Loktionov Alexander D.

Loktionov Alexander D. (1.8.1893, s Upper Lyubazh Kursk province - 28/10/1941, Kuibyshev), military commander, Colonel-General (1940). Educated at the University for academic courses (1923) and courses to improve higher nachsostava (1928). In 1914, drafted into the army, Lieutenant. In 1918, joined the Red Army. During the Civil War, commanded a regiment and a brigade. In 1921 joined the RKP (b). From 1921 infantry division commander, commander and commissar of the shell. In 1933-37 assistant commander of the Belarusian and Kharkov Military District Air. In 1937 the commander of the Central Asian Military District. In 1937 - 39 beg. Red Army Air Force. In 1937 was elected to the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. In 1939 - 40 Deputy. People's Commissar of Defense of the USSR and the commander of the Baltic Military District. He commanded the Soviet forces occupying the Baltic states, after which the NKVD launched in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, mass terror. In 1939 a candidate member of the CC, CPSU (b). Was attracted. 1940 arrested on a false tip-off simultaneously with KA. Meretskov Az. Pavlov M.Ya.. Smushkevich and gm. Stern. Contents of the inner NKVD prison, and after the outbreak of war evacuated to Kuibyshev. Shot without trial.