Terrorism in the modern history of Russia

On the evening of March 22, a terrorist attack occurred in the Crocus City Hall near Moscow. The FSB reports that 40 people were killed and more than 100 were injured. Two explosions are known, and a third of the building was engulfed in fire. How terrorists attacked Russia – in the Kommersant material.

Airplane hijackings

From 1991 to 2000 terrorists Russian passenger planes hijacked 10 times. All these terrorist attacks were high-profile and widely covered in the media, but in no case were the crew or hostages injured. The first “political” one was the hijacking of a Tu-154 plane to Turkey, which was flying from Mineralnye Vody to Yekaterinburg. One of the hijackers was Shamil Basayev, who, after landing in Ankara, stated that the reason for the hijacking was the introduction of a state of emergency in Checheno-Ingushetia. After that Russian planes were hijacked to Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Estonia and Israelbut all the terrorist attacks were bloodless.

In the early 2000s rules for allowing passengers on board aircraft have been tightenedafter which hijacking attempts became sporadic, and explosive devices almost always turned out to be dummies.

The first terrorist attack with human casualties in the sky occurred on August 24, 2004, when over the Tula and Rostov regions Suicide bombers blew up Tu-134 and Tu-154 passenger planes within three minutes of each other, operating flights from Domodedovo to Volgograd and Sochi. 93 people died.

The next similar terrorist attack occurred only 11 years later, on October 31, 2015, when Russian Airbus A321 exploded in the sky over the Sinai Peninsula. 224 people died. The militants of the “Islamic State” took responsibility for the terrorist attack (recognized as terrorist, activities are prohibited on the territory of the Russian Federation).

Explosions in the subway

The first terrorist attack in the metro in modern Russian history occurred on June 11, 1996. In Moscow an explosion in a train carriage between the Tulskaya and Nagatinskaya stations killed four people, more than 10 were injured. Before 2000, there were three more explosions on trains and at stations, in which no one was injured.

The next six terrorist attacks on the metro between 2000 and 2017 killed 121 people. The largest in terms of the number of victims was the explosion in the tunnel between the Avtozavodskaya and Paveletskaya stations on February 6, 2004. Then 42 people were killed, about 250 were injured. The terrorist attack was organized by militants of the so-called Karachay jamaat. The last one today was the explosion in the St. Petersburg metro on April 3, 2017 on the stretch between the Sennaya Ploshchad and Tekhnologichesky Institute stations. 16 people were killed and more than 50 were injured.

Explosions and seizures of buildings

The bloodiest terrorist attacks in Russia involve the seizure and explosions of residential buildings and administrative buildings. The first of these was attack by Shamil Basayev’s gang on a hospital in Budennovsk June 14, 1995, where 129 people were killed and more than 300 were injured.

January 9, 1996 at Salman Raduev’s gang seized a hospital and several residential buildings in Kizlyar, Dagestan 78 people were killed, and on November 16 of the same year the victims house explosion in There were 69 border guards and members of their families in Kaspiysk.

In the fall of 1999, as a result of a series of explosions of residential buildings in Buinaksk, Moscow and Volgodonsk, more than 300 people and more than 1700 injured. December 27, 2002 the Government House was blown up in Grozny, 72 people died.

October 23, 2002 in Moscow at the Dubrovka Theater Center during the musical “Nord-Ost” terrorists of Movsar Barayev 912 hostages were taken, 130 people became victims of the terrorist attack.

September 1, 2004 militants seized a school in Beslan334 people died.

On January 24, 2011, a suicide bomber carried out explosion in the international arrivals hall of Domodedovo airport37 people were killed and 170 were injured.

Other transport

The first case of a train explosion in modern Russia there was an explosion in a carriage of the Kislovodsk-Baku trainthen 13 people died. The peak of terrorist attacks on commuter trains occurred between 2003 and 2005.when six explosions killed 55 people and injured 280. The largest terrorist attack in terms of number of victims was December 5, 2003. — a suicide bomber exploded on the Kislovodsk-Minvoda train near Essentuki. 47 people were killed, 233 were injured.

The latest high-profile incident was crash of the high-speed branded train “Nevsky Express” on November 27, 2009, which led to the death of 28 and injuries to at least 132 people. Over the past 10 years, there have been no terrorist attacks on Russian trains, but on December 29, 2013 A suicide bomber carried out an explosion at a train station in Volgograd, which killed 18 and injured 45 people. The next day, an explosion in a Volgograd trolleybus killed another 16 people.

Explosions in public transport have happened before. Back on December 27, 1994 in Moscow, a regular bus exploded near the southern exit of VDNKh, but no one was hurt. In July 1996 in Moscow, a day apart two explosions occurred in trolleybuses34 people were burned and injured.

August 12, 2021 As a result of the explosion of a PAZ bus in the center of Voronezh, two people were killed and 26 injured. According to the FSB, the version of the terrorist attack has not been confirmed. The investigation is ongoing.

Explosions on the street

From 1999 to 2010 one of the most unsafe places in the country were the markets of Vladikavkaz. During this time, six major terrorist attacks killed about 100 people there. Became the largest explosion at the Central Market March 19, 1999which killed 52 people and injured another 150.

August 8, 2000 in Moscow during an explosion in an underground passage on Pushkinskaya Square 13 people were killed and 118 people were injured.

In 2003, there were two high-profile suicide attacks: July 5 during the explosion at the “Wings” rock festival in Tushino 15 people were killed and 60 injured, and on December 9 during the terrorist attack at the National Hotel in the center of Moscow 6 people were killed and 14 were injured.

August 31, 2004 during an explosion near the Rizhskaya metro station in Moscow 10 people were killed (including the performer and organizer) and 51 people were injured.

August 21, 2006 victims explosion at the Cherkizovsky market in Moscow 14 people were killed, 61 were injured.

Terrorist attacks against officials and security forces

August 7, 1999 Shamil Basayev led the militants’ attack on Dagestanthe fighting continued until September 15, 126 soldiers were killed.

On July 2, 2000, in Chechnya there was five terrorist “vehicle attacks” at once: trucks with explosives were blown up near military and police facilities in Gudermes (twice), Novogroznensky, Urus-Martan and Argun. 33 police officers were killed and 84 were injured.

December 27, 2002 during the explosion of two cars with explosives near the Government House of Chechnya 71 people died, 640 were injured.

May 9, 2004 in the explosion at the stadium in Grozny during the celebration of Victory Day Chechen President Akhmat Kadyrov, Chairman of the State Council Khusein Isaev and five other people were killed, more than 40 were injured.

June 21, 2004 As a result of a militant raid on Ingushetia, 97 people were killedmostly security forces.

October 13, 2005 about 150 militants attacked 13 objects in Nalchik, including the airport, units of the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the border detachment. The attack was repulsed and 95 attackers were killed. 35 law enforcement officers and 15 civilians were killed, and more than 220 people were injured.

May 3, 2012 near a police post at the exit from Makhachkala there was a double terrorist attack using cars with explosives. 13 people were killed and more than 100 were injured.

December 2, 2014 As a result of an attack by militants in Grozny, 14 policemen were killed, 30 were injured. 11 terrorists were killed.