Explosion in Leontievsky Lane

Explosion in Leontievsky Lane
Coordinates55°45′38.81″N 37°36′22.93″E / 55.7607806°N 37.6063694°E / 55.7607806; 37.6063694
Date25 September 1919
TargetPlace 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
WeaponsExplosive device
Deaths12
Injured55
Perpetrators4 (Kazimir Kovalevich, All–Russian Insurgent Committee of Revolutionary Partisans)
AssailantsBomber 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.


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