Dmitry Grigorevich Pavlov (, October 23, 1897 – July 22, 1941) was a Soviet general who commanded the key Soviet Western Front during the initial days of the German invasion of the Soviet Union, or Operation Barbarossa, in June 1941. After his forces were heavily defeated in the first days of the campaign, he was relieved of his command, arrested, charged with military incompetence and then executed. He was exonerated (or rehabilitated in Soviet parlance) in 1956.