Mikhail Konstantinov

Mikhail Petrovich Konstantinov (; – 30 May 1990) was a Soviet Army colonel general and a Hero of the Soviet Union.

Konstantinov joined the Red Army during the Russian Civil War, becoming a junior commander at cavalry schools. A variety of positions at cavalry schools followed during the 1920s before Konstantinov served in command and staff positions with cavalry units in Central Asia in the 1930s. At the outbreak of Operation Barbarossa, he commanded a cavalry division in Belarus. Konstantinov's division was destroyed and he was severely wounded, fighting with partisans after he recovered. Flown back to Soviet lines in late 1942, he became commander of the 7th Guards Cavalry Corps in October 1943, which he led for the rest of the war. Made a Hero of the Soviet Union for his leadership of the corps during the Vistula–Oder Offensive, Konstantinov continued in command of the corps after the end of the war. Postwar, he commanded the Northern Group of Forces and ended his career as first deputy commander of the Leningrad Military District in the early 1960s. Provided by Wikipedia