Timofey Shapkin | |
Birth Date: | 5 March 1885 |
Allegiance: | Russian Empire Soviet Union |
Branch: | Imperial Russian Army Soviet Red Army |
Rank: | lieutenant general |
Commands: | 4th Cavalry Corps |
Serviceyears: | 1906–1917 (Russian Empire) 1918–1943 (Soviet Union) |
Battles: | World War I Russian Civil War Polish-Soviet War World War II |
Timofey Shapkin (March 5, 1885 – March 22, 1943) was a Soviet corps commander. He served in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I before going over to the Bolsheviks. He fought in the war against Poland.
In World War II, he commanded the 4th Cavalry Corps.
In March 1943, he fell seriously ill and died on March 22 in a hospital in Rostov-on-Don from a cerebral hemorrhage.
He was a recipient of the Order of the Red Banner and the Order of Kutuzov.