This chronological list of
school attacks in
Russia
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that occurred at K–12 public and private schools, as well as at colleges and universities, and on school buses. Excluded from this list are the following:
# Incidents that occurred as a result of police actions
# Suicides or suicide attempts involving only one person.
List
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, 5 May 1874
,
Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg (, ; ), alternatively Romanization of Russian, romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk ( ; 1924–1991), is a city and the administrative centre of Sverdlovsk Oblast and the Ural Federal District, Russia. The ci ...
, Alexei Skachkov
, 1
, 0
, A student of Yekaterinburg
gymnasium was noticed smoking in the toilet by his head teacher, Yakov Predtechensky; after a decision to expel Skachkov, he murdered Predtechensky using a revolver.
, -
, 15 September 1900
,
Kharkiv
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, Iwanow
, 1
, 1
, After failing an exam, gymnasium student Iwanow shot and killed principal Tschanowitsch with a revolver and also wounded a teacher named Horkiwicz before surrendering to police.
, -
, 4 April 1950
, Gyska
, Vladimir Tatarnikov
, 24 (including the perpetrator)
, Unknown number of injured
, A military commander detonated a large bomb at a school in Gyska, killing himself, two other teachers and 21 students.
, -
,
, Lyamino,
Perm Oblast
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, Mikhail Tselousov
, 7
, 6
, 24-year-old Mikhail Tselousov fatally shot seven people and wounded six others at School of Construction N°6 as retaliation for perceived unfair treatment at his workplace. He was sentenced to death and executed one year later.
, -
,
,
Leningrad
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, Anatoly Fedorenko
, 6
, 3 (including the perpetrator)
, Anatoly Fedorenko killed six cadets and wounded two. He was also injured by one of the fatally wounded cadets. Sentenced to death.
, -
,
,
Moscow
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, Grigory Kuts
, 1
, 0
, Grigory Kuts killed his physical education teacher with a
TT pistol
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after classes. Earlier Kuts shot dead plant director. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison as a minor. He was later sentenced to death for another murder in prison.
, -
, 5 December 1995
,
Vladikavkaz
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,
North Ossetia–Alania
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, Yuri Kardanov
, 3
, 8 (including the perpetrator)
, A 35-year-old man detonated grenades at a kindergarten around 1 p.m., killing three children and injuring seven others — three children, two teachers and two policemen — as well as himself.
, -
,
,
Kamyshin
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,
Volgograd Oblast
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, Sergey Lepnev
, 6
, 2
, Sergey Lepnev shot and killed five cadets and a commander and wounded two other cadets. Sentenced to 25 years in prison.
, -
, 1-3 September 2004
,
Beslan
Beslan (; , ''Beslæn'', ) is a town and the administrative center of Pravoberezhny District of the Republic of North Ossetia–Alania, Russia, located about north of the republic's capital Vladikavkaz, close to the border with the Republic ...
,
North Ossetia–Alania
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,
Riyad-us Saliheen Brigade of Martyrs
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, 334
, 800+
,
Beslan school hostage crisis
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, -
, 3 February 2014
,
Moscow
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, Sergey Gordeyev
, 2
, 1
,
2014 Moscow school shooting: a 15-year-old student shot dead teacher, took hostages, killed the arriving policeman, along with injured another one before surrendering.
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, 20 October 2014
,
Elektrostal
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Etymology
The name ''Elektrostal ...
,
Moscow Oblast
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, Unnamed 9th grade student
, 1
, 0
, A student attacked a security guard with a baseball bat and then stabbed him to death. The student was restrained by a teacher until police arrived.
, -
, 4 December 2014
,
Tomsk
Tomsk (, ) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Tomsk Oblast in Russia, on the Tom (river), Tom River. Population:
Founded in 1604, Tomsk is one of the oldest cities in Siberia. It has six univers ...
,
Tomsk Oblast
Tomsk Oblast () is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). It lies in the southeastern West Siberian Plain, in the southwest of the Siberian Federal District. Its administrative center is the types of inhabited loca ...
, Tom
, 0
, 4
, A former student named “Tom” broke into a private gym in Tomsk, injuring four people with a compressed air gun, three students and the director. No one had serious injuries.
, -
, 20 March 2015
,
Tomsk
Tomsk (, ) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Tomsk Oblast in Russia, on the Tom (river), Tom River. Population:
Founded in 1604, Tomsk is one of the oldest cities in Siberia. It has six univers ...
