This article presents a list of famous people who died in 1937 .
See also: Category: Dead in 1937
January
- January 6 - Ivan Khovansky - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- January 9 - Nikolai Chechel - a political figure.
- January 10 - Martemyan Ryutin (46) - Soviet political and party leader.
- January 11 - Julian Yavorsky - Galician literary critic, folklorist, historian and poet, public figure Russophile orientation.
- January 17 - Richard Boleslavsky - Polish-Russian-American actor, director of theater and cinema, teacher of acting.
- January 28 - Nikolai Tatishchev - Russian officer, educator of the princes of the imperial blood of John and Gabriel Konstantinovich.
- January 30 - Georgy Pyatakov (46) - Soviet party and state leader.
February
- February 1 - Mikhail Boguslavsky (50) - Soviet state and party leader.
- February 1 - Jacob Drobnis (46) - Soviet statesman.
- February 1 - Jacob Livshits (40) - Deputy People’s Commissar of Railways of the USSR. The person involved in the Second Moscow process. Shot by sentence of the court.
- February 1 - Gabriel Pushin - the person involved in the Second Moscow Process.
- February 1 - Boris Norkin (42) - the person involved in the Second Moscow Process, in the 1930s - the head of Kemerovokombinatstroy. Shot by sentence of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR.
- February 1 - Joseph Turok - Soviet railway worker.
- February 10 - Alexander Smirnov - Soviet state and party leader.
- February 11 - Walter Griffin - American architect and designer.
- February 12 - Georgy Skleznev (26) - Soviet tankman, lieutenant, Hero of the Soviet Union.
- February 14 - Dmitry Goryachkin (69) - Russian medical assistant, Hero of Labor.
- February 18 - Vasily Gurko (72) - Russian cavalry general; author of a number of books.
- February 18 - Sergo Ordzhonikidze (50) - a prominent Soviet statesman and party leader, professional revolutionary ; the official cause of death is heart attack .
- February 24 - Vladimir Lipsky (73) - Ukrainian scientist, botanist.
March
- March 1 - Yudel Peng (82) - Russian and Belarusian painter, teacher, a prominent figure of the "Jewish Renaissance" in the art of the early 20th century.
- March 3 - Jonas Heiska (64) - famous artist of Central Finland.
- March 6 - Kuzma Bilibin - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- March 8 - Lev Akhmatov (37) - Soviet state and party leader, head of the labor colonies department of the NKVD of the Ukrainian SSR, shot.
- March 8 - Albert Vervey (71) - Dutch poet, translator, essayist.
- March 8 - Yuri Kotsyubinsky (40) - Ukrainian Soviet state and party leader.
- March 8 - Jacob Okhotnikov - Soviet military and economic activist, member of the Civil War.
- March 8 - Sergey Piontkovsky - Russian Soviet historian.
- March 8 - Grigory Friedland (39) - Soviet historian , first dean of the Faculty of History of Moscow State University ( 1934 - 1936 ), father of the writer Felix Svetov ; shot
- March 9 - Nikolay Golubenko (39) - Soviet political figure, executive secretary of the Kiev Provincial Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine (1921), shot.
- March 10 - Evgeny Zamyatin (53) - Russian writer.
- March 10 - Jan Lacis (39) - Soviet military leader, commander.
- March 14 - Stepan Vardanian (36) - Russian revolutionary, Soviet state and party leader.
- March 15 - Howard Phillips Lovecraft (46) - American writer, poet and journalist.
- March 18 - Semyon Semkovsky (54) - Soviet scientist and philosopher; shot
- March 18 - Walter Froggat (78) - Australian entomologist.
- March 18 - Lydia Charskaya (62) - Russian writer , actress .
- March 21 - Levan Gogoberidze (41) - Soviet state and party leader, 1st secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Georgia (1930), executed.
- March 21 - Alexander Niedermiller (85) - famous figure of the Russian fleet, vice-admiral.
- March 24 - Vasily Golovin (43) - Soviet state and party leader, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Sverdlovsk Regional Council (1934-1937), executed.
- March 27 - Alexander Ilyin - Rostov archaeologist, historian, teacher, one of the founders of the Rostov City Museum.
- March 28 - Lev Goldich (43) - a Soviet state and party leader, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Altai Provincial Council (1923-1924), committed suicide.
- March 29 - Fyodor Koneman (63) - Russian pianist and composer.
- March 30 - Boris Velikovsky (59) - Moscow architect.
April
- April 3 - Anatoly Liven (63) - Russian officer.
- April 8 - Mikhail Volsky (39) - Soviet state and party leader, and. about. Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Far Eastern Regional Council (1937), shot.
- April 9 - Arthur Sullivan (40) - British military leader, holder of the Victoria Cross ; accident.
- April 11 - Dmitry Zhilunovich (49) - Belarusian poet, editor, head of the Provisional Workers 'and Peasants' Government of the Soviet Socialist Republic of Belarus.
- April 13 - Ilya Ilf (39) - Russian Soviet writer and journalist, co-author of the books “ Twelve Chairs ”, “The Golden Calf” , “ One-story America ”; tuberculosis .
- April 21 - Suren Shadunts - First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Tajikistan.
- April 22 - Joseph Adamovich (40) - Soviet state and party leader.
- April 27 - Theodore van de Velde (64) - Dutch gynecologist, sexologist, director of the Institute of Gynecology in Haarlem; plane crash.
- April 27 - Antonio Gramsci (46) - Italian journalist, founder and leader of the Italian Communist Party , theorist of Marxism ; cerebral hemorrhage.
- April 28 - Mikhail Kobetsky - Russian revolutionary, Comintern leader.
May
- May 3 - Voldemar Puhk (45) - Estonian diplomat, lawyer and economist.
- May 3 - Theodosius (Ganitsky) - Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, Bishop of Kolomna and Bronnitsky.
- May 12 - Konstantin Kolesnikov (28) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- May 13 - John Lincoln Clem (85) - one of the youngest soldiers who participated in the American Civil War , and the youngest noncommissioned officer in the military history of the United States.
- May 13 - Catherine Dzhugashvili - the mother of Joseph Stalin.
- May 16 - Peter (Sokolov) (73) - Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, Archbishop of Voronezh and Zadonsky.
- May 16 - Dmitry Horvat (78) - Russian Lieutenant General.
- May 24 - Tengiz Zhgenti (50) - Soviet state and party leader.
