The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Lieutenant-General Nikolai Ivanovich Zheleznikov

Zheleznikov, Nikolai Ivanovich

Lieutenant-General

* 22nd of March 1906

† March 1974

(NKVD)

(Николай Иванович Железников)

Promotions

1939-02-04 Major of State Security
1941-06-XX Division-Commissar
1942-07-14 Senior Major of State Security
1943-02-14 Commissar of State Security
1943-05-26 Major-General
1944-09-25 Lieutenant-General

Service

1939-02-04 1943-04-29 Chief of NKVD Special Section, Central Asian Military District
1943-04-29 1943-10-10 Chief of Counter Intelligence Section SMERSH, Briansk Front
1943-10-20 1945-06-XX Chief of Counter Intelligence Section SMERSH, 2nd Baltic Front
1945-07-22 1946-07-15 Chief of Counter Intelligence Section SMERSH, Gorkov Military District
1946-07-15 1946-XX-XX Chief of Counter Intelligence Section SMERSH, Northern Group of Forces
1946-XX-XX 1950-02-23 Chief of Counter Intelligence Section, Northern Group of Forces
1950-02-23 1953-06-23 Chief of Counter Intelligence Section, Soviet Group of Forces in Germany
1953-08-07 1954-04-XX Chief of MVD Special Section, Transcaucasian Military District
1954-04-XX 1961-03-10 Chief of KGB Special Section, Transcaucasian Military District
1961-03-10 1966-09-XX Head of Outdoor Surveillance & Positioning Department, Higher School of the Committee of State Security KGB
1966-09-XX Retired
Picture source: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/ru/3/36/Jeleznikov_N_I.jpg