The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Lieutenant-General Nikolai Kuzmich Kovalchuk

Kovalchuk, Nikolai Kuzmich

Lieutenant-General

* 26th of July 1902

† 9th of October 1972

(NKVD)

(Николай Кузьмич Ковальчук)

Promotions

1939-04-27 Captain of State Security
1941-08-23 Major of State Security
1943-02-14 Colonel of State Security
1943-05-26 Major-General
1944-09-25 Lieutenant-General
1954-11-23 Stripped of rank

Service

1939-02-XX 1940-09-09 Deputy Chief Investigator, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs, NKVD Leningrad
1940-09-09 1941-02-XX Chief Investigator, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD, Leningrad
1941-02-XX 1941-07-XX Chief Investigator, People's Commissariat of State Security NKGB, Leningrad
1941-07-XX 1941-10-XX Chief of NKVD Special Section, Luga Operational Group
1941-08-27 1942-06-02 Deputy Chief of NKVD Special Section, Leningrad Front
1942-06-02 1943-04-15 Chief of NKVD Special Section, Siberian Military District
1943-04-15 1943-10-20 Chief of Counter-Intelligence Section SMERSH, Southern Front
1943-10-20 1945-07-22 Chief of Counter-Intelligence Section SMERSH, 4th Ukrainian Front
1945-07-XX 1946-05-07 Chief of Counter-Intelligence Section SMERSH, Carpathian Military District
1946-05-07 1949-09-18 Deputy Minister of State Security
1946-08-XX 1949-08-24 Plenipotentiary of Ministry of State Security MGB in Germany 24.08.49-06.09.52: Minister of State Security, Ukraine SSR
1952-09-06 1953-02-14 At disposal of the Personnel Directorate, Ministry of State Security MGB
1953-02-14 1953-03-16 Minister of State Security, Latvia SSR
1953-03-16 1953-05-23 Minister of Internal Affairs Latvia SSR
1953-06-10 1953-07-20 Senior MVD Adviser to the Polish Ministry of Public Security
1953-07-20 1953-09-08 At disposal of Personnel Directorate, Ministry of Internal Affairs MVD
1953-09-08 1954-05-04 Head of Ministry of Internal Affairs MVD Yaroslav
1954-06-26 Dismissed
Picture source: https://shieldandsword.mozohin.ru/personnel/kovalchuk_n_k.htm