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Portrait of Major-General Mikhail Aleksandrovich Zapevalin

Zapevalin, Mikhail Aleksandrovich

Major-General

* 1905

† 1972

(NKVD)

(Михаил Александрович Запевалин)

Promotions

1939-06-08 Battalion-Commissar
1940-03-13 Major of Militia
1940-06-19 Senior Major of Militia
1941-07-29 Major of State Security
1943-02-14 Colonel of State Security
1943-12-14 Commissar of State Security
1945-07-09 Major-General

Service

1939-09-21 1940-04-22 Chief of Command Section, Main Militia Directorate, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1940-04-22 1941-03-22 Deputy Head for Personnel, Main Militia Directorate, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1941-03-22 1941-08-07 Deputy Head for Personnel, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD, Moscow
1941-08-07 1941-09-13 Deputy Chief of Personnel Section, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1941-09-13 1941-10-06 Deputy Head of Main Defensive Constructions Directorate
1941-10-06 1943-07-29 Deputy Head for Personnel, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD, Moscow
1943-07-29 1945-05-22 First Deputy Head of People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD, Moscow
1945-05-22 1945-08-30 Chief of Section "F", People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1945-08-30 1945-10-16 At disposal of Personnel Section, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1945-10-16 1946-03-XX Head of People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD, Smolensk
1946-03-XX 1949-01-19 Head of Ministry of Internal Affairs MVD, Smolensk
1949-01-19 1949-12-20 Head of Ministry of Internal Affairs MVD, Crimea
1949-12-20 1952-11-19 Deputy Head for Political Affairs, Main Camps Directorate, Ministry of Internal Affairs MVD
1949-12-20 1952-11-19 Chief of Political Section, Main Camps Directorate, Ministry of Internal Affairs MVD 19.11.52-21.07.53: Minister of Internal Affairs, Tatar ASSR
1953-07-21 1954-04-30 First Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Georgia SSR
1954-04-30 1954-11-19 First Deputy President of the Committee of State Security, Georgia SSR
1955-01-10 1958-07-31 Deputy Head of Karagand Forced Labour Camp, Ministry of Internal Affairs MVD
1958-07-31 Head of Karagand Forced Labour Camp, Ministry of Internal Affairs MVD
Picture source: From: 'Kto rukovodil organami gosbezopasnosti 1941-1954' by N.V. Petrov, 2010