Aleksandr Loktionov

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

Aleksandr Loktionov
Native name
Александр Дмитриевич Локтионов
Born23 August [O.S. 11 August] 1893
Verkhny Lyubazh, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire
Died28 October 1941 (aged 48)
Samara, USSR
Allegiance 1914 – 1917
1918 – 1941
RankColonel-general
Battles/warsWorld War I
Russian Civil War
AwardsTwo Order of the Red Banner

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 Belarussian SSR 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 Belarussian and subsequently Kharkov Air Force Military Districts.[1]

From 1937 to 1939, he served as commander-in-chief of the Soviet Air Force.[2] In July 1940, after the Soviet occupation of the Baltic States, Loktionov was appointed commander of the Special Baltic Military District. In June 1941 he was arrested on fabricated charges of participation in an anti-Soviet conspiracy.[3][4] Under interrogation, he was brutally beaten by infamous NKVD interrogators Boris Rodos and Lev Shvartsman, and lost consciousness several times from the torture.[5] He was later put in a "confrontation" with Kirill Meretskov; the NKVD used Loktionov's bloodied appearance to intimidate Meretskov.[6] After the German Invasion of the Soviet Union, he was moved from a local NKVD prison to the Kuybyshev prison, where he was shot without trial on 28 October along with many others on personal orders of 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. http://www.hrono.info/biograf/bio_l/loktionov_ad.php
  3. Smirnov, Nikolai (1997). Вплоть до высшей меры (in Russian). Moscow: Московский рабочий. p. 18. ISBN 5-239-01916-9.
  4. Армия и политика: 1941-1945 гг (in Russian). Витязь. 2003. p. 736.
  5. Cherushev, Nikolai (2003). Удар по своим: Красная Армия 1938-1941 (in Russian). Moscow: Veche. p. 1936. ISBN 978-5-94538-366-1.
  6. Baksberg, Arkady (1993). Нераскрытые тайны (in Russian). Moscow: Новости. pp. 57–58. ISBN 5702004299. OCLC 494172689.
  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
Yakov Alksnis		 Soviet Air Force (VVS) Commander
1939–1940		 Succeeded by
Yakov Smushkevich
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