Petar Gračanin

Petar Gračanin (Serbian Cyrillic: Петар Грачанин; 22 June 1923 – 27 June 2004) was a Yugoslav and Serbian politician and general in the Yugoslav People's Army.

Biography Petar Gračanin was born on 22 June 1923 in Jagodina, then part of the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes.

In July 1941, he joined the Yugoslav Partisans. After the formation of the 2nd Proletarian Brigade, in March 1942, at first he was a member and later the commander of a battalion. He was initiated as a SKOJ member in the League of Communists of Yugoslavia in 1942. He was also Chief of Staff of the Command-headquarters academy, and later he was assigned as commander of the 1st Army.

Slobodan Milošević promoted him to the rank of reserve general of the army of the FR Yugoslavia in 1999.

He died in Belgrade on 27 June 2004, aged 81, and was buried in the Alley of Distinguished Citizens at Belgrade's New Cemetery.