Editing Lev Dovator (section)

{{Short description|Soviet military commander}}
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{{Infobox military person
| name          = Lev Dovator
| native_name   = Леў Міхайлавіч Даватар<br>Лев Михайлович Доватор
| birth_date    = {{OldStyleDate|20 February|1903|7 February}}
| death_date    = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1941|12|19|1903|2|20}}
| birth_place   = {{ill|Khotino|ru|Хотино (Витебская область)}}, Vitebsk Governorate, Russian Empire
| death_place   = near {{ill|Palashkino, Moscow Oblast|ru|Палашкино (Московская область)}}, Ruzsky District, Moscow Oblast, Soviet Union
| placeofburial = [[Novodevichy Cemetery]]
| image         = Лев Михайлович Доватор.jpg
| allegiance    = Soviet Union
| branch        = [[Red Army]]
| serviceyears  = 1924–1941
| rank          = [[Major general]]
| commands      = [[:ru:3-й кавалерийский корпус|3rd Cavalry Corps]]<br>
[[:ru:2-й гвардейский кавалерийский корпус|2nd Guards Cavalry Corps]]
| unit          = 
| battles       = {{tree list}}
* [[World War II]]
** [[Operation Barbarossa]]
** [[Battle of Moscow]]{{KIA}}
{{tree list/end}}
| awards        = [[Hero of the Soviet Union]]
}}
[[File:Voennaia marka Dovator Smert nemeczkim okkupantam!.jpg|thumb|Lev Dovator (upper left) on the Soviet stamp published during the war. The text says "Death to German occupiers!"]]

'''Lev Mikhaylovich Dovator''' ({{OldStyleDate|20 February|1903|7 February}} {{endash}} 19 December 1941<ref>Alexander Werth, ''Russia at War'' (1964), Carroll & Graf, page 254.</ref>) was a famous [[Soviet Union|Soviet]] major general who was killed in action during [[World War II]] and posthumously awarded the title of [[Hero of the Soviet Union]].