Loiko Ivan Alexandrovich

Born in 1892 in the farm Rubilki, Samokhvalovichskaya volost, Minsk district, Minsk province; higher education: graduated from the Minsk real school (1913), Alekseevskoye military school (1914, second lieutenant); Kachin branch of the aviation school in Sevastopol (1915, military pilot). By the end of World War I, he had more than 500 flight hours and 100 battles. From 1917 in the Volunteer Army. In November 1920, with the rank of colonel, he was evacuated from Crimea to the port of Dubrovnik. From 1921 he served as a mechanic, then a flight instructor at the Royal Aviation School in Novi Sad (Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes). By 1923, he had become disillusioned with the White movement and decided to return to his homeland, for which purpose on 08/06/1923, together with Lieutenant Pavel Kachan, he stole a Serbian plane. Due to a lack of fuel, they landed in Romania, where they spent 2 months in prison. On 10/10/1923, they were handed over to Soviet border guards and arrested. By the decree of the KRO GPU of the Ukrainian SSR (under the amnesty of 04/12/1923) on 11/25/1923, the case was closed. On 05/29/1924, he was sent to the Borisoglebsk Military Aviation School of Pilots as an instructor of the 1st category. He was arrested again in Borisoglebsk on 08/14/1929. Sentenced by the KOGPU on 11/04/1929 to 10 years in a correctional labor camp. Until 1931 he was held in Butyrka prison, in January 1931 he was sent to Kotlas; then - in a special-purpose expedition to Vaygach Island. By the decision of the KOGPU of 14.10.1932, his term was reduced by 2 years; in 1934 he was released on the "Vaygach credit". From September 1934 he worked as a freelance engineer-mechanic in the transport department of the Vaygach Mining Trust. He died in Amderma on 22.09.1936. He was rehabilitated by the prosecutor's office of the Federal Border Service on 24.10.1997.