Name | Years active | Proven victims | Possible victims | Status | Notes | Ref |
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Nikolay Radkevich | 1909 | 3 | 3 | Killed by fellow inmates | Known as 'Vadim the Bloodsucker'; killed prostitutes in St. Petersburg because he wanted to rid the world of depraved women | [4] |
Darya Nikolayevna Saltykova | 1755?–1762 | 38 | 147 | Died 1801 | Killed serfs on her estate | [5] |
Name | Years active | Proven victims | Possible victims | Status | Notes | Ref |
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Valery Asratyan | 1988–1990 | 2 | 2 | Executed 1992 | Known as 'The Director'; Armenian man rapist who lured women to rape them, killing two of them to prevent leaving traces behind | [6] |
Anatoly Biryukov | 1977 | 5 | 5 | Executed 1979 | Known as the 'Hunter of Babies'; kidnapped and murdered infants in Moscow | [7] |
Igor Chernat | 1985–1986 | 4 | 13 | Executed 1987 | Known as the 'Evil Spirit of Kaukjarvi'; murdered between 4 and 13 women in the village of Kamenka, selling their stolen items afterwards | [8] |
Konstantin Cheryomukhin | 1986–1989 | 4 | 4 | Executed 1993 | Known as the 'Bataysk Maniac'; brutally raped and killed girls in Bataysk. | [9] |
Andrei Chikatilo | 1982–1990 | 43 | 56+ | Executed 1994 | Known as the 'Rostov Ripper'; killed women and children throughout the Soviet Union. | [10] |
Andrei Evseev | 1974–1977 | 9 | 9 | Executed 1979 | Known as the 'Tagaransky Maniac'; killed people in the Moscow Oblast, mainly women dressed in red clothing | [11] |
Nikolai Fefilov | 1982–1988 | 7 | 7 | Murdered by his cellmate | Known as the 'Urals Strangler'; raped and then strangled young girls in Sverdlovsk, abusing the corpses and stealing items afterwards; several innocent men were arrested for his crimes, including one who was executed | [12] |
Vasily Filippenko | 1967 | 5 | 5 | Executed 1968 | Known as the 'Leningrad Strangler'; raped and strangled women in the area of the Obvodny Canal | [13] |
Dmitry Gridin | 1989 | 3 | 3 | Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment | Known as the 'Lifter'; killed young girls in Magnitogorsk | [14] |
Boris Gusakov | 1964–1968 | 6 | 6 | Executed 1970 | Known as the 'Student Hunter'; raped 15 girls and young women in Moscow, killing 6 of them | [15] |
Gennady Ivanov | 1973–1980 | 8 | 8 | Executed 1982 | Known as the 'Gorky Maniac'; rapist and robber who murdered in Gorky and Vurnary | |
Vasili Komaroff | 1921–1923 | 33 | 33 | Executed 1923 | Known as the 'Wolf of Moscow'; horse trader who killed 33 men | |
Boris Korneev | 1968 | 5 | 5 | Murdered by roommates at psychiatric hospital | Known as the 'Strongman Killer'; strangled 3 women he cohabited with, along with the youngest one's father and a police officer | [16] |
Vasiliy Kulik | 1984–1986 | 13 | 13+ | Executed 1989 | Raped over 30 young children and elderly women in Irkutsk, killing 13 of them | [17] |
Alexander Labutkin | 1933–1935 | 15 | 15 | Executed 1935 | Known as the 'One-Armed Bandit'; killed people in the forest of the Prigorodny settlement in Leningrad Oblast with a revolver | [18] |
Mikhail Makarov | 1986 | 3 | 3 | Executed 1988 | Known as the 'Executioner'; stabbed and killed two young girls and an older woman, robbing their apartments afterwards | [19] |
Vyacheslav Markin | 1991 | 6 | 6 | Committed suicide before he could be sentenced | Known as the 'Skopinsky Maniac'; habitual criminal who robbed and killed apartment residents in Ryazan Oblast; also killed a former prisoner he quarreled with | [20] |
Anatoly Nagiyev | 1979–1980 | 6 | 6+ | Executed 1981 | Killed two women in 1979, then raped and murdered another four in one day aboard a train car; suspected of more murders | [21] |
Yuri Raevsky | 1971 | 6 | 6 | Executed 1973 | Known as the 'Vnukovo Maniac'; raped, murdered and robbed 6 women around the Soviet Union, changing location after each murder to avoid arrest | [22] |
Nikolay Sakharov | 1977 | 3 | 3 | Executed 1979 | Known as the 'Vologda Ripper'; kidnapped, raped and murdered young girls in Vologda | [23] |
Vladimir Sarenpya | 1975–1976 | 2 | 2 | Executed 1976 | Known as the 'Aleksandrovsky Ripper'; American-born bus driver who killed 2 women, and attempted to kill 9 more | [24] |
