This is a list of Russian rail accidents.
1882
13 July – Tcherny railway accident: a train was derailed near Tcherny, and more than 40 people killed.
1888
29 October – Borki train disaster: An imperial train carrying Alexander III derailed. 23 killed.
1905
October 6: At Rostov, a derailment of the mail train to Vladivostok killed 27 people and injured 35.
1917
August 13: A passenger train and a "luggage train" collide on the line from Moscow to Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg), killing 60 people and injuring 150. November 2: At Vladikavkaz, an express passenger train and a military train collide head-on, killing 25 people (mostly soldiers) and severely injuring 70.
1920
October 1920: At Pogranichny, Primorsky Krai, the mail train from Vladivostok to Harbin, China wrecks killing about 100.
1921
January: On a mixed train from Novgorod, a consignment of flammable liquid explodes at Luga, killing 68 people.
1923
September 8: An express train derails at Omsk killing 82 and injuring 150.
1924
October: On the line from Moscow to Ivanovo and Vasenensk, a mixed train carrying passengers and gasoline is destroyed by fire. It was said that of 200 people on board only 27 survived, but the Soviet authorities suppressed the story.
1929
September 23: A train from Moscow to Siberia derails at Zuyevka, between Kursk and Kharkiv (now in Ukraine); at least 30 were killed.
1930
April 16: At Domodedovo, some denatured alcohol spilled in a train is accidentally ignited. The fire results in the deaths of 45 people and seriously injures 23. May 20: At Chernaya on the Moscow-Kazan line, the collision of a passenger and a freight train results in the deaths of 28 and severely injures 29. June 29: A train from Irkutsk to Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) is derailed near its destination due to a signalman's error; 22 die and 28 are seriously injured.
1931
September: A troop train southwest of Leningrad explodes with heavy loss of life.
1932
January 2: At Kosino, just outside Moscow, a train moving at hits the rear of a stopped suburban train. Although there is time, nobody acts to protect the wreckage and a train of empty freight wagons crashes into it. Altogether 68 people are killed and 130 injured, and 11 railwaymen are arrested for criminal negligence. October 18: The Black Sea express train, coming from Sochi, struck a freight car that had been mistakenly switched to the express tracks at Lublinov station, eleven kilometers from Moscow, telescoping five cars, three of them passenger coaches. Casualties include 36 killed and 51 injured. On October 31, the Soviet government sentenced to death the station master whose negligence caused the accident. Three others also sharing responsibility received prison terms.
1934
March 4: At a station from Moscow, a stationary train is struck by another one, killing 19 and injuring 52. The enginemen of the second train are sentenced to death and three other railwaymen to prison. March 12: At Tavatuy, northwest of Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), a passenger train runs past signals and crashes into a freight; 33 are killed and 68 injured.
1935
January 6: At Porbelo on the railway from Leningrad to Moscow, an express from Leningrad to Tiflis (now Tbilisi, Georgia) is stopped by a broken rail. The following train, an express to Moscow, runs past signals and crashes into it, killing 23 and badly injuring 56. Seven railwaymen are convicted of criminal negligence.
1936
June 22: At Karymskoye, a train is allowed to set out while the track ahead is occupied. The rear-end collision kills 51 people and injures 52; the stationmaster is sentenced to death and eight other people to prison.
1962
May 10: Two crowded commuter trains collided on National Railway Day while one of them was stopped at a junction in the north part of Moscow. Foreign newspapermen and diplomats living nearby reported seeing scores of ambulances, but Soviet authorities imposed a cover-up.
1987
7 August – Kamensk-Shakhtinsky rail disaster: A freight train collided with standing passenger train in Kamenskaya station, Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Rostov Oblast, killing 106.
1988
4 June – Arzamas train disaster: Three goods wagons carrying a total of 118 tons of hexogen (RDX) exploded on a railway crossing in Arzamas, Gorky Oblast (now Nizhny Novgorod Oblast), 91 killed and 1500 injured. 16 August – Bologoye derailment occurred on the express train Avrora, 31 killed.