Terrorist attacks in the metro in modern Russia. Explosions in the Moscow metro How many people died at Lubyanka

Second explosion in the Moscow metro station“Park Kultury” was heard immediately after the train driver asked passengers to vacate the carriages. 43 minutes earlier, at a distance of two stations, 26 people had already died as a result of the first terrorist attack, but passengers were not informed about this and were not offered to evacuate. Eyewitnesses recall what happened at the stations during the double terrorist attack and how the police and operational services acted.

Explosion at Lubyanka (see on map) occurred at 07:56 in the second car of the anniversary metro train "Red Arrow" during its arrival at the station towards the Komsomolskaya station. The second explosion occurred at the station" Park of Culture (see on map)" (radial) at 8:39 - on a train moving towards the center towards Lubyanka.

After the explosion at the Lubyanka, heavy smoke began to form in the carriage, eyewitnesses reported. “During the explosion, I was at the crossing from the Kuznetsky Most to the Lubyanka station, going up the escalator to the crossing and heard a strong bang and an explosion,” Alexey, an eyewitness to the incident, told RIA Novosti. “A cloud of dust burst out from above, people ran along the escalator, began to fall. When I went out to Lubyanka Square, there were already rescuers, firefighters, police and ambulances there.

“I was in the next carriage when the explosion occurred,” said a passenger of the “Red Arrow”, which was blown up at the Lubyanka, - quotes another eyewitness LifeNews. - The doors of the neighboring carriage were literally turned outward. At least 15 people died immediately.”

One of the passengers caught the moment of the explosion while crossing from the Kuznetsky Most to the Lubyanka station. “I was directly going up the escalator to the passage and heard a bang, an explosion. The door next to me, near the passage, caved in. A cloud of dust from above fell onto the escalator, people ran along the escalator. People began to fall, there was a lot of it. I ran too,” Vesti.Ru witness is quoted as saying.

“We didn’t understand what happened, we thought that the ceiling had collapsed on the car. Everyone screamed,” said a girl who was in the car next to the one that was blown up (quote from ITAR-TASS). “It was only when we went outside that we learned about the explosion.” .

According to the Moscow prosecutor's office, the explosive device was on the belt of a passenger entering the second carriage (according to investigators, a female passenger). The destructive elements (chopped reinforcement) with which the homemade bomb was filled scattered across the area at the entrance to the car. Investigators note that the head of the suicide bomber (like the one who blew herself up at the Culture Park) is intact. There was a video camera in the carriage, the recording was given to forensic experts.

The first victims of the explosion in the Moscow metro

According to the latest data from the Ministry of Emergency Situations, the explosion at the Lubyanka station killed 24 people and injured 39. Up to a hundred vehicles from various operational services gathered on Lubyanka Square - the Ministry of Emergency Situations, gas emergency service, metro emergency service, police, ambulance, resuscitation, police department, traffic police and others. After the explosion at Lubyanka, the movement of trains in the metro was not stopped. The trains, although at increased intervals, were traveling towards the Culture Park, where the second explosion occurred.

Before the explosion, all passengers on the train were asked to leave the carriages. “We arrived at the Park of Culture, were informed that the train was not going any further and asked to vacate the carriages.
I went out, called home, and they said there was an explosion at Lubyanka. Terrible. He hung up and went into the transition. For some reason, a siren howled in the passage and, apparently, the escalator did not work; as soon as it reached it, an explosion thundered from behind,” writes photographer Ivan Bukhradze.

“I was traveling in the last carriage of the train,” eyewitness Roman tells GZT.RU. “Our train traveled with constant breaks. At each station it stood for a long time, they announced to us that the train would leave in so many minutes. The carriages were crowded with people. The Park Kultury metro station told us that the train would not go further. They asked us to vacate the carriages. There was some kind of commotion on the platform, and then there was a slight bang, I thought that someone was shooting from a traumatic pistol. Then, when the smoke started, everything became clear."

