The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Major-General Aleksandr Pavlovich Zakharov

Zakharov, Aleksandr Pavlovich

Major-General

* August 1905

† 1969

(NKVD)

(Александр Павлович Захаров)

Promotions

1939-06-22 Captain of State Security
1942-07-16 Major of State Security
1943-02-14 Colonel of State Security
1944-04-03 Commissar of State Security
1945-07-09 Major-General

Service

1939-02-08 1941-03-XX Chief of 3rd Economic Section, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD, Leningrad
1941-03-XX 1941-06-XX Chief of Secret Political Affairs Section, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD, Leningrad
1941-06-XX 1941-09-XX Commanding Officer 1st NKVD Rifle Regiment
1941-09-XX 1941-10-XX Hospitalised
1941-10-XX 1942-12-05 Chief of Economic Section, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD, Leningrad
1942-12-05 1943-05-07 Deputy Head of People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD, Molotovsk
1943-05-07 1946-03-XX Head of People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD, Molotovsk
1946-03-XX 1948-04-27 Head of Ministry of Internal Affairs MVD, Molotovsk
1948-04-27 1952-10-09 Head of Ministry of Internal Affairs MVD, Chelyabinsk
1952-12-03 1953-05-16 Chief of Forced Labour Camp Section, Ministry of Internal Affairs MVD, Kuibyshev
1952-12-03 1953-05-16 Deputy Head of Ministry of Internal Affairs MVD, Kuibyshev
1953-05-16 1954-03-02 Commanding Officer Local Air Defence, Kuibyshev
1954-04-XX Retired
Picture source: From: 'Kto rukovodil organami gosbezopasnosti 1941-1954' by N.V. Petrov, 2010