''Note: Except where otherwise stated, the date is that on which the individual was executed by shooting.''

1936

July 9

Aghasi Khanjian Aghasi Ghevondi Khanjian ( hy, Աղասի Ղևոնդի Խանջյան; russian: Агаси Гевондович Ханджян, ''Agasi Gevondovich Khandzhyan'') (January 30, 1901 – July 9, 1936) was First Secretary of the Communist Party ...

(murdered by Lavrentiy Beria) August 22 Mikhail Tomsky (suicide) 25

Grigori Zinoviev Grigory Yevseyevich Zinoviev, . Transliterated ''Grigorii Evseevich Zinov'ev'' according to the Library of Congress system. (born Hirsch Apfelbaum, – 25 August 1936), known also under the name Ovsei-Gershon Aronovich Radomyslsky (russian: Ов ...

Lev Kamenev Lev Borisovich Kamenev. (''né'' Rozenfeld; – 25 August 1936) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and a prominent Soviet politician. Born in Moscow to parents who were both involved in revolutionary politics, Kamenev attended Imperial Moscow Uni ...

, Grigori Yevdokimov,

Ivan Bakayev Ivan Petrovich Bakayev (russian: Иван Петрович Бакаев; 1887 25 August 1936) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician and statesman. A member of the Left Opposition, he was a defendant at the first Moscow show tri ...

, Sergei Mrachkovsky, Ivan Smirnov,

Vagarshak Ter-Vaganyan Vagarshak Arutyunovich Ter-Vaganyan ( hy, Վաղարշակ Հարությունի Տեր-Վահանյան, 1893–1936) was an Armenian Soviet Communist Party official, journalist and functionary who was one of the first victims of Joseph Stalin's ...

. 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 Nestor Apollonovich Lakoba; ; ab, Нестор Аполлон-иԥа Лакоба; ( Georgian: ნესტორ აპოლონის ძე ლაკობა est'or Ap'olonis Dze Lak'oba 1 May 189328 December 1936) was an Abkhaz comm ...

(suspected poisoning)

1937

January 10

Martemyan Ryutin Martemyan Nikitich Ryutin ( rus, Мартемья́н Ники́тич Рю́тин, Martem'yán Nikítich Ryútin; 13 February, 1890 – 10 January, 1937) was a Russian Marxist activist, Bolshevik revolutionary, and a political functionary of the ...

, Ivar Smilga,

Pyotr Zalutsky Pyotr Antonovich Zalutsky (Russian: Пётр Антонович Залутский) (February 1887 – January 10, 1937) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and Communist Party organiser, who was executed for his involvement in the Left Oppositi ...

. February 1 Georgy Pyatakov,

Mikhail Boguslavsky Mikhail Solomonovich Boguslavsky (Russia: Михаил Соломонович Богуславский) (1 May 1886 – 1 February 1937) was Russian revolutionary and politician, who was tried and executed as a former supporter of Leon Trotsky. B ...

, Yakov Drobnis,

Nikolai Muralov Nikolay Ivanovich Muralov (russian: Николай Иванович Муралов; 7 December 1877 – 1 February 1937) was a Bolshevik revolutionary leader and military commander in Russia, who after 1923 became a member of the Left Opposition. ...

, Leonid Serebryakov. 18

Sergo Ordzhonikidze Sergo Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze,, ; russian: Серго Константинович Орджоникидзе, Sergo Konstantinovich Ordzhonikidze) born Grigol Konstantines dze Orjonikidze, russian: Григорий Константино ...

(suicide) March 8

Izrail Agol Izrail Iossofovich Agol (Russian: Израиль Иосифович Агол; November 20, 1891 – March 8, 1937) was a Soviet geneticist and philosopher. He was a member of the USSR Academy of Science, worked briefly in the United States of Ameri ...

Nikolai Glebov-Avilov Nikolai Pavlovich Glebov-Avilov (russian: Николáй Пáвлович Глéбов-Ави́лов; 11 October 1887 – 13 March 1937) was a prominent Bolshevik revolutionary and the first People's Commissar of Posts and Telegraphs. He was ...

Levan Gogoberidze Levan Gogoberidze ( ka, ლევან ღოღობერიძე; 21 January 1896 – 21 March 1937) was a Soviet and Georgian politician. He served as First Secretary of the Georgian Communist Party from May to 19 November 1930. He was rep ...

22 Andrei Kolegayev May 26

Vladimir Nevsky Vladimir Ivanovich Nevsky (Russian: Влади́мир Ива́нович Не́вский; 14 May Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates">O.S._2_May.html" ;"title="Old_Style_and_New_Style_dates.html" ;"title="nowiki/> O.S._2_May">Old_Style_and_New_Style_ ...

Alexander Slepkov Alexander Nikolaevich Slepkov (Russian: Александр Николаевич Слепков; 20 August 1899 – 26 May 1937) was a Soviet journalist and Communist Party functionary, executed for his opposition to the forced collectivization of ...

, Vladimir Smirnov 31 Yan Gamarnik (suicide),

Nikolai Uglanov Nikolai Aleksandrovich Uglanov (russian: Никола́й Алекса́ндрович Угла́нов; December 5, 1886 – May 31, 1937) was a Russian Bolshevik politician and Soviet statesman who played an important role in the government of t ...

June 12 Mikhail Tukhachevsky,

Roberts Eidemanis Roberts Eidemanis (russian: Ро́берт Петро́вич Эйдема́н, ''Robert Petrovich Eideman''; 1895 – June 12, 1937) was a Latvian Soviet Komkor, writer and poet. He was born in Lejasciems, Gulbene Municipality of Latvia a ...

, Boris Feldman,

August Kork August Ivanovich Kork (, also Аугуст Яанович Корк; 11 June 1937) was an Estonian Red Army commander (Komandarm 2nd rank) who was tried and executed during the Great Purge in 1937. Kork became an officer of the Imperial Russi ...

Vitaly Primakov Vitaliy Markovich Primakov ( rus, Виталий Маркович Примаков, Vitaliy Markovich Primakov; uk, Віталій Маркович Примаков) (3 December 1897 – 12 June 1937) was a Soviet Union, Soviet revolutionar ...

, Vitovt Putna, Ieronim Uborevich, Iona Yakir. 14

Voldemar Vöölmann Voldemar Vöölmann (1887 – 14 June 1937) was an Estonian Communist politician who was the chairman of the city government of Tallinn from September 1917 to March 1918. He was elected to the Tallinn City Council as part of the Bolshevik movem ...

17 Max Levien 19

Yakov Doletsky Yakov Genrikhovich Doletsky (in Polish: Dolecki; real name Fenigstein ) (in Russian: Яков Генрихович Долецкий; real name Фенигштейн; 1888 – 19 June 1937) was a Polish revolutionary and long-serving head of the Sovi ...

(suicide), Dmitry Shmidt 20 Mark Gai, Andreu Nin (murdered in Barcelona),

Jan Sten Jan Ernestovich Sten (Russian: Ян Эрнестович Стэн; Latvian: Jānis Stens; 21 March 189920 June 1937) was a Soviet Communist Party functionary and specialist in Marxist philosophy. Early career Born into a peasant family in moder ...

27 Sandro Akhmeteli July 1 Anatoliy Gekker,

Matvei Vasilenko Matvei Ivanovich Vasilenko (russian: Матвей Иванович Василенко; – 1 July 1937) was a Soviet Union, Soviet komkor (corps commander). He fought in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I before going over to the Bolshe ...

2 Yevgeni Preobrazhensky,

Lev Sosnovsky Lev Semyonovich Sosnovsky (Russian: Лев Семёнович Сосновский) (1 January 18863 July 1937) was a Russian revolutionary, publicist and journalist. He was a prominent Trotskyist and member of the left opposition who was executed ...

3 Boris Gorbachev 7 Axel Bakunts 10

George Eliava George Eliava (Georgian — გიორგი ელიავა; January 13, 1892 – July 10, 1937) was a Georgian-Soviet microbiologist who worked with bacteriophages (viruses that infect bacteria). Eliava was born in Sachkhere. From 19 ...

Vladimir Kirillov Vladimir Timofeïevitch Kirillov ( rus, Влад′имир Тимоф′еевич Кир′иллов) (2 October 1889, in Kharino, Smolensk Governorate – 16 July 1937, in Moscow) was a Russian proletarian poet associated with Proletkult. Ki ...

