The Generals of WWII

Generals from Soviet Union Flag for Soviet Union
Portrait of Major-General Pavel Petrovich Smirnov

Smirnov, Pavel Petrovich

Major-General

* 1896

† December 1983

(NKVD)

(Павел Петрович Смирнов)

Promotions

1938-02-23 Intendant 2nd Rank
1941-12-03 Major of State Security
1943-02-14 Colonel of State Security
1943-11-19 Commissar of State Security
1945-07-09 Major-General
1955-01-03 Stripped of rank

Service

1938-XX-XX 1938-07-03 Acting Chief of Central Trade & Production Section, State Reserves Directorate, Council of People's Commissars of the Soviet Union
1938-07-03 1941-02-28 Assistant Head of Administration & Economic Directorate, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1941-02-28 1941-08-13 Deputy Head of Administration & Economic Directorate, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1941-08-13 1943-01-20 Deputy Head of Economic Directorate, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1943-01-20 1943-05-07 Assistant Head for Non-Operation Section, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD, Uliansk
1943-05-18 1946-03-XX Head of Administration, Economic & Financial Directorate, People's Commissariat of State Security NKGB
1946-03-XX 1946-10-03 Head of Administration, Economic & Financial Directorate, Ministry of State Security
1946-10-03 1952-02-14 Head of Economic Directorate, Ministry of State Security MGB
1952-02-14 1953-03-14 Acting Head of Administration & Economic Directorate, Ministry of State Security MGB
1953-09-01 Retired
Picture source: From: 'Kto rukovodil organami gosbezopasnosti 1941-1954' by N.V. Petrov, 2010