Terenty Batsanov

Terenty Kirillovich Batsanov
Batsanov in 1940
Born28 October 1894
Voshchanki village, Rogachyovsky Uyezd, Gomel Governorate, Russian Empire
Died23 September 1941(1941-09-23) (aged 46)
near Hrebinky, Poltava Oblast, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
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  • 1915–1917
  • 1918–1941
RankMajor general
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Terenty Kirillovich Batsanov (Russian: Терентий Кириллович Бацанов; 28 October 1894 – 23 September 1941) was a Belarusian Red Army major general.

A veteran of World War I and the Russian Civil War, Batsanov rose to division command in the late 1930s. He commanded the 17th Rifle Division and the 24th Rifle Division in the first months after the beginning of Operation Barbarossa and was killed in the Battle of Kiev in late September.