Vasily Yevdokimov

Vasily Pavlovich Yevdokimov (Russian: Василий Павлович Евдокимов; 12 April 1898–July 1941) was a Red Army major general. Yevdokimov ended the Russian Civil War as a junior commander and served with cavalry units in Transcaucasia during the 1920s and early 1930s. He moved to infantry units in the mid-1930s and was decorated for his command of a regiment during the Winter War. Commanding the 50th Rifle Division in Belarus on the outbreak of Operation Barbarossa, he suffered a mental breakdown in early July and was replaced in command. Yevdokimov was escorted to the rear and left in a hospital; his further fate being unknown, he was officially declared missing.

Vasily Yevdokimov

Vasily Pavlovich Yevdokimov (Russian: Василий Павлович Евдокимов; 12 April 1898–July 1941) was a Red Army major general. Yevdokimov ended the Russian Civil War as a junior commander and served with cavalry units in Transcaucasia during the 1920s and early 1930s. He moved to infantry units in the mid-1930s and was decorated for his command of a regiment during the Winter War. Commanding the 50th Rifle Division in Belarus on the outbreak of Operation Barbarossa, he suffered a mental breakdown in early July and was replaced in command. Yevdokimov was escorted to the rear and left in a hospital; his further fate being unknown, he was officially declared missing.