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
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
  1. Including the perpetrator
  2. includes an unborn child

References
  1. (Page 188-190)
  2. (Page 169-177)

  4. "Дело о бойне в казарме". www.kommersant.ru. April 22, 2013.
  5. (Page 147-165)
  6. Fugitive Russian sailor found drowned, The Times (August 4, 1959)

  7. (Page 134-147)
  8. 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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