List of Soviet assassinations

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

Soviet assassinations Assassinations confirmed or generally accepted to have been committed by the Soviet Union. TargetPositionDateCityCountryPerpetratorMethod Fyodor KokoshkinMember of the First Russian State Duma1918-01-20LeningradPetrograd Military Revolutionary CommitteeShot.Nicholas IIlast Tsar of Russia1918-07-17YekaterinburgChekaExecution.Francis CromieBritish naval attaché1918-08-31PetrogradBolsheviksKilled in combatAlexander DutovRussian Cossacks1921-02-07Suiding ChinaBolsheviksShot.Vladimir NesterovichDefected Red Army commander and intelligence officer1925-08-06MainzGRUPoisoning.Pyotr WrangelRussian White Army General1928-04-25BrusselsSoviet agentPoisoning.Alexander KutepovWhite Army General1930-01-26ParisOGPUHeart attack during kidnapping.Noe Ramishviliformer Prime Minister of Georgia1930-12-07ParisShot.Sergey KirovFirst Secretary of the Leningrad City Bolsheviks1934-12-01 LeningradNKVDShot by revolver.Faizal MaksumOne of the leaders of the Basmachi movement1935-??-??KashgarNester LakobaChairman of the Central Executive Committee of the Abkhaz ASSR1936-12-28TbilisiPoisoned.Andreu NinLeader of the Workers' Party of Marxist Unification (POUM)1937-06-20Alcalá de Henares, MadridTortured to death.Aghasi KhanjianFirst Secretary of the Communist Party of Armenia1937-07-09TbilisiShot.Georges AgabekovDefected OGPU agent1937-08-??Pyrenees MountainsUnsure French or Spanish side in the Pyrenees MountainsUnknown.Ignace ReissSoviet spy1937-09-04 LausanneStrangulation and/or machine gun.Kurt LandauAustrian communist, Member of the International Left Opposition1937-09-23BarcelonaUnknown.Yevhen KonovaletsLeader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists1938-05-23RotterdamExplosive hidden in box of chocolates.Rudolf KlementSenior official in the Fourth International and longtime confidant of Trotsky1938-07-13Paris Unknown. Possible beheading.Zinaida ReichSoviet actress1939-07-15MoscowStabbing.Jadwiga SzeptyckaArchaeologist and ethnographer1939-09-27PrylbychiShot. Leon Trotsky Soviet politician and Marxist revolutionary theorist1940-08-21CoyoacánExsanguination from attack by ice pickNikolai KoltsovSoviet biologist1940-12-02 LeningradPoisoning.Mairbek SheripovChechen nationalist1942-11-07ChechnyaSoviet security forceSoviet reprisal raid.Wilhelm KubeGeneralkommissar of Weissruthenien 1943-09-22MinskYelena MazanikTimed explosive.Solomon MikhoelsSoviet actor and the artistic director of the Moscow State Jewish Theatre.1948-01-13MGBDeath staged as traffic accident.Khasan IsrailovChechen nationalist1944-12-29ChechnyaSoviet security forceUnknown.Yurii LypaUkrainian nationalist1944-08-20ShutovaNKVDTortured to death.Konstantin VolkovSoviet diplomat and NKVD officer1945-09-??IstanbulDisappeared from his post.Isaiah OgginsAmerican-born spy for the Soviet secret police1947-??-??NorilskPoisoned with curare.Theodore RomzhaBishop of the Greek Catholic Eparchy of Mukachevo1947-10-31UzhhorodPoisoned with curare.Wolfgang SalusCzechoslovak Trotskyist1953-03-05MunichKGBPoisoned.Alexander TrushnovichChairman of the Committee for Aid to Russian Refugees, leader of the National Alliance of Russian Solidarists1954-04-13West BerlinChoked to death during botched kidnapping.Danylo Skoropadskyi Leader of the Hetmanite movement1957-02-23LondonPoisoned with air gun.Lev RebetLeader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists1957-10-10MunichPoisoning with vapor gun.Imre NagyChairman of the Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Hungary1958-06-16 BudapestSoviet show trialExecution.Stepan BanderaLeader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists1959-10-15MunichKGBPoisoning by cyanide gas.Nicholas ShadrinDefected Soviet naval officer1975-12-20ViennaKGBAccidental forced overdose during kidnapping.Mohammed Daoud KhanPresident of Afghanistan1978-04-28Kabul AfghanistanKGB / PDPA KGB was most likely involved as the Saur Revolution was a Soviet-backed coupShot.Georgi MarkovBulgarian dissident journalist1978-09-11LondonKGBPoisoning by ricin-filled pellet by Bulgarian umbrella.Hafizullah AminPresident of Afghanistan1979-12-27Kabul AfghanistanTargeted assault on the Tajbeg Palace (see: Operation Storm-333)

Alleged assassinations Assassinations alleged or suspected to have been carried out by the Soviet Union. TargetPositionDateCityCountryPerpetratorMethod Nikolay VtorovRussian industrialist1918-05-20MoscowBolsheviksUnknown.Juliet Stuart PoyntzCPUSA member and soviet intelligence agent1937-06-03New YorkNKVDPossible execution.Lev SedovLeon Trotsky's eldest son1938-02-16ParisShot.Walter KrivitskyDefected Soviet intelligence officer1941-02-10Washington, D.C.Shot by revolver.Arkadi MaslowLeading figure in the Communist Party of Germany1941-11-20HavanaShot.Leonid KarasBelarusian writer and journalist for Radio Liberty1954-09-??MunichKGBDrowning.Abdurrahman FatalibeyliDefected Soviet army major; CIA agent and later chief of the Azerbaijani desk for Radio Liberty1954-11-22MunichStrangulation.Ilie MotrescuRomanian writer1969-07-26Near KrasnoilskUnknown.Alla HorskaUkrainian Soviet dissident1970-11-28VasylkivShot and disguised as a murder-suicide.Sultan IbraimovPrime Minister of Kyrgyzstan1980-12-04Cholpon AtaShot twice in the head.

Attempted assassinations TargetPositionDateCityCountryKillerMethod Indalecio PrietoMinister of the National Defence1937BilbaoNKVDUnspecified.Georgiy OkolovichAnti-communist dissident1954FrankfurtKGBCigarette case disguised poison gun.Nikolai KhokhlovSoviet defector1957-09FrankfurtPoisoning with thallium.Vladimir KostovBulgarian journalist1978-08-26ParisPoisoning with Bulgarian umbrella.

List of Soviet assassinations

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