Explosion at Park Kultury station. Terrorist attacks in the metro in modern Russia

The first terrorist attack in the history of the Moscow metro occurred on January 8, 1977 - at 17:33 an explosion occurred on a train between the Izmailovskaya and Pervomaiskaya stations. Seven people were killed and 37 were injured. On the same day, almost simultaneously, two more explosions occurred in Moscow: in a grocery store on Bolshaya Lubyanka and on 25th October Street.

Three months later, three people with the names Zatikyan, Stepanyan and Baghdasaryan were arrested on charges of organizing these explosions. All of them were convicted and sentenced to death. The trial took place in the strictest secrecy, and the materials of the criminal case have not yet been declassified.

2. 1996 terrorist attack

On June 11, 1996, late in the evening, an improvised explosive device exploded on a train between the Tulskaya and Nagatinskaya stations. Four people died and 12 were hospitalized.

A high-explosive explosive device, equivalent in power to one kilogram of TNT, was placed under the seat of the carriage, where the technical equipment of the train was located.

A year and a half later, two suspects in the terrorist attack, whose names were not disclosed, were detained. The most famous field commanders of the Chechen separatists of that time, Shamil Basayev and Salman Raduev, did not make statements that they were related to this terrorist attack. As of 2001, the criminal case had not been solved.

3. Explosion at Tretyakovskaya

On January 1, 1998, at the Tretyakovskaya station, a device with a capacity of 150 grams of TNT, located in a lady’s handbag, was exploded. Three metro employees were hospitalized with injuries of varying severity.

4. Explosion at Belorusskaya station

On February 5, 2001 at 18:45, a bomb with a capacity of about 200 grams of TNT, placed under a marble bench on the platform, exploded at the Belorusskaya metro station. Thanks to the large weight of the bench, which softened the blow, the consequences of the explosion were not so great. However, 20 people were injured.

5. 2004 terrorist attack

On February 6, 2004, at about 8:30, on a train on the stretch between the Avtozavodskaya and Paveletskaya stations, a suicide bomber detonated an explosive device with a capacity of 4 kilograms of TNT.

A fire broke out in the tunnel, which was assigned the 5th (highest) category. 42 people were killed, including the terrorist, and over 250 were injured.

In 2007, three Chechen terrorists - Murat Shavaev, Maxim Ponaryin and Tambiy Khubiev - were found guilty by the Moscow City Court of preparing this terrorist attack and sentenced to life imprisonment.

6. Explosion at the exit of the Rizhskaya station

On August 31, 2004, at 20:50, a suicide bomber carried out a terrorist attack near the lobby of the Rizhskaya metro station. 10 people were killed, including the terrorist herself and her accomplice Nikolai Kipkeev, about 50 people were injured of varying degrees of severity.

Nikolai Kipkeev was the twice-convicted head of the Karachay jamaat. According to investigators, he was also involved in the bombings of bus stops in February and July 2004 in Voronezh.

The cases of explosions at Rizhskaya, at the Avtozavodskaya - Paveletskaya section and in Voronezh were later combined into one, three accomplices of the terrorists were convicted.

7. Terrorist attack on March 29, 2010

On March 29, 2010 at 7:56 Moscow time, an explosion occurred at the Lubyanka metro station. The second explosion occurred at the Park Kultury metro station at 08:39 on a train heading towards the Ulitsa Podbelskogo station.

According to the latest data provided by the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations, as a result of both terrorist attacks, 37 people were killed and 65 were injured.

According to preliminary data, the explosions were carried out by female suicide bombers; the charge power, according to various sources, ranges from 1.5 to 3 kg of TNT equivalent.

Dmitry Gaev once stated that the Moscow metro is one of the safest transport systems in the world. However, the history of the capital's metro knows many tragic events. The article talks about the most terrible explosions in the subway.

In Moscow, terrorist attacks occurred not only in the 2000s, but also in Soviet times. The first occurred in 1977 - between the Pervomaiskaya and Izmailovskaya stations. This explosion in the Moscow metro was followed by a number of other terrorist attacks. But they have already happened on the surface. Fires and accidents in the metro occurred more than once in the 20th century. Such cases were not subject to publicity in Soviet times. It is believed that in most cases there was falsification.

