Andrei Shkuro

Andrei Grigoriyevich Shkuro
Young General Shkuro
Born	(1887-01-19)January 19, 1887 Pashkovskaya (now part of Krasnodar), Kuban Oblast, Russian Empire
Died	January 17, 1947(1947-01-17) (aged 59) Moscow
Allegiance	Russian Empire Kuban People's Republic  Nazi Germany
Service/branch	Imperial Russian Army White Movement 1st Cossack Division
Years of service	1907-1920 1943-45
Rank	Lieutenant General
Battles/wars	World War I Russian Civil War World War II
Awards	Order of Saint Stanislaus Order of Saint Anna Order of the Bath (Great Britain)

Andrei Grigoriyevich Shkuro (Russian: Андрей Григорьевич Шкуро; Ukrainian: Андрій Григорович Шкуро) (19 January 1887 (O.S.: 7 January) – 17 January 1947) was a Lieutenant General (1919) of the White Army.

He was born in the stanitsa of Pashkovskaya (, now part of Krasnodar) in Kuban Oblast into a Cossack family. Shkuro graduated from Nikolayev Cavalry School in 1907 and served in the Kuban Cossack Host. In World War I Shkuro became the commander of a special guerrilla unit which executed several daring raids behind Austrian-Hungarian and German lines. During World War I, Shkuro was promoted to the rank of colonel.

In the spring of 1918, after the establishment of the Bolshevik régime, Shkuro organized an anti-Bolshevik Cossack unit in the area of Batalpashinsk in the Caucasus. In May and June 1918 he raided Stavropol, Yessentuki and Kislovodsk. After officially joining Denikin's White Army, he became the commander of the Kuban Cossacks brigade which soon increased in size and became a division. In May 1919 Shkuro, as a young lieutenant-general, had a whole cavalry corps of Cossacks under his command.