Leonty Shevtsov

Leonty Pavlovich Shevtsov (Russian: Леонтий Павлович Шевцов; born 14 March 1946) is a retired Russian colonel general. He served in a number of senior positions, including as the Commander-in-Chief of the Internal Troops of Russia from 1997 to 1998 and as a Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs from 1997 to 1999.

After becoming an officer in the Soviet Army he commanded units at every level from a platoon to a field army. During the early 1990s, he was the commander of the 1st Guards Tank Army, the deputy chief of the Main Operations Directorate at the Russian General Staff, and the chief of staff of the Joint Group of Forces in Chechnya. Shevtsov was sent to the NATO military headquarters from 1995 to 1997, when Russia deployed one brigade for the peacekeeping mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina, and worked out the framework for Russia's participation with the Supreme Allied Commander Europe, a U.S. general. He became the deputy to the supreme commander for Russian forces. Shevtsov was later the head of the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the late 1990s after returning to Russia and oversaw their reforms.