,
Tomsk Oblast
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, Unnamed 9th grade student
, 0
, 2
, In an attack at School N°64, two students were lightly wounded by gunfire from a ninth-grader, who was later arrested.
, -
, 30 November 2015
,
Saratov
Saratov ( , ; , ) is the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and administrative center of Saratov Oblast, Russia, and a major port on the Volga River. Saratov had a population of 901,361, making it the List of cities and tow ...
,
Saratov Oblast
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, Rasim Kerimov
, 1
, 2
, During an argument, a father of a 45-year-old student fired shots at Azamat Normanov, who died in the attack, in addition to wounding two other adults, before being detained.
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, 18 March 2016
,
Nakhodka
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,
Primorsky Krai
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, Unnamed 19-year-old man
, 2 (including the perpetrator)
, 0
, A 19-year-old man broke into a school in Nakhodka and made his way to the principal's office, where he killed his 15-year-old ex-lover before killing himself.
, -
, 5 September 2017
,
Ivanteevka,
Moscow Oblast
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, Mikhail Pivnev
, 0
, 4
,
2017 Ivanteyevka school shooting: A teacher was hit in the head with a meat cleaver and in the face with a BB gun by a 15-year-old student who threatened other classmates, causing three other students, two girls and a boy, to jump out of the window and injure themselves before the suspect was arrested.
, -
, 1 November 2017
,
Moscow
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, Unnamed student
, 2 (including the perpetrator)
, 0
, A student killed his security teacher at a Moscow polytechnic school before killing himself.
, -
, 18 December 2017
,
Irkutsk
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,
Irkutsk Oblast
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, Unnamed student
, 1
, 0
, A 16-year-old student stabbed his 15-year-old classmate to death at School N°4.
, -
, 15 January 2018
,
Motovilikhinsky,
Perm Oblast
Until 1 December 2005, Perm Oblast () was a federal subject of Russia (an oblast) in Privolzhsky (Volga) Federal District. According to the results of the referendum held in October 2004, Perm Oblast was merged with Komi-Permyak Autonomous Okrug ...
, Aleksandr Sergeyevich Buslidze
Lev Romanovich Bidzhakov
, 0
, 15 (including the two perpetrators)
,
2018 Perm school stabbing
A school attack in Motovilikhinsky City District, Motovilikhinsky District in Perm, Russia occurred on the morning of 15 January 2018. The perpetrators, 16-year-old students Aleksandr Sergeyevich Buslidze (born 15 May 2001), and Lev Romanovich ...
: Two young men attacked classmates and a teacher with knives, before attempting suicide, injuring themselves.
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, 17 January 2018
,
Chelyabinsk
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,
Chelyabinsk Oblast
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, Unnamed student
, 0
, 1
, A 16-year-old student attacked his classmate with a knife after a fight.
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, 19 January 2018
,
Ulan-Ude
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,
Buryatia Repuplic
, Anton Bichivin
, 0
, 7 (including the perpetrator)
, A ninth-grade student attacked five students and a teacher with an axe before throwing himself from a second-floor building and stabbing himself until he was restrained by police who took him to hospital in serious condition.
, -
, 21 March 2018
,
Shadrinsk
Shadrinsk () is a town in Kurgan Oblast, Russia, located on the left bank of the Iset River ( Ob's basin) northwest of Kurgan. Population:
History
Shadrinsk was founded in 1662 as an agricultural and trade settlement. Shadrinsk hosted th ...
,
Kurgan Oblast
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History
Formed by De ...
, Natalia Kabakova
, 0
, 7
, Two 13-year-old sisters went to a classroom around 7:45 am, until one of the attackers fired shots from a pressure gun, while the other stopped the students from escaping with a knife, after injuring 7 students, a teacher managed to enter the room and detain the two attackers.
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, 18 April 2018
,
Sterlitamak
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,
Bashkortostan Repuplic
, Artyom Tagirov
, 0
, 4 (including the perpetrator)
, A 17-year-old seventh-grade student armed himself with a knife and attacked two classmates in a classroom. The first victim suffered a cut on his forearm and then jumped out of the window to escape, suffering fractures. The second victim suffered a chest injury, and a 29-year-old teacher who tried to calm the suspect was injured before the suspect attempted suicide by stabbing himself.
