List of massacres in the Soviet Union

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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
January Events January 11-13, 1991 Vilnius, Lithuania 15
January Massacre January 19–20, 1990 Baku, Azerbaijan 133-137
Tbilisi Massacre April 9, 1989 Tbilisi, Georgia 20
Sumgait massacre February 26 - March 1, 1988 Sumgait, Azerbaijan SSR 32
Novocherkassk massacre starting June 2, 1962 Novocherkassk 23-70
Kengir uprising 6 May 1954 – 26 June 1954 Kengir 500–700
Vorkuta uprising starting July 19, 1953 Vorkuta 42
Khaibakh massacre February 27, 1944 Chechnya, Soviet Union 700
Khatyn massacre March 22, 1943 Khatyn 149
NKVD prisoner massacres June-July 1941 Katyn, Ukraine, Baltic states 100,000
Fântâna Albă massacre April 1, 1941 Northern Bukovina 200-2,000
Vinnytsia massacre 1937–1938 Vinnytsia 9,432

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