Qualla: Kostroma Cafe Fire https://qualla.com/kostroma-cafe-fire en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:36 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Kostroma Cafe Fire https://qualla.com/kostroma-cafe-fire Kostroma Cafe Fire: Introduction https://qualla.com/kostroma-cafe-fire/ At two in the morning on November 5, 2022, roughly 250 people were packed into the Poligon cafe in Kostroma, a historic city on the Volga River northeast of Moscow. What happened next took less than a minute to begin and less than an hour to become one of Russia's deadliest nightclub fires in recent memory. A flare gun was discharged inside the building. Fifteen people never made it out.

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/f/m/0/kostroma-cafe-fire-wp/ufm0-kostroma-cafe-fire-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Kostroma Cafe Fire: A Spark in the Dark https://qualla.com/kostroma-cafe-fire/ The Poligon was a popular nightlife venue in downtown Kostroma, a city of roughly 280,000 people in the Golden Ring region of central Russia. In the early hours of that Saturday morning, the cafe was operating at or near capacity. According to eyewitnesses, a man fired a flare gu...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/f/m/0/kostroma-cafe-fire-wp/ufm0-kostroma-cafe-fire-a-spark-in-the-dark.mp3 0:06 2 full Kostroma Cafe Fire: The Man with the Flare Gun https://qualla.com/kostroma-cafe-fire/ Police quickly identified the suspect as 23-year-old Stanislav Ionkin, a reservist soldier who had recently returned from service in the war in Ukraine. He was arrested and charged with causing death by negligence. The circumstances surrounding why Ionkin discharged the flare gun...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/f/m/0/kostroma-cafe-fire-wp/ufm0-kostroma-cafe-fire-the-man-with-the-flare-gun.mp3 0:06 3 full Kostroma Cafe Fire: Failures Compounded https://qualla.com/kostroma-cafe-fire/ The fire exposed problems far deeper than one man's reckless act. On November 11, 2022, a Moscow court ordered the arrest of Ikhtiyar Mirzoev, the cafe's owner, and Natalya Belenogova, who managed the company operating Poligon. Investigators found that the venue's fire safety sys...

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]]> Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/u/f/m/0/kostroma-cafe-fire-wp/ufm0-kostroma-cafe-fire-failures-compounded.mp3 0:06 4 full Kostroma Cafe Fire: Kostroma Mourns https://qualla.com/kostroma-cafe-fire/ Sergey Sitnikov, governor of Kostroma Oblast, posted condolences on his Telegram channel and pledged assistance to the victims' families. The city, better known for its medieval churches, its monastery of St. Ipaty where the Romanov dynasty began, and its quiet position along the...

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