Russian Woman Delivers Rare Identical Quadruplets in Landmark Birth

Brief By Republic World / 4:24 PM on 06 Apr 2026

A woman in St Petersburg, Russia, has delivered four identical baby girls in an extremely rare birth estimated to occur once in 15.5 million cases. The newborns weighed between 1,360 and 1,640 grams. Medical experts identified them as monochorionic quadruplets, marking the first recorded instance of identical quadruplet births in the country, drawing widespread attention.