List of mass shootings in the Soviet Union

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

List of mass shootings in the Soviet Union

Date	Location	Dead	Injured	Total	Description
February 23, 1987	Leningrad Oblast, RSFSR	8	0	8	ru:Дело Сакалаускаса: Arturas Sakalauskas killed 8 people.
May 19, 1977	Leningrad, RSFSR	6	3[n 1]	9	Anatoly Fedorenko killed 6 cadets and wounded 2, was also injured by one of the wounded cadets.[1]
August 7, 1976	Letipea, ESSR	11[n 1]	13	24	Letipea massacre: An unknown soldier killed 10 and wounded more than 13 people and then shot himself.[2]
December 13, 1975	Permsky District, RSFSR	5[n 2]	15[n 1]	20	Alexander Zhidkov and Mikhail Veretelnik killed 4 people and wounded 14 others. Zhidkov was injured by the police.[3]
July, 1972	Kuressaare, ESSR	4[n 1]	0	4	An unknown soldier shot 3 people and himself.[4]
November 23, 1970	Murmansk Oblast, RSFSR	3	4[n 1]	7	Yuri Gaev shot 3 soldiers and wounded 3 others.[5]
September 26/27, 1968	Kursk, RSFSR	14[n 1]	11	25	Shooting at the Kursk Railway Station Square: Victor Korshunov and Yury Surovtsev shot 13 people and wounded 11. Korshunov killed by Surovtsev.
September 7, 1964	Malyy Melik, RSFSR	6	1	7	Yuri Ilyasov shot 6 people and wounded 1.[6]
July 26, 1959	Vaindloo, ESSR	7	0	7	Theodore Matvievsky shot 7 people.[7]
February 11, 1958	Lyamino, RSFSR	7	6	13	Mikhail Tselousov shot 7 people and wounded 6 others.[8]
May 1, 1954	Arkhangelsk, RSFSR	2	4[n 1]	6	Shooting at Trade Unions Square in Arkhangelsk: Nikolai Gavrilovich Romanov shot 2 people and wounded 3 others.[9][10]
July 26, 1925	Ivankovo, RSFSR	17	3	20	Peter Grachev shot 17 people and injured 3 others.[11]

Notes

1. Including the perpetrator
2. includes an unborn child

References

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5. "Дело о бойне в казарме". www.kommersant.ru. April 22, 2013.
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7. Fugitive Russian sailor found drowned, The Times (August 4, 1959)
   
   
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9. ТАРАКАНОВ, Константин (April 30, 2009). "Террорист Николай Романов стрелял на первомайской демонстрации". pskov.aif.ru.
10. "Расстрельный Первомай | Северный рабочий | Северодвинск".
11. Farmer slays 17 neighbors, The Toledo News-Bee (August 19, 1925)
    – Mad Russian kills 17 and burns town, The Murphysboro Daily Independent (August 1, 1925)
    – Peasant killed 17 neighbors and burned Ivankoe village, Lebanon Daily News (August 19, 1925)
    – Incendiaire et criminel Archived 2012-04-07 at the Wayback Machine, Gazette de Lausanne (August 8, 1925)
    – Peasant fires village, Western Mail (October 22, 1925)