- May 26 - Grigory Kolos (45) - Ukrainian Soviet statesman and military leader, revolutionary, Bolshevik, member of the civil war.
- May 26 - Karel Kramarzh (76) - Czech politician, first prime minister of independent Czechoslovakia.
- May 31 - Peter Agniashvili (39) - Georgian revolutionary, Soviet party and state leader.
- May 31 - Jan Gamarnik (42) - Soviet military leader, state and party leader, army commissar of the 1st rank.
June
- June 1 - Vasily Shkofer (69-70) - Russian Soviet opera singer.
- June 5 - Mark Avsaragov (58) - Soviet politician, chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Mountain ASSR (1924).
- June 7 - Gene Harlow (26) - the famous American actress , movie star and sex symbol of the 1930s .
- June 11 - Mate Zalka (41) - Hungarian writer and revolutionary, an active participant in the civil wars in Russia 1918-1921 and Spain 1936-1939 .
- June 11 or 12 - Mikhail Tukhachevsky (44) - Soviet military leader, Marshal of the Soviet Union ( 1935 ); shot
- June 12 - Augustus Cork (49) - military officer, army commander during the Civil War.
- June 12 - Vitaly Primakov (39) - Soviet military commander, commander of the red Cossacks in the Civil War, Commander.
- June 12 - Vitovt Putna (44) - Soviet military leader; Com Corps Commander (1935). Shot during the repression in the Red Army.
- June 12 - Jerome Uborevich (41) - Soviet military and political leader, commander of the 1st rank. Shot in the "Tukhachevsky case".
- June 12 - Boris Feldman (37) - Soviet military leader; shot
- June 12 - Robert Eideman (42) - Soviet military leader, Commander.
- June 12 - Iona Yakir (40) - Soviet military leader.
- Between June 12 and 15 - Venedikt Mart ( Venedikt Nikolayevich Matveev ) (40 or 41) - Russian poet and writer, son of a Japanese writer and translator Nikolai Matveyev , father of the poet Ivan Elagin ; shot (born in 1896 ).
- June 16 - Andrei Solkin - Soviet statesman.
- June 16 - Alexander Chervyakov (45) - Soviet party and state leader.
- June 17 - Igor Terentyev - poet, artist, theater director, representative of the Russian avant-garde.
- June 18 - Gaston Dumerg (73) - French statesman and political figure, President of France ( Third Republic , 1924 - 1931 ).
- June 18 - Nikolai Lunin (84) - Soviet pediatrician.
- June 18 - Alexey Byalynitsky-Birulya (72) - Russian zoologist, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
- June 19th - James Barry (77) - Scottish playwright and novelist.
- June 19 - Yuri Sablin (39) - Soviet military leader.
- June 20 - Mark Guy (38) - a prominent figure in the Cheka-OGPU-NKVD of the USSR.
- June 20 - Vyacheslav Zof - Soviet military and statesman.
- June 20 - Jan Stan (38) - Soviet politician, philosopher, expert in dialectics, gnoseology, social philosophy.
- June 21 - Simeon Vankov (79) - Bulgarian officer, later Major General of the Russian Army.
- June 21 - Nikolai Goloded (43) - Soviet state and party leader.
- June 21 - Janis Pauluks (71) - political and public figure.
- June 27 - Alexander Akhmeteli (51) - Soviet Georgian theater director, People's Artist of the Georgian SSR.
July
- July 1 - Ilya Garkavy (48) - Soviet military leader, Commander.
- July 1 - Anatoly Hekker (48) - Soviet military leader, head of the XI-th Division of the Red Army Intelligence Directorate, commander, shot.
- July 2 - Nikolai Minsky (82) - Russian poet and mystic writer.
- July 3 - Boris Gorbachev (44) - Soviet military leader, commander.
- July 6 - Bogdan-Igor Antonich (27) - Ukrainian poet, prose writer, translator, literary critic.
- July 7 - Leonid Brailovsky (70) - Russian architect, artist, set designer, decorator and teacher.
- July 7 - Vladimir Bukovsky - senator of the Republic of Latvia, professor at the University of Latvia.
- July 8 - Diana Abgar (77) - Armenian writer, publicist, diplomat.
- July 8 - Axel Bakunts (38) - Armenian prose writer, film scriptwriter, translator and activist.
- July 8 - Vladimir Bogutsky (46) - Soviet politician, chairman of the Kharkiv City Council (1935-1937), executed.
- July 9 - Fyodor Kovrov - Soviet tanker, junior commander, tank commander of the 4th separate mechanized brigade, Hero of the Soviet Union.
- July 9 - Alexey Nikonov (26) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- July 10 - Abram Abramovich (27) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- July 10 - I Will Mdivani - Soviet state and party leader.
- July 10 - George Eliava (45) - Georgian microbiologist, worked with bacteriophages.
- July 13 - Mikhail Alafuzo (45) - Soviet commander, corps commander.
- July 13 - Mikhail Boychuk (54) - muralist and painter, teacher.
- July 15 - Herman Bitker (42) - Soviet state and party leader, USSR Trade Representative in Austria, shot.
- July 15 - Vasyl Chechvyansky (49) - Soviet Ukrainian writer, humorist and satirist.
- July 16 - Pavel Vasilyev (27) - Russian Soviet poet; shot
- July 19 - Teofil Okunevsky (78) - Western Ukrainian social and political activist.
- July 22 - Paolo Yashvili (42) - Georgian Soviet poet and public figure.
- July 25 - Janis Akuraters (61) - Latvian writer.
- July 26 - Khabala Beslaneyev (51) - Soviet state and party leader, prosecutor of the Kabardino-Balkarian Autonomous Region) (1929-1930), shot.
- July 27 - Hans Dahl (88) - Norwegian artist.
- July 28 - Amatuni Amatuni - 1st Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Armenia
- July 28 - Muslim Magomayev (senior) (51) - Azerbaijani Soviet composer and conductor , one of the founders of Azerbaijani classical music; Grandfather of the singer Muslim Magomayev .
- July 29 - Karl Lander (54) - Soviet state and party leader.
- July 29 - Jacob (Maskaev) (57) - Archbishop of Barnaul. Canonized Russian Orthodox Church in 2000.
- July 29 - Petr Parfenov (43) - Russian poet, writer.
- July 29 - Sergius (Vasilkov) (75) - Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church.
