The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Major-General Aleksei Matveevich Sidnev

Sidnev, Aleksei Matveevich

Major-General

* March 1907

† 1958

(NKVD)

(Алексей Матвеевич Сиднев)

Promotions

1939-02-04 Major of State Security
1941-06-XX Division-Commissar
1942-02-23 Senior Major of State Security
1943-02-14 Commissar of State Security
1943-05-26 Major-General

Service

1939-02-04 1941-02-XX Chief of NKVD Special Section, Leningrad Military District
1941-02-XX 1941-07-01 Chief of 3rd Section, Leningrad Military District
1941-07-19 1941-08-01 Deputy Chief of NKVD Special Section, Northern Front
1941-08-01 1942-05-17 Deputy Chief of NKVD Special Section, Leningrad Front
1942-05-17 1943-04-29 Chief of NKVD Special Section, Karelian Front
1943-04-29 1944-03-01 Chief of Counter-Intelligence Section SMERSH, Karelian Front
1944-03-01 1944-06-01 At disposal of the Main Counter-Intelligence Directorate SMERSH
1944-07-04 1945-07-XX Deputy Chief of Counter-Intelligence Section SMERSH, 1st Belorussian Front
1945-05-22 1946-03-XX Chief of NKVD Operations Sector Berlin [Germany]
1945-07-XX 1945-11-10 Deputy Chief of Counter-Intelligence Section SMERSH, Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany
1946-03-XX 1947-12-08 Chief of NKGB Operations Sector Berlin [Germany]
1947-12-26 1948-01-31 Minister of State Security, Tatar ASSR
1948-01-31 1953-07-25 Arrested
1953-07-25 Released
1953-07-31 Dismissed
Picture source: From: 'Kto rukovodil organami gosbezopasnosti 1941-1954' by N.V. Petrov, 2010