The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Lieutenant-General Aleksandr Nikolaevich Chesnokov

Chesnokov, Aleksandr Nikolaevich

Lieutenant-General

* 18th of August 1900

† 11th of November 1991

(NKVD)

(Александр Николаевич Чесноков)

Promotions

1939-05-15 Colonel
1941-03-27 Major of State Security
1941-09-22 Senior Major of State Security
1943-02-14 Commissar of State Security
1943-05-26 Major-General
1944-11-02 Lieutenant-General

Service

1939-05-09 1940-10-14 Deputy Commanding Officer NKVD Border Troops, Khabarovsk
1940-10-14 1941-02-26 Deputy Head of People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD, Khabarovsk
1941-02-26 1941-07-31 Head of People's Commissariat of State Security NKGB, Khabarovsk
1941-08-XX 1943-04-29 Deputy Head of People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD, Khabarovsk
1941-09-22 1943-04-29 Chief of NKVD Special Section, Far Eastern Front
1943-04-29 1945-08-05 Chief of Counter-Intelligence Section SMERSH, Far Eastern Front
1945-08-05 1945-09-13 Chief of Counter-Intelligence Section SMERSH, 2nd Far Eastern Front
1945-10-XX 1945-12-XX At disposal of the Main Counter-Intelligence Directorate SMERSH
1945-12-XX 1946-XX-XX Chief of Counter-Intelligence Section SMERSH, Taurian Military District
1946-XX-XX 1953-03-XX Chief of Counter-Intelligence Section, Taurian Military District
1953-03-XX 1954-04-XX Chief of MVD Special Section, Taurian Military District
1954-04-XX 1955-01-18 Chief of KGB Special Section, Taurian Military District
1955-01-18 Retired
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