# Death dates of victims of the Great Purge

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Joseph Stalin's purges and massacres between 1936 and the invasion of the Soviet Union by Nazi Germany (Great Purge) had about one million victims. This list includes some of the most prominent victims along with the date of their deaths. Except where otherwise stated, the date is that on which the individual was executed by shooting.

## 1936

July
9 Aghasi Khanjian (murdered by Lavrentiy Beria or suicide)
August
22 Mikhail Tomsky (suicide)
25 Grigori Zinoviev, Lev Kamenev, Grigori Yevdokimov, Ivan Bakayev, Sergei Mrachkovsky, Ivan Smirnov, Vagarshak Ter-Vaganyan.
September
25 (Genrikh Yagoda dismissed from his post as head of the NKVD, and replaced by Nikolai Yezhov)
October
3 Platon Volkov
November
23 Boris Pinson
December
28 Nestor Lakoba (suspected poisoning)

## 1937

January
10 Martemyan Ryutin, Ivar Smilga, Pyotr Zalutsky.
February
1 Georgy Pyatakov, Mikhail Boguslavsky, Yakov Drobnis, Nikolai Muralov, Leonid Serebryakov.
18 Sergo Ordzhonikidze (possibly suicide)
March
8 Izrail Agol
13 Nikolai Glebov-Avilov
21 Levan Gogoberidze
22 Andrei Kolegayev
May
26 Vladimir Nevsky, Alexander Slepkov, Vladimir Smirnov
31 Yan Gamarnik (suicide), Nikolai Uglanov
June
12 Mikhail Tukhachevsky, Roberts Eidemanis, Boris Feldman, August Kork, Vitaly Primakov, Vitovt Putna, Ieronim Uborevich, Iona Yakir.
14 Voldemar Vöölmann
17 Max Levien
19 Yakov Doletsky (suicide), Dmitry Shmidt
20 Mark Gai, Andreu Nin (murdered in Barcelona), Jan Sten
27 Sandro Akhmeteli
July
1 Anatoliy Gekker, Matvei Vasilenko
2 Yevgeni Preobrazhensky, Lev Sosnovsky
3 Boris Gorbachev
7 Axel Bakunts
10 George Eliava
16 Vladimir Kirillov, Pavel Vasiliev
18 Grigol Giorgadze
19 Budu Mdivani
22 Paolo Iashvili (suicide)
August
4 Shalva Okudzhava
7 Oscar Ryvkin, Nikolai Sollogub
13 Aleksandr Voronsky, Boris Didkovsky
14 Leopold Averbakh, Karl Pauker, Ivan Zaporozhets Leonty Ugryumov
17 Sahak Ter-Gabrielyan
19 Ivan Kataev
21 Artur Artuzov, Adolf Warski, Leon Gaikis
25 Johannes Raudmets, Boris Steiger
27 Igor Akulov
30 Panas Lyubchenko (suicide)
September
2 Grigol Lordkipanidze (died while under interrogation), Alexander Shliapnikov
4 Ignace Reiss (murdered in Switzerland), Evgeny Pashukanis
10 Sergei Medvedev, Hayk Ovsepyan, David Petrovsky, Sergei Syrtsov, Sergei Tretyakov
14 Nikolay Ustryalov
20 Lev Karakhan, Marcian Germanovich, Nikolai Kashirin, Ivan Smolin, Ivan Teodorovich, Henryk Walecki
21 Seit Devdariani, Julian Lenski
28 Sergei Mezheninov, Timofei Sapronov
30 Mikheil Javakhishvili
October
3 Alexander Chayanov, Hans Kippenberger, Willy Leow
4 Vladimir Volsky
6 Alexey Skulachenko
10 Peter of Krutitsy
13 Bekir Çoban-zade, Ahmad Javad
14 Karl Bauman
15 Dmitry Fesenko, Evgen Gvaladze, Pamphylia Tanailidi
23 Nikolai Klyuev
26 Henryk Domski
27 Nikolai Durnovo
29 Yakau Branshteyn, Anani Dziakaŭ, Platon Halavach, Valery Marakou, Anatol Volny, Vladimir Milyutin, Sergei Sedov
30 Ivan Akulov, Mikhail Chudov, Mendel Khatayevich, Aleksei Kiselyov, Alexander Krinitsky, Vladimir Polonsky, Mikhail Razumov, Alexander Shotman, Avel Yenukidze, Ivan Zhukov
November
1 Kuzebay Gerd, Milan Gorkic, Gustaw Henrykowski
4 Alexandru Dobrogeanu-Gherea
8 Mikhail Vasilyev-Yuzhin
10 Lev Shubnikov
11 Sergei Chavain, Olyk Ipai, Shabdar Osyp
15 Gleb Bokii
19 Mikhail Demichev
20 Metropolitan Joseph (Petrovykh)
21 Fyodor Golovin, Adrian Piotrovsky,
24 Nikolai Oleynikov
26 Yakov Hanecki, Heinz Neumann, Alexander Krasnoshchyokov, Leonid Kurchevsky, Emanuel Kviring
27 Yeghishe Charents, Aino Forsten, Eero Haapalainen, Ruben Rubenov, Daniil Sulimov
28 Rose Cohen
December
2 Petre Otskheli
3 Shalva Eliava, Boris Skibine
8 Pavel Florensky
10 Rashid Khan Kaplanov, Vladimir Lyubimov, Movses Silikyan
11 Jaan Anvelt (died from torture under interrogation), Hayk Bzhishkyan, Seraphim Chichagov, Mamia Orakhelashvili
16 Giorgi Mazniashvili, Titsian Tabidze
19 Waclaw Bogucki
20 Mustafa Mahmudov
22 Evgeni Mikeladze
23 Herman Hurmevaara
30 Alyaksandr Tsvikievich
31 James Lewin

