Name | Age at death | Position | Date of death | Place body was discovered | Circumstances |
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Leonid Shulman | 60 | Director of Transport of Gazprom[12][5][4] | 30 January 2022 | Bathroom of a residence in Leningrad Oblast[4] | Suicide note found next to his body[4] |
Igor Nosov | 43 | CEO of the Far East and Arctic Development Corporation (KRDV) and former Deputy governor of Nizhny Novgorod Oblast | 8 February 2022 | Moscow | Reportedly suffered a stroke[13] |
Alexander Tyulakov | 61 | Deputy General Director of the Unified Settlement Center of Gazprom[12][5][4] | 25 February 2022 | Garage of a residence in Saint Petersburg[4] | Suicide note found on his body[4] |
Mikhail Watford | 66 | Businessman[12][14][5][4] | 28 February 2022 | Garage of a residence in Surrey, England[4] | British authorities have not found evidence of a crime[4] |
Vasily Melnikov | 43 | CEO and owner of Medstorm[12][5][4] | 23 March 2022 | Apartment in Nizhny Novgorod[4] | Wife and two sons found dead beside him[4] |
Vladislav Avayev | 51 | Former Vice President of Gazprombank[12][5][15] | 18 April 2022 | Apartment in Moscow[4] | Wife and 13-year-old daughter found dead beside him[4] |
Sergey Protosenya | 55 | Former Deputy Chairman of Novatek.[12][5][15][4] | 19 April 2022 | Garden of a residence in Lloret de Mar, Spain[4] | Hanged from a handrail;[16] wife and daughter found dead in their beds with blunt axe wounds[16] and stab wounds[4] |
Andrei Krukovsky | 37 | General Director of the EstosadokKrasnaya Polyana, a ski resort owned by Gazprom[5][15] | 1 May 2022 | Below a cliff near the Achipse Fortress [ru] in Sochi[5][15] | Reportedly "fell off a cliff" while hiking to Achipse Fortress [ru][15] |
Alexander Subbotin | 43[17] | Board member of Lukoil[18][5] | 8 May 2022 | Basement of a Jamaican shaman's residence in Moscow[4] | Reportedly died from a "drug-induced heart attack" during a shamanic ritual, though critics allege "toad poison"[4] |
Yuri Voronov | 61 | CEO of Astra Shipping, a subcontractor of Gazprom[5] | 4 July 2022 | Swimming pool of a residence in Leningrad Oblast[5] | Gunshot wounds to the head, pistol found next to his body[5] |
Dan Rapoport | 52 | Businessman[19] | 14 August 2022 | 2400 M StreetNW, Washington, D.C., United States | Found in the street after an apparent fall from his high rise apartment building[19] |
Ravil Maganov | 67 | Chair of Lukoil[5] | 1 September 2022 | Below a window of the Kremlin Hospital, Moscow[20] | Reportedly hospitalised for heart problems and depression, then "fell out of a window"[20][21] |
Ivan Pechorin | 39 | Director of Aviation of the Russian Far East and Arctic Development Corporation (KRDV) | 10 September 2022[22][23] | On a beach in Beregovoi, 160 km (99 mi) from Vladivostok | Drowned at Cape Ignatyev, Vladivostok; body found washed up in Beregovoe two days later;[23]allegedly fell from his boat[24] |
Vladimir Sungorkin [ru] | 68 | Editor-in-chief of Komsomolskaya Pravda | 14 September 2022[25] | Roshchino [ru], Khabarovsky District, Khabarovsk Krai | Reportedly suffered a stroke and suffocated while on the way to lunch[25] |
Anatoly Gerashchenko [ru] | 72 | Former Head of Moscow Aviation Institute | 21 September 2022[26][27] | Stairway within the Moscow Aviation Institute[26][27] | Reportedly fell down a flight of stairs inside the institute[26][27] |
Pavel Pchelnikov | 52 | Director of Digital Logistics, a Russian Railways subsidiary[28][29] | 28 September 2022[29] | On the balcony of an apartment in Moscow[28][29] | Allegedly shot himself on the balcony of his apartment[28][29] |
Nikolay Petrunin | 46 | Deputy of the State Duma | 12 October 2022 | Unnamed hospital in Moscow | Alleged complications of COVID-19[30][31] |
