# List of Soviet assassinations

This is a list of people confirmed to have been assassinated by the government of the Soviet Union. 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 | Russian SFSR | Bolsheviks | Unknown. |
| Nicholas II | last Tsar of Russia | 1918-07-17 | Yekaterinburg | Russian SFSR | Cheka | Execution. |
| Francis Cromie | British naval attaché | 1918-08-31 | Petrograd | Russian SFSR | 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 | NKVD | Possible execution. |
| Georges Agabekov | defected OGPU agent | 1937-08-?? | Pyrenees Mountains | Unsure French or Spanish side in the Pyrenees Mountains | NKVD | |
| Ignace Reiss | Soviet spy | 1937-09-04 | Lausanne | Switzerland | NKVD | Strangulation and/or machine gun. |
| Lev Sedov | Leon Trotsky's eldest son | 1938-02-16 | Paris | France | NKVD | |
| Yevhen Konovalets | Leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists | 1938-05-23 | Rotterdam | Netherlands | NKVD | Explosive hidden in box of chocolates. |
| Rudolf Klement | Senior official in the Fourth International and longtime confidant of Trotsky | 1938-07-13 | Paris | France | NKVD | Unknown. Possible beheading. |
| Yevgeny Miller | General in the White Army | 1939-05-11 | Moscow | Soviet Union | NKVD | Tortured and shot. |
| Zinaida Reich | Soviet actress | 1939-07-15 | Moscow | Soviet Union | NKVD | Stabbing. |
| Leon Trotsky | Soviet politician and Marxist revolutionary theorist | 1940-08-21 | Coyoacán | Mexico | NKVD | 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. |
| 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 | Soviet Union | MGB | |
| Khasan Israilov | Chechen nationalist | 1944-12-29 | Chechnya | Soviet Union | 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. |
| Abdurrahman Fatalibeyli | Defected Soviet army major; CIA agent and later chief of the Azerbaijani desk for Radio Liberty | 1954-11-22 | Munich | West Germany | KGB | Strangulation. |
| Lev Rebet | Leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists | 1957-10-10 | Munich | West Germany | KGB | 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 | 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 | KGB | Targeted assault on the Tajbeg Palace (see: Operation Storm-333) |
| Sultan Ibraimov | Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan | 1980-12-04 | Cholpon Ata | Soviet Union | KGB | Shot twice in the head. |