List of mass shootings in the Soviet Union explained

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

List of mass shootings in the Soviet Union

Date LocationRepublicdata-sort-type=number Deaddata-sort-type=number Injureddata-sort-type=number Totalclass=unsortable Description
PetrogradRSFSR81018Kuusinen Club Incident

Eight members of the Finnish Communist Party were murdered in their office.

Ivankovo, Kostroma GovernorateRSFSR11819Grachev murder case

Grigory Grachev fatally shot 11 people and injured eight others.

PrigorodnyRSFSR505Prigorodny forest murders

Alexander Labutkin shot and killed five people in a forest.

PrigorodnyRSFSR404Prigorodny forest murders

Alexander Labutkin shot and killed four people in a forest.

ArkhangelskRSFSR246

Nikolai Gavrilovich Romanov fatally shot two people and wounded three others.

LyaminoRSFSR7613Mikhail Tselousov fatally shot seven people and wounded six others.[1]
VaindlooESSR707Theodore Matvievsky fatally shot seven people.[2] [3]
Malyy MelikRSFSR617Yuri Ilyasov fatally shot six people and wounded one.
AlmatyKSSR224Nikolai Kendenov shot and killed one person and wounded two others before being killed.[4]
26/27 September 1968KurskRSFSR141125

Victor Korshunov and Yury Surovtsev fatally shot 13 people and wounded 11. Korshunov was killed by Surovtsev.

TitovkaRSFSR347Yuri Gaev fatally shot three soldiers and wounded three others.[5]
KuressaareESSR404An unknown soldier fatally shot three people and himself.[6] [7]
OtradnyRSFSR11516Mikhail Dorofeev and Alexander Shurygin killed 11 people and injured five.[8]
Permsky DistrictRSFSR51520Alexander Zhidkov and Mikhail Veretelnik killed four people and wounded 14 others. Zhidkov was injured by the police.
LetipeaESSR111324Letipea massacre

An unknown soldier killed 10 and wounded more than 13 people and then shot himself.

LeningradRSFSR639Anatoly Fedorenko killed six cadets and wounded two. He was also injured by one of the fatally wounded cadets.
ElkhotovoRSFSR8210

Bandits fatally shot eight people and injured two.

Leningrad OblastRSFSR808

Arturas Sakalauskas killed eight people.

Novohorivka, Zaporizhzhia OblastUkSSR505Anatoly Onoprienko shot and killed a family of five while they were sleeping in a car before lighting it on fire.[9]
PatrikeyevoRSFSR11213Vitaly Semenikhin and Muradov killed eight soldiers, three warrant officers and wounded two other soldiers.

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Notes and References

  1. Book: Ракитин, Алексей . "Социализм не порождает преступности": серийная преступность в СССР : историко-криминалистический анализ . Kabinetnyĭ uchenyĭ . 2016 . 978-5-7525-3028-9 . ru . "Socialism does not breed crime": serial crime in the USSR: a historical and forensic analysis.
  2. News: Filippov . Madis . 2013-03-24 . Vaindloo - riigi põhjapoolseim kodu . Vaindloo - the country's northernmost home . 2020-03-08 . . et.
  3. News: 1959-08-04 . Vier schoten . nl . Four shots . Friese Koerier . 2020-03-08 . Delpher.
  4. News: 1966-08-20 . Naamioitu pankkirosvo ammuskeli Alma Atassa . fi . . 2024-08-16.
  5. News: Жирнов . Евгений . 2013-04-22 . Дело о бойне в казарме . ru . The barracks massacre case . . 2020-03-08.
  6. News: Kiil . Urmas . 2008-03-29 . Mälestusi Nõukogude armeega toimunud vahejuhtumitest . et . Memories of encounters with the Soviet army . . 2020-03-08.
  7. Pihlau . Jaak . 2005-06-01 . Eesti demokraatlik põrandaalune ja kontaktid Läänega . Estonia's democratic underground and contacts with the West . Tuna . et . 1406-4030 . 2020-03-08.
  8. Web site: Оборотни в погонах: как это было в семидесятые . ru . Werewolves in uniform: how it was in the seventies.
  9. News: Accused Ukrainian serial killer claims to be creature of the devil . . 4 December 1998 . 11 April 2024 .