- July 29 - Vasily Yakovenko (48) - the organizer of the partisan movement in Siberia during the Civil War, a Soviet statesman.
August
- August 1 - Mataji - Turkmen poet.
- August 10 - Jan Wigura (57) - Polish lawyer, deputy of the State Duma of the first convocation of the Radomsk province.
- August 13 - Alexander Voronsky (52) - Soviet state and party leader, chairman of the Ivanovo-Voznesensky provincial committee of the RCP (b) (1919), executed.
- August 13 - Ivan Pribludny (31) - Russian Soviet poet.
- August 13 - Sigismund Levanevsky - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- August 13 - Samuel Chudnovsky (48) - security officer, known for his participation in the shooting of the Supreme Ruler of Russia, Admiral A. V. Kolchak.
- August 14 - Georgy Prokofiev - 1st rank State Security Commissioner.
- August 14 - Semen Firin - a prominent figure in the Cheka-GPU-NKVD of the USSR, the senior major of state security.
- August 18 - Irakli Jabadari (45) - Georgian-French pianist and composer.
- August 19 - Sahak Ter-Gabrielyan (51) - Soviet party, state and political figure.
- August 19 - Alexander Khotovitsky (65) - priest of the Russian Church; Protopresbyter.
- August 21 - Adolf Varsky (69) - Polish revolutionary, leader of the socialist and communist movements in Poland.
- August 21 - Boris Gordon (40) - leader of the Cheka - OGPU - NKVD, head of the Arkhangelsk provincial department of the GPU (1925-1926), executed.
- August 21 - Fyodor Karin - Soviet intelligence officer-illegal. Corps Commissar.
- August 25 - Theodor Grikman (46) - leader of the Cheka - OGPU - NKVD, chairman of the Turkestan Cheka (1919), was shot.
- August 25 - Ivan Fedorov - priest, martyr, locally venerable holy Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
- August 27 - Sergei Dubinsky (52) - Belarusian archaeologist and historian.
- August 29 - Nikolay Ilyin (36) - one of the pioneers of rocket technology, the head of the Gas Dynamics Laboratory, the quartermaster of the 2nd rank of the Red Army.
- August 29 - Ivan Zamyslov (63) - a peasant, a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Empire of the first convocation of the Kostroma province.
- August 29 - Panas Lyubchenko (40) - Soviet and Ukrainian politician.
September
- September 1 - Georgy Gvakharia (36) - revolutionary, statesman, director of the Makeyevka metallurgical plant.
- September 2 - Nikita Alekseev (45) - Soviet politician, people's commissar of light industry of the Ukrainian SSR (1937), shot.
- September 2 - Alexander Asatkin-Vladimirsky (Asatkin) (51) - Soviet state and party leader, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Far-Eastern Regional Council, was shot.
- September 2 - Arkady Askov (39) - Soviet state and party leader, USSR Consul General in Kobe, shot.
- September 2 - Jacob Bodesko-Michali (45) - Soviet state and party leader, head of the Buryat-Mongol regional department of the GPU (1929-1931), executed.
- September 2 - Ivan Gavrilov (54) - Soviet state and party leader, people's commissar of the communal services of the Ukrainian SSR (1932-1933), shot.
- September 2 - Pierre de Coubertin (74) - French sports and social activist, historian , educator , writer ; initiator of the organization of the modern Olympic Games (held since 1896 ).
- September 2 - Stanislav Messing - the figure of the OGPU / NKVD of the USSR.
- September 2 - Alexander Shlyapnikov - Russian revolutionary, Soviet statesman, leader of the “workers' opposition” group.
- September 3 - Fyodor Golub (34) - Soviet state and party leader, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Odessa Regional Council (1933-1935), shot.
- September 4 - Alexy (Orlov) (75) - Archbishop of Omsk. Cited as saints of the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000.
- September 4 - Alexander Boyarsky (44) - Chairman of the Mogilyov Military Revolutionary Committee (1917-1918), shot.
- September 4 - Anatoly Iordansky (48) - Soviet politician, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Kostroma Provincial Council (1919), shot.
- September 4 - Ignatius Reiss ( Poretsky ) (born in 1899 ) - a figure of the Cheka-OGPU-NKVD , a prominent intelligence officer, a defector ; killed by a special group of the NKVD in Switzerland .
- September 5 - Semyon Oskin (57) - the priest of the Russian Orthodox Church, the martyr, the locally honored saint of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
- September 5 - Sergei Urusov (75) - public and political leader of the Russian Empire.
- September 8 - Semyon Ventsov-Krantz (40) - Soviet military leader, divisional commander.
- September 8 - Nectarios (Trezvinsky) (48) - Bishop of the Orthodox Russian Church.
- September 9 - Pavel Bushuev (47) - Soviet state and party leader, chairman of the SNK of the Autonomous Karelian SSR - Karelian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1935-1937), executed.
- September 9 - Pyotr Irklis (50) - Soviet political figure, 1st secretary of the Karelian regional committee of the CPSU (b) (1935-1937), executed.
- September 10 - Anton Vainov (39) - activist of the CPSU (b).
- September 10 - Damascus (Cedric) (59) - Bishop of the Orthodox Russian Church.
- September 10 - Sergei Syrtsov (56) - Soviet statesman, the third chairman of the SNK RSFSR.
- September 10 - Sergei Tretyakov (45) - Russian publicist, playwright, futurist poet.
- September 13 - Archil Mdivani (26) - one of the strongest tennis players of the USSR of the 30s of the XX century.
- September 14 - Tomas Masaryk (87) - Czech sociologist and philosopher, public and statesman, one of the leaders of the Czechoslovak independence movement , and after winning her independence - the first president of the republic ( 1918 - 1935 ).
- September 14 - Nikolai Ustryalov (46) - Russian lawyer, philosopher, politician.
- September 15 - Alexander Adamovich (37) - state and party leader of the BSSR.
- September 15 - Vladimir Morinsky (54) - a priest, a saint of the Russian Orthodox Church, canonized as a priest-martyr in 2000 for general church worship.
- September 17 - Veniamin Gantman (46) - Soviet state and party leader, 1st secretary of the Regional Committee of the CPSU (b) of the Mordovian Autonomous Region (1932-1934), executed.
- September 20 - Konstantin Volevach (38) - Soviet statesman, prosecutor of the Donetsk region (1932-1934), shot.
- September 20 - Lev Karakhan (48) - revolutionary, Soviet diplomat.