, -
, 10 May 2018
,
Barabinsk
Barabinsk () is a town in Novosibirsk Oblast, Russia, located in the Baraba steppe on the Trans-Siberian Railway between Omsk and Novosibirsk. Population:
History
It was founded at the end of the 19th century and was granted town status in 1917. ...
,
Novosibirsk Oblast
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, Ilya Ivanistov
, 1 (the perpetrator)
, 3
, Ilya Ivanistov, a 16-year-old student at a college in Barabinsk, shot a student with a double-barreled shotgun and then committed suicide. Two other students were injured by jumping out of a window to escape the shooter.
, -
, 17 October 2018
,
Kerch
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Founded 2,600 years ago as the Colonies in antiquity#Greek colonies, ancient Greek colony Pantik ...
, Vladislav Igorevich Roslyakov
, 21 (including the perpetrator)
, 67
,
Kerch Polytechnic College massacre
The Kerch Polytechnic College massacre took place in Kerch, Crimea, on 17 October 2018. It was a school shooting and School bombing, bombing attack perpetrated by an 18-year-old student, Vladislav Roslyakov, who killed 20 people and wounded 67 o ...
: school shooting and bomb attack committed by an 18-year-old student.
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, 25 January 2019
, Abalakovo,
Krasnoyarsk Krai
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, Unnamed 9th grade student
, 0
, 0
, A ninth-grader tried to shoot his classmate with a shotgun, but after he disappeared, the gunman began shooting at the school windows. The shooter was detained; he turned out to be a student in a special education class. There were no casualties.
, -
, 13 May 2019
,
Kazan
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,
Tartaristan
, Iskander Khalfin
, 0
, 1
, A 17-year-old student armed with a BB gun took four teachers and 12 classmates hostage before being arrested. One teacher suffered heart problems and was taken to the hospital, even though she was not directly injured in the hostage crisis.
, -
, 28 May 2019
,
Voslk,
Saratov Oblast
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, Daniil Pulkin
, 0
, 1
,
2019 Volsk school attack: A 15-year-old seventh-grader attempted to set his classroom on fire with a Molotov cocktail but failed and then went into the hallway where he attacked a 12-year-old girl with an axe to the head, leaving her in a moderate condition, before fleeing home and being later arrested by police.
, -
, 31 October 2019
,
Narian-Mar,
Nenetsia
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, Denis Pozdeev
, 1
, 0
, A 36-year-old man entered into a kindergarten and stabbed a 6-year-old boy to death during quiet hours, before being arrested and later taken into compulsory treatment.
, -
, 14 November 2019
,
Blagoveshchensk
Blagoveshchensk ( rus, Благовещенск, p=bləɡɐˈvʲeɕːɪnsk, ) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Amur Oblast, Russia. It is located at the confluence of the Amur River, Amur and the ...
,
Amur Oblast
Amur Oblast () is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located on the banks of the Amur and Zeya rivers in the Russian Far East. The oblast borders Heilongjiang province of the People's Republic of China (PRC) to the south.
The administrati ...
, Daniil Viktorovich Zasorin
, 2 (including the perpetrator)
, 3
,
Blagoveshchensk college shooting: The student, Daniil Zasorin, 19, opened fire with an IZH-81 shotgun. The criminal also began shooting in the direction of the police, who responded, wounding the shooter. The attacker shot himself, committing suicide
, -
, 26 February 2020
,
Ulyanovsk
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,
Ulyanosvk Oblast
, Unnamed 8th grade student
, 0
, 1
, A 15-year-old student stabbed his algebra teacher in the stomach before being arrested. The student is being treated in a compulsive treatment center.
, -
, 16 February 2021
,
Novosibirsk
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,
Novosibirsk Oblast
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, Denis Miller
, 1
, 0
, A 22-year-old student attacked his fellow student, Denis Gubarev, 26, in front of Novosibirsk State Technical University with a knife before being arrested.
, -
,
,
Kazan
Kazan; , IPA: Help:IPA/Tatar, ɑzanis the largest city and capital city, capital of Tatarstan, Russia. The city lies at the confluence of the Volga and the Kazanka (river), Kazanka Rivers, covering an area of , with a population of over 1. ...
,
Tatarstan
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, Ilnaz Rinatovich Galyaviev
, 9
, 23
,
Kazan school bombing and shooting: 19-year-old Ilnaz Galyaviev killed seven students and two teachers in Gymnasium N°175 and injured 23 others before surrendering to the police.
