Vassili Makarovich Kononov or Vasiliy Makarovich Kononov (, ; 1 January 192331 March 2011) was a Soviet partisan during World War II and a convicted war criminal and mass murderer. He is the only former Soviet partisan convicted of crimes against humanity for his role in the Mazie Bati killings, where posing as German Wehrmacht officers, Kononov led a unit into a Latvian village and killed nine people, including three women, one in the late stages of pregnancy who was burned alive.