Terror acts and explosions in the metro in Moscow: description, history and consequences

Many people believe that the Moscow Metro is the safest in the world. But even here there were tragic cases organized by terrorist groups.

The first explosion

Surprisingly, the first explosion in the metro in Moscow occurred during the Soviet era. In the distant 1977, three people committed the terrorist act - Zatikyan, Stepanyan and Baghdasaryan. The first bomb they planted worked between the Izmailovo and Pervomayskaya stations. The second and third bombs exploded in the streets of Bolshaya Lubyanka and Nikolskaya a short time later.

As a result of this terrorist act, seven people said goodbye to life right away, another 37 received various injuries. For a while, the Moscow metro was closed. Explosion on the Arbat-Pokrovskaya line was classified.

Secret with Seven Signs

Do not forget that all the events occurred in those days when the government tried to keep silent about all sorts of tragedies. The consequences quickly eliminated, no one in the city spoke of the tragedy. In the media, some information was leaked only three years later.

Guilty, of course, punished. The court took place in the strictest secrecy and very quickly. Relatives of the criminals did not even manage to come to say goodbye to them before the execution. According to some modern historians, such a speed of response could mean fabrication of the case, but no one knows the truth so far.

After 19 years

Terror acts in the Moscow metro resumed in 1996. Then the self-made device filled with TNT exploded. The bomb was laid directly under the passengers' seat, and no one noticed an unknown black object. The accident occurred between the stations "Tula" and "Nagatinskaya". The tragedy claimed the lives of four people, another 14 could not get out of the cars on their own. Passengers with minor injuries had to reach the nearest station on the rails.

It was said a lot about who was to blame. It seems that the Chechen fighters confessed to the deed, but after verifying the data, this information was not confirmed. The leaders of the separatist groups were also interrogated, but they denied their involvement. The case remained undisclosed.

New Year 1998

The morning of January 1, 1998 began with a terrible message: "There have been terrorist attacks in the Moscow metro." Only a lucky event helped this event not to become a tragedy. An unknown orphan bundle with wires and watches was found by the train driver early in the morning when he was on his way to the service. He immediately took the bomb to the duty officer at the station. While she called to the post and told the situation, the mechanism worked.

Fortunately, the force of the explosion was not large, and the attendant and two other cleaners slightly injured. But the psychological trauma they received was more severe. The investigation of the event was at an impasse. There is a version that this terrorist act, and the one that occurred two years earlier, are interconnected.

The beginning of the 21st century

From the beginning of the 21st century people began to fear to go down into the subway. The reason for this was the explosion of the metro Pushkinskaya in Moscow. Perhaps because of the fact that the terrorist attack was most thoroughly described in the media, or perhaps because the victims were much more than all the time before, but it was with the terrorist attack of 2000 that we were seriously threatened.

The history of the incident is as follows. Approximately about 6 pm, just at rush hour, two unknown Caucasian people came to one of the stalls at the Pushkinskaya metro station. They wanted to make a purchase for currency, but the seller at the kiosk denied them this, indicating that there is an exchange office nearby. The men went there, leaving their personal belongings beside on the bench. When they did not return for a long time, the kiosk seller drew attention to the package and immediately called the security guard, who was at the other end of the hall. At the moment when he was going to the bomb, and there was an explosion.

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

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

year 2001

Explosions in the metro in Moscow continued. The next explosion occurred in early February 2001 at the Belorusskaya station. But this event caused a lot of questions and discussions.

In the evening around 18:50 someone unknown left a black bag under the marble bench near the stop of the first train car. A few minutes later, there was an explosion. His power was small, and the shop took the brunt of it. Several people were hospitalized.

Terrorist act or not act of terrorism?

If this is a terrorist attack in the Moscow subway, then why did 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 the damage. Moreover, the bomb was placed under the bench, and if it was a meter further, the victims would be much more. The investigation was at an impasse. There were many versions, but none of them was confirmed or disproved.

And again February

February was a fatal month for the Moscow subway. This time, an explosion in the metro in Moscow thundered on February 6, 2004. The tragedy is associated with the name of one Chechen militant - Pavel Kosolapov. It is his investigation that considers the organizer of this and several other terrorist acts in the capital.

