Robert Conquest

Robert Conquest

male, 92 years old
Old Wykehamist, Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford, From Malvern, historian, George Robert Ackworth Conquest, purges…PoliticalrepressionintheSovietUnion, The Great Terror
Dr. George Robert Ackworth Conquest (born July 15 1917), British historian, became one of the best-known writers on the Soviet Union with the...
Solomon Mikhoels

Solomon Mikhoels

male, deceased (1948)
Jewish, Russian road accident victim, Russian, actor, Soviet state, Road accident victim…PoliticalrepressionintheSovietUnion, soviet, Russian and Soviet theatre director, fiddler on the roof, Jewish Russian and Soviet history
Solomon (Shloyme) Mikhoels (real surname - Vovsi), ; (January 12/13, 1948) was a Soviet Jewish actor and director in Yiddish theater and the...
Vsevolod Nikolayevich Merkulov

Vsevolod Nikolayevich Merkulov

male, deceased (1953)
politician, executed, georgian, KGB officer, St. Petersburg University, Soviet execution…PoliticalrepressionintheSovietUnion, death by firearm in Russia, Soviet politician
Vsevolod Nikolayevich Merkulov, was the head of NKGB from February to July 1941, and again from April 1943 to March 1946. He was a member of the...
Nikita Petrov

Nikita Petrov

male
historian, Russian, PoliticalrepressionintheSovietUnion, memorial, dissolution of the Soviet Union, Nikita Vasilyevich Petrov…Soviet security service
Nikita Vasilyevich Petrov is a Russian historian. He works at "Memorial," a Russian organization dedicated to Soviet political repression. Petrov...
Solomon Mogilevsky

Solomon Mogilevsky

male, deceased (1925)
Russian, PoliticalrepressionintheSovietUnion, State Political Directorate, Nkvd, Jewish person, Pavlograd…soviet
Solomon Grigorevich Mogilevsky (1885, Pavlograd - March 22, 1925) headed the Soviet foreign intelligence service, the "INO" of the GPU, from 1921...
Solomon Bregman

Solomon Bregman

male, deceased (1953)
World War II, yiddish, PoliticalrepressionintheSovietUnion, Jewish person, fascism, collaborator
Solomon Bregman, in Russian,Соломон Брегман, was a prominent member of the Jewish Anti-Fascist Committee formed in the Soviet Union in April 1942....

Alexander Barmine

male, deceased (1987)
Soviet military, Alexander Gregory Barmine, Great Purge, Office of Strategic Services, Russian Civil War, Soviet military personnel…PoliticalrepressionintheSovietUnion, soviet army
Alexander Gregory Barmine (1899-1987) was a general in the Soviet Army who fled the purges of the Stalin era and escaped to the United States where...

Aleksei Kapler

male
labor camp, Aleksei (born Lazar) Yakovlevich Kapler, Kinopanorama, Victim of Soviet repressions, PoliticalrepressionintheSovietUnion, soviet…Russian and Soviet film director, born in Kyiv, Ukraine, The Blue Bird writer
Aleksei (born Lazar) Yakovlevich Kapler (also Alexei, ; Kiev, - Moscow, 11 September 1979) was a Soviet filmmaker, screenwriter, actor, and writer....
Lidia Yusupova

Lidia Yusupova

female, 48 years old
professor, International Federation of Human Rights, death threats, First Chechen War, BBC News, Russian literature…PoliticalrepressionintheSovietUnion, Armed Forces of the Russian Federation
Lidia Muhtarovna Yusupova is the Coordinator of the Grozny office of the Moscow-based human rights organization Memorial. She has been described by...

Anatoly Lamanov

male, deceased (1921)
Russian, PoliticalrepressionintheSovietUnion, Kronstadt rebellion, anarchist, Kronstadt Soviet of Worker's Deputy, Act of Soviet repression…Kronstadt Soviet
Anatoly Lamanov was one of the central figures of the 1921 Kronstadt rebellion in the Soviet Union. As student in 1917 he became Chairman of the...