Evacuation from the train at the Park Kultury station

As an eyewitness to the events wrote on the blog davete.livejournal.com, after the explosion at Lubyanka he was at the Lenin Library. “The train waited about 7 minutes. Then it stood at the station for about the same amount of time... Thus, we stood for 7-10 minutes at Kropotkinskaya, then on the stretch between Kropotkinskaya and Park Kultury. I got off at Park Kultury.” I was already heading towards the exit. Some police officers were walking nearby and said to them: “What happened? " - “Oh, yes, there was some kind of accident, technical reasons.” At that same second, an explosion occurred,” he writes.

As a result of the explosion at the Park Kultury metro station, 13 people were killed and more than 30 were injured. The official representative of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Markin, said that the explosion in the carriage occurred when the doors were opened at a height of about 1.6 meters. The explosive device was detonated by a female suicide bomber. The explosive device was based on plastic, he said. And soon the head of the FSB, Alexander Bortnikov, reported to President Dmitry Medvedev that the explosive RDX was detonated in the Moscow metro. According to him, the power of the bomb that went off at the Lubyanka was 4 kg. According to him, militants from the North Caucasus were involved in the explosion: the investigation has photographs of suicide bombers who boarded the metro at the final terminal of the Sokolnicheskaya line - the Yugo-Zapadnaya station.

Further versions of events vary. Some eyewitnesses report that there was no panic at the Culture Park. “We heard a quiet bang and didn’t understand what happened,” Oset Kuliev, who was in one of the train cars at the time of the explosion, told reporters. “Then, when people realized that it was a terrorist attack, everyone began to leave the cars, and there was almost panic.” there was no explosion. The train was announced over the loudspeaker and people were instructed how to behave in this situation, that everyone should leave the carriages and go up to the city.”

Other eyewitnesses say the opposite. As Fontanka.ru reports with reference to participants in the blogosphere, a woman died due to a stampede after an explosion at the Park Kultury station. She was trampled by a crowd trying to leave the station after the station was filled with smoke from the explosion. There is no official confirmation of this yet. But it is reported that there was a strong crush at the Komsomolskaya station. On other metro lines, on the contrary, there are few people. Many Muscovites, fearing a repeat of the explosions, refused to travel to the city center.

Train traffic on the section of the Sokolnicheskaya line from Park Kultury to Komsomolskaya was stopped. Those who drove private cabs took advantage of this. As citizens report in their blogs, prices for travel between 2-4 metro stations have jumped to several thousand rubles. Taxi drivers transported people from Komsomolskaya for no less than 3,000 rubles. On Twitter they report that there was even a taxi driver in a black Volga who asked for 10 thousand rubles for a ride, and they give the number of his car. At the same time, Internet users point out that on September 9, 2001, in New York, after the terrorist attack, taxi drivers carried people for free.

However, other bloggers focused attention on those drivers who helped at a difficult moment. Well-known blogger Drugoi writes: “Today everyone is writing about some taxi drivers who took 3,000 rubles from people to take them to the center. And I got a call from a friend who, like many others, was trying to hitch a ride from the Yugo-Zapadnaya ". And there was a whole string of cars, the drivers of which took passengers just like that, for free. She left like that, in a hefty SUV - the man did not take anything from the passengers. I have such a person in my friend feed - sergelin. He deliberately went to deliver people in their VAZ Four. So, people are all different - there is shit, and there are people.”

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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 “Caucasian 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 power of the bomb 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 enhanced duty, 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 officials and security forces identified everyone involved in the tragedy in the subway. Magomedali Vagabov, one of the 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 Dagestani 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.

Before this, the driver announced over the loudspeaker that the train was not going any further, and passengers began to get out of the cars. By the time of the explosion, most of them had already left.

At the Lubyanka metro station, an explosion occurred in the Red Arrow train.

As a direct result of both explosions, 36 people died on the spot, 24 of them at the Lubyanka metro station and 12 at the Park Kultury metro station.