, -
, 21 May 2021
,
Berezniki
Berezniki (; Komi-Permyak: ) is the second-largest city in Perm Krai, Russia. The city is located on the banks of the Kama River, in the Ural Mountains with a population of 135,533 as of 2023.
Etymology
The name Berezniki is derived from a ...
,
Perm Krai
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, Roman Dolbeev
, 0
, 1
, A tenth grade student attacked his 74-year-old teacher in the neck before being restrained by a school security guard. The teacher managed to survive the attack despite being wounded in the neck.
, -
, 20 September 2021
,
Perm
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Places
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**Permsky District, the district
**Perm Krai, a federal subject of Russia since 2005
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,
Perm Krai
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, Timur Maratovich Bekmansurov
, 6
, 48
,
Perm State University shooting: mass shooting committed by an 18-year-old student.
, -
, 18 October 2021
,
Oktyabrsky District,
Perm Krai
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, Unnamed 6th grade student
, 0
, 1
, A sixth-grader brought a gun into his school and fired two shots at a wall and a fiberglass door. An 11-year-old student was injured by shards of broken glass. The school principal convinced the shooter to give her the gun, after which the gunman was detained.
, -
, 13 December 2021
,
Serpukhov
Serpukhov ( rus, Серпухов, p=ˈsʲerpʊxəf) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city in Moscow Oblast, Russia, located at the confluence of the Oka River, Oka and the Nara (Oka), Nara Rivers, 99 kilometers (62 miles) south fro ...
,
Moscow Oblast
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, Vladislav Struzhenkov
, 0
, 13 (including the perpetrator)
, An 18-year-old man detonated a bomb at a school in Serpukhov, seriously injuring himself and 12 others, one of them moderately. The man was taken to hospital, survived and was convicted of the explosion.
, -
, 28 March 2022
,
Krasnoyarsk
Krasnoyarsk is the largest types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and administrative center of Krasnoyarsk Krai, Russia. It is situated along the Yenisey, Yenisey River, and is the second-largest city in Siberia after Novosibirsk, with a p ...
,
Krasnoyarsk Krai
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, Polina Dvorkina
, 1 (at the perpetrator’s home)
, 0
, A 19-year-old woman, after killing her father at home as a result of a quarrel, came to
kindergarten N°31 at about 2 p.m. with a shotgun hidden under her outerwear, where she intended, as it later turned out, to commit a mass murder of boys, but was disarmed by one of the kindergarten employees, after which she was detained. In July 2023, Dvorkina was sentenced to 17 years in prison.
, -
, 26 April 2022
,
Veshkayma,
Ulyanovsk Oblast
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, Ruslan Rushanovich Akhtyamov
, 5 (including the perpetrator)
, 1
,
Veshkayma kindergarten shooting: three people were murdered at the kindergarten before the 26-year-old shooter committed suicide. Also he killed owner of used gun, earlier on the same day.
, -
,
,
Izhevsk
Izhevsk or Ijevsk (, ; , or ) is the capital city of Udmurtia, Russia. It is situated along the Izh River, west of the Ural Mountains in Eastern Europe. It is the 21st-largest city in Russia, and the most populous in Udmurtia, with over 600,000 ...
,
Udmurt Republic
Udmurtia, officially the Udmurt Republic, is a republic of Russia located in Eastern Europe. It is administratively part of the Volga Federal District. Its capital is the city of Izhevsk.
It was established as the Udmurt (until 1931 — Vots ...
, Artyom Igorevich Kazantsev
, 19 (including the perpetrator)
, 23
,
Izhevsk school shooting: 34-year-old Artyom Kazantsev opened fire at his former school before committing suicide.
, -
, 7 February 2023
,
Khimki
Khimki (, ) is a city in Moscow Oblast, Russia. It is located approximately northwest from central Moscow, and is part of the Moscow metropolitan area.
History Origins and formation
Khimki was initially a railway station that had existed sin ...
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Moscow Oblast
Moscow Oblast (, , informally known as , ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). With a population of 8,524,665 (Russian Census (2021), 2021 Census) living in an area of , it is one of the most densely populate ...
, Melvira
, 0
, 1
, A fifth grader stabbed her classmate in the boys' bathroom with a knife. The victim was struck between 46 and 100 times, with 5 of the stabs being deep. Despite the loss of blood, the victim miraculously survived the attack that occurred at School Number 10.
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, 13 April 2023
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Saint Petersburg
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, Unnamed 9th grade student
, 0
, 4
, A ninth-grader armed with a Borner PM-X air pistol injured four students at a school in St. Petersburg. The four injured were not seriously injured.