, Pavel Vasiliev 18

Grigol Giorgadze Grigol Giorgadze ( ka, გრიგოლ გიორგაძე) (November 30, 1879 – July 18, 1937) was a Georgian historian, jurist and politician. Born in Kutaisi into the family of a priest, Giorgadze graduated from a local theologica ...

Budu Mdivani Polikarp "Budu" Gurgenovich Mdivani ( ka, პოლიკარპე ��უდუმდივანი; russian: Поликарп Гургенович �удуМдивани, ''Polikarp Gurgenovich uduMdivani''; 1877 – 19 July 1937) was a veter ...

Paolo Iashvili Paolo Iashvili ( ka, პაოლო იაშვილი; 29 June 1894 – 22 July 1937) was a Georgian poet and one of the leaders of Georgian symbolist movement. Under the Soviet Union, his obligatory conformism and the loss of his friends at ...

(suicide) August 4 Shalva Okudzhava 7

Oscar Ryvkin Oscar Lvovich Ryvkin ( Russian: Оскар Львович Рывкин; 4 January 1899 – 7 August 1937) also known by his alias O. Skar was a Soviet politician that served in various positions including First Secretary of the Central Committ ...

, Nikolai Sollogub 13 Aleksandr Voronsky,

Boris Didkovsky Boris Vladimirovich Didkovsky (russian: Борис Владимирович Дидковский) (1 May 1883 – 13 August 1937) was a Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet geologist, teacher and rector of the Ural State University. Biography Did ...

Leopold Averbakh Leopold Leonidovich Averbakh (Russian: Леопо́льд Леони́дович Аверба́х; 8 March, 1903 Saratov – 14 August, 1937, Moscow) was a Soviet literary critic, who was the head of the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers ...

Karl Pauker Karl Viktorovich Pauker (January 1893, in Lviv – 14 August 1937, in Moscow) was an NKVD officer and head of Joseph Stalin's personal security until his arrest and execution. Pauker was born into Jewish family in Lviv, which was then part of ...

, Ivan Zaporozhets Leonty Ugryumov 17

Sahak Ter-Gabrielyan Sahak Mirzayi Ter-Gabrielyan ( hy, Սահակ Միրզայի Տեր-Գաբրիելյան; 1886 – 19 August 1937) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet Armenian statesman. Born in Shushi to the family of a tailor, he became a member of the ...

Ivan Kataev Ivan Ivanovich Kataev (russian: Ива́н Ива́нович Ката́ев; 27 May 1902 – 19 August 1937) was a Soviet Union, Soviet novelist, short story writer, and journalist. Biography Kataev was born in Moscow. His father was the uncle of ...

21 Artur Artuzov,

Adolf Warski Adolf Warski (born Adolf Jerzy Warszawski; 20 April 1868 – 21 August 1937), was a Polish communist leader, journalist and theoretician of the communist movement in Poland. Warski was born in Warsaw into an assimilated Polish Jewish family ...

Leon Gaikis Leonid Yakovlevich Gaikis (Gaykis, Hajkis, Jaikis, Khaikis; 1898, Warsaw — 21 August 1937, Moscow) was Soviet diplomat and the second Soviet ambassador to Spain, where he served during the Spanish Civil War. In 1937, he was recalled to Moscow, ...

25 Johannes Raudmets,

Boris Steiger Boris may refer to: People * Boris (given name), a male given name *:''See'': List of people with given name Boris * Boris (surname) * Boris I of Bulgaria (died 907), the first Christian ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire, canonized after his ...

Igor Akulov Igor Alexandrovich Akulov (Epiphany, Epiphanius; 13 April 1897, Novo-Nikitskaya, Korchevsky County, province of Tver — 27 August 1937, Leningrad) originally a Russian Orthodox monk, later a priest of the Russian Catholic Church and victim of Jose ...

Panas Lyubchenko Panas Petrovych Lyubchenko ( uk, Панас Петрович Любченко; 14 January 1897 – 30 August 1937) was a Ukrainian and Soviet politician, who served as the Chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of Ukrainian SSR (toda ...

(suicide) September 2

Grigol Lordkipanidze Grigol Lordkipanidze ( ka, გრიგოლ ლორთქიფანიძე; 2 September 1881 – 2 September 1937) was a Georgian politician and author. During the Russian Revolution of 1917, he was involved in the Georgian independence mo ...

(died while under interrogation), Alexander Shliapnikov 4 Ignace Reiss (murdered in Switzerland),

Evgeny Pashukanis Evgeny Bronislavovich Pashukanis (Russian: Евгений Брониславович Пашуканис; 23 February 1891 – 4 September 1937) was a Soviet legal scholar, best known for his work ''The General Theory of Law and Marxism''. Early li ...

10 Sergei Medvedev,

Hayk Ovsepyan Hayk Alexandri Hovsepyan or Gayk Alexandrovich Osepyan (Ovsepyan) ( hy, Հայկ Ալեքսանդրի Հովսեփյան; ; 19 January or 19 June 1891 - 10 September 1937) was a Soviet military leader and politician of Armenian origin. He was also ...

David Petrovsky David Petrovsky (Lipetz) (also known as Max Goldfarb, Bennett, Humboldt, Brown, born September 24, 1886, in Berdychiv, Russian Empire — September 10, 1937, Moscow, Soviet Union) — a member of the Central Committee of the Jewish Socialist Fede ...

, Sergei Syrtsov, Sergei Tretyakov 14 Nikolay Ustryalov 20

Lev Karakhan Lev Mikhailovich Karakhan (''Karakhanian'') Armenian Լևոն Միքայելի Կարախանյան, Russian Лев Михайлович Карахан (20 January 1889, Tiflis – 20 September 1937, Moscow) was a Russian revolutionary and a ...

Marcian Germanovich Marcian Yakovlevich Germanovich (Russian: Маркиан Яковлевич Германович; October 29, 1895 – September 20, 1937) was a Soviet division commander and Komkor (corps commander). He fought in the Imperial Russian Army in Wor ...

Nikolai Kashirin Nikolai Dmitrievich Kashirin (Russian language, Russian: Николай Дмитриевич Каширин; 16 February 1888 – 14 June 1938) was a Soviet Komandarm 2nd rank. He fought for the Imperial Russian Army in World War I, receiving the ...

Ivan Smolin Ivan Ivanovich Smolin (; 5 July 1895 – 20 September 1937) was a Soviet army commander. He fought in the Imperial Russian Army in World War I and in the Soviet Red Army in the Russian Civil War. He was a recipient of the Order of the Red Banner ( ...

Ivan Teodorovich Ivan Adolfovich Teodorovich (russian: Ива́н Адольфо́вич Теодо́рович; pl, Iwan Adolfowicz Teodorowicz) (September 10 ( O. S. August 29), 1875 in Smolensk – September 20, 1937), was a Russian Bolshevik activist and ...

Henryk Walecki Maksymilian Horwitz (pseudonym: ''Henryk Walecki''; 6 September 1877 – 20 September 1937) was a leader and theoretician of the Polish socialist and communist movement. Biography Maksymilian Horwitz was born to a Jewish family in Warsaw, the s ...

Seit Devdariani Seit Devdariani ( ka, სეით დევდარიანი) (1879, Kutaisi – 21 September 1937, Tbilisi) was a Georgian philosopher and political activist who was a deputy of the National Council of Georgia and the Constituent Assembly of ...

Julian Lenski Julian may refer to: People * Julian (emperor) (331–363), Roman emperor from 361 to 363 * Julian (Rome), referring to the Roman gens Julia, with imperial dynasty offshoots * Saint Julian (disambiguation), several Christian saints * Julian (gi ...

Sergei Mezheninov Sergei A Mezheninov (January 19, 1890 – September 28, 1937) was a Soviet komkor (corps commander). He fought for the Imperial Russian Army during World War I before going over to the Bolsheviks during the subsequent civil war. During this wa ...

, Timofei Sapronov 30 Mikheil Javakhishvili October 3 Alexander Chayanov,

Hans Kippenberger Hans Kippenberger (15 January 1898 – 3 October 1937) was a German politician ( KPD). Between 1928 and 1933 he sat as a member of the National Parliament (''Reichstag''). Like many Communist Party members at the time, he also operated under " ...

Willy Leow Willy Leow (25 January 1887 – 3 October 1937) was a German communist politician and activist. Life and work Willy Leow attended elementary school in Brandenburg an der Havel. Then he learned the carpentry trade and was taught at the Workers' Ed ...

