Aleksandr Loktionov
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Aleksandr Dmitrievich Loktionov (Russian: Александр Дмитриевич Локтионов) (11 (23) August 1893 — 28 October 1941) was a Soviet general.
In July 1940, after the Soviet occupation of the Baltic States Loktionov was appointed commander of Special Baltic Military District. In 1941 he was arrested on fabricated charges in the context of the case of Grigori Shtern, together with several other high officers (see Purge of the Red Army in 1941). When the invasion of the Soviet Union started he was moved from a local NKVD prison to the Kuybyshev prison, where he was shot without trial.[1]
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- ^ 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) (Russian)
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