Ivan Vasilyevich Chernousov

Ivan Vasilyevich Chernousov was born in 1905 or 1906 in the Altay Territory. Before the war, he lived in the Kingisepp district of the Leningrad Oblast and worked at an NKVD construction site as the head of the camp accounting and administrative department. He was called into the Soviet Army in 1941. In March 1942, while serving as an intelligence platoon commander in the 993rd rifle regiment of the 263rd rifle division of the Northern Front, surrendered to German forces. He was assigned as a guard of a German POW camp in Karelia. The KGB reported that he treated Soviet POWs cruelly.[i]

[i] “KGB Wanted List,” 1969, p. 414.