Explosive attacks on residential buildings in Russia

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The 1999 bombings on homes in Russia were a series of bombings that killed 367 people and injured over 1,000 people. The terrorist attacks were the reason for Russia to start the Second Chechen War, in the words of Putin “to fight 2000 terrorists”. According to official Russian investigations, the perpetrators were Chechen separatists. This was doubted inside and outside Russia, as evidence pointed to an involvement of the Russian secret service FSB. The attempt at an independent parliamentary inquiry was blocked by the Russian government and was inconclusive; Investigating Duma MPs were murdered. During the war in Chechnya, former FSB director Vladimir Putin was able to consolidate his position at the head of state as the new Russian president.

31. August 1999 – Moscow
The first bomb explosion on 31 August 1999 in the Russian capital did not affect any residential building. It occurred in a shopping arcade “Ochotny Rjad” (Russian: ) on Manege Square, killing one person and injuring 40 others.

4. September 1999 – Buinaksk
On 4 September 1999 at 21:45 a car bomb exploded (2700 kg); Truck GAZ-52; aluminum powder with ammonium nitrate) in the city of Buinaksk (Republic of Dagestan in the North Caucasus) in front of a six-story apartment building (Levanevsky Street 3; Russian: ), inhabited by Russian military personnel and their families. Two hallways of the house with the accompanying apartments were destroyed, killing 64 people, including 23 children, and injuring 164.

A bomb in a second truck (ZIL-130) in front of a hospital was defused by the police. In the car were found papers in the name Issa Sainutdinov (Russian: ).

Official Russians blamed the attack on separatists from Chechnya who had invaded Dagestan from 2 August 1999 under the leadership of Bassayev and Ibn al-Chattab (Dagestan War) and proclaimed the independent Islamic Republic of Dagestan. The fighting involved about 1400 mostly Chechen fighters. There were hundreds of deaths among the fighters and the civilian population.

8. September 1999 – Moscow
On September 8, 1999, at 11:58 pm, a 300-400 kg hexogen explosive charge exploded on the ground floor of the nine-storey residential building Guryanov Str. 19, Russian: in the southeast of Moscow (Petschatniki district, Russian: ). The building was severely damaged (108 destroyed apartments), 94 people died in the house and 150 people were injured. A caller to a Russian news agency said the explosion was a response to the Russian bombing of villages in Chechnya and Dagestan during the Dagestan War.

13. September 1999 – Moscow

Five days later, on the day of mourning for the victims of the bombing slug