# List of Russian rail accidents

This is a list of Russian rail accidents.

## Russian Empire

| Accident | Date | Location | Killed | Injured | Type | Description |
| | 12 August 1840 | Shushary, Saint Petersburg | 6 | 78 | Collision | Two trains collided on Tsarskoye Selo Railway. |
| | 4 September 1851 | near Klin | 4 | | Collision | Two trains collided near Klin. |
| Tiligul disaster [ru] | 24 December 1875 | near Odesa | ~140 | ~120 | Derailment | A train was derailed. |
| 1879 Imperial train bombing [ru] | 19 November 1879 | Moscow | 0 | 0 | Terrorist incident | An imperial train carrying Alexander II of Russia derailed after a bomb was exploded. |
| Tcherny railway accident | 13 July 1882 | Tcherny, Tula Oblast | 42 | 35 | Derailment | A train was derailed near Tcherny during heavy rain. |
| Borki train disaster | 29 October 1888 | Near Borki station, Kharkov Governorate | 21 | 68 | Derailment | An imperial train carrying Alexander III of Russia derailed. Alexander III of Russia was not injured |
| Valga train disaster [ru] | 1 May 1897 | Valga | 58 | ~100 | Derailment | A military train was derailed. The cause of the crash was the erosion of the embankment by heavy rain and too high speed |
| | 1 August 1905 | Zima station (Irkutsk Oblast) | 20+ | 80 | Derailment | Military train was derailed. |
| | 16 December 1916 | Between Saint Petersburg and Petrozavodsk | 4 | 6 | Derailment | A train was derailed due to the overspeed. |
| | 13 January 1917 | near Petrozavodsk | 3 | 29 | Derailment | Train carrying Austrian prisoners of war derailed. |

