22 September 1895 Tsaritsyn, Saratov Governorate, Russian Empire
Died
26 June 1941(1941-06-26) (aged 45) near Baranovichi, Byelorussian SSR, Soviet Union (now Belarus)
Allegiance
Russian Empire
Russian SFSR
Soviet Union
Service/branch
Imperial Russian Army
Red Army
Years of service
1915–1917
1918–1941
Rank
Major general
Commands held
143rd Rifle Division
Battles/wars
World War I
Russian Civil War
World War II
Awards
Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class
Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army"
Dmitry Potapovich Safonov (Russian: Дмитрий Потапович Сафонов; 22 September 1895 – 26 June 1941) was a Red Army major general.
He served in World War I and the Russian Civil War as an artilleryman, and rose to command artillery regiments in the 1930s. Despite this background, he was given command of the 143rd Rifle Division and led it in the opening days of the war in Belarus after Operation Barbarossa began. Safonov was killed four days into the war in an attempt to escape from encirclement.
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