Aleksandr Loktionov, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Aleksandr Loktionov

Soviet general

Date of Birth: 11-Aug-1893

Date of Death: 28-Oct-1941

Profession: military personnel, politician

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Aleksandr Loktionov

  • Aleksandr Dmitrievich Loktionov (Russian: ????????? ?????????? ?????????; 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 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.From 1937 to 1939, he served as commander-in-chief of the Soviet Air Force.
  • 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.
  • Under interrogation, he was brutally beaten by infamous NKVD interrogators Boris Rodos and Lev Shvartsman, and lost consciousness several times from the torture.
  • He was later put in a "confrontation" with Kirill Meretskov; the NKVD used Loktionov's bloodied appearance to intimidate Meretskov.
  • 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.
  • He was posthumously rehabilitated in 1955.

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