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Portrait of Major-General of Tank Troops Aleksandr Ivanovich Potapov

Potapov, Aleksandr Ivanovich

Major-General of Tank Troops

* 10th of December 1904

† 10th of September 1976

(Александр Иванович Потапов)

Promotions

1942-01-XX Colonel
1944-03-11 Major-General of Tank Troops

Service

1941-03-06 –1941-07-10 Commanding Officer, 119th Tank Regiment
1941-07-10 –1941-09-16 Commanding Officer 219th Tank Regiment
1941-09-16 –1942-01-17 Commanding Officer 148th Tank Brigade
1942-01-17 –1942-01-23 At disposal of the Personnel Directorate, Main Tank Directorate
1942-01-23 –1943-01-XX Commanding Officer Tank Forces, Volga Military District
1943-01-XX –1943-06-24 Acting Commanding Officer Tank & Mechanised Forces, Volga Military District
1943-06-24 –1945-01-02 Commanding Officer Tank & Mechanised Forces, Volga Military District
1945-01-02 –1945-12-30 Deputy Commanding Officer V Guards Tank Corps
1945-12-30 –1946-02-15 Deputy Commanding Officer 5th Guards Tank Division
1946-02-15 –1946-07-XX Commanding Officer 5th Guards Tank Division
1946-07-17 Condemned to 3 years imprisonment for looting, sentence suspended
1946-11-XX –1948-12-28 Deputy Commanding Officer 23rd Tank Division
1948-12-28 –1949-12-23 Deputy Commanding Officer, 11th Guards Mechanised Division
1949-12-23 –1952-09-20 Chief of Staff, Tank & Mechanised Forces, Carpathian Military District
1952-09-20 –1953-10-XX Attending the Military Academy of the General Staff
1953-10-20 –1954-01-15 Deputy Commanding Officer Tank & Mechanised Forces, Odessa Military District
1953-10-20 –1954-01-15 Chief of Staff, Tank & Mechanised Forces, Odessa Military District
1954-01-15 –1955-01-03 Attached to the Military Academy of the General Staff
1955-01-03 –1961-06-30 Senior Instructor at the Military Academy of the General Staff
1961-06-30 Retired.
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