4 Vladimir Volsky 6

Alexey Skulachenko Alexey Yerofeyevich Skulachenko (; 13 June 1895 – 6 October 1937) was a Red Army ''kombrig'' executed during the Great Purge. Skulachenko served with armored car units of the Imperial Russian Army during World War I and commanded them during the ...

Peter of Krutitsy Peter of Krutitsy (Священному́ченик Пётр Крути́цкий, born Pyotr Fyodorovich Polyansky, Пётр Фёдорович Поля́нский; June 28, 1862 – September 27 O. S./October 10, 1937), was a Russian Orthodox ...

Bekir Çoban-zade Bekir Vaap oğlu Çoban-zade (pronounced , Russian: Беки́р Ваа́пович Чоба́н-заде́; – 13 October 1937) was a Crimean Tatar poet and professor of Turkic languages who was one of the victims of the Great Purge. In t ...

Ahmad Javad Ahmad Javad ( az, Əhməd Məhəmmədəli oğlu Cavad; May 5, 1892 – October 13, 1937) was an Azerbaijani poet who is best known for writing the words of the National Anthem of Azerbaijan used under the 1918–1920 Democratic Republic of Az ...

Karl Bauman Karl Yanovich Bauman (russian: Карл Янович Бауман, lv, Kārlis Baumanis; August 29, 1892 – October 14, 1937) was a Latvian-born Soviet politician and functionary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. He was born in Viļ ...

Dmitry Fesenko Dmitry Semyonovich Fesenko (russian: Дмитрий Семёнович Фесенко; September 1895 – 15 October 1937) was a Soviet Komkor (corps commander). He was born in present-day Stavropol Krai. He fought for the Imperial Russian Army du ...

Evgen Gvaladze Evgen (Geno) Gvaladze ( ka, ევგენ (გენო) ღვალაძე) (May 13, 1900 – October 15, 1937) was a Georgian lawyer, journalist and politician, and one of the leaders of the anti-Soviet national-liberation movement in Georg ...

Pamphylia Tanailidi Pamphylia Tanailidi, often spelled as Panfilia Tanailidi ( az, Panfiliya Tanailidi, el, Παμφυλία Ταναϊλίδη; 1891, Bashkand – 15 October 1937, Baku) was an Azerbaijani actress of Pontic Greek origin. Life and career Tan ...

Nikolai Klyuev Nikolai Alekseevich Klyuev ( rus, Николай Алексеевич Клюев, p=nʲɪkɐˈlaj ɐlʲɪˈksʲejɪvʲɪtɕ ˈklʲʉjɪf; 22 October 1884 – 23/25 October 1937), was a notable Russian poet. He was influenced by the symbolist mo ...

Henryk Domski Henryk Stein-Domski (real name: Stein; pseud Kamiensky) (5 September 1883 – 26 October 1937) was a Polish communist politician and activist, who led the Communist Party of Poland in 1925, before being ousted and repressed as a suspected Trotskyis ...

27 Nikolai Durnovo 29

Yakau Branshteyn Yakau Anatolevich Branshteyn (Belarusian: Якаў Анатолевіч Бранштэйн, russian: Яков Анатольевич Бронштейн, ''Yakov Anatolyevich Bronshteyn''; November 10, 1897 - October 29, 1937) was a Belarusian liter ...

Anani Dziakaŭ Anani Dziakaŭ (October 1, 1896 – October 29, 1937) was a Belarusian teacher. He was the fourth president of the Belarusian State University from 1934-1935. During the Great Purge, he was killed in the 1937 mass execution of Belarusians. Biogra ...

Platon Halavach Platon Halavach (Belarusian, Платон Раманавіч Галавач, russian: Плато́н Рома́нович Голова́ч; 1903 – October 29, 1937) was a Belarusian writer. During the Great Purge, he became a victim of the 1937 ...

Valery Marakou Valery Marakou ( be, Валеры Маракоў; russian: Валерий Дмитриевич Моряков; 29 October 1937) was a Belarusian poet and translator. Biography First verses of poetry by Marakou were published as ''Petals'' i ...

Anatol Volny Anatol' Volny (left) and Mihas' Charot {{Expand Belarusian, Анатоль Вольны, date=June 2017 Biography From the family of a civil servant. In 1911, he entered the Abbot's Gymnasium, received secondary education. He graduated from the ...

Vladimir Milyutin,

Sergei Sedov Sergei L. Sedov (1937) was a Soviet engineer and scientist killed in the Great Purge for being the son of Leon Trotsky. Personal life The son of Leon Trotsky by his second wife, and younger brother of Lev Sedov, Sergei L. Sedov was born in . H ...

30 Ivan Akulov,

Mikhail Chudov Mikhail Semyonovich Chudov (Russian: Михаил Семёнович Чудов; September 17, 1893 – October 30, 1937) was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet politician. He and his wife were shot during the Great Purge. Early years Mikhail Seme ...

Mendel Khatayevich Mendel Markovich Khatayevich (russian: Мендель Маркович Хатаевич; 3 October 1893 – 30 October 1937) was a Soviet politician.

, Aleksei Kiselyov,

Alexander Krinitsky Aleksandr Ivanovich Krinitsky (russian: Алекса́ндр Ива́нович Крини́цкий; 1894, Tver – 1937) was a Soviet statesman and first secretary of the Communist Party of the Byelorussian SSR from May 1924 to December 1925 ...

Vladimir Polonsky Vladimir Ivanovich Polonsky ( az, Владимир Полонски Ыван оғлу, italic=no, Vladimir Polonski Ivan oğlu, russian: Владимир Иванович Полонский; 17 June 1893 – 30 October 1937) was a Soviet pol ...

, Mikhail Razumov, Alexander Shotman,

Avel Yenukidze Avel Safronovich Yenukidze ( ka, აბელ ენუქიძე, ''Abel Enukidze'', ; russian: А́вель Сафронович Енуки́дзе; – 30 October 1937) was a prominent Georgian " Old Bolshevik" and, at one point, a member o ...

Ivan Zhukov Ivan Pavlovich Zhukov (1889 – 30 October 1937) was a Soviet politician and statesman. He was a member of the Central Committee elected by the 17th Congress of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) He received the Order of Lenin in 1931. Dur ...

November 1

Kuzebay Gerd Kuzma Pavlovich Chaynikov (russian: Кузьма́ Па́влович Ча́йников, p=kʊˈzʲma ˈpavləvʲɪtɕ ˈtɕajnʲɪkəf, a=Kuz'ma Pavlovich Chaynikov.ru.vorb.oga), better known as Kuzebay Gerd (russian: Кузеба́й Ге́рд, ...

, Milan Gorkic, Gustaw Henrykowski 4 Alexandru Dobrogeanu-Gherea 8 Mikhail Vasilyev-Yuzhin 10

Lev Shubnikov Lev Vasilyevich Shubnikov (russian: Лев Васи́льевич Шу́бников; uk, Лев Васильович Шубников) (September 29, 1901 – November 10, 1937) was a Soviet experimental physicist who worked in the Netherlands ...

11 Sergei Chavain,

Olyk Ipai Olyk Ipai ( Mari: О́лык Ипа́й, 24 March 1912 – 11 November 1937) was a Mari poet. He was born as Ipatiy Stepanovich Stepanov (russian: Ипáтий Степáнович Степáнов) in the village of Toimetsola in the Mari El. ...

Shabdar Osyp

Shabdar Osyp (Mari language, Mari: ''Шабда́р О́сы� ...

Gleb Bokii Gleb Ivanovich Bokii ( ukr, Гліб Іванович Бокій; russian: Глеб Иванович Бокий; 21 June 1879 – 15 November 1937) was a Ukrainian Communist political activist, revolutionary, and paranormal investigatorZnamenski ...

19 Mikhail Demichev 20 Metropolitan Joseph (Petrovykh) 21 Fyodor Golovin,

Adrian Piotrovsky Adrian Ivanovich Piotrovsky (russian: Адриа́н Ива́нович Пиотро́вский) ( – 21 November 1937) was a Russian Soviet dramaturge, responsible for creating the synopsis for Sergei Prokofiev's ballet '' Romeo and Juliet''. He ...

