[1] From January 1919 he was assistant driver in the fleet on the Southern and South-Western fronts (until November 1920) and a boatswain of the Sevastopol military port from December 1920 to April 1925).

In May 1938, he was transferred to the NKVD headquarters in Lubyanka, where he served in the Secret Political Department of the Main State Security Directorate (GUGB) at the People's Commissariat of Internal Affairs until December 22, 1938.

In 1939 he worked at the Central Economic Board, then transferred to counterintelligence, where he was the first deputy head of Department 3 of the Main Directorate of State Security.

By a special judicial presence of the Supreme Court of the Soviet Union on December 23, 1953, together with Beria, Bogdan Kobulov, Vsevolod Merkulov, Sergo Goglidze, Vladimir Dekanozov and Pavel Meshik, he was sentenced to death as well as confiscation of personal property and stripped from all military honors.

[3] On May 29, 2000, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation denied the full rehabilitation of Vlodzimirsky although the same time partially changed the verdict of the Special Judicial Presence of December 23, 1953, reclassifying the deeds of the convicts, excluding the charge of treason and imposing a punishment for official crimes in the form of abuse of power in the presence of especially aggravating circumstances in the form of 25 years of imprisonment posthumously, canceling accordingly the instruction on the application of confiscation of property.