- September 20 - Ivan Teodorovich (62) - Russian revolutionary, Soviet statesman, historian of the revolutionary movement.
- September 21 - Albert Lapin (38) - Soviet commander.
- September 26 - Alexander Berbeko - military pilot, participant in the Civil War, twice the Red Banner.
- September 26 - Edward Pantserzhansky (49) - Russian and Soviet naval leader.
- September 26 - Bessie Smith (43) - American singer, one of the most famous and influential blues performers of the 20s-30s; car crash.
- September 27 - Ahmed Biishev (41) - Soviet state and party leader, executive secretary of the Bashkir Regional Committee of the RCP (b) (1921), shot.
- September 27 - Alikhan Bukeikhanov (71) - Kazakh public figure, teacher, journalist, ethnographer.
- September 27 - Haji Gabidullin (39) - Soviet state and party leader, chairman of the Council of People's Commissars of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1924-1927), executed.
- September 27 - Nymget Nurmakov (41) - Kazakh politician.
- September 28 - Jonah Yenov-Khodorkovsky - Soviet statesman.
- September 29 - Artemy Geurkov (36) - Soviet party and state leader.
- September 30 - Azari Azarin (40) - Soviet actor, artistic director of the Theater. Yermolova.
- September 30 - Vladimir Vorobiev (61) - Russian and Soviet anatomist.
October
- October 3 - Ivan Kabakov (45) - Soviet politician, 1st secretary of the Sverdlovsk Regional Committee of the CPSU (b) (1934-1937), executed.
- October 3 - Willy Leov (50) - one of the founders of the Communist Party of Germany, associate of Ernst Thalmann.
- October 3 - Nazir Tyuryakulov (45) - Soviet party and state leader, diplomat, journalist, philologist.
- October 3 - Alexander Chayanov (49) - Russian economist, sociologist, social anthropologist.
- October 4 - Vladimir Volsky (60) - a political figure of the late XIX - early XX century, one of the prominent Social Revolutionaries.
- October 4 - Mikhail Liber (57) - one of the leaders of the Mensheviks.
- October 4 - Tyuryabek Osmanov (44) - the banker, the organizer of the financial and credit business in Kazakhstan.
- October 4 - Vladimir Trutovsky - Russian revolutionary.
- October 4 - Vladimir Yurinets - Soviet scientist and philosopher.
- October 6 - Mikhail Bogdanov (56) - Soviet state and party leader, chairman of the Central Council of the Osoaviakhim of the Ukrainian SSR (1928), executed.
- October 8 - Sergey Klychkov (48) - Russian poet, novelist and translator; shot
- October 9 - Alexander Blagonravov (43) - Soviet state and party leader, 1st secretary of the Komi-Permyak Regional Committee of the CPSU (b) (1937), executed.
- October 10 - Avrom Abchuk - Soviet Jewish writer and critic.
- October 10 - Alexander Arakelyan (56) - Soviet politician, chairman of the Interim Executive Committee of the Baku Council (1918), shot.
- October 10 - Iosif Badeev (57) - Soviet state and party leader, executive secretary of the Moldavian Regional Committee of the CP (b) of Ukraine, shot.
- October 10 - Anton Vainov (40) - Soviet state and party activist, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Regional Council of the Oirat Autonomous Region (1924-1931), shot.
- October 10 - Georgy Gorbachev (40) - Russian Soviet literary critic and literary critic.
- October 10 - Mikhail Mitrotsky - archpriest of the Russian Orthodox Church. Member of the IV State Duma.
- October 11 - Ivan Alagyzov (49) - Soviet politician, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Regional Council of the Oirat Autonomous Region (1933-1934), shot.
- October 11 - Joseph Isaakovich Badeev (Gopher) (57) - Soviet politician, executive secretary of the Moldavian Regional Committee of the CP (b) of Ukraine (1924-1928), shot.
- October 11 - Haim Bogopolsky (46) - Soviet state and party leader, executive secretary of the Moldavian Regional Committee of the CP (b) of Ukraine (1928-1930), shot.
- October 11 - Grigory Gurkin (67) - Altai artist.
- October 11 - Nikolai Kropotkin (65) - the Courland and Livonnian Vice-Governor.
- October 11 - Gregory the Old (56) - member of the revolutionary movement in Moldova and Ukraine.
- October 13 - Gambay Vezirov (38) - Soviet and Azerbaijani military leader, division commander, major general.
- October 13 - Hanafi Baba oglu Zeynall - Azerbaijani Soviet literary critic.
- October 13 - Veli Huluflu (43) - Azerbaijani Soviet writer.
- October 13 - Bekir Choban-zade (44) - Crimean-Tatar poet, scholar and Turkologist.
- October 14 - Karl Bauman (45) - Soviet party leader.
- October 15 - Konstantin Guly (50) - Soviet state and party leader, People's Commissar of Labor of the Ukrainian SSR (1926-1932), executed.
- October 15 - Eugene Mikhalsky (40) - an outstanding poet in the language of Esperanto.
- October 17 - Dmitry Buzko - Ukrainian Soviet novelist and poet.
- October 19 - Alexey Ganzen (61) - Russian marine painter, professor, collector.
- October 21 - Ambrose (Astakhov) (77) - Archimandrite, the holy Russian Orthodox Church.
- October 21 - Alexey Chapygin (67) - Russian Soviet writer.
- October 22 - Nikolay Shatrov (31) - Hero of the Soviet Union.
- October 23 - Vladimir Krylovich (42) - Belarusian Soviet theater and film actor, teacher. One of the founders of the Belarusian theater art.
- October 23 - Mikhail Semenko - poet, founder and theorist of Ukrainian futurism.
- October 23 - Theodore (Yakovtsevsky) (70) - Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church.
- October 24 - Raphael (Voropayev) - Bishop of the Old Orthodox Church of Christ (Old Believers accepting the Belokrinitsky hierarchy), Bishop of Kharkov and Kiev.
- October 25 - Yuriy Voitsekhovsky (54) - Soviet state and party leader, secretary of the Presidium of the All-Ukrainian CEC (1932-1936), shot.
- October 25 - Sergei Volkonsky (77) - Russian theatrical figure, director , critic, memoirist, writer.
- October 25 - Mikhail Golubyatnikov (40) - Soviet state and party leader, people's commissar of the communal services of the Ukrainian SSR (1934-1937), executed.
