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Portrait of Lieutenant-General Shavla Otapovich Tsereteli

Tsereteli, Shavla Otapovich

Lieutenant-General

* 1894

† 22nd of November 1955

(NKVD)

(Шалва Отарович Церетели)

Promotions

1936-04-22 Major of State Security
1939-04-30 Senior Major of State Security
1943-02-14 Commissar of State Security 3rd Rank
1945-07-09 Lieutenant-General
1955-10-01 Stripped of the rank of Lieutenant-General

Service

1932-11-XX 1939-01-13 Head of Militia Directorate, State Security Directorate, Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD, Georgia SSR
1937-XX-XX 1939-01-13 Assistant People's Commissar of Internal Affairs for Militia, Georgia SSR
1939-01-13 1941-04-04 First Deputy Chief of 3rd Special Section, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1941-04-04 1941-04-29 Deputy Head of Main Militia Directorate, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1941-04-04 1941-04-29 Chief of Bandit Control Section, Main Militia Directorate, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD
1941-04-29 1941-08-15 First Deputy People's Commissar of State Security, Georgia SSR
1941-08-15 1943-05-XX First Deputy People's Commissar of Internal Affairs, Georgia SSR
1941-08-25 1943-05-XX Chief of 4th Section, People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD, Georgia SSR
1943-08-28 1946-03-XX Deputy People's Commissar of State Security, Georgia SSR
1946-03-XX 1948-05-25 Deputy Minister of State Security MGB, Georgia SSR
1948-05-25 1949-09-17 Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Georgia SSR
1948-05-25 1949-09-17 Commanding Officer MVD Border Troops, Georgia
1949-09-17 1953-03-XX Deputy Minister of State Security, Georgia SSR
1949-09-17 1953-03-XX Commanding Officer MGB Border Troops, Georgia
1953-03-XX 1953-07-15 Commanding Officer MVD Border Troops, Georgia SSR
1953-05-27 1953-07-15 Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs, Georgia SSR
1953-08-12 Dismissed
1953-08-13 1955-11-22 Arrested
1955-09-19 Condemned to death
1955-11-22 Executed
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