Ivan Ivanovich Kabitsin (Russian: Иван Иванович Кабицин; 14 September 1902 – 10 June 1968) was a Soviet Army colonel and Hero of the Soviet Union. Kabitsin fought in the Russian Civil War on the Eastern Front. He commanded a machine-gun platoon. By Operation Barbarossa, Kabitsin was a political officer of a rifle battalion in Kirov. He became a battalion commissar in a battalion of the 135th Rifle Division when that division was formed in fall 1941. He fought in the Battles of Rzhev and was sent to the Frunze Military Academy for a course for rifle regiment commanders. In September 1943, he be
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