| Harbin Operation of the NKVD | |
|---|---|
| Part of Mass operations of the NKVD in the Great Purge | |
| Location |  Soviet Union |
| Date | 1937-1938 |
| Target | Harbin Russians |
Attack type | Enforced disappearance, Summary executions |
| Deaths | +/- 30,992 |
| Perpetrators | Nikolai Yezhov (NKVD), Joseph Stalin |
NKVD Order No. 00593, also known as NKVD Order about Harbinites (приказ НКВД о харбинцах, ("Харбинский приказ") by September 20, 1937, undersigned by Nikolai Yezhov regulated arrest and prosecution of former Russian personnel (Harbin Russians) of the China Far East Railway (KVZhD), who had lived in Harbin and reemigrated into the Soviet Union after 1935, when the KVZhD was sold to the Japanese puppet state of Manchukuo.[1]