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Pavel Batitsky

Soviet military leader

Summary

Soviet military leader

Field	Value
name	Pavel Fyodorovich Batitsky
native_name	Павел Фёдорович Батицкий
birth_date	27 June 1910
death_date
birth_place	Kharkov, Russian Empire
death_place	Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
placeofburial	Novodevichy Cemetery
image	Pavel Batitsky.jpg
caption	Batitsky 1960s
allegiance
branch	Red Army
serviceyears	1924–1978
rank	[[File:Rank insignia of маршал Советского Союза.svg	34px]] Marshal of the Soviet Union
commands	Moscow Air Defence District
Soviet Air Defence Forces
awards	Hero of the Soviet Union

Soviet Air Defence Forces Pavel Fyodorovich Batitsky (; ; 27 June 1910 – 17 February 1984) was a Soviet military leader awarded the highest honorary title of Hero of the Soviet Union in 1965 and promoted to Marshal of the Soviet Union in 1968. Batitsky served in the Red Army from 1924 and was commander-in-chief of the Air Defence Forces from 1966 to 1978. Following the death of Joseph Stalin in 1953, he was chosen to personally execute Lavrentiy Beria, the former head of the NKVD.

Biography

He was born in Kharkov, in the Russian Empire, and joined the Red Army in October 1924. At the age of 14, he entered the Kharkov Military Preparatory School (soon relocated to Poltava) and in 1926, was sent to study at the Military Cavalry School, graduating in 1929. From March 1929 to May 1935, he served in the cavalry and commanded a platoon and squad in the Byelorussian Military District.

In 1938, he graduated with honors from the Frunze Military Academy. From September 1939 to December 1940, he was in China as Chief of Staff of Soviet military advisers at the headquarters of Chiang Kai-shek. Upon returning to the Soviet Union, he was made Chief of Staff of the 11th Motorized Machine Gun Artillery Brigade at Kaunas in the Baltic Special Military District. In March 1941, he was appointed Chief of Staff of the 202nd Motorized Division. Later that year, he took command of the 254th Rifle Division. Later, during World War II, he commanded the 73rd Rifle Corps (1943–1944) and the 128th Rifle Corps (1944–1945). After World War II he was Chief of the General Staff and Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Soviet Air Forces (1950–1953). In December 1953, he was chosen personally to execute Lavrentiy Beria as part of a plot led by Nikita Khrushchev and assisted by the military forces of Marshal of the Soviet Union Georgy Zhukov (Batitsky was Colonel-General and First Deputy Commander of the Moscow Military District at the time).

Batitsky died in Moscow on 17 February 1984. He was buried in the Novodevichy Cemetery.

Honours and awards

Hero of the Soviet Union
Five Orders of Lenin
Order of the October Revolution
Five Orders of the Red Banner
Order of Kutuzov 1st class
Order of Suvorov 2nd class
Order of Kutuzov 2nd class
Order for Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR 3rd class
Campaign and Jubilee medals
16 foreign decorations

References

(2004). "Memoirs of Nikita Khrushchev". Penn State Press.
Brackman, Roman. (2001). "The Secret File of Joseph Stalin: A Hidden Life". Psychology Press.
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(2010-06-24). "Лаврентия Берию в 1953 году расстрелял лично советский маршал".

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