, 24 Nikolai Oleynikov 26 Yakov Hanecki,

Heinz Neumann Heinz Neumann (6 July 1902 – 26 November 1937) was a German politician from the Communist Party (KPD) and a journalist. He was a member of the Communist International, editor in chief of the party newspaper ''Die Rote Fahne'' and a member of the ...

Alexander Krasnoshchyokov Alexander Mikhailovich Krasnoshchyokov (russian: Алекса́ндр Миха́йлович Краснощёков, real name – Avraam Moiseevich Krasnoshchyok, russian: Абра́м Моисе́евич Краснощёк, October 10, 1880 – ...

Leonid Kurchevsky Leonid Vasilyevich Kurchevsky (russian: Леонид Васильевич Курчевский) (September 22, 1890, Pereslavl-Zalessky – November 26, 1937 (January 12, 1939?)) was a Russian/Soviet weapons designer. Kurchevsky was born into a ...

, Emanuel Kviring 27 Yeghishe Charents,

Aino Forsten Aina "Aino" Aleksandra Forsten, née Rainio (2 April 1885 – 27 November 1937), was a Finnish politician and educator. She was a member of the Parliament of Finland for the Social Democratic Party from 1916 to 1918. After the 1918 Finnish Civil ...

, Eero Haapalainen,

Ruben Rubenov Ruben Gukasovich Rubenov (russian: Рубен Гукасович Рубенов, az, Рубен Гукасович Рубенов, italic=no, Ruben Qukasoviç Rubenov, hy, Ռուբեն Ղուկասի Ռուբենով) (1894 – 27 November 1 ...

, Daniil Sulimov 28 Rose Cohen December 2

Petre Otskheli Petre Otskheli (; 25 November 1907 – 2 December 1937) was a Georgian modernist set and costume designer who designed in theatre in Georgia. Born in Kutaisi, Otskheli studied at the Kutaisi realschule and the Tbilisi State Academy of Arts in ...

3 Shalva Eliava,

Boris Skibine Boris Alexandrovich Skibin (russian: Борис Александрович Скибин; 3 June 1876 – 3 December 1937), spelled Skibine in French, was a Russian ballet dancer with the Ballets Russes, as was his son, George. Boris Skibine appeare ...

8 Pavel Florensky 10

Rashid Khan Kaplanov Rashid Khan Zavid oghlu Gaplanov ('' kum, Raşit-han Zabitni ulanı Qaplan'', az, Rəşid xan Zavid oğlu Qaplanov, ''russian: Рашид хан Завитович Капланов''; 1883–1937), also known as Rashit-han Gaplanov, was a North C ...

Vladimir Lyubimov Vladimir Vissarionovich Lyubimov (February 24, 1879 – December 10, 1937) was a Soviet military leader. Biography Service start Born in to an upper-class family. He graduated from the Samara men's gymnasium, and then the Kazan Junker School. I ...

, Movses Silikyan 11

Jaan Anvelt Jaan Anvelt (also known by the pseudonyms Eessaare Aadu, Jaan Holm, Jaan Hulmu, Kaarel Maatamees, Onkel Kaak; in Russian or ; 18 April 1884 – 11 December 1937), was an Estonian Bolshevik revolutionary and writer. He served the Russian SFSR ...

(died from torture under interrogation),

Hayk Bzhishkyan Hayk Bzhishkian ( hy, Հայկ Բժշկյան, Persian هایک پزشکیان, Russian: Гайк Бжишкян, also known as Guy Dmitrievich Guy, Gai Dmitrievich Gai (Гай Дмитриевич Гай), Gaya Gai (Гая Гай), or Bzhishky ...

, Seraphim Chichagov,

Mamia Orakhelashvili Mamia Orakhelashvili ( ka, მამია ორახელაშვილი, russian: Иван (Мамия) Дмитриевич Орахелашвили, ''Ivan (Mamia) Dmitrievich Orakhelashvili''; June 10, 1881 – December 11, 1937) was a ...

16 Giorgi Mazniashvili, Titsian Tabidze 19 Waclaw Bogucki 20

Mustafa Mahmudov Mustafa Mahmudov () was an Azerbaijani political leader who was instrumental in the nation's independence movement in the early 1900s. He served as a member of parliament for the second Russian State Duma in 1907 and was Deputy Secretary of the Az ...

Evgeni Mikeladze 220px, Evgeni Mikeladze Evgeni Mikeladze ( ka, ევგენი მიქელაძე) (July 27, 1903 – 1937) was a leading Georgian orchestra conductor of the 1930s, executed during the Joseph Stalin's Great Purges. Born in Baku, Azerba ...

23 Herman Hurmevaara 30 Alyaksandr Tsvikievich 31 James Lewin

1938

January 2 Yevgeny Henkin,

Ulvi Rajab Ulvi Rajab ( az, Ülvi Rəcəb; 1903, Janivri, near Batumi – 2 January 1938, Baku) was an Azerbaijani stage actor. Life and career He was born Ulvi Shashygzade ( ka, ულვი შაშიკაძე) in the village of Janivri (presently i ...

4 Boris Tageyev 6

Mikayil Mushfig Mikayil Mushfig ( az, Mikayıl Müşfiq, born Mikayil Ismayilzade) (5 June 1908, Baku – 6 January 1938, Baku) was an Azerbaijani poet of the 1930s. Most of his poetry is about romance, nature, feelings. Despite this, he soon became one of ...

8 Jūlijs Daniševskis,

Mikhail Plisetski Mikhail Emmanuilovich (Mendelevich) Plisetski (russian: Михаил Эммануилович (Менделевич) Плисецкий; 1899 — 1938) was a Soviet diplomat. Biography Mikhail Plisetski was born in Gomel to the Lithuanian Jew ...

Erwin Bauer Erwin Erich Bauer (17 July 1912 in Stuttgart – 3 June 1958 in Cologne) was a German Formula One driver who raced a privately entered Veritas in his one World Championship Grand Prix. Racing career In April, 1953, Bauer co-drove a Porsche 356 ...

Arvid Kubbel Arvid Kubbel (12 September 1889 – 11 January 1938) was a chess player and composer of chess problems and Endgame study, endgame studies from the Soviet Union. He was a brother of Evgeny and Leonid Kubbel; their father was born in Latvia, of Balti ...

, Georgy Langemak 14 Anatoly Pepelyayev 15

Anna Tieke Anna Tieke (born Anna Wittenburg: 11 November 1898 - 15 January 1938) was a German communist. With her family she relocated to the Soviet Union in 1931. On 15 January 1938 Anna Tieke and her son Rudolf, identified as "suspected German spies", ...

Vladimir Beneshevich Vladimir Nicolayevich Beneshevich (russian: Влади́мир Никола́евич Бенеше́вич; August 9, 1874 – January 17, 1938) was a Russian scholar of Byzantine history and canon law, and a philologer and paleographer of the ...

20 Juho Perala, Nikolai Zhilyayev 25

Yevgeny Polivanov Yevgeny Dmitrievich Polivanov (russian: Евге́ний Дми́триевич Полива́нов; – 25 January 1938) was a Soviet linguist, orientalist and polyglot who wrote major works on the Chinese, Japanese, Uzbek and Dungan langua ...

Anton Prykhodko Anton (Antin) Terentiiovych Prykhodko (Ukrainian: Антін Терентійович Приходько; 1891 – January 29, 1938, ArkhangelskInvestigative case for the charge of Prikhodko Anton Teryentevich. State Archive of Kharkiv Oblast, f ...

February 8

Tikhon Khvesin Tikhon Serafimovich Khvesin (russian: Тихон Серафимович Хвесин; September 21, 1894 – February 10, 1938) was a Soviet military officer and statesman, as well as chairman of the Saratov Regional Executive Committee (1935– ...

Nikolai Kuzmin Nikolai Nikolayevich Kuzmin (russian: Николай Николаевич Кузьмин) (3 April 1883 – 8 February 1938) was a Soviet political and military leader. He was the political commissar of the Baltic Fleet during the time of the Ru ...

John Pepper John Pepper, also known as József Pogány and Joseph Pogany (born József Schwartz; November 8, 1886 – February 8, 1938), was a Hungarian Communist politician. He later served as a functionary in the Communist International (Comintern) in Mos ...

9 Vaino Kallio, Romuald Muklevich, Gazanfar Musabekov 10 Vladimir Antonov-Ovseenko, Christophor Araratov, Alexander Beloborodov,

Maksim Haretski Maksim Haretski (18 February 1893 – 10 February 1938; be, Максі́м Іва́навіч Гарэ́цкі, russian: Макси́м Ива́нович Горе́цкий), also known as Maksim Harecki and Maksim Goretsky, was a Belarusian ...

