Batitsky, Pavel Fedorovich

Pavel Fyodorovich Batitsky was born on June 14 (27), 1910 in Kharkov to a family of workers. Ukrainian ^[1] .

In 1922 he graduated from the 4 classes of junior high school, and then - the factory school at the Kharkov Serp & Molot motor-building factory .

Interwar Time

In October 1924, at the age of 14, he was enrolled in the Ukrainian Military Preparatory School in Kharkov, soon relocated to Poltava . After graduating from school in 1927, he was sent to study at the 2nd Borisoglebsk - Leningrad Cavalry School of the RKKA commanding staff, after which in September 1929 he was sent to the 40th Cavalry Regiment ( Belarussian Military District ), where he served as commander of cavalry and sapper platoons.

In December 1931, he was appointed assistant commander, and then - commander of a separate sapper squadron of the 40th Cavalry Regiment (2nd Cavalry Brigade, 7th Samara Cavalry Division , 3rd Cavalry Corps ).

In April 1935, he was sent to study at the MV Frunze Military Academy , where he graduated with honors and in July 1938 he was appointed as an officer for special assignments in the operations department of the General Staff of the Red Army , and in February 1939 - as an assistant chief. offices in the same place.

In September 1939, Batitsky was sent on a business trip to China , where he was chief of staff of a group of Soviet military advisers at the headquarters of Chiang Kai-shek . After returning in December 1940, he was appointed to the post of chief of staff of the 11th motorized machine-gun artillery brigade ( Baltic Military District ) deployed in Kaunas , and in March 1941 to the position of chief of staff of the 202nd motorized division ( 12th mechanized housing ).

Great Patriotic War

With the beginning of the war, Lieutenant Colonel Batitsky was in his former position. The 202nd motorized division conducted heavy defensive operations on the North-Western Front , and from 23 to 25 June took part in a frontal counterattack on Siauliai , but during these battles the division suffered significant losses, losing material, and then retreated on the Pskov direction. In August, several soldiers left the encirclement in the Novgorod area.

In September, he was appointed chief of staff of the 26th rifle division , and in November, commander of the 254th rifle division , which soon took part in hostilities during the Demyansk operation , and then led defensive operations on the northern flank of Ramushevsky the corridor ”, which connected the half-encircled demyan grouping of enemy troops with its main forces, preventing the enemy from expanding this corridor. At the same time, the division’s repeated attempts to cut the supply lines of the 2nd Army Corps of the enemy defending in the Demyansk Cauldron also had no success.

July 20, 1943 he was appointed commander of the 73rd rifle corps , which was in the formation of the 52nd army near the city of Okhtyrka . After the formation ended in August, the corps took part in the battle for the Dnieper , during which it forced the river twice: in September 1943 in the region south of Kanev , and then, after redeployment, in November-December in the Cherkasy region, after which it participated in release.

Soon the corps under the command of Batitsky led military operations during the Korsun-Shevchenko and Uman-Botosha offensive operations , as well as in the liberation of the cities of Zenkov , Uman and Balti . On March 26, 1944, after crossing the Prut River in the region north of the city of Ungheni, the corps was among the first to reach the Soviet- Romanian state border.

On April 24, Batitsky was appointed commander of the 50th rifle corps , which led the fighting in Moldavia , and at the end of May of the same year, commander of the 128th rifle corps , who soon took part in the fighting during the Belarusian operation , during which, after breaking through the enemy’s defenses south of Bobruisk, he took part in the liberation of the cities of Baranavichy and Brest , as well as in forcing the Western Bug river .

Soon after the corps redeployed to East Prussia , the corps took part in Gumbinnen-Goldapskaya , East Prussia , Berlin and Prague offensive operations ^[2] .

He was introduced to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union in December 1943 for distinctions during the liberation of the city of Cherkasy ^[3] , but was not awarded because of a conflict with a high-ranking political worker.

Post War Career

After the war, he was in his former position.

In May 1946, he was sent to study at the Higher Military Academy named after KE Voroshilov , from which he graduated in February 1948 with a gold medal and in June of the same year he was appointed commander of the 73rd infantry corps . In September of the same year, Batitsky was sent to the Air Defense Forces and appointed to the post of Chief of Staff - 1st Deputy Commander of the Moscow Air Defense District .

In February 1950, he was appointed commander of the Shanghai Group of Air Defense Forces in the PRC , which had the task of protecting the Guomindang from the island of Taiwan from air raids. Several Soviet fighter, anti-aircraft, artillery, searchlight and radar regiments were deployed, and mass training of Chinese military specialists began. In connection with the loss of anti-aircraft fire 6 aircraft and 1 - shot down in aerial combat, the Kuomintang air force refused to bomb the Chinese territory. At the same time, the aircraft of the People’s Liberation Army of China was shot down by mistake. Batitsky units had no combat losses of their own.

After returning from China in September 1950, he was appointed Chief of the General Staff — Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the USSR Air Force , where Lieutenant General Batitsky, along with Colonel-General KS Moskalenko, Commander of the Moscow District of Air Defense , and Marshal of the Soviet Union G. K On June 26, 1953, Zhukov took part in the course of his arrest at a meeting of the Presidium of the USSR Council of Ministers L. P. Beria , who was soon accused of “anti-Party and anti-state activities aimed at undermining the Soviet state va ”and is devoid of awards and titles.

In July of the same year, he was appointed 1st Deputy Commander of the Moscow Military District , and on December 23 L.P. Beria was sentenced to capital punishment (execution) by a special court presence of the USSR Supreme Court , after which Batitsky, who expressed his own desire, personally carried out the death sentence ^[4] . Under the act of execution of December 23, 1953 is his signature ^[5] .

