The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Commissar of State Security Nikolai Dmitrievich Melnikov

Melnikov, Nikolai Dmitrievich

Commissar of State Security

* 30th of November 1905

† 7th of April 1944

(NKVD)

(Николай Дмитриевич Мельников)

Promotions

1939-XX-XX Colonel
1940-03-14 Major of State Security
1941-09-30 Senior Major of State Security
1943-02-14 Commissar of State Security

Service

1938-11-XX 1939-06-09 Senior Assistant Chief of ? Branch, Border Section, Main Border & Internal Security Directorate, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1939-06-09 1939-12-01 Chief of 14th Branch, 5th Section, Main State Security Directorate, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1939-12-01 1941-02-27 Deputy Chief of 5th Section, Main State Security Directorate, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1941-02-27 1941-08-11 Chief of 2nd Section, 1st Directorate, People's Commissariat of State Security NKGB
1941-07-05 1941-10-03 Deputy Chief of Special Group of the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs NKVD
1941-08-11 1941-09-01 Chief of 7th Section, 1st Directorate, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1941-09-01 1941-10-30 Deputy Head of 1st Directorate, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1941-10-03 1942-01-18 Deputy Chief of 2nd Section, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1942-01-18 1943-03-06 Deputy Head of 4th Directorate, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1942-01-18 1943-03-06 Chief of 1st Section, 4th Directorate, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1943-03-06 1943-05-14 Deputy Head of 2nd Directorate, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1943-05-14 1943-08-03 Deputy Head of 1st Directorate, People's Commissariat of State Security NKGB
1943-08-03 1944-04-07 First Deputy Head of Main Prisoner of War & Internees Directorate, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1943-08-03 1944-04-07 Chief of Operations Section, Main Prisoner of War & Internees Directorate, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1944-04-07 Committed Suicide
Picture source: From: 'Kto rukovodil organami gosbezopasnosti 1941-1954' by N.V. Petrov, 2010