Bakulin, Alexey Venediktovich

Alexei Venediktovich Bakulin was born on March 22, 1899 in St. Petersburg, where his father served in the military, and after his father’s dismissal, his family returned to their native places near Miass .

In 1916 he graduated from the Miass Higher Primary City School, after which he worked at a local plant as a draftsman, copyist and assistant locksmith. Since October 1916 he was an instructor of the All-Russian Zemstvo census in the Orenburg province . In February 1918 he joined the ranks of the RSDLP (b) and in March of that year he became editor of the city newspaper Izvestia of the city of Miass Plant.

In May 1918, Bakulin joined the ranks of the Red Army and since June served as commissar and adjutant in various parts of the Urals , and since September - inspector for the bread monopoly of the 3rd Army . In the same year he was appointed to the post of military commissar of artillery of the 30th Rifle Division , in 1920 - to the post of head of the political department of the 2nd Irkutsk and to the post of military commissar-chief of the political department of the 1st Trans-Baikal Division , and in 1921 - to the post of chief Political Administration of the Amur and Far Eastern Fronts . At the same time, he was elected a member of the Constituent Assembly of the Far Eastern Republic and took part in hostilities against troops under the command of Ataman Semenov and Baron Ungern .

Since 1922, he served as the head of the campaign department and commissar of the 10th cavalry division and the head of the Central Omsk club of commanders of the Red Army, and since 1923 - deputy head of the political department of the 35th Rifle Division , and then head of the political department of the 6th Altai Cavalry Brigade .

In the autumn of 1924, Bakulin was sent to study at the Higher Military-Political Academic Courses named after N. G. Tolmachev , after which in May 1925 he was at the disposal of the intelligence headquarters of the Red Army , and then was sent to China , where he served as military adviser, in Central a group of Soviet military advisers, and also taught at a special school where personnel were trained for the Chinese army. From 1926 to 1927 he worked as Vice Consul of the Consulate General of the USSR in Hankow .

Since June 1929, he underwent an internship in the army as an intelligence assistant to the chief of the operational part of the headquarters of the 35th Infantry Siberian Division , and then was at the disposal of the Intelligence Directorate of the Red Army Headquarters and in January 1930 was sent by the consul to China.

In July 1931, he was appointed to the position of referent of the 2nd East Division of the USSR People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs , and then to the position of assistant to the head of the organizational and distribution department of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks . In September 1933, Bakulin was transferred to the apparatus of the People’s Commissariat of Railways , where he was appointed to the post of deputy chief of the political department of the Transcaucasian Railway , in 1934 - to the post of assistant chief of the political department of the People’s Commissariat of Railways for personnel, in the same year - to the position of responsible instructor and Head of the transport department of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party of Bolsheviks , in 1935 - to the post of head of the political department of the Moscow-Kazan Railway , in 1936 - to the post of head of the Lenin Railway , and in July e 1937 - for the post of Deputy People's Commissar of Railways of the USSR for political affairs.

Alexei Venediktovich Bakulin was appointed to the post of People's Commissar of Railways of the USSR on August 22, 1937 , but on April 5, 1938 he was removed from his post as having lost his job and was arrested on July 23, 1938 .

On March 7, 1939, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR Bakulin was found guilty of espionage, participation in a counter-revolutionary organization, preparing a terrorist act and sentenced to capital punishment. Shot the same day. He was posthumously rehabilitated on August 25, 1956 .

• Order of Lenin ( April 4, 1936 ).

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