How it was 18.07.2000 (2000)

The program topic is the Terrorist attack in Arkhangelsk on May 1, 1954. On May 1, a May Day demonstration was taking place on Trade Union Square in Arkhangelsk.

The platform with the leaders was not cordoned off, and the police and state security officers maintained public order without weapons.

Leaving home at nine in the morning, Nikolai Romanov headed to Pomorskaya Street, where he joined one of the festive columns.

Romanov was able to bring his TT to the demonstration without much difficulty.

He cut a slit in his coat and hid the pistol in his jacket pocket.

The leaders of enterprises, organizations, and institutions walked at the head of their teams.

Having reached the platform, they climbed up to watch the festive procession from there.

Nikolai Romanov, dressed in a black demi-season coat, trousers of the same color, and boots, walked in the last row of the column of foresters and industrial bank employees.

Slowing down, he suddenly raised his hand with the pistol, and slowly, accurately fired two shots at the people standing on the platform.

Then he ran onto the platform, shooting several more people, but at that moment, border guard officer Bobkov S.S., who ran out of the crowd, and member of the Military Council of the White Sea Military Flotilla, Major General G.M. Rybakov, fell upon Romanov, who had fired the entire magazine of his pistol, and disarmed him.

After the shooting, the leaders standing on the platform continued to respond to the greetings of the demonstrators passing by.

The May Day demonstration was not interrupted.

The newspapers published in the following days did not report anything about the event.

Witnesses of the events in the studio: Popov Valdemar, Babkov Sergei, son of policeman Bobkov S.S. neutralized the terrorist, Sukhomlinov Andrey Viktorovich - Honored Lawyer of Russia, Bachina Valentina - Employee of the military tribunal, Lelchuk Vitaly - Doctor of Historical Sciences, Ukolov Anatoly Timofeevich - Soviet and Russian lawyer.

Photo: ID card of policeman Bobkov Sergei Sergeevich.

Chronicle: A locomotive with a portrait of Kirov, the train arrives at the station, Stalin and Molotov at the funeral of Kirov S.M., people with portraits of Kirov S.M., a window display of the "Fabrics" store, shelves with rolls of fabric, a customer looking at fabric, a flower shop, "Pobeda" cars on the street, a traffic controller with a baton, diggers, smoking chimneys, builders.