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Pavel Kosolapov
Pavel Pavlovich Kosolapov (russian: Павел Павлович Косолапов; born February 27 1980, in Serafimovichsky District, Volgograd Oblast, Russia) is an ethnic Russian who is alleged to be an islamic terrorist and sometimes referenced as "Russian Bin Laden". According to Russian intelligence services, he was the lead organizer of the February 2004 Moscow Metro bombing, 2007 Nevsky Express bombing and many smaller terrorist acts in Samara, Voronesh and Moscow Oblast. According to some versions he is also responsible for the 2009 Nevsky Express bombing The 2009 Nevsky Express bombing occurred on 27 November 2009 when a bomb exploded under a high speed train travelling between the Russian cities of Moscow and Saint Petersburg causing derailment near the town of Bologoye, Tver Oblast (appro .... References 1980 births Living people People from Serafimovichsky District Converts to Islam Russian Islamists {{russia-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serafimovichsky District
Serafimovichsky District (russian: Серафимо́вичский райо́н) is an administrative district (raion), one of the thirty-three in Volgograd Oblast, Russia.Law #139-OD As a municipal division, it is incorporated as Serafimovichsky Municipal District.Law #979-OD It is located in the west of the oblast. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the town A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an ori ... of Serafimovich. Population: 27,137 ( 2002 Census); The population of Serafimovich accounts for 36.9% of the district's total population. References Notes Sources * * {{Use mdy dates, date=September 2012 Districts of Volgograd Oblast ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volgograd Oblast
Volgograd Oblast (russian: Волгогра́дская о́бласть, ''Volgogradskaya oblast'') is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject (an oblast) of Russia, located in the Volga region, Volga region of Southern Russia. Its administrative center is Volgograd. The population of the oblast was 2,610,161 in the Russian Census (2010), 2010 Census. Formerly known as Stalingrad Oblast, it was given its present name in 1961, when the city of Stalingrad was renamed Volgograd as part of de-Stalinization. Volgograd Oblast borders Rostov Oblast in the southwest, Voronezh Oblast in the northwest, Saratov Oblast in the north, Astrakhan Oblast and the Republic of Kalmykia in the southeast, and has an Kazakhstan–Russia border, international border with Kazakhstan in the east. The two main rivers in European Russia, the Don River (Russia), Don and the Volga River, Volga, run through the oblast and are connected by the Volga–Don Canal. Volgograd Oblast's strategic waterway ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Islamic Terrorist
Islamic terrorism (also known as Islamist terrorism or radical Islamic terrorism) refers to terrorist acts with religious motivations carried out by fundamentalist militant Islamists and Islamic extremists. Incidents and fatalities from Islamic terrorism have been concentrated in eight Muslim-majority countries (Afghanistan, Egypt, Iraq, Libya, Nigeria, Pakistan, Somalia, and Syria), while four Islamic extremist groups (Islamic State, Boko Haram, the Taliban, and al-Qaeda) were responsible for 74% of all deaths from terrorism in 2015. The annual number of fatalities from terrorist attacks grew sharply from 2011 to 2014 when it reached a peak of 33,438, before declining to 13,826 in 2019. Since at least the 1990s, these terrorist incidents have occurred on a global scale, affecting not only Muslim-majority countries in Africa and Asia, but also Russia, Australia, Canada, Israel, India, the United States, China, Philippines, Thailand and countries within Europe. Such at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