Explosion in the Moscow metro (1996)

This was the first tragic event that occurred in the capital's metro after the collapse of the USSR. In the history of the Moscow metro, the 1996 explosion was the second terrorist attack. It happened between "Nagatinskaya" and "Tula". An explosive device exploded on a train between these stations. Four people were killed and fourteen were injured. One carriage was completely destroyed and several were damaged. Passengers traveled to the nearest station on foot. The investigation showed that the explosive device was homemade, a high-explosive device, equivalent in power to a kilogram of TNT.

In November 1997, two suspects were detained. Their names were not disclosed. However, it is known that the guilt of the detainees has not been proven. The case was never closed. Information then appeared in the press that Chechen terrorists took the blame. However, this information has not been officially confirmed.

1998

On January 1, an electric train driver found a small handbag at the entrance to the Tretyakovskaya station. Opening it, he saw wires and batteries. The driver took the find to the duty officer, and she, in turn, called the police. The explosion occurred before law enforcement officers arrived. Fortunately, no one died. The attendant received minor injuries.

Explosion at a trade stall

In 2000, a terrorist attack in Moscow occurred not in the metro itself, but in an underground passage. Men of Caucasian appearance approached the sales tent worker. They wanted to pay for the purchase in dollars. The seller refused, explaining where the nearest exchange office was located. The men left, leaving their bags next to the tent, but never returned. After some time, the seller contacted an employee of a private security company, reporting suspicious things. The explosion occurred at the moment when the guard was approaching the stall. Thirteen people died. More than a hundred were injured. The names of the perpetrators are still unknown.

Explosion in 2004

There is a memorial plaque at the Avtozavodskaya station. On it are the names of those killed as a result of one of the worst terrorist attacks in Moscow. The explosion that occurred on the morning of February 6, 2004 was carried out by a suicide bomber. This time, the organizers of the terrorist act were found, and as a result of the trial they were sentenced to life imprisonment. Six months after this explosion, another one occurred in Moscow - near the Rizhskaya metro station. The investigation established that the authors of the terrorist attack at Avtozavodskaya committed them.

Explosions at Park Kultury and Lubyanka stations

This terrorist attack, like most similar crimes, was committed during rush hour, at a time when city residents were heading to work. The explosions occurred on March 29, 2010, both on the Sokolnicheskaya line. The first one is at 07:56. An explosive device went off at the Lubyanka station, causing the train to stop. However, there was no evacuation of passengers from the metro; a standard message about traffic delays was announced over the loudspeaker, as well as recommendations to use ground transport.

The second explosion occurred forty minutes later at the “Park of Culture”, in the third carriage of the train heading towards “Podbelsky Street”. After this, the evacuation began, which was carried out by employees of the metro and the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

In the spring of 2010, passport control was strengthened on the streets of Moscow. Train stations and airports were placed under special protection. The entrance to the Lubyanka station was opened at 17:00. The power of the explosive device that went off at the Park of Culture is equivalent to two kilograms of TNT. At Lubyanka - four.

36 people died on the spot. Four more died in hospital. As a result of the explosions at the Park of Culture and Lubyanka, 88 people were injured. The victims included citizens not only of Russia, but also of neighboring countries, as well as Israel, Malaysia, and the Philippines. The two dead remained unidentified.

The Investigative Committee opened two criminal cases, which were subsequently combined into one proceeding. Already in the first days after the explosion, the mayor of Moscow gave an interview in which he announced the involvement of female suicide bombers in the crime. On April 6, the identity of one of them was established. A week later, information appeared in the press that the organizers of the crime had been found. At the moment, these are the last explosions in the Moscow metro that are classified as terrorist attacks.

Explosion at Ploshchad Revolyutsii station

Information about the terrorist attacks appeared only two days later and was relatively scarce, which led to many rumors and speculation. A few months later, Zatikyan (the organizer of the explosion), Stepanyan and Baghdasaryan (the direct perpetrators) were arrested on charges of organizing the explosions. Their trial was secret; even the closest relatives of the accused (who were summoned to Moscow and informed of the sentence that had already been passed - execution) were not notified of its date and place. The official report after the trial did not publish details (the place and time of the trial, the names of two of the three accused). Zatikyan denied his guilt. Stepanyan partially admitted his guilt, but denied Zatikyan's participation. Baghdasaryan admitted everything. According to some Soviet human rights activists, the holding of the trial in secret and the rush to carry out the death sentence, unprecedented for the 1970s (3 days after the court decision), is associated with the complete falsification of the case by the KGB. As of August 2007, the materials of the criminal case about the explosion in the subway in 1977 remain secret.

