Ruslan Galitsky biography. Colonel Galitsky who died in Syria was a patriot of Ukraine

"Colonel Ruslan Galitsky died in the hospital as a result of a severe wound. Russian military doctors fought for his life for several days. The officer was injured during an artillery shelling by militants of the so-called "opposition" of one of the residential areas of the western part of Aleppo," the report says. .

As specified in the Ministry of Defense, Galitsky performed tasks in Syria as part of a group of Russian military advisers. "The command of Colonel Ruslan Galitsky was presented to the high state award posthumously," the ministry added.

"Colonel Ruslan Galitsky, while on a business trip in the Syrian Arab Republic as a military adviser, assisted the command staff of one of the formations of the Syrian army in organizing the training of units and subunits, as well as mastering military equipment", - specified in the Ministry of Defense.

Russian losses in Syria

Earlier this year, a Russian military adviser was killed in Syria. On February 1, terrorists of the "Islamic State" (ISIS, banned in the Russian Federation) fired at a military garrison where one of the formations of the Syrian army is stationed. A Russian military adviser was mortally wounded. His name was not reported, but the Ministry of Defense stated that he was nominated for a state award.

Earlier this week, two Russian nurses died in Syria. On December 5, militants shelled the medical campus of the mobile hospital of the Ministry of Defense in Aleppo. As a result of a direct hit by a mine in the emergency department, two Russian servicemen-medics, Nadezhda Durachenko and Galina Mikhailova, were killed, pediatrician Vadim Arsentiev was seriously injured.

G Alitsky Kuzma Nikitovich - Commander of the 11th Guards Army of the 3rd Belorussian Front, Colonel General.

Born on October 12 (24), 1897 in the city of Taganrog of the Don Cossack Region, now in the Rostov region. From a working class family. Russian. He graduated from the vocational school in Taganrog. He worked as a fitter's apprentice and fitter in a mechanical workshop, as an assistant to the machinist of the Taganrog railway depot.

In April 1917 he was drafted into the Russian army. Served in the 274th reserve infantry regiment (Taganrog), non-commissioned officer. In October 1917 he was demobilized. He worked again at the depot. During the period of the German-Austrian occupation, he participated in a strike, after which he fled to the territory occupied by the Red Army.

In the Red Army since August 1918. Member of the Civil War. From August 1918 - commanded a platoon, a company of the 9th Soviet Ukrainian regiment of the 2nd insurgent Soviet division. From June 1919 - battalion commander of the 1st shock regiment of the 7th Zadneprovskaya Ukrainian rifle division Southern front. In September 1919 he was seriously wounded. From March 1920 - battalion commander, head of the political department of the ChON railway section, head of the political department of the Taganrog railway section. From July 1920 to June 1921 - battalion commander of the 397th Infantry Regiment of the 45th Infantry Division on the Southwestern Front. Fought against the army of A.I. Denikin and Polish troops, against the troops of P.N. Wrangel and political banditry in Ukraine. Member of the CPSU (b) / CPSU since 1918.

In 1922 he graduated from the Comintern Higher Tactical Shooting School. From August 1922 to August 1924 he commanded a battalion, then was assistant commander of the 67th Infantry Regiment in the 23rd Infantry Division of the Kharkov Military District.

In 1927 he graduated military academy Red Army named after M.V. Frunze. After graduating from the academy K.N. Galitsky from August 1927 - Chief of Staff of the 1st Infantry Regiment of the Moscow Proletarian Rifle Division, from August 1928 - Head of the Scientific and Editorial Department of the Military Academy of the Red Army named after M.V. Frunze, from May 1930 - adjunct in this academy. From November 1931 - commander of the 3rd Infantry Regiment in the Moscow Proletarian Infantry Division. From January - May 1934 - Deputy Head of the Combat Training Department of the Moscow Military District. Since May 1934 - assistant commander of the 3rd Crimean Rifle Division of the Kharkov Military District. In September - November 1937 - Chief of Staff of the Kharkov Military District. From November 1937 - commander of the 90th Infantry Division in the Leningrad Military District.

In July 1938, he was arrested by the NKVD of the USSR, dismissed from the Red Army and was under investigation. He did not admit guilt, did not slander any of his colleagues. In May 1939, he was released due to the termination of the criminal case and reinstated in the Red Army, but he did not receive a new appointment and was at the disposal of the Office of the Command and Commanding Staff of the Red Army. In December 1939 he was sent to the front of the Soviet-Finnish war of 1939-1940 and on December 23, 1939 he was appointed commander of the 24th Samara-Ulyanovsk Iron twice Red Banner Rifle Division, replacing its killed commander P.E. Veshcheva.

