The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Major-General Vasilii Andreevich Smirnov

Smirnov, Vasilii Andreevich

Major-General

* 25th of February 1889

† 19th of November 1979

(Василий Андреевич Смирнов)

Promotions

1939-12-31 Kombrig
1940-06-04 Major-General

Service

1937-06-XX 1937-09-XX Commanding Officer 119th Rifle Regiment
1937-09-XX 1938-05-XX Chief of Staff, 66th Rifle Division
1938-05-XX 1938-06-XX Chief of Staff, 26th Rifle Division
1938-06-XX 1939-09-XX Assistant Commanding Officer 17th Mountain Rifle Division
1939-09-XX 1940-12-XX Commanding Officer Group for Special Assignments, Military Council, Moscow Military District
1940-12-XX 1941-10-XX Commandant of Podolsk Infantry School
1941-10-XX 1941-11-04 Commanding Officer Ilinsk Defence Sector
1941-11-04 1942-01-19 Commanding Officer 2nd Moscow Rifle Division
1942-01-19 1942-10-03 Commanding Officer 129th Rifle Division
1942-10-03 1943-01-XX Wounded and hospitalised
1943-02-XX 1943-12-10 Deputy Chief of Staff, 53rd Army
1943-12-10 1946-06-XX Commanding Officer 116th Rifle Division
1946-06-XX 1948-05-XX Head of Military Loop, Military Pedagogical Institute
1948-05-XX 1950-03-XX Chief of 1st Section, Small Arms Technical Committee
1950-03-XX 1954-10-XX Head of Military Department, Moscow Institute of Foreign Trade
1954-10-XX Retired
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