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.
1 May 1954 Arkhangelsk RSFSR 24 [lower-alpha 1] 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 
26/27 September 1968 Kursk RSFSR 14 [lower-alpha 1] 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 [lower-alpha 1] 7Yuri Gaev fatally shot three soldiers and wounded three others. [4]
July 1972 Kuressaare ESSR 4 [lower-alpha 1] 04An unknown soldier fatally shot three people and himself. [5] [6]
22 February 1973 Otradny RSFSR 11516Mikhail Dorofeev and Alexander Shurygin killed 11 people and injured five. [7]
13 December 1975 Permsky District RSFSR 5 [lower-alpha 2] 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 [lower-alpha 1] 1324 Letipea massacre: An unknown soldier killed 10 and wounded more than 13 people and then shot himself.
19 May 1977 Leningrad RSFSR 63 [lower-alpha 1] 9Anatoly Fedorenko killed six cadets and wounded two. He was also injured by one of the wounded cadets. [1] : 188–190 
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. [8]
14 July 1991Patrikeyevo RSFSR 11213Vitaly Semenikhin and Muradov killed eight soldiers, three warrant officers and wounded two other soldiers. [9]

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Notes

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

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