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Suicides in the Soviet Union

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Lilya Brik
muse of Vladimir Mayakovsky
Adolph Joffe
Soviet diplomat (1883-1927)
Vasili Blokhin
NKVD officer and chief executioner (1895-1955)
Nikos Zachariadis
Greek politician (1903-1973)
Vladimir Kuts
Soviet Ukrainian athletics competitor (1927–1975)
Galaktion Tabidze
Georgian poet (1891–1959)
Romas Kalanta
Soviet dissident (1953–1972)
Evald Ilyenkov
Russian philosopher (1924–1979)
Lev Schnirelmann
Russian mathematician (1905–1938)
Yulia Drunina
Soviet poet (1924–1991)
Alexander Chervyakov
Belarusian soviet politician
José Díaz
Spanish politician
August Sabbe
Estonian anti-communist (1909-1978)
Ivan Maslennikov
Soviet general
Alexander Bashlachev
Russian musician (1960-1988)
Vasyl Makukh
Ukrainian nationalist activist (1927-1968)
Antonina Zubkova
Aviator and Hero of the Soviet Union (1920–1950)
Mikhail Grigoryevich Yefremov
Russian and Soviet military leader, Red Army lieutenant general (1897–1942)
Shamil Serikov
Kazakh Olympic wrestler (1956–1989)
Grigori Nelyubov
Ukrainian soviet pilot & cosmonaut (1934–1966)
Musa Mamut
Crimean Tatar who committed self-immolation
Günther Angern
German General and Knight's Cross recipient (1893–1943)
Fatma Gadri
Azerbaijani actress
Zmicier Zhylunovich
Belarusian writer (1887—1937)
Gennadi Krasnitsky
Soviet footballer-manager (1940-1988)
Robert Genin
Russian painter
Gustav Schmidt
German General and Knight's Cross recipient (1894-1943)
Vladimir Fogel
Russian actor (1902-1929)
Erpo Freiherr von Bodenhausen
German general (1897–1945)
Yuri Stepanov
Soviet track and field athlete (1932–1963)
Arthur Kronfeld
German psychiatrist (1886–1941)
Heydar Huseynov
Azerbaijani philosopher (1908–1950)
Iosif Adamovich
politician (1896–1937)
Leonid Dobychin
Russian writer
Nikolay Goloded
Soviet politician (1894–1937)
Natalya Kachuevskaya
Hero of the Russian Federation (1922–1942)
Aleksej Osipovič Ahmanov
Soviet military personnel (1897-1949)
Nikolay Kryukov
Soviet composer (1908-1961)
Nikolai Ladovsky
Soviet architect (1881-1941)
Leonard Adamov
association football player (1941-1977)
Oleksa Hirnyk
Ukrainian dissident (1912–1978)
Yekaterina Savinova
Soviet actress (1926–1970)
Boris Arvatov
Russian artist and art critic
Nikolay Kruchina
Soviet politician (1928–1991)
Sasha Gegechkori
Soviet politician (1887-1928)
Karen Grigorian
chess player (1947-1989)
József Heszlényi
Hungarian general (1890-1945)
Alena Kish
Belarusian primitivist painter
Ljubica Ivošević Dimitrov
Serbian poet
Viacheslav Solodukhin
Russian ice hockey player (1950-1979)
Mykhailo Melnyk
Ukrainian historian, poet, and human rights activist
Ilya Gabay
Soviet writer and dissident (1935-1973)
Aleksandr Alenitsyn
Russian tennis player (1884-1922)
Vladislav Zolotaryov
Soviet composer (1942-1975)
Georgy Ilivitsky
Soviet chess player (1921-1989)
Evgeni Pavlovich Spangenberg
Soviet ornithologist (1898–1968)
Yury Lutovinov
Russian labor leader (1887–1924)
Jerzy Czeszejko-Sochacki
POlish politician (1892-1933)
Vytautas Vičiulis
Lithuanian artist (1951–1989)
Seraphim Znamensky
Russian athletics competitor (1906-1942)