This is a list of people confirmed to have been assassinated by the government of the Soviet Union.[1] Some of the assassinations or targeted killings took place overseas.
| Target | Position | Date | City | Country | Killer | Method |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fyodor Kokoshkin | member of the First Russian State Duma | 1918-01-20 | Leningrad | 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 | |
| Pyotr Wrangel | Russian White Army General | 1928-04-25 | Brussels |  Belgium | Soviet agent | Poisoning. |
| Alexander Kutepov | White Army General | 1930-01-26 | Paris | OGPU | ||
| Noe Ramishvili | former Prime Minister of Georgia | 1930-12-07 | ||||
| Sergey Kirov | First Secretary of the Leningrad City Bolsheviks | 1934-12-01 | Leningrad | NKVD | 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 in the Pyrenees Mountains | ||
| Ignace Reiss | Soviet spy | 1937-09-04 | Lausanne |  Switzerland | Strangulation and/or machine gun. | |
| Lev Sedov | Leon Trotsky's eldest son | 1938-02-16 | Paris | |||
| Yevhen Konovalets | Leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists | 1938-05-23 | Rotterdam |  Netherlands | Explosive hidden in box of chocolates. | |
| Rudolf Klement | Senior official in the Fourth International and longtime confidant of Trotsky | 1938-07-13 | Paris | Unknown. Possible beheading. | ||
| Yevgeny Miller | General in the White Army | 1939-05-11 | Moscow | Tortured and shot. | ||
| Zinaida Reich | Soviet actress | 1939-07-15 | Stabbing. | |||
| 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 | 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 security force | Soviet reprisal raid. | |
| Wilhelm Kube | 1943-09-22 | Minsk | 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 | ||
| 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 | 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 | Soviet show trial | Execution. | |
| Stepan Bandera[7] | Leader of the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists | 1959-10-15 | Munich | 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 | 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 Minister of Kyrgyzstan | 1980-12-04 | Cholpon Ata | Shot twice in the head. | ||