This is a list of known mass shootings that have occurred in the Soviet Union.
Date | Location | Republic | data-sort-type=number | Dead | data-sort-type=number | Injured | data-sort-type=number | Total | class=unsortable | Description |
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Petrograd | RSFSR | 8 | 10 | 18 | Kuusinen Club Incident Eight members of the Finnish Communist Party were murdered in their office. | |||||
Ivankovo, Kostroma Governorate | RSFSR | 11 | 8 | 19 | Grachev murder case Grigory Grachev fatally shot 11 people and injured eight others. | |||||
Prigorodny | RSFSR | 5 | 0 | 5 | Prigorodny forest murders Alexander Labutkin shot and killed five people in a forest. | |||||
Prigorodny | RSFSR | 4 | 0 | 4 | Prigorodny forest murders Alexander Labutkin shot and killed four people in a forest. | |||||
Arkhangelsk | RSFSR | 2 | 4 | 6 | Nikolai Gavrilovich Romanov fatally shot two people and wounded three others. | |||||
Lyamino | RSFSR | 7 | 6 | 13 | Mikhail Tselousov fatally shot seven people and wounded six others.[1] | |||||
Vaindloo | ESSR | 7 | 0 | 7 | Theodore Matvievsky fatally shot seven people.[2] [3] | |||||
Malyy Melik | RSFSR | 6 | 1 | 7 | Yuri Ilyasov fatally shot six people and wounded one. | |||||
Almaty | KSSR | 2 | 2 | 4 | Nikolai Kendenov shot and killed one person and wounded two others before being killed.[4] | |||||
26/27 September 1968 | Kursk | RSFSR | 14 | 11 | 25 | Victor Korshunov and Yury Surovtsev fatally shot 13 people and wounded 11. Korshunov was killed by Surovtsev. | ||||
Titovka | RSFSR | 3 | 4 | 7 | Yuri Gaev fatally shot three soldiers and wounded three others.[5] | |||||
Kuressaare | ESSR | 4 | 0 | 4 | An unknown soldier fatally shot three people and himself.[6] [7] | |||||
Otradny | RSFSR | 11 | 5 | 16 | Mikhail Dorofeev and Alexander Shurygin killed 11 people and injured five.[8] | |||||
Permsky District | RSFSR | 5 | 15 | 20 | Alexander Zhidkov and Mikhail Veretelnik killed four people and wounded 14 others. Zhidkov was injured by the police. | |||||
Letipea | ESSR | 11 | 13 | 24 | Letipea massacre An unknown soldier killed 10 and wounded more than 13 people and then shot himself. | |||||
Leningrad | RSFSR | 6 | 3 | 9 | Anatoly Fedorenko killed six cadets and wounded two. He was also injured by one of the fatally wounded cadets. | |||||
Elkhotovo | RSFSR | 8 | 2 | 10 | Bandits fatally shot eight people and injured two. | |||||
Leningrad Oblast | RSFSR | 8 | 0 | 8 | Arturas Sakalauskas killed eight people. | |||||
Novohorivka, Zaporizhzhia Oblast | UkSSR | 5 | 0 | 5 | Anatoly Onoprienko shot and killed a family of five while they were sleeping in a car before lighting it on fire.[9] | |||||
Patrikeyevo | RSFSR | 11 | 2 | 13 | Vitaly Semenikhin and Muradov killed eight soldiers, three warrant officers and wounded two other soldiers. |