Deaths in the 1930s
18,000+ memorials
Евтихий (Качур)
1892–1937 (age 45)
Butovo firing range
Aleksiy (Bui) was a Russian Orthodox clergy member who died in 1937 during Stalin's purges and was buried at Sandarmokh.
Беляев, Александр Иванович
1875–1937 (age 62)
Butovo firing range
Максимов, Александр Прокофьевич
1874–1937 (age 63)
Butovo firing range
Russian believer executed at Butovo firing range during the Great Purge.
Nikolai Pospelov
1885–1938 (age 53)
Butovo firing range
Василий Викторович Гурьев
1869–1937 (age 68)
Butovo firing range
Christian minister executed at Butovo during the Great Purge.
Vassili Pavlovitch Smirnov
1870–1938 (age 68)
Butovo firing range
Danakt
1882–1937 (age 55)
Butovo firing range
Christian minister martyred at Butovo firing range in 1937.
Vasily Arkhangelsky
1864–1937 (age 73)
Butovo firing range
Пётр Александрович Озерецковский
1889–1937 (age 48)
Butovo firing range
Christian minister executed at Butovo in 1937 during the Great Purge.
Николай Александрович Соколов
1877–1937 (age 60)
Butovo firing range
Борис Николаевич Назаров
1884–1938 (age 54)
Butovo firing range
Mikhail Lazarevich Mednikov was a Russian from Debaltseve who was executed in 1938 during the Great Purge and buried at ...
Adam Svitsyn
1878–1938 (age 60)
Butovo firing range
Johannes Thienemann
1863–1938 (age 75)
Rybachy
German ornithologist whose research advanced the study of birds.
Maxim Gorky
1868–1936 (age 68)
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Anatoly Lunacharsky
1875–1933 (age 58)
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Soviet screenwriter and cultural administrator honored with burial at Kremlin Wall.
Clara Zetkin
1857–1933 (age 76)
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Fritz Heckert
1884–1936 (age 52)
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
German communist politician honored with burial at Kremlin Wall.
Sergei Kirov
1886–1934 (age 48)
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Nadezhda Krupskaya
1869–1939 (age 70)
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Revolutionary educator and writer who shaped Soviet educational policy and children's literature.
Vyacheslav Menzhinsky
1874–1934 (age 60)
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Sergo Ordzhonikidze
1886–1937 (age 51)
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Georgian Bolshevik revolutionary and Soviet politician who directed heavy industry development.
Michaił Michajłow-Iwanow
1894–1931 (age 37)
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Mikhail Olminsky
1863–1933 (age 70)
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Revolutionary journalist and Bolshevik politician who contributed to Soviet ideological development.
Aleksey Sviderskiy
1878–1933 (age 55)
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Pyotr Smidovich
1874–1935 (age 61)
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Revolutionary engineer who contributed to Soviet industrial development and infrastructure.
Alexander Stopani
1871–1932 (age 61)
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Maria Ulyanova
1878–1937 (age 59)
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Maria Ulyanova (1878-1937) was born in Ulyanovsk and died during the Great Purge, cremated at Donskoy crematorium.
Il'ja Davydovič Usyskin
1910–1934 (age 24)
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Pavel Fyodorovich Fedoseyenko
1898–1934 (age 36)
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Soviet aircraft pilot and aviation pioneer who advanced early Soviet air power.
Aleksandr Shteingart
1887–1934 (age 47)
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Konstantin Eremeev
1874–1931 (age 57)
Field of Mars
Russian military officer who served the Soviet state during its revolutionary founding.
Valerian Kuybyshev
1888–1935 (age 47)
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Polina Osipenko
1907–1939 (age 32)
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Pioneering Soviet aviator and navigator who achieved distinction in early aviation.
Anatoly Serov
1910–1939 (age 29)
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Valery Chkalov
1904–1938 (age 34)
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Celebrated Soviet test pilot whose record-breaking flights advanced aviation technology.
Vladimir Triandafillov
1894–1931 (age 37)
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Alexander Karpinsky
1847–1936 (age 89)
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Distinguished Russian geologist and professor who advanced geological science and education.
Mikhail Pokrovsky
1868–1932 (age 64)
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Pēteris Stučka
1865–1932 (age 67)
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Latvian revolutionary writer and legal theorist who contributed to early Soviet political and legal thought.
Kuprian Kirkizh
1888–1932 (age 44)
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Jenő Hamburger
1883–1936 (age 53)
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Hungarian politician who participated in early Soviet political life and the international communist movement.
Sen Katayama
1859–1933 (age 74)
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Ivan Tovstukha
1889–1935 (age 46)
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Ukrainian Bolshevik politician who served in important administrative roles during the early Soviet period.
Pyotr Baranov
1892–1933 (age 41)
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Sergey Kamenev
1881–1936 (age 55)
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Soviet military commander who served in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War and early Soviet period.
Yuri Larin
1882–1932 (age 50)
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Andrej Bogdanovič Vasenko
1899–1934 (age 35)
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Soviet engineer who contributed to the industrial and technological development of the early Soviet state.
Abram Goltsman
1894–1933 (age 39)
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Sergey Gusev
1874–1933 (age 59)
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Soviet military officer who served as a Red Army commander during the Russian Civil War and early Soviet period.
Valerian S. Dovgalevsky
1885–1934 (age 49)
Kremlin Wall Necropolis
Valerian S. Dovgalevsky (1885-1934) was a Ukrainian-born individual who died in France and was cremated at Père-Lachais...