Kuzma Galitsky
Kuzma Nikitovich Galitsky | |
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Army General | |
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| Battles/wars | Soviet-Finnish War World War II |
| Awards | Hero of the Soviet Union |
Kuzma Nikitovich Galitsky (
army general who earned the title Hero of the Soviet Union
.
Biography
Kuzma Galitsky was born on 24 October 1897 in the city of
Bolshevik Party
in 1918.
During the
3rd Shock Army (Soviet Union), and from November 1943 to May 1945 he commanded of the 11th Guards Army. General Galitsky's army finished the war in Eastern Prussia, in Königsberg
(currently Kaliningrad), where he built the first memorial in the Soviet Union to soldiers who fell during the war.
He was elected to the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union, serving from 1946 to 1962, concurrently serving as the commanding officer of the Northern Group of Forces in 1955-1958 and the Transcaucasian Military District in 1958-1961.
He died in Moscow in 1973 and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.
Awards
- Hero of the Soviet Union (with "Gold Star» № 5036)
- Four Orders of Lenin
- Order of the Red Banner, four times
- Order of Suvorov, 1st class
- Order of Kutuzov, 1st class
- Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky (Soviet Union), 1st class
- Order of the Red Star
- Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary since the Birth of Vladimir Il'ich Lenin"
- Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945"
- Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
- Medal "For the Capture of Königsberg"
- Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army"
- Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy"
- Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
- Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"
Bibliography (memoirs)
- «Годы суровых испытаний. 1941 - 1944 (записки командующего армией)»— М.: Наука, 1973.
- «В боях за Восточную Пруссию. Записки командующего 11-й гвардейской армией» — М.: Наука, 1970.
Commemoration
Streets in Taganrog and in Kaliningrad were named after General Galitsky.
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