## Soviet Union

| Accident | Date | Location | Killed | Injured | Type | Description |
| | October 1920 | Pogranichny, Primorsky Krai | ~100 | Several | Derailment | At Pogranichny, Primorsky Krai, the mail train from Vladivostok to Harbin, China wrecks killing about 100. |
| Aerowagon crash | 24 July 1921 | near Serpukhov | 7 | 15 | Derailment | An experimental high-speed railcar derailed. Its inventor Valerian Abakovsky was among the victims of the disaster |
| | 8 September 1923 | Omsk | 82 | 150 | Derailment | An express train derails at Omsk killing 82 and injuring 150. |
| | October 1924 | | | | Fire | On the line from Moscow to Ivanovo and Vasenensk, a mixed train carrying passengers and gasoline is destroyed by fire. It was said that of 200 people on board only 27 survived, but the Soviet authorities suppressed the story. |
| | 30 March 1925 | Moscow | 10 | 92 | Collision | Two passenger trains collided near Sokolniki station. |
| | 5 February 1926 | Moscow | 5 | 22 | Derailment | The train failed to slow down and crashed into the platform of the Leningradsky railway station. |
| | 23 September 1929 | Zuyevka | 30+ | | Derailment | A train from Moscow to Siberia derails at Zuyevka, between Kursk and Kharkiv (now in Ukraine); at least 30 were killed. |
| | 16 April 1930 | Domodedovo | 45 | 23+ | Fire | Denatured alcohol spilled and was ignited inside a train. The fire results in the deaths of 45 people and seriously injures 23. |
| | 20 May 1930 | Chernaya | 28 | 29 | Collision | At Chernaya on the Moscow-Kazan line, the collision of a passenger and a freight train results in the deaths of 28 and severely injures 29. |
| | 29 June 1930 | | 22 | 28 | Derailment | A train from Irkutsk to Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) is derailed near its destination due to a signalman's error; 22 die and 28 are seriously injured. |
| Pererva train disaster [ru] | 8 September 1930 | Moscow | 16 | 48 | Collision | Two passenger trains collided near Pererva station. |
| | September 1931 | | | | Explosion | A troop train southwest of Leningrad explodes with heavy loss of life. |
| | 2 January 1932 | Moscow | 68 | 130 | Collision | At Kosino, just outside Moscow, a train moving at 40 mph (64 km/h) hits the rear of a stopped suburban train. Although there is time, nobody acts to protect the wreckage and a train of empty freight wagons crashes into it. Altogether 68 people are killed and 130 injured, and 11 railwaymen are arrested for criminal negligence. |
| | 16 October 1932 | Moscow | 36 | 51 | Collision | The Black Sea express train, coming from Sochi, struck a freight car that had been mistakenly switched to the express tracks at Lublinov station, eleven kilometers from Moscow, telescoping five cars, three of them passenger coaches. |
| | 4 March 1934 | Moscow | 19 | 52 | Collision | A stationary train is struck by another one, killing 19 and injuring 52. The enginemen of the second train are sentenced to death and three other railwaymen to prison. |
| | 12 March 1934 | Tavatuy, Sverdlovsk Oblast | 33 | 68 | Collision | A passenger train runs past signals and crashes into a freight train |
| | 6 January 1935 | Porbelo | 23 | 56 | Collision | At Porbelo on the railway from Leningrad to Moscow, an express from Leningrad to Tiflis (now Tbilisi, Georgia) is stopped by a broken rail. The following train, an express to Moscow, runs past signals and crashes into it. |
| | 22 June 1936 | Karymskoye | 51 | 52 | Collision | At Karymskoye, a train is allowed to move while the track ahead is occupied. The rear-end collision kills 51 people and injures 52; the stationmaster is sentenced to death and eight other people to prison. |
| Vereshchyovka train disaster | 24 January 1944 | Vereshchyovka, Bryansk Oblast | 600-700 | ? | Derailment | A train with soldier and refugees derailed because of bridge collapse. |
| Circum–Baikal railway disaster [ru] | 6 March 1946 | Irkutsk Oblast | 20 | 29 | Collision | Two trains collided in tunnel and caught fire. |
| Ob Station railway disaster [ru] | 7 December 1946 | Ob, Novosibirsk Oblast | 110 | 133 | Collision | A freight train passed a warning signal and crashed into a standing passenger train at high speed. |
| Drovnino railway disaster [ru] | 6 August 1952 | Drovnino, Moscow Oblast | 109 | 211 | Derailment | A passenger train collided with a horse and derailed. |
| | 28 April 1957 | Chelyabinsk Oblast | 32 | 14 | Level crossing crash | A passenger bus collided with a train at a railway crossing. |
| | 30 June 1958 | Leningrad Oblast | 30 | 175 | Derailment | Suburban train derailed near Toksovo. |
| Minino railway disaster [ru] | 2 June 1959 | Krasnoyarsk Krai | 65 | 61 | Collision | Two trains collided and caught fire. |
| | 10 May 1962 | Moscow | 7 | 32 | Collision | Two crowded commuter trains collided on National Railway Day while one of them was stopped at a junction in the north part of Moscow. Foreign newspapermen and diplomats living nearby reported seeing scores of ambulances, but Soviet authorities imposed a cover-up. |
| Novinka railway disaster [ru] | 12 June 1965 | Leningrad Oblast | 5 | | Collision | Two trains collided and caught fire. |
| | 28 August 1968 | Moscow Oblast | ~76 | | Collision | Two trains collided near Domodedovo. |
| | 26 July 1972 | Tyumen Oblast | 58 | 16 | Collision | Two trains collided near Lamenskaya station. |
| Kupavna railway disaster [ru] | 5 September 1975 | Moscow Oblast | 18 | 35 | Collision | A suburban train collided with a freight train near Noginsk. |
| | 16 February 1976 | Jugla | 46 | 61 | Collision | Three trains collided in Latvian SSR. |
| Kryzhovka railway disaster [ru] | 2 May 1977 | Minsk Oblast | 19-22 | 82 | Collision | A passenger train crashed into a suburban one standing at the platform. |
| | 27 February 1977 | near Leningrad | 17 | | Fire | Younost' train between Moscow and Leningrad caught fire. |
| | 6 December 1978 | Kurovskoye | 2 | 0 | Explosion | The watchman, for unspecified reasons, shot at the car, which contained explosives that exploded. |
| Oka railway disaster [ru] | 13 September 1980 | Moscow Oblast | | | Collision | Two trains collided near Serpukhov. |
| Kamensk-Shakhtinsky rail disaster | 7 August 1987 | Kamensk-Shakhtinsky | 107 | 114 | Collision | A freight train collided with standing passenger train. |
| Arzamas train disaster | 4 June 1988 | Arzamas, Gorky Oblast | 91 | 1500 | Explosion | Three goods wagons carrying a total of 118 tons of hexogen (RDX) exploded on a railway crossing |
| | 16 August 1988 | Bologoye | 31 | 100+ | Derailment | Express train Avrora was derailed and caught fire. |
| Ufa train disaster | 4 June 1989 | near Ufa | 575 | 700 | Explosion | Natural gas leaking from a pipeline is ignited by wheel sparks from two trains traveling near the site of the leak; the resulting explosion killed 575 and injured 700 in one of the worst railway accidents in Soviet and Russian history. |

