List of school attacks in Russia

This chronological list of school attacks in Russia 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:

1. Incidents that occurred as a result of police actions
2. Suicides or suicide attempts involving only one person.

List

Date	Location	Perpetrator(s)	Dead	Injured	Description
5 May 1874	Yekaterinburg	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.[1]
15 September 1900	Kharkiv	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.[2]
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.
11 February 1958	Lyamino, Perm Oblast	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.[3]: 134–147 [4]
19 May 1977	Leningrad	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.[3]: 188–190
December 1987	Moscow	Grigory Kuts	1	0	Grigory Kuts killed his physical education teacher with a TT pistol 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]
5 December 1995	Vladikavkaz, North Ossetia–Alania	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.[6][7]
9 March 1997	Kamyshin, Volgograd Oblast	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.[8][9]
1-3 September 2004	Beslan, North Ossetia–Alania	Riyad-us Saliheen Brigade of Martyrs	334	800+	Beslan school hostage crisis
3 February 2014	Moscow	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.
20 October 2014	Elektrostal, Moscow Oblast	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.[10]
4 December 2014	Tomsk, Tomsk Oblast	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.[11]
20 March 2015	Tomsk, Tomsk Oblast	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 Oblast	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.[12]
18 March 2016	Nakhodka, Primorsky Krai	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	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	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, Irkutsk Oblast	Unnamed student	1	0	A 16-year-old student stabbed his 15-year-old classmate to death at School N°4.[13]
15 January 2018	Motovilikhinsky, Perm Oblast	Aleksandr Sergeyevich Buslidze Lev Romanovich Bidzhakov	0	15 (including the two perpetrators)	2018 Perm school stabbing: Two young men attacked classmates and a teacher with knives, before attempting suicide, injuring themselves.
17 January 2018	Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast	Unnamed student	0	1	A 16-year-old student attacked his classmate with a knife after a fight.
19 January 2018	Ulan-Ude, 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.[14]
21 March 2018	Shadrinsk, Kurgan Oblast	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.[15]
18 April 2018	Sterlitamak, 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.[16][17]
10 May 2018	Barabinsk, Novosibirsk Oblast	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.[18]
17 October 2018	Kerch	Vladislav Igorevich Roslyakov	21 (including the perpetrator)	67	Kerch Polytechnic College massacre: school shooting and bomb attack committed by an 18-year-old student.
25 January 2019	Abalakovo, Krasnoyarsk Krai	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.[19]
13 May 2019	Kazan, 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.[20]
28 May 2019	Voslk, Saratov Oblast	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	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.[21]
14 November 2019	Blagoveshchensk, Amur Oblast	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, 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.[22]
16 February 2021	Novosibirsk, Novosibirsk Oblast	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.[23]
11 May 2021	Kazan, Tatarstan	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.[24]
21 May 2021	Berezniki, Perm Krai	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.[25]
20 September 2021	Perm, Perm Krai	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	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.[26]
13 December 2021	Serpukhov, Moscow Oblast	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.[27][28]
28 March 2022	Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai	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.[29] In July 2023, Dvorkina was sentenced to 17 years in prison.[30]
26 April 2022	Veshkayma, Ulyanovsk Oblast	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.
26 September 2022	Izhevsk, Udmurt Republic	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, Moscow Oblast	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.[31]
13 April 2023	Saint Petersburg	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.[32]
11 September 2023	Krasny Desant, Rostov 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.[33]
17 October 2023	Izhevsk, Udmurtia	Unnamed student	0	1	A 14-year-old student with schizophrenia stabbed a classmate three times.[34]
7 December 2023	Bryansk, Bryansk Oblast	Alina Dmitrievna Afanaskina	2 (including the perpetrator)	5	Bryansk school shooting: an eighth-grader girl shot a classmate dead and injured five people before shooting herself in a school.
10 and 11 February 2024	Elista, 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.[35][36]
26 February 2024	Moscow	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.[37]
16 September 2024	Chelyabinsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast	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.[38]
23 September 2024	Balagansk, Irkutsk Oblast	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.[39]
6 December 2024	Krasnodar, Krasnodar Krai	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.[40]
11 March 2025	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.[41][42]

See also

• List of mass shootings in Russia