World War II casualties of the Soviet Union World War II casualties of the Soviet Union World War II fatalities of the Soviet Union from all related causes number was approximately 27,000,000, both civilian and military, although the exact figures are disputed. The number 20 million was considered official during the Soviet era. The Russian government puts the Soviet war dead at 26.6 million based on a 1993 study by the Russian Academy of Sciences. this includes 8,668,400 military deaths as calculated by the Russian Ministry of Defense. The figures published by Russian Ministry of Defense have been accepted by most historians outside Russia (see table below "Western
Weather-related fatalities in the United States with at least "1" fatality. The yearly timeframes were selected to cover "January 1" to "December 31" of each year for each event type. This table does not provide a comprehensive total of all weather-related events. "Also", this is not necessarily a weather event severity comparison, but is more of an indicator of frequency of fatal occurrences for some events. However, the "unexpected" leader of fatalities comes from the temperature extremes category. That category includes heat waves as well as cold extremes. Between 1979 and 2014, the death rate as a direct result of exposure to heat (underlying cause of