Alexander Gorbatov

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Soviet general (1891-1973)

PoliticiansLived 1891 to 1973 · aged 82

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1971Order of the October Revolution

1970Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"

1968Honorary citizen of Homiel

1945Hero of the Soviet Union

1945Commander of the Legion of Merit

1944Order of Lenin

1944Order of Kutuzov, 1st class

1943Order of Suvorov, 1st class

1943Order of Suvorov, 2nd class

1943Order of Kutuzov, 2nd class

1938Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army"

1936Order of the Red Star

1921Order of the Red Banner

Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

Medal "For the Defence of Stalingrad"

Medal "For the Capture of Königsberg"

Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw"

Medal "For the Capture of Berlin"

Medal "For Oder, Nysa and the Baltic"

Knight's Cross of the Virtuti Militari

Cross of St. George 3rd class

Cross of St. George 4th class

George Medal

Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

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"

Honorary weapon with a golden image of the State Emblem of the USSR

Medal for Warsaw 1939-1945

Commander of the Order of Military Virtue

Connected to Alexander 6

Syarhiey SidorskiAlso won Honorary citizen of Homiel

Dmitry LelyushenkoAlso won Knight's Cross of the Virtuti Militari

Nikolay Ivanovich KrylovAlso won Medal "For the Capture of Königsberg"

Valentin VarennikovAlso won Medal "For the Capture of Berlin"

Sergei KruglovAlso won Order of Kutuzov, 2nd class

Stanisław Bułak-BałachowiczAlso won Cross of St. George 3rd class

About this person

Alexander Vasilyevich Gorbatov was a Russian and Soviet officer who served as an officer in the Imperial Russian Army during the First World War and as a colonel-general in the Red Army during the Second World War, and was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. Following the war, Gorbatov served as a Soviet commandant in Soviet-occupied Germany and East Germany and ultimately retired as a four-star general at the rank of General of the Army. His acclaimed autobiography, entitled "Years off My Life" was published in 1964.

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