The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Lieutenant-General of Artillery Vasilii Georgievich Pozdniakov

Pozdniakov, Vasilii Georgievich

Lieutenant-General of Artillery

* 3rd of August 1896

† 12th of February 1958

(Василий Георгиевич Поздняков)

Promotions

1939-10-29 Kombrig
1940-06-04 Major-General of Artillery
1944-02-09 Lieutenant-General of Artillery

Service

1933-03-XX 1935-11-XX Commanding Officer 85th Artillery Regiment
1933-03-XX 1935-11-XX Military Commissar, 85th Artillery Regiment
1935-11-XX 1936-05-XX Attending the Anti-Aircraft Artillery Officers' Advanced Training Course
1936-05-XX 1937-11-XX Commanding Officer 85th Artillery Regiment
1937-11-XX 1938-05-XX Commanding Officer 11th Separate Air Defence Artillery Brigade
1938-05-XX 1939-07-XX Commanding Officer Artillery, 3rd Air Defence Division
1939-07-XX 1940-06-04 Chief of Air Defence Section, Kiev Special Military District
1940-06-04 1941-11-14 Commanding Officer 3rd Air Defence Division
1941-11-XX 1942-06-XX Chief of Air Defence Section, Southwestern Front
1942-06-XX 1942-09-28 Deputy Commanding Officer for Air Defence, Artillery Stalingrad Front
1942-09-28 1943-02-15 Deputy Commanding Officer for Air Defence, Artillery, Don Front
1943-02-15 1943-10-20 Deputy Commanding Officer for Air Defence, Artillery, Central Front
1943-10-20 1944-02-17 Deputy Commanding Officer for Air Defence, Artillery, Belorussian Front
1944-02-17 1945-07-XX Deputy Commanding Officer for Air Defence, Artillery, 1st Belorussian Front
1945-07-XX 1947-07-XX Deputy Commanding Officer for Air Defence, Artillery, Soviet Group of Forces in Germany
1947-07-XX Retired
Picture source: Courtesy of Mikhail Eremenko