The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Major-General Vladimir Timofeevich Smorodinskii

Smorodinskii, Vladimir Timofeevich

Major-General

* 12th of July 1904

† 25th of April 1984

(NKVD)

(Владимир Тимофеевич Смородинский)

Promotions

1940-03-14 Captain of State Security
1941-07-12 Major of State Security
1943-02-14 Colonel of State Security
1944-10-03 Commissar of State Security
1945-07-09 Major-General
1957-08-24 Stripped of rank

Service

1939-10-15 –1941-02-26 Deputy Chief of 3rd Section, Main State Security Directorate, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1941-02-26 –1941-04-29 Chief of 5th Section, 2nd Directorate, People's Commissariat of State Security NKGB
1941-04-29 –1941-07-31 Deputy Chief of 1st Section, People's Commissariat of State Security NKGB
1941-07-31 –1942-10-XX Deputy Chief of 1st Branch, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1942-10-XX –1943-05-12 Deputy Chief of 2nd Special Section, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1943-05-12 –1945-09-13 Chief of Section "V", People's Commissariat of State Security NKGB
1945-09-13 –1946-03-XX Head of People's Commissariat of State Security NKGB, Chelyabinsk
1946-03-XX –1949-07-05 Head of Ministry of State Security MGB, Chelyabinsk
1949-07-05 –1949-11-XX At disposal of the Personnel Directorate, Ministry of State Security MGB
1949-11-XX –1952-05-27 Head of Black Sea Summer Residences Security Directorate, Main Security Directorate, Ministry of State Security MGB
1952-05-27 –1953-03-XX Commanding Officer 1st Garrison (Black Sea Summer Residences Security), Security Directorate, Ministry of State Security MGB
1953-03-XX –1954-03-XX Commanding Officer 1st Garrison (Black Sea Summer Residences Security), Security Directorate, Ministry of Internal Affairs MVD
1954-03-XX – Commanding Officer 1st Garrison, 3rd Section, 9th Directorate, Committee of State Security
1957-XX-XX Dismissed
Picture source: From: 'Kto rukovodil organami gosbezopasnosti 1941-1954' by N.V. Petrov, 2010