After the war with the division, he was transferred to the Western Special Military District, to Belarus.

In the battles of the Great Patriotic War Major General Galitsky K.N. - since June 1941. He commanded the 24th Infantry Division as part of the 13th Army of the Western Front, a participant in the border defensive battle. From June 25 to June 29, the division stubbornly defended in the Minsk fortified area, then the surviving units fought over 500 kilometers surrounded by battles and on July 14 came out to their own. In connection with the loss of the Battle Banner, the division was disbanded (the banner was found on the battlefield on the killed officer by local residents, saved by them and returned to the Soviet command in 1944). The order to remove Galitsky from the post of commander was dated only December 27, 1941, but since July 1941 he was officially in other positions.

From July 19, 1941 - commander of the 67th Rifle Corps of the 21st Army of the Central Front, fought in the Battle of Smolensk and was seriously wounded in the battle on August 13, 1941. He was evacuated to a hospital in Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), after being cured in January 1942, he was appointed deputy commander of the 1st shock army on the Western and Northwestern fronts, participated in the Rzhev-Vyazemskaya and in the first Demyansk operations. But already in February 1942 he was seriously wounded for the second time and was again treated in the same hospital in Sverdlovsk.

In August 1942 he was appointed commander of the 1st Reserve Army (Tambov). Since September 18, 1942 Galitsky K.N. - Commander of the 3rd shock army on the Kalinin and North-Western fronts. At the head of this army, he distinguished himself in the Velikiye Luki and Nevelsk operations.

From November 26, 1943 until the end of the war - commander of the 11th Guards Army on the 2nd Baltic and 3rd Belorussian fronts. Participated in the Gorodok, Belarusian strategic, Gumbinnen-Goldap, East Prussian and Zemland operations.

He especially distinguished himself in the operation to defeat the Nazi troops in East Prussia (1945), when his army broke through the most powerful defensive line on Ragnit-Gumbinnen, surrounded a large enemy grouping in the Insterburg region and stormed this city, then overcame the rear fortified area "Ilmenhorst "and deeply embraced Koenigsberg from the south. In April 1945, the 11th Guards Army became famous during the assault on Königsberg, and then during the assault on a major naval base Pillau. V

W and the skillful command of the army during the assault on Koenigsberg and the personal courage and heroism shown at the same time by the Decree of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of April 19, 1945 to Colonel General Galitsky Kuzma Nikitovich awarded the title of Hero Soviet Union with the award of the Order of Lenin and the Gold Star medal.

After the war, K.N. Galitsky commanded the troops of the Special Military District on the territory of the former East Prussia (1945-1946), the 11th Guards Army of the Baltic Military District (March-October 1946), the troops of the Carpathian (October 1946 - November 1951) and Odessa (November 1951 - 1954) military districts. From May to August 1954 - commander of the troops of the Moscow Air Defense District. Then he was at the disposal of the Main Directorate of Personnel of the USSR Ministry of Defense.

From April 1955 to January 1958, Army General K.N. Galitsky was commander of the Northern Group of Forces in Poland, and then in January 1958 - June 1961 - commander of the Transcaucasian Military District. Since June 1961 - at the disposal of the Minister of Defense of the USSR.

Since January 1962 - retired due to illness. Lived in the hero city of Moscow. He did a lot of public work, was chairman of the military scientific society at the Central House Soviet army. He died on March 14, 1973. He was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy Cemetery (plot 7).

He was elected a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR of the 2nd-5th convocations (1946-1962).

Military ranks:
colonel (1936)
brigade commander (20.02.1938),
major general (06/04/1940),
lieutenant general (01/30/1943),
colonel general (06/28/1944),
army general (03/11/1955).

He was awarded four Orders of Lenin (02/21/1945, 04/19/1945, ...), four Orders of the Red Banner (03/21/1940, 04/12/1942, 11/3/1944, ...), Orders of Suvorov 1st degree (10/11/1943 ), Kutuzov 1st degree (02/20/1943), Bogdan Khmelnitsky 1st degree (07/04/1944), Red Star, medals, foreign award - Polish order.

Bust of K.N. Galitsky installed in Kaliningrad. Streets in the cities of Kaliningrad and Taganrog are named after him.

