Naum Sorkin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Naum Sorkin

Soviet general

Date of Birth: 30-Jan-1899

Place of Birth: Oleksandrivsk, Luhansk Oblast, Ukraine

Date of Death: 16-Jan-1980

Profession: diplomat

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Naum Semyonovich Sorkin (Russian: ???? ????????? ??????; 11 February 1899 – 16 January 1980) was a Soviet military officer and diplomat. A Red Army veteran of the Russian Civil War, Sorkin was sent to Mongolia as an artillery instructor for the Mongolian People's Army in 1923, where he later served as a consular official in Altanbulag and first secretary at the Soviet embassy in Ulan Bator in 1926-1931.
The chief of the Soviet General Staff's Special Operations Department in 1939-1941, he served as intelligence chief for the Far Eastern Front in 1941-1945 and the 1st Far Eastern Front following the Soviet declaration of war on the Japanese Empire in August 1945. Promoted to major-general in 1944, he graduated from the Voroshilov General Staff Academy in 1952 and was an instructor at the Mozhaysky Military Academy of Aeronautical Engineering until his retirement in 1958.