List of Soviet and Russian assassinations
This is a list of people confirmed to have been assassinated by the Soviet Union and Russia. Some of the assassinations or targeted killings took place overseas.
This list does not include suspected assassinations of political opponents who died in mysterious circumstances.[1]
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 | |
Sidney Reilly | British MI6 spy | 1925-11-05 | Moscow | Soviet Union | OGPU | Execution. |
Pyotr Wrangel | Russian White Army General | 1928-04-25 | Brussels | Belgium | Soviet agent | Poisoning. |
Alexander Kutepov | White Army General | 1930-01-26 | Paris | France | NKVD | |
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 | 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 | ||
Ignace Reiss | Soviet spy | 1937-09-04 | Lausanne | Switzerland | Strangulation and/or machine gun. | |
Yevhen Konovalets | Leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists | 1938-05-23 | Rotterdam | Netherlands | Explosive hidden in box of chocolates. | |
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. |
Carlo Tresca | Italian-American newspaper editor | 1943-01-11 | New York City | United States | NKVD | Shot by handgun. |
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 | ||
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
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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 Ministers 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. | |
Nikolay Suleimanov | Boss of Chechen Mafia | 1994-12-?? | Moscow | Russia | Russian Mafia | Shot by contract killer. |
Choe Deok-geun[8] | South Korean consular official for the Russian Far East | 1996-10-01 | Vladivostok | Poisoning. | ||
Akhmadov brothers[9] | Chechen generals and high-ranking military commanders | 1999-2002 (7 brothers killed) | Dagestan
Chechnya |
FSB | ||
Ruslan Alikhadzhiyev | Chairman of the Parliament of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria | 2000-05-17 | Shali | Forcibly disappeared, possibly tortured to death. | ||
Apti Abitayev | Prime suspect in the 1998 kidnapping incident | 2001-05-06 | Somewhere in Russia | |||
Dzhokhar Dudayev | President of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria | 1996-04-21 | Chechnya | Russian Air Force | Attack by two laser-guided missiles. | |
Zelimkhan Yandarbiyev | 2004-02-13 | Doha | Qatar | SVR / GRU | Explosive placed on private SUV.[11] | |
Aslan Maskhadov | 2005-03-08 | Tolstoy-Yurt, Chechnya | Russia | FSB | FSB special forces raid. Grenade thrown in hiding bunker. | |
Abdul-Halim Sadulayev | 2006-06-17 | Argun, Chechnya | FSB police raid. Hand grenade thrown through window (disputed).[12][13] | |||
Arbi Barayev | Leader of Special Purpose Islamic Regiment | 2001-06-22 | Alkhan-Kala, Chechnya | FSB special forces raid. Possibly tortured to death.[14] | ||
Ibn al-Khattab | Emir of the Arab Mujahideen in Chechnya | 2002-03-20 | Chechnya | Poisoning with poisoned letter.[15] | ||
Abu al-Walid | 2004-04-16 | Chechnya | Ambushed by FSB snipers.[16] | |||
Abu Hafs al-Urduni | 2006-11-26 | Chechnya | FSB Special forces raid.[17] | |||
Muhannad | 2011-04-21 | Chechnya | FSB search & destroy operation. | |||
Abdulla Kurd | 2011-05-03 | Chechnya | Shot during FSB scout operation. | |||
Turpal-Ali Atgeriyev | Deputy Prime Minister and National Security Minister of Chechnya | 2002-08-18 | Yekaterinburg | Unknown Russian agents | Possibly tortured to death.[18] | |
Salman Raduyev | Chechen separatist warlord and rebel commander | 2002-12-14 | Solikamsk | Possibly executed in prison.[19][20] | ||
Ruslan Gelayev | Deputy Prime Minister of Chechnya | 2004-02-28 | Dagestan | ,Border Security Service | Shot by rifle during gunfight, died from exsanguination after cutting off his hand. | |