## Russian Federation

| Accident | Date | Location | Killed | Injured | Type | Description |
| Podsosenka train disaster | 3 March 1992 | Nelidovo, Tver Oblast | 43 | 108 | Collision | A passenger train inbound from Riga to Moscow failed to stop at a red signal and collided with an oncoming freight train at Podsosenka station near Nelidovo, Tver Oblast; the collision started a fire which spread to the passenger cars. |
| | 26 September 1996 | Rostov Oblast | 22 | 18 | Level crossing crash | A collision between a diesel locomotive and a school bus between Bataysk and Salsk in Rostov Oblast. Nineteen are killed, including 18 children. 28 September was declared a national day of mourning. |
| | 8 November 2001 | Trans-Siberian Railway | 0 | 0 | Derailment | A nuclear waste train from Bulgaria crashes at midnight between Krasnoyarsk and Kemerovo on the Trans-Siberian Railway. Fourteen of the 20 tanker-wagons derail and the line is closed for about 12 hours. One kilometre of track is damaged. |
| | 16 June 2005 | Tver Oblast | 0 | 0 | Derailment | Between Zubtsov and Aristovo in Tver Oblast, 27 of 60 fuel oil tankers bound from Moscow to Riga derail at a speed of about 70 km/h (43 mph), about 300 tonnes of fuel leaks. 641 metres (2,103 ft) of track are destroyed and the Volga River was contaminated briefly. The crash was blamed on poor track maintenance. |
| | 12 January 2006 | Krasnodar | 22 | 6 | Level crossing crash | A collision between a bus and a train at an unpatrolled railway level crossing in Krasnodar killed 22 people and badly injured another 6. All the victims were workers at a factory on their way home aboard the bus, which was almost unrecognisable after the crash. The train's engine car derailed but no-one on the train was hurt. |
| | 18 September 2006 | Voronezh Oblast | 0 | 0 | Collision | A collision between stations Ikorets and Bityug (Voronezh Oblast), between freight train 3040 moving backward without control with train 2104, stopped at red signal behind. 43 freight cars fully damaged. No one was hurt. |
| | 7 July 2013 | Krasnodar Krai | 0 | 75 | Derailment | At least 75 are injured when a train from Novosibirsk to Sochi derails between Krylovskaya and Kislyakovka in Krasnodar Krai. |
| Naro-Fominsk rail crash | 20 May 2014 | Naro-Fominsk | 6 | 51 | Collision | Moldovan Railways passenger train crashed into a Ukrainian Railways freight train that had derailed. |
| 2014 Moscow Metro derailment | 15 July 2014 | Moscow | 24 | 160 | Derailment | An outbound train derailed due to a weathered track, killing 24, and injuring 160, while travelling between Park Pobedy and Slavyansky Bulvar stations of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line. |
| | 8 August 2015 | Mordovia | 0 | 5 | Derailment | Four railcars of Passenger train number 233 en route from Yekaterinburg to Adler, Krasnodar Krai run off the rails in Mordovia. Five passengers are injured. |
| | 8 April 2017 | Moscow | 0 | 50 | Collision | Two passenger trains collide in Moscow, injuring about 50 people. |
| | 6 October 2017 | Vladimir Oblast | 16 | 5 | Level crossing crash | A train hits a bus carrying Uzbekistani passengers in Vladimir Oblast and kills 16 people. |
| | 20 February 2021 | Amur Oblast | 0 | 0 | Derailment | In Skovorodinsky, Amur Oblast, 25 cars of a coal train derail on the Trans-Baikal Railway. There were no injuries. |
| | 22 November 2023 | Ulyanovsk Oblast | 0 | 25 | Collision | Two trains collided. |
| | 26 June 2024 | Komi | 3 | ~50 | Derailment | A passenger train derailed during heavy rainfall. |
| | 15 July 2024 | Belgorod Oblast | 1 | 0 | Collision | Two trains collided. |
| 2024 Russia train-truck collision | 29 July 2024 | Volgograd Oblast | 1 | 52 | Level crossing crash | A passenger train collided with a truck. 9 cars derailed, 7 of them overturned. The driver of the truck later died in hospital. |
| | 18 December | Murmansk Oblast | 2 | 27 | Collision | Two trains collided. |