On 22 January 1969, Viktor Ilyin attempted to assassinate Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev in Moscow. Ilyin, a deserter from the Soviet Army, fired shots at a motorcade carrying Brezhnev and celebrated c
Vladimir Shatalov, Boris Volynov, Aleksei Yeliseyev and Yevgeny Khrunov, the four cosmonauts of Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5.
Leonid Brezhnev, the target of the assassination attempt
Leonid Brezhnev
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Fanny Efimovna Kaplan was a Russian Socialist-Revolutionary who attempted to assassinate Vladimir Lenin. She was arrested and executed by the Cheka in 1918.
Attempted assassination of Leonid Brezhnev
…the incident became public after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It was the first direct assassination attempt on a Soviet leader since Fanny Kaplan's attempt to assassinate Vladimir Lenin in August 1918. Viktor Ivanovich Ilyin was born in 1947 in Leningrad and sought to become a geologist but, after…
Фанни Ефимовна Каплан
Vladimir Pchelin's depiction of the assassination attempt
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