The Generals of WWII

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Portrait of Lieutenant-General Aleksandr Anatolevich Vadis

Vadis, Aleksandr Anatolevich

Lieutenant-General

* 23rd of March 1906

† 3rd of May 1968

(NKVD)

(Александр Анатольевич Вадис)

Promotions

1939-06-22 Senior Lieutenant of State Security
1939-11-06 Captain of State Security
1941-07-28 Major of State Security
1942-01-08 Senior Major of State Security
1943-02-14 Commissar of State Security
1943-05-26 Major-General
1944-09-25 Lieutenant-General
1954-11-23 Stripped of rank

Service

1939-11-06 –1941-03-23 Head of People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs NKVD, Ternopolsk
1941-04-15 –1941-07-28 Head of People's Commissariat of State Security NKGB ,Ternopolsk
1941-07-28 –1941-11-17 Chief of NKVD Special Section, 26th Army
1941-11-17 –1942-01-04 Deputy Chief of NKVD Special Section, Southwestern Front
1942-01-04 –1942-09-23 Chief of NKVD Special Section, Briansk Front
1942-09-23 –1943-04-29 Chief of NKVD Special Section, Voronezh Front
1943-04-XX –1943-10-XX Chief of Counter-Intelligence Section SMERSH, Central Front
1943-10-XX –1944-07-08 Chief of Counter-Intelligence Section SMERSH, Belorussian Front
1944-07-08 –1945-05-XX Chief of Counter-Intelligence Section SMERSH, 1st Belorussian Front
1945-05-XX –1945-07-XX Chief of Counter-Intelligence Section SMERSH, Soviet Occupation Forces in Germany
1945-07-XX –1946-05-XX Chief of Counter-Intelligence Section SMERSH, Transbaikal-Amur Military District
1946-05-XX –1946-10-XX Chief of Counter-Intelligence Section, Ministry of State Security MGB, Transbaikal-Amur
1946-10-XX –1947-11-27 In reserve
1947-11-27 –1951-01-03 Chief of Transport Section, Main Security Directorate, Ministry of State Security MGB
1951-01-03 –1951-11-24 Deputy Minister of State Security, Ukraine SSR
1951-11-24 Retired
1951-XX-XX –1953-XX-XX Arrested
1953-12-25 Dismissed
Picture source: Courtesy of Ilya Mukhin