Stepan Sgibnev

Stepan Mikhailovich Sgibnev (Russian: Степан Михайлович Сгибнев; 19 December 1898 – April 1987) was a Soviet Army general-mayor who held divisional command during World War II.

A Red Guard during the Russian Civil War, Sgibnev was imprisoned and forcibly mobilized by the Whites in Siberia and ended the war with a Red partisan detachment. He rose through command positions in the interwar Red Army, and spent much of World War II in the Transbaikal region. Sgibnev commanded the 293rd Rifle Division during the Soviet invasion of Manchuria, and continued to hold senior positions in the postwar army until his career ended in the mid-1950s.