Train derailment on the Avtozavodskaya - Kolomenskaya section (1979)

On the Gorkovsko-Zamoskvoretskaya line on April 15, a train derailed on the stretch between the Avtozavodskaya and Kolomenskaya stations, in the tunnel before exiting the metro bridge. Due to a violation of the upper clearance position of the threshold of the special structure above the level of the running rail heads, the car touched the powerful track structure with its gearbox. Five carriages came off the rails and bogies, and the bodies fell onto the track. The consequences of the collapse were eliminated for almost a day. There were no casualties, but many passengers were injured. This incident forced the metro to develop a special device for monitoring the size of the car along the lower edge (point) of the gearbox housing (UKG). All lines were equipped with these devices. The causes of the accident were examined by a special scientific and technical commission. She found that when developing the dimensions of the “E” type car (its lower points), all the design features of this type of car were not taken into account, especially the reduction in the diameter of the wheels and the height of the axle pin.

The accident at the Avtozavodskaya station accelerated the equipping of the PVS depot with the German UNIMOG special vehicle, as well as the re-equipment of the technical room with a remote control for emergency games of locomotive crews. All equipment of the “E” type car was operational and operating normally.

Fire on the Tretyakovskaya - Oktyabrskaya section (1981)

On June 12, 1981, on the Tretyakovskaya - Oktyabrskaya section, a fire broke out in a wooden box with batteries under the carriage. Four carriages burned down. Several firefighters were injured due to combustion products poisoning. There were no casualties. According to other sources, at least 7 people died. The reason is a battery malfunction.

Fire during the construction of the distillation tunnel (1982)

In 1982, during the construction of a distillation tunnel using a shield method, a fire occurred on a section of the highway where a gas station used to be located. Oil-saturated soil coming from the face caught fire.

Fire in an underground pneumatic workshop (1982)

A fire broke out in the underground pneumatic workshop as a result of a “gross violation in the operation of electromechanical facilities.”

Accident of escalators at Aviamotornaya (1982)

The second incident with human casualties in the Moscow metro occurred on February 17 of the year at the Aviamotornaya station as a result of an escalator breakdown caused by design flaws and improper maintenance.

At approximately 16:30, due to an increase in passenger traffic, escalator No. 4 was turned down. At about 5 p.m., the escalator's staircase suddenly began to accelerate and in just a few seconds reached a speed that was 2 to 2.4 times higher than the nominal speed. People on the escalator could not stay on their feet and fell, sliding down and blocking the exit from the lower platform. Some jumped onto the escalator balustrades to save themselves from falling. In less than two minutes, almost all the escalator passengers - about 100 people - rolled down. At 17:10 the entrance to the station was limited, at 17:35 it was blocked, at 17:45 the Aviamotornaya station was completely closed - trains passed through it without stopping.

The Moscow authorities chose to hide the scale of the incident; there was practically no information about the accident in the media. As a result, the city was flooded with rumors. In particular, a widely spread version was that the main number of deaths were passengers who fell “under the escalators” and were pulled into the mechanisms.

In the summer of 1982, during rush hour on Aviamotornaya, the escalator chain broke and people fell into the drive gears in the motor pit. The next day I was told about this by the reviewer of my thesis project, who got to the station 10 minutes later and saw blood and people with cut off legs... According to the then Soviet tradition, they did not write about this story, but now there are no memorial plaques there... I don’t know, maybe , is this an urban legend?

The plastic covering of the balustrade was indeed unable to withstand the weight of the people who jumped onto it, and people actually fell through it, but there are no mechanisms under the balustrade - people only received bruises from falling onto the concrete base of the escalator tunnel from a two-meter height. Many died as a result of the crush at the bottom of the escalator.

The exact number of victims - 8 dead and 30 wounded - was announced only 9 months later, at a meeting of the Supreme Court of the RSFSR.

