Death dates of victims of the Great Purge

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 Okudzhavaru

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 Steigerru

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   Erwin Bauer, 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 Frumkinru, 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 Mironovru, 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