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Portrait of Lieutenant-General Gavriil Aleksandrovich Petrov

Petrov, Gavriil Aleksandrovich

Lieutenant-General

* 4th of April 1900

† 14th of December 1961

(NKVD)

(Гавриил Александрович Петров)

Promotions

1935-12-28 Colonel
1938-03-17 Kombrig
1940-04-29 Komdiv
1940-06-04 Major-General
1944-11-17 Lieutenant-General

Service

1934-07-13 1937-03-16 Chief of Operations Section, Main Border & Internal Security Directorate, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD, Western Siberian
1937-03-16 1938-02-04 Commanding Officer Border & Internal Troops, Armenia SSR
1938-02-04 1939-03-26 Chief of Operations Section, Main Border & Internal Security Directorate, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1939-03-26 1939-05-16 Deputy Chief of Staff, Main Border Troops Directorate, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1939-05-16 1941-03-11 Deputy Head of Main Border Troops Directorate, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1939-05-16 1940-04-19 Chief of 5th Section, Main Border Troops Directorate, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1940-04-19 1941-03-11 Head of 1st Directorate, Main Border Troops Directorate, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1941-03-11 1946-03-XX Head of 1st Directorate, Main Border Troops Directorate, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1941-07-31 1943-05-04 Chief of Staff, Assault Battalions, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1941-10-13 1941-XX-XX Commanding Officer Maloyaroslavetsk Sector, Moscow Defence Zone
1941-10-13 1942-05-10 Chief of Staff, NKVD Security, Moscow Defence Zone
1946-03-XX 1951-01-09 Head of 1st Directorate, Main Border Troops Directorate, Ministry of Internal Affairs MVD
1951-01-09 1951-05-11 Deputy Head of Main Border Troops Directorate, Ministry of State Security MGB
1951-05-11 1953-03-XX First Deputy Head of Main Border Troops Directorate, Ministry of State Security MGB
1951-05-XX 1953-03-XX Chief of Staff, Main Border Troops Directorate, Ministry of State Security MGB
1953-03-XX 1953-11-25 First Deputy Head of Main Border Troops Directorate, Ministry of Internal Affairs MVD
1953-03-XX 1953-11-25 Chief of Staff, Main Border Troops Directorate, Ministry of Internal Affairs MVD
1953-11-25 1954-02-13 At disposal of Personnel Directorate, Ministry of Internal Affairs MVD
1954-02-13 Retired
Picture source: From: 'Kto rukovodil organami gosbezopasnosti 1941-1954' by N.V. Petrov, 2010