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[edit]

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	Paris	France	OGPU
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.
Yevgeny Miller	General in the White Army	1939-05-11	Moscow	Soviet Union		Tortured and shot.
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	Minsk		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.