Boris Serebryakov | 1969–1970 | 9 | 9 | Executed 1971 | Known as the 'Kuybyshev Monster'; murdered and mutilated 9 people in present-day Samara, including a family of four; also raped the female victims' corpses | [25] |
Sergey Shcherbakov | 1985 | 6 | 6 | Executed 1988 | Murdered 5 women, one of whom was pregnant, and one girl in the city of Leninsk-Kuznetsky | [26] |
Nikolai Shestakov | 1975 | 12 | 12 | Executed 1977? | Known as the 'Luberetsky Maniac'; truck driver who raped and killed girls and young women in the Lyuberetsky District and the Balashikhinsky District | [27] |
Andrei Sibiryakov | 1988 | 5 | 5 | Executed 1989 or 1990 | Known as the 'Maniac from Lenenergo'; killed and robbed women in St. Petersburg while pretending to be an employee of a municipal engineering company | [28] |
Anatoly Slivko | 1964–1985 | 7 | 7 | Executed 1989 | Convicted for killing young boys around Nevinnomyssk | [29] |
Vasily Smirnov | 1979 | 5 | 5 | Executed 1980 | Known as the 'Gatchina Psychopath'; robbed, raped and murdered victims in Gatchina | [30] |
Vladimir Storozhenko | 1978–1981 | 13 | 13 | Executed 1984 | Known as the 'Smolensky Strangler'; tortured and murdered women for sexual pleasure; four other innocent men were arrested before his capture | [31] |
Aleksey Sukletin | 1979–1985 | 7 | 7 | Executed 1987 | Known as 'The Alligator'; killed and cannibalized young girls and women in Tatarstan with accomplices Madina Shakirova and Anatoly Nikitin | [32] |
Vladimir Sulima | 1968 | 3 | 3 | Executed 1968 | Known as the 'Bloody Casanova'; raped and murdered 3 women in the Perm Oblast | |
Vladimir Tretyakov | 1977–1978 | 7 | 7 | Executed 1979 | Known as the 'Arkhangelsk Butcher'; killed and mutilated drunk women in Arkhangelsk | [33] |
Yuri Tsiuman | 1986–1991 | 4 | 5 | Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment | Known as the 'Night Guest'; raped and strangled women in his hometown of Taganrog, all of them wearing black pantyhose | [34] |
Philipp Tyurin | 1945–1946 | 14 | 29 | Executed 1947 | Known as the 'Leningrad Maniac' and the 'Hellraiser'; murdered between 14 and 29 people for monetary reasons at his hut in Leningrad | [35] |
Vladimir Usov | 1974–1975 | 5 | 5 | Died in a psychiatric clinic | Known as the 'Hunter of Boys'; adolescent paranoid schizophrenic who sodomized and then strangled young boys | [36] |
Anatoly Utkin | 1968–1973 | 9 | 9 | Executed 1975 | Known as the 'Ulyanovsky Maniac'; killed 8 girls and 1 man in Ulyanovsk Oblast | [37] |
Vladimir Vinnichevsky | 1938–1939 | 8 | 8 | Executed 1940 | Known as the 'Urals Monster'; teenage pedophile and rapist who killed children aged between 2 and 4 years old | [38] |
Name | Years active | Proven victims | Possible victims | Status | Notes | Ref |
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Artyom Anoufriev | 2010–2011 | 6 | 6 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Teenager who killed people in his native Irkutsk, together with his partner-in-crime Nikita Lytkin | |
Dmitry Baksheev | 1999?–2017 | 1 | 30 | Currently awaiting trial | Killed and cannibalized a woman in Krasnodar together with his wife Natalia Baksheeva; rumored to have committed 30 murders in total in similar fashion | [39] |
Natalia Baksheeva | 1999?–2017 | 1 | 30 | Currently awaiting sentencing | Killed and cannibalized a woman in Krasnodar with her husband Dmitry Baksheev; suspected of committing a total of 30 murders in a similar fashion | [40] |
Vladimir Belov | 1991–2002 | 8 | 8+ | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as the 'Khovrinsky Maniac'; brigand who robbed and killed 8 people in Moscow with his accomplice Sergei Shabanov; suspected of more murders | [41] |
Roman Burtsev | 1993–1996 | 6 | 6 | Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment | Known as the 'Kamensky Chikatilo'; raped and strangled six young children in his hometown of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, hiding their bodies afterwards | [42] |
Alexander Bychkov | 2009–2012 | 9 | 11 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as the 'Belinsky Cannibal'; suspected cannibal who killed 9 people in Belinsky, Penza Oblast; suspected of 11 people based on evidence discovered in his home | [43] |
