# 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 | Republic | Dead | Injured | Total | Description |
| 31 August 1920 | Petrograd | RSFSR | 8 | 10 | 18 | Kuusinen Club Incident: Eight members of the Finnish Communist Party were murdered in their office. |
| 26 July 1925 | Ivankovo, Kostroma Governorate | RSFSR | 11 | 8 | 19 | Grachev murder case: Grigory Grachev fatally shot 11 people and injured eight others. |
| 30 August 1933 | Prigorodny | RSFSR | 5 | 0 | 5 | Prigorodny forest murders: Alexander Labutkin shot and killed five people in a forest. |
| 11 January 1935 | Prigorodny | RSFSR | 4 | 0 | 4 | Prigorodny forest murders: Alexander Labutkin shot and killed four people in a forest. |
| 1 May 1954 | Arkhangelsk | RSFSR | 2 | 4 | 6 | Arkhangelsk Trade Unions Square shooting [ru]: Nikolai Gavrilovich Romanov fatally shot two people and wounded three others. |
| 11 February 1958 | Lyamino | RSFSR | 7 | 6 | 13 | Mikhail Tselousov fatally shot seven people and wounded six others.$^{:134–147}$ |
| 26 July 1959 | Vaindloo | ESSR | 7 | 0 | 7 | Theodore Matvievsky fatally shot seven people. |
| 7 September 1964 | Malyy Melik | RSFSR | 6 | 1 | 7 | Yuri Ilyasov fatally shot six people and wounded one.$^{:147–165}$ |
| 19 August 1966 | Almaty | KSSR | 2 | 2 | 4 | Nikolai Kendenov shot and killed one person and wounded two others before being killed. |
| 26/27 September 1968 | Kursk | RSFSR | 14 | 11 | 25 | Kursk Railway Station Square shooting [ru]: Victor Korshunov and Yury Surovtsev fatally shot 13 people and wounded 11. Korshunov was killed by Surovtsev. |
| 23 November 1970 | Titovka | RSFSR | 3 | 4 | 7 | Yuri Gaev fatally shot three soldiers and wounded three others. |
| July 1972 | Kuressaare | ESSR | 4 | 0 | 4 | An unknown soldier fatally shot three people and himself. |
| 22 February 1973 | Otradny | RSFSR | 11 | 5 | 16 | Mikhail Dorofeev and Alexander Shurygin killed 11 people and injured five. |
| 13 December 1975 | Permsky District | RSFSR | 5 | 15 | 20 | Alexander Zhidkov and Mikhail Veretelnik killed four people and wounded 14 others. Zhidkov was injured by the police.$^{:169–177}$ |
| 7 August 1976 | Letipea | ESSR | 11 | 13 | 24 | Letipea massacre: An unknown soldier killed 10 and wounded more than 13 people and then shot himself. |
| 19 May 1977 | Leningrad | RSFSR | 6 | 3 | 9 | Anatoly Fedorenko killed six cadets and wounded two. He was also injured by one of the fatally wounded cadets.$^{:188–190}$ |
| 29 June 1978 | Baku | AzSSR | 4 | 0 | 4 | Zia Mudarov shot and killed three people, including Arif Heydarov, before committing suicide. |
| 10 October 1979 | Elkhotovo | RSFSR | 8 | 2 | 10 | Sofia restaurant shooting [ru]: Bandits fatally shot eight people and injured two. |
| 23 February 1987 | Leningrad Oblast | RSFSR | 8 | 0 | 8 | Sakalauskas murder case [ru]: Arturas Sakalauskas killed eight people. |
| 16 August 1989 | 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. |
| 14 July 1991 | Patrikeyevo | RSFSR | 11 | 2 | 13 | Vitaly Semenikhin and Muradov killed eight soldiers, three warrant officers and wounded two other soldiers. Muradov subsequently committed suicide, and Semenikhin was caught and sentenced to death, which was later commuted to life imprisonment. |