The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Lieutenant-General Viktor Mikhailovich Bochkov

Bochkov, Viktor Mikhailovich

Lieutenant-General

* 11th of November 1900

† 2nd of August 1981

(NKVD)

(Виктор Михайлович Бочков)

Promotions

1939-01-28 Senior Major of State Security
1940-03-14 Commissar of State Security 3rd Rank
1940-07-28 Major-General
1944-11-17 Lieutenant-General

Service

1938-11-23 1938-12-25 Head of Main Prisons Directorate, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1938-12-25 1940-08-23 Head of 4th Branch, Main State Security Directorate, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1940-08-07 1943-11-13 Prosecutor-General of USSR
1941-07-19 1941-12-20 Chief of NKVD Special Section, Northwestern Front
1944-01-03 1946-03-XX Head of Directorate of Escort Troops, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1946-03-XX 1951-07-08 Head of Directorate of Escort Troops, Ministry of Internal Affairs MVD
1951-06-08 1955-05-03 Chief of Protection Section, Main Corrective Labour Camps Directorate GULAG, Ministry of Internal Affairs MVD
1955-05-03 1957-XX-XX Head of Escort Protection Directorate, Main Corrective Labour Camps Directorate GULAG, Ministry of Internal Affairs MVD
1955-05-03 1957-XX-XX Deputy Head of Main Corrective Labour Camps Directorate GULAG, Ministry of Internal Affairs MVD
1957-XX-XX 1959-05-XX Head of Protection Directorate, Main Reform & Labour Colonies Directorate, Ministry of Internal Affairs MVD
1957-XX-XX 1959-05-XX Deputy Head of Main Reforms & Labour Colonies Directorate, Ministry of Internal Affairs MVD
1959-05-18 Retired
Picture source: Courtesy of Ilya Mukhin