Dmitry Petrovich Zhloba (; June 3, 1887 – June 10, 1938) was a Soviet military commander who participated in the Russian Civil War. He was born in Kiev, Ukraine, then part of Imperial Russia. During the Russian Revolution of 1905, he was a member of an armed workers' detachment in Mykolaiv. In May 1916, he was arrested for participation in an anti-government strike and sent to the World War I front. At the time of the Bolshevik October Revolution in 1917, he was a member of the Moscow Soviet and commanded a Red Guard detachment against the Kremlin-based Junkers. At the end of 1917, he was sent as a war commissar to the Donbass where he organized a miners’ Red Guard unit that fought at Kiev and Rostov. He was assigned to the Caucasus Front of the Russian Civil War in May 1918. As the comman