List of mass shootings in the Soviet Union
This is a list of known mass shootings that have occurred in the Soviet Union.
List of mass shootings in the Soviet Union
Date | Location | Dead | Injured | Total | Description |
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February 23, 1987 | Leningrad Oblast, RSFSR | 8 | 0 | 8 | ru:Дело Сакалаускаса: Arturas Sakalauskas killed 8 people. |
May 19, 1977 | Leningrad, RSFSR | 6 | 3[n 1] | 9 | Anatoly Fedorenko killed 6 cadets and wounded 2, was also injured by one of the wounded cadets.[1] |
August 7, 1976 | Letipea, ESSR | 11[n 1] | 13 | 24 | Letipea massacre: An unknown soldier killed 10 and wounded more than 13 people and then shot himself. |
December 13, 1975 | Permsky District, RSFSR | 5[n 2] | 15[n 1] | 20 | Alexander Zhidkov and Mikhail Veretelnik killed 4 people and wounded 14 others. Zhidkov was injured by the police.[2] |
July, 1972 | Kuressaare, ESSR | 4[n 1] | 0 | 4 | An unknown soldier shot 3 people and himself.[3] |
November 23, 1970 | Murmansk Oblast, RSFSR | 3 | 4[n 1] | 7 | Yuri Gaev shot 3 soldiers and wounded 3 others.[4] |
September 26/27, 1968 | Kursk, RSFSR | 14[n 1] | 11 | 25 | Shooting at the Kursk Railway Station Square: Victor Korshunov and Yury Surovtsev shot 13 people and wounded 11. Korshunov killed by Surovtsev. |
September 7, 1964 | Malyy Melik, RSFSR | 6 | 1 | 7 | Yuri Ilyasov shot 6 people and wounded 1.[5] |
July 26, 1959 | Vaindloo, ESSR | 7 | 0 | 7 | Theodore Matvievsky shot 7 people.[6] |
February 11, 1958 | Lyamino, RSFSR | 7 | 6 | 13 | Mikhail Tselousov shot 7 people and wounded 6 others.[7] |
May 1, 1954 | Arkhangelsk, RSFSR | 2 | 4[n 1] | 6 | Shooting at Trade Unions Square in Arkhangelsk: Nikolai Gavrilovich Romanov shot 2 people and wounded 3 others. |
July 26, 1925 | Ivankovo, RSFSR | 17 | 3 | 20 | Peter Grachev shot 17 people and injured 3 others.[8] |
Notes
- Including the perpetrator
- includes an unborn child
References
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- "Дело о бойне в казарме". www.kommersant.ru. April 22, 2013.
- (Page 147-165)
- Fugitive Russian sailor found drowned, The Times (August 4, 1959)
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- Farmer slays 17 neighbors, The Toledo News-Bee (August 19, 1925)
– Mad Russian kills 17 and burns town, The Murphysboro Daily Independent (August 1, 1925)
– Peasant killed 17 neighbors and burned Ivankoe village, Lebanon Daily News (August 19, 1925)
– Incendiaire et criminel Archived 2012-04-07 at the Wayback Machine, Gazette de Lausanne (August 8, 1925)
– Peasant fires village, Western Mail (October 22, 1925)
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