, Grigory Kaminsky, Joseph Meerzon,

Alexander Serebrovsky Alexander Pavlovich Serebrovsky (russian: Александр Павлович Серебровский; – 10 February 1938) was a Russian revolutionary and Soviet petroleum and mining engineer nicknamed the "Soviet Rockefeller". Biography ...

Aleksandr Smirnov Aleksandr or Alexander Smirnov may refer to: Footballers * Aleksandr Smirnov (footballer, born 1968), Russian football player and coach * Aleksandr Smirnov (footballer, born 1982), Russian football player * Aleksandr Smirnov (footballer, born 1996 ...

Asser Salo Edvard Asser Salo ( Russian Ассер Эдуардович Сало, ''Asser Eduardovich Salo''; 22 February 1902, in Laukaa, Grand Duchy of Finland – 11 February 1938, in Karelian ASSR, Soviet Union) was a Finnish lawyer and politician. He ...

Alexander Samoylovich Alexander Nikolaevich Samoylovich (russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Самойло́вич, 1880–1938) was a Russian Orientalist-Turkologist who served as a member of the USSR Academy of Sciences (1929), Rector of the Lening ...

Leonid Ustrugov Leonid Aleksandrovich Ustrugov (russian: Леонид Александрович Устругов; November 23, 1877, Moscow – February 15, 1938, Moscow) was a Russian railway engineer who served as the Minister of Railways in the White governm ...

17 Abram Slutsky (poisoned) 18

Georgii Frederiks Georgii Nikolaevich Frederiks (russian: Георгий Николаевич Фредерикc) (1889–1938) was a Russian and Soviet geologist who specialized in paleontology, tectonics and stratigraphy. He described many fossil taxa before beco ...

, Dmitry Mushketov,

Julian Shchutsky Julian Konstantinovich Shchutsky (russian: Юлиан Константинович Шуцкий, 11 August 1897, Ekaterinburg – February 18, 1938, Leningrad) was a Russian sinologist. Education and scientific career Shchutsky's father was of ...

, 21 Vladimir Dzhunkovsky 25 Sanjar Asfendiyarov 26 Jukka Ahti, Abram Markson,

Tyyne Salomaa Tyyne Siviä Salomaa (née ''Eriksson''; 4 April 1891, Kuorevesi - 26 February 1938, Petrozavodsk; name as Soviet citizen ''Тюне Генриховна Саломаа'') was a Finnish seamstress and politician. She was a member of the Parliament ...

March 10

Tobias Akselrod Tobias Akselrod (15 October 1887 in Moscow – 10 March 1938 in Kommunarka shooting ground, Moscow Oblast) was a Russian revolutionary and 1919 member of the Bavarian Soviet Republic. Life Akselrod joined the Jewish Labour Bund in 1905. By 1 ...

14 Vasily Glagolev 15

Nikolai Bukharin Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin (russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Буха́рин) ( – 15 March 1938) was a Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician, Marxist philosopher and economist and prolific author on revolutionary theory. ...

Alexei Rykov Alexei Ivanovich Rykov (25 February 188115 March 1938) was a Russian Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician and statesman, most prominent as premier of Russia and the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1929 and 1924 to 1930 respectively. He wa ...

, Genrikh Yagoda,

Pavel Bulanov Pavel Petrovich Bulanov (Russian: Па́вел Петро́вич Була́нов; 1895 – March 15, 1938) was a NKVD officer and one of the defendants in the Case of the Anti-Soviet "Bloc of Rights and Trotskyites". Bulanov was born in 1895 in ...

Mikhail Chernov Mikhail Chernov (born November 11, 1978) is a Russian former professional ice hockey defenceman who played in the Russian Superleague and the Kontinental Hockey League. Playing career Chernov was drafted 103rd overall by the Philadelphia Flyers ...

Hryhoriy Hrynko Hryhoriy Fedorovych Hrynko ( uk, Григорій Федорович Гринько; in Shtepivka – March 15, 1938) was a Soviet Ukrainian statesman who held high office in the government of the Soviet Union. Initially he was a member of the ...

, Akmal Ikramov, Vladimir Ivanov, Nikolai Krestinsky,

Pyotr Kryuchkov Pyotr Petrovich Kryuchkov (russian: Пётр Петро́вич Крючко́в; 12 November 1889, Perm, Russia, Perm – 15 March 1938) was a Soviet Union, soviet lawyer and the secretary of Maxim Gorky. Career Pyotr Kryuchkov was born in Perm ...

, Arkady Rosengolts,

Vasily Sharangovich Vasily Fomich Sharangovich (russian: Васи́лий Фоми́ч Шаранго́вич; be, Васіль Фаміч Шаранговіч, Vasil Sharanhovich; March 4, 1897 – March 15, 1938) was Belarusian Soviet politician and first secretary ...

, Isaac Zelensky, Prokopy Zubarev, Valentin Trifonov. 21 Mirza Davud Huseynov 22 Hermann Schubert 28 Vladimir Timiryov April 5

Verner Lehtimäki Verner Lehtimäki (8 June 1890 – 5 April 1938), was a Finnish socialist, soldier, pilot, aerospace engineer and revolutionary. Early life Lehtimäki was born as a peasant's son in Vahto, a small rural municipality in the province of Southwe ...

Artyom Vesyoly Artyom Vesyoly (Russian: Артём Весёлый; 17 September 1899 – 8 April 1938) was the pseudonym of Nikolai Ivanovich Kotshurov, a Soviet writer and poet. Biography He was born into a poor working family and was himself a worker at the ...

Panteleimon Romanov Panteleimon Sergeyevich Romanov (russian: Пантелеймон Серге́евич Романов; July 24, 1884 – April 8, 1938) was a Russian/Soviet writer. Biography Romanov was born into a gentry family in the village of Petrovskoe in w ...

Sultan Majid Afandiyev Sultan Majid Afandiyev ( az, Sultan Məcid Əfəndiyev; russian: Султан Меджид Эфендиев), also spelled Efendiyev (May 26, 1887 – April 21, 1938) was an Azerbaijani revolutionary and statesman, one of the founders of the Comm ...

, Oskari Ikonen, Boris Pilnyak,

Huseyn Rahmanov Huseyn Rahmanov (1 December 1902 in Baku – 21 April 1938) was the chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Transcaucasian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic from 12 December 1933 to 22 August 1937. He was one of those repressed in ...

Kustaa Rovio Kustaa Adolf Simonpoika Rovio (23 January 1887 in Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly ...

Suren Shadunts Suren Konstantinovich Shadunts ( hy, Սուրեն Կոստանդինի Շադունց; 1898 – 1938) was First Secretary of the Communist Party of Tajikistan between 1934 and 1937. Life and career Of Armenian descent, Shadunts was born in Jabra ...

23 Kasyan Chaykovsky (died under interrogation) 24 Aliheydar Garayev 25 Jekabs Peterss,

Ivan Mezhlauk Ivan Ivanovich Mezhlauk (russian: Иван Иванович Межлаук; lv, Jānis Mežlauks) (30 September 1891 – 25 April 1938) was a Soviet politician and statesman who was the first general secretary of the Communist Party of the Turkm ...

Aleksandra Sokolovskaya Aleksandra Lvovna Sokolovskaya (; 1872 – 29 April 1938) was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and Leon Trotsky's first wife. She perished in the Great Purges no earlier than 1938. Sokolovskaya's father, Lev Sokolovsky, was a Narodnik, who enco ...

May 8 Frans Myyryläinen 29

Hans Hellmann Hans Gustav Adolf Hellmann (14 October 1903 – 29 May 1938) was a German theoretical physicist. Biography Hellmann was born in Wilhelmshaven, Prussian Hanover. He began studying electrical engineering in University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, b ...

Solomon Levit Solomon Grigorievich Levit (Russian: Соломон Григорьевич Левит; 6 July 1894 – 29 May 1938) was a Soviet physician, and human geneticist who was executed during the Stalinist purges along with other geneticists who opposed T ...

June 3

Sándor Barta Sándor Barta (7 October 1897, Budapest – 3 June, 1938) was a Hungarian poet active in various avant-garde movements. After emigrating to the Soviet Union, he remained active amongst German-speaking cultural groups. He was an active agent in car ...

