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Ivan Alexandrovich Serov (Russian: Ива́н Алекса́ндрович Серóв; 13 August 1905 – 1 July 1990) 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.
- 1923–1965
- Major general
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.
Aug 6, 2016 · “I have no doubts that Wallenberg was liquidated in 1947,” wrote Ivan A. Serov, a Soviet military man who ran the K.G.B. from 1954 to 1958. Tantalizing hints that Wallenberg, the scion of a...
Sep 14, 2021 · On 14 September 1946, Ivan Serov, Deputy Commissar of the NKVD, reported to Joseph Stalin the results of the investigation into the death of Stalin’s son Yakov Dzhugashvili. Since 27 June 1941, Yakov Dzhugashvili had been in the army as a commander of the artillery with the rank of senior lieutenant.
May 15, 2024 · That is why the appointment of a long-time high ranking state security officer Ivan Serov to chair the new state security service did not receive unequivocal support. For instance, according to Malin’s notes, during the discussion, Central Committee member Nikolai Shatalin said: “I would not vote for Serov.
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Sep 28, 2016 · A few weeks ago, this statement by the former Soviet State Security Committee (KGB) Chairman Ivan Serov in his recently posthumously published memoir made global headlines. Many journalists immediately proclaimed that the more than 70-year-old mystery of the young Swedish diplomat’s fate finally appears fully solved.
Sometime between February and early June 1941, General Ivan Serov, a Soviet state security official, issued top-secret instructions for the coordinated, sudden arrest and deportation to Siberia of “enemies of the Soviet people” in the Baltic states (“Regarding the Procedure for Carrying Out the Deportation of Anti-Soviet Elements from Lithuania,...
