People executed by the Soviet Union by firearm

Soviet politician and NKVD police chief

Russian revolutionary and politician (1888–1938)

Ukrainian revolutionary (1883-1936)

NKVD director under Joseph Stalin (1895-1940)

Russian assassin (1890-1918)

British spy in the USSR (1919–1963)

Soviet writer (1894-1938)

Soviet general

Russian revolutionary, politician and chess organiser (1885-1938)

head of SMERSH, Russian Minister of State Security (1946–1951)

Russian-born adventurer and secret agent (1873–1925)

Russian Fascist (1907-1946)

German-born mathematician

Soviet diplomat (1898-1953)

Russian anarchist theorist, activist and poet executed by the Bolsheviks (1890–1921)

Russian Nazi collaborator, war criminal (1920-1979)

Russian anarchist

Swiss politician (1883-1942)

President of Lithuania (1909-1954)

Lithuanian politician (1893-1941)

Ukrainian poet, playwright, translator, editor, publisher (1898–1936)

Russian assassin (1904–1934)

Latvian Communist politician (1892-1937)

German mathematician and scientist (1900–1945)

Soviet politician and member of the Soviet security and police apparatus (1904-1953)

Lithuanian general (1918–1957)

Soviet naval captain (1939–1976)

Russian military personnel (1889-1927)

Soviet serial killer (1947-1988)

Russian military personnel of Latvian origin (1897–1938)

Finnish politician, soviet statesman

Azerbaijani poet (1884–1941)

Latvian revolutionary (1886–1938)

Latvian author, officer and journalist (1895-1941)

Soviet Major General, high-ranking GRU officer, and prominent Cold War spy

Soviet soldier of Latvian origin (1895-1937)

Ukrainian Esperantist and journalist (1897-1937)

Lithuanian military officer (1898–1941)

NKVD officer (1901–1953)

white Army officer in the Manchukuo Imperial Army

Finnish politician (1880–1937)

Soviet serial killer (1938-1989)

Ukrainian writer (1900-1938)

female Soviet pilot executed during purge of Soviet Air Forces. Posthumously rehabilitated. (1910–1941)

Soviet engineer and CIA spy (1927-1986)

Georgian Soviet diplomat (1883–1937)

Soviet politician

Russian writer and poet (1889–1937)

Soviet serial killer and cannibal

Ukrainian Greek Catholic nun (1919–1944)

Ukrainian priest, politician (1882-1941)

Latvian diplomat (1881-1938)

Stalin’s British victim

Soviet politician (1884-1936)

Azerbaijani military personnel (1892–1946)

Polish-Latvian priest

Uzbekistani politician, author and writer (1878-1931)

Ukrainian war criminal

Russian economist (1875-1929)

Soviet serial killer