Abdourahman al-Zarki[21] | Leader of the foreign volunteers unit in the North Caucasus | 2000-??-?? | Chechnya | FSB | ||
Senior leader of the Arab Mujahideen in Chechnya and Ibn al-Khattab's deputy | 2001-07-11 | Mayrtup, Chechnya | ||||
Aslambek Abdulkhadzhiev | Field commander of Chechen Republic of Ichkeria and deputy of Shamil Basayev | 2002-08-26 | Shali | |||
Mahmud Hisham al-Hennawi[22] | One of the founders of EIJ and Al-Qaeda affiliate | 2005-??-?? | Chechnya | FSB special forces raid.[23] | ||
Magomedzagir Akayev | Senior commander of Shariat Jamaat | 2005-01-15 | Kaspiysk, Dagestan | |||
Abu Omar al-Kuwaiti | Al-Qaeda agent and involved in Beslan school siege | 2005-02-16 | Ingushetia | FSB special forces raid.[24] | ||
Rizvan Chitigov | Senior Chechen intelligence chief and CIA agent | 2005-03-23 | Shali, Chechnya | FSB special forces raid.[25] | ||
Akhmed Avdorkhanov | Head of security for President Aslan Maskhadov | 2005-09-19 | Somewhere in Chechnya | FBS special forces raid. | ||
Abu Omar al-Saif[26] | Mufti of Arab fighters in Chechnya and Al-Qaeda affiliate | 2005-12-10 | Dagestan | |||
Shamil Basayev | Most senior Chechen military commander and overall leader of all Chechen rebel factions | 2006-07-10 | Ingushetia | Mine-explosive (possibly remotely detonated).[27] | ||
Aliev Nurov | Senior Chechen rebel | 2006-08-?? | Chechnya | |||
Amir Khayrullah (Suleiman Imurzayev) | Senior Chechen commander and prime suspect of the 2004 Grozny stadium bombing | 2007-04-05 | Grozny, Chechnya | |||
Khura-Magomed Ramazanov | Senior Islamic cleric | 2007-07-26 | Makhachkala, Dagestan | |||
Ratmir Shameyev[28] | Senior Chechen militants | 2011-04-29 | Progress, Stavropol Krai | Killed in gunfight.[29] | ||
Aslanbek Khamurzov[30] | ||||||
Alexander Litvinenko | Defected lieutenant colonel of FSB | 2006-11-23 | London | United Kingdom | SVR | Poisoning with radionuclide polonium-210.[31] |
Umar Israilov | Ex bodyguard of Ramzan Kadyrov / Critic of the Chechen government | 2009-01-13 | Vienna | Austria | Shot twice in the head after trying to flee.[32] | |
Movladi Baisarov | Ex commander of the Special Battalion Vostok | 2006-11-18 | Moscow | Russia | Kadyrovtsy | Shot by automatic weapons. |
Sulim Yamadayev | Lieutenant Colonel of Special Battalion Vostok | 2009-03-28 (Died 03-30) | Dubai | United Arab Emirates | Shot in the neck. | |
Said Buryatsky | Commander of Riyad-us Saliheen Brigade of Martyrs's suicide bombers brigade | 2010-03-02 | Ekazhevo, Ingushetia | Russia | FSB / MVD | |
Yassir al-Sudani | Commander of Caucasus Emirate | 2010-06-08 | Vedeno, Chechnya | |||
Eldar Magatov[33] | Senior Islamist militant | 2014-01-21 | likely Dagestan | Russian police and pro-government militia | ||
Vakha Arsanov | Vice president of the Chechen Republic of Ichkeria | 2005-05-15 | Ivanovo | Either shot during gunfight or tortured to death in private prison. | ||
Supyan Abdullayev | 2011-03-28 | Ingushetia | Russian Air Force | Targeted airstrike. | ||
Zaurbek Avdorkhanov[34] | Field commander of Caucasus Emirate | 2012-07-31 | Galashki, Ingushetia | FSB | ||
Ibragim Avdorkhanov[34] | Chechen separatists and part of 2010 Tsentoroy attack | |||||
Ayub Khaladov[34] | ||||||
Dokka Umarov | Emir of the Caucasus Emirate | 2013-09-07 | Ingushetia | Poisoning. | ||
Aliaskhab Kebekov | 2015-04-19 | Buynaksk, Dagestan | FSB security forces raid.[35] | |||
Magomed Suleimanov | 2015-08-11 | Gimry, Dagestan | FSB security forces raid.[36] | |||
Zalim Shebzukhov | 2016-08-17 | Saint Petersburg | FSB security forces raid.[37] | |||
Rasul Makasharipov | Emir of Vilayat Dagestan | 2005-07-06 | Makhachkala, Dagestan | FSB special forces raid.[38] | ||
