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Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis | |
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Part of the First Chechen War | |
![]() Hostages released from the hospital at Budyonnovsk | |
Location | Budyonnovsk, Stavropol Krai, Russia |
Coordinates | 44°47′02″N 44°09′57″E / 44.7839°N 44.1658°E |
Date | 14–19 June 1995 |
Attack type | Hostage crisis |
Deaths | 129 |
Injured | 415 |
Perpetrators | Chechen separatists led by Shamil Basayev and Aslambek Abdulkhadzhiev |
Motive | Forcing ceasefire in the war, securing safe return to Chechnya |
The Budyonnovsk hospital hostage crisis (Russian: Теракт в Будённовске, teract [terrorist act] in Budyonnovsk) took place from 14 to 19 June 1995, when a group of Chechen separatists led by Shamil Basayev attacked the southern Russian city of Budyonnovsk (alternatively transliterated as Budennovsk), near the breakaway Chechen Republic of Ichkeria, during the First Chechen War of 1994—1996. After brief fighting in the city, Basayev and his men took over a local hospital complex where they gathered over 2,000 mostly civilian hostages, demanding a ceasefire in Chechnya and Russia to resume talks with the Chechen leadership. Following Russian government's failed attempts to respond to the situation by force, Russian prime minister Viktor Chernomyrdin personally agreed to Basayev's demands, securing the release of the hostages.
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