- October 25 - Stepan Goryany (37) - Soviet state and party leader, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Vinnytsia Regional Council (1937), shot.
- October 26 - Vasily Bogovoy (45) - Soviet military leader, brigade commander, shot.
- October 26 - Ivan Gerasimov (43) - Soviet state and party leader, managing affairs of the Council of People's Commissars of the RSFSR (1930-1937).
- October 26 - Alexander Dogadov (49) - Soviet state and party leader, people's commissar of the workers 'and peasants' inspectorate of the TSFSR (1931-1934), executed.
- October 26 - Grigory Melnichansky - Russian revolutionary, Soviet trade union leader.
- October 26 - Kazimir Tsikhovsky - Polish revolutionary, chairman of the CEC of the Lithuanian-Belarusian Soviet Socialist Republic, leader of the Comintern.
- October 27 - Ilyas Alkin (41) - geographer, an expert on maps of Central Asia, a member of the All-Russian Constituent Assembly.
- October 27 - Kirill Gorlinsky-Gutnik (46) - Soviet state and party leader, 1st secretary of the Shepetovsky District Committee of the CP (b) of Ukraine (1936), executed.
- October 27 - Ernest Dresen - Russian and Soviet interlingualist and esperantologist, head of the Union of Esperantists of the Soviet Republics.
- October 27 - Camilla Krushelnitskaya - the leader of an illegal Catholic group in Moscow in the first half of the 1930s. The activity of the Roman Catholic Church.
- October 27 - Shirinsho Shotemor (37) - Tajik Soviet political, party and state leader.
- October 28 - Anatoly Goryanov-Gorny (39) - Head of the Administration of the Volga-Don Canal of the People's Commissariat of Water Transport of the USSR (1937), shot.
- October 28 - Joseph Dovbor-Musnitsky (70) - Russian and Polish general.
- October 29 - Ales Dudar (32) - Belarusian Soviet poet, critic, novelist, translator.
- October 29 - Mihas Zaretsky (35) - Belarusian Soviet writer.
- October 29 - Joseph Korenevsky (49) - Soviet Belarusian scientist and teacher.
- October 29 - Valery Moryakov (28) - Belarusian poet and translator.
- October 29 - Viktor Yarkin (47) - Chairman of the Cheka of the BSSR, member of the Central Bank of the KP (b) B, Central Committee of the KP (b) LIB, CEC of the BSSR and CEC of the Lithuanian-Belarusian SSR.
- October 30 - Alexander (Schukin) (46) - Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, Archbishop of Semipalatinsk.
- October 30 - Pavel Akulinushkin (38) - Soviet politician, 1st secretary of the Krasnoyarsk Regional Committee of the CPSU (b) (1935-1935), shot.
- October 30 - Ivan Akulov (49) - Soviet party and state leader, the first Prosecutor of the USSR. Repressed, rehabilitated posthumously.
- October 30 - Nikolay Baryshev (39) - Soviet state and party leader, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Saratov Regional Council (1937), shot.
- October 30 - Semen Brikke (39) - a Soviet state and party leader authorized by the Party Control Commission of the USSR SNK in the Azov-Black Sea Territory (1935–1937), executed.
- October 30 - Alexander Brykov (48) - Soviet state and party leader, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Middle Volga Regional Council (1929-1932), shot.
- October 30 - Aaron Geister (38) - Soviet statesman, agricultural economist.
- October 30 - Semyon Goludov (41) - Soviet state and party leader, 1st secretary of the Chita Regional Committee of the CPSU (b) (1934-1935), executed.
- October 30 - Nikolai Demchenko - Soviet party and state leader.
- October 30 - Abel Yenukidze (60) - a Soviet statesman and political figure, a close friend of Stalin , was the godfather of his wife Nadezhda Alliluyeva ; shot
- October 30 - Ivan Zhukov (48) - Soviet politician, people's commissar of the local industry of the RSFSR (1936-1937), shot.
- October 30 - Ivan Ivanov (45) - Soviet politician, Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Azov-Black Sea Regional Council (1937), shot.
- October 30 - Alexey Kiselyov (58) - Soviet politician, people's commissar of workers 'and peasants' inspection of the RSFSR (1923-1924), shot.
- October 30 - Ivan Kodatsky (44) - Soviet politician, chairman of the Leningrad City Council (1931-1937), shot.
- October 30 - Alexander Krinitsky (43) - revolutionary, Soviet politician; shot
- October 30 - Ivan Pavlunovsky - Soviet political figure, revolutionary.
- October 30 - Vladimir Polonsky (44) - revolutionary, Soviet party and trade union activist.
- October 30 - Mikhail Razumov - Soviet politician.
- October 30 - Grigory Rakitov (44) - a participant in the Civil War, a Soviet military and political figure.
- October 30 - Vladimir Trubetskoy - Russian Soviet writer.
- October 30 - Mendel Khataevich (44) - Soviet party and state leader, first secretary of the Dnipropetrovsk regional committee of the CP (b) U in 1933-1937.
- October 30 - Vladimir Shubrikov (44) - Soviet party and state leader.
- October 31 - Anton Balitsky (46) - Belarusian statesman; Commissar of Education of the Byelorussian SSR.
- October 31 - Faust Lopatinsky (38) - Ukrainian Soviet director of theater and cinema.
November
- November 2 - Vladimir Yokhelson - Russian ethnographer, founder of Yukagiroan studies, one of the leading researchers of the North, a political figure.
- November 2 - Grigory Moroz - Soviet party-statesman, employee of the Cheka-GPU.
- November 3 - Alexy (Bui) - Bishop of the Orthodox Russian Church.
- November 3 - Oleksandr Badan-Yavorenko - Ukrainian Communist politician.
- November 3 - Marc Voronoi (33) - Ukrainian poet, translator, son of the writer Nikolai Voronoi.
- November 3 - Miron Grossman (53) - leader of the Cheka - OGPU - NKVD, head of the Donetsk regional department of the GPU (1932-1933), was shot.
- November 3 - Damian (Voskresensky) - Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, Archbishop Archbishop of Kursk and Oboya.
- November 3 - Miron Zayachkovsky - an active participant in the communist movement in Western Ukraine, one of the leaders of the KPU.
- November 3 - Nikolai Zerov - Ukrainian literary critic, poet - master of sonnets, leader of the neoclassical group, translator of ancient poetry.
