Longtime associate; rupture in June 2023
Died in the 23 August 2023 plane crash in Russia’s Tver region. Russian investigators announced genetic confirmation on 27 August.
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The people no longer in the network
A historical layer for people in Putin’s personal, professional and wider institutional network who died within the five-year window. Follow the dated connections, open a dossier, and distinguish confirmed facts from reported circumstances.
- Deceased people
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- Connections
- 9
- Dossiers
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- Historical review
- 13 Sep 2026
HISTORICAL LAYER · 13 SEPTEMBER 2021 TO 13 SEPTEMBER 2026
Different relationships. A clearly dated record.
Eight deceased people and one living reference node, Putin. The groups organize the evidence; distance does not rank intimacy. Chekalov connects through Prigozhin. Maganov and the senior state officials are wider institutional connections, not automatically personal confidants.
Inclusion does not imply a suspicious death or responsibility by Putin. Deaths after reported illness appear alongside contested circumstances. Each dossier separates the death record from the historical relationship.
- Solid blue: formal office
- Dashed gray: historical institutional association
- Dashed pink: dated contact
- Brown: business attribution
- Red: connections of the selected person
Showing 9 entities and 9 sourced connections.
Former associates
Wagner network
Senior state officials
Energy connections
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The historical dossiers
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Wagner leadership; documented Kremlin reception
Died with Prigozhin in the 23 August 2023 plane crash.
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Indirect connection through Prigozhin
Died in the same 23 August 2023 plane crash as Prigozhin and Utkin.
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Longtime security-service associate; later sidelined
His death in St Petersburg was announced on 8 November 2022. Rosbalt’s account, reported by The Moscow Times, described severe illness.
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Law-school classmate; later senior judicial office
The Supreme Court announced her death on 22 July 2025. Reuters subsequently reported that Russian media attributed it to cancer.
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Judicial leadership and documented presidential contact
Interfax specifies 23 February 2024 as the date of death after a prolonged illness. The death was publicly reported on 24 February.
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Energy executive; state-award contact in 2019
Lukoil confirmed his death on 1 September 2022 and referred to severe illness. Reuters, citing two sources, reported that he fell from a Moscow hospital window.
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Cabinet office; dismissed by Putin in July 2025
Authorities reported finding his body with a gunshot wound on 7 July 2025. Investigators initially described suicide as the leading explanation.
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Method and limits
This is a selected public-record map, not a complete model of Russian power. Connections are included only when the cited material supports the relationship as labeled. Public meetings show documented contact on a date. They do not establish private influence, direction, or continuing access.
This is a selected starting set, not a census of all deceased Russian elites. The death window is 13 September 2021 through 13 September 2026 inclusive. Historical connections may precede that window. Starovoit is dated by reported discovery of his body rather than an independently established time of death.
Deaths outside the stated window are not counted. Political opponents are not included solely because they died during Putin’s rule.
Source record
- 01 AP · Putin recalls Prigozhin, 24 August 2023
Reports Putin’s statement that he knew Prigozhin since the early 1990s. An attributed recollection, not a measure of private trust.
- 02 AP via PBS · deaths confirmed, 27 August 2023
Reports Russian investigators’ genetic identification after the 23 August crash, including Prigozhin, Utkin and Chekalov. Identification is separate from attribution of responsibility.
- 03 AP · Wagner hierarchy, 24 August 2023
AP reporting on Utkin’s military role, Chekalov’s logistics role and Utkin’s appearance at a December 2016 Kremlin reception.
- 04 OFAC · designation record, 20 July 2023
U.S. government designation explicitly links Valeriy Yevgenyevich Chekalov to Yevgeniy Viktorovich Prigozhin. It does not identify Chekalov as Putin’s personal confidant.
- 05 The Moscow Times · Cherkesov obituary, 9 November 2022
Reports the 8 November death after severe illness, a long association with Putin, and removal from the drug-control post in 2008. The article’s erroneous 1997 date for Putin’s FSB appointment is not used here.
- 06 Russian Supreme Court · obituary, 22 July 2025
Primary death notice and career record; appointment as Supreme Court chair on 17 April 2024.
- 07 Reuters · Putin mourns former classmate, 24 July 2025
Reuters identifies their shared law studies in 1970s Leningrad and reports Putin’s attendance at her farewell. Cancer is attributed to Russian media.
- 08 Interfax · Lebedev funeral notice, 26 February 2024
Specifies death on 23 February after a prolonged illness. The announcement was reported on 24 February.
- 09 Kremlin transcript via GlobalSecurity · 18 August 2023
Archived presidential transcript of a meeting with Supreme Court President Lebedev and presentation of a state decoration. Evidence of institutional contact.
- 10 Lukoil · death statement, 1 September 2022
Company confirms its chairman’s death and describes severe illness. This statement does not establish the mechanism of death.
- 11 Reuters · Maganov hospital fall, 1 September 2022
Reuters cites two sources reporting a fall from a hospital window. This account is kept separate from the company statement and does not identify a perpetrator.
- 12 Kremlin photo record · 21 November 2019
Dated presidential photograph of Putin decorating Maganov. One ceremony supports public contact, not personal friendship.
- 13 AP · Starovoit found dead, 7 July 2025
Reports his dismissal as transport minister by Putin and discovery of his body on 7 July. Investigators described suicide as the initial leading explanation; the precise death time is not established here.
