List of disasters in Ukraine by death toll

Last updated

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

The list of disasters inUkraine by death toll includes major disasters and accidents - excluding warfare and other intentional acts - that took place on Ukrainian soil, involved the Ukrainian military, or the predominant number of victims were Ukrainians or Ukrainian citizens.

Contents

Over 100 confirmed deaths

DisasterTypeLocationDeathsDateRef.
Kurenivka mudslide Mudflow Kyiv 145 (officially) – 1500 (later unofficial investigations)13 March 1961 [1]
1979 Dniprodzerzhynsk mid-air collision Aviation accident Near Kamianske 17811 August 1979 [2] [3]
Pulkovo Aviation Enterprise Flight 612 Aviation accident Sukha Balka, Donetsk Oblast 17022 August 2006 [4]
Aeroflot Flight 1491 Aviation accident Kharkiv 12218 May 1972 [5]
2007 Zasyadko mine disaster Mining accident Donetsk 10118 November 2007 [6]

40 to 99 confirmed deaths

DisasterTypeLocationDeathsDateRef.
Siberia Airlines Flight 1812 Aviation accident Black Sea 784 October 2001 [7]
Sknyliv air show disaster Aviation accident Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport 7727 July 2002 [8]
Aeroflot Flight 1969 Aviation accident Luhansk International Airport 6531 March 1971 [9]
Aeroflot Flight N-826 Aviation accident Preobrazhenky, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast  [ uk ]553 August 1969 [10]
Aeroflot Flight 1802 Aviation accident Viktorivka, Chernihiv Raion, Chernihiv Oblast 5215 May 1976 [11]
Malév Flight 110 Aviation accident Near Boryspil International Airport 4916 September 1971 [12]
Aeroflot Flight N-63 Aviation accident Near Havryshivka Vinnytsia International Airport 4812 November 1971 [13]
Aeroflot Flight N-36 Aviation accident Kyiv International Airport (Zhuliany) 4817 December 1976 [14]
Chernobyl disaster Nuclear accident Chernobyl 45–6426 April 1986 [15]
Marhanets train accident Traffic collision Marhanets 4512 October 2010 [16]
1959 Lviv An-10 crash  [ uk ] Aviation accident Lviv 4016 November 1959 [17]

20 to 39 confirmed deaths

DisasterTypeLocationDeathsDateRef.
1985 Zolochiv mid-air collision Aviation accident Near Zolochiv, Lviv Oblast 943 May 1985 [18] [19]
Korystivka station train accident  [ uk ] Train wreck Korystivka  [ uk ]446 November 1986 [20]
Aeroflot Flight 315 (1959) Aviation accident Lviv Danylo Halytskyi International Airport 4016 November 1959 [21]
Aeroflot Flight 3630 Aviation accident Near Dnipro 372 September 1970 [22]
2015 Zasyadko mine disaster Mining accident Donetsk 344 March 2015 [23]
Korsun Mine No.1 accident  [ uk ] Mining accident Horlivka 3313 March 1917 [24]
1960 Lviv An-10 crash  [ uk ] Aviation accident Lviv 3226 February 1960 [25]
2011 Ukraine mine accidents Mining accident Molodohvardiisk and Makiivka 2929 July 2011 [26]
Aeroflot Flight 036 Aviation accident Tarasovychi, Kyiv Oblast  [ uk ]2717 August 1960 [27]
2008 Yevpatoria gas explosion Gas explosion Yevpatoria 2724 December 2008 [28]
2020 Chuhuiv An-26 crash Aviation accident Highway M03 near Chuhuiv Air Base2625 September 2020 [29]
2007 Dnipro apartment building explosion  [ uk ] Gas explosion Dnipro 2313 October 2007 [30]
Borki train disaster Train wreck Birky, Chuhuiv Raion, Kharkiv Oblast 2129 October 1888 [31]

10 to 19 confirmed deaths

DisasterTypeLocationDeathsDateRef.
December 2019 Odesa fire  [ uk ] Structure fire Odesa 164 December 2019 [32]
2021 Kharkiv fire Structure fire Kharkiv 1521 January 2021 [33]
2023 Brovary helicopter crash Aviation accident Brovary 1418 February 2023 [34]
2008 Ukraine coal mine collapse Mining accident Yenakiieve 138 June 2008 [35]
Vyry bus–train collision Traffic collision Vyry, Sumy Oblast  [ uk ]124 February 2014 [36]