- November 3 - Peacock (Kroshechkin) (57) - Bishop of the Orthodox Russian Church.
- November 3 - Yuri Ozersky - Ukrainian Soviet politician and statesman.
- November 3 - Mikhail Lozinsky (57) - Ukrainian statesman and political figure, publicist.
- November 3 - Alexander Lokerman - revolutionary, leader of the trade union movement, member of the RSDLP since 1898. Delegate of the 2nd Congress of the RSDLP Party in 1903
- November 3 - Les Kurbas (50) - Ukrainian and Soviet actor and theater director.
- November 3 - Nikolay Kulish (44) - Ukrainian playwright, journalist, teacher.
- November 3 - Valerian Pidmogilny (36) - Ukrainian writer, translator.
- November 3 - Klim Polishchuk (46) - Ukrainian writer, poet.
- November 3 - Stepan Rudnytsky (59) - Ukrainian geographer, cartographer, publicist.
- November 3 - Pavel Filipovich (46) - Ukrainian poet, writer and literary historian.
- November 3 - Vladimir Chekhovsky (61) - Ukrainian political and religious leader.
- November 3 - Matvey Yavorsky (51) - Ukrainian Soviet historian, political figure, academician of the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences.
- November 4 - Alexander Vvedensky - Renovation Metropolitan of West Siberia.
- November 4 - Vladimir Ladaria (37) - Soviet state and party leader.
- November 5 - Vladimir Ambartsumov (45) - priest-martyr from the Cathedral of the Holy New Martyrs and Confessors of Russia, priest, priest of the Russian Orthodox Church, ancestor of a large Orthodox family.
- November 5 - Konstantin Volkenau (74) - Major General of the Army of the Russian Empire.
- November 7 - Vitaly Longinov (51) - Russian chemist, doctor of chemical sciences 1922, professor. The father of oceanographer Vladimir Longinov.
- November 8 - Mikhail Vasilyev-Uzhin (40) - Soviet state and party leader, deputy chairman of the Supreme Court of the USSR (1924-1937).
- November 9 - Seraphim (Samoilovich) (56) - Bishop of the Orthodox Russian Church.
- November 10 - Nikolai Batalov (37) - Russian and Soviet theater and film actor, Honored Artist of the RSFSR ( 1933 ); Uncle Alexey Batalov .
- November 10 - Konstantin (Dyakov) - Bishop of the Orthodox Russian Church.
- November 11 - Ivan Alagyzov (49) - Soviet politician, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Regional Council of the Oirat Autonomous Region (1924-1931), executed.
- November 11 - Rudolf Vackman (43) - Estonian and Soviet Communist, an electrician by profession, a member of the All-Russian Constituent Assembly, a member of the Central Committee of the Estonian Communist Party.
- November 11 - Nikolay Palienko (67) - Russian, Ukrainian legal scholar and legal theorist.
- November 13 - Hakob Hakobyan (71) - Armenian Soviet writer, founder of Armenian proletarian literature.
- November 13 - Nikolay Migulin (64) - priest, martyr, locally venerable holy Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
- November 14 - Mikhail Baran (53) - Ukrainian public-political and military leader.
- November 15 - Rudolf Austrin (45) - Soviet statesman, head of the NKVD Directorate for the Kirov region, senior major of state security, shot dead.
- November 15 - Gleb Boky (58) - a prominent figure in the Cheka / OGPU / NKVD, state security commissioner of the 3rd rank (1935). One of the most active creators of the GULAG system. Shot
- November 15 - Joseph Blat (43) - officer of the Cheka-OGPU-NKVD of the USSR, head of the NKVD in the Chelyabinsk region (1936-1937), senior major of state security, shot dead
- November 15 - Vladimir Styrne - Officer of the Cheka-OGPU-NKVD of the USSR, Commissioner of State Security 3rd rank.
- November 16 - Gustav Shpet (58) - Russian philosopher, psychologist, art theorist, translator of philosophical and fiction literature; shot
- November 17 - Sergey Baranov (47) - Soviet state and party leader, executive secretary of the Kuban Regional Committee of the RCP (b) - VKP (b) (1925-1926), executed.
- November 17 - Jacob Vesnik (43) - founder and first director of Krivorozhstal.
- November 17 - Nahum Kalyuzhny - revolutionary, politician, diplomat of the Ukrainian SSR, journalist.
- November 18 - Karl Kundzin (87) - Pastor in Smiltene in Livonia, Latvian writer.
- November 20 - Eugene (Kobranov) (45) - Bishop of Rostov, Vicar of the Yaroslavl Diocese, scholar and orientalist. Worker of the Russian Orthodox Church.
- November 20 - Joseph (Petrovs) (64) - Bishop of the Orthodox Russian Church.
- November 20 - Feofan (Adamenko) (52) - clergyman of the Russian Orthodox Church.
- November 21 - Meliton Balanchivadze (74) - Georgian composer.
- November 21 - Mukhamedzhan Tynyshpaev (58) - Kazakh public figure, railroad worker, an active participant in the design and construction of the Turkestan-Siberian Railway.
- November 22 - Sergey Ageev (39) - Soviet politician, People's Commissar for Internal Trade of the RSFSR (1925-1926), shot.
- November 22 - Alexander Klyavs-Klyavin (49) - Soviet political figure, executive secretary of the Novgorod provincial committee of the RCP (b) - VKP (b) (1925-1926), shot.
- November 22 - Kalistrat Sadzhaya - head of the underground revolutionary committee of the RCP (b) during the German and French occupation of Odessa.
- November 23 - Procopius (Titov) (59) - Bishop of the Orthodox Russian Church, Archbishop of Kherson and Nikolaev.
- November 23 - Ivan Skadovsky - Russian priest. Cited as saints of the Russian Orthodox Church in 2000.
- November 24 - Ivan Vasilevich (43) - Soviet political figure, people's commissar of finance of the USSR SSR Belarus - Byelorussian SSR (1925-1927), shot.
- November 24 - Nikolay Oleynikov (39) - Russian Soviet writer, poet; shot
- November 25 - Vasily Belolikov - church historian, specialist in the history of Old Believers, professor of the Moscow Theological Academy.
- November 25 - Alexander Glagolev - archpriest, clergyman of the Russian Orthodox Church, theologian.
- November 25 - Nikolay Ivasyuk (72) - Ukrainian Soviet artist.
