Galitsky USSR Biography

The annotation board in Kaliningrad Galitsky Kuzma Nikitovich-commander of the troops of the Guards Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front, colonel general. Born on October 12 24 in the city of Taganrog of the Donskoy army, now as part of the Rostov region. From the family of the worker. He graduated from the craft-technical school in Taganrog. He worked as a locksmith student and a locksmith in a mechanical workshop, assistant to the driver of the Taganrog station of the station.

In April, he was drafted into the Russian army. He served in the mosquito infantry regiment Taganrog, non-commissioned officer. In October, the year is demobilized. He worked again in the depot. During the German-Austrian occupation, he participated in a strike, after the suppression of which he fled to the territory occupied by the Red Army. In the Red Army since August. Member of the Civil War.

Since August, he commanded a platoon, a company of the 9th Soviet Ukrainian regiment of the 2nd rebel Soviet division. Since June, he has been the commander of the battalion of the 1st shock regiment of the 7th Podneprovsk Ukrainian Rifle Division of the Southern Front. In September, he was seriously wounded. Since March - the commander of the battalion, the head of the political department of the section of the Zheleznodorozhny Chon, the head of the political department of the Taganrog railway section.

From July to June - the commander of the battalion of the Rifle Regiment of the Rifle Division on the Southwestern Front. He fought against the army of A. Denikin and the Polish troops, against the troops of P. Wrangel and political banditry in Ukraine. In the year he graduated from the Higher Tactical Rifle School named after the Comintern. From August to August, he commanded the battalion, then he was an assistant to the commander of the Infantry Regiment in the Y rifle division of the Kharkov Military District.

At the end of the Academy, K. Galitsky since August - chief of staff of the 1st Rifle Regiment of the Moscow Proletarian Rifle Division, since August - the head of the scientific and editorial unit of the Military Academy of the Red Army named after M. Frunze, from May - adjunct at this academy. Since November, the commander of the 3rd Rifle Regiment in the Moscow Proletarian Rifle Division.

Since January - May, - Deputy Head of the combat training department of the Moscow Military District. Since May, the assistant commander of the 3rd Crimean Rifle Division of the Kharkov Military District. In September - November - chief of staff of the Kharkov Military District. Since November, the commander of the Rifle Division in the Leningrad Military District. He did not plead guilty, none of the colleagues did not specify.

In May, he was exempted with a connection with the termination of the criminal case and restored to the Red Army, but did not receive a new appointment and was at the disposal of the command of the command and commanding staff of the Red Army. In December, he was sent to the front of the Soviet-Finnish War of the years and on December 23 of the year he was appointed commander of the Samara-Ulyanovsk Iron Red Banner Rifle Division, replacing it with the murdered commander P.

after the war with the division to the Western Special Military District, to Belarus. In the battles of the Great Patriotic War, Major General K. Galitsky - since June.

He commanded the Rifle Division in the Army of the Western Front, a participant in the border defensive battle. From June 25 to 29, the division stubbornly defended in the Minsk fortified area, then the surviving units with battles passed over kilometers surrounded and on July 14 with battle went out to their own. In connection with the loss of the military banner, the division was disbanded the banner was found on the battlefield on the local residents killed by the officer, saved by them and returned to the Soviet command in the year.

The order to withdraw Galitsky from the post of commander was dated only on December 27, but since July, he was officially in other positions. Since July 19 - the commander of the Rifle Corps of the Central Front, fought in the Smolensk battle and was seriously wounded in battle on August 13. It was evacuated to the hospital in Sverdlovsk now Yekaterinburg, after a cure in January, he was appointed deputy commander of the 1st Shock Army on the Western and North-West Fronts, participated in the Rzhev-Vyazem and first Demyan operations.

But already in February, he was a secondly seriously wounded and was again treated in the same hospital in Sverdlovsk. In August, he was appointed commander of the 1st Reserve Army Tambov. Since September 18, K. Galitsky is the commander of the 3rd shock army on the Kalinin and North-Western fronts. At the head of this army, he distinguished himself in Velikoluki and Nevel's operations.

From November 26, until the end of the war, the commander of the Guards Army on the 2nd Baltic and 3rd Belorussian fronts. He was especially distinguished in the operation of the defeat of the Nazi troops in East Prussia for the year, when his army broke through a powerful defensive line on Ragnit - Gumbinen, surrounded the enemy’s large group in the Inst. The city and stormed this city, then overcame the fortified area of ​​Ilmenchorst and deeply covered it from the south Königsberg.

In April, I became famous for the assault on Königsberg, and then during the assault on the large naval base of Pillau.In a decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 19, for the exemplary implementation of the command missions of the command at the front of the fight against the German invaders and the heroism shown at the same time, Colonel General Galitsky Kuzma Nikitovich, was awarded the title of Hero of the Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Golden Star medal.

After the war, he commanded the troops of the Special Military District in the territory of the former East Prussia, the Guards Army of the Baltic Military District of the Mart -Ottabr, the troops of the Carpathian October - November and Odessa - military districts. From May to August, the commander of the troops of the Moscow Air Defense District. From April to January, the Army General K.

Galitsky is the commander of the Northern Group of Troops in Poland, and then in January - June - commander of the troops of the Transcaucasian Military District. Since January of the year - retired due to illness. He lived in Moscow. He was engaged in public work, was the chairman of the Military Scientific Society at the Central House of the Soviet Army. He died on March 14.

He was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy cemetery plot 7. Military titles:.