The Bolshaya Bronnaya Synagogue (russian: Московская Синагога на Большой Бронной улице) is a Russian synagogue, located at 6 Bolshaya Bronnaya Street in Moscow. The synagogue was built as a private synagogue by pre-revolutionary millionaire Lazar Solomonovich Polyakov. Privately constructed and owned synagogues that served congregations were a familiar tradition in many parts of Europe; in the Russian Empire, great magnates could sometimes get permission to erect private synagogues outside of the Pale of settlement when congregations could not. The pre-war rabbi was executed by the Soviet government in 1937 and the building was converted into a trade union meeting hall. In 1991, the building was transferred to Chabad Lubavich. In 2004, a renovation was completed. The building includes classrooms, a bookstore, a lecture hall,

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and kosher restaurant. Since 1991, the rabbi has been

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. In 1999 there was a failed bomb attack on the synagogue. On January 11, 2006, the synagogue was attacked by a

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who stabbed nine people. According to '' The Forward'', 20-year-old

Alexander Koptsev Alexander Koptsev (born 1985) is a Russian-born terrorist. On January 11, 2006, Kopstev burst into Bolshaya Bronnaya Synagogue in Moscow, Russia during evening prayers and stabbed eight people with a hunting knife before being wrestled to the ground ...

shouted "I will kill Jews" and "Heil Hitler" before stabbing at least eight men. The rabbi jumped Kotsev, and the rabbi's 18-year-old-son, Yosef Kogan, wrestled him to the ground. Kogan held the assailant until police detained him.Perelman, Marc. "Calls for Protection Rise After Attack in Moscow International". January 20, 200

/ref> A documentary film was made about the two incident

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