Fewer than 10 confirmed deaths

DisasterTypeLocationDeathsDateRef.
Aeroflot Flight N-528 Aviation accident Berdiansk Airport 819 June 1987 [37]
Stepova mine explosion  [ uk ] Mining accident Hlukhiv, Lviv Oblast 82 March 2017 [38]
1995 Borodianka mid-air collision Aviation accident Borodianka Raion 710 February 1995 [39]
Odesa psychiatric hospital fire  [ uk ] Structure fire Odesa 710 June 2019 [40]
Kryachki oil depot fire  [ uk ] Structure fire Kryachki 68 June 2015 [41]
2013 Horlivka chemical accident Chemical accident Horlivka 56 August 2013 [42]
South Airlines Flight 8971 Aviation accident Donetsk International Airport 513 February 2013 [43]
Ukraine Air Alliance Flight 4050 Aviation accident Lviv 54 October 2019 [44]
Zaporizhia Regional Infectious Diseases Clinical Hospital fire  [ uk ] Structure fire Zaporizhzhia 43–4 February 2021 [45] [46]
Camp Viktoriia fire  [ uk ] Structure fire Odesa 316 September 2017 [47]
2024 Black Sea oil spill Shipwrecking Kerch Strait 115 December 2024 [48]

See also

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tupolev Tu-134</span> Twin-engined, narrow-body jet airliner

The Tupolev Tu-134 is a twin-engined, narrow-body jet airliner built in the Soviet Union for short and medium-haul routes from 1966 to 1989. The original version featured a glazed-nose design and, like certain other Russian airliners, it can operate from unpaved airfields.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">1993 Sukhumi airliner attacks</span> Part of the War in Abkhazia

From 20 to 23 September 1993, during the Sukhumi massacre, separatists in Sukhumi, Abkhazia blocked Georgian troops' overland supply routes as part of the war in Abkhazia. In response, the Georgian government used Sukhumi Babushara Airport to ferry supplies to troops stationed in Sukhumi. Abkhaz forces attacked the airport in an attempt to further block the supply routes.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Vnukovo International Airport</span> International airport serving Moscow, Russia

Vnukovo, formally Vnukovo Andrei Tupolev International Airport, is a dual-runway international airport located in Vnukovo District, 28 km (17 mi) southwest of the centre of Moscow, Russia. It is one of the four major airports that serve Moscow, along with Domodedovo, Sheremetyevo, and Zhukovsky.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Antonov An-10</span> Soviet medium-range airliner with 4 turboprop engines, 1957

The Antonov An-10 Ukraina is a four-engined turboprop passenger transport aircraft designed in the Soviet Union.

Ukrainian-Mediterranean Airlines, Ukrayinsʹko-seredzemnomorsʹki avialiniyi, was an airline based in Kyiv, Ukraine. it ceased operations at 2018.

Tajik Air is a flag carrier airline of Tajikistan. It has its head office at Dushanbe International Airport in Dushanbe. The airline's main hub is Dushanbe International Airport.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Boryspil International Airport</span> Airport in Ukraine

Boryspil International Airport, also known as Kyiv Boryspil Airport, is an international airport in Boryspil, 29 km (18 mi) east of Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine. It is Ukraine's largest airport, serving 65% of its passenger air traffic, including all its intercontinental flights and a majority of international flights. It is one of two passenger airports that serve Kyiv along with the smaller Zhuliany Airport. Boryspil International Airport was a member of Airports Council International. Since 24 February 2022, the airport does not operate any scheduled, charter or cargo flights due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Mineralnye Vody Airport</span> Airport in Stavropol Krai, Russia

Mineralnye Vody Airport is an airport in Stavropol Krai, Russia, located 4 kilometres (2.5 mi) west of Mineralnye Vody. It features a civilian terminal area on its west side with 41 parking spots. The airfield houses a Tupolev Tu-154 maintenance facility on the east side.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">1985 Zolochiv mid-air collision</span> 1985 mid-air collision