## 1938

January
2 Yevgeny Henkin, Ulvi Rajab
4 Boris Tageyev
6 Mikayil Mushfig
8 Jūlijs Daniševskis, Mikhail Plisetski
11 Arvid Kubbel, Georgy Langemak
14 Anatoly Pepelyayev
15 Anna Tieke
17 Vladimir Beneshevich
20 Juho Perala, Nikolai Zhilyayev
25 Yevgeny Polivanov
29 Anton Prykhodko
February
8 Tikhon Khvesin, Nikolai Kuzmin, John Pepper
9 Vaino Kallio, Romuald Muklevich, Gazanfar Musabekov
10 Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko, Christophor Araratov, Alexander Beloborodov, Maksim Haretski, Grigory Kaminsky, Joseph Meerzon, Alexander Serebrovsky, Aleksandr Smirnov
11 Asser Salo
13 Alexander Samoylovich
15 Leonid Ustrugov
17 Abram Slutsky (poisoned)
18 Georgii Frederiks, Dmitry Mushketov, Julian Shchutsky,
21 Vladimir Dzhunkovsky
25 Sanjar Asfendiyarov
26 Jukka Ahti, Abram Markson, Tyyne Salomaa
March
10 Tobias Akselrod
14 Vasily Glagolev
15 Nikolai Bukharin, Alexei Rykov, Genrikh Yagoda, Pavel Bulanov, Mikhail Chernov, Hryhoriy Hrynko, Akmal Ikramov, Vladimir Ivanov, Nikolai Krestinsky, Pyotr Kryuchkov, Arkady Rosengolts, Vasily Sharangovich, Isaac Zelensky, Prokopy Zubarev, Valentin Trifonov.
21 Mirza Davud Huseynov
22 Hermann Schubert
28 Vladimir Timiryov
April
5 Verner Lehtimäki
7 Artyom Vesyoly
8 Panteleimon Romanov
21 Sultan Majid Afandiyev, Oskari Ikonen, Boris Pilnyak, Huseyn Rahmanov, Kustaa Rovio, Suren Shadunts
23 Kasyan Chaykovsky (died under interrogation)
24 Aliheydar Garayev
25 Jekabs Peterss, Ivan Mezhlauk
29 Aleksandra Sokolovskaya
May
8 Frans Myyryläinen
29 Hans Hellmann, Solomon Levit
June
3 Sándor Barta
5 Yakov Sheko
14 Edvard Gylling
18 Avetis Sultan-Zade
19 Anastasia Bitsenko
20 Vladimir Gorev, Nikolai Janson
21 Nikolai Goloded (suicide during an interrogation)
25 Vladimir Gorev
29 Vasily Shorin
July
10 Gaziz Almukhametov
18 Vahan Totovents
27 Mikhail Velikanov
28 Yakov Davydov, Terenty Deribas, Vladimir Kirshon, Yakov Alksnis, Izrail Leplevsky, Maksim Ammosov, Vladimir Orlov, Mikhail Sangursky, Alexander Svechin, Ioakhim Vatsetis
29 Janis Rudzutaks, Nikolai Antipov, Moisei Frumkin, Vilhelm Knorin, Nikolai Krylenko, Valery Mezhlauk, Vasily Schmidt, Boris Shumyatsky, Matvey Skobelev, Jozef Unszlicht, Amatuni Vartapetyan, Yakov Yakovlev, Volodymyr Zatonsky
Ivan Belov, Yan Berzin, Anton Bulin, Ivan Dubovoy, Pavel Dybenko, Sergei Gribov, Ivan Gryaznov, Innokenty Khalepsky, Vasiliy Khripin, Grigory Kireyev, Yepifan Kovtyukh, Mikhail Levandovsky, Alexander Sedyakin, Ivan Tkachev
August
1 Yakov Agranov, Alexander Bekzadyan, Eduard Berzin, Andrei Bubnov, Aleksei Stetsky, Semyon Uritsky, Yan Gaylit, Ivan Kosogov, Nikolay Kuibyshev, Mikhail Viktorov, Konstantin Yurenev
16 Marcel Pauker
19 Nikolai Krivoruchko, Vasiliy Mantsev, Nikolay Pakhomov
22 Pyotr Feldman, Vladimir Gittis, Vilhelm Garf, Lavrenti Kartvelashvili, Pavel Sytin
25 Semyon Dimanstein
26 Andrei Sazontov, Sofia Sokolovskaya, Mikhail Svechnikov
29 Jan Antonovich Berzin, Pyotr Bryanskikh, Boris Kamkov, Béla Kun, Jamshid Nakhchivanski, Lev Mironov, Leonid Zakovsky
September
1 Nikolai Bryukhanov, Mieczysław Broński, Valerian Osinsky
3 Alexander Tarasov-Rodionov
7 Nikolai Gorbunov, Karim Mammadbeyov, Nikolai Zimin
8 Mikhail Amelin, Ivan Nikulin
12 Gerzel Baazov
16 Vasily Yakovlev
17 Bruno Jasienski, Nikolai Kondratiev
20 Boris Kornilov, Theodore Maly
21 Benedikt Livshits
22 Vladimir Karelin
27 Hanna Karhinen
October
1 Viktor Bulla
3 Vladimir Varankin
4 Nikolai Vladimirovich Nekrasov
10 Vasili Oshchepkov
11 Grigory Gurkin
12 Matti Airola (died in prison), Maximilian Kravkov
26 Alexander Nikonov
27 Khadija Gayibova, Artemic Khalatov
29 Alexander Krinitsky
30 Osip Piatnitsky
November
6 Vladimir Ivanov
9 Vasily Blyukher (beaten to death by the NKVD interrogator, Lev Shvartzman)
15 Karim Tinchurin
16 Abbas Mirza Sharifzadeh
19 Pavel Voyloshnikov
22 (Nikolai Yezhov dismissed as head of the NKVD, and replaced by Lavrentiy Beria)
29 Branislaw Tarashkyevich
December
9 Vasily Helmersen
27 Osip Mandelstam (died in a labour camp), Boris Gorev
30 Georgy Lomov
31 Artem Jijikhia

