Explosion in Leontievsky Lane | |
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Coordinates | 55°45′38.81″N 37°36′22.93″E / 55.7607806°N 37.6063694°E |
Date | 25 September 1919 |
Target | Place of mass gathering of people in the premises of the Moscow Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks), Leontievsky Lane, 18 |
Attack type | Explosion of a bomb in a place of mass gathering of people |
Weapons | Explosive device |
Deaths | 12 |
Injured | 55 |
Perpetrators | 4 (Kazimir Kovalevich, All–Russian Insurgent Committee of Revolutionary Partisans) |
Assailants | Bomber Pyotr Sobolev |
The Explosion in Leontievsky Lane was a terrorist act committed on 25 September 1919 by a group of anarchists with the aim of destroying the leadership of the Moscow Committee of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks). As a result of the explosion of a bomb thrown by the terrorist Sobolev, 12 people were killed, another 55 were injured.