Dmitry Potapovich Safonov (Russian: Дмитрий Потапович Сафонов; 22 September 1895 – 26 June 1941) was a Red Army major general. He served in World War I and the Russian Civil War as an artilleryman, and rose to command artillery regiments in the 1930s. Despite this background, he was given command of the and led it in the opening days of the war in Belarus after Operation Barbarossa began. Safonov was killed four days into the war in an attempt to escape from encirclement.