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Portrait of Lieutenant-General Nikolai Andrianovich Korolev

Korolev, Nikolai Andrianovich

Lieutenant-General

* 6th of August 1907

† 25th of November 1985

(NKVD)

(Николай Андрианович Королев)

Promotions

1939-02-04 Captain of State Security
1941-06-XX Colonel
1941-09-11 Major of State Security
1942-01-03 Senior Major of State Security
1943-02-14 Commissar of State Security
1943-05-26 Major-General
1944-07-31 Lieutenant-General
1954-11-23 Stripped of rank

Service

1939-02-04 1939-12-01 Chief of NKVD Special Section, 1st Special Purpose Air Army
1939-12-01 1940-03-28 Chief of NKVD Special Section, 1st Air Army
1940-03-28 1940-09-19 Chief of NKVD Special Section, Odessa Military District
1940-09-19 1941-08-02 Deputy Chief of NKVD Special Section, Northern Caucasian Military District
1941-08-02 1941-09-XX Chief of NKVD Special Section, 19th Army
1941-09-XX 1942-01-03 Deputy Chief of NKVD Special Section, Western Front
1942-01-03 1942-05-21 Chief of NKVD Special Section, Northwestern Front
1942-05-21 1942-08-04 Chief of NKVD Special Section, Northern Caucasian Front
1942-08-04 1943-04-29 Chief of NKVD Special Section, Briansk Front
1943-04-29 1943-07-15 Chief of Counter-Intelligence Section SMERSH, Steppe Military District
1943-07-15 1943-11-17 Chief of Counter-Intelligence Section SMERSH, Steppe Front
1943-11-17 1945-06-10 Chief of Counter-Intelligence Section SMERSH, 2nd Ukrainian Front
1945-06-10 1946-05-XX Chief of Counter-Intelligence Section SMERSH, Soviet Central Group of Forces
1946-05-XX 1947-06-09 Chief of Counter-Intelligence Section, Central Group of Forces
1947-06-09 1947-11-10 Chief of Counter-Intelligence Section, Soviet Occupation of Forces in Germany
1947-11-10 1951-01-03 Head of 3rd Main Directorate, Ministry of State Security MGB
1950-12-31 1951-08-26 Deputy Minister of State Security
1951-11-03 1953-12-31 Arrested
1953-12-31 Released
1954-06-11 Dismissed
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