The Russian apartment bombings was the largest series of coordinated terrorist attacks in Russia’s history. Five bombings took place in Moscow and two other Russian towns during August and September 1999, and several bombings have been prevented. The first bombing, which did not target an apartment block, occurred in Moscow on August 31, 1999. This was a bomb that exploded in a mall, killing one person and leaving 40 others wounded. Altogether nearly 300 civilians were killed. The bombings, together with the Dagestan War, led the country into the Second Chechen War. Chechen militants were blamed but no Chechen field commander accepted responsibility for the bombings and Chechen president Aslan Maskhadov denied any involvement of his government. The bombings ceased when a similar bomb was found and defused in an apartment block in the Russian city of Ryazan on September 23.
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