Matvey Moiseevich Potashnik ( 1908 - 1964 ) - Head of the NKVD Directorate for the Molotov Region [1] [2] , Major General ( 1945 ).
| Matvey Moiseevich Potashnik | |||||||
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 State Security Captain M. M. Potashnik | |||||||
| Date of Birth | 1908 | ||||||
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| Date of death | March 25, 1964 | ||||||
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| Affiliation |  Russian empire RSFSR  the USSR | ||||||
| Type of army | OGPU - NKVD - MGB - Ministry of Internal Affairs | ||||||
| Years of service | 1929 - 1956 | ||||||
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Biography
Born in Yekaterinoslav in the family of a tailor . He graduated from the rabfak in Dnepropetrovsk . He worked as a telegraph student. Member of the Communist Party since 1936 (member of the Komsomol in 1925-1939). . Since 1929, he worked in the organs of the OGPU in the secret political department (STR) of the Dnipropetrovsk district department of the GPU / UGB UKVD of the Dnepropetrovsk region, from April 1937 a cadet of the Central School of the GUGB of the NKVD of the USSR , after the end of August of the same year, an officer , senior investigator of the STR of the GUGB of the NKVD of the USSR , the investigative unit of the NKVD of the USSR and the State Institution of the NKVD of the USSR Since November 1939, deputy chief, since October 1940 chief of the UNKVD / UNKGB of the Perm region (since March 1940 of the Molotov region), since December 1943, deputy head of the UNKGB / UMGB of the Chelyabinsk region . In November 1946, he was dismissed from the MGB (compromising family ties and the use of his official position for personal purposes). [3] He worked at the Ministry of Internal Affairs as deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Primorsky Territory , deputy head of the Ust-Vymsky ITL Directorate. Dismissed to the reserve of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 1950, then head of the security department (Office of VOKhR) of the USSR Ministry of Coal Industry. In January 1955, the CPC under the Central Committee of the CPSU was expelled from the party for "violations of social law" during the investigation in 1941 of cases of senior officials of the Kizelugol Trust .
Ranks
- Second Lieutenant GB, 03/23/1936;
- Lieutenant GB, 11/05/1937;
- Senior Lieutenant GB, 04/11/1939;
- Captain GB, 03/14/1940;
- Major GB, 09/06/1941;
- Commissioner of GB, 02/14/43;
- Major General, 07/09/1945.
Rewards
He was awarded 2 orders of the Red Star, orders of the Red Banner of Labor and the “Badge of Honor”, the sign “Honorary Worker of the Cheka, GPU”, and a medal.
Literature
Abramov V. Jews in the KGB. Executioners and victims. M., Yauza - Eksmo, 2005.
Notes
- ↑ UNKVD in the Molotov Region - Internal Affairs Directorate of the Executive Committee of the Perm Regional Council
- ↑ 00320
- ↑ Dismissed from the MGB in connection with the presence of incriminating materials: his wife was a German father, uncle and aunt lived in the USA , used his official position for personal purposes (he received a 4-room apartment and rebuilt the mansion in 1942).