Yevgeny Shilovsky

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Yevgeny Aleksandrovich Shilovsky (2 December 1889 – 27 May 1952) was a Russian and Soviet lieutenant-general and military instructor. He was born in Savinki, in the Tambov region, to a large, impoverished noble family. He died in Moscow and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.

Education and World War I
- He trained in a series of military schools: the Oryol cadet corps, the Second Moscow Cadet Corps (graduating in 1907), the Konstantinovskoye Artillery School (1910, as a second lieutenant), and the Nikolaev Academy of the General Staff (entered 1913).
- At the start of World War I, he served on the front as a junior officer, earned two military orders, and was promoted to captain.
- He held several general staff positions on the Southwestern Front. He was recalled to the academy in 1917 and demobilized in 1918 with the rank of captain.

Early Soviet career and wars
- In 1918–1919 he worked at the Supreme Military Inspectorate of the RSFSR and then held key posts in Ukraine, helping to form Red Army units there.
- He participated in military actions against Petliura’s forces, Denikin’s army, and other troops in Ukraine and southern Russia.
- Shilovsky fought in the Soviet-Polish War and helped defeat Bułak-Bałachowicz’s detachments near Mozyr in 1920.
- He then served as a teacher and administrator at military academies, including the Frunze Military Academy, and held senior staff positions in Moscow.

Interwar period and World War II
- From 1931 he worked at the Zhukovsky Red Army Air Force Academy, later holding senior roles at the Red Army General Staff Academy.
- He became a senior lecturer in 1936 and, from 1940, head of the operations department at the General Staff Academy.
- On 3 August 1941 he was appointed acting chief of the General Staff Academy and led its evacuation from Moscow to Ufa, reorganizing cadet education for the war.
- Shilovsky contributed to the development of the theory of deep operations during World War II.
- From 1942 until his death, he served as the chief of the military history department at the academy.

Later life and personal life
- He joined the Communist Party in 1943.
- He died of a stroke in his office on 27 May 1952 in Moscow and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.
- He was married twice: first to Yelena Nürenberg (1921–1932) and later to Marianna Tolstaya (from 1935). He had three children.