Sergey Cherny | 1999 | 10 | 11 | Died from pneumonia | Known as 'The Beast'; strangled 10 women Smolensk, and is suspected of drowning another woman | [44] |
Nikolai Chigirinsky | 2005–2009 | 3 | 3 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as the 'Pervouralsk Ripper'; mechanic who killed, raped and then mutilated young girls in Pervouralsk; also burned the victims' clothes | [45] |
Oleg Chizhov | 2006–2007 | 4 | 4 | Sentenced to 22.5 years of imprisonment | Known as the 'Birsky Maniac'; raped and brutally killed 4 girls in Birsk; assisted by two accomplices in his first rape | [46] |
Yevgeny Chuplinsky | 1998–2006 | 19 | 19+ | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as the 'Novosibirsk Maniac'; killed prostitutes around Novosibirsk | [47] |
Vladimir Draganer | 1999 | 6 | 6 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as the 'Kamyshin Maniac'; killed 4 girls and two young teenagers with accomplices in the vicinity of Kamyshin | [48] |
Nikolai Dudin | 1987–2002 | 13 | 13 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as the 'Grim Maniac'; killed his father in 1987, and after his release, killed 12 more people while in an intoxicated state | [49] |
Vadim Ershov | 1992–1995 | 19 | 19 | Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment | Known as the 'Krasnoyarsk Beast'; committed 70 total crimes around Krasnoyarsk, including killing 19 people and attempting to kill 8 others | [50] |
Viktor Fokin | 1996–2000 | 9 | 10+ | Died while imprisoned at a corrective labor colony | Known as the 'Pensioner Maniac' and the 'Grandfather Ripper'; lured, killed and dismembered prostitutes and alcohol abusers into his home, then disposed of their remains in garbage containers | [51] |
Irina Gaidamachuk | 2002–2010 | 17 | 17 | Sentenced to 20 years imprisonment | Known as 'Satan in a Skirt'; killed elderly women in Sverdlovsk Oblast in order to pay for vodka to feed her alcohol addiction | |
Alexander Gerashchenko | 1998–2005 | 7 | 7 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as the 'Solikamsk Shooter'; shot and killed security guards in Solikamsk in order to steal their weapons | [52] |
Sergey Golovkin | 1986–1992 | 11 | 13+ | Executed 1996 | Known as 'The Fisher'; tortured, raped and killed young boys in his garage basement or forests around Moscow | [53] |
Alexander Greba | 1996–2004 | 5 | 5 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as 'The Goblin'; killed 5 people in Belgorod Oblast, including 4 women who resembled his mother | [54] |
Yuri Gritsenko | 2001 | 5 | 5 | Sentenced to 22 years imprisonment | Known as the 'Zelenograd Chikatilo'; murdered 4 women in his native Zelenograd, shortly after being released from prison for a previous murder committed at an unknown date | [55] |
Igor Irtyshov | 1993–1994 | 2 | 2 | Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment | Homosexual prostitute and pedophile who brutally raped young boys in St. Petersburg, killing two of them | [56] |
Roman Kalinin | 2003–2009 | 4 | 4 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Rapist who lured, raped and subsequently killed schoolgirls in Chita; would steal some of the victim's belongings after the murder to simulate a robbery | [57] |
Dmitry Karimov | 2005–2006 | 7 | 7 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as the 'Concrete Products Maniac'; raped and killed women near concrete products factories in Yekaterinburg | [58] |
Alexander Komin | 1995–1997 | 4 | 4 | Committed suicide while incarcerated | Known as 'The Slaveholder'; along with his accomplice Alexander Mikheev, lured and then forced people to work in his underground bunker, killing those he no longer needed or feared would expose him. | [59] |
Nikolai Kozlenya | 1998–2001 | 7 | 7 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Killed drivers in order to steal their cars and later sell the disassembled parts | [60] |
Vladimir Krishtopa | 1995 | 2 | 2+ | Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment | Ukrainian man who killed two women while intoxicated; suspected of also killing in his native country | [61] |
Vadim Krotov | 1997–1999 | 4 | 4 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as the 'Primorsky Chikatilo'; child molester who lured young girls into his apartment in Nakhodka to produce child pornography, killing the girls when they tried to escape | [62] |