Rappani Khalilov | 2007-09-17 | Novy Sulak, Dagestan | FSB special forces raid. Killed by gunfight and/or collapse of residence by tanks.[39] | |||
Abdul Madzhid | 2008-09-07 | Magaramkentsky, Dagestan | Ambushed by FSB special forces. | |||
Omar Sheikhulayev | 2009-02-05 | outside Makhachkala, Dagestan | Killed in gunfight with FSB security forces. | |||
Umalat Magomedov | 2009-12-31 | Khasavyurt, Dagestan | FSB security forces raid. | |||
Magomed Vagabov | 2010-08-21 | Gunib, Dagestan | FSB special forces raid. | |||
Israpil Velijanov | 2011-04-18 | Dagestan | FSB security forces raid. | |||
Ibragimkhalil Daudov | 2012-02-14 | Dagestan | Died from wounds and exposure after fleeing from FSB security forces raid. | |||
Rustam Asildarov | 2016-12-03 | near Makhachkala, Dagestan | FSB special forces raid. | |||
Said Kharakansky | 2017-02-07 | Dagestan | ||||
Muslim Atayev | Emir of Vilayat KBK | 2005-01-27 | Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria | Cornered and killed by FSB police force. | ||
Anzor Astemirov | 2010-03-24 | Killed in gunfight with FSB officers after routine identity check. | ||||
Asker Dzhappuyev | 2011-04-29 | Progress Stavropol Krai | ||||
Alim Zankishiev | 2012-03-27 | Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria | FSB security forces raid.[40] | |||
Khuseyn Gakayev | Commander of Vilayat Nokhchicho (Eastern Sector) | 2013-01-24 | Vedeno, Chechnya | Killed in gunfight after FSB scout operation. | ||
Dzhamaleyl Mutaliyev[41] | Emir of Vilayat Galgaycho | 2013-05-21 | Nazran | |||
Arthur Getagazhev | 2014-05-24 | Sagopshi, Ingushetia | FSB security forces raid. | |||
Beslan Makhauri[42] | 2015-10-31 | Nazran | ||||
Ilyas Vedzizhev[42] | Insurgent of Vilayat Galgaycho | |||||
Zaur Prokopchuk | Senior Caucasus Emirate militant | 2015-04-16 | Nalchik | |||
Robert Zankishiev | Head of Kabardino-Balkaria's terrorist organization | 2015-11-10 | Unknown | |||
Iyad al-Deek[43] | Captain of FSA | 2015-09-30 | northern Homs | Syria | Russian Air Force | |
2 senior ISIL commanders[44] | ISIS field commanders | 2015-10-8/9 | Raqqa province | |||
Basil Zamo[45] | Commander of 1st Coastal Division | 2015-10-20 | Jabal al-Akrad, Latakia | |||
Abu Nurlbagasi[citation needed] | ISIS field commanders | 2015-11-17/18 | Aleppo province | |||
Muhammad ibn Khayrat[citation needed] | ||||||
Al-Okab[citation needed] | ||||||
Moder Abdul Salam Hamdoun[46] | Senior commander of Thuwar al-Sham Brigades | 2015-12-?? | ||||
Zahran Alloush[47] | Commander of Jaysh al-Islam | 2015-12-25 | Utaya, Rif Dimashq | |||
Nimr al-Shukri[48] | Military commander of Ahrar ash-Sham of Aleppo | 2016-02-09 | Northern Aleppo | |||
Abu Abdollah Jabal[49] | Senior commander of Al-Nusra Front | 2016-06-22 | Northwestern Aleppo | |||
Abul Baha al-Asfari[citation needed] | Field commander of Jabhat Fatah al-Sham | 2016-11-16 | Idlib | |||
Muhammad Helala[citation needed] | ||||||
Abu Jaber Harmuja[citation needed] | ||||||
(Real Estate Chief of “al-Khair State”)[50] | ISIL emir of Deir Ezzor | 2017-01-?? | Deir Ezzor | |||
Abu Rida al-Turkestani[51][52] | Leader of Turkistan Islamic Party in Syria | 2017-01-12 | Ariha, Idlib | |||
Gulmurod Khalimov[53] | ISIL war minister | 2017-09-08 | Deir ez-Zor | |||
Abu Muhammad al-Shimali[53] | Emir of Deir ez-Zor | |||||
Abu Sulman al-Saudi[54][better source needed] | Chief of southern sector in Idlib province | 2017-09-27 | Idlib province | |||
Abu al-Abbas Anadin[54][better source needed] | Emir on financial issues (war minister) | |||||
Abu Hasan[54][better source needed] | Adviser to military minister Abu Muhammad Al-julani | |||||
Walid al-Mustafa[54][better source needed] | Aide to spiritual leader Abdallah al-Muheisni | |||||
Abu Mudjagid[54][better source needed] | Sharia judge | |||||
