Aleksandr Dmitriyevich Loktionov (Russian: Александр Дмитриевич Локтионов; 23 August [O.S.

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.

From 1933 to 1937, he was assistant commander of the Byelorussian and subsequently Kharkov Air Force Military Districts.

In June 1941, he was arrested on fabricated charges of participation in an anti-Soviet conspiracy.

[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 the personal orders of Lavrentiy Beria.