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Personal Details
- Russian Name
- Константин Федорович Поваров
- Birth Date
- 1902
- Defection Date
- Mar-42
Konstantin Fedorovich Povarov
Константин Федорович Поваров
Service Details
Biography
Little is known of Konstantin Fedorovich Povarov. He was born in 1902. In his early career except that he served in the NKVD border guards. A person with the same name was promoted to junior lieutenant of state security in December 1935, and to lieutenant of state security in November 1937.[i] A study of the Bryansk region during World War II published in 2010 identified a K. Povarov as a leader of the anti-German underground in the town of Seshcha, northwest of Bryansk, soon after the German invasion in 1941. This is a plausible position where Povarov may have served. However, the study does not provide enough identifying information to determine whether this K. Povarov is the same as Konstantin Fedorovich Povarov.[ii]
At the beginning of 1942, Povarov was a senior lieutenant of state security serving as chief of the OO of the Eighth Army on the Volkhovskiy Front, which covered area south of Leningrad. In March 1942 he defected to the Germans and was held as a POW until the creation of the KONR. He joined the KONR in early 1945 with the rank of major and was assigned as a company commander in a KONR officer’s school.[iii]
No information is available about his life after the war. А Soviet court sentenced him to execution in March 1946, but there is no indication that he was repatriated to the Soviet Union.[iv] He likely changed his name, making it easier to disappear in post-war Germany.
[i] “Поваров, Константин Федорович” (“Povarov, Konstantin Fedorovich”), Кадровый Состав Органов Государственной Безопасности 1935-1939 (Staff Personnel of the Organs of State Security 1935-1939), http://nkvd.memo.ru/index.php/Поваров,_Константин_Федорович.
[ii] E. N. Shantseva, V. V. Dzyuban, and Yu. T. Trifankov, Брянщина в Период Оккупации 1941-1943 гг.: Генезис Партизанского Движения и Коллаборационизма (The Bryansk Region in the Occupation Period, 1941-1943: Partisan Movements and Collaborationism) (Bryansk: BGTU Publishing, 2010), http://www.puteshestvie32.ru/content/kniga-0.
[iii] Kirill Mikhailovich Aleksandrov, Aрмия Генерала Власова 1944-1945 (General Vlasov’s Army 1944-1945) (Moscow: Yauza EKSMO, 2006), pp. 49, 101. Kirill Mikhailovich Aleksandrov, Генералитет и Офицерские Кадры Вооруженных Формирований Комитета Освобождения Народов России 1943–1946 гг. (General and Officer Corps of the Armed Formations of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia 1943-1946), dissertation for the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg History Institute, 2015, p. 637.
[iv] Aleksandrov, General and Officer Corps of the Armed Formations of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia 1943-1946, p. 1129.
At the beginning of 1942, Povarov was a senior lieutenant of state security serving as chief of the OO of the Eighth Army on the Volkhovskiy Front, which covered area south of Leningrad. In March 1942 he defected to the Germans and was held as a POW until the creation of the KONR. He joined the KONR in early 1945 with the rank of major and was assigned as a company commander in a KONR officer’s school.[iii]
No information is available about his life after the war. А Soviet court sentenced him to execution in March 1946, but there is no indication that he was repatriated to the Soviet Union.[iv] He likely changed his name, making it easier to disappear in post-war Germany.
[i] “Поваров, Константин Федорович” (“Povarov, Konstantin Fedorovich”), Кадровый Состав Органов Государственной Безопасности 1935-1939 (Staff Personnel of the Organs of State Security 1935-1939), http://nkvd.memo.ru/index.php/Поваров,_Константин_Федорович.
[ii] E. N. Shantseva, V. V. Dzyuban, and Yu. T. Trifankov, Брянщина в Период Оккупации 1941-1943 гг.: Генезис Партизанского Движения и Коллаборационизма (The Bryansk Region in the Occupation Period, 1941-1943: Partisan Movements and Collaborationism) (Bryansk: BGTU Publishing, 2010), http://www.puteshestvie32.ru/content/kniga-0.
[iii] Kirill Mikhailovich Aleksandrov, Aрмия Генерала Власова 1944-1945 (General Vlasov’s Army 1944-1945) (Moscow: Yauza EKSMO, 2006), pp. 49, 101. Kirill Mikhailovich Aleksandrov, Генералитет и Офицерские Кадры Вооруженных Формирований Комитета Освобождения Народов России 1943–1946 гг. (General and Officer Corps of the Armed Formations of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia 1943-1946), dissertation for the Russian Academy of Sciences, Saint Petersburg History Institute, 2015, p. 637.
[iv] Aleksandrov, General and Officer Corps of the Armed Formations of the Committee for the Liberation of the Peoples of Russia 1943-1946, p. 1129.