Babich, Mikhail Pavlovich

Orthodox. From the nobles of the Kuban Cossack army. Born in the village of Novovelichkovskaya , in the family of the Kuban Cossack, the hero of the Russian-Turkish and Caucasian wars, the famous Lieutenant General Pavel Denisovich Babich (1801-1883). Brother George Babich .

He was given up for education in the Mikhailovsky Voronezh Cadet Corps .

In 1862 he was sent to military service in Tarutinsky 67th Infantry Regiment .

In 1863 he took part in the last battles of the Caucasian War , then served in various military units. In 1864, for the difference in taking the aul of Sochi , the cadet Mikhail Babich received his first award - the 4th degree St. George Cross.

Member of the Russian-Turkish war of 1877-1878. He distinguished himself in military operations as part of the Erivan detachment , for which he received the rank of captain , in 1880-1881 he fought under the command of General M. D. Skobelev during the Akhal-Teking expedition . He was awarded the orders of St. Alexander Nevsky, White Eagle, St. Vladimir 2nd and 3rd degree and many other awards.

From May 20 ( June 1 ), 1888 to February 21 ( March 5 ), 1893 he was the commander of the 4th foot plastun battalion of the Kuban Cossack army . From February 21 ( March 5 ), 1893 , he was the commander of the Novobayazetsky reserve infantry regiment , and from August 23 ( September 4 ), 1895 , he was the commander of the 156th infantry general Elisavetpol Prince Tsitsianov regiment .

On May 10 ( 22 ), 1897 he was transferred to his homeland and appointed ataman of the Ekaterinodar department of the Kuban region , with enrollment in the Kuban Cossack army.

On May 6 ( 18 ), 1899 , he was the senior assistant to the chief of the Kuban region and the ataman of the Kuban Cossack army with the rank of major general .

On December 1 ( 14 ), 1906 , he was appointed to the post of military governor of the Kara region , with enrollment in the army infantry. He held this position until February 3 ( 16 ), 1908 .

On April 22 ( May 5 ), 1907 , the military governor of the Kara region, Major General MP P. Babich was promoted to lieutenant general .

On February 3 ( 16 ), 1908 he was appointed the head of the Kuban region and the ataman of the Kuban Cossack army, with enrollment in the Kuban Cossack army.

On November 17 ( 30 ), 1914 , for the impeccable 50-year service in officer ranks, the head of the Kuban region and the ataman of the Kuban Cossack army, Lieutenant General MP P. Babich was promoted to general from infantry .

On March 26 ( April 8 ), 1917 , the Provisional Government of Russia was dismissed from service "according to a petition for distressed health, with a uniform and pension."

He returned to live in Pyatigorsk . Here he was arrested by the Bolsheviks, taken to the forest and hacked off at Mount Beshtau , together with a group of hostages, former tsarist generals, including N.V. Ruzsky , R.D. Radko-Dmitriev and others (however, his name is not on the list of hostages ) According to other sources, he was hacked by the Reds near Kislovodsk on August 7, 1918. In April 1919, Babich was reburied in the Yekaterinodar military cathedral .

Of all the former Kuban Atamans, Babich was the only hereditary Cossack . At this post, he proved himself an experienced administrator who sought to raise the cultural and economic level of the Cossack population of the Kuban. Under him, the number of folk and military-art schools increased many times, a mud clinic was built in the village of Tamanskaya and a monument was erected to the Black Sea Cossacks, pioneers of the landing of 1792 ; in Yekaterinodar, Babich opened a school of warrant officers for the honored Cossack podhorunzhih, helped to build the Kuban-Black Sea and Armaviro-Tuapse railways. He was the chairman of the commission for the construction of a monument to Catherine II in Yekaterinodar.

• Stashevskaya, Sofia Iosifovna (1871-1964) - wife. She graduated from the Baku Women's School of St. Nina. Chairman of the Yekaterinodar branch of the Russian Red Cross Society and the Kuban Community of Sisters of Charity, honorary member of the Yekaterinodar branch of the Imperial Musical Society, honorary trustee of the 1st Ekaterinodar Women's Gymnasium. In 1919, with her daughters, she immigrated to Constantinople , and then to London ^[1] .
  • Babich, Elena Mikhailovna (1899 -?) - daughter ^[1] .
  • Babich, Ekaterina Mikhailovna (1907-1960) - daughter ^[1] .

Russian:

• Order of St. George 4 tbsp. (1864);
• Order of St. Stanislav 3 tbsp. (1873);
• Order of St. Anne 3 tbsp. with swords and bow (1878);
• Order of St. Stanislav 2 tbsp. (1885);
• Order of St. Vladimir 4 tbsp. (1889);
• Order of St. Anne 2 tbsp. (1892);
• Order of St. Vladimir 3 tbsp. (1895);
• Order of St. Stanislav 1 tbsp. (1905);
• Order of St. Anne 1 tbsp. (1908);
• Order of St. Vladimir 2nd Art. (1911);
• Order of the White Eagle (VP 06.12.1914);
• Order of St. Alexander Nevsky (VP 6.12.1915).

Foreign:

• Persian order of Leo and the Sun 2 tbsp. (1890).

In Krasnodar , a street was named in honor of the ataman M. P. Babich ^[2] .

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