Naum Sorkin
Naum Semyonovich Sorkin | |
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Naum Semyonovich Sorkin (
military officer and diplomat
.
A
Japanese Empire
in August 1945.
Promoted to
Voroshilov General Staff Academy in 1952 and was an instructor at the Mozhaysky Military Academy of Aeronautical Engineering
until his retirement in 1958.
Life and military career
Naum Sorkin was born in Alexandrovsk (now
Jewish parents.[1] The town fell into the southeastern part of the Pale of Settlement, the westernmost region of the empire where Jews were permitted permanent residence, and Naum's father was a local official.[1]
Naum Sorkin joined the
Ulan Bator from 1926 to 1931.[1]
His later assignments in the Soviet Union were with the
General Staff's Department of Special Tasks, with Sorkin selected to serve as acting head from May 1939 to February 1941.[1]
Moved to the
Asian Theatre of World War II
in August 1945.
Major-General Sorkin was again appointed intelligence chief for the staff of the Far Eastern Front following its post-war recreation in 1945, then transferred to teach at the
Voroshilov General Staff Academy in 1952 and subsequently worked at the Mozhaysky Military Academy of Aeronautical Engineering from 1952 until 1958.[1]
Major-General Sorkin retired from the Mozhaysky Academy and active service in 1958, having spent nearly forty years in the Soviet military. He published a memoir about his 1920s experiences in Mongolia in 1970.
He died in
Leningrad, having bequeathed nineteen fine art pieces by Russian painters from his personal collection to the Smolensk State Museum and Preserve.[2]
His military decorations included the Order of Lenin, as well as two Red Banner and three Red Star orders.[1]
Works
Memoir:
- «В начале пути: Записки инструктора монгольской армии»
(Starting the Journey: Notes of an Instructor of the Mongolian Army, V nachale puti: Zapiski instruktora mongolskoy armii). Moscow: Nauka, 1970.
References
- ^ ISBN 5-224-03528-7. (in Russian)
- ^ "Kolektsiya Sorokina Nauma Semyonovicha". Smolensk State Museum and Preserve. Retrieved 29 September 2011. (in Russian)