Name Ivan Shepetov | |
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Born 11 July 1902
Kamenskoye, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire
(now Dniprodzerzhynsk, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine) ( 1902-07-11 ) Commands held 96th Mountain Rifle Division / 14th Guards Rifle Division (March 1941 - May 1942) Died May 21, 1943, Flossenburg concentration camp Awards Hero of the Soviet Union, Order of Lenin, Order of the Red Banner Similar People Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Joseph Stalin, Mikhail Tukhachevsky | ||
Ivan Mikhaylovich Shepetov (Russian: Иван Михайлович Шепетов; 11 July 1902 - 21 May 1943) was a Soviet infantry officer who enlisted in the Red Army as a Civil War volunteer in 1918 and rose to command the 96th Mountain Rifle Division in the months following the German invasion of the Soviet Union.
Promoted to major-general and awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union in autumn 1941 for his capable handling of the 96th Mountain Rifle Division on the Southwestern Front, Shepetov continued to command the division (redesignated as the 14th Guards Rifle Division) until 29 May 1942, when he was wounded and taken prisoner in the German encirclement near the town of Izyum.
Transferred between various prisoner camps after falling into German hands, Shepetov was shot while attempting to escape from the Flossenbürg concentration camp in May 1943.
Surviving Soviet war prisoners held at Flossenbürg stated that they had witnessed Shepetov's torture at Flossenbürg in the spring of 1943.