The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Major-General Mikhail Nikitovich Kleshnin

Kleshnin, Mikhail Nikitovich

Major-General

* 3rd of May 1902

† 13th of March 1991

(Михаил Никитович Клешнин)

Promotions

1941-07-15 Major-General

Service

1941-07-XX 1941-08-XX Commanding Officer 262nd Rifle Division
1941-08-XX 1942-01-XX Commanding Officer 232nd Rifle Regiment
1942-01-15 1942-08-30 Commanding Officer 188th Rifle Division
1942-08-XX 1943-01-XX Deputy Commanding Officer 11th Army
1943-01-XX 1943-05-XX Commanding Officer 53rd Guards Rifle Division
1943-05-18 1943-05-26 Commanding Officer XXXV Rifle Corps
1943-05-26 1945-07-XX Commanding Officer XXXXIV Rifle Corps
1945-07-XX 1947-05-XX Deputy Chief of Staff, Soviet Section, Allied Control Commision for Austria
1947-05-XX 1949-06-XX Commandant of Tbilisi Infantry School
1949-06-XX 1951-05-XX Commandant of Stavropol Suvorov Military School
1951-05-XX 1953-05-XX Assistant Head of Higher Educational Institutions of Rifle Troops & Suvorov Schools Directorate
1951-05-XX 1952-11-XX Chief of 3rd Section, Higher Educational Institutions of Rifle Troops & Suvorov Schools Directorate
1952-11-XX 1953-05-XX Chief of 2nd Section, Higher Educational Institutions of Rifle Troops & Suvorov Schools Directorate
1953-05-XX 1959-07-XX Head of Main Combat & Physical Training Directorate, Ground Forces
1959-07-XX Retired
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