Aleksandr Loktionov

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Aleksandr Loktionov
USSR
AllegianceRussian Empire 1914 – 1917
Soviet Union 1918 – 1941
RankColonel-general
Battles/warsWorld War I
Russian Civil War
AwardsTwo Order of the Red Banner

Aleksandr Dmitriyevich Loktionov (Russian: Александр Дмитриевич Локтионов; 23 August [O.S. 11 August] 1893) – 28 October 1941) was a Soviet general.

In 1923 he was given command of the 2nd Infantry Division in Belarus, and the next year he became a member of the Minsk City Council. In 1925 he became a member of the Central Executive Committee of the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Central Party Committee before continuing his education at the Frunze Military Academy in 1927. At the end of 1930 he became the commanding officer and commissar of the 4th Rifle Corps. From 1933 to 1937, he was assistant commander of the Byelorussian and subsequently Kharkov Air Force Military Districts.[1]

From 1937 to 1939, he served as commander-in-chief of the

Kuybyshev prison, where he was shot without trial on 28 October along with many others on the personal orders of Lavrentiy Beria.[7] He was posthumously rehabilitated in 1955.[8]

See also

References

  1. ^ Journal of military history, Issues 7-12 (in Russian). Moscow: Voenizdat. 1963. pp. 125–126.
  2. ^ "Локтионов Александр Дмитриевич".
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  7. ^ Loktionov's biographies at hrono.info (texts from the Soviet Military Encyclopedia and the book Залесский К.А. Империя Сталина. Биографический энциклопедический словарь. Москва, Вече, 2000) (in Russian)
  8. ^ "ЛОКТИОНОВ Александр Дмитриевич". encyclopedia.mil.ru. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
Military offices
Preceded by Soviet Air Force (VVS) Commander
1937–1939
Succeeded by