Alexey Kruglov | 2005–2009 | 4 | 4 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as the 'Istra Maniac'; kidnapped and then brutally killed a trio of boys in the Istrinsky District, strangling his niece a few years later | [63] |
Vladimir Kuzmin | 1997 | 7 | 11 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Raped and robbed between 7 and 11 people, mostly young boys and men, in Moscow; assisted in first two murders by Denis Kalistratov | [64] |
Elena Lobacheva | 2014–2015 | 15 | 15+ | 13 years imprisonment in a penal colony | Main member of a Neo-Nazi gang that killed alcoholic tramps and beggars around the Moscow Oblast and Yaroslavl Oblast | [65] |
Sergey Lozovoi | 2002 | 6 | 6+ | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as 'The Giant'; robber who brutally murdered people around Rostov-on-Don and Sochi; suspected of more murders | [66] |
Nikita Lytkin | 2010–2011 | 6 | 6 | Sentenced to 24 years imprisonment | Teenager who killed people in his native Irkutsk, together with his partner-in-crime Artyom Anoufriev | |
Viktor Malyuk | 2000–2001 | 4 | 4 | Committed suicide while incarcerated | Known as the 'Ad Killer'; lured, killed and then robbed victims he found through newspaper advertisements | [67] |
Sergei Martynov | 1992–2010 | 9 | 9+ | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as the 'Torso Killer'; killed women across western and central Russia | [68] |
Andrei Meshcheryakov | 2002 | 5 | 5 | Sentenced to 25 years imprisonment | Known as the 'Balashikhinsky Maniac'; strangled women in the span of two months for the purpose of robbery in Moscow | [69] |
Vladimir Mirgorod | 2003–2004 | 16 | 16 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Also known as 'The Strangler'; raped and strangled 15 women in Moscow, also killing a woman's son | [70] |
Vladimir Mukhankin | 1995 | 9 | 9 | Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment | Known as the 'Pupil of Chikatilo'; killed women in Rostov Oblast | |
Alexander Murylev | 1993–1994 | 8 | 8 | Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment | Known as 'Yeltsin's Sanitary'; stock broker who killed alcoholics around Moscow in order to appropriate and then sell their apartments | [71] |
Yevgeny Nagorny | 1998 | 10 | 10 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Automechanic who, together with accomplice Sergei Stavitsky, killed clients with expensive cars in order to sell them later on | [72] |
Mikhail Novosyolov | 1977–1995 | 22 | 22 | Sentenced to civil commitment | Known as the 'Necrophile Rebel'; Tajik necrophile who killed people in Russia and his native country | [73] |
Sergey Osipenko | 2005–2006 | 4 | 4 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as the 'Rossoshansky Maniac'; Kazakhstani man who raped, murdered and robbed 4 women in the Voronezh Oblast | [74] |
Ivan Panchenko | 1998–2008 | 5 | 5 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as the 'Svetlograd Maniac'; kidnapped and killed young girls in Svetlograd, and also killed a colleague he deserted with | [75] |
Alexander Pavlenko | 1991–2001 | 2 | 4+ | Released 2014 | Known as the 'Maniac Policeman'; sadist who killed and dismembered two girls in 2000, and was also charged with the deaths of two others; suspected of more murders; initially sentenced to 24 years imprisonment, then reduced to 13 years | [76] |
Maxim Petrov | 1999–2000 | 12 | 19 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as 'Doctor Death'; practicing doctor who killed his patients for the purpose of robbery | [77] |
Yevgeny Petrov | 1998–2003 | 11 | 11 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as the 'Novouralsk Ripper'; pedophile who kidnapped, raped and killed young girls around Novouralsk, mutilating and burning their corpses afterwards | [78] |
Alexander Pichushkin | 1992–2006 | 48 | 62 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as the 'Chessboard Killer'; killed at least 48 people in Moscow's Bitsa Park | [79] |
Alexander Pirovskih | 1997–1999 | 5 | 5 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Fraudster who murdered people for monetary purposes, including his wife and her children from the first marriage | [80] |
