Ivan Mikhailovich 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.

World War II

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 The 14th Guards Rifle Division was reformed as an elite infantry division of the Red Army in January, 1942, based on the 1st formation of the 96th Rifle Division, which was officially a mountain unit at the time, and served in that role until after ...

) 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.Parrish, Michael. (2004)
''Sacrifice of the Generals: Soviet Senior Officer Losses, 1939-1953''.
Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press. pp. 352-353. . Surviving Soviet war prisoners held at Flossenbürg stated that they had witnessed Shepetov's torture at Flossenbürg in the spring of 1943.

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