Abu Islam Al-Kazaki[citation needed] | Senior ISIL member | 2017-10-02 | East bank of the Euphrates,
Deir ez-Zor | |||
Ahmad al-Ghizai[55] | Security service chief of Jabhat al-Nusra | 2017-10-3 | Specific location undisclosed | |||
Husem Mahzum[55] | Field commander of Jabhat al-Nusra | |||||
Ahmad Khalez Ali al-Zawawi[55] | ||||||
Alaa Al Din Al Shishani[56] | Senior ISIL commanders | 2017-10-5/6 | Abu Kamal | |||
Salah Al Din Al Shishani[56] | ||||||
Salakhuddin Shishani[57] | Emir of Jaysh Usrah | 2017-12-17 | northern Hama province | |||
Abu Mohammad Saif[58] | Commander of Failaq al-Rahman | 2018-03-14 | Eastern Ghouta | |||
Abu Mohammed Jobar[58] | ||||||
Abu Omar al Dayk[59] | Commander of Faylaq al-Sham | 2019-07-19 | Northern Latakia | |||
Abu Riad al-Deiri[60] | Senior leader of FSA | 2019-08-06 | north of Latakia | |||
Mohammad Husein Qasem[61] | Commander of Faylaq al-Sham | 2019-08-19 | Northwestern province of Idlib | Targeted air-strike.[62] | ||
Abu Qatada[63] | ISIL field commander | 2020-10-06 | in Deir ez-Zor province | |||
Ali Osaev[64] | Istanbul representative of the Caucasus Emirate | 2009-02-26 | Istanbul | Turkey | SVR | |
Berg-Hadj Musayev[64] | Senior chechen separatists | 2011-09-16 | Shot.[65] | |||
Zaurbek Amriyev[64] | ||||||
Rustam Altemirov[64] | ||||||
Abdullah Bukhari[66] | Usbek-chechen Islamic cleric | 2014-12-10 | Shot with a handgun.[67] | |||
Abdulvahid Edelgiriev[68] | Chechen commander during the Chechen-Russian conflict | 2015-11-01 | Başakşehir, İstanbul Province | Shot while fleeing and stabbed in the neck.[69] | ||
Ruslan Israpilov[70] | Chechen fighter during the Chechen-Russian conflict | 2016-05-11 | Kocaeli Province, Turkey | Shot in the head, neck and heart.[71] | ||
Ukrainian Air Force Il-76 76777 | 40 paratroopers of 25th Airborne Brigade and 9 crew members of Ukrainian Air Force | 2014-06-14 | near Luhansk | Ukraine | Wagner Group[72][73] | Brought down by fire from a heavy machine gun and/or man-portable air-defense system equipment.[74] [75] |
Military convoy of Ukrainian forces | 30 Ukrainian soldiers and 7 border guards | 2014-07-11 | Zelenopillya, Luhansk Oblast | Unknown Russian artillery unit | Targeted barrage of 9K51M "Tornado-G" rockets.[76] | |
Oleksandr Kharaberiush | SBU colonel | 2017-03-31 | Mariupol | SVR / FSB | ||
Yurii Vitalyevich Voznyi (Yuri Vozny) | 2017-06-27 | Kostiantynivka | ||||
Maksym Shapoval | HUR MOU colonel | Kiev | Explosive placed underneath private car. | |||
Timur Makhauri (aka Ali Timaiev)[77][78] | Chechen battalion commander / fighter | 2017-09-08 | Explosive placed on car.[79][80] | |||
Zelimkhan Khangoshvili | Military commander of Chechen Republic of Ichkeria and Western intelligence agent | 2019-08-23 | Berlin | Germany | GRU[81] | Shot twice in the head with a Glock 26 by a Russian contract killer. |
See also[]
- List of Second Chechen War assassinations
- List of Israeli assassinations
- Operations conducted by the Mossad
- List of journalists killed in Russia
- List of assassinations by the United States
- List of assassinations in Europe § Russia/Soviet Union
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External links[]
- Heidi Blake. 2017. From Russia With Blood: 14 Suspected Hits On British Soil. BuzzFeed. 15 Jun.
- Elias Groll. 2018. A Brief History of Attempted Russian Assassinations by Poison. Foreign Policy. 9 Mar.
- GRU Archives. 2019. Bellingcat. 23 Nov.
- Rob Price and Shona Ghosh. 2018. List of alleged Russian assassinations in Britain. Business Insider. 6 Mar.
- Russia Archives. 2019. Bellingcat. 3 Dec.
- Skripal Archives. 2019. Bellingcat. 14 Oct.
- Жертви політичної епохи Путіна. 2015. Radio Svoboda. 13 Dec.
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