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, 11 September 2023
, Krasny Desant,
Rostov Oblast
Rostov Oblast ( rus, Росто́вская о́бласть, r=Rostovskaya oblastʹ, p=rɐˈstofskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast), located in the Southern Federal District. The oblast ...
, Grigory Belyaev
, 0
, 4
, A masked 15-year-old student armed with his grandmother's knife went to his school around 7:50 a.m. After threatening a staff member, the suspect attacked four adults with the weapon, among the injured were three staff members and a student's grandfather. Before the suspect was arrested.
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, 17 October 2023
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Izhevsk
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Udmurtia
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, Unnamed student
, 0
, 1
, A 14-year-old student with schizophrenia stabbed a classmate three times.
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Bryansk
Bryansk (, ) is a types of inhabited localities in Russia, city and the administrative center of Bryansk Oblast, Russia, situated on the Desna (river), Desna River, southwest of Moscow. It has a population of 379,152 at the 2021 census.
Bryans ...
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Bryansk Oblast
Bryansk Oblast (), also known as Bryanshchina (, ), is a federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the city of Bryansk. As of the 2021 Census, its population was 1,169,161.
Geography
Bryansk Oblast lies in weste ...
, Alina Dmitrievna Afanaskina
, 2 (including the perpetrator)
, 5
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Bryansk school shooting: an eighth-grader girl shot a classmate dead and injured five people before shooting herself in a school.
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, 10 and 11 February 2024
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Elista
Elista (, ;"Большой энциклопедический словарь", под ред. А. М. Прохорова. Москва и Санкт-Петербург, 1997, стр. 1402 , ''Elst'', )The approximate pronunciation of the Cyr ...
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Kalmykia Repuplic
, Sergei D.
, 1 (the perpetrator)
, 5
, A 29-year-old man with mental health issues went to the Center for Alternative Mediation and Educational Services, where he detonated a bomb in the center after an argument, killing the suspect and injuring a couple. When the suspect was identified, investigators went to the suspect's residence, where a second explosion occurred, injuring three policemen, one of them seriously.
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, 26 February 2024
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Moscow
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, Unnamed 4th grade student
, 0
, 2 (including the perpetrator)
, A student who had been dumped by a boy, who was her boyfriend, attacked a friend who was also dating him, before trying to kill herself at the Russian State Humanitarian University.
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, 16 September 2024
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Chelyabinsk
Chelyabinsk; , is the administrative center and largest types of inhabited localities in Russia, city of Chelyabinsk Oblast, Russia. It is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, seventh-largest city in Russia, with a population ...
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Chelyabinsk Oblast
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, Roman Gizatulin
, 0
, 5 (including the perpetrator)
, A 13-year-old student, armed with a knife, a hammer and a BB gun, attacked and injured three classmates with the hammer. A 57-year-old teacher who tried to protect her students was lightly hit before the suspect attempted suicide, but failed and was arrested.
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, 23 September 2024
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Balagansk,
Irkutsk Oblast
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, Artyom B.
, 0
, 3
, During recess, an eighth-grade student armed with a knife and a hammer hit a classmate in the back of the head, and two other students were hit in the hands with hammers, before being restrained by the physical education teacher.
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, 6 December 2024
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Krasnodar
Krasnodar, formerly Yekaterinodar (until 1920), is the largest city and the administrative centre of Krasnodar Krai, Russia. The city stands on the Kuban River in southern Russia, with a population of 1,154,885 residents, and up to 1.263 millio ...
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Krasnodar Krai
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, Unnamed 8th grade student
, 0
, 7
, A fight at a school in Krasnodar escalated into a stabbing. A 14-year-old student stabbed and seriously injured two students and cut five others. After the attack, the student fled but was soon detained. The attack occurred as students were entering their classrooms.
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, 11 March 2025
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Niznhy Novgorod,
Niznhy Novgorod Oblast
, Unnamed 8th grade student
, 0
, 2
, A student armed with a knife lightly attacked two classmates with a knife, one of the victims was stabbed in the neck and the other in the stomach, the attack occurred at a School N°117.
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See also
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List of mass shootings in Russia
This is a list of known mass shootings – in this case, incidents that resulted in at least four injured or killed – that have occurred in Russia.
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
See also
* List of mass shootings in the Soviet Union
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References
Lists of school-related attacks