The Tolyatti bus bombing occurred on 31 October 2007, during the morning rush hour when a bomb exploded on a passenger bus in Tolyatti, a city in Samara Oblast, Russia.

The blast killed at least eight people and injured about 50 in what Irina Doroshenko, a spokeswoman for the investigative wing of the local prosecutor's office, said could be a terrorist attack.

[3] At the beginning of the investigation, it was believed to be the work of terrorists from the North Caucasian Federal District.

However, the officials later named a 21-year-old Evgeny Vakhrushev,[4] who also died in the blast, as the only person to be responsible for the tragedy.

[5][6] The explosion happened near a bus stop in the city center as people were heading to work.