In May 1954, he was appointed commander of the 7th mechanized army ( Belarusian Military District ), on August 27 of the same year - commander of the Moscow air defense district , and in March 1965 - first deputy chief of the General Staff of the USSR Armed Forces .

By decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR dated May 7, 1965 for the skillful leadership of the troops and personal courage shown in the struggle against the German fascist invaders, Army General Pavel Feditovich Batitsky was awarded the title Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal (No. 10681 ).

In July 1966, he was appointed Commander- in - Chief of the country's Air Defense Forces - Deputy Minister of Defense of the USSR . At the same time, he was the commander of the air defense forces of the United Armed Forces - Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Joint Armed Forces of the Warsaw Pact member states . In 1970 he took part in Operation Caucasus - Soviet military assistance to Egypt during the War of Attrition ^[6] . In July 1978, Batitsky was relieved of his post on the basis of his own report submitted because he disagreed with the decision to transfer a large part of the Air Defense Forces to the border military districts , after which he was appointed Inspector General of the General Inspectors Group Defense of the USSR ^{[7] [8]} .

Marshal of the Soviet Union Pavel Fedorovich Batitsky died on February 17, 1984 in Moscow . He was buried at the Novodevichy cemetery .

• Colonel (12.27.1941);
• Major General (09/25/1943);
• Lieutenant General (05/11/1949);
• Colonel-General (3.08.1953);
• Army General (05/05/1961);
• Marshal of the Soviet Union (04/15/1968).

USSR Awards

• Gold Star Medal (05/07/1965);
• Five Orders of Lenin (02.22.1944, 04/20/1953, 06/27/1960, 05/07/1965, 02/21/1978);
• Order of the October Revolution (06/26/1970);
• Five Orders of the Red Banner (May 1942, 3/11/1944, January 1951, February 1954, 02/22/1968);
• Order of Kutuzov 1st degree (05/29/1945);
• Order of Suvorov 2 nd degree (07.23.1944);
• Order of Kutuzov 2nd degree (04/19/1945);
• Order "For Service to the Motherland in the Armed Forces of the USSR" 3 degrees (04/30/1975);
• Anniversary medal "For military valor. In commemoration of the 100th anniversary of the birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin ” ;
• Medal "For the victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" ;
• Commemorative Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945" ;
• Commemorative Medal “Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War of 1941-1945” ;
• Medal "For the Victory over Japan" ;
• Medal "For the capture of Koenigsberg" ;
• Medal "For the capture of Berlin" ;
• Medal "For the development of virgin lands" ;
• Anniversary medal "30 years of the Soviet Army and Navy" ;
• Commemorative medal "40 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" ;
• Commemorative Medal "50 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" ;
• Anniversary medal "60 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR" ;
• Medal "In memory of the 800th anniversary of Moscow" ;
• Honorary weapon with a golden image of the State Emblem of the USSR (02.22.1968);
• 15 USSR medals.

Foreign awards

• Commander cross with a star of the Order of the Renaissance of Poland ( NDP );
• Commander's Cross of the Order of the Renaissance of Poland ( NDP );
• Order of Clement Gottwald ( Czechoslovakia ; 5.5.1975) ^[9] ;
• Order of the Banner of Hungary of the 1 st degree ( Hungary );
• Order of Sukhe Bator ( MNR );
• Order "For Services to the Fatherland" in gold ( GDR );
• Order of the Shining Banner of the 4th degree ( Republic of China );
• Order of the People’s Republic of Bulgaria , 1st degree ( NRB );
• Order "August 23" 1st degree ( Socialist Republic of Romania );
• Medal "Friendship" (MNR);
• Medal "30 years of Khalkhin-Gol Victory" (Mongolia);
• Medal "30 Years of Victory over Militaristic Japan" (Mongolia);
• Medal "40 years of the Khalkhin Gol Victory" (Mongolia);
• Medal "50th Anniversary of the Mongolian People's Army" (Mongolia);
• Medal "50th Anniversary of the Mongolian People's Revolution" (Mongolia);
• Medal "60th Anniversary of the Armed Forces of the Mongolian People's Republic" (Mongolia);
• Medal "Victory in Khalkhin Gol" (Mongolia);
• Medal "For the strengthening of the friendship in arms" 1st degree (Czechoslovakia);
• Medal "30th Anniversary of the Slovak National Uprising" (Czechoslovakia);
• Medal "For the Strengthening of the Brotherhood in Arms" (NRB);
• Medal "90th Birth Anniversary of George Dimitrov" (NRB);
• Medal “100th Anniversary of the Birth of George Dimitrov” (NRB);
• Medal "100th Anniversary of the Liberation of Bulgaria from Ottoman Slavery" (NRB);
• Medal “1300 years of Bulgaria” (NRB);
• Medal "Sino-Soviet Friendship" ( China );
• Brotherhood in Arms Medal (NDP);
• Medal "20th Anniversary of the Revolutionary Armed Forces" ( Cuba );
• Medal "30 Years of Education of the GDR" ( GDR );
• Medal "30 years of the liberation of the motherland from the fascist yoke" ( Romania ).

• Streets in Kharkov , Cherkassy and in the Zarya district of the city of Balashikha are named in honor of P. F. Batitsky.
• In the microdistrict Zarya of the city of Balashikha, a bust of PF Batitsky was installed on the square near the cultural and leisure center Zarya.
• In Moscow, a memorial plaque is installed on the house at Sivtsev Vrazhek lane , 31, where Batitsky lived.
• In Cherkasy, the name of PF Batitsky is gymnasium No. 31, on the territory of which a bust of the Hero is also installed.

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