As a result of the investigation, it turned out that in December 1981, service brakes of a new system were installed on four escalators at the Aviamotornaya station, requiring adjustment according to new specially developed instructions. However, the station’s escalator operating foreman, V.P. Zagvozdkin, continued to adjust the brakes according to the old familiar scheme, neglecting the new instructions. Thus, for three months, from the moment the brake systems were installed until the day of the disaster, all four escalators at the station were operated in emergency mode.

The immediate cause of the accident was a fracture in step No. 96. The damaged step when passing the lower platform of the escalator caused the destruction of the comb, the protection was activated and the electric motor was switched off. The activated electromagnetic service brake was able to develop the required braking torque much later than the set value - the braking distance was more than 11 meters. The mechanical emergency brake did not work, since the speed of the belt did not reach the threshold value, and there was simply no electrical circuit for monitoring the condition of the service brake in the escalators of this series.

The tragic experience was taken into account. From May 12 to May 28, 1982, the Aviamotornaya station was closed for repairs and modifications of escalators. Subsequently, urgently, but without closing the stations, all ET series escalators at the remaining metro stations were modified - the steps were strengthened, the brakes were modernized, the thickness of the balustrade cladding sheets was increased from 3 to 8-10 mm.

Damage to the tunnel lining (1983)

Rockfall (1986)

In 1986, during the construction of the transfer hub, the project was disrupted. As a result, when excavating the furnel from bottom to top, rock fell out.

Fire on a train at Paveletskaya station

Several rear cars of the train were badly burned. The lining of the southern part of the station, built in 1943, was badly damaged. Significant reconstruction was required, so now the oldest part of the station looks more modern than the main column part, opened during the reconstruction of 1953.

After this incident, the development of an automatic fire extinguishing system for Moscow Metro cars began. By 1994, the radical fire-fighting modernization of the metro rolling stock with the installation of the Igla automatic fire extinguishing system was completely completed.

Gas incidents (1989)

In 1989, during the construction of the metro, two incidents of gas pollution occurred at once. In one case, due to a violation of the ventilation regime during the excavation of a furnel in the face, the oxygen content in the atmosphere decreased. In the second case, during work on artificial freezing of soil, liquid nitrogen leaked into a trench where people were.

After 1991

Fire on the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya line (1994)

A series of accidents on the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya line in 1994

Within fourteen and a half hours, three accidents occurred on different sections of the line. 20 people were injured, 9 of them were hospitalized.

The first accident occurred on Wednesday, March 30 at 18:48 on the Nagornaya - Nakhimovsky Prospekt section. The train moving from the center caught up with the train in front, which was slowing down before arriving at the station, and crashed into it. On March 31, during maneuvers, at 5:30, one of the trains was allowed to pass along the wrong route. The result is a new collision. Three cars derailed and blocked the tunnel; they had to be cut with an autogen. And at 9:14, when the metro train arrived at the Petrovsko-Razumovskaya station, but had not yet had time to open the doors, the train following it crashed into it. The last carriage derailed and smoke began to form. Panic began among the passengers and a stampede ensued. Three passengers and the driver of the second train were seriously injured - he was hospitalized with a traumatic brain injury.

Car fires (1995)

In the spring of 1995, due to a malfunction of the undercarriage, the undercarriage of a carriage caught fire in the ferry tunnel. In the fall of the same year, a train at the station caught fire due to a malfunction in the electrical system.

The train crashed through the wall of the Vladykino depot

Train fire (1996)

In February 1996, a train at the station caught fire due to an electrical fault.

Smoke in the tunnel and stations (1996)

In March 1996, due to a short circuit on the section, a power cable caught fire, resulting in smoke in the tunnel and stations.

1996 terrorist attack

The second terrorist attack in the history of the Moscow metro occurred late in the evening of June 11th. An improvised explosive device exploded on a train between the Tulskaya and Nagatinskaya stations, killing four people and injuring fourteen others. The explosion destroyed one carriage and damaged others. Passengers had to walk to the nearest station. A high-explosive explosive device, equivalent in power to one kilogram of TNT, was placed under the seat of the carriage, where the technical equipment of the train was located.

On December 7, 1997, two suspects in the terrorist attack, whose names were not disclosed, were detained. According to information provided by Express-Gazeta, Chechen terrorists claimed responsibility, but other sources do not confirm this information. The most famous of the Chechen separatist field commanders of that time - Shamil Basayev and Salman Raduev - did not make statements that they had anything to do with this terrorist attack. As of 2001, the criminal case had not been solved.

