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Portrait of Major-General Grigorii Akimovich Bezhanov

Bezhanov, Grigorii Akimovich

Major-General

* 21st of December 1897

† 14th of May 1955

(NKVD)

(Григорий Акимович Бежанов)

Promotions

1939-09-14 Captain of State Security
1942-02-23 Major of State Security
1943-02-14 Colonel of State Security
1944-07-12 Commissar of State Security
1945-07-09 Major-General
1951-10-30 Stripped of rank

Service

1939-08-07 1940-04-21 Acting Deputy Chief of NKVD Road Traffic Section, Transcaucasian
1940-06-XX 1940-09-XX Deputy Chief of Water Section, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD, Leningrad
1940-09-XX 1941-02-XX Chief of Water Section, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD, Leningrad
1941-02-XX 1941-08-XX Chief of Secret Political Section, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD, Leningrad
1941-08-30 1942-05-17 Chief of NKVD Transport Section, October Railway
1942-05-17 1943-05-XX Chief of Secret Political Section, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD, Leningrad
1943-05-07 1944-10-04 Deputy Head of People's Commissariat of State Security NKGB, Stavropol
1944-10-04 1946-03-XX People's Commissariat of State Security, Karbadinsk ASSR
1945-06-XX 1946-09-XX Head of MVD Operational Sector Thuringia [Germany]
1946-03-XX 1947-12-XX Minister of State Security, Kabardinsk ASSR
1946-08-XX 1946-10-XX Head of Ministry of State Security MGB in Germany
1947-12-10 1951-10-17 Arrested
1951-10-17 Sentenced to 10 years imprisonment
1953-07-23 Released
1953-08-01 Retired
Picture source: https://nkvd.memo.ru/index.php/Бежанов,_Григорий_Акимович