What the records say
- When
- 30 May 1896
- Kind
- Crowd crush
- Coordinates
- 55.79° N, 37.53° E
- Description
- stampede in Russian Empire in 1896
- Deaths
- 1379
- Injured
- 1300
- Participants
- 500000
Khodynka Tragedy
Human stampede in Russia in 1896
The Khodynka Tragedy was a crowd crush that occurred on 30 May [O.S. 18 May] 1896, on Khodynka Field in Moscow, Russia. The crush happened during the festivities after the coronation of the last Emperor of Russia, Nicholas II. While 1,282 corpses were collected from the scene, injury estimates range widely from 1,200 to 20,000.
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- Wikidata: air, rail, road, mining and industrial accidentsWikidata contributorsCreative Commons CC0 1.0 (public domain dedication)Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Khodynka Tragedy: a crowd crush at Khodynka Field in Moscow kills at least 1,200 of those marking the coronation year of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (German), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Vier Tage nach der Zeremonie kommt es zur Katastrophe bei den Krönungsfeierlichkeiten des Kaisers Nikolaus II. Bei einer Massenpanik bei einem Volksfest auf…”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (French), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “30 mai (18 mai du calendrier julien) : tragédie de Khodynka”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
- Wikipedia year pages (Russian), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Давка на Ходынском поле”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page