The 1985 Zolochiv mid-air collision occurred on 3 May 1985 between Aeroflot Flight 8381 (Tu-134) and a Soviet Air Force An-26.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">1979 Dniprodzerzhynsk mid-air collision</span> Fatal aviation accident in Ukraine

On 11 August 1979, a mid-air collision occurred over the Ukrainian SSR, near the city of Dniprodzerzhynsk. The aircraft involved were both Tupolev Tu-134As on scheduled domestic passenger flights, operated by Aeroflot. All 178 people aboard both aircraft died in the accident.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Ukraine State Aviation Museum</span> Aviation museum in Kyiv, Ukraine

The Ukraine State Aviation Museum is an aviation museum located next to Zhulyany Airport in Kyiv, Ukraine. Both the premises and the planes are provided by the National Aviation University which continues to use some of the aircraft as educational exhibits.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Aeroflot accidents and incidents in the 1970s</span>

Aeroflot, the Soviet Union's national carrier, experienced a number of serious accidents and incidents during the 1970s. The airline's worst accident during the decade took place in August 1979, when two Tupolev Tu-134 aircraft were involved in a mid-air collision over the Ukrainian city then named Dniprodzerzhinsk, with the loss of 178 lives. Including this event, there were nine deadly incidents with more than 100 fatalities, while the total recorded number of casualties was 3,541 for the decade.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Aeroflot accidents and incidents in the 1980s</span>

The following is a list of accidents and incidents experienced by Aeroflot during the 1980s. The deadliest accident the carrier experienced in this decade occurred in July 1985, when Flight 5143, a Tupolev Tu-154B-2, stalled en route and crashed near Uchkuduk, then located in the Uzbek SSR, claiming the lives of all 200 occupants aboard the aircraft. The second deadliest accident the company went through in the decade took place in October 1984, when Flight 3352, a Tupolev Tu-154B-1, hit snowploughs upon landing at Omsk Airport, killing 174 of 179 people on board plus four people on the ground. Both accidents combined left a death toll of 378 casualties and involved a Tupolev Tu-154, ranking as the worst ones involving the type, as of February 2012.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Aeroflot accidents and incidents in the 1960s</span>

Following is a list of accidents and incidents Aeroflot experienced in the 1960s. The deadliest event the Soviet Union's flag carrier went through in the decade occurred in November 1967, when an Ilyushin Il-18V crashed upside down shortly after takeoff from Koltsovo Airport in Sverdlovsk, then located in the Russian SSR, killing all 107 occupants on board, prompting the temporary grounding of the type within the airline's fleet. In terms of fatalities, the accident ranks as the fifth worst involving an Il-18, as of April 2016. Another aircraft of the type was involved in the second deadliest accident the airline experienced in the decade, this time in September 1964, when 87 people were killed when the aircraft struck a hillside on approach to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. The decade was also marked by the only deadly accident experienced by a Tupolev Tu-114, which entered commercial service on the Moscow–Khabarovsk route in April 1961.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Aeroflot accidents and incidents in the 1990s</span>

After the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991, its former republics started establishing their own carriers from the corresponding directorates Aeroflot had at these countries, causing the airline to shrink drastically. The fleet reduced from several thousand aircraft to a number slightly over 100 in 1993, helping the former Soviet Union's national airline to improve its accidents and incidents record sharply. The company experienced 42 events between 1990 and 1991 only, and had 41 occurrences in the rest of the decade. Despite this, the three deadliest accidents the airline went through in the decade occurred in the post-Soviet era, leaving a death toll of 257, each one involving more than 50 fatalities.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Aeroflot Flight 7841</span> Soviet passenger flight involved in a 1985 aviation accident

Aeroflot Flight 7841 was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Minsk in Soviet Byelorussia, to Leningrad, operated by a Tupolev Tu-134A on 1 February 1985, which suffered a double engine failure immediately after take off. The pilots were unable to return to Minsk, and instead made a forced landing into a forest, resulting in the deaths of fifty eight of the eighty people on board. Twenty-two people survived the accident. The double engine failure was brought on by ice ingestion.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Aeroflot Flight 6502</span> 1986 Tu-134 crash in Samara

Aeroflot Flight 6502 was a Soviet domestic passenger flight operated by a Tupolev Tu-134A from Sverdlovsk to Grozny via Kuibyshev, which crashed in Kuibyshev on 20 October 1986. Seventy of the 94 passengers and crew on board were killed when the plane overran the runway, after the pilot made a bet that he could make an instrument-only approach with curtained cockpit windows. Investigators determined the cause of the accident was pilot negligence.