Terrorist attack on January 1, 1998

Explosion in 2000

On August 8, 2000, at 17:55, an explosive device went off in an underground passage on Pushkinskaya Square. 13 people were killed and 61 were injured.

Washouts on the Tsaritsyno - Kantemirovskaya section

Explosion at Belorusskaya station

2004 terrorist attack

2004 train collision

Power grid failure on May 25, 2005

The Moscow metro is facing the largest disruption in its history. On May 25 at 11:10, a massive shutdown of Mosenergo power centers began, supplying voltage including to the Metro line. As a result, 52 of the 170 Moscow metro stations were excluded from operation.

According to the Committee on Telecommunications and Media of the City of Moscow:

Traffic was partially absent on 3 lines of the Moscow Metro:

• Zamoskvoretskaya from the station. "Krasnogvardeiskaya" to the station. "Paveletskaya", including Kakhovskaya line
• Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya from the station. "Serpukhovskaya" to the station. "Boulevard Dm. Donskoy"
• Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya from the station. "Bitsevsky Park" to the station. "Peace Avenue"

Traffic was completely absent on the Lyublinskaya Line, as well as on the Butovskaya Line of the light metro (on the latter, shuttle traffic was restored, passengers were transported only from Starokachalovskaya Street).

At 11:40, the evacuation of passengers from 27 trains in the tunnels began. At 13:15 the evacuation of passengers was completed.

According to other sources, a power outage led to the stoppage of trains on the Zamoskvoretskaya, Tagansko-Krasnopresnenskaya, Kaluzhsko-Rizhskaya, Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya, Butovskaya, Lyublinskaya, Kalininskaya and Kakhovskaya lines. According to these data, 43 trains stopped in the tunnels on different lines, containing about 20 thousand people.

Panic was avoided; the evacuation of passengers began 20-35 minutes after the accident. The downhill trains returned to the station, but most passengers still had to be evacuated on foot. The complete evacuation dragged on for almost two hours. The escalators stopped.

Some trains were also returned at interchange stations. For example, at Kitay-Gorod there was only one escalator at a time, the entrance hall to Maroseyka was the exit, and Solyanka was the entrance. There was no light on the slopes. After the situation at neighboring stations normalized, it was closed to entry and exit until the end of the day.

• De-energized stations (access to the link is blocked in Russia)- photographs of eyewitnesses.

Destruction of shallow tunnels as a result of unauthorized driving of piles

Since the 2000s, in the history of the Moscow metro there have been incidents involving unauthorized driving of piles under various structures in the area of ​​shallow metro tunnels.

As it turned out, piles were being driven above the tunnel for a large advertising stand. After one of the piles fell underground, workers drove the equipment away from the work site. According to the metro management, there have been no requests from this or any other organization for permission to carry out work on the metro tunnel in this location. However, the company that carried out the work presented all the necessary documents issued by the owner of the land plot. It turned out that due to the secrecy regime, the plans did not even indicate that a metro line runs under this site at a shallow depth.

As a result of the accident, part of the Zamoskvoretskaya metro line from the Sokol station to the Rechnoy Vokzal station was closed; to ensure the transportation of passengers, an additional 89 buses and 16 trolleybuses were put on the line from the Rechnoy Vokzal metro station to Sokol. During the daytime, fares were also canceled on routes passing through the Sokol metro station along Leningradsky Prospekt.

The driver of the train involved in the accident, 25-year-old Andrei Ulyanov, for the dedication and high professionalism shown in the performance of his official duty, by decree of the President of the Russian Federation, was awarded the medal of the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland”, II degree. Specialists who investigated the accident came to the conclusion that the driver’s reaction helped to avoid human casualties - Ulyanov promptly noticed the falling pile and organized the evacuation of passengers.

Train derailment between Vladykino and Otradnoye stations

Attacks of March 29, 2010

Tree fall between Izmailovskaya and Pervomaiskaya stations

On June 4 at 20:27 Moscow time, as a result of a strong storm, a tree fell on the open section between the Izmailovskaya and Pervomaiskaya stations, as a result of which train traffic along this section was stopped for some time. As reported by the capital's Ministry of Emergency Situations, the trunk had to be cut to remove it from the tracks. The passengers were eventually released and began to be transported by Mosgortrans buses. No harm done. At 21:47 traffic was restored.

