Dogadov was leader of the Kazan Metal Workers' Union and participated in the 1905 Russian Revolution and was later arrested in 1907.

[2] From 1921 to 1929 he was secretary of the All-Union Council of Trade Unions and from 1921 to 1930 he was a member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee.

[2] From 1930 to 1931 he was deputy head of the Supreme Council of National Economy as well as a candidate member of the Central Committee and the Organization Bureau.

He was convicted on charges of anti-Soviet terrorist activities and sentenced to death on October 26 by decision of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR, then executed the same day.

[3] Alexander Dogadov was posthumously rehabilitated by the decision of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union in July 1956 and reinstated in the Communist Party by the decree of the Presidium in December 1957.