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List of deaths

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Name	Position	Date of death	Place body was discovered	Circumstances
Leonid Shulman	Director of Transport of Gazprom[10][5][4]	30 January 2022	Leningrad Oblast residence's bathroom[4]	Suicide note found next to his body[4]
Igor Nosov	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[11]
Alexander Tyulakov	Deputy General Director of the Unified Settlement Center of Gazprom[10][5][4]	25 February 2022	Saint Petersburg residence's garage[4]	Suicide note found on his body[4]
Mikhail Watford	Businessman[10][12][5][4]	28 February 2022	Surrey residence's garage[4]	British authorities have not found evidence of a crime[4]
Vasily Melnikov	CEO and owner of Medstorm[10][5][4]	23 March 2022	Nizhny Novgorod apartment[4]	Wife and two sons found dead beside him[4]
Vladislav Avayev	Former Vice President of Gazprombank[10][5][13]	18 April 2022	Moscow luxury apartment[4]	Wife and 13-year-old daughter found dead beside him[4]
Sergey Protosenya	Former Deputy Chairman of Novatek.[10][5][13][4]	19 April 2022	Lloret de Mar, Spain residence's garden[4]	Hanged from a handrail;[14] wife and daughter found dead in their beds with blunt axe hits[14] and stab wounds[4]
Andrei Krukovsky	General Director of the Estosadok Krasnaya Polyana, a ski resort owned by Gazprom[5][13]	1 May 2022	Sochi,[5] cliff near Achipse Fortress [ru][13]	Reportedly "fell off a cliff while hiking to Achipse Fortress [ru]"[13]
Alexander Subbotin	Board member of Lukoil[15][5]	8 May 2022	Moscow, Jamaican shaman's basement[4]	Reportedly died from a "drug-induced heart attack" during a shamanic ritual, though critics allege "toad poison"[4]
Yuri Voronov	CEO of Astra Shipping, a subcontractor of Gazprom[5]	4 July 2022	Leningrad Oblast residence's pool[5]	Gunshot wounds to the head, pistol found next to his body[5]
Dan Rapoport	Businessman[16]	14 August 2022	Washington D.C. luxury apartment	Reportedly died in a fall from his apartment[16]
Ravil Maganov	Chairman of Lukoil[5]	1 September 2022	Moscow, below a Kremlin Hospital's window[17]	Reportedly hospitalised for heart problems and depression, then "fell out of a window"[17]
Ivan Pechorin	Director of Aviation of the Russian Far East and Arctic Development Corporation (KRDV)	10 September 2022[18][19]	Washed up at Beregovoe, 160 kilometres (99 mi) from Vladivostok	Drowned at Cape Ignatyev, Vladivostok; body found in Beregovoe two days later;[19] allegedly fell from his boat[20]
Vladimir Sungorkin [ru]	Editor-in-chief of Komsomolskaya Pravda	14 September 2022[21]	Roschino, Khabarovsk Krai	Reportedly suffered a stroke and suffocated while on the way to lunch[21]
Anatoly Gerashchenko [ru]	Former Head of Moscow Aviation Institute	21 September 2022[22][23]	Moscow[22][23]	Fell down a flight of stairs inside the institute[22][23]
Pavel Pchelnikov	Director of Digital Logistics, a Russian Railways subsidiary[24][25]	28 September 2022[25]	Moscow apartment[24][25]	Allegedly shot himself on the balcony of his apartment[24][25]
Vyacheslav Taran	Co-founder of Libertex, a forex exchange	29 November 2022	Villefranche-sur-Mer	Died in helicopter crash after taking off from Switzerland[26]
Grigory Kochenov	Creative director of Agima, an IT company	7 December 2022	Nizhny Novgorod	Fell to his death from his balcony while police officers were supposedly conducting a search of his apartment[27]
Dmitriy Zelenov	Co-founder of Don-Stroy, a construction company	9 December 2022	Antibes	Reportedly felt ill and fell over a railing and hit his head, later died in the ER without regaining consciousness[28][29]
Alexander Buzakov	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. No explanation was given on the cause of death[30]
Pavel Antov [ru]	Founder of Vladmirsky Standart, a meat processing company, and member of the Legislative Assembly of Vladimir Oblast	26 December 2022	Rayagada, Hotel Sai International	Fell out of window [31]; another Russian colleague, Vladimir Bidanov, had died in the same hotel two days earlier.[32]