Dmitry Vinogradov and the 2012 Moscow Office Shooting

The 2012 Rigla shooting was a workplace mass murder carried out by a company lawyer against his colleagues. Contemporary reporting established the basic sequence quickly: Vinogradov arrived at work armed, opened fire in the office, killed five people at the scene and wounded two more, one of whom later died. Security personnel and a colleague brought the attack to an end before police took him into custody.

The workplace

Vinogradov worked as a lawyer for Rigla, a pharmaceutical company operating in Moscow. The attack occurred at a company office on Chermyanskaya Street in the city's northeast.

The people he targeted were coworkers. Reliable contemporary reports agree that six ultimately died and one injured colleague survived. This dossier does not repeat victim names from lower-quality compilations when they could not be independently confirmed to the same editorial standard as the court outcome.

November 7, 2012

Vinogradov arrived at the workplace carrying hunting firearms. TASS later reported that he entered the office and opened fire on colleagues, killing three men and two women at the scene. A wounded man died during transport for medical treatment, bringing the death toll to six. A wounded woman survived after receiving medical care.

The shooting ended when people at the workplace intervened and Rigla security guards restrained Vinogradov. He was detained immediately, so there was no prolonged manhunt or uncertainty over the identity of the shooter.

The online manifesto

Hours before the attack, Vinogradov posted an extremist and misanthropic text to a social network. Courts and investigators treated that material as relevant evidence, and the criminal case also included an offense connected with extremist content.

The original language is not reproduced here. Quoting it at length would add notoriety without improving understanding of the victims, investigation or legal outcome. Its evidentiary significance is enough: prosecutors used the post as part of the record concerning planning and intent.

Planning and investigation

Investigators said Vinogradov had been thinking about and preparing the crime for months. He confessed during the pre-trial investigation and later apologized to victims' relatives.

A forensic psychiatric examination found that he had a mental disorder that affected his ability to understand and control his actions to some degree, but experts did not find him legally insane. That distinction became important at trial and again on appeal.

Moscow City Court trial

The case went before the Moscow City Court. On September 9, 2013, the court found Vinogradov guilty of six counts of murder. Reporting from the courtroom also records convictions for attempted murder and an offense involving extremist material.

The court sentenced him to life imprisonment. The judgment therefore establishes both the perpetrator and the number of murders adjudicated in the case; the six deaths are treated here as a single case file rather than six separate pages.

Supreme Court appeal

Vinogradov's defense appealed the judgment and argued, among other points, that he should not have been held criminally responsible because of his mental condition.

On November 28, 2013, Russia's Supreme Court rejected the appeal and upheld the life sentence. The court left the guilty verdict in force, making the adjudicated outcome clear.

Aftermath

The shooting became part of a wider Russian debate about access to firearms, screening and penalties for weapons offenses. Legislative proposals discussed after a series of shootings in 2012 and 2013 cited the Vinogradov case among the incidents prompting demands for tighter controls.

The legal resolution, however, remained focused on Vinogradov's individual conduct: six murder convictions, additional offenses and a life sentence sustained on appeal.

Timeline

1. January–November 2012
   Planning period

   Investigators later say Vinogradov had been preparing the attack for months.

2. November 7, 2012
   Office shooting

   Vinogradov opens fire on colleagues at Rigla's Moscow office. Five people die at the scene, a sixth later dies from injuries, and one wounded colleague survives.

3. November 7, 2012
   Arrest

   Workplace personnel restrain Vinogradov and he is detained.

4. September 9, 2013
   Life sentence

   The Moscow City Court convicts Vinogradov of six murders and related offenses and sentences him to life imprisonment.

5. November 28, 2013
   Supreme Court decision

   Russia's Supreme Court rejects the defense appeal and leaves the life sentence in force.

Current status

Solved / adjudicated. Dmitry Vinogradov was convicted of six murders and related crimes. His life sentence was upheld by Russia's Supreme Court in November 2013.