The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Major-General Matvei Prokopevich Kononenko

Kononenko, Matvei Prokopevich

Major-General

* 27th of November 1900

† 26th of October 1977

(Матвей Прокопьевич Кононенко)

Promotions

1942-05-12 Demoted to Lieutenant
1942-09-26 Lieutenant-Colonel
1944-02-22 Major-General

Service

1940-09-02 1941-03-XX Commanding Officer 91st Mountain Cavalry Regiment
1941-03-XX 1941-09-XX Commanding Officer 48th Motorised Rifle Regiment
1941-09-XX 1941-11-XX Attending the Military Academy of the General Staff
1941-11-XX 1942-04-XX Commanding Officer 36th Separate Cadet Rifle Brigade
1942-04-XX 1942-05-12 Arrested
1942-05-12 Condemend to 10 years imprisonment, but sentence suspended until after the war
1942-05-XX 1942-08-XX At disposal of the Military Council, Western Front
1942-08-XX 1942-09-XX Commanding Officer 774th Rifle Regiment
1942-09-XX 1942-09-30 Commanding Officer 1290th Rifle Regiment
1942-09-26 Sentence annulled
1942-09-30 1942-10-07 Acting Commanding Officer 17th Rifle Division
1942-10-07 1943-03-XX Deputy Commanding Officer 17th Rifle Division
1943-03-XX 1943-05-XX Wounded and hospitalised
1943-05-XX 1943-08-17 Deputy Commanding Officer 17th Rifle Division
1943-08-17 1944-08-23 Commanding Officer 199th Rifle Division
1944-09-14 1945-04-18 Commanding Officer 199th Rifle Division
1945-04-19 1945-07-12 Hospitalised
1945-07-12 1945-08-27 At disposal of the Main Perosnnel Diretorate
1945-08-27 1947-03-XX Deputy Commanding Officer LX Rifle Corps
1947-03-18 Retired
Picture source: Courtesy of Mikhail Eremenko