Pavel Batitsky

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Pavel Fyodorovich Batitsky
Kharkov, Russian Empire
Died17 February 1984(1984-02-17) (aged 73)
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Buried
Novodevichy Cemetery
Allegiance Soviet Union
Service/branchRed Army
Years of service1924–1978
Rank Marshal of the Soviet Union
Commands heldMoscow Air Defence District
Soviet Air Defence Forces
AwardsHero of the Soviet Union

Pavel Fyodorovich Batitsky (Ukrainian: Павло Федорович Батицький; Russian: Па́вел Фёдорович Бати́цкий; 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

Colonel-General and First Deputy Commander of the Moscow Military District at the time).[3][4]

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

Honours and awards

References

  1. ISBN 9780271028613
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  2. ISBN 9780714650500
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  3. ^ "Pavel Batitsky". Герои страны ("Heroes of the Country") (in Russian).
  4. ^ Лаврентия Берию в 1953 году расстрелял лично советский маршал
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