Mikhail Batorsky

Mikhail Alexandrovich Batorsky (Russian: Михаил Александрович Баторский; 25 January 1890 – 8 February 1938) was a Red Army Komkor.

[2] The February Revolution in March 1917 overthrew the Tsar and established the Russian Provisional Government, in whose army Batorsky continued to serve.

Between August and November, Batorsky was senior adjutant of the operations department of the Special Army's Quartermaster General.

In November, the October Revolution overthrew the Provisional Government and replaced it with Soviet Russia, after which the disintegration of the Imperial Army began to accelerate.

Between November 1917 and January 1918, he was senior adjutant of the operations office department in the same army's Quartermaster General.

During this period, he served under the command of M. N. Tukhachevsky, and played a significant role in the decisive phase of the Soviet-Polish War, for which he was awarded the Order of the Red Banner.

343 of 12 December 1921: "Comrade Mikhail Aleksandrovich Batorsky is awarded the Order of the Red Banner... for the fact that, as Chief of Staff of the 16th Army, he skillfully developed a plan for the preparation and execution of the upcoming operation to force the Berezina River and the further offensive movement of the army, which was crowned with complete success.

In parallel with this, Batorsky completely bore the burden of operational work, developing his own ideas and projects for the army command, which always responded to the situation, and then selflessly implementing them.

In early 1925, Batorsky took the post of head of the Cavalry Courses for the Advanced Training of Command Personnel, replacing Primakov.

Thus, in 1923, the military-scientific society of the Higher Cavalry School of the Red Army published a manual by Batorsky, "Thoughts on the Methods of Riding and Dressage".

In October 1929, he returned to the post of Chief of the Red Army Command and Control Command, which he held until June 1936, when he was removed from this post and reassigned as assistant to the head of the Department of Tactics of Higher Formations of the Academy of the General Staff of the Red Army (on cavalry issues).

[3] His name appears on the "Moscow-Center" list of persons designated for trial by the Supreme Court of the USSR under the 1st category, signed by Stalin, Voroshilov, Molotov and Kaganovich on 3 February 1938.