Explosions in the metro in Moscow in February 2004 differed in that this time the bomb was not faked, but it was carried by a suicide bomber. He went into the subway at rush hour, which falls from 8 to 10 am. It is during this period that the largest number of people are rushing to work. Unsuspecting passengers sat down in the second car of the train, moving along the Zamoskvoretskaya line. The explosion occurred between the stations "Paveletskaya" and "Avtozavodskaya".

The tragedy claimed the lives of 41 passengers, several hundred more were injured. Many people simply could not get out and were choking on the smoke that arose from the fire. Three cars and hundreds of people suffered from the bomb. This time the attack was prepared very carefully. The bomb was collected at the highest level and filled with a lot of striking elements - nuts, bolts, screws, nails.

This time the investigation managed to find the ends. Not only Pavel Kosolapov, but several of his associates, was involved in the act of terrorism. Some of them managed to catch. A trial was held over them, the decision of which was for life imprisonment.

Another explosion in 2004

In 2004, terrorist attacks and accidents in the Moscow metro increased. The capital was filled with horror and panic. In just one year, two attacks in the subway, two blown up aircraft, many attacks in urban public transport. The accident at the metro station "Rizhskaya" can not formally be attributed to the tragedies in the subway, since the event occurred on the surface, near the entrance. But the media now and then sounded headlines about the fact that the target of the terrorists was the metro, but for some reason they could not get below the surface of the earth.

So, the story begins around 8 pm on the last day of the summer of 2004. Everyone rushes home, because tomorrow is the first day of September, and we need to prepare the children for school properly. At the entrance of the metro, policemen are on duty. Such precautions were introduced because of the increased number of terrorist attacks. One of the employees thought that a certain woman hesitated at the entrance to the subway. She was stopped and asked to produce documents. The woman turned and walked away. It was at that moment that there was an explosion. The unknown was a suicide bomber, and in her purse a bomb was laid.

No casualties could not be avoided. A large number of TNT and tearing objects led to the fact that three people died on the spot, seven more were injured incompatible with life, and they died on the way to the intensive care unit. Hundreds of wounded were sent to hospitals.

One of the victims managed to find a fake passport addressed to Nikolai Samygin. The investigation came 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 she went down into the subway. But since she could not do this, but decided to blow up the bomb right at the entrance, her accomplice also suffered. Later, two more people were detained, implicated in the explosion. All of them were sentenced to life imprisonment in prison.

The last explosion in the metro in Moscow

After the tragedies of 2004 there was a calm for six whole years. The life of the capital returned to its original course, all wounds were patched up, when suddenly ... The series of explosions in 2010 stunned everyone. These events became the loudest and strongest in their psychological impact. The terrorists have proved: they do not sleep, they do not calm down, but are ready to wage a systemic, destructive war.

Explosions in the metro in Moscow thundered with a difference of about half an hour. The first occurred at the Lubyanka station. As eyewitnesses say, a woman approached the car of the approaching train, the doors opened and an explosion followed. His strength was so powerful that immediately killed 24 people. The case was on Monday, at 7:30, and the metro was crowded with passengers. Close the subway completely seemed unreal, so the rescuers only blocked the affected station to eliminate the consequences.

All the other lines worked, and this did not stop the second female suicide bomber from carrying out her sinister plan at the Park of Culture station. The scheme was similar: the train came up, an explosion occurred. The power of this bomb was less, as a result of which immediately died 12 people. Later, another four failed to save the doctors-resuscitators. The wounded and injured count went to several hundred.

Explosions in the metro in Moscow were only the starting point for a further series of terrorist attacks already on the surface of the earth. It was a whole chain of directed actions by the gangster grouping. The investigation almost immediately managed to reach the trail of criminals. As it was reported later, the organizer of the general chaos, Magomedali Vagabov, was liquidated.

A long history of explosions

The history of explosions in the Moscow metro has been dragging on for two decades. The places of explosions on the Moscow subway scheme are marked in red.

Terrorist acts are one of the main problems of the 21st century. And our task with you is always to be on the alert. Follow the instructions of brochures posted in the subway, pay attention to suspicious persons and always report unknown orphaned objects. It is not known what the groupings are preparing in the future, but we, through vigilance and accuracy, can stop them.