The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Major-General Nikolai Matveevich Karpenko

Karpenko, Nikolai Matveevich

Major-General

* 1904

† 1959

(NKVD)

(Николай Матвеевич Карпенко)

Promotions

1941-06-XX Regiment-Commissar
1943-02-14 Colonel of State Security
1945-07-23 Major-General
1959-05-23 Stripped of rank

Service

1939-07-01 1940-10-22 Chief of 2nd Branch, 4th Section, Main State Security Directorate, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1940-10-22 1941-03-XX Deputy Chief Investigator, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD, Latvian SSR
1941-03-XX 1941-08-15 Deputy Chief Investigator, People's Commissariat of State Security NKGB, Latvian SSR
1941-08-15 1942-01-XX Deputy Chief of 1st Section, 3rd Directorate, People's Commissariat of the Fleet
1942-02-XX 1942-07-20 Deputy Chief of NKVD Special Section, 22nd Army
1942-07-20 1942-12-XX Chief of NKVD Special Section, 10th Reserve Army
1942-12-XX 1943-04-XX Chief of NKVD Special Section, 5th Shock Army
1943-04-XX 1946-12-16 Chief of Counter-Intelligence Section SMERSH, 5th Shock Army
1946-12-16 1947-04-22 At disposal of the Personnel Directorate, Ministry of State Security MGB
1947-04-22 1951-05-18 Head of Ministry of State Security MGB Altai
1951-05-18 Dismissed
1951-12-03 Arrested
1952-07-02 Condemned to 10 years imprisonment
1958-11-14 Released
Picture source: From: 'Kto rukovodil organami gosbezopasnosti 1941-1954' by N.V. Petrov, 2010