Alexander Gorbatov

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Alexander Vasilyevich Gorbatov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Васи́льевич Горба́тов) (b. 1892) was a General in the Red Army. He fought in the First World War and joined the Red Army in 1919, and was awarded the Order of the Red Banner for his exploits in the Russian Civil War. Her rose to command of a cavalry division.

He was convicted of being "an enemy of the people" during the Great Purge and sent to the Kolyma gold mines as punishment. In March 1941 he was reinstated in the army at his old rank, commanding 226th Rifle Division and later 3rd Army, and was instrumental in driving the Red Army towards Germany. Following the war, he was appointed Soviet Commandant of Berlin in 1945.

His autobiography was published in Novy Mir, March - May, 1964, and published in the west as "Years off My Life".