- November 25 - Geo Shkurupy (34) - Ukrainian Soviet writer, representative of the direction of panfuturism.
- November 26 - Andrei Bliznichenko (49) - Soviet state and party leader, deputy people's commissar of communications of the Ukrainian SSR (1919), shot.
- November 26 - Leonid Weiner (40) - Russian and Soviet military leader.
- November 26 - Boris Vasilyev (48) - Soviet state and party leader, executive secretary of the Tambov provincial committee of the RCP (b) (1921-1922), shot.
- November 26 - Daniil Volkovich (37) - Soviet politician, chairman of the SNK of the Byelorussian SSR (1937), shot.
- November 26 - Yakov Ganetsky (58) - Soviet state and party activist, plenipotentiary and trade representative of the RSFSR in Latvia (1920-1921), executed.
- November 26 - Alexander Yemshanov (46) - Soviet state and party leader, People’s Commissar of Railways of the RSFSR (1920-1921), shot.
- November 26 - Sylvester Zhukovsky (76) - Major General of the Russian Imperial Army, General of the Lithuanian Army.
- November 26 - Andrei Zykov (40) - Soviet politician, executive secretary of the Tyumen provincial committee of the RCP (b) (1921-1922), shot.
- November 26 - Abram Izrailovich (54) - Soviet politician, executive secretary of the Crimean Regional Committee of the RCP (b) (1921-1922), shot.
- November 26 - Emanuel Quiring (49) - Soviet statesman.
- November 26 - Israel Kleiner (44) - Soviet state and economic figure.
- November 26 - Ivan Klimenko (46) - Soviet politician, chairman of the Executive Committee of the West Siberian Regional Council (1930), shot.
- November 26 - Alexander Krasnoshchykov (57) - a Russian social democrat, later a Soviet state and party leader, a participant in the Civil War in the Far East.
- November 26 - Paljidiyn Genden - 2nd Head of State (Chairman of the Small State Khural, November 29, 1924 - November 15, 1927) and the 9th Prime Minister of the MPR (Chairman of the Council of Ministers, July 2, 1932 - March 2, 1936).
- November 27 - Sergey Andreev (32) - Soviet political figure, general - 1st secretary of the Central Committee of Young Communist Youth of Ukraine (1932-1937), shot.
- November 27 - Ahmed-Zaki Akhtyamov - the mullah.
- November 27 - Vsevolod Balitsky (45) - Soviet statesman, head of the NKVD Directorate for the Far Eastern Territory, state security commissar of the first rank (1937), shot.
- November 27 - Yevgeny Weger (38) - Soviet state and party leader, 1st secretary of the Odessa Regional Committee of the CP (b) of Ukraine (1933-1937), shot.
- November 27 - Georgy Izvekov - Russian, expert and collector of Russian folk songs, spiritual composer, priest, archpriest, holy martyr.
- November 27 - Moses Kalmanovich - revolutionary, Soviet statesman, chairman of the USSR State Bank.
- November 27 - Anna Kalygina (41) - Soviet politician, executive secretary of the Tver provincial committee of the CPSU (b) (1929).
- November 27 - Vasyl Lipkovsky (73) - Ukrainian religious leader.
- November 27 - Philip Medved - Soviet statesman. A senior official of the NKVD of the USSR.
- November 27 - Ruben Rubenov (43) - revolutionary, Soviet party and state leader.
- November 27 - Isaac Rubin (51) - Soviet economist.
- November 27 - Daniel Sulimov (46) - Soviet state and party leader.
- November 27 - Yeghishe Charents (40) - an outstanding Armenian poet and translator. Classic Armenian literature.
- November 27 - Boris Eltsin - Russian revolutionary, acted mainly in Bashkiria.
- November 28 - Ernest Appoga - Soviet military leader.
- November 28 - Myroslava Sopilka (40) - Ukrainian poetess and writer.
- November 28 - Pavel (Galkovsky) (73) - Metropolitan of Ivanovo-Voznesensky. Worker of the Russian Orthodox Church.
- November 28 - Dionisy Chagovets - clergyman of the Russian Orthodox Church. The locally honored saint of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
- November 29 - Ivan Glushenkov (41) - Soviet state and party leader, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Pskov District Council (1936-1937), shot.
- November 30 - Boris Gerasimovich (48) - Soviet astronomer.
December
- December 2 - Catherine Arbore-Rally (62) - Romanian (Moldovan) revolutionary.
- December 2 - Arkady Krakovetsky (53)
- December 2 - Seraphim (Alexandrov) (70) - Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, Metropolitan of Kazan and Sviyazhsky.
- December 3 - Grigory Achkanov (51) - Soviet state and party leader, People's Commissar of Posts and Telegraph of the Odessa Soviet Republic (1918), executed.
- December 3 - Innocent (Pustynsky) - Bishop of the Orthodox Russian Church; Russian spiritual writer.
- December 3 - Macarius (Karmazin) - Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church.
- December 3 - Shalva Eliava (54) - Soviet party and state leader.
- December 4 - Joasaph (Zhevakhov) (62) - Bishop of the Orthodox Russian Church.
- December 5 - Sergei Buzdalin (42) - Soviet state and party leader, people's commissar of internal affairs of the Ukrainian SSR (1924), shot.
- December 5 - Mikhail Ivanov (47) - Soviet politician, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Aktobe Regional Council (1932-1933), shot.
- December 7 - Mark Klugman - Soviet public figure and scientist, the first rector of the Saratov Law Institute. DI Kurskiy.
- December 7 - Boris Olkhovy (39) - Soviet party functionary, journalist, literary critic.
- December 7 - Evfimy Setsinsky - historian, archaeologist and cultural and social activist Podolia.
- December 8 - Ahmet Baitursynov (64) - Kazakh public figure, educator, linguist, literary critic, turkologist, translator.
- December 8 - Vitaly Snezhny - Ukrainian Soviet poet, writer, journalist.
- December 8 - Stanislav Hansky - a Catholic priest from a noble family of Ghana.
- December 8 - Anton Grinevich (60) - Belarusian social and political activist, folklorist, composer, publisher, teacher.
- December 8 - Ahmed Yasaviy Gumerov (42) - Soviet state and party leader, people's commissar of internal affairs of the Bashkir Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1921-1922), shot.
- December 8 - Lev (Cherepanov) (49) - Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, Bishop of Stavropol.
