Naum Semenovich Sorkin

[Bob]

Interesting:
* confirmation of the Mongolian award (at least one of them)
* info on where he fought in 1919-1920... more on that in next post
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Card # (blank) Personal File # 872

1. Full name: Sorkin Naum Semyonovich
2. Nationality: Jewish
3. Possession of foreign languages: English with the help of dictionary
4. DoB: February 11, 1899
5. Place of birth: Town Zoporojie, Dnepropetrovskaya oblast
6. Social status, profession (prior to being drafted to the armed Forces): civil servant
7. Party membership:
• Member of CPSU since 1919. Serial number of the Party Membership ID card: 2205698
• Member of All Soviet Communist Youth Council since (blank)
• Not a member of the party: (blank)
• Former membership in other political parties: No
• Party reprimands and change in party membership: No
8. Education (Indicate the name of the school, number of classes attended or courses completed, date of the graduation):

General: Four classes of high primary school in 1914;
Military: The first Moscow command artillery course in 1920; Highest Artillery School in 1923.
Political: No

9. Service in Old (Tsarist) army, the latest post and rank: No
10. Service in White Guard and foreign armies (service in foreign armies is indicated in case if the officer has not been concurrently in service of the Soviet Amy) No
11.

Rank bestowed Bestowing Authority Serial number of the decree Date of the decree
Regiment commissar People’s Commissariat of Defence 00689/p 15.12.1936
Brigade Commissar People’s Commissariat of Defence 003037 09.07.1940
Colonel People’s Commissariat of Defence 07718 10.12.1942
Major General Council of People’s Commissars 02.11.1944

12. Participation in the Great Patriotic War (when, where and duration):

From May 1919 to October 1919: Deninkin Front
From August 1920 to October 1920: Polish Front

13. Participation in military campaign for the defence of the USSR prior to the Great Patriotic War (where, duration, date): (blank)
14. Record of captivity or encirclement, when and for how long (for those who have been in enemy encirclement, the information is to be provided by those only who broke the encirclement in non-assigned units) No
15. State awards and date the awards were bestowed:

Order of the Red Banner -1945 Mongolian Order of Red Banner - 1931
Order of the Red Banner - 1946 Medal “XX years to Worker’s and Peasant’s Red Army”
Order of the Red Star- 1944 Medal for “Victory over Germany in Great Patriotic War 1941-1945”
Order of the Red Star-1944 Medal for “Victory over Japan”

16. Type and number of Officer’s ID card: MR-000001 #3086
17. When drafted to the Armed Forces and which post appointed: Drafted to the Armed Forces on a voluntary basis and appointed as a student to Kharkov artillery command courses on 12th May 1919. Drafted from reserve in June 1933 and again drafted in June 1936.
18. Service record in the Armed Forces:

Photo of Sorkin N.S.

Post and place of service-unit (organisation), division, army, front or district, fleet or flotilla. The dislocation of the unit in peace time Bestowing Authority Serial number of the decree Date of the decree
Student of Kharkov artillery command courses at Denikin Front May 1919-October 1919
Student of the First Moscow artillery courses July 1920
Commander of Platoon of 11th Horse-artillery Squad, 11th Cavalry Division of 1st Cavalry Army October 1920
Commander of Platoon of Reserve Artillery Squad of 1st Cavalry Army February 1921
Assistant to Commander of Artillery Squad of 1st Cavalry Army June 1921
Assistant to Commander of 16th Special Artillery Squad of Sevastopol Fortress August 1921
Commander of 16th Special Artillery Squad of Sevastopol Fortress March 1922
Commander of 15th Special Artillery Squad of Sevastopol Fortress July 1922
Student of Highest Artillery School July 1923
Chief of Artillery School of Mongolian People’s Revolutionary Army July 1926
Assigned to the Cadre Division of General Department of the Red Army Revolutionary Military Council of USSR 570 25th August 1926
In reserve
Drafted to the Red Army Revolutionary Military Council of USSR 1201 7th June 1933
Discharged to a prolonged leave People’s Commissariat of Defence 1658 28th June 1935
Drafted to the Red Army People’s Commissariat of Defence 00524 19th June 1936
Deputy Chief of Division #9 of Intelligence Department of Red Army People’s Commissariat of Defence 00524 19th June 1936
Acting Chief of Division #9 of Intelligence Department of Red Army Intelligence Department of Red Army 0256 22nd December 1937
Acting Chief of Division #5 of Intelligence Department of Red Army Intelligence Department of Red Army 045 11th March 1938
Commissioned to Department #5, General Staff of Red Army Department #5 00119 9th July 1939
Commissioned to Division #11, General Staff of Red Army 0220 9th August 1939
Acting Chief of Special Assignment Division, General Staff of Red Army People’s Commissariat of Defence 05082 23rd December 1939
Chief of Special Assignment Division, General Staff of Red Army People’s Commissariat of Defence 03036 9th July 1940
Chief of Intelligence Division at the Staff of Far-Eastern Military District People’s Commissariat of Defence 0461 17th February 1941
Chief of Intelligence Division and Deputy Chief of Staff of Far-Eastern Front Far-Eastern Front 01834 30th December 1942
Acting Chief of Special Rifle Brigade # 18, Far-Eastern Front Far-Eastern Front 0308 9th March 1943
Chief of Intelligence Division and Deputy Chief of Staff of Far-Eastern Front Far-Eastern Front 0497 7th May 1943
Commissioned to General Intelligence Department, General Staff of Red Army General Intelligence Department 0437 24th April 1947
Acting Chief of Training Division of Military Diplomatic Academy of Armed Forces of USSR Military Diplomatic Academy 0130 2nd February 1947
Chief of Intelligence Division and Deputy Chief of Staff of Far-Eastern Military District MoD 1862 28th September 1948
Chief of Intelligence and Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence of Far-Eastern Military District MoD 0634 14th April 1950
Highest academic course under the Military Academy named after Voroshilov MoD 05048 15th December 1951
Deputy Chief of Operative-Tactical Training Faculty at Leningrad Air Force Engineering Academy MoD of USSR 05188 15.11.1952
Deputy Chief of Faculty of Tactics and History of War Art at Leningrad Air Force Engineering Academy named after Mojaiskyi Commander in Chief of Air Force 040 13.01.1956
Assigned to the Cadre Division Commander in Chief of Air Force 0532 04.04.1958
Discharged from the active military service by the Decree of Ministry of Defence #594, 4th June 1958 and registered as reservist at Zhdanov Military Commissariat of Leningrad in May, 1959.

19. Wounds and traumas (when, where): No
20. Academic posts: No
21. Academic degrees: No
22. Record of travel abroad (where, when) and for how long: Special trip
23. Record of conviction, if “yes”, when, which Court and the length of sentence: No
24. Family status, full name and DOB of the spouse and children:

Married. Spouse: Klavdia Georgievna Sorkina (dob 1901).
Address: Moscow- 57, Peschanay street, DNS-2, flat #37.

25. Special notes: (blank)

The Military Situation in the South

info on the denikin front