Batov biography

The memorial plaque in Yaroslavl Batov Pavel Ivanovich-the commander of the Army of the 1st Belorussian Front, Lieutenant General; The commander of the Army of the 2nd Belorussian Front, Colonel General. Born on May 20 on June 1 in the village of Filisovo, Rybinsk district of the Yaroslavl province now, the Rybinsk district of the Yaroslavl region. From the peasant poor family.

He graduated from a two -class rural elementary school. From the age of 13 he lived in St. Petersburg, worked as a loader and a peddler, and was engaged in self-education. Exterm passed exams for 6 grades. In November, a volunteer joined the Russian Imperial Army. He served in the Life Guards the 3rd Rifle Regiment of the Guards Rifle Brigade. A participant in the 1st World War from the year on the Northern Front, the commander of the intelligence department, was wounded.

For differences in battles, he was awarded two St. George Crosses and two medals. In the year he graduated from the preparation team for entering the Peterhof school of warrant officers. He had the rank of junior non-commissioned officer. In the Red Army since the year. In the civil war he was the commander of a machine gun platoon, an assistant to the military leader on marching formations at the Rybinsk military commissariat, assistant to the military leader of the reserve of the team and commanding personnel of the Moscow Military District.

He participated in the suppression of counter -revolutionary performances and rebellions in Rybinsk, Yaroslavl, Poshekhonya. From the year he was an assistant commander and commander of a rifle company. From the year he commanded the battalion, from the year - the chief of staff of the regiment. Since the year, he commanded a rifle regiment in the 3rd Moscow Proletarian Rifle Division of the Moscow Military District.

In December - August of the year, under the pseudonym, Pablo Fritz participated in the national revolutionary war of the Spanish people in the posts of the military adviser of the international brigade and adviser at the commander of the Teruel Front. Upon returning, since August, he was the commander of the Rifle Corps, and from August the commander of the 3rd Rifle Corps.

In the years he participated in the Soviet-Finnish war, commanded the 3rd from December 13 and the special in March 6, rifle corps as part of the Army on the Karelian Isthmus. From April to November, - Deputy Commander of the Troops of the Transcaucasian Military District, then commanded the 9th Special Rifle Corps in Crimea, and on June 20, he was simultaneously appointed commander of the Ground Forces in Crimea.

Since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, P. Batov, the commander of the 9th Special Rifle Corps in the Crimea, since August - deputy commander of the Army of the Southern Front, a participant in defensive battles on Perekop and in the Kerch region. In November - December, the army was commanded by the army of the Transcaucasian Front on the reorganization on the Taman Peninsula.

In January - February - commander of the 3rd Army of the Bryansk Front. From February to October, he fulfilled the position of assistant commander of the troops of the Bryansk Front to form the formation only in it in September. From October 14 to 23, he was the commander of the 4th Panzer Army, which was then renamed the Army. As the commander of the army, P. Batov fought until the end of the war as part of the Donskoy, Stalingrad, Central, Belarusian, 1st and 2nd Belarusian fronts.

The troops under the command of P. Batov in the Battle of Stalingrad heroically defended north of Stalingrad on the Don, and then distinguished themselves in the environment and destruction of the 6th German army in Stalingrad. In February - March, the army waged heavy offensive and defensive battles in the Sevsky direction.

In the Battle of Kursk, she actively acted in the defensive operation of the Central Front. In the battle for the Dnieper in August - September of the year, I am an army in a month with battles rapidly advanced kilometers, forced the Desna rivers, co -chev, Dnieper, liberated the cities of Sevsk, Glukhov and Loev, and heroically fought at the Dnieper bridgeheads. In the Winter Campaign-the years of P.

Batov again distinguished themselves in the Gomelsko-Rechitskaya and Kalinkovichi-Mozyr offensive operations. The commander of the Army P. Batov skillfully used to support the attack of infantry and tanks of the double fire shaft in the Bobruisk operation, played a decisive role in the destruction of the enemy Bobruka to 40 people, resolutely carried out the maneuvre by army troops from one direction to another in further battles of the Belarusian strategic operation, and distinguished himself with the defeat of the enemy’s troops north of the Brest, under the defeat of the enemy’s troops, Forcing the West Bug River, when capturing and holding strategically important bridgeheads in the Serotsk area.

In the East Prussian operation, I distinguished the army at the defeat of the 2nd and 4th German armies in the Mlavsky and Allensteinsky fortified areas, then successfully advanced in the East Moracean operation. In the Berlin offensive operation, the Batov Army formed the Oder and occupied large areas in Northern Germany, freeing the city of Rostock and Stettin.

For this operation, he is presented for awarding the second "Golden Star". In the course of numerous combat operations, he proved himself a decisive, energetic military leader. The combat success of the Army under the leadership of P.Batova 23 times during the war were noted in the orders of the Supreme Commander -in -Chief. After the war, he commanded the 7th mechanized army, since October-the 7th separate tank division.

In the year he graduated from the highest academic courses at the Higher Military Academy named after K. Voroshilov then the Military Academy of the General Staff. Since the March of the year - the commander of the Guards Army, since June, he was the first deputy commander in chief of the Soviet troops in Germany. In March, he was appointed commander of the troops of the Carpathian Military District.

Since April, he commanded the troops of the Baltic Military District. Since November - senior military adviser in the People's Liberation Army of China. In January, P. Batov was sent to the honorary position of military inspector-adviser to the General Inspectors of the USSR Ministry of Defense. But he was soon returned to team work and in August he was appointed commander of the southern group of troops in Hungary.

In the years - the chairman of the Soviet Committee of War Veterans. He died on April 19 in Moscow. The site 7. Military titles:.