Nikolai Mushegian | 29 | Co-founder of MakerDAO, a cryptocurrency company | 28 October 2022 | Ashford Beach, Condado, San Juan, Puerto Rico, United States | Drowned hours after tweeting |
Vyacheslav Taran | 53 | Co-founder of Libertex, a cryptocurrency and foreign exchange market company | 25 November 2022[32] | Villefranche-sur-Mer, French Riviera, France | Died in helicopter crash after taking off from Switzerland[33] |
Vladimir Makei | 64 | Belarus foreign minister | 26 November 2022 | Unknown | “Makei’s friends say he was painfully upset by the collapse of the course he was leading,” reported Nasha Niva, adding that those close to him did not believe he was murdered. [34] |
Grigory Kochenov | 41 | Creative Director of Agima, an IT company | 7 December 2022 | Volodarsky Street, Nizhny Novgorod | Reportedly fell to his death from his balcony while officials from the Investigative Committee executed a search warrant for his apartment[35] |
Dmitriy Zelenov | 50 | Co-founder of Don-Stroy, a construction company | 9 December 2022 | Antibes, French Riviera, France | Reportedly felt ill and fell over a railing and hit his head, later died in the emergency room without regaining consciousness[36][37] |
Vladimir Bidenov | 61 | Business associate and travel companion of Pavel Antov | 22 December 2022 | Hotel Sai International, Rayagada, Odisha, India | Died of heart problems, though reportedly had no prior history, two days later his close companion died at the same hotel under suspicious circumstances[38][39] |
Alexander Buzakov [ru] | 66 | Director General of the Admiralty Shipyards | 24 December 2022 | Saint Petersburg | Died suddenly the day after he attended the float-out ceremony of the new Lada class submarine Velikie Luki [ru]. No explanation was given on the cause of death[40] |
Pavel Antov | 65 | Founder of Vladmirsky Standart, a meat processing company, and deputy (member) of the Legislative Assembly of Vladimir Oblast | 24 December 2022 | Below a window of Hotel Sai International, Rayagada, Odisha, India | Fell out of window from Hotel Sai International;[41] another Russian colleague, Vladimir Bidenov, died in the same hotel two days prior.[42][43] |
Alexei Maslov | 69 | Former Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Ground Forces and special representative of Uralvagonzavod.[44][45] | 24 December 2022[44] | Burdenko Main Military Clinical Hospital, Moscow[citation needed] | Died "unexpectedly" in a military hospital, no cause given.[44] |
Magomed Abdulaev | 61 | Former Chairman of the Government of the Republic of Dagestan [ru] | 5 January 2023 | Makhachkala, Dagestan | Died at a hospital after being hit by a car while crossing a street[46] |
Dmitry Pawochka | 49 | Former manager of Roscosmos, Sukhoi, Lukoil, Bank Menatepand Russdragmet, while presently or formerly involved with many others. | 26 January 2023 | 17th floor of a building on Leningradsky Avenue, Moscow | Burned alive after falling asleep with a lit cigarette[47] |
Vladimir Makarov | 72 | Former Russian police general in charge of cracking down on anti-war protesters. | 13 February 2023 | At his suburban home northwest of Moscow | State-run TASS news agency reported him found dead, in an apparent suicide, following his dismissal by President Vladimir Putin.[48][49] |
Marina Yankina | 58 | Head of the financial support department of the Ministry of Defence for the Western Military District. | 16 February 2023 | House on Zamshina Street, St. Petersburg | Found dead after falling from a window on the 16th-floor of a high-rise building.[50][51][52] |
Viatcheslav Rovneiko | 59 | Oil magnate, co-founder of Urals Energy, co-owner of Belgian oil company Nafta (B) NV, director of Interregional Fuel Union; ex-KGBspy. | 22 February 2023 | Unspecified gated village near Moscow | Found unconscious in his house; subsequent medical help could not save his life.[53][54] |