Latvian Operation of the NKVD

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Latvian Operation
Part of the national operations of the NKVD
Location	Soviet Union, modern-day Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Kazakhstan and others
Date	1937–1938
Target	Ethnic Latvians, Latvian nationals and persons otherwise affiliated with Latvia and/or Latvians
Attack type	Summary executions Massacres Mass murder Ethnic cleansing
Deaths	at least 16,573
Perpetrators	People's Commissariat for Internal Affairs (NKVD)

The Latvian Operation (Russian: «Латышская операция», Latvian: „Latviešu operācija”) was a national operation of the NKVD against ethnic Latvians, Latvian nationals and persons otherwise affiliated with Latvia and/or Latvians in the Soviet Union from 1937 to 1938 during the period of the Great Purge.