List of massacres in the Soviet Union

The following is a list of massacres that took place in the Soviet Union. For massacres that took place in countries that were once part of the Soviet Union, see the list of massacres in that country.

Name	Date	Location	Deaths	Notes
Execution of the Romanov family	16-17 July 1918	Yekaterinburg	11	Justified by the Bolsheviks as necessary to prevent the anti-communist White Army from rescuing them. The USSR repeatedly denied that Vladimir Lenin was responsible.
Red Terror	1918–1922	Nationwide	100,000–200,000	For the purpose of political repression and suppression of armed resistance.
First Decossackization	1919–1920s	Don and Kuban regions	hundreds of thousands	Mass murder and genocide of cossaks.
Case Spring	1930–1931	Russia	3,000+	Over a thousand killed in St. Petersburg alone.^[1] First purge conducted by Stalin.
Great purge	1936–1938	Nationwide	681,692–1,200,000	Ordered by Joseph Stalin.
Polish Operation of the NKVD	August 1937– November 1938	Nationwide	111,091	Largest ethnic shooting during the Great purge.
Sandarmokh	1937-38	Sandarmokh, Karelia	9000	Mass executions of prisoners
Vinnytsia massacre	1937–1938	Vinnytsia, Ukraine	11,000
Katyn massacre	April–May 1940	Katyn Forest, Kalinin and Kharkiv prisons	22,000	Mass executions of Polish nationals by NKVD.
NKVD prisoner massacres	June–July 1941	Occupied Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Baltic states	~100,000
Khatyn massacre	March 22, 1943	Khatyn	149	Propagandized in the USSR to cover phonetically similar Katyn massacre
Khaibakh massacre	February 27, 1944	Chechnya, Soviet Union	230–700	During the deportation of the Chechen and Ingush peoples.
Kengir uprising	6 May 1954 – 26 June 1954	Kengir	500–700
Novocherkassk massacre	1 – 2 June 1962	Novocherkassk, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union.	26
Jeltoqsan massacre	December 16–19, 1986	Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR	168-200
Sumgait massacre	February 26 - March 1, 1988	Sumgait, Azerbaijan SSR	32
January Massacre	January 19–20, 1990	Baku, Azerbaijan	133-137	Known also as the Black January (Qara Yanvar)
Tbilisi Massacre	April 9, 1989	Tbilisi, Georgia	20	Many civilians wounded and killed with sapper spades
Vorkuta uprising	starting July 19, 1953	Vorkuta	42
Fântâna Albă massacre	April 1, 1941	Northern Bukovina	200-2,000
January Events	January 11–13, 1991	Vilnius, Lithuania	15

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