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Personal Details
- Russian Name
- Александр Яковлевич Трикоз
- Birth Date
- 1913
- Defection Date
- Jul-41
Aleksandr Yakovlevich Trikoz
Александр Яковлевич Трикоз
Service Details
Biography
Trikoz was born in 1913 in the Kirovograd (now Kropyvnytskyi) region of Ukraine. Before the war he worked as an operational officer in the Ternopol regional NKVD office in western Ukraine.
He was mobilized at the beginning of the war in June 1941 in Ternopol.[i] However, sometime soon after the German invasion, he transferred his allegiance to Germany. From fall 1941 until summer 1943, he served as the deputy chief of police in the town of Vityazevka near his hometown and reportedly participated in the arrests, beatings, and hangings of Soviet citizens. In 1944, he escaped with German forced, but then under unknown circumstances, he appeared again in the Soviet army at the end of the war. He served as the commander of an engineer platoon of the 283rd Sapper Brigade, 94th Guards Division, 16th Army, First Ukrainian Front, with the rank of senior lieutenant. He deserted on 10 April 1945 after having been released from the hospital. On 28 July 1945, he was arrested by OKR Smersh of the 227th Air Assault Division. He hid information about his criminal activities, and on 11 July 1945 he was released on amnesty and transferred to the Lvov Military Command, from which he subsequently disappeared. Nothing further is known of his whereabouts.[ii]
[i] “Перечень мобилизованных в годы Второй Мировой войны Скала-Подольским РВК, Украинская ССР, Тарнопольская обл.” (List of Persons of the Skala-Podolsk RVK, Ukrainian SSR, Tarnopol Oblast Mobilized During World War Two”), from Некоторые статистические материалы по истории Второй мировой войны (Several Statistics on the History of World War Two), http://www.teatrskazka.com/Raznoe/RVK/Tarnopolskaja/RVK_SkalaPodolskij.html.
[ii] 1979 KGB Wanted List, person number 684.
He was mobilized at the beginning of the war in June 1941 in Ternopol.[i] However, sometime soon after the German invasion, he transferred his allegiance to Germany. From fall 1941 until summer 1943, he served as the deputy chief of police in the town of Vityazevka near his hometown and reportedly participated in the arrests, beatings, and hangings of Soviet citizens. In 1944, he escaped with German forced, but then under unknown circumstances, he appeared again in the Soviet army at the end of the war. He served as the commander of an engineer platoon of the 283rd Sapper Brigade, 94th Guards Division, 16th Army, First Ukrainian Front, with the rank of senior lieutenant. He deserted on 10 April 1945 after having been released from the hospital. On 28 July 1945, he was arrested by OKR Smersh of the 227th Air Assault Division. He hid information about his criminal activities, and on 11 July 1945 he was released on amnesty and transferred to the Lvov Military Command, from which he subsequently disappeared. Nothing further is known of his whereabouts.[ii]
[i] “Перечень мобилизованных в годы Второй Мировой войны Скала-Подольским РВК, Украинская ССР, Тарнопольская обл.” (List of Persons of the Skala-Podolsk RVK, Ukrainian SSR, Tarnopol Oblast Mobilized During World War Two”), from Некоторые статистические материалы по истории Второй мировой войны (Several Statistics on the History of World War Two), http://www.teatrskazka.com/Raznoe/RVK/Tarnopolskaja/RVK_SkalaPodolskij.html.
[ii] 1979 KGB Wanted List, person number 684.