Grakov Grigory Akimovich

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From May 7, 1943 to March 23, 1949, Grakov Georgy Akimovich headed the Office of the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs, and after renaming, the Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Ulyanovsk Region.

Georgy Akimovich Grakov was born in 1902 in the village of Nizhnie Namykari, Pochinkovsky District, Smolensk Region.

At the age of eighteen, he became a Red Army soldier in the VOKhR troops (in Smolensk). From 1921 to 1922, he worked as a clerk in the volost land department in the village of Yatskovo, Pochinkovsky District, after which, until 1924, he worked on his father's farm in the village of Nizhnie Nemykari.

For the next two years, Georgy Akimovich served in Moscow as a Red Army soldier in the special-purpose division of the OGPU board. In 1926, he left for Kolchugino, Vladimir Oblast, where he worked as a laborer and materials distributor at the S. Ordzhonikidze plant until 1930. During the "mobilization" of the working class to assist the newly established collective farms, Georgy Akimovich was sent to the village of Zakomel'ye in the Gavrilovo-Posad district of the Ivanovo Oblast as part of a 25,000-man corps, where he served as chairman of the "Metalist" collective farm until 1931.

Grakov's career as a Chekist began in 1931, when he joined the service as a full-time trainee and later as a commissioner of the Gavrilovo-Posad branch of the OGPU in Ivanovo Oblast. From 1933, Grakov became a commissioner of the secret-political department of the Plenipotentiary Representative of the OGPU-NKVD in Ivanovo Oblast. In 1937, he headed the 8th section of the 4th department of the UGB of the NKVD Directorate for Ivanovo Oblast. In 1939, Grakov was appointed deputy head of the NKVD Directorate for personnel in Ivanovo Oblast. From 1940 to 1941, he was Deputy People's Commissar of Internal Affairs of the Moldavian SSR for personnel. And in 1941, he was sent to the Kirghiz SSR to the post of Deputy People's Commissar of State Security and Internal Affairs. During the Great Patriotic War from 1942 to 1943, he was in the reserve of the personnel department of the NKVD of the USSR to carry out a special assignment in the Central and Ukrainian headquarters of the partisan movement.

In January 1943, he moved to the newly created Ulyanovsk Region to serve as deputy head of the NKVD Directorate. In 1943, Georgy Akimovich Grakov was appointed head of the Ulyanovsk Region Ministry of Internal Affairs, which he headed until 1949.

Subsequently, service activities took place in different regions of the country.

• From 1949 to 1950 - Head of the Department of Special Settlements of the Tomsk Region Ministry of Internal Affairs.
• From 1950 to 1952 - Deputy Head of the Tomsk Region Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
• From 1952 to 1954 - Deputy Chief of the Sverdlovsk Region Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
• From 1954 to 1956 - Head of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Kuibyshev Region.

Awarded government awards:

• two Orders of the Red Star
• Order of the Red Banner
• medal: "For courage"
• "For victory over Germany"
• "30 Years of the Soviet Army and Navy"