Alexey Bakulin

Alexey Venediktovich Bakulin was born on March 22, 1899 in Saint Petersburg, where his father did military service, and after his father was fired, the family returned to their places of origin under Miass.

In 1916 he graduated from the Miass Higher Primary Urban School, after which he worked at a local plant as a draftsman-copyer and assistant mechanic. From October 1916 he was an instructor of the All-Russian Zemsky Census in the Orenburg Governorate. In February 1918, he joined the Bolsheviks and in March of the same year became the editor of the city newspaper Izvestia of the city of Miass Plant.

In May 1918, Bakulin joined the Red Army and from June served as commissar and adjutant in various parts of the Urals, and since September, he served as inspector for the grain 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 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 the troops under the command of ataman Semyonov and Baron Ungern.

From 1922 he served as head of the agitation department and military commissar of the 10th Cavalry Division and head of the Central Omsk Club of the RKKA commanders, and since 1923 – Deputy Head of the Political Department of the 35th Infantry Division, and then Head of the Political Department of the 6th Altai Cavalry Brigade.

In the fall of 1924, Bakulin was sent to study at the Higher Military-Political Academic Courses named after Nikolay Tolmachyov, after which in May 1925 he was in possession of the intelligence department of the Red Army headquarters, and then sent to China, where he served as military adviser, in the Central Group of Soviet Military advisers, and also taught in a special school, where trained personnel for the Chinese army. From 1926 to 1927, he served as Vice-Consul of the Consulate General of the Soviet Union in Hankow.

From June 1929, he completed an internship in the army as an exploration assistant to the chief of the operational unit of the headquarters of the 35th Infantry Division, then was in possession of the Red Army Headquarters Intelligence Directorate and in January 1930 was sent to China as the consul.

In July 1931, he was appointed assistant to the 2nd Eastern Division of the People's Commissariat of Foreign Affairs of the Soviet Inion, and then to the position of assistant manager of the organizational and distribution department of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks). In September 1933, Bakulin was transferred to the office of the People's Commissariat of Railways, where he was appointed deputy chief of the political department of the Transcaucasus Railway, in 1934, to the post of assistant to the political department of the People's Commissariat of Communications on personnel, in the same year head of the transport department of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), in 1935 – to the position of head of the political department of the Moscow–Kazan Railway, in 1936 – to the position of head of the Lenin railway, and in July 1937 – to the post of deputy People's Commissar of Railways of the Soviet Union in political affairs.

On August 22, 1937, Alexey Venediktovich Bakulin was appointed to the post of People's Commissar of Railways of the Soviet Union, but on April 5, 1938, he was dismissed as having failed to work, and on July 23, 1938 he was arrested.

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

• Order of Lenin (April 4, 1936)

• On the website "Ministers and People's Commissars of Communication"
• Biography on the site "az-libr.ru"
• Biography on the site "1937"