Aleksandr Loktionov

Komandarm A.D. Loktionov, composers A.V. Aleksandrov, I.O. Dunayevsky, D.I. Pokrass and artist I.M. Moskvin

Aleksandr Dmitrievich Loktionov (Russian: Александр Дмитриевич Локтионов) (11 (23) August, 1893 — 28 October 1941) was a Soviet general.

In July 1940, after the Soviet occupation of the Baltic States Loktionov was appointed commander of Special Baltic Military District. In 1941 he was arrested on fabricated charges in the context of the case of Grigori Shtern, together with several other high officers (see Purge of the Red Army in 1941). When the Great Patriotic War started he was moved from a local NKVD prison to the Kuybyshev prison, where he was shot without trial.^[1]

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