Background
Naumov, Mikhail was born on October 16, 1908 in Bolshaia Sosnovka near Perm’.
Naumov, Mikhail was born on October 16, 1908 in Bolshaia Sosnovka near Perm’.
Member of the Communist
Party, 1928. Served in GPU and NKVD detachments from 1930 (during the collectivization). Became an officer of the border guards (under the NKVD), 1938.
Appointed commander of partisan detachments in the Ukraine, 1942. Made 3 long treks through German occupied territory. Major-general and Hero of the Soviet Union, 1943.
After World War II.graduated from the Military Academy of the General Staff. Continued to serve in the Interior ministry system. High commands in the special troops of the Interior ministry (later re-named Committee for State Security).
Retired 1960. Glorified in the Soviet Union as one of the heroes of the partisan movement, the ‘people’s avengers’.