Pavel Batov

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Soviet general (1897-1985)

PoliticiansLived 1897 to 1985 · aged 87

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Also inDeutsch

Photos 6

Pavel Batov in 1916

Batov (furthest right) in XII International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War

Batov (left) in Stalingrad

Batov (right) with officers at his command post during the Chernigov-Pripyat operation, September 1943

Army General Pavel Batov

Awards 40

1985Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class

1982Order of Lenin

1977Order of Lenin

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

1972Order of the October Revolution

1968Honorary weapon with a golden image of the State Emblem of the USSR

1967Order of Lenin

1965honorary citizen of Gdańsk

1957Order of Lenin

1956Order of Bogdan Khmelnitsky, 1st class

1949Order of the Red Banner

1945Hero of the Soviet Union

1945Gold Star medal

1945Order of Lenin

1945Order of Suvorov, 1st class

1944Order of the Red Banner

1944Order of Kutuzov, 1st class

1943Order of Lenin

1943Hero of the Soviet Union

1943Gold Star medal

1943Order of Suvorov, 1st class

1940Order of Lenin

1937Order of the Red Banner

1937Order of Lenin

1936Order of the Badge of Honour

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

Order of the Cross of Grunwald, 2nd class

Order of Sukhbaatar

Order of the Red Banner

Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold

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

Medal "For the Defence of Stalingrad"

Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw"

Medal "Veteran of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Commander with Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta

Order of Tudor Vladimirescu

Medal "For Oder, Nysa and the Baltic"

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

Silver Cross of the Virtuti Militari

Commander of the Order of Military Virtue

Connected to Pavel 6

Ryszard KuklińskiAlso won honorary citizen of Gdańsk

Nikolay Ivanovich KrylovAlso won Honorary weapon with a golden image of the State Emblem of the USSR

Valentin VarennikovAlso won Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw"

Michał Rola-ŻymierskiAlso won Medal "For Oder, Nysa and the Baltic"

Lucjan ŻeligowskiAlso won Commander of the Order of Military Virtue

Dmitri ShepilovAlso won Order of Kutuzov, 1st class

About this person

Pavel Ivanovich Batov was a senior Red Army general during the Second World War and afterwards, twice Hero of the Soviet Union. Batov fought in World War I, where he was awarded the Cross of St. George twice. After being wounded in 1917, he was sent to a school in Petrograd and joined the Bolsheviks. He fought in the Russian Civil War and became an advisor with the XII International Brigade during the Spanish Civil War. During World War II, Batov commanded the 51st Army in the Crimea. In 1942, he became the commander of the 3rd Army and then the 4th Tank Army, which was renamed the 65th Army. Postwar, Batov commanded the Carpathian Military District.