In the following days, four more people died in hospitals. 88 wounded were hospitalized in medical institutions in Moscow. Some of the victims were taken to hospitals by Russian Emergency Situations Ministry helicopters.

Employees of the State Unitary Enterprise "Moscow Metro" together with units of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations evacuated more than 3,500 people from metro stations.

Operational groups of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, the FSB of Russia, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia worked on site to eliminate the consequences of the emergency situation. In total, 657 people and 187 pieces of equipment were involved in eliminating the consequences of the explosions, from the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations - 342 people and 100 pieces of equipment.

25 psychologists from the Center for Emergency Psychological Assistance of the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations worked at the scene of the incidents.

After the explosions, train traffic on the central section of the Sokolnicheskaya line was stopped. Trains ran from the Komsomolskaya station to the Ulitsa Podbelskogo station and from the Sportivnaya station to the Yugo-Zapadnaya station in both directions.

The Frunzenskaya, Park Kultury, Kropotkinskaya, Lenin Library, Okhotny Ryad, Lubyanka, Chistye Prudy, and Krasnye Vorota stations were closed for passengers to enter and exit. In addition, the crossings to the Sokolnicheskaya Line at the stations "Park Kultury" of the Circle Line, "Borovitskaya", "Alexandrovsky Sad", "Arbatskaya" of the Arbatsko-Pokrovskaya Line, "Teatralnaya", "Kuznetsky Most" and "Turgenevskaya" were closed.

As a result of the explosions at the Lubyanka and Park Kultury stations on the Sokolnicheskaya Line, the Moscow Metro stations themselves were not damaged.
The restoration of traffic took place in stages, first, at about 16.00 Moscow time, the section from the Yugo-Zapadnaya station to the Park Kultury station was opened, at about the same time the station itself was opened for passengers to enter and exit. Then traffic was restored on the section from Park Kultury to Komsomolskaya. By 17.00 Moscow time, the capital's metro announced that traffic on the line had been fully restored, but trains did not stop at the Lubyanka station, which was still closed for passengers entering and exiting. At 17.10 the Lubyanka metro station was open.

In connection with the explosions in the Moscow metro, the personnel of the internal affairs departments were on enhanced duty. The number of police patrol officers at train stations and at the capital's airports has been increased, and the passport regime has been tightened.

In Moscow, all metro stations were examined by dog ​​handlers to detect explosives. Moscow airports have strengthened security measures.

Moscow Railway at railway transport facilities.

Additional security measures were applied in other cities, in particular, in the St. Petersburg and Yekaterinburg metro.

Moscow declared a day of mourning for those killed in the terrorist attacks.

The investigative bodies of the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case into the explosions at the Moscow metro stations "Lubyanka" and "Park Kultury" on the grounds of a crime under Article 205 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (terrorist act). The victims in the terrorist attack case were 168 people.

According to explosives expertise, the power of the explosive device that went off at the Lubyanka station was up to four kilograms of TNT, and at the Park Kultury station - up to two kilograms of TNT. The explosive devices were filled with hexogen-based explosives. Bolts and chopped reinforcement were used as destructive elements.

The director of the FSB of the Russian Federation reported to the President of the Russian Federation that everyone involved in the explosions in the Moscow metro had been identified - both the perpetrators and the organizers.

According to law enforcement agencies, Mariam Sharipova, a native of Dagestan, born in 1982, met herself at the Lubyanka station. The second explosion (at the Park Kultury station) was also carried out by a native of Dagestan, Dzhanet Abdurakhmanova (Abdullayeva), born in 1992.

The organizer of the explosions at Moscow metro stations was Magomedali Vagabov, one of the leaders of the sabotage and terrorist underground operating in Dagestan.

The investigation has evidence that the metro was deliberately chosen as the location of the terrorist attack in order to create a great public outcry not only in Russia, but also abroad. It was established that the suicide bombers detonated explosive devices precisely at the moment the train stopped, when the largest number of people were concentrated both in the carriages and on the platform. The goal of the terrorists was to achieve as many victims as possible.

