The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Major-General Grigorii Aleksandrovich Melnikov

Melnikov, Grigorii Aleksandrovich

Major-General

* November 1898

† 17th of July 1972

(NKVD)

(Григорий Александрович Мельников)

Promotions

1939-09-05 Captain of State Security
1941-10-03 Major of State Security
1943-02-14 Colonel of State Security
1944-09-25 Major-General

Service

1939-03-07 1939-10-XX Chief of NKVD Special Section, II Rifle Corps
1939-10-XX 1941-04-01 Chief of NKVD Special Section, XXXXVII Rifle Corps
1941-04-01 1941-07-08 Deputy Chief of NKVD Special Section, 13th Army
1941-07-08 1941-09-30 Acting Chief of NKVD Special Section, 13th Army
1941-09-30 1942-05-11 Chief of NKVD Special Section, 13th Army
1942-05-11 1942-09-06 Chief of NKVD Special Section, 48th Army
1942-09-16 1942-11-13 Deputy Chief of 4th Section, Special Operations Directorate, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1942-09-16 1943-04-XX Deputy Chief of NKVD Special Section, Southwestern Front
1943-04-XX 1943-08-03 Deputy Chief of Counter-Intelligence Section SMERSH, Southwestern Front
1943-08-03 1944-01-XX Deputy Chief of Counter-Intelligence Section SMERSH, Northwestern Front 00.01.44-00.02.44: Deputy Chief of Counter-Intelligence Section SMERSH, Belorussian Front
1944-02-XX 1945-06-XX Deputy Chief of Counter-Intelligence Section SMERSH, 1st Belorussian Front
1945-04-22 1945-05-22 Commanding Officer NKVD Central Operational Group in Berlin [Germany]
1945-06-XX 1946-12-XX Deputy Chief of Counter-Intelligence Section SMERSH, Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany 10.12.46-25.12.51: Deputy Plenipotentiary of the Ministry of State Security MGB in Germany
1951-12-25 1952-11-13 At disposal of the Personnel Directorate, Ministry of State Security MGB
1952-11-13 1953-06-20 Deputy Chief of Counter-Intelligence Section, Far Eastern Command
1953-06-20 1954-04-XX Chief of MVD Special Section, Far Eastern Military District
1954-04-XX 1955-07-29 Chief of KGB Special Section, Far Eastern Military District
1955-07-29 Retired
Picture source: From: 'Kto rukovodil organami gosbezopasnosti 1941-1954' by N.V. Petrov, 2010