Ivan Fyodorovich Fedko (Russian: Ива́н Фёдорович Федько́; Ukrainian: Іван Федорович Федько; July 6, 1897 – February 26, 1939) was a Soviet Komandarm 1st rank and army commander.
During the Great Purge, he was arrested on July 7, 1938, charged with participating in a "fascist military conspiracy in the Red Army", and executed the following year.
In Chișinău, Fedko, after studying for four years at the Alexander Vocational School (on Izmailovskaya Street), graduated with honors in May 1915, then went to work as a cabinetmaker at a local furniture factory.
After one year of service in the lower ranks, in February 1917, Fedko was sent to study at the 4th Kyiv school for the training of infantry ensigns.
He later served in the Ukrainized battalion of the 35th reserve infantry regiment in Feodosia, as a junior company officer, commanding a platoon.
He was awarded a second Order of the Red Banner of the RSFSR for his leadership of the division and courage shown in the battles with the white army of Baron Wrangel in Northern Tavria.
In November 1920 - April 1921 in Feodosia, a special department of the 46th rifle division of the Red Army, commanded by Fedko, participated in the mass executions of captured White Guards.
In 1921, Fedko participated in the suppression of the anti-Soviet uprising in Kronstadt, commanding the 187th cadet rifle brigade, for which he was awarded the third Order of the Red Banner of the RSFSR.
On October 17, 1933, he was appointed assistant commander of the Special Red Banner Far Eastern Army ("OKVDA") under Vasily Blyukher.
Investigators of the Special Department of the Main Directorate of State Security of the NKVD of the USSR began to collect accusations against Fedko as early as 1937.
In April 1938, in the presence of Joseph Stalin, Fedko confronted the arrested Innokenty Khalepsky, Semyon Uritsky and Ivan Belov and categorically denied all the accusations against him.
He was immediately subjected to torture and on July 10 "confessed" that, in 1932, he was recruited to join a "military fascist conspiracy" by Ivan Belov.
In his statement after the arrest, Fedko wrote about his interrogator N. N. Fedorov: "The investigator told me: I don’t know whether you are an enemy or not, but you will give evidence."
Fedorov himself was arrested in the autumn of 1938, convicted and shot in February 1940 as an accomplice of Nikolai Yezhov and Mikhail Frinovsky and declared unrehabilitated in 2013.
Fedko was included in the list prepared by Lavrentiy Beria and Andrey Vyshinsky dated February 15, 1939 slated for execution.