Denis Pischikov | 2002–2003 | 13 | 13 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as the 'Shivering Creature'; robbed and killed elderly people in Moscow Oblast and Vladimir Oblast | [81] |
Roman Podkopaev | 2007–2013 | 30 | 30 | Unknown | Family of robbers, led by Roman and his wife Inessa Tarverdiyeva, who robbed and killed people around the North Caucasian Federal District | [82] |
Timofey Podshivalov | 2011 | 4 | 4 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as the 'Zakamsky Maniac'; considered one of the worst criminals in Perm's history | [83] |
Mikhail Popkov | 1992–2010 | 78 | 81 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as 'The Werewolf'; assaulted and murdered 78 women in Angarsk, Irkutsk and Vladivostok; confessed to 81 murders in total | [84] |
Ion Prodan | 1998–1999 | 5 | 5+ | Sentenced to 25 years imprisonment | Known as the 'Domodedovo Ghoul'; Moldovanguest worker who killed people near railways | [85] |
Vladimir Retunsky | 1990–1996 | 8 | 12 | Released 2015 | Known as the 'Povorinsky Maniac'; kidnapped, raped and killed hitchhikers in his hometown of Povorino; also suspected of abusing the corpses; initially sentenced to death, but commuted to 15 years imprisonment and subsequently released in 2015 | [86] |
Vladimir Romanov | 1991–2005 | 12 | 20 | Committed suicide while incarcerated | Known as the 'Kaliningrad Maniac'; pedophile who raped and murdered 12 girls and young women in the Kaliningrad Oblast; suspected of more murders | [87] |
Sergei Ryakhovsky | 1988–1993 | 19 | 19+ | Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment | Known as 'The Hippopotamus'; killed prostitutes and homosexuals in order to 'cleanse' society | [88] |
Oleg Rylkov | 1993?–1997 | 4 | 5 | Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment | Known as the 'Tolyatti Ripper'; rapist and pedophile who raped between 37 and 39 underage girls, and killed 4 people in Tolyatti; confessed to the murder of another woman in 2013 | [89] |
Artur Ryno | 2006–2007 | 37 | 37 | Sentenced to 10 years of penal labour | Leader of racist skinhead gang, along with Pavel Skachevsky, who killed immigrants | [90] |
Tamara Samsonova | 1995–2015 | 13 | 13+ | Sentenced to compulsory treatment | Known as the 'Granny Ripper'; St. Petersburg woman who killed and allegedly cannibalized 13 people | [91] |
Anatoly Sedykh | 1998–2003 | 12 | 12 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as the 'Lipetsk Chikatilo'; raped and murdered 12 women in Lipetsk, robbing the corpses afterwards | [92] |
Eduard Shemyakov | 1996–1998 | 10 | 10 | Sentenced to compulsory treatment | Known as the 'Resort Maniac'; raped, killed and dismembered 10 women in St. Petersburg, supposedly cannibalizing one of the victims | [93] |
Sergey Shipilov | 1995–1999 | 14 | 14 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as the 'Velsk Chikatilo'; killed 14 female hitchhikers in the town of Velsk, most of them while out on prison leave | [94] |
Nikolay Shubin | 2004–2006 | 13 | 13 | Sentenced to compulsory treatment | Known as the 'Cemetery Director'; paranoid schizophrenic who killed 13 people in Lipetsk after losing in chess games to them | [95] |
Konstantin Shumkov | 2008 | 5 | 5 | Sentenced to 25 years imprisonment | Leader of the 'Blood Magic Gang'; along with four teenage accomplices, Shumkov murdered 5 homeless people in Irkutsk from January to June 2008, as well as harming 3 others | [96] |
Pavel Shuvalov | 1991–1995 | 5 | 5 | Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment | Known as the 'Nevsky Forest Park Maniac'; policeman who lured, raped and then killed young girls who wore pantyhoses in St. Petersburg | [97] |
Pavel Skachevsky | 2006–2007 | 37 | 37 | Sentenced to 10 years of penal labour | Leader of a racist skinhead gang, together with Artur Ryno, who killed immigrants | [98] |
Alexander Spesivtsev | 1991–1996 | 19 | 82+ | Sentenced to compulsory treatment | Known as the 'Siberian Ripper'; tortured and killed street children and young women with the help of his mother Lyudmila, allegedly cannibalizing some of them | [99] |
Vyacheslav Solovyov | 2003–2007 | 6 | 6 | Died from phlegmon while incarcerated | Known as the 'Yaroslavl Poisoner'; poisoned 6 people in his hometown of Yaroslavl, including his wife, daughter and an investigator | [100] |
