The NKVD prisoner massacre in Tartu (Estonian: Tartu vangla massimõrv) was a mass execution of 193 Estonian political prisoners by the NKVD at Tartu Prison on 9 July 1941. The event was part of larger spree of mass killings carried out by Soviet authorities in Estonia and across the Baltic states during the summer of 1941.
Other Soviet mass killings carried out during the same period included the execution of approximately 90 prisoners in the NKVD mass killing in Kuressaare, as well as executions in Tallinn (including at Patarei Prison), Narva, and Lihula, among other locations across Estonia, and throughout the Baltic states, including in Riga and Liepāja in Latvia, and in Lithuania, most notably the Rainiai massacre, as well as executions in Kaunas and Pravieniškės near Kaunas.
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