Hero Of The Soviet Union Batov Pavel Ivanovich

Batov Pavel Ivanovich (1.06.1897-19.04.1985) – one of the military commanders of the red Army during the second world war, the civil war in Spain, twice hero of the Soviet Union.

Childhood and youth

Who by birth was Batov Pavel Ivanovich? His biography began in the family of the Yaroslavl peasants in a village near Rybinsk. After a couple of years in a rural school, 13-year-old Paul was forced to begin to earn a living. He travels to St. Petersburg, where he works, as it is now would put it, in the service sector - delivers to addresses various purchases. At the same time manages to educate ourselves, so much so that an external exams for 6th grade school.

Early military career

Pavel Batov began his military career in the battlefields of the First world war. 18-year-old he volunteered in 1915 he was enrolled in the training command of the 3rd life guards infantry regiment. Got to the front the following year, served as a squad leader of the scouts, showed bravery and was twice awarded the George cross. After being wounded and healing in the hospital in Petrograd, was assigned to the training command for training in the school of ensigns, where the agitator A. Savkov introduced him to the political program of the Bolsheviks.

Civil war and inter-war period

Batov, Pavel Ivanovich had served over four years in the red Army during the civil war, first as a platoon commander of machine gunners, then assistant chief of Rybinsk military, he served in the office of the military district in Moscow. Since 1919 combat units in the red army he commanded a company.

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In 1926, he graduated from officer training “Shot” and was appointed to command a battalion of elite military units – the 1st infantry division. He will serve in this part for the next nine years, rising to the post of commander of the regiment. During this period, Batov Pavel Ivanovich graduated from the Academy named after Frunze in absentia.

Civil war in Spain

Colonel Batov Pavel Ivanovich in 1936 under the name of Pablo Fritz was sent to a military Advisor in the Spanish Republican army, in the 12th brigade under the command of the famous General Lukacs, the name of which fought in the Hungarian revolutionary Mate Zalka. In June 1937 Baht and Zalka during a trip in the car to reconnoitre in the town of Huesca came under fire of enemy artillery. The Zap was killed, and Batov, who was sitting beside him in the back seat and critically injured, survived.

Strangely enough, but perhaps this tragic episode played a role in that, not touched in the period “yezhovshchina” when, after being wounded, he in August 1937, he returned home. It is no secret that almost all the military advisers who visited in Spain, along with their leader Antonov-Ovseenko was destroyed upon returning home. Stalin's lieutenants really did not like the people who fought side by side with anarchists, Trotskyists, adherents of bourgeois democracy, which was a lot in the Spanish international brigades. But Batova, that is, this Cup, because to blame the person whose blood is literally mixed with the blood of General Lukacs, who became a symbol of resistance to fascism, it was clearly politically disadvantageous.

Pre-war time

From August 1937 Baht successively commanded the 10th and 3rd infantry corps, participated in the campaign in Western Ukraine in September 1939, then the Soviet-Finnish war. Military merit commander was marked by the manufacture of his division commanders, and then to Lieutenant General. In 1940 he was appointed Deputy commander of the Transcaucasian military district.

The Initial period of the second world war

The Baht started the Crimean war commander of the 9th corps, later transformed into the 51st army, where he became the Deputy commander. The army desperately fought with the Germans at Perekop and Kerch area, but was defeated, and in November 1941 it was evacuated to the Taman Peninsula. Batov, elevated to commander, was charged with its reorganization.

In January 1942, he was sent to the Bryansk front as commander of the 3rd army, and then transferred to the headquarters of the front for the post of assistant commander.

The battle of Stalingrad and the subsequent battles of the second world war with the participation of Batova

October 22, 1042 years Batov became commander of the 4th tank army on the approaches to Stalingrad. This army, soon renamed the 65th army, became part of the don front, the command of which was assigned to K. K. Rokossovsky. Baht remained its commander until the end of the war.

He helped plan the Soviet counter-offensive during the operation, "Uranium" to encircle the German 6th army of General Paulus. His army was a key striking force in the attack and subsequent operation “Ring” by the destruction of the encircled at Stalingrad grouping of German.

After this victory, the 65th army was deployed in the North-West part of the new Central front, commanded by Rokossovsky the same. In July 1943 the army, fought in the gigantic battle of Kursk, fighting off the enemy offensive in the area of Sevsk. After the defeat of the Germans during the offensive from August to October, the 65th army passed with fights more than 300kilometers and reached the Dnieper, which was boosted by her on October 15 in area of Loyev in the Gomel region.

In the Summer of 1944 the army, took part in major strategic operations in Belarus in the destruction of Bobruisk groupings of the enemy. Within a few days of the German 9th army was surrounded and almost completely destroyed. After that, Batov was promoted to Colonel-General.

Then there was the fighting in Poland, the crossing of the Vistula, the storming of Danzig and the capture of Stettin. Recent volleys of Katyushas 65-th army in April 1945 were sent to the German garrison of the island of rügen.

After the war

During this period, Batov held various senior positions. He commanded the 7th mechanized army in Poland, the 11th guards army with headquarters in Kaliningrad. In 1954 he became the first Deputy commander of GSV in Germany, in the following year commander of the Carpathian military district. During this period he participated in the suppression of the Hungarian uprising in 1956. Later he commanded the southern group of forces, was the Deputy chief of the General staff of the USSR. Baht retired as an active General of the Soviet army in 1965, but continued to work in the group of military inspectors of the Ministry of defence and from 1970 to 1981 he headed the Soviet Committee of veterans. He remained a close friend of Marshal Rokossovsky until the latter's death in 1968, and he was commissioned to edit and publish the memoirs of his former commander.

Batov Pavel Ivanovich, whose books on military theory became widely known, and is the author of interesting memoirs. During his long and interesting life he has accumulated considerable military and human experience. As called his memoirs Batov Pavel Ivanovich? “In campaigns and battles” is the name of his book that if the author survived 4 editions.

Russia continues to remember his faithful son. The seas and oceans plows “Pavel Batov” the ship, built in 1987 and is assigned to the port of Kaliningrad.