Viktor Sotnikov | 2000–2011 | 8 | 8 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Killed 8 people in Lipetsk Oblast and Tambov Oblast | [101] |
Ivan Strack | 2005–2017 | 3 | 4 | Sentenced to 22 years imprisonment | Killed two schoolgirls and allegedly his grandfather as a minor; killed another woman 12 years later after release from a psychiatric hospital | [102] |
Alexander Taran | 2003–2004 | 3 | 3 | Sentenced to 23 years imprisonment | Known as the 'Voroshilov Sharpshooter'; beekeeper who murdered police officials in order to avenge his children; guilt has been questioned | [103] |
Inessa Tarverdiyeva | 2007–2013 | 30 | 30 | Unknown | Family of robbers, led by Inessa and her husband Roman Podkopaev, who robbed and killed people in the North Caucasian Federal District | [104] |
Vladimir Tushinsky | 2010–2014 | 5 | 5 | Died from a cardiac arrest while incarcerated | Known as the 'Kamchatka Chikatilo'; killed 5 girls in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to satisfy his sexual urges; also raped his underage stepdaughter | [105] |
Pavel Voitov | 2014–2015 | 15 | 15+ | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Leader of a Neo-Nazi gang that killed alcoholic tramps and beggars around the Moscow Oblast and Yaroslavl Oblast | [106] |
Dmitry Voronenko | 2006–2007 | 4 | 4 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as the 'Petersburg Maniac'; Kyrgyzstani-Ukrainian rapist who raped and killed girls and young women in St. Petersburg | [107] |
Vyacheslav Yaikov | 2002–2003 | 6 | 6 | Sentenced to compulsory treatment | Known as the 'Kopeysk Strangler'; mentally-ill rapist who killed 6 women in Kopeysk | [108] |
Mikhail Yudin | 1999–2002 | 5 | 5 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as the 'Berdsk Maniac'; raped and killed 5 women in Berdsk, stealing their valuables and then giving them to his wife or mother | [109] |
Oleg Zaikin | 2001–2006 | 9 | 9+ | Committed suicide while incarcerated | Known as the 'Chernikov Maniac'; committed numerous rapes and at least 9 murders in several regions across Russia | [110] |
Abdufatto Zamanov | 2002–2004 | 14 | 14 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as the 'Krasnoyarsk Chikatilo'; killed 14 people in Krasnoyarsk for his personal pleasure, as well raping two adolescent girls | [111] |
Roman Zamulin | 2006 | 6 | 6 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as the 'Night Carrier'; FSOpraporshchik who raped and killed women in Yekaterinburg | [112] |
Sergey Zastynchanu | 2004 | 4 | 4 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as the 'Koptevsky Maniac'; killed 4 elderly women in the Koptevo District | |
Vladimir Zhukov | 2002?–2006 | 3 | 4 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as the 'Nizhegorodsky Chikatilo'; pedophile who abducted, raped and murdered young girls in Nizhny Novgorod; suspected of other crimes, including an additional murder | [113] |
Name | Years active | Proven victims | Possible victims | Regions where active | Notes | Ref |
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Barnaul Maniac | 1997–2000 | 7 | 7 | Siberian Federal District | Murdered 7 girls in the city of Barnaul; a market trader named Alexander Anisimov confessed to the murders, but committed suicide during investigations; since his death, the killings have ceased | [114] |
Danilovsky Maniac | 2004–2007 | 7 | 7+ | Vologda Oblast | Raped and murdered 7 young girls and women in Cherepovets; also suspected of murdering a woman in Vologda in 2010, as well as a series of murders of young girls between 1999 and 2003 | [115] |
Pharmacy Maniac | 2011 | 2 | 2 | Chelyabinsk Oblast | Murdered two men in Chelyabinsk pharmacies on May 26 and August 10 | [116] |
Volga Maniac | 2011–2012 | 32 | 32 | Tatarstan, Ulyanovsk Oblast, Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Udmurtia, Perm Krai, Samara Oblast, Bashkortostan | Killed 32 elderly women in several regions; Kazakh native Pavel Shayakhmetov, who had killed 2 elderly women in Samara, was arrested on suspicion of committing the murders, but the investigators believe that the killer is still out there | [117] |
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