Pavel Batitsky

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Soviet military leader, Hero of the Soviet Union, Marshal of the Soviet Union (1910-1984)

PoliticiansLived 1910 to 1984 · aged 73

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Languages25

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Awards 40

1978Order of Lenin

1975Order "For Service to the Homeland in the Armed Forces of the USSR", 3rd class

1975Order of Klement Gottwald

1970Order of the October Revolution

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

1970Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold

1968Order of the Red Banner

1965Hero of the Soviet Union

1965Order of Lenin

1960Order of Lenin

1954Order of the Red Banner

1953Order of Lenin

1951Order of the Red Banner

1945Order of Kutuzov, 1st class

1945Order of Kutuzov, 2nd class

1944Order of Lenin

1944Order of the Red Banner

1944Order of Suvorov, 2nd class

1942Order of the Red Banner

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"

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

Medal "For the Victory over Japan"

Medal "For the Capture of Königsberg"

Medal "For the Capture of Berlin"

Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw"

Medal "For the Liberation of Prague"

Medal "For Strengthening of Brotherhood in Arms"

Medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands"

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"

Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"

Commander with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta

Commander of the Order of Polonia Restituta

Order of the Flag of the People's Republic of Hungary

Order of Sukhbaatar

Order of the Cloud and Banner

Connected to Pavel 6

Ivan BagramyanAlso won Medal "For the Capture of Königsberg"

Vasily ChuikovAlso won Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw"

Mikhail PugovkinAlso won Medal "For the Development of Virgin Lands"

Viktor AbakumovAlso won Order of Suvorov, 2nd class

Oleg PenkovskyAlso won Medal "For the Liberation of Prague"

Ivan PapaninAlso won Medal "For the Victory over Japan"

About this person

Pavel Fyodorovich Batitsky 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.