01-17-2011, 02:50 PM
Alexscl Wrote:Sorkin Naum Semenovich - general-major, chief of the Service Intelligence of the Far Eastern Front
http://www.pseudology.org/Abel/Sorkin_NS.htm
Yes, thanks! Before i read this Nota Bene had also pointed me in the right direction already and google has helped as well.
The correct name appears then (not certain) to be:
Sorkin, Naum Semenovich, Major-General
(1899 – 1980)
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1923 - 1926 Artilleray Instructor (in Mongolia)
1926 - 1931 Deployed to Soviet Consulate/Embassy in Mongolia
1939 - 1941 Chief of Special Task Section, Directorate of Intelligece, General Staff
1941 - 1945 Chief Intelligence Officer Far Eastern Front
1945 Chief Intelligence Officer 1st Far Eastern Front
1945 - 1947 Chief Intelligence Officer Far Eastern Military District
1947 - 1950 Head of Educational Department, Military-Diplomatic Academy
1950 - 1952 Attending the Military Academy of the General Staff
1952 - 1958 Deputy Head of ? Faculty, Military Academy of Aviation Engineering
1958 Retired
Author of books, such as "V nachale puti. Zapiski instruktora mongolʹskoĭ armii."
Hopefully more to follow. Clearly a "big guy"... and unfortunately the odds of research are probably slim. Still, hope is better than nothing:)
Wow, that last link is even better! What I'd do for research on this...
Even more via http://www.pseudology.org/Abel/Sorkin_NS.htm
One of the leaders of the Soviet military intelligence. Born in Kiev in a family servant. In 1919 graduated from Hebrew College.
Since 1919 - the Red Army. Member of the Civil War.
In 1920 he graduated from the Kharkov team artillery courses. In 1923 - artshkolu.
In 1923-26 - the instructor of the Mongolian army artillery.
In 1926-31 - Soviet consul in Altan-Bulak, Head. Consular Section of the embassy, the 1-st secretary of the embassy in Ulan Bator.
In 1933 he graduated from the training of military and diplomatic personnel.
In 1933-35 - the Red Army. Was at the disposal of the People's Commissar for Military and Naval Affairs and Chairman of the PBC, then People's Commissar of Defence.
In 1935 - before the NCID.
In 1936 - again in the Red Army, Deputy. Chief of the 9 th (Mongol-Xinjiang) of Razvedupra.
In 1939 - ID chief of special mission Razvedupra WPRA.
From 1941 to 1947 - the intelligence chief of the Far Eastern Front. Participant in the war with Japan.
From 02/11/1944 - Major-General.
In 1945 - head of the intelligence section 1 of the Far Eastern Front.
In 1947-50 - head of the Training Division of the Military Diplomatic Academy. After graduating from the Military Academy of the General Staff in 1952-58 - deputy. Head of the Department of the Air Force Engineering Academy.
From 1958 - retired.
Awarded the Order of Lenin, two of the Red Star and medals.
He graduated from Hebrew College (1914), an employee. In the Civic on the Denikin and the Polish front. He graduated from the Kharkov team training (1920) and the Artillery School (1923), served in the artillery. Instructor of Artillery in the Mongolian People's Army (1923-1926), Consul of the USSR in Altan-Bulak (Mongolia), head of the consular department, a secretary of the Soviet Embassy in Mongolia (1926-1931), a reserve NCID, editor for Mongolia in the 2 East and political department of the People's Commissariat (1931-1933). He graduated from the course of military-diplomatic staff (1933), available narkomvoenmora / Defense Commissar (1933-1935), Senior Assistant People's Commissariat of Mongolia (1935-1936), Deputy Head of Division 9 Razvedupra Red Army (1936-1937), Chief vrid 9 departments ( 1937-1939), Chief of General Staff of Red Army special assignments / Razvedupra Red Army General Staff (1939-1941), head of the intelligence / razvedupra Far Eastern Front / Region (1941-1947). Maj. Gen. (1944). Head of the Training Division of the Military-Diplomatic Academy (1947-1950). He graduated from the General Staff Military Academy (1952), Deputy Head of Department of the Air Force Academy. Since 1958, the first in retirement. Order of Lenin, two Orders of Red Banner, etc.
Gotta love google! Here's a foto of Sorkin:
