Feliksas Baltušis-Žemaitis

Feliksas Baltušis-Žemaitis

Infobox Military Person
name=Feliksas Baltušis-Žemaitis
lived=June 1 1897 – death date and age|1957|11|30|1897|06|01
placeofbirth=
placeofdeath=


caption=Major General F. Baltušis-Žemaitis
nickname=Žemaitis
allegiance=flag|USSR
serviceyears=1915–1954
rank=Major General
branch=
commands=Lithuanian army
16th Lithuanian Rifle Division
unit=
battles=World War I
Russian Civil War
Hamburg Uprising
World War II
awards=2 Orders of the Red Star
2 Orders of Lenin
Different medals
laterwork= Lecturer

Feliksas Baltušis-Žemaitis (English: Feliks Baltushis-Zhemaitis, Russian: Балтушис-Жемайтис Феликс Рафаилович) (born November 30, 1897 in Apydimai, Telšiai county, Russian Empire, died June 1, 1957 in Moscow, USSR) was a Lithuanian army brigade general, Red Army major general and lecturer at the Frunze Military Academy in the USSR from 1935-1940.Docent. He earned his Candidate of Military Sciences in 1940. He was also a senior lecturer at the USSR General Staff Academy during 1940-1941 and 1943-1945, and was the chief of USSR Supreme Command Courses 1945-1947.

He was one of the Lithuanian officers raised in the army of the Russian Empire (V. Putna, I. Uborevich, V. Penkaitis), who later went to serve in the Red Army. He participated in the First World War, Russian Civil War, Hamburg Uprising and the Second World War. He is the only Lithuanian to have taught in the prestigious Frunze Military Academy and General Staff Academy (roughly equivalent to the Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas or the British Army's Staff College, Camberley).

Timeline

*1940 - Commander in Chief of the Lithuanian army
*1942-1943 - Commanding Officer of the 16th Lithuanian Rifle Division

Awards

*2 Orders of the Red Star
*2 Orders of Lenin
*Different medals

In 1975 a statue of F. Baltušis-Žemaitis was built in Šiauliai, Lithuania. After Lithuania regained its independence in 1990, this statue was taken down and now it is in the exposition of Soviet sculpture garden Grūtas Park.

References

*Personal record of Major General Baltushis-Zhemaitis F.R., Central Archive of Ministry of Defence, Podolsk, Moscow reg.
*Zhemaitis O.F., “History of family in the documents, The journal “Military History Archive” of № 3,4,5., Moscow, 2007
*Stock No.328 (Baltušis-Žemaitis), Library of Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Vilnius
*http://www.generals.dk/general/Baltushis-Zhemaitis/Feliks_Rafailovich/Soviet_Union.html


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