Exactly eight years ago - on March 29, 2010 - two explosions occurred in the Moscow metro during the morning rush hour. The first one was at Lubyanka, 40 minutes later the second explosive device went off at Park Kultury. Both bombs were attached to female suicide bombers. The leader of the Caucasus Emirate, Doku Umarov, immediately took responsibility for the explosions. 40 people were killed and 168 injured. Most were Russians, as well as citizens of Tajikistan, the Philippines, Kyrgyzstan, Malaysia and Israel.

Explosions

The first explosion became known at 07:56. The mine was attached to a suicide bomber standing near the second door of the second carriage. The device detonated when the train stopped on the platform and the driver was about to open the doors. The power of the explosive device was about four kilograms of TNT. This explosion killed 24 people.

After this, train traffic on the Sokolnicheskaya Line was completely stopped. But by this time, the second terrorist was already in the train, which stopped on the stretch between Frunzenskaya and Park Kultury. The driver brought the train to the station and asked the passengers to get off. It was at this moment, at 08:37, that a second explosion occurred in the third carriage. The bomb's power was equivalent to two kilograms of TNT. The victims were 16 people, four of whom died two days later in the hospital.

The devices used a powerful explosive, hexogen, and pieces of reinforcement and iron bolts as destructive elements.

Immediately after the tragedy, employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and the capital’s subway evacuated about 3.5 thousand people from the metro, blocked the section from Sportivnaya to Komsomolskaya and closed a number of stations. Due to the explosions, police officers at the Moscow Metro were transferred to an enhanced duty regime, and sappers and dog handlers with dogs examined all stations for the presence of explosives. Traffic was fully restored only by the evening of March 29.

Investigation of the tragedy

Because of the explosions, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case under Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Terrorist Act”. On March 31, the Kavkaz Center website posted a video message from Doku Umarov, recorded on the day of the tragedy. The bandit stated that the explosions were carried out on his personal order, and the terrorist attack was an act of retaliation for the February special operation of the federal forces in Ingush villages. Then 18 terrorists were eliminated in the Sunzhensky district. Later, the YouTube administration deleted all videos with Umarov’s confession.

In May 2010, law enforcement and security officials identified everyone involved in the tragedy in the subway. Magomedali Vagabov, one of the militant leaders of the terrorist underground operating in Dagestan, was recognized as the organizer of the terrorist attacks.

The killer of passengers on the Lubyanka turned out to be a native of Dagestan, Mariam Sharipova. According to some sources, she was the wife of Magomedali Vagabov, and according to others, she was the wife of a terrorist nicknamed Doctor Muhammad. The terrorist who exploded at the Park of Culture was the 17-year-old widow of the leader of the Dagestan militants Umalat Magomedov, Jennet Abdurakhmanova.

According to the investigation, the terrorists deliberately chose the metro as the location for the terrorist attack in order to create a public outcry both in Russia and abroad. Firstly, the morning rush hour was chosen, when the metro is extremely crowded. Secondly, both terrorists detonated the mines at the moment when the trains had just stopped on the platforms and passengers were standing very closely near the doors. That is, the criminals calculated in advance how to achieve the maximum possible number of victims.

Elimination of terrorists

On June 4, 2010, Alexander Bortnikov, who then headed the FSB, announced the liquidation of some militants from Vagabov’s group. On July 12, six suicide bombers and two militants who were preparing new terrorist attacks in the center of Russia were detained in Dagestan. One of them turned out to be the man who brought Abdullaeva and Sharipova to Moscow.

On August 21, 2010, in an apartment in the village of Gunib, employees of the Dagestan department of the Russian FSB blocked Vagabov and four other militants. The terrorists were asked to surrender, to which the bandits responded with fire. All five were killed in the shootout. On February 6, 2013, it became known about the death of Gusen Magomedov, the last participant in the subway explosions, who accompanied female suicide bombers from Dagestan to Moscow.

Many people are sure that the Moscow metro is the safest in the world. But even here there have been tragic incidents perpetrated by terrorist groups.