- December 8 - Pavel Florensky (55) - Orthodox priest , theologian , scholar ; shot
- December 9 - Eric Asmus (36) - Soviet statesman, plenipotentiary representative of the USSR in Finland, shot.
- December 9 - Friedrich Blumenthal - political commissar of the Red Army.
- December 9 - Vladimir Golovkin - Russian Soviet military leader, teacher, philatelist and researcher.
- December 9 - Pavel Gorbunov (52) - Soviet politician and statesman, revolutionary, member of the Russian Social-Democratic Labor Party (Bolsheviks), member of the Board of the State Bank of the USSR.
- December 9 - Javad-bek Melik-Eganov - Azerbaijani state and public figure.
- December 9 - Mikhail Merkulov - SR, deputy of the State Duma of the I convocation of the Kursk province.
- December 9 - Sergei Petrenko-Lunev - Soviet military leader, military attaché at the USSR plenipotentiary in Germany and Italy, intelligence officer, commander.
- December 10 - Rose Valetti (61) - German silent film actress.
- December 10 - Franz Gusti (44) - Soviet state and party leader, executive secretary of the Regional Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of the Volga German Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1928), shot.
- December 10 - Akhmetkamal Kaspransky (42) - Soviet politician, executive secretary of the Bashkir Regional Committee of the RCP (b) (1920), shot.
- December 10 - Movses Silikov - Armenian commander.
- December 11 - Jan Anvelt (53) - Soviet military and political activist, professional revolutionary, one of the leaders of the Communist Party of Estonia, a writer, publicist.
- December 11 - Guy Guy (50) - Soviet commander, member of the Civil War.
- December 11 - Ivan Orakhelashvili (56) - Soviet party leader.
- December 12 - Sergey Bergavinov (38) - Soviet state and political figure. First Secretary of the Far Eastern Regional Committee of the CPSU (b). Suicide.
- December 12 - Mikhail Shatilov (55) - Siberian public and political activist, journalist, ethnographer, SR.
- December 14 - Ekaterina Vazem (89) - Russian ballet dancer, prima ballerina of the Mariinsky Theater.
- December 15 - Alexander Belenkovich (44) - Soviet commander, member of the Civil War, economic manager.
- December 15 - Paisiy (Moskot) - the locally honored holy Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
- December 16 - Alexander Zhitomirsky - Russian and Soviet composer and music teacher.
- December 16 - Titian Tabidze (42) - Georgian and Soviet poet.
- December 16 - Ivan Timonov (58) - priest, martyr, locally venerable holy Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
- December 16 - Glyn Philpot (53) - English painter, sculptor.
- December 17 - Gabriel (Voevodin) (68) - Archbishop of Polotsk and Vitebsk.
- December 17 - Ivan Lavrentyev - deputy of the State Duma of the I convocation from Kazan province.
- December 17 - Vitaly Kholostenko (37) - Romanian revolutionary of Ukrainian origin.
- December 19 - Vaclav Bogutsky (43) - Belarusian and Polish Bolshevik leader.
- December 20 - Erich Ludendorff (72) - German colonel-general.
- December 20 - Mustafa Makhmudov - Azerbaijani teacher, deputy of the State Duma of the II convocation from Baku province, secretary of the Azerbaijan National Council.
- December 20 - Nikolai Melnikov-Razvedenkov (70) - Russian pathologist, MD, professor.
- December 20 - Stepan Nekrashevich (54) - Belarusian scholar, linguist and public figure, the initiator of the creation and the first chairman of the Institute of Belarusian Culture.
- December 20 - Hippolyte Pretro (65) - Russian architect.
- December 21 - Mikhail Alabovsky - Russian priest.
- December 21 - Jacob Brown (48) - writer, literary and theater critic, journalist.
- December 21 - Frank Kellog (80) - US statesman, 45th US Secretary of State, who became famous in this post by signing the Briand-Kellogg Pact ; Nobel Peace Prize laureate ( 1929 ).
- December 21 - Anatoly Orlov - archpriest, Russian theologian and church historian.
- December 22 - Anthony (Gorban) - the locally honored holy Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
- December 22 - Vladimir Vasilevsky - locally venerated holy Ukrainian Orthodox Church.
- December 22 - Roman Semshkevich - Soviet painter and graphic artist of Belarusian origin, a member of the “Thirteen” group.
- December 23 - Ahmed Khatkov (36) - Adyghe Soviet writer.
- December 24 - Theodore Blekis (40) - Soviet state and party leader, Chairman of the Altai Regional Court (1937), shot.
- December 25 - David Gurevich (38) - Soviet state and party leader, executive secretary of Aleksandrovsky - Zaporizhia Provincial Committee of the Communist Party (Bolsheviks) of Ukraine (1920-1922), executed.
- December 28 - Peter Volkov (41) - Soviet state and party leader, People's Commissar of Supply of the RSFSR (1933-1934), executed.
- December 28 - Ivan Dichev (40) - Soviet state and party leader, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Bryansk Provincial Council (1927-1928), executed.
- December 28 - Victor Dobronravov (48) - Archpriest.
- December 28 - Maurice Ravel (62) - French composer - impressionist , one of the reformers and the most significant figures of music of the XX century .
- December 29 - Arkady (Ostal's) - Bishop of the Russian Orthodox Church, Bishop of Bezhetsk, Vicar of the Kalinin Diocese.
- December 29 - Vasily Vragov (65) - a peasant, a deputy of the State Duma of the first convocation of the Penza province.
- December 30 - Zeilik Bardichever (34) - Bessarabian Jewish songwriter, Yiddish songwriter, playwright.
- December 30 - Grigory Zarzhitsky (43) - Soviet politician, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Yaroslavl Regional Council (1936-1937), shot.
- December 30 - Alexander Kurs (45) - Soviet playwright, screenwriter.
- December 30 - Alexander Tsvikevich (49) - Belarusian social and political activist.
- December 31 - Samuel Bubnovsky (35) - an active participant in the Bolshevik underground in Bessarabia within Romania.
Date unknown or needs clarification.
- Alexander of Diamonds (born in 1869 ) - Siberian priest of the Russian Orthodox Church , deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Empire of the II convocation (1907) from the Yenisei province, member of the Constituent Assembly of Russia ( 1917 - January 1918 ), member of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee , the city head of Ufa ( 1917 - 1918 ); died in the camp, the year of death is set approximately.
See also
- List of deceased in 1936
- List of deceased in 1938