Following is a list of accidents and incidents Aeroflot experienced in the 1950s. The deadliest event the Soviet Union's flag carrier went through in the decade occurred in October 1958, when a Tupolev Tu-104 crashed en route to Sverdlovsk, then located in the Russian SSR, killing all 80 occupants on board. In terms of fatalities, the accident ranks as the eighth worst accident involving a Tu-104, as of July 2016. Another aircraft of the type was involved in the second deadliest accident the airline experienced in the decade, this time in August 1958, when 64 people were killed when the aircraft crashed near Chita after entering an updraft. The Tu-104's tail was modified and the service ceiling lowered in the wake of these two accidents.

References

  1. ↑ Dzhulay, Dmytro (16 March 2021). "Babyn Yar's 'Revenge'? The Deadly Mudslide The KGB Tried To Cover Up". Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty . Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  2. ↑ "Accident Tupolev Tu-134A CCCP-65735, Saturday 11 August 1979". Aviation Safety Network . Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  3. ↑ "Accident Tupolev Tu-134A CCCP-65816, Saturday 11 August 1979". Aviation Safety Network . Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  4. ↑ Parfitt, Tom (22 August 2006). "170 die as Russian plane is struck by lightning". The Guardian . Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  5. ↑ "Accident Antonov An-10A CCCP-11215, Thursday 18 May 1972". Aviation Safety Network . Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  6. ↑ "Кривава статистика: трагедії на шахті імені Засядька". BBC News (in Ukrainian). 4 March 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  7. ↑ Philps, Alan; Sparrow, Andrew (5 October 2001). "Airliner blasted out of sky". The Daily Telegraph . Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  8. ↑ "Владимир Топонарь: «За мной вины нет. Меня просто сделали козлом отпущения»" [Vladimir Toponar: "I am not to blame. They just made me a scapegoat."]. Fakty i Kommentarii (in Russian). 20 September 2013. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  9. ↑ "Accident Antonov An-10 CCCP-11145, Wednesday 31 March 1971". Aviation Safety Network . Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  10. ↑ "Accident Antonov An-24B CCCP-46248, Sunday 3 August 1969". Aviation Safety Network . Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  11. ↑ "Loss of control Accident Antonov An-24RV CCCP-46534, Saturday 15 May 1976". Aviation Safety Network . Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  12. ↑ "Accident Tupolev Tu-134 HA-LBD, Thursday 16 September 1971". Aviation Safety Network . Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  13. ↑ "Loss of control Accident Antonov An-24B CCCP-46809, Friday 12 November 1971". Aviation Safety Network . Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  14. ↑ "Crash of an Antonov AN-24 in Kiev: 48 killed". Bureau of Aircraft Accidents Archives . Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  15. ↑ Ritchie, Hannah (24 July 2017). "What was the death toll from Chernobyl and Fukushima?". Our World in Data . Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  16. ↑ "Умерла уже 45-я жертва аварии под Марганцем". Korotko Pro (in Russian). 15 October 2010. Archived from the original on 18 October 2010. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  17. ↑ "Accident Antonov An-10 CCCP-11167, Monday 16 November 1959". Aviation Safety Network . Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  18. ↑ "Accident Tupolev Tu-134A CCCP-65856, Friday 3 May 1985". Aviation Safety Network . Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  19. ↑ "Accident Antonov An-26 101 red, Friday 3 May 1985". Aviation Safety Network . Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  20. ↑ "«Возле вагона бегал полураздетый мужчина. Срывающимся голосом он говорил: «Представляешь, браток, если бы не вышел в тамбур покурить, меня бы уже в живых не было!»". Fakty ta Komentari (in Russian). 8 November 2011. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  21. ↑ "Accident Antonov An-10 CCCP-11167, Monday 16 November 1959". Aviation Safety Network . Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  22. ↑ "Loss of control Accident Tupolev Tu-124 CCCP-45012, Wednesday 2 September 1970". Aviation Safety Network . Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  23. ↑ "Death toll rises to 34 in Zasiadko coal mine disaster". Kyiv Post . Interfax. 6 March 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  24. ↑ Dudar, Oksana (3 March 2017). "Згадати все: наймасштабніші аварії на українських шахтах за 100 років". dyvys.info (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  25. ↑ "Accident Antonov An-10A CCCP-11180, Friday 26 February 1960". Aviation Safety Network . Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  26. ↑ "31 липня - день жалоби через аварії на шахтах". BBC News (in Ukrainian). 30 July 2011. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  27. ↑ "Accident Ilyushin Il-18B CCCP-75705, Wednesday 17 August 1960". Aviation Safety Network . Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  28. ↑ "Ukraine mourns Crimea blast dead". BBC News . 26 December 2008. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  29. ↑ "Ukraine military plane crash: Cadets among 26 people killed". BBC News . 26 September 2020. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  30. ↑ "У Дніпропетровську згадують жертв вибуху житлового будинку на Мандриківській". TSN.ua (in Ukrainian). 13 October 2012. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  31. ↑ "На Харьковщине установили памятник российскому царю". glavred.info (in Russian). 31 October 2013. Archived from the original on 10 November 2018. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  32. ↑ "Пожежа в Одесі: поліція призначила генетичну експертизу". RBC-Ukraine (in Ukrainian). 12 December 2019. Archived from the original on 12 December 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  33. ↑ "At least 15 killed, 11 injured in nursing home fire in Ukraine". Reuters . 21 January 2021. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  34. ↑ Waterhouse, James; Kirby, Paul (18 January 2023). "Ukraine's interior ministry leadership killed in helicopter crash". BBC News . Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  35. ↑ Kushch, Lina (10 June 2008). "Hope fades for 12 missing coal miners in Ukraine". Reuters . Archived from the original on 1 February 2013. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  36. ↑ "Twelve die as train and minibus collide in Ukraine". BBC News . 4 February 2014. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  37. ↑ "Runway excursion Accident Yakovlev Yak-40 CCCP-87826, Friday 19 June 1987". Aviation Safety Network . Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  38. ↑ "Нові дані про трагедію на шахті «Степова» на Львівщині: 8 гірників загинули, 21 шпиталізований". Radio Svoboda (in Ukrainian). 2 March 2017. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  39. ↑ "Accident Antonov An-70 UR--, Friday 10 February 1995". Aviation Safety Network . Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  40. ↑ "Пожар в психиатрической больнице Одессы: возросло количество жертв – фото, видео". 24 Kanal (in Russian). 12 June 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  41. ↑ "Количество жертв пожара на нефтебазе под Васильковом увеличилось до шести". Ukrainian Independent Information Agency (in Russian). 2 July 2015. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  42. ↑ "Кількість загиблих під час викиду аміаку на хімзаводі у Горлівці зросла до п'яти осіб". Korespondent (in Ukrainian). 6 August 2013. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  43. ↑ "Five killed as plane crash-lands in eastern Ukraine". BBC News . 13 February 2013. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  44. ↑ "Смертельна аварія транспортного літака Ан-12 біля Львова. Головне". TSN.ua (in Ukrainian). 4 October 2019. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  45. ↑ "Пожежа в лікарні: 4 людей отруїлися, постраждали анестезіолог та медбрат". Ukrainska Pravda (in Ukrainian). 4 February 2021. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  46. ↑ "Fire kills four at Zaporizhia Regional Infectious Diseases Clinical Hospital". Kyiv Post . Interfax. 4 February 2021. Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  47. ↑ Shtekel, Mykhailo (2 April 2018). "Хто винен у загибелі дітей в Одесі? Експертиза не встановила причину пожежі у таборі «Вікторія»". Radio Svoboda (in Ukrainian). Retrieved 24 January 2025.
  48. ↑ Harding, Luke (15 December 2024). "Russian tanker sinks in Black Sea spilling 4,300 tonnes of oil". The Guardian . Retrieved 24 January 2025.
This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.