First explosion

Surprisingly, the first explosion in the Moscow metro occurred back in 1977 and was carried out by three people - Zatikyan, Stepanyan and Bagdasaryan. The first bomb they planted went off between the Izmailovskaya and Pervomaiskaya stations. The second and third bombs exploded some time later on the streets of Nikolskaya.

As a result of this terrorist act, seven people said goodbye to their lives immediately, and another 37 received various injuries. The Moscow metro was closed for a while. The explosion on the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya line was classified.

Secret behind seven seals

Do not forget that all the events took place at a time when the government tried to keep silent about all kinds of tragedies. The consequences were quickly eliminated; no one in the city spoke about the tragedy. Some information was leaked to the media only three years later.

The culprits, of course, were punished. The trial took place in the strictest confidence and very quickly. Relatives of the criminals did not even have time to come to say goodbye to them before the execution. According to some modern historians, such a quick response could mean the case was fabricated, but no one still knows the truth.

19 years later

Resumed in 1996. Then a homemade device filled with TNT exploded. The bomb was placed directly under the passengers' seat, and no one noticed the unknown black object. The accident occurred between the Tulskaya and Nagatinskaya stations. The tragedy claimed the lives of four people; another 14 could not get out of the cars on their own. Passengers with minor bruises had to travel along the rails to the nearest station.

There was a lot of talk about who was to blame. It seems that the Chechen militants admitted to what they had done, but after checking the data, this information was not confirmed. The leaders of the separatist groups were also interrogated, but they denied any involvement. The case remains unsolved.

New Year 1998

The morning of January 1, 1998 began with a terrible message: “Terrorist attacks have been committed in the Moscow metro.” Only a lucky chance prevented this event from becoming a tragedy. An unknown, ownerless bundle of wires and a clock was found by a train driver early in the morning when he was heading to work. He immediately took the bomb to the station duty officer. While she called the post and told the situation, the mechanism worked.

Fortunately, the force of the explosion was small, and the duty officer and two other cleaners were slightly injured. But the psychological trauma they received was more severe. The investigation into the event has reached a dead end. There is a version that this terrorist attack and the one that occurred two years earlier are related.

Early 21st century

Since the beginning of the 21st century, people have become afraid to go underground. The reason for this was the explosion of the Pushkinskaya metro station in Moscow. Perhaps due to the fact that this terrorist attack was covered in the most detail in the media, or perhaps because there were many more victims than all the time before, but it was since the terrorist attack in 2000 that a serious threat loomed over us.

The story of the incident is as follows. At approximately 6 pm, just during rush hour, two unknown people of Caucasian nationality approached one of the kiosks at the Pushkinskaya metro station. They wanted to make a purchase with foreign currency, but the seller at the kiosk refused, pointing out that there was an exchange office nearby. The men headed there, leaving their personal belongings nearby on the bench. When they did not return for a long time, the kiosk seller noticed the package and immediately called the security guard, who was located at the other end of the hall. At that moment, when he was heading towards the bomb, an explosion occurred.

The tragedy claimed the lives of 12 people and injured about 120 more. The severity of the blows was also increased by the fact that in addition to TNT, the bomb contained various sharp iron objects.

At first, investigators managed to get on the trail of the criminal group, but as the further course of events showed, they had nothing to do with this incident. Those responsible for the death of a dozen people were never found.

year 2001

Explosions in the Moscow metro continued. The next explosion occurred in early February 2001 at the Belorusskaya station. But this event raised many questions and discussions.

In the evening at approximately 18:50, someone unknown left a black bag under a marble bench near the stop of the first train car. A few minutes later there was an explosion. Its power was low, and the bench took the brunt of the blow. Several people were hospitalized.

Terrorist attack or not terrorist attack?

If these were terrorist attacks in the Moscow metro, then why did the criminals act so weakly? The bomb contained only 200 grams of TNT, and although this is quite a lot, it was not filled with fragmentation elements, as is done to increase damage. Moreover, the bomb was placed under the bench, and if it had been a meter further, there would have been many more casualties. The investigation has reached a dead end. There were many versions, but none of them were confirmed or refuted.

And it's February again

February became a fatal month for the Moscow subway. This time, an explosion in the Moscow metro took place on February 6, 2004. The tragedy is associated with the name of one Chechen militant - Pavel Kosolapov. The investigation considers him to be the organizer of this and several other terrorist attacks in the capital.

