Baskakov, Mikhail Ivanovich (Major General)

Mikhail Ivanovich Baskakov at a young age was picked up in Moscow and transferred to an orphanage , his real name and surname have not been established. From the orphanage he was brought up in the Baskakov family, in the village of Pavlovka, Gzhatsky district . Foster father - a railway worker, died in 1918; the adoptive mother of E. Baskakov is a peasant. In 1917 he graduated from grade 4 at a zemstvo school in the village of Vorskoye, Gzhatsk district.

Since 1918, he worked as a student at the Vorskiy sawmill, then as a fireman-driver, however, having received a hand injury in 1923, he returned to his native village. Since 1924 he returned to work at the sawmill, took up Komsomol work. In November 1925, he became chairman of the Vorskiy District Council and secretary of the Komsomol organization. In 1926 he joined the Communist Party.

In 1926, Baskakov moved to the village of Ivakino, Gzhatsky uyezd and until 1927 worked as a member of the board of the Ivakinsky credit agricultural partnership. In October 1927 he entered the Red Army , where he is engaged in Komsomol work (the responsible organizer of the Komsomol bureau of the 85th infantry regiment) and studies at the regimental school. A year later, from October 1928 he became the representative of the Moscow Committee of the Komsomol in the Moskredpromsoyuz , and since December 1929 he became the secretary of the party member of the Moscow regional printing union .

In May 1930, Baskakov entered the Institute of Oriental Studies named after N.N. Narimanova at the Central Executive Committee of the USSR , finishes 2 courses. Between 1930 and 1933, the NKVD was recruited, and from March 1933 he moved to Baku , where he worked in the Secret Political Department of the GPU under the Council of People's Commissars of the Azerbaijan SSR .

In the future, he works in the bodies of the NKVD - MGB - Ministry of Internal Affairs :

• From August 1933 to July 1938 he worked in the Secret Political Department of the OGPU under the Council of People's Commissars (GUGB NKVD of the USSR), where he began as an officer in charge , and by 1938, the assistant to the department head with the rank of junior lieutenant .
• July 28, 1938 receives the rank of lieutenant of state security and receives the appointment of Deputy People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the Karelian-Finnish Republic . In December 1938 he became the People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the Karelian-Finnish Republic and held this position until July 1943. He received the title of Major of State Security in 1940, the title of Commissioner of State Security in 1943. He led the repressions against ethnic Finns living in Karelia , and repeatedly recommended their deportation to Siberia ^[1] .
• On July 31, 1943 he was appointed Head of the Office of the NKGB - MGB in the Gorky Region . In 1945 he received the title of Major General .
• On June 4, 1946 he was appointed Minister of State Security of the Uzbek SSR .
• January 3, 1951 the head of the Directorate of the Ministry of State Security in the Khabarovsk Territory .
• In 1951-1952, Baskakov, probably on the recommendation of Yu. V. Andropov , with whom he was associated with joint work in the Karelian-Finnish republic , was included in the clan of N. S. Patolichev ^[2] and as a result, on February 6, 1952, became Minister of State Security Belorussian SSR . In March 1953, according to a decision taken immediately after Stalin's death , the Ministry of State Security merges with the Ministry of Internal Affairs , and after a short break, from March 16, 1953, Baskakov, at the urgent request of Patolichev ^[3], becomes the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Byelorussian SSR.
• February 24, 1958, as part of general rearrangements in the governing bodies of the USSR associated with the exposure of the NKVD at the XX Congress of the CPSU , which was initiated by N. S. Khrushchev , as well as in connection with the apparatus struggle and the dismissal of N. S. Patolichev in 1956 from the post of first Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU of Belarus, Baskakov was relieved of his post as minister and was sent to minor economic work ^[4] .

From 1958 to 1965, Baskakov worked in Moscow first as deputy director of the Budapest Hotel , then as deputy director of the All-Union Radio and Television Research Institute . Since September 1965, he worked at the USSR Ministry of Construction as the head of the General Directorate for Construction in the West Siberian Economic Region.

• Order of Lenin (1950)
• Order of the Red Banner (1943)
• Order of the Red Banner of Labor (1942)
• three Orders of the Red Star (1940, 1947,?)
• Badge "Honored Worker of the NKVD" (1942)
• medals "Partisan of the Patriotic War" 1st degree , "For the defense of the Soviet Arctic" and others.

• Baskakov M.I. // Petrov N.V., Skorkin K.V. Who led the NKVD, 1934-1941: reference book / Ed. N. G. Okhotin and A. B. Roginsky. - M .: Links, 1999 .-- 502 p. - 3000 copies. - ISBN 5-7870-0032-3 .

• Baskakov's page in the reference book on the history of the CPSU
• Page on the website of the KGB of Belarus
• Baskakov Mikhail Ivanovich