Vyatka Governorate
According to the written Spiridonov own track record, he descended from Vyatka Governorate. At seventeen, not graduating from high school, he went to the army as a private - ""volunteer" In his paper he was sent to the Kremlin battalion and earned some non-commissioned officer's stripes and was sent to the Kazan Infantry School, where he studied in the same platoon with the future Marshal of the Soviet Union Alexander Yegorov.