Compositions:
In the battles for East Prussia. Notes of the Commander of the 11th Guards Army. M., 1970;
years severe trials. 1941-1944. Commander's Notes. M., 1973.

The biography was supplemented by Anton Bocharov (Koltsovo village, Novosibirsk Region).

Kuzma Nikitovich Galitsky was born on October 12 (according to the new style - 24) October 1897 in the city of Taganrog in a working-class family. Russian by nationality. After graduating from the vocational school, he worked as an apprentice locksmith, a locksmith in a mechanical workshop, then as an assistant machinist at railway.

In April 1917, Galitsky was called up for service in the Russian army and sent to the 274th reserve infantry regiment. He rose to the rank of non-commissioned officer. Was demobilized after the dissolution old army and returned to work on the railroad. During the occupation of Taganrog by the troops of Germany and Austria-Hungary, Galitsky took part in the strike, after the suppression of which he was forced to hide in the controlled Soviet power territory.

In August 1918, he volunteered to serve in the Workers 'and Peasants' Red Army. He participated in the battles of the Civil War, being a platoon commander, company of the 9th Soviet Ukrainian Front, then a battalion commander of the 1st shock regiment of the 7th Zadneprovskaya Ukrainian rifle division. In September 1919 he was seriously wounded. After his recovery, he served on the railroad. Since July 1920, he commanded a battalion of the 397th Infantry Regiment of the 45th Infantry Division, participated in battles with Polish troops, Ukrainian anti-Soviet formations, and the troops of P. N. Wrangel.

After the end of the war, he continued to serve in the Red Army. In 1922, Galitsky graduated from the Higher Tactical Rifle School named after the Comintern, in 1927 - from the Military Academy of the Red Army. From August 1928 he was actively engaged in scientific work, headed the scientific and editorial part of this academy, then was an adjunct in it. From 1931 he served in command and staff positions in various rifle units.

In November 1937, Galitsky was appointed commander of the 90th Infantry Division of the Leningrad Military District. During the "great purge" in the Red Army in July 1938, he was arrested by the NKVD of the USSR on trumped-up charges. During interrogations, Galitsky did not admit his guilt, refused to slander anyone, and in May 1939 he was released and reinstated. Armed Forces USSR in connection with the termination of criminal prosecution.

In December 1939, Galitsky was sent to the active army to the post of commander of the 24th Infantry Division instead of its commander, P.E. Veshchev, who was killed in battles with the Finns. After the end of hostilities, this division was redeployed to the Byelorussian SSR, where it met the beginning of the Great Patriotic War.

From the first days of the war, Galitsky's division took Active participation in battles with German troops as part of the 13th Army of the Western Front. At its head, he took part in the battles at state border USSR and the battles near Minsk. Galitsky distinguished himself more than once in these battles. So, on June 24, 1941, he went to the front line to the anti-tank division that was about to retreat and, by personal example, carried the artillerymen with him, which restored the situation. In that battle, the enemy lost up to 30 tanks. On June 26, 1941, Galitsky again restored the precarious situation by organizing an attack on the Wehrmacht tank division and inflicting heavy losses on it. Operating in conditions of complete lack of communication, having no information about the situation at the front, he decided not to retreat, which allowed him to defeat the 19th Panzer Division and the Wehrmacht motorized brigade at the end of the first week of the war.

In the fierce battles of the summer of 1941, the division was surrounded and for some time conducted actual partisan operations, violating the rear of the enemy and destroying his small formations. General Galitsky managed to save all the materiel, but when he went to his own, his banner was lost, which caused the division to be disbanded.

On July 19, 1941, Galitsky was appointed commander of the 67th Rifle Corps. During the Battle of Smolensk on August 13, 1941, he was seriously wounded and long time was treated in the rear hospital. In January 1942, Galitsky was appointed deputy commander of the 1st shock army, but a month later he was seriously wounded for the second time during the fighting in the Demyansk direction.

From August 1942, Galitsky commanded the 1st Reserve Army, stationed in Tambov, and from September of the same year, the 3rd Shock Army. Under his leadership, the latter achieved great success during the liberation of the Pskov region. November 26, 1943 Galitsky was appointed commander of the 11th Guards Army, participated in the liberation of the Byelorussian SSR. The troops of this army broke through the powerful German defense in the strip of the Minsk highway and defeated, in cooperation with parts of the 5th Army, the Bogushev-Orsha group of German troops. Developing the offensive, with battles making marches an average of 25 km per day, parts of the army went to East Prussia and crossed its border. During the offensive in Belarus, the army of Galitsky successfully crossed the rivers Beaver, Berezina and Neman, having managed to do this with minimal losses, as organized as possible. On October 29, 1944, General of the Army I. D. Chernyakhovsky, Commander of the 3rd Belorussian Front, presented Galitsky to the title of Hero of the Soviet Union. The submission noted that the operations carried out by the army were distinguished by their scope, decisiveness of actions, courage of maneuver on the battlefield and their results.

