Yevgeny Shilovsky

Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Shilovsky (; 2 December 1889 – 27 May 1952) was a Russian and Soviet lieutenant-general and military instructor.

Biography Yevgeny Shilovskiy was born in to a large and impoverished family of a hereditary nobleman.

In 1901, he entered the cadet corps in Oryol, a year later he transferred to the Second Moscow Cadet Corps which he successfully graduated from in 1907, and then from the Konstantinovskoye Artillery School in 1910, from which he graduated as a second lieutenant.

In October 1913, he entered the Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff. In April 1914, he was promoted to lieutenant. At the beginning of World War I, classes at the academy were discontinued, and the students returned to their units. Lieutenant Shilovskiy went to the front with his artillery brigade, and participated in combat operations as a junior officer of the brigade. For his distinction he was awarded two military orders and promoted to the rank of captain. From May 1915, he served as a general staff officer at the headquarters of the 36th Army Corps, and from October 1915, as an officer at the headquarters of the 43rd Infantry Division on the Southwestern Front. From August 1942 until the last day of his life, he was the chief of the military history department of this academy.

He joined the Communist Party in 1943. Yevgeny Shilovskiy died of a stroke in his office on May 27, 1952. He was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.

Awards Russian Empire Order of St. Anna, 4th degree Order of St. Stanislaus, 3rd degree, with swords and bow St. George's Sword Order of St. Vladimir, 4th degree with swords and bow Order of St. Anna, 3rd class, with swords and bow Order of St. Stanislaus 2nd degree with swords Highest Benevolence Order of St. George, 4th degree

Soviet Union Order of Lenin 4 Orders of the Red Banner Order of Suvorov, 2nd degree Order of the Red Star