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Portrait of Lieutenant-General of Tank Troops Viktor Ilich Baranov

Baranov, Viktor Ilich

Lieutenant-General of Tank Troops

* 4th of January 1906

† 26th of October 1996

(Виктор Ильич Баранов)

Promotions

1938-02-XX Colonel
1940-03-21 Kombrig
1940-06-04 Major-General of Tank Troops
1943-12-15 Lieutenant-General of Tank Troops

Service

1938-03-XX –1938-07-01 Commanding Officer 38th Mechanised Brigade
1938-07-01 –1940-06-04 Commanding Officer 13th Light Tank Brigade
1940-06-04 –1940-11-23 Commanding Officer 1st Tank Division
1940-11-23 –1941-05-01 Attending the Frunze Military Academy
1941-05-01 –1941-09-30 Commanding Officer 1st Tank Division
1941-09-30 –1942-04-10 Commanding Officer 123rd Tank Brigade
1942-04-10 –1942-05-11 Deputy Commanding Officer for Tank Forces, 54th Army
1942-05-11 –1942-05-20 Deputy Commanding Officer Leningrad Group of Forces, Leningrad Front
1942-05-20 –1943-01-XX Commanding Officer Tank Forces, Leningrad Front
1943-01-XX –1945-04-XX Commanding Officer Tank & Mechanised Forces, Leningrad Front
1945-04-XX –1946-02-XX Attending the Military Academy of the General Staff
1946-02-XX –1946-06-XX At disposal of the Commander in Chief of Tank & Mechanised Forces
1946-06-19 –1950-05-31 Commanding Officer Tank & Mechanised Forces, Leningrad Military District
1950-05-31 –1953-08-11 Commanding Officer Tank & Mechanised Forces, Far Eastern Military District
1953-08-11 –1953-11-XX Commanding Officer Tank & Mechanised Forces, 13th Army
1953-11-XX –1954-11-12 Attending the Military Academy of the General Staff
1955-02-08 –1957-01-29 Senior Military Adviser to the Czechoslovakian Army
1957-01-29 –1960-12-17 Inspector-General of Tank & Mechanised Forces, Warsaw Pact
1960-12-17 –1961-02-25 At disposal of the General Staff
1961-02-25 Retired
Picture source: http://tankfront.ru/ussr/persons/gen-tv/BaranovVI.html