Ivan Serov

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KGB officer (1905-1990)

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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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1988Jubilee Medal "70 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

1985Jubilee Medal "Forty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

1978Jubilee Medal "60 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

1975Jubilee Medal "Thirty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

1970Jubilee Medal "In Commemoration of the 100th Anniversary of the Birth of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin"

1968Jubilee Medal "50 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

1965Jubilee Medal "Twenty Years of Victory in the Great Patriotic War 1941-1945"

1959Patriotic Order of Merit in Gold

1958Jubilee Medal "40 Years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

1957Jubilee Medal Medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad"

1956Order of Kutuzov, 1st class

1955Order of Lenin

1955Order of the Red Banner

1955Order of the Cross of Grunwald, 2nd class

1955Medal for Warsaw 1939-1945

1955Medal "For Oder, Nysa and the Baltic"

1954Order of the Red Banner

1952Order of Lenin

1951Order of Lenin

1948Jubilee Medal "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy"

1947Medal "In Commemoration of the 800th Anniversary of Moscow"

1946Medal "For the Liberation of Warsaw"

1946Gold Cross of the Virtuti Militari

1945Hero of the Soviet Union

1945Order of Lenin

1945Order of Kutuzov, 1st class

1945Medal "For the Capture of Berlin"

1944Order of the Red Banner

1944Order of Suvorov, 1st class

1944Medal "For the Defence of Moscow"

1944Medal "For the Defence of the Caucasus"

1943Order of the Red Banner

1943Medal "To a Partisan of the Patriotic War", 1st class

1943Medal "For the Defence of Stalingrad"

1942Order of Lenin

1940Order of Lenin

1938Jubilee Medal "XX Years of the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army"

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

Connected to Ivan 6

Otto Wille KuusinenAlso won Medal "To a Partisan of the Patriotic War", 1st class

Karol ŚwierczewskiAlso won Medal for Warsaw 1939-1945

Alan Brooke, 1st Viscount AlanbrookeAlso won Order of Suvorov, 1st class

Kazimierz SosnkowskiAlso won Gold Cross of the Virtuti Militari

Ivan TyulenevAlso won Order of Kutuzov, 1st class

Dinmukhamed KonayevAlso won Jubilee Medal Medal "In Commemoration of the 250th Anniversary of Leningrad"

About this person

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. 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.

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