The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Colonel-General Vasilii Vasilevich Chernyshov

Chernyshov, Vasilii Vasilevich

Colonel-General

* 26th of March 1896

† 12th of September 1952

(NKVD)

(Василий Васильевич Чернышов)

(Василий Васильевич Чернышев)

(Vasilii Vasilevich Chernyshev)

Promotions

1935-12-23 Komdiv
1941-07-02 Commissar of State Security 3rd Rank
1943-02-21 Commissar of State Security 2nd Rank
1945-07-09 Colonel-General

Service

1920-10-XX –1920-11-XX Commanding Officer 31st VNUS Division
1920-10-XX –1921-XX-XX Commanding Officer 34th VNUS Division
1921-02-XX –1922-12-XX Commanding Officer VCHKA Troops, Turkestan Front
1922-XX-XX –1922-12-XX Member of the Revolutionary Military Council, Fergansk Group of Forces
1922-12-XX –1924-07-XX Chief of Staff, OGPU Troops, Volga Military District
1923-XX-XX Senior Inspector of OGPU Troops, Volga Military District
1924-07-XX –1926-11-XX Chief of State Security Organs, Kazakhstan
1924-XX-XX –1927-03-15 Senior Inspector of OGPU Troops, Kazakhstan
1926-11-XX –1927-03-15 Commanding Officer OGPU Troops, Kazakhan
1927-03-15 –1930-09-01 Deputy Commanding Officer OGPU Troops, Far East
1930-09-01 –1934-07-10 Commanding Officer OGPU Troops, Far East
1934-07-10 –1937-08-07 Chief of External & Internal Security Section, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD, Far East
1936-01-13 –1937-08-07 Deputy Head of People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD, Far East
1937-08-07 –1939-02-18 Head of Main Worker-Peasant Militia Directorate, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1937-08-07 –1941-03-XX Deputy People's Commissar of Internal Affairs
1939-02-17 –1941-02-25 Head of Main Corrective Labour Camps Directorate GULAG, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1946-03-XX –1952-09-12 Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs
1952-09-12 Died of Illness
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