Ivan Belov (commander)

He graduated from the 4th grade of the Vakhonkinsky elementary school, but, due to the poverty of his family, he was forced to interrupt his studies.

He was sentenced by a military court in 1916 to four and a half years in a disciplinary battalion for insulting an officer, then released during the February Revolution.

He played a key role in the effort led by Konstantin Osipov [ru] to suppress the anti-Soviet rebellion in Tashkent in January 1919.

From April to October 1919, Belov was the commander-in-chief of the troops of the newly created Turkestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic.

In January – July 1920, Belov was the head of the 3rd Turkestan Rifle Division in Semirechye, where he participated in the suppression of the Verny uprising.

Belov's case on January 7, 1938, when he was arrested on charges of spying for Germany and belonging to a "military socialist-revolutionary organization."

Found guilty by the Military Collegium, he was sentenced to death and was shot on the day of the verdict on July 29, 1938.