death_place death_date birth_place birth_date article_title name
ussr 9 april 1965 russian empire 18 january 1897 anton lopatin
 anton lopatin
anton lopatin

anton ivanovich lopatin -lrb- -rrb- -lrb- january 18 , 1897 - april 9 , 1965 -rrb- was a soviet officer during the second world war , and hero of the soviet union .
lopatin begun his service in the red army in 1918 , and participated in the russian civil war .
after completing his command courses in 1927 .
from 1937 lopatin was appointed commander of a cavalry division .
he began the great patriotic war in the rank of general-major , and was promoted to the rank of general-lieutenant 1942 .
during the war he commanded the 31st rifle corps of the southwestern front -lrb- from october 1940 -rrb- , 9th army -lrb- from july 1941 -rrb- , 62nd army -lrb- from august 1942 -rrb- with the mission , to defend stalingrad , 34th army -lrb- from october 1942 -rrb- , 11th army -lrb- during march - july 1943 -rrb- , and 20th army -lrb- september - october 1943 -rrb- .
during january - july 1944 lopatin served as the deputy commander of the 43rd army , and from july 1944 as commanding officer of the 13th guards corps with the 1st baltic and 3rd belorussian fronts .
he also completed the higher academic course at the military academy of the general staff in 1947 .
after the war lopatin commanded a rifle corps , and occupied high ranking positions in staffs of several military districts before retiring in 1954 .
