SOVIET MILITARY DISTRICT COMMANDERS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81-01036R000200050083-7
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• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 3
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 4, 2011
• Sequence Number: 83
• Publication Date: May 13, 1954
• Content Type: REPORT

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U.S. Officials Only
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CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
Soviet Union
Soviet Military District Commanders
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1? Following is a list of Soviet marshals and generals commanding military
districts'in the-Soviet Union, according to the latest information
available, all collected within the past three months. In some
oases it is not deflAitely established that the officer named is
occupying the position listed as of the present date; these are
noted as 98Probable.?Q
h:s report for the use within the US/, of the Intelliroot,:o:rI orents of the Drparimcnts or Agencies ind!cated above. It is not to be transmitted overseas
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however, m,y i c used by dm ab:ac nrgani.:.t{ n io Intelligence publications receiving overseas distuhution providing the publication bears the caveat "US OFFICIALS.
ONLY:: and the citatio., if made. refer: only to "CIA Source".. -
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Archangel District - Colonel General Valerian Alexandrovich roloyD
Elected 1951 to the Supreme Soviet for the
military district..
Armenia District - Colonel General Alexander Vassilievieh Gorbatov
(probable). Elected 1951 to the Chamber of the
Union of the Supreme Soviet for the 1C nigaberg
district. As late as 1953 probably pommander
of airborne troops in the Defense Ministry.
Azerbaijan District- Colonel General of Cavalry Alexander Issa Plyev.
(probable). Elected 1950 to.Supreme Soviet
of the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic.
Baltic District - General of Cavalry Ivan Kristoforovich Baeramiana,
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Don District - General of the Army Andrev Ivanovich Yeremenk?.
Far East District - Colonel General Nicolai Ivanoviah Krylov.
Carpathian Zistrict - (also called West Ukraine* head ua tars Lvov),
Marshal_Ivah Stepanovich Koniev
- General of the Army Vassili Ivanovich Zhukov
Leningrad District - General of the Army Mattei Vaisilievich Sacharov
(probable). Last known previous employment was as
.commander of.the "Voroshilov" Higher Military Academy.
Minsk District - (White Russia). Marshal Semyon Konstantinovich Timoshenko.
Moscow District - Colonel General Icrril Semyonoviah Moskalenko. (probable).
Odessa District - Colonel General Massa Jikitovich Galitz
jg, (probable).
Candidate for the Supreme Soviet of the Ukraine 1951.
Taurian (or UJ
Mihailovich Popov.
Transcaucasus District'- General of the A
.Antonov.
Alexei Inokentievich
Turkestan District - Colonel General'Alexander Alexandrovich
Luts~ (probable). Elected 1950 to the Chamber
of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet. Recently
(from 1950) Commander of the Leningrad military area.
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Ural District - Colonel General Michael llyitch Kasakov 25X.
Candidate 'for the SuFre (Frob1916.
m? Soviet in Estonia 1946.
Probably in Transcaucasus military district 1940
South Ural District 25X1
Colone 1'Gen f Caval
'Neet'bib'arian District,- Colonel General Nioolai Pavlovieh Pukov.
Elected 1952 to the Chamber..ot' the Union of the Supreme
Soviet (Odessa).
Volga District - Colonel General Vassill Ivanovich iznezov
Elected 1946 to the Chamber of the ni o f the 'Supreme
Soviet. President of the DOSAAF Organization Co
(pre-military organiz mmittee
ation) 195,
Voronezh District 25x1
Colonel General Midha- t
roba milov
last Prussian District = Colonel General of Armored Force Pay,%I
Ivanovich Batov (Probable)
White 'Sea Distr of - ~YlgrkShn7 urs?~ , e e__ _ _ _
Merezhkov.
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spect to the following, their functions in the
With re respective
military districts are not definitely known:
Estonia -.Admiral ?fxOit J UXJI=. No details. known. He took over a Par
Pos. in.Nebruery 1954..
Lithuania - Major General
Part )&z'i' 8? ? No details, known. He took of
y position in Lithuan a February 1954.
Sevastopol ?- Admire 7 9na7+&AW=? No details ? knot, He took over a Par-
Position in the Crimea in February 1954.
Ukraine-Poltava - Major General ?
position Shinkarenko. He took over a Party
in the Ukraine in February 1954.
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