Yakov Sheko Yakov Vasilyevich Sheko (; 1 April 1893 – 5 June 1938) was a Red Army ''Komdiv''. He fought in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I, rising from private to officer, and joined the Red Army in 1918, fighting in the Russian Civil War and ...

Edvard Gylling Edvard Otto Vilhelm Gylling (30 November 1881 – 14 June 1938) was a prominent Social Democratic and later Communist politician in Finland, later leader of Soviet Karelia. He was born in Kuopio. He was a member of Parliament of Finland for ...

18 Avetis Sultan-Zade 19 Anastasia Bitsenko 20

Vladimir Gorev Vladimir Efimovich Gorev (1900 - 20 June 1938), known as Vladimir Gorev, was a Belarusian soldier known to have participated in the defense of Madrid as a Soviet military advisor during the Spanish Civil War. He was born in 1900 in Velizh, Vitebsk ...

, Nikolai Janson 21 Nikolai Goloded 25

29 Vasily Shorin July 10 Gaziz Almukhametov 18

Vahan Totovents Vahan Hovhannesi Totovents ( hy, Վահան Հովհաննեսի Թոթովենց; September 1, 1889 – July 18, 1938) was an Armenian writer, poet and public activist. Biography Vahan Totovents was born on July 17, 1893 in the town of Mezre (no ...

Mikhail Velikanov Mikhail Dmitrievich Velikanov (russian: Михаил Дмитриевич Великанов) (December 27, 1892 – July 27, 1938) was a Soviet military commander (Komkor) involved in the Russian Civil War. He was born into a Russian peasant fa ...

Yakov Davydov Yakov Khristoforovich Davtyan (Davydov) ( hy, Յակով Դավթյան (Դավիդով), (Давыдов); 10 October 1888 – 28 July 1938) was the first head of the Cheka's Foreign Department from 1921 to 1922, the first head of Soviet foreig ...

Terenty Deribas Terenty Dmitrievich Deribas (russian: Терентий Дмитриевич Дерибас; 28 March 1883 – 28 July 1938) was a Russian revolutionary, Cheka, Chekist and later a 1st rank State Security Commissioner in the NKVD. Deribas was ...

Vladimir Kirshon Vladimir Mikhailovich Kirshon (russian: Влади́мир Миха́йлович Киршо́н) ( - July 28, 1938) was a Soviet playwright, poet, publicist and screenwriter. Biography Born in Nalchik in the Caucasus into the family of a lawyer ...

Yakov Alksnis Yakov Ivanovich Alksnis (russian: Яков Иванович Алкснис, lv, Jēkabs Alksnis; – 28 July 1938) was a Soviet military leader and the commander of the Red Army Air Forces from 1931 to 1937. Biography Jēkabs Alksnis was b ...

Izrail Leplevsky Izrail Moiseyevich Leplevsky (Russian: Израиль Моисеевич Леплевский; 1894 – July 28, 1938) was a Soviet security officer. He was part of the Intelligence Service and Secret police apparatus in the Ukrainian Soviet Social ...

Vladimir Orlov, Mikhail Sangursky,

Alexander Svechin Alexander is a male given name. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants listed here are Aleksandar, Al ...

, Ioakhim Vatsetis 29

Janis Rudzutaks Janis may refer to: As a first name *Janis Amatuzio (born 1950), American forensic pathologist *Janis Antonovics (born 1942), Latvian-British-American biologist *Janis Babson (1950–1961), Canadian child, organ donation *Janis Carter (1913–19 ...

Maksim Ammosov

Nikolai Antipov Nikolai Kirillovich Antipov (russian: Николай Кириллович Анти́пов, 15 December 1894 – 29 July 1938) was a Soviet politician. He was appointed Member of the Central Executive Committee of the Soviet Union and elected membe ...

, Moisei Frumkin, Vilhelm Knorin, Nikolai Krylenko, Valery Mezhlauk, Vasily Schmidt, Boris Shumyatsky,

Matvey Skobelev Matvey Ivanovich Skobelev (russian: Матве́й Ива́нович Ско́белев; November 9, 1885, Baku – July 29, 1938, Moscow) was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and politician. Biography Trotsky's Disciple in Vienna (1908–1912) S ...

Jozef Unszlicht Jozef or Józef is a Dutch language, Dutch, Breton language, Breton, Polish language, Polish and Slovak language, Slovak version of masculine given name Joseph. A selection of people with that name follows. For a comprehensive list see and .. * J ...

, Amatuni Vartapetyan Yakov Yakovlev, Volodymyr Zatonsky Ivan Belov, Yan Berzin, Anton Bulin, Ivan Dubovoy, Pavel Dybenko, Sergei Gribov,

Ivan Gryaznov Ivan Kensorinovich Gryaznov (Russian: Иван Кенсоринович Грязнов; 1891 – 29 July 1938) was a Soviet Komkor. He was born in what is now Sverdlovsk Oblast. He was a recipient of the Order of the Red Banner. He was executed dur ...

Innokenty Khalepsky Innokenty Andreyevich Khalepsky (14 July 1893 – 29 July 1938) was a Soviet general, formerly also the People's Commissar for Communications of the USSR. He was a recipient of the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Banner. As head of the De ...

Vasiliy Khripin Vasiliy Vladimirovich Khripin (February 26, 1893 – July 29, 1938), was a Soviet Air Force General. He fought in the Imperial Russian military in World War I before going over to the Bolsheviks during the subsequent Civil War. He was a recipient ...

Grigory Kireyev Grigory Petrovich Kireyev (; 29 July 1938) was a high-ranking commander in the Soviet Navy. He rose to command the Soviet Pacific Fleet (Russia), Pacific Fleet in 1937. Kireyev was executed in 1938 during the Great Purge. Kireyev was drafted into ...

Yepifan Kovtyukh Yepifan I Kovtyukh (May 21, 1890 – July 29, 1938) was a Soviet corps commander. He was born in modern-day Ukraine. He fought in the Imperial Russian Army in World War I before going over to the Bolsheviks. He was a recipient of the Cross of St. G ...

, Mikhail Levandovsky,

Alexander Sedyakin Alexander Ignatyevich Sedyakin (26 November 1893 – 29 July 1938) was a Soviet division commander and Komandarm 2nd rank. He was born in St. Petersburg, which was then the capital of the Russian Empire. He fought in the Imperial Russian Army in Wo ...

Ivan Tkachev Ivan Fyodorovich Tkachev (russian: Иван Фёдорович Ткачёв; 6 August 1896 – 29 July 1938) was a Soviet komkor (corps commander). He was born in present-day Volgograd (called Stalingrad at the time of his death). He fought in t ...

August 1

Yakov Agranov Yakov Saulovich Agranov (russian: Я́ков Сау́лович Агра́нов; born Yankel Samuilovich Sorenson; 12 October 1893–1 August 1938) was the first chief of the Soviet Main Directorate of State Security and a deputy of NKVD c ...

Alexander Bekzadyan Alexander Harutyuni Bekzadyan ( hy, Ալեքսանդր Հարությունի Բեկզադյան; 1879 August 1, 1938) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet statesman of Armenian descent. After serving as Soviet ambassador to Norway and Hungary ...

, Eduard Berzin, Andrei Bubnov, Aleksei Stetsky, Semyon Uritsky, Yan Gaylit,

Ivan Kosogov Ivan Dmitryevich Kosogov (russian: Иван Дмитриевич Косогов, 1891 – 1 August 1938) was a Soviet Komkor (corps commander). He fought on the side of the Bolsheviks against the White movement during the Russian Civil War. He w ...

Nikolay Kuibyshev ) , image = , birth_date = 25 December 1893 , death_date = , birth_place = Kokshetau, Akmolinsk Oblast, Russian Empire , death_place =Moscow, Soviet Union , allegiance = Russian Empire Soviet Union , branch = Imperial Russian Army Red Arm ...

, Mikhail Viktorov, Konstantin Yurenev 16 Marcel Pauker 19

Nikolai Krivoruchko Nikolai Nikolayevich Krivoruchko (Russian, Николай Николаевич Криворучко; December 6, 1887 – August 19, 1938) was a Soviet Komkor (corps commander). He fought in the Imperial Russian Army in World War I before going ...

Vasiliy Mantsev Vasiliy Nikolaevich Mantsev (Russian: Василий Николаевич Манцев; 1889 – 19 August 1938) was a Russian revolutionary and high-ranking official of the Cheka. Early career Mantsev was born in Moscow into a large family of ...