In the battles for East Prussia, the 11th Guards Army broke through the German defenses in depth at the Ragnit-Gumbinnen line, stormed the city of Insterburg and captured Koenigsberg from the south. In April 1945, units of the army stormed first Koenigsberg, and then the fortress city of Pillau.

After the end of the war, Galitsky continued to serve in the Soviet Army, for a year he commanded the Soviet occupation forces in the territory of the former East Prussia, then for seven months - the 11th Guards Army. In 1946-1951, he served as commander of the Carpathian, and in 1951-1954 - Odessa military districts. In May 1954, he was transferred to Moscow to the post of commander of the troops of the Moscow Air Defense District. In 1955-1958, Galitsky commanded the Northern Group of Forces on the territory of the Polish People's Republic, and in 1958-1961 he commanded the troops of the Transcaucasian Military District.

In January 1962, Galitsky retired with the rank of army general. He lived in Moscow, was actively involved in social activities, led the military-scientific society at the Central House of the Soviet Army. He died on March 14, 1973, and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow (plot 7, row 4, place 20).

Died in Syria Russian officer, colonel Ruslan Galitsky. According to the official statement of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the colonel died from wounds received as a result of the shelling of one of the western quarters of Aleppo by militants. The Russian officer was in the city as a military adviser accompanying the armies of the Syrian Arab Republic.

“Colonel Ruslan Galitsky died in the hospital as a result of a severe wound. Russian military doctors fought for his life for several days. The officer was injured during artillery shelling by militants of the so-called "opposition" of one of the residential areas of the western part of Aleppo," the Russian defense ministry said.

Before he went to Syria, Colonel Galitsky served in Buryatia as the commander of the Fifth Guards Separate Tank Brigade. There he managed to prove himself well during the Selenga-2016 exercises. In February 2016, Ruslan Galitsky was awarded the badge "For Military Service". Now he is posthumously nominated for the highest state award.

According to the Buryat television and radio company "Arig Us", in Ulan-Ude, the colonel left a family. In the unit where the Russian officer served, a campaign is now underway to raise funds for his funeral. “This is how the strongest leave,” we can read in the comments of one of the residents of Buryatia in connection with this.

Colonel Galitsky is not the first Russian soldier who gave his life on the fields of the Syrian civil war. Nevertheless, of course, his heroic death makes this conflict even more resonant and significant for Russian citizens. What has Russia already achieved in Syria? What else can be done? In all this Federal Agency news political scientist helped to understand Vladimir Jaralla.

“Of course, humanly one can only speak of deep regret over the death of an officer who died in the line of his military duty. Someone's family has lost a loved one. Naturally, this is a tragedy that can only be sympathized with. Meanwhile, Galitsky died, following orders and helping the people of another country. Therefore, it should be noted that any military operation- including the military operation of the Russian Aerospace Forces in Syria - has its own goals and the time period during which they must be fulfilled, ”the political scientist cites his point of view.

Now, despite all the bitterness of the losses, we can say that most of the goals of the Syrian military campaign have been achieved. Most importantly, we can say that Russia has fulfilled its tasks on time.

“Thus, the military operation in Syria has already helped bring the situation in relations between Russia and the West out of the “Ukrainian impasse”. At the same time, she saved the government Bashar al-Assad. Thanks to her, Syria has avoided a terrible, but very real prospect - an inter-religious, inter-confessional massacre. The forces of all those who, after their “Syrian success”, planned to extend their efforts to destabilize the international situation to other countries, have been undermined.

Only one task remains unfulfilled - the establishment of cooperation between the Russian Federation and the United States on the Syrian issue. It may seem that it is impossible. But after winning Trump in the US elections, there was a real hope that the US and Russian military would still be able to combine their efforts to suppress this "uprising" of Islamic fundamentalists. Potentially, such cooperation could allow both our countries to withdraw their military contingents from the Middle East region. When this task is completed, then it will be possible to say that the Syrian operation of Russia has come to an end - that Russian soldiers finally, they can return home to their families,” sums up Vladimir Jaralla.