The Moscow metro explosions in February 2004 were different in that this time the bomb was not planted, but was carried by a suicide bomber. He entered the subway during rush hour, which is from 8 to 10 am. It is during this period that the largest number of people rush to work. Unsuspecting passengers boarded the second carriage of the train moving along the Zamoskvoretskaya line. The explosion occurred between the Paveletskaya and Avtozavodskaya stations.

The tragedy claimed the lives of 41 passengers, and several hundred more received various injuries. Many people simply could not get out and were suffocating from the smoke that resulted from the fire. Three carriages and hundreds of people were injured by the bomb explosion. This time the terrorist attack was prepared very carefully. The bomb was assembled to the highest standard and filled with many destructive elements - nuts, bolts, screws, nails.

This time the investigation managed to find the ends. Not only Pavel Kosolapov, but also several of his associates were involved in the terrorist attack. Some of them were caught. A trial was held over them, the decision of which was life imprisonment.

Another explosion in 2004

In 2004, terrorist attacks and accidents in the Moscow metro became more frequent. The capital was gripped by horror and panic. In just one year, two attacks in the subway, two bombed airplanes, and many attacks on public transport. The accident cannot formally be classified as a tragedy in the subway, since the event occurred on the surface, near the entrance. But the media kept hearing headlines that the terrorists’ target was the metro, but for some reason they were unable to get below the surface of the earth.

So the story begins around 8 pm on the last day of summer 2004. Everyone is rushing home, because tomorrow is the first day of September, and the children need to be properly prepared for school. There are police officers on duty at the metro entrance. Such precautions were introduced due to the increasing frequency of terrorist attacks. It seemed to one of the employees that a certain woman hesitated at the entrance to the subway. She was stopped and asked to show her documents. The woman turned around and walked away. It was at this moment that an explosion was heard. The unknown woman turned out to be a suicide bomber, and there was a bomb in her purse.

There were no casualties. A large amount of TNT and exploding objects led to the fact that three people died on the spot, another seven suffered injuries incompatible with life, and they died on the way to intensive care. Hundreds of wounded were sent to hospitals.

One of the victims was found to have a fake passport in the name of Nikolai Samygin. The investigation turned to the real name of the terrorist - Nikolai Kipkeev. In this tragedy he played the role of curator. His task was to follow the suicide bomber so that she went down to the subway. But since she could not do this, but decided to detonate a bomb right at the entrance, her accomplice was also injured. Subsequently, two more people involved in the explosion were detained. All of them were sentenced to prison.

The latest explosion in the Moscow metro

After the tragedies of 2004, there was a lull for six whole years. Life in the capital returned to its previous course, all the wounds were patched up, when suddenly... A series of explosions in 2010 deafened everyone. These events became the loudest and most powerful in their psychological impact. The terrorists have proven: they are not sleeping, they have not quieted down, but are ready to wage a systematic destructive war.

Explosions in the Moscow metro occurred about half an hour apart. The first happened at the Lubyanka station. As eyewitnesses say, a woman approached the carriage of the approaching train, the doors opened and then an explosion was heard. Its power was so powerful that it immediately claimed the lives of 24 people. It was Monday, at 7:30 a.m., and the metro was crowded with passengers. It seemed unrealistic to completely close the subway, so rescuers only closed the damaged station to eliminate the consequences.

All other lines were working, and this did not stop the second female suicide bomber from carrying out her sinister plan already at the Park Kultury station. The scheme was similar: a train approached, there was an explosion. The power of this bomb was less, as a result of which 12 people died immediately. Later, resuscitation doctors failed to save four more. The number of wounded and injured numbered several hundred.

The explosions in the Moscow metro were just the starting point for a further series of terrorist attacks on the surface of the earth. It was a whole chain of targeted actions by a gangster group. The investigation almost immediately managed to trace the criminals. As was reported later, the organizer of general chaos, Magomedali Vagabov, was eliminated.

Long history of explosions

The history of explosions in the Moscow metro has been going on for two decades. The explosion sites are marked in red on the Moscow metro map.

This is one of the main troubles of the 21st century. And our task is to always be on the alert. Follow the instructions of the brochures posted in the subway, pay attention to suspicious persons and always report unknown or ownerless items. It is unknown what the groups are preparing in the future, but you and I, thanks to vigilance and accuracy, can stop them.