List of Soviet assassinations

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

Target	Position	Date	City	Country	Killer	Method
Fyodor Kokoshkin	member of the First Russian State Duma	1918-01-20	Leningrad	Russian SFSR	Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee
Nikolay Vtorov	Russian industrialist	1918-05-20	Moscow		Bolsheviks	Unknown. [2]
Nicholas II	last Tsar of Russia	1918-07-17	Yekaterinburg		Cheka	Execution. [3]
Francis Cromie	British naval attaché	1918-08-31	Petrograd		Bolsheviks	Killed in combat.
Alexander Dutov	Russian Cossacks	1921-02-07	Suiding	China	Bolsheviks
Pyotr Wrangel	Russian White Army General	1928-04-25	Brussels	Belgium	Soviet agent	Poisoning.
Alexander Kutepov	White Army General	1930-01-26	Paris	France	OGPU
Noe Ramishvili	former Prime Minister of Georgia	1930-12-07
Sergey Kirov	First Secretary of the Leningrad City Bolsheviks	1934-12-01	Leningrad	Soviet Union	NKVD	Shot by revolver.
Juliet Stuart Poyntz	CPUSA member and soviet intelligence agent	1937-06-03	New York	United States		Possible execution. [4]
Georges Agabekov	defected OGPU agent	1937-08-??	Pyrenees Mountains	Unsure French or Spanish side in the Pyrenees Mountains
Ignace Reiss	Soviet spy	1937-09-04	Lausanne	Switzerland		Strangulation and/or machine gun.
Lev Sedov	Leon Trotsky's eldest son	1938-02-16	Paris	France
Yevhen Konovalets	Leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists	1938-05-23	Rotterdam	Netherlands		Explosive hidden in box of chocolates.
Rudolf Klement	Senior official in the Fourth International and longtime confidant of Trotsky	1938-07-13	Paris	France		Unknown. Possible beheading.
Zinaida Reich	Soviet actress	1939-07-15	Moscow	Soviet Union		Stabbing.
Leon Trotsky	Soviet politician and Marxist revolutionary theorist	1940-08-21	Coyoacán	Mexico		Exsanguination from attack by ice pick.
Nikolai Koltsov	Soviet biologist	1940-12-02	Leningrad	Soviet Union			Poisoning.
Walter Krivitsky	defected Soviet intelligence officer	1941-02-10	Washington, D.C.	United States		Shot by revolver. [5]
Mairbek Sheripov	Chechen nationalist	1942-11-07	Chechnya	Soviet Union	Soviet security force	Soviet reprisal raid.
Wilhelm Kube	Generalkommissar of Weissruthenien	1943-09-22	Minsk	Soviet Union	Yelena Mazanik	Timed explosive.
Solomon Mikhoels	Soviet actor and the artistic director of the Moscow State Jewish Theatre.	1948-01-13			MGB
Khasan Israilov	Chechen nationalist	1944-12-29	Chechnya		Soviet security force
Konstantin Volkov	Soviet diplomat and NKVD officer	1945-09-??	Istanbul	Turkey	NKVD	Disappeared from his post.
Leonid Karas	Belarusian writer and journalist for Radio Liberty	1954-09-??	Munich	West Germany	KGB	Drowning. [6]
Abdurrahman Fatalibeyli	Defected Soviet army major; CIA agent and later chief of the Azerbaijani desk for Radio Liberty	1954-11-22				Strangulation.
Lev Rebet	Leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists	1957-10-10				Poisoning with vapor gun.
Imre Nagy	Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Hungary	1958-06-16	Budapest	Hungary	Soviet show trial	Execution.
Stepan Bandera [7]	Leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists	1959-10-15	Munich	West Germany	KGB	Poisoning by cyanide gas.
Mohammed Daoud Khan	President of Afghanistan	1978-04-28	Kabul	Afghanistan	KGB / PDPA KGB was most likely involved as the Saur Revolution was a Soviet-backed coup
Georgi Markov	Bulgarian dissident journalist	1978-09-11	London	United Kingdom	KGB	Poisoning by ricin-filled pellet. (See Umbrella Murder)
Hafizullah Amin	President of Afghanistan	1979-12-27	Kabul	Afghanistan		Targeted assault on the Tajbeg Palace (see: Operation Storm-333)
Sultan Ibraimov	Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan	1980-12-04	Cholpon Ata	Soviet Union		Shot twice in the head.

See also

• List of assassinations in Europe § Russia
• List of Russian assassinations
• List of assassinations by the United States
• List of Israeli assassinations
• List of journalists killed in Russia
• List of Second Chechen War assassinations
• List of Mossad operations

References

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2. "Nikolai Vtorov – the richest man of Russian history". Russian Personalities. 17 January 2016.
3. "The Execution of Tsar Nicholas II, 1918". EyeWitness to History. 2005.
4. Lynn, Denise (13 June 2019). "The Disappearance of Juliet Stuart Poyntz". Nursing Clio.
5. Болтянская, Нателла (2 January 2010). "Заказчик убийства — Сталин (тайные убийства по команде Кремля)". Echo of Moscow (in Russian). Archived from the original on 6 January 2010.
6. "Leonid Karas". The Fight for Press Freedom. U.S. Agency for Global Media.
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.