## 1939

January
15 Kullervo Manner (died in a labour camp)
February
8 Mikhail Batorsky
10 Bela Szekely
20 Boris Kornilov
22 Boris Berman, Grigory Khakhanyan
23 Alexander Kosarev, Alexander Yegorov
25 Boris Pozern, Pyotr Smorodin
26 Vlas Chubar, Stanislaw Kosior, Levon Mirzoyan, Pavel Postyshev
March
3 Lazar Kogan, Nikolay Rattel
4 Rudolf Samoylovich
7 Alexey Bakulin, Matvei Berman, Volf Bronner, Hermann Remmele
10 Georgy Bondar, Ehsanollah Khan Dustdar
15 Leo Flieg
29 Boris Tolpygo
31 Vladimir Bogushevsky
April
6 Nikolai Bekryashev (died in a labour camp)
15 Aleksei Gastev, Dmitry Shakhovskoy
16 Efrem Eshba
19 Vladimir Copic
May
8 Nikolai Varfolomeyev
19 Karl Radek (murdered in a labour camp)
21 Grigori Sokolnikov (murdered in a labour camp)
June
6 Prince Dmitri.Mirsky (died in a labour camp)
July
9 Maria Koszutska (died in prison)
August
16 Martha Ruben-Wolf (suicide)
October
31 Platon Oyunsky (died in prison)

## 1940

January
26 Zinovy Ushakov
27 Isaac Babel
28 Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev, Aleksandr Uspensky
February
2 Robert Eikhe, Mikhail Koltsov, Vsevolod Meyerhold, Mikhail Trilisser, Yefim Yevdokimov
3 Mikhail Frinovsky, Nikolai Yezhov
May
7 Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov
June
23 Toivo Alavirta (died in a labour camp)
August
20 Leon Trotsky (assassinated in Mexico)
October 16 Boris Stomonyakov