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:
- Incidents that occurred as a result of police actions
- 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. Sentenced to deportation to Siberia and ban from ever returning to Yekaterinburg |
| 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. |
| 19 February 1937 | Zavidovo | Ilya Ageenko | 1 | 0 | Zoya Peshekhonova, a teacher who gave a student bad grades, was shot and killed. The student was identified as 16-year-old Ilya Ageenko. |
| 4 April 1950 | Gîsca | Vladimir Georgievich Tatarnikov | 24 (including the perpetrator) | Unknown | Gîsca school bombing: 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 28 September 1993 | Omsk | Alexey Anatolyevich Paliy | 1 (the perpetrator) | 0 | Alexey Anatolyevich Paliy stormed a kindergarten and took several hostages. Armed with a rifle and explosives, the assailant died during the hostage crisis. |
| 27 October 1995 | Saransk, Mordovia | Viktor Grush | 1 | 0 | Viktor Grushev and three other criminals from the "Yugo-Zapad" criminal group invaded Mordovia State University and killed a professor before fleeing and later being captured. |
| 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. |
| 9 March 1997 | Kamyshin, Volgograd Oblast | Sergey Lepnev | 6 | 2 | Kamyshin school shooting: Sergey Lepnev shot and killed five cadets and a commander and wounded two other cadets. Sentenced to death and later commuted to 25 years in prison due to moratorium. |
| 11 May 1998 | Voronezh, Voronezh Oblast | Andrei Gorbunov | 3 | 1 (the perpetrator) | Andrei Gorbunov, 44, stormed Voronezh State University and killed professor Viktor Suborin with a machete before attempting suicide. Earlier, the attacker killed his wife and son. |
| 13 June 1999 | Saint Petersburg | Unnamed | 1 | 1 | A man stormed a university and shot an employee and a security guard, killing the guard. |
| 10 October 2002 | Lyubertsy, Moscow Oblast | Unnamed | 1 | 2 | The principal, Vadim Menis, was shot dead as he left a school, and two employees who tried to help him were injured. The shooter fled the scene and was arrested years later. |
| 1-3 September 2004 | Beslan, North Ossetia–Alania | Riyad-us Saliheen Brigade of Martyrs | 365-731 (including 31 perpetrators) | 800+ | Beslan school hostage crisis: Dozens of terrorists took hundreds of people hostage in a school; the siege, which lasted for days, ended in the death and injury of hundreds of victims and the deaths of the attackers, who were linked to the group "Riyad-us Saliheen Brigade of Martyrs". Between 365 and 731 people died, making it the worst school massacre in Russian history. |
| 5 August 2011 | Izberbash, Repuplic of Dagestan | Unnamed | 2 | 0 | Two police officers were shot dead at the scene after being targeted in a daycare center. The shooter is still being sought. |
| 3 February 2014 | Moscow | Sergey Viktorovich 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 45-year-old father of a student fired shots at Azamat Normanov, who died in the attack, in addition to wounding two other adults, before being detained. |
| 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 Sergeyevich Pivnev | 0 | 4 (3 indirectly) | 2017 Ivanteyevka school attack: A teacher was hit in the head with a meat cleaver and shot in the face with an air rifle 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 | Andrei Emelyannikov | 2 (including the perpetrator) | 0 | An 18-year-old student killed his security teacher with a knife at a Moscow polytechnic college before killing himself with a circular saw. |
| 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. |
| 15 January 2018 | Motovilikhinsky, Perm Krai | 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 Republic | 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. |
| 21 March 2018 | Shadrinsk, Kurgan Oblast | Anna Kargapolova Natalya Kabakova | 0 | 7 | Two 13-year-old cousins locked themselves in a classroom and injured 7 students at School N°15. One of them fired shots from a pneumatic pistol, while the other stopped the victims from escaping with a knife. The attackers were restrained by a teacher, who managed to enter the room. |
| 18 April 2018 | Sterlitamak, Bashkortostan Republic | 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. |
| 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 killed himself. Two other students were injured by jumping out of a window to escape the shooter. |
| 17 October 2018 | Kerch | Vladislav Igorevich Roslyakov | 21 (including the perpetrator) | 73 | Kerch Polytechnic College massacre: school shooting and bomb attack committed by an 18-year-old fourth-year 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. |
| 13 May 2019 | Kazan, Tatarstan | Iskander Khalfin | 0 | 1 (indirectly) | 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. |
| 28 May 2019 | Volsk, 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. |
| 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. Zasorin then shot and killed himself. |
| 26 February 2020 | Ulyanovsk, Ulyanovsk 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 21 May 2021 | Berezniki, Perm Krai | Roman Dolbeev | 0 | 1 | A 17-year-old 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. The perpetrator was declared insane and in January 2022 was sent to compulsory psychiatric treatment. |
| 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. |
| 13 December 2021 | Serpukhov, Moscow Oblast | Vladislav Andreevich 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. |
| 28 March 2022 | Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai | Polina Platonovna Dvorkina | 1 (at the perpetrator’s home) | 0 | Krasnoyarsk kindergarten shooting: A 19-year-old woman, after killing her father at home as a result of a quarrel, came to krasnoyarsk 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. In July 2023, Dvorkina was sentenced to 17 years in prison. |
| 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 also killed himself. He had also 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 killing himself. |
| 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 N°10. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 17 October 2023 | Izhevsk, Udmurtia | Unnamed student | 0 | 1 | A 14-year-old student with schizophrenia stabbed a classmate three times. |
| 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 Republic | 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. |
| 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. |
| 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 survived and was arrested. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 29 September 2025 | Arkhangelsk | Artemy Koryukov | 0 | 3 (including the perpetrator) | A former student attacked college workers in Arkhangelsk with a knife. The young man was neutralized by other students. |
| 16 December 2025 | Odintsovo, Moscow Oblast | Timofey Kulyamov | 1 | 3 | 2025 Odintsovo school attack: A student attacked a security guard with pepper spray and a knife and then stabbed a 10-year-old schoolboy to death. |
| 22 January 2026 | Nizhnekamsk, Tatarstan | 13-year-old male student | 0 | 2 (including the perpetrator) | 2026 Nizhnekamsk school attack: A 13-year-old student attacked students with a knife and set off firecrackers, then injured himself. |
| 3 February 2026 | Kodinsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai | 14-year-old female student | 0 | 1 | A 14-year-old bullied student with a knife attacked a teacher and wounded another student. |
| 3 February 2026 | Ufa, Bashkortostan | 15-year-old male student | 0 | 1 | A student with an air rifle shot at a teacher and three other students, slightly wounding the teacher, and detonated a firecracker. |
| 4 February 2026 | Krasnoyarsk, Krasnoyarsk Krai | 14-year-old female student | 0 | 5 | 2026 Krasnoyarsk school attack: A girl started a fire in a school lavatory before hitting other students with a hammer and setting them on fire. Five people sustained injuries after being burned or hit with the hammer. |
| 7 February 2026 | Ufa, Bashkortostan | Alexander S. | 0 | 7 (including the perpetrator) | Ufa university attack: A 15-year-old with a knife went into a dormitory at the Bashkir State Medical University and began stabbing people. Seven people were injured, including the attacker with self-inflicted wounds. |
| 11 February 2026 | Anapa, Krasnodar Krai | Ilya Orda | 1 | 2 | 2026 Anapa college shooting: A 17-year-old student at Anapa Technical College shot and killed a security guard and wounded three other people. |
See also
- List of mass shootings in Russia
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