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Ivan Serov

KGB officer (1905-1990) · Russia · On the map · Politicians · Died at 84

Ivan Alexandrovich Serov was a Soviet intelligence officer who served as Chairman of the KGB from March 1954 to December 1958 and Director of the GRU from December 1958 to February 1963.

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1990Died1 July 19901988Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"Award1975Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"Award1965Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"Award1958Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"Award1956Hungarian Revolution Against Soviet RuleIn history, Hungarian citizens rose against Communist Soviet domination, and the brutal Soviet tank response became a defining Cold War confrontation that exposed the limits of Soviet hegemony.Story: Recap.at CC BY-SA515K Wikipedia readers in the past year4 more1955Medal for Warsaw 1939-1945AwardOrder of the Red BannerAward1952Order of LeninAward1948Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy"Award1946Gold Cross of the Virtuti MilitariAward1945Medal "For the Capture of Berlin"Award1944Medal "For the Defence of Moscow"AwardOrder of Suvorov, 1st classAward1943Medal "For the Defence of Stalingrad"Award1938Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army"Award1905Born12 August 1905

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Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"1988
Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"1985
Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"1978
Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"1975
Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"1970
Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"1968
Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"1965
Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold1959
Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"1958
Jubilee Medal Medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad"1957
Order of Kutuzov, 1st class1956
Order of Lenin1955
Order of the Red Banner1955
Order of the Cross of Grunwald, 2nd class1955
Medal for Warsaw 1939-19451955
Medal "For Oder, Nysa and the Baltic"1955
Order of the Red Banner1954
Order of Lenin1952
Order of Lenin1951
Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy"1948
Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"1947
Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw"1946
Gold Cross of the Virtuti Militari1946
Order of Kutuzov, 1st class1945
Order of Lenin1945
Hero of the Soviet Union1945
Medal "For the Capture of Berlin"1945
Order of the Red Banner1944
Order of Suvorov, 1st class1944
Medal "For the Defence of Moscow"1944
Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus"1944
Order of the Red Banner1943
Medal "To a Partisan of the Patriotic War", 1st class1943
Medal "For the Defence of Stalingrad"1943
Order of Lenin1942
Order of Lenin1940
Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army"1938
Medal "For the Defence of Leningrad"
Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"
Order of the Patriotic War, 1st class

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Serov was NKVD Commissar of the Ukrainian SSR from 1939 to 1941 and Deputy Commissar of the NKVD under Lavrentiy Beria from 1941 to 1954.

Country
Russia
Category
Politicians
Type
Politician
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1905 to 1990 · aged 84

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