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Buried at
  
Novodevichy Cemetery

Service/branch
  
Soviet Army

Name
  
Kuzma Galitsky


Rank
  
Army General

Years of service
  
1917-1962

Allegiance
  
Soviet Union

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Born
  
October 24, 1897Taganrog, Russian Empire (
1897-10-24
)

Commands held
  
24th Rifle Division (1939-1941)3rd Shock Army (Soviet Union) (1942-1943)11th Guards Army (1943-1945)Northern Group of Forces (1955-1958)Transcaucasian Military District (1958-1961)

Battles/wars
  
Russian Civil War, Soviet-Finnish War, German-Soviet War

Awards
  
(4)Order of the Red Banner (4)Order of the Red StarOrder of KutuzovOrder of Bogdan KhmelnitskyOrder of Suvorov

Died
  
March 14, 1973, Moscow, Russia

Place of burial
  
Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow, Russia

Battles and wars
  
Russian Civil War, Winter War, Eastern Front

Similar People
  
Kirill Meretskov, Pyotr Nikolayevich Wrangel, Joseph Stalin, Mikhail Tukhachevsky

Kuzma Nikitovich Galitsky (Russian: Кузьма́ Ники́тович Гали́цкий; 24 October 1897 – 14 March 1973) was a Soviet army general who earned the title Hero of the Soviet Union.

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Biography

Kuzma Galitsky was born on October 24, 1897 in the city of Taganrog into a worker's family. He studied at the Taganrog Boys Gymnasium, which he graduated from in 1912, and worked at the Taganrog Train Station's depot. Galitsky joined the Bolshevik Party in 1918.

During the German-Soviet War, he commanded the 24th Rifle Division and the 67th Rifle Corps. Starting in September 1942, he commanded 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 Koenigsberg (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"

    • Commemoration

    Streets in Taganrog and in Kaliningrad were named after General Galitsky.

    References

    Kuzma Galitsky Wikipedia
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