The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Lieutenant-General Mikhail Spridonovich Krivenko

Krivenko, Mikhail Spridonovich

Lieutenant-General

* 27th of June 1904

† 10th of October 1954

(NKVD)

(Михаил Спиридонович Кривенко)

Promotions

1939-03-29 Colonel
1940-04-29 Kombrig
1942-01-24 Major-General
1944-11-17 Lieutenant-General

Service

1939-03-08 1939-12-29 Chief of Staff, NKVD Cavalry
1939-12-29 1940-01-29 Acting Commanding Officer NKVD Cavalry
1940-01-29 1941-08-26 Chief of Staff, NKVD Cavalry
1941-01-28 1942-01-19 Chief of Command Section, Main Internal Troops Directorate, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1941-01-28 1942-01-19 Deputy Head for Personnel, Main Internal Troops Directorate, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1941-02-XX 1941-03-XX Acting Head of Prisoner of War Affairs Directorate, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1942-01-19 1944-01-03 Commanding Officer NKVD Cavalry
1944-04-01 1945-02-02 Deputy Head of Border Troops Directorate, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1945-02-02 1946-03-XX Head of Main Prisoner of War & Internees Affairs Directorate, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1946-03-XX 1947-03-08 Head of Main Prisoner of War & Internees Affairs Directorate, Ministry of Internal Affairs MVD
1947-04-21 1949-04-26 Deputy Head of Ministry of Internal Affairs MVD, Sverdlovsk
1949-04-26 1951-06-07 Head of Ministry of Internal Affairs, MVD Sverdlovsk
1951-07-17 1951-11-09 Deputy Head of No. 585 Correctional Labour Camp
1951-11-09 1952-08-19 Deputy Head of Volga-Don Canal Construction, Ministry of Internal Affairs MVD
1952-08-19 1953-04-29 Head of Volga-Don Canal Construction, Ministry of Internal Affairs MVD
1953-07-29 Retired
Picture source: Courtesy of Ilya Mukhin