List of mass shootings in the Soviet Union

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This is a list of known mass shootings that have occurred in the Soviet Union.

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List of mass shootings in the Soviet Union

DateLocationRepublicDeadInjuredTotalDescription
31 August 1920 Petrograd RSFSR 81018 Kuusinen Club Incident: Eight members of the Finnish Communist Party were murdered in their office.
26 July 1925Ivankovo, Kostroma Governorate RSFSR 11819 Grachev murder case: Grigory Grachev fatally shot 11 people and injured eight others.
30 August 1933 Prigorodny RSFSR 505 Prigorodny forest murders: Alexander Labutkin shot and killed five people in a forest.
11 January 1935 Prigorodny RSFSR 404 Prigorodny forest murders: Alexander Labutkin shot and killed four people in a forest.
1 May 1954 Arkhangelsk RSFSR 24 [a] 6 Arkhangelsk Trade Unions Square shooting  [ ru ]: Nikolai Gavrilovich Romanov fatally shot two people and wounded three others.
11 February 1958Lyamino RSFSR 7613Mikhail Tselousov fatally shot seven people and wounded six others. [1] : 134–147 
26 July 1959 Vaindloo ESSR 707Theodore Matvievsky fatally shot seven people. [2] [3]
7 September 1964Malyy Melik RSFSR 617Yuri Ilyasov fatally shot six people and wounded one. [1] : 147–165 
19 August 1966 Almaty KSSR 2 [a] 24Nikolai Kendenov shot and killed one person and wounded two others before being killed. [4]
26/27 September 1968 Kursk RSFSR 14 [a] 1125 Kursk Railway Station Square shooting  [ ru ]: Victor Korshunov and Yury Surovtsev fatally shot 13 people and wounded 11. Korshunov was killed by Surovtsev.
23 November 1970 Titovka RSFSR 34 [a] 7Yuri Gaev fatally shot three soldiers and wounded three others. [5]
July 1972 Kuressaare ESSR 4 [a] 04An unknown soldier fatally shot three people and himself. [6] [7]
22 February 1973 Otradny RSFSR 11516Mikhail Dorofeev and Alexander Shurygin killed 11 people and injured five. [8]
13 December 1975 Permsky District RSFSR 5 [b] 1520Alexander Zhidkov and Mikhail Veretelnik killed four people and wounded 14 others. Zhidkov was injured by the police. [1] : 169–177 
7 August 1976 Letipea ESSR 11 [a] 1324 Letipea massacre: An unknown soldier killed 10 and wounded more than 13 people and then shot himself.
19 May 1977 Leningrad RSFSR 63 [a] 9Anatoly Fedorenko killed six cadets and wounded two. He was also injured by one of the fatally wounded cadets. [1] : 188–190 
29 June 1978 Baku AzSSR 4 [a] 04Zia Mudarov shot and killed three people, including Arif Heydarov, before committing suicide. [9]
10 October 1979 Elkhotovo RSFSR 8210 Sofia restaurant shooting  [ ru ]: Bandits fatally shot eight people and injured two.
23 February 1987 Leningrad Oblast RSFSR 808 Sakalauskas murder case  [ ru ]: Arturas Sakalauskas killed eight people.
16 August 1989Novohorivka, Zaporizhzhia Oblast UkSSR 505 Anatoly Onoprienko shot and killed a family of five while they were sleeping in a car before lighting it on fire. [10]
14 July 1991Patrikeyevo RSFSR 11213Vitaly Semenikhin and Muradov killed eight soldiers, three warrant officers and wounded two other soldiers. Muradov subsequently committed suicide, and Semenikhin was caught and sentenced to death, which was later commuted to life imprisonment. [11]

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Notes

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Including the perpetrator
  2. ↑ including an unborn child

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