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=== Early Life ===
Pavel Ivanovich Batov was born <abbr>on May 20,</abbr> 1897 in the village of Felisovo, Yaroslavl, into a poor peasant family. Educated in the village, he would graduate from a two-year rural primary school.
From the age of 13 he lived in St. Petersburg, where he got a job at the Leonov trading house, initially working as a loader and deliverer of purchases to the apartments of wealthy citizens, It was during this time that he also engaged in self-education. He would eventually pass in 6 classes.
=== World War 1 and Russian Civil War ===
In November 1915, he was drafted as a volunteer into the ranks of the Russian Imperial Army and sent to the Life Guards 3rd Rifle Regiment of the Guards Rifle Brigade , where he graduated from the training team.
Since 1916, he took part in the fighting of the First World War on the Northern Front , serving as commander of a reconnaissance squad. For distinction in battles he was awarded two St. George's crosses and two medals. In the fall of 1916 he was wounded, after which he was sent to Petrograd for treatment.
In 1917 he would graduate from training at the 2nd Peterhof Warrant Officer School. In the same year he was demobilized from the ranks of the Russian Imperial Army with the rank of junior non-commissioned officer .
In August 1918 he was drafted into the Red Army and participated in the Russian Civil War. Batov would serve as assistant commander of a machine gun platoon of the 1st Soviet Rifle Regiment. From October 1918 onwards, he would be assistant military leader for march formations at the Rybinsk military registration and enlistment office. In October 1919, he would be appointed assistant military leader of the Reserve command and control personnel of the Moscow Military District. During the Civil War, Batov would take part in the suppression of anti-Soviet protests and riots in Rybinsk, Yaroslavl and Poshekhonye.
From November 1919, he served as assistant commander and commander of a rifle company of the Rybinsk guard battalion and by May 1920 company commander and battalion commander of the 320th Infantry Regiment in the Moscow Proletarian Rifle Division.
=== Inter-War Years ===
After the end of the Civil War, Pavel Ivanovich Batov continued to command a battalion in the Moscow Proletarian Rifle Division . From January 1922 - commander of rifle battalions in the 157th and 52nd rifle regiments , battalion adjutant and head of the regimental school in the 18th rifle division of the Moscow Military District (Yaroslavl).
In 1926, he was chosen to attend the Vystrel Officer's School the same year, where he met many future senior officers of the wartime Red Army. He joined the Communist Party in 1929
In 1927 he graduated from the Officer's School, and subsequently he continued to serve in the 18th Infantry Division. In 1929 he joined the Communist Party of Bolsheviks. In January 1931, he was appointed chief of staff of the 52nd Infantry Regiment in this division.
Batov soon received the "Sign of Honour" medal, and completed the Frunze Academy by correspondence course.
In January 1934 - commander of the 3rd Infantry Regiment in the Moscow Proletarian Rifle Division. The future Colonel General and Hero of the Soviet Union G.V. Baklanov , who served at that time under the command of Batov, admitted in his memoirs that the latter influenced his choice of profession.<blockquote>And then, when I decided my fate by choosing a profession, none other than Pavel Ivanovich Batov helped me understand this, so to speak, theoretically, speculatively. It was he who, in the first year of my service in the Moscow Proletarian Division, often involving me in staff work, revealed to me the high and noble meaning of the activity of a career commander, the military profession.</blockquote>From December 1936 to August 1937 under the pseudonym Pablo Fritz, he would be sent as a volunteer to the Spanish Civil War, where he took part in the fight against the Francoist rebels on the Republican side. He held the position of military advisor in the 12th International Brigade under the command of Hungarian Communist Mate Zalka, and then the position of advisor to the commander of the Teruel Front. According to Batov, during one of the reconnaissance missions, he was serverely wounded and lost a lot of blood. Despite this he recovered and would fight battles at Jarama, Guadalajara and on the Aragon front, where he was wounded again.
After returning from Spain, Batov was awarded the Orders of Lenin and the Red Banner and in August 1937 was appointed to the post of commander of the 10th Rifle Corps , and in August 1938 - to the post of commander of the 3rd Rifle Corps. In this position, he took part in the Polish campaign of the Red Army in September 1939, as well as in the Soviet-Finnish War .
On March 6, 1940, he was appointed commander of the Special Rifle Corps , operating as part of the 9th Army , in April 1940 - to the post of deputy commander of the Transcaucasian Military District , in November 1940 - to the post of commander of the 9th Special Rifle Corps in Crimea , and on June 20, 1941 - simultaneously to the post of commander of ground forces in Crimea.
=== World War 2 and West Russian War ===
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