This is a list of people confirmed to have been assassinated by the government of the Soviet Union.[1] Some of the assassinations or targeted killings took place overseas.

Soviet assassinations

TargetPositionDateCityCountryKillerMethod
Fyodor Kokoshkinmember of the First Russian State Duma1918-01-20LeningradRussian SFSRPetrograd Military Revolutionary Committee
Nikolay VtorovRussian industrialist1918-05-20MoscowBolsheviksUnknown[2]
Nicholas IIlast Tsar of Russia1918-07-17YekaterinburgChekaExecution[3]
Francis CromieBritish naval attaché1918-08-31PetrogradBolsheviksKilled in combat
Alexander DutovRussian Cossacks1921-02-07SuidingChinaBolsheviks
Pyotr WrangelRussian White Army General1928-04-25BrusselsBelgiumSoviet agentPoisoning
Alexander KutepovWhite Army General1930-01-26ParisFrench Third RepublicOGPU
Noe Ramishviliformer Prime Minister of Georgia1930-12-07
Sergey KirovFirst Secretary of the Leningrad City Bolsheviks1934-12-01LeningradSoviet UnionNKVDShot by revolver
Juliet Stuart PoyntzCPUSA member and soviet intelligence agent1937-06-03New YorkUnited StatesPossible execution[4]
Georges Agabekovdefected OGPU agent1937-08-??Pyrenees MountainsUnsure French or Spanish side in the Pyrenees Mountains
Ignace ReissSoviet spy1937-09-04LausanneSwitzerlandStrangulation and/or machine gun
Lev SedovLeon Trotsky's eldest son1938-02-16ParisFrench Third Republic
Yevhen KonovaletsLeader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists1938-05-23RotterdamNetherlandsExplosive hidden in box of chocolates
Rudolf KlementSenior official in the Fourth International and longtime confidant of Trotsky1938-07-13ParisFranceUnknown. Possible beheading.
Zinaida ReichSoviet actress1939-07-15MoscowSoviet UnionStabbing
Leon TrotskySoviet politician and Marxist revolutionary theorist1940-08-21CoyoacánMexicoExsanguination from attack by ice pick
Nikolai KoltsovSoviet biologist1940-12-02LeningradSoviet UnionPoisoning
Walter Krivitskydefected Soviet intelligence officer1941-02-10Washington, D.C.United StatesShot by revolver.[5]
Mairbek SheripovChechen nationalist1942-11-07ChechnyaSoviet UnionSoviet security forceSoviet reprisal raid
Wilhelm KubeGeneralkommissar of Weissruthenien1943-09-22MinskSoviet UnionYelena MazanikTimed explosive
Solomon MikhoelsSoviet actor and the artistic director of the Moscow State Jewish Theatre.1948-01-13MGB
Khasan IsrailovChechen nationalist1944-12-29ChechnyaSoviet security force
Konstantin VolkovSoviet diplomat and NKVD officer1945-09-??IstanbulTurkeyNKVDDisappeared from his post
Leonid KarasBelarusian writer and journalist for Radio Liberty1954-09-??MunichWest GermanyKGBDrowning[6]
Abdurrahman FatalibeyliDefected Soviet army major; CIA agent and later chief of the Azerbaijani desk for Radio Liberty1954-11-22Strangulation
Lev RebetLeader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists1957-10-10Poisoning with vapor gun
Imre NagyChairman of the Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Hungary1958-06-16BudapestHungarian People's RepublicSoviet show trialExecution
Stepan Bandera[7]Leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists1959-10-15MunichWest GermanyKGBPoisoning by cyanide gas
Mohammed Daoud KhanPresident of Afghanistan1978-04-28KabulAfghanistan

KGB / PDPA

Georgi MarkovBulgarian dissident journalist1978-09-11LondonUnited KingdomKGBPoisoning by ricin-filled pellet (See Umbrella Murder)
Hafizullah AminPresident of Afghanistan1979-12-27KabulAfghanistanTargeted assault on the Tajbeg Palace (see: Operation Storm-333)
Sultan IbraimovPrime Minister of Kyrgyzstan1980-12-04Cholpon AtaSoviet UnionShot twice in the head

See also

References

  1. ^ Filipov, David (2017-03-23). "Here are 10 critics of Vladimir Putin who died violently or in suspicious ways". The Washington Post. Archived 2017-03-23 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ^ "Nikolai Vtorov – the richest man of Russian history". Russian Personalities. 2016-01-17.
  3. ^ "The Execution of Tsar Nicholas II, 1918". EyeWitness to History. 2005.
  4. ^ Lynn, Denise (2019-06-13). "The Disappearance of Juliet Stuart Poyntz". Nursing Clio
  5. ^ Болтянская, Нателла (2010-01-02). "Заказчик убийства — Сталин (тайные убийства по команде Кремля)" (in Russian). Echo of Moscow. Archived from the original on 2010-01-06.
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  7. ^ Andrew, Christopher & Mitrokhin, Vasili (1999). The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB. Basic Books. p. 362. ISBN 0-465-00312-5.