Nikolay Pakhomov Nikolay Ivanovich Pakhomov (Russian: Никола́й Ива́нович Пахо́мов; December 1890 – 19 August 1938) was a Soviet politician and government official. Biography Pakhomov was born in Taganrog. Born into the family of a por ...

22 Pyotr Feldman,

Vladimir Gittis Vladimir Mikhailovich Gittis (Russian: Влади́мир Миха́йлович Ги́ттис; 24 June 1881 – 22 August 1938) was a Soviet military commander and komkor. He fought in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I before going ov ...

Vilhelm Garf Vilhelm Evgenievich Garf (January 3, 1885 – August 22, 1938) was a Russian and Soviet military leader of German-Latvian descent, Colonel of the General Staff of the Russian Empire. He fought in the First World War, was a member of the Civil War ...

, Lavrenti Kartvelashvili, Pavel Sytin 25 Semyon Dimanstein 26

Andrei Sazontov Andrei Sazontov (1894 – August 26, 1938) was a Soviet komkor (corps commander). He fought for the Imperial Russian Army during World War I before going over to the Bolsheviks. He was a recipient of the Order of the Red Banner (twice) and the ...

, Sofia Sokolovskaya, Mikhail Svechnikov 29

Jan Antonovich Berzin Jan Antonovich Berzin (russian: Ян Антонович Берзин, ''Yan Antonovich Berzin'', lv, Jānis Bērziņš, pseudonym, alias Ziemelis; 11 October 1881 – 29 August 1938) was a Latvians, Latvian village teacher, later Bolsheviks, Bols ...

Pyotr Bryanskikh Pyotr Alexeyevich Bryanskikh (; 1896 – 29 August 1938) was a Soviet komkor (corps commander). He fought in the Imperial Russian Army during World War I before going over to the Bolsheviks during the subsequent civil war. He was a recipient of t ...

Boris Kamkov Boris Davidovich Kamkov (russian: Бори́с Дави́дович Камко́в; June 3, 1885 – August 29, 1938) was a Russian revolutionary, a leader of the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries and a member of the Council of People's Commissars. H ...

, Bela Kun,

Jamshid Nakhchivanski Jamshid Jafargulu oglu Nakhchivanski ( az, Cəmşid Cəfərqulu oğlu Naxçıvanski; August 23, 1895 – August 26, 1938), also known as Jamshid Khan Nakhichevanski, was a Russian Imperial, Azerbaijani and Soviet military commander. He rose to ...

Lev Mironov Lev may refer to: Common uses *Bulgarian lev, the currency of Bulgaria *an abbreviation for Leviticus, the third book of the Hebrew Bible and the Torah People and fictional characters *Lev (given name) *Lev (surname) Places *Lev, Azerbaijan, a ...

Leonid Zakovsky Leonid Mikhailovich Zakovsky ( lv, Leonīds Zakovskis; russian: Леони́д Миха́йлович Зако́вский; originally named Henriks Štubis; 1894 – August 29, 1938) was a Latvian Bolshevik revolutionary, Soviet politician and NK ...

September 1 Nikolai Bryukhanov,

Mieczysław Broński Mieczysław Broński (also known as Warszawski-Broński or Broński-Warszawski, and M. J. Braun; russian: Мечислав Генрихович Бронский (Варшавский); ''Mechislav Genrikhovich Bronsky''; 1882 – 1 September 1938) ...

, Valerian Osinsky 3

Alexander Tarasov-Rodionov Alexander Ignatyevich Tarasov-Rodionov (russian: Алекса́ндр Игна́тьевич Тара́сов-Родио́нов; October 7, 1885 – September 3, 1938) was a Russian/Soviet writer and revolutionary, best known for his novel "Chocol ...

7 Nikolai Gorbunov,

Karim Mammadbeyov Karim Huseyn oglu Mammadbeyov (russian: Керим Мамедбеков, az, Kərim Məmmədbəyov; 27 March 1899 – 7 September 1938) was a Soviet Dagestani politician, social activist and revolutionary who participated in the Bolshevik movement ...

, Nikolai Zimin 8 Mikhail Amelin, Ivan Nikulin 12

Gerzel Baazov Gerzel Baazov ( ka, გერცელ ბააზოვი) (October 28, 1904 – September 12, 1938) was a Georgian Jewish poet and playwright who fell victim to Joseph Stalin’s Great Purges. He was born in Oni, Georgia (then part of the Ru ...

16 Vasily Yakovlev 17 Bruno Jasienski, Nikolai Kondratiev 20 Boris Kornilov, Theodore Maly 21

Benedikt Livshits Benedikt Konstantinovich Livshits (russian: Бенеди́кт Константи́нович Ли́вшиц, 24 December 1886 (Old Style)/6 January 1887 (New Style) – 21 September 1938) was a poet and writer of the Silver Age of Russian Po ...

22 Vladimir Karelin 27 Hanna Karhinen October 1 Viktor Bulla 3

Vladimir Varankin Vladimir Valentinovich Varankin (12 November 1902 – 3 October 1938) was a Soviet writer of literature in Esperanto, an instructor of western European history, and director of the Moscow Ped. Instituto for foreign languages. He wrote the nove ...

Nikolai Vladimirovich Nekrasov Nikolai Vladimirovich Nekrasov (russian: Николай Владимирович Некрасов) (18 December 1900 – 4 October 1938) was a Soviet Esperanto writer, translator, and critic. Biography Nekrasov was born in Moscow. A journalist ...

10 Vasili Oshchepkov 11 Grigory Gurkin 12 Matti Airola (died in prison),

Maximilian Kravkov Maximilian Alexeyevich Kravkov (russian: Максимилиан Алексеевич Кравков; 22 September 1887 – 12 October 1937) was a Russian writer, geologist and explorer of Siberia. Biography Maximilian Alexeyevich Kravkov was b ...

26 Alexander Nikonov 27

Khadija Gayibova Khadija Osman bey qizi Gayibova ( az, Xədicə Qayıbova) (24 May 1893 – 27 October 1938) was an Azerbaijanis, Azerbaijani pianist. From Georgia (country), Georgia in the then USSR, Gayibova died in Joseph Stalin, Stalin's Great Purge of the 193 ...

Artemic Khalatov Artemic (Artashes) Bagratovich Khalatov (Russian: Артемий Багратович Халатов; 15 (27) April 1894 – 26 September 1937 or 27 October 1938)(sources differ) was a Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet Union, Soviet politician w ...

30 Osip Piatnitsky November 6 Vladimir Ivanov 9 Vasily Blyukher (beaten to death by the NKVD interrogator,

Lev Shvartzman Lev Leonidovich (Aronovich) Shvartzman (russian: Лев Леони́дович (Аронович) Шва́рцман; 25 July 1907 13 May 1955) was a Soviet MGB officer, notorious for his brutality, who was executed for using torture to extract ...

) 15 Karim Tinchurin 16

Abbas Mirza Sharifzadeh Abbas Mirza Mirza Abdulrasul oghlu Sharifzadeh ( az, Abbas Mirzə Mirzə Əbdülrəsul oğlu Şərifzadə) (22 March 1893, Shamakhi – 16 November 1938, Baku) was a Soviet Azerbaijan actor of opera, theatre, and silent film; a film director ...

19 Pavel Voyloshnikov 22 ''(Nikolai Yezhov dismissed as head of the NKVD, and replaced by Lavrentiy Beria)'' 29 Branislaw Tarashkyevich December 9

Vasily Helmersen Wilhelm Paul Christian Nikolai von Helmersen (russian: Василий Васильевич Гельмерсен, tr. ; August 23, 1873 – December 9, 1937) was a Baltic German artist and book illustrator. He is known mostly for his illustration ...

27 Osip Mandelstam (died in a labour camp), Boris Gorev 30 Georgy Lomov 31

Artem Jijikhia Artem Jijikhia (Dzhidzhikhia; ka, არტემ ჯიჯიხია; russian: Артемий Мурзаканович Джиджихия) (January 2, 1874 – December 31, 1938) was a Georgian military officer who served in the armies of the Ru ...

1939

January 15 Kullervo Manner (died in a labour camp) February 8

Mikhail Batorsky Mikhail Alexandrovich Batorsky (; 25 January 1890 8 February 1938) was a Red Army Komkor. The son of an officer and a member of the nobility, Batorsky fought in World War I as a staff officer, ending the war with the rank of lieutenant colonel. ...

