The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Major-General Aleksandr Georgievich Leonov

Leonov, Aleksandr Georgievich

Major-General

* 14th of April 1905

† 19th of December 1954

(NKVD)

(Александр Георгиевич Леонов)

Promotions

1941-06-XX Regiment-Commissar
1942-11-27 Captain of State Security
1943-02-11 Lieutenant-Colonel of State Security
1943-05-26 Colonel
1944-11-02 Major-General

Service

1940-07-17 1940-09-14 Acting Deputy Chief of NKVD Special Section, Pacific Fleet
1940-09-14 1941-03-XX Deputy Chief of NKVD Special Section, Pacific Fleet
1941-03-XX 1942-01-XX Deputy Chief of 3rd Section, Pacific Fleet
1942-01-XX 1942-10-07 Deputy Chief of NKVD Special Section, Pacific Fleet
1942-10-07 1943-01-17 Deputy Chief of 12th Section, Special Sections Directorate, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1943-01-17 1943-04-29 Deputy Chief of 4th Section, Special Sections Directorate, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1943-04-29 1946-05-18 Chief of 6th Section, Main Counter-Intelligence Directorate SMERSH
1946-05-20 1951-07-13 Chief Investigator for Special Cases, Ministry of State Security MGB
1951-07-13 1954-12-19 Arrested
1954-12-19 Condemned to death and executed
Picture source: From: 'Kto rukovodil organami gosbezopasnosti 1941-1954' by N.V. Petrov, 2010