The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Lieutenant-General Dmitrii Ivanovich Melnikov

Melnikov, Dmitrii Ivanovich

Lieutenant-General

* 1906

† October 1956

(NKVD)

(Дмитрий Иванович Мельников)

Promotions

1941-06-XX Senior Battalion-Commissar
1941-09-10 Captain of State Security
1941-09-26 Major of State Security
1942-05-26 Senior Major of State Security
1943-02-14 Commissar of State Security
1943-05-26 Major-General
1944-09-25 Lieutenant-General

Service

1940-03-XX –1941-06-XX Deputy Chief of NKVD Special Section, Central Asian Military District
1941-08-22 –1941-09-26 Deputy Chief of 1st Section, Special Sections Directorate, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1941-09-26 –1941-12-17 Chief of NKVD Special Section, 7th Army
1941-12-17 –1942-05-02 Chief of NKVD Special Section, Volkhov Front
1942-05-02 –1942-06-25 Chief of NKVD Special Section, Leningrad Front
1942-06-25 –1943-04-XX Chief of NKVD Special Section, Volkhov Front
1943-04-XX –1944-02-15 Chief of Counter-Intelligence Section SMERSH, Volkhov Front
1944-03-01 –1944-12-30 Chief of Counter-Intelligence Section SMERSH, Karelian Front
1944-12-30 –1945-04-20 Chief of Counter-Intelligence Section SMERSH, Reserve Front
1945-04-20 –1945-08-05 Chief of Counter-Intelligence Section SMERSH, Coastal Group of Forces, 1st Far Eastern Front
1945-08-05 –1945-10-23 Chief of Counter-Intelligence Section SMERSH, 1st Far Eastern Front
1945-10-23 –1946-09-05 Chief of Counter-Intelligence Section SMERSH, Primorsk Military District
1946-09-05 –1949-09-XX Chief of Counter-Intelligence Section, Western Siberian Military District
1949-09-XX –1950-08-XX Attending the Higher School of Ministry of State Security MGB
1950-09-XX –1953-04-28 Chief of Counter-Intelligence Section, Western Siberian Military District
1953-04-28 –1954-04-XX Chief of MVD Special Section, Volga Military District
1954-04-XX –1955-03-09 Chief of KGB Special Section, Volga Military District
1955-03-09 Retired
Picture source: Courtesy of Ilya Mukhin