Dmitry Akimovich Lukyanov (; 15 February 1900 – 7 October 1985) was a Soviet Army major general who held division command during World War II.
A veteran of the Russian Civil War, Lukyanov rose to command a regiment during the Winter War. He served as a division commander for most of World War II, beginning the war as commander of the 191st Rifle Division in the Siege of Leningrad. After recovering from a serious wound suffered in late 1941, Lukyanov commanded the 2nd Rifle Division from 1942 to early 1944. Relieved of command during the Leningrad–Novgorod offensive, Lukyanov continued as a division commander for most of the rest of the war in the Baltics. After commanding four different divisions in 1944 and 1945 and service as a corps deputy commander, Lukyanov continued in similar positions until he left active service in the early 1950s.
Early life and Russian Civil War
Dmitry Akimovich Lukyanov was born on 15 February 1900 in the village of Yeskovo, Likhvinsky Uyezd, Kaluga Governorate. He worked as an unskilled laborer in the Levinson textile shop in the Sokolniki District of Moscow, and joined the Moscow-Saratov Regiment of the Red Army on 5 April 1918 during the Russian Civil War. As a Red Army man in the regiment, Lukyanov fought on the Eastern Front against the White Orenburg Cossacks, and from November on the Southern Front against the Armed Forces of South Russia. In battles near Repna on 11 April 1919 Lukyanov was wounded and was treated at the 40th Military Hospital in Tula for a month.
Returning to his regiment. Lukyanov was captured by the Whites on 25 July in the battle near Tornovka, Balashovsky Uyezd, and sent to a prisoner of war camp in Azov. From there, Lukyanov was sent to the Netsvetay Paramonov mine for labor as a mine horse driver. In December he was freed by elements of the 33rd Kuban Rifle Division. After questioning, Lukyanov was enrolled as a cadet in the training detachment of the division's 289th Rifle Regiment. Graduating from the training detachment, Lukyanov became a machine gun platoon commander in May 1920 and took part in the Polish–Soviet War. After the defeat of the division in the Battle of Warsaw Lukyanov retreated with the division into East Prussia, where the Soviet troops were interned.
Interwar period
Lukyanov was interned in the Hameln and Minden camps until June 1921, when he returned to Soviet Russia. Lukyanov was sent to the 73rd Novgorod Infantry Courses as a cadet, and in May 1922 transferred to the Petrograd Infantry School. After graduating from the school in August 1925, Lukyanov took command of a platoon of the 79th Rifle Regiment of the 27th Rifle Division of the Western Military District at Lepel. From September 1927 to August 1929 he completed the Engels Leningrad Political Courses. After graduating from the courses he served as a company political instructor, and from November 1930 commanded a company of the Kronstadt Fortress Rifle Regiment of the Leningrad Military District. In March 1936, Lukyanov was transferred to the 11th Rifle Division to serve as assistant chief of staff of its 32nd Rifle Regiment, and in October became a battalion commander in its 33rd Rifle Regiment. Appointed commander of the 43rd Rifle Division's 65th Rifle Regiment on 13 January 1938, Lukyanov transferred to command the division's 147th Rifle Regiment in May. Completing the Vystrel course in 1939, Lukyanov returned to command the 147th Regiment. He led the regiment in the Winter War, receiving the Order of the Red Banner on 1 April 1940 for his performance. Then-Colonel Lukyanov became deputy commander of the 43rd in December 1940, and in March 1941 took command of the 191st Rifle Division.
