SOVIET MILITARY DISTRICT COMMANDERS

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• Document Creation Date: December 19, 2016
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DEC F 1951 Ji-40 Approved For Release 2007/01/08: CIA-RDP80-00809AO00500820091-7
U. S. Officials Only
SECRET
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
INFORMATION REPORT
Soviet Military Dlz trio t Commanders
PIACF ACQUIRED
DATE ACQUIRED
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DATE DISTR. /3 May 1951.
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1. Following is f;. liar of woii:ie t mari;?` -= and generals commanding military
aisiri. L i t=:a ?o"?'- !nrd1. to the latest information
available, all collected vit:.i- the past three months. In eoae
oases it is not det'izt.itely e e zab.ished that the cfticeir ?lamed is
occupying t`:e p-ei -f o",% l iste! as of the present .ate; these are
noted as 70Probable.T
Archon-tel District - Colonel Genera. Valerian Alexand--*vioh rolov
Bleated 1951 to the Supreme Soviet for the
military district.
Armenia District - Colonel General Alexander Vassilievich aoba v
(probable). Elected 1951 to the Chamber of the
Union of the g.;preme Soviet for the Konigsberg
district. As late as 1953 probably oofamaader
of airbc:re .r_ the Defense Ministry.
Azerbaijan District- Colonel (le-eral e_' Cavalr7 Alexander Issa Plyev.
(probable) . Ewe red 1950 to Supreme Soviet
of the Aze: aai js:. Soviet, TO~ial.t3 b Republic.
Baltic District - nf-neral of Cawairy Iva>1 Kristotoroyich Baaramiane
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ONLY'.* and the ciutw.. mace. t.tuot only to -"A Soeta'".
netinB office through the Aulmot Dlteetcc of the OUics of Cliattwu end p;- amm,tir.u, c:!A. All m of the con," rn,
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Far East District - Colonel General Nicolas Ivanovich Kr lcv.
Carpathian District -- (also called West Ukraine; ad carters Lvov)
Marshal Ivan Stepanovich Koniev.
Leningrad District - General of the Ax Mattes Vaasi_-ie7ich Sacharov
(probable). Last known previous employment was as
commander of the "Voroshilov" Higher Military Academy.
Odessa District - Colonel Ger_ers.l Nusma Nicito?icY Galitz v ;probable).
Candidate for the S-kp- eme Soviet of the Ukraine 1951.
Taurian (or Ukraine-Donetz) Dis`..r - eral --," h+ i
Mihailovioh Popov .
Antonov.
Turkestan District - Colonel General Alexander Alexandrovich
i.uL nlnzsky (yrob .bie) . E1e' 'Led 1950 to the Ohamber
of Nationalities of the Supreme Soviet. Recently
(from 1950) Commander of the Leningrad military area.
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Ural District - Colonel General Michael Ilyitch Kasakov (probable).
Candidate for the Supreme Soviet. in Estonia 19+16.
Probably in Transcaucasus military district 1948.
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South Ural Dist
White Sea Distri
of - Marshal Kyril kfaruseevich Merezhkov,1
West Siberian District - Colonel General Nicolas Pavlovioh Pukov.
Elected 1952 to the Chamber of the Union of the Supreme
Soviet (Odessa).
:viga District - colonel General Vassili Ivanovich IDiznezov (probable).
Elected 1946 to the Chamber of the on of the Supreme
Soviet. President of the DOSAAF Organization Committee
(pre-military organization) 1951.
Voronezh District - Colonel General Mlohael St ovich Shumilov
(probable).
East Prussian District - Colonel General of Armored Force Pava
Ivanevich Batov (probable).
2. With respeot to the, following, their funotions in the respective
military districts are not definitely known:
Estonia Admiral] may, No detals knows. He took over a Par-
position in Estariw5 in leebru.
J'
ary 1954.
Lithuania Major Genera! ffry,7 Mani ekas. No details known. He took oA - in ?arty position in Lithuania February 1954.
Sevastopol - Admires nu7 Rcebkov. No details known. He took over a Par'
position in the Crimea in February 1954.
Ukraine-Poltava - Major Generaljsyl7 Shinkarenko. He took over a Party
position in the Ukraine in February 1954.
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