List of Soviet assassinations

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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

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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 City |  United States  | Possible execution.[4]
Georges Agabekov  | defected OGPU agent  | 1937-08-??  | Pyrenees Mountains  | Unsure French or Spanish side  |
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.
Yevgeny Miller  | General in the White Army  | 1939-05-11  | Moscow |  Soviet Union  | Tortured and shot.
Zinaida Reich  | Soviet actress  | 1939-07-15  | 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.
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.
Korean Air Lines Flight 007  | 269 passengers and crew  | 1983-09-01  | Sea of Japan

(near Moneron Island)

| Soviet Air Force | Downed by missile.

## See also

* List of assassinations in Europe § Russia/Soviet Union
* 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

1. ↑ Filipov, David (2017-03-23). "Here are 10 critics of Vladimir Putin who died violently or in suspicious ways" (in en-US). The Washington Post. https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/03/23/here-are-ten-critics-of-vladimir-putin-who-died-violently-or-in-suspicious-ways/.
2. ↑ "Nikolai Vtorov – the richest man of Russian history". 2016-01-17. https://beautifulrus.com/nikolai-vtorov-the-richest-man-of-russian-history/.
3. ↑ "The Execution of Tsar Nicholas II, 1918". 2005. http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/nicholas.htm.
4. ↑ Lynn, Denise (2019-06-13). "The Disappearance of Juliet Stuart Poyntz". https://nursingclio.org/2019/06/13/the-disappearance-of-juliet-stuart-poyntz/.
5. ↑ Болтянская, Нателла (2010-01-02). "Заказчик убийства — Сталин (тайные убийства по команде Кремля)" (in ru). https://echo.msk.ru/programs/staliname/645178-echo/.
6. ↑ "Leonid Karas" (in en). U.S. Agency for Global Media. https://pressfreedom.news/english/journalist/obituary/leonid-karas.html.

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