10 Bela Szekely 20 Boris Kornilov 22 Boris Berman,

Grigory Khakhanyan Grigory Davidovich Khakhanyan (January 10, 1896 – February 22, 1939) was a Georgian-born ethnic Armenian Soviet komkor (corps commander). He fought in the Imperial Russian Army in World War I before going over to the Bolsheviks during the subseq ...

23 Alexander Kosarev, Alexander Yegorov 25

Boris Pozern Boris Pavlovich Pozern (Russian: Борис Павлович Позерн; 7 July 1882 – 25 February 1939) was a Soviet politician and statesman and member of the Troika of the NKVD of the Soviet Union. Pozerb was born in Nizhny Novgorod to a ...

Pyotr Smorodin Pyotr Ivanovich Smorodin (Russian language, Russian: Пётр Иванович Смородин; 20 January 1897 – 25 February 1939) was a Soviet people, Soviet politician who was a founding member of the Komsomol, the First Secretary of the C ...

Vlas Chubar Vlas Yakovlevich Chubar ( uk, Влас Якович Чубар; russian: Вла́с Я́ковлевич Чуба́рь) ( – 26 February 1939) was a Ukrainian Bolshevik revolutionary and a Soviet politician. Chubar was arrested during the Great ...

Stanislaw Kosior Stanislav and variants may refer to: People *Stanislav (given name), a Slavic given name with many spelling variations (Stanislaus, Stanislas, Stanisław, etc.) Places * Stanislav, a coastal village in Kherson, Ukraine * Stanislaus County, Cali ...

Levon Mirzoyan Levon Isayevich Mirzoyan ( hy, Լևոն Եսայիի Միրզոյան; russian: Левон Исаевич Мирзоян) (14 November 1897 – 26 February 1939) was the Secretary of the Communist Party of the Azeri SSR from 21 January 1926 to 5 ...

, Pavel Postyshev March 3

Lazar Kogan Lazar Iosifovich Kogan (russian: Ла́зарь Ио́сифович Ко́ган) (November 7, 1889 – March 3, 1939) was a Soviet secret police (Cheka, OGPU, NKVD) high-ranking functionary, chief of the Gulag (1930–1932) and deputy chief of t ...

Nikolay Rattel Nikolai Iosifovich Rattel (russian: Никола́й Ио́сифович Ра́ттэль; December 3, 1875 – March 3, 1939) was a Russian general, Soviet military leader, a participant in the Russian-Japanese war, First World War and Russian C ...

4 Rudolf Samoylovich 7

Alexey Bakulin Alexey Venediktovich Bakulin (russian: Алексе́й Венеди́ктович Баку́лин; March 22, 1899 – March 7, 1939) was a Soviet party and state leader, serving as People's Commissar of Communication Routes of the Soviet Union ...

Matvei Berman Matvei Davidovich Berman (Russian: Матвей Давыдович Берман; April 10, 1898 – March 7, 1939) was a Soviet security officer and head of the Gulag Soviet prison camp system from 1932 to 1937.Khlevniuk, p. 346 Biography ...

, Volf Bronner,

Hermann Remmele Hermann Remmele (15 November 1880 – 7 March 1939) was a German communist politician of the SPD, USPD and KPD. During exile in Moscow he carried the code name ''Herzen'' ( en, "Hearts"). Biography Early years Born in Ziegelhausen near H ...

Georgy Bondar Georgy Iosifovich Bondar (russian: Гео́ргий Ио́сифович Бо́ндарь; 1893 – March 10, 1939) was a Soviet komkor (corps commander). He fought for the Imperial Russian Army before going over to the Bolsheviks during the subs ...

Ehsanollah Khan Dustdar Ehsān-Allāh Khān Dūstdār ( fa, احسان‌الله خان دوستدار), (1883 or 1884 in Sari – March 10, 1939, in Moscow) also known as "Red Comrade", was an early twentieth century Iranian Marxist revolutionary and leader of the ...

Leo Flieg Leo Flieg (5 November 1893 – 15 March 1939) was a German politician, and a founder member of the Communist Party of Germany, regarded by some as an "Éminence grise" to the national leadership. He served as a member of the Prussian regional pa ...

Boris Tolpygo Boris Vyacheslavovich Tolpygo (russian: Борис Вячеславович Толпыго, 5 January 1893, Noginsk, Bogorodsk, Moscow Governorate, Russian Empire — 29 March 1939, Nikolayevsk-on-Amur) was a Russian and Soviet Communist politician ...

31 Vladimir Bogushevsky April 6 Nikolai Bekryashev (died in a labour camp) 15 Aleksei Gastev, Dmitry Shakhovskoy 16

Efrem Eshba Efrem Alekseevich Eshba (russian: Ефрем Алексеевич Эшба; – 16 April, 1939) was an Abkhaz and Soviet statesman and leading Bolshevik in Abkhazia Abkhazia, ka, აფხაზეთი, tr, , xmf, აბჟუა, abzh ...

Vladimir Copic Vladimir may refer to: Names * Vladimir (name) for the Bulgarian, Croatian, Czech, Macedonian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak and Slovenian spellings of a Slavic name * Uladzimir for the Belarusian version of the name * Volodymyr for the Ukra ...

May 8 Nikolai Varfolomeyev 19

Karl Radek Karl Berngardovich Radek (russian: Карл Бернгардович Радек; 31 October 1885 – 19 May 1939) was a Russian revolutionary and a Marxist active in the Polish and German social democratic movements before World War I and a C ...

(murdered in a labour camp) 21

Grigori Sokolnikov Grigori Yakovlevich Sokolnikov (born Hirsch Brilliant or Girsh Yankelevich Brilliant; 1888–1939) was a Russian Old Bolshevik revolutionary, economist, and Soviet politician. Early career Grigori Sokolnikov was born Girsh Yankelevich Brillia ...

(murdered in a labour camp) June 6 Prince Dmitri.Mirsky (died in a labour camp) July 9

Maria Koszutska Maria Karolina Sabina Koszutska (pseudonym ''Wera Kostrzewa'') (2 February 1876, Główczyn – 9 July 1939, Moscow) was a leader and theoretician of the Polish Socialist Party "Left" faction ''(Polska Partia Socialistyczna, PPS — Lewic ...

(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 Mirsaid Sultan-Galiev ( tt-Cyrl, Мирсәет Хәйдәргали улы Солтангалиев, ''Mirsäyet Xäydärğäli ulı Soltanğäliev'', pronounced ; russian: Мирсаид Хайдаргалиевич Султан-Галиев ''M ...

Aleksandr Uspensky Aleksandr Ivanovich Uspensky (russian: Александр Иванович Успенский; 1902 – January 28, 1940) was a senior officer of the Cheka, the Gosudarstvennoye Politicheskoye Upravlenie, GPU and the NKVD. Uspensky was both a p ...

February 2 Robert Eikhe, Mikhail Koltsov, Vsevolod Meyerhold,

Mikhail Trilisser Mikhail Abramovich Trilisser (russian: Ме́ер Абра́мович Трили́ссер; born Meier Abramovich Trilisser) (1 April 1883, in Astrakhan – 2 February 1940), also known by the pseudonym Moskvin (russian: Москви́н), was a S ...

Yefim Yevdokimov Yefim Georgievich Yevdokimov (russian: Ефи́м Гео́ргиевич Евдоки́мов; – 2 February 1940) was a Soviet politician and member of the Cheka and OGPU. He was a key figure in the Red Terror, the Great Purge and '' dekulak ...

3 Mikhail Frinovsky,

Nikolai Yezhov Nikolai Ivanovich Yezhov ( rus, Никола́й Ива́нович Ежо́в, p=nʲɪkɐˈɫaj ɪˈvanəvʲɪt͡ɕ (j)ɪˈʐof; 1 May 1895 – 4 February 1940) was a Soviet secret police official under Joseph Stalin who was head of the N ...

May 7 Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov June 23

Toivo Alavirta Toivo Villiam Alavirta (27 June 1890 - 23 June 1940; original surname ''Ahlström''; name as Soviet citizen ''Тойво Казимирович Алавирта'') was a Finland, Finnish journalist and politician. He was a member of the Parliamen ...

(died in a labour camp) August 20 Leon Trotsky (assassinated in Mexico) October 16 Boris Stomonyakov

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