The identified organizers and perpetrators of these terrorist attacks were eliminated when they offered armed resistance to law enforcement officers.

The National Anti-Terrorism Committee of the Russian Federation announced the destruction in Dagestan of the last terrorist directly involved in organizing and carrying out terrorist attacks in the Moscow metro in March 2010. According to intelligence services, he accompanied female suicide bombers who blew themselves up in the metro from Dagestan to Moscow.

The material was prepared based on information from RIA Novosti and open sources

A powerful explosion occurred in the Moscow metro at 7.52 am on March 29, killing 24 people and injuring dozens.

The suicide bomber herself was torn into small pieces. However, her head and leg were preserved. Using these body parts, it will be possible in the future to establish the identity of the terrorist.

At 8.37 am, another bomb exploded at the Park Kultury station, killing 13 people.

The first explosion occurred at the moment when the doors of the train opened, people began to get out, and others began to enter the carriage, a police officer who visited the scene of the terrorist attack told a Life News correspondent.

“I was in the next carriage when the explosion occurred,” said a passenger of the Red Arrow, which was blown up at Lubyanka. - The doors of the neighboring carriage were literally turned outwards. At least 15 people died immediately.

The bandits chose a difficult day to carry out the terrorist attack. On March 29, Holy Week began in Russia - the last week before Easter.

The bomb destroyed the 2nd and 3rd cars from the head of the train. The explosive device was in the second carriage.

“I was going to work in the next carriage to the one in which the explosion occurred,” says Yulia Tarasevich, a native of Chelyabinsk. - Literally at the entrance to the platform there was a bang, the train stopped, then started moving and reached the station. Panic began in the carriage: the doors jammed and they had to be opened by hand. When the crowd carried me onto the platform, I saw that my leg was bleeding. As a result, I was sent to hospital No. 13.

The blast wave went into the third car and into the first, into the ceiling, along the sides and out to the exit, a law enforcement source told Life News. - The train driver was also injured. He is in shock, but there are no serious injuries. The explosive device was filled with chopped pieces of reinforcement. It is also known that it was most likely activated using a mobile phone - batteries and wire fragments were found at the scene of the explosion. Most of the victims were in the second carriage. A man standing in the third carriage next to the glass inter-car door also died.

The mayor of the capital, Yuri Luzhkov, and the head of the Moscow City Internal Affairs Directorate, Vladimir Kolokoltsev, arrived at the scene of the explosion.

Most of the wounded are very serious, doctors told Life News.

According to preliminary data, a powerful bomb filled with steel balls was detonated by a suicide bomber.

Hotline numbers where you can find out the fate of relatives who may have been in the metro at the time of the explosions: 622-14-30, 624-34-40, 626-37-07.

The second explosion occurred at the Park Kultury metro station (radial). Here, according to the mayor of the capital, Yuri Luzhkov, 13 people were killed and 19 were injured.

Information about three more explosions - at the Ulitsa Podbelskogo, Prospekt Mira and Begovaya stations - has not been confirmed. As Life News found out, there was a suspicion of an explosion at Podbelsky, and a police squad went there. The alarms simply went off at Prospekt Mira and Begovaya.

Meanwhile, private taxi drivers in the capital, as reported by Life News reporters from the scene of the emergency, decided to take advantage of the situation. Prices for travel between 2 - 3 metro stations have jumped to 3 - 4 thousand rubles.

The explosive devices, according to intelligence services, were activated by terrorists following a telephone call. Currently, the base stations of telecom operators in the metro are turned off to prevent a possible repetition of terrorist attacks.

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 package with 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 precisely from 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 were inflicted with 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 7:30 a.m. on Monday, and the metro was crowded with passengers. Closing the subway completely seemed unrealistic, 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 Moscow metro explosions 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.