Trofim Kolomiets

Trofim Kolomiets (1894 – April 1971) was a Soviet corps commander. He was born in what is now Kropyvnytskyi, Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukraine. He fought in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I before going over to the Bolsheviks in the subsequent civil war. At the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, he was a major general. He fought against the forces of the Axis powers at Smolensk and Stalingrad.