Alliluev Pavel Sergeevich

Participant in the Civil War. One of the founders and leaders of the Main Armored Directorate of the Red Army, deputy head of the department for political affairs. In the early 1920s, he was a participant in N. N. Urvantsev’s expedition to the Far North, which discovered large ore deposits on the river. Norilka, where the city of Norilsk later arose. Returning from the trip in 1925, he graduated from the Military Academic Courses for Higher Command Staff of the Red Army. In 1929-1932 he worked in Berlin, carrying out quality control of aircraft and engines purchased under secret contracts concluded between the USSR and Germany. The family returned to Moscow in the spring of 1932. He collaborated with the OGPU and was acquainted with the security officer A. M. Orlov, who later fled abroad.
In the summer of 1938, among others, he turned to Stalin with a proposal to stop repressions in the Red Army.
He died at work in his office on November 2, 1938.
Buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy Cemetery