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Khodynka Tragedy
1896 CE · Russian Empire, Asia · Disaster
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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