Aleksei Brovkin

Minister of Interior of UkrSSR
In office
10 August 1956 – 9 April 1962
Preceded by| Timofei Strokach
Succeeded by| Ivan Holovchenko
Personal details
Born|

Aleksei Nikolayevich Brovkin

(1906-02-23)23 February 1906
Putyvl, Putivlsky Uyezd, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire
Died| 1 April 1983(1983-04-01) (aged 77)
Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
Nationality| Russian
Political party| Communist Party of Ukraine
Military service
Allegiance|  Soviet Union
Branch/service| Militsiya
Rank| General of Militsiya of 3rd degree

Aleksei Nikolayevich Brovkin (Russian: Алексе́й Никола́евич Бро́вкин; 23 February 1906 – April 1983) was a Soviet and Ukrainian militsiya general.

## Biography

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An ethnic Russian, Brovkin was born in family of stoker in Putyvl. His career he started as an intern at Verinsky Sugar Factory (Mykolayivka) and Sumy-Stepanivka Sugar Factory (Stepanivka), both located near Sumy. Later worked as a repairman at the Sumy Refined Sugar Factory. In 1930s worked at the Kharkiv Remmashtrest (a factory in repair of metal cutting machines) as director of some of its departments (design bureau, planning and production department) and later as chief engineer.

Just before the World War II, in 1939 Brovkin became a chief of Directorate of Local Fuel Industry in Kharkiv Oblast. In 1941 he became a secretary of engineering at the Kharkiv city committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine. During the evacuation of Soviet government, Brovkin was appointed as secretary of engineering of the Communist Party committee in Kupiansk and then Kuibyshev. In 1942-1946 he was working on leading positions of the All-Union Communist Party in Nizhny Tagil.

Following liberation of the Ukrainian SSR from the Nazi Germany occupation, in 1946-1954 Brovkin returned to Ukraine working at leading position of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine including deputy chief of engineering department, deputy minister of MGB of UkrSSR, and deputy chief of department on party, trade union and Komsomol agencies. In 1954-1968 he worked at the Ministry of Interior of UkrSSR as deputy minister (including as chief of Militsiya Directorate), minister (1956-1962) and rector of the Kiev College of Ministry of Interior (today National Academy of Internal Affairs).

In 1968 Brovkin retired, but not for long. In 1970-1977 he worked as an engineer for DerzhPlan (State Planning Committee of the UkrSSR). In 1977 Brovkin retired.

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## External links

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* Oleksiy Brovkin at Who is who of the Ukrainian confederation of journalists
* Petrov, N. Who governed the security agencies: 1941-1954. (Кто руководил органами госбезопасности: 1941-1954.). International Society "Memorial". "Zvenia". Moscow, 2010

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People's commissars and ministers of interior of the UkrSSR

NKVD

Ukrainian People's Republic of Soviets
People's Secretaries|

* Yevgenia Bosch
* Yevhen Neronovych
* Andrei Ivanov
* Yuriy Kotsiubynsky

Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
People's Commissars|

* Averin / Voroshilov
* Hryhoriy Kolos
* Christian Rakovsky
* Vladimir Antonov
* Pavlo Kin
* Mykola Skrypnyk
* Vasiliy Mantsev
* Ivan Nikolayenko
* Sergei Buzdalin
* Vsevolod Balitsky
* Vasiliy Ivanov
* Israel Leplevsky
* Aleksandr Uspensky
* Vasiliy Osokin
* Amayak Kobulov
* Ivan Serov
* Vasyl Serhiyenko
* Vasiliy Ryasnoi

Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
Ministers|

* Timofei Strokach
* Pavlo Meshyk
* Timofei Strokach
* Aleksei Brovkin
* Ivan Holovchenko
* Ivan Hladush
* Andriy Vasylyshyn

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