Arkhangelsk FSB office bombing

Arkhangelsk FSB office bombing
The perpetrator entering the FSB precinct before the bombing
LocationArkhangelsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast, Russia
Coordinates64°32′09″N 40°31′12″E / 64.5359°N 40.5201°E / 64.5359; 40.5201
Date31 October 2018
8:52 AM (Moscow Time)
TargetFederal Security Service
Attack type
Suicide bombing
Weaponsacetone peroxide powered Improvised explosive device
Deaths1 (the perpetrator)
Injured3
PerpetratorsMikhail Vasilievich Zhlobitsky
MotiveAnarcho-communist terrorism

The Arkhangelsk FSB office bombing was a suicide bombing that occurred in Arkhangelsk, Russia. On the morning of 31 October 2018, Mikhail Vasilievich Zhlobitsky, a 17-year old tekhnikum student entered the local office of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) and pulled a manually controlled Improvised explosive device from under his clothes and detonated it. He died on the spot and the explosion injured three local FSB officers.