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Last Friday on NTV at 19.30 Moscow time there was another program from the series “The investigation was carried out... with Leonid Kanevsky.” The next issue talked about another sexual maniac Soviet years. For a long time now, and quite regularly, I have come across data on this problem that paints a very gloomy picture. Which I decided to introduce to our dear readers. I’ll say right away that the notorious Chikatilo was far not the only and, perhaps, not even the most colorful of the villains, whose deeds can be found below. The post is specific, “I will ask pregnant women, children and women to leave,” but you also need to know about this side of Soviet life.

First of all, about the release - it was called “Kungur Monster”. Kungur is a city in Perm region, and in it in 1982 There was a series of attacks on women: robberies, rapes, murders. The attacker, inspired by the film “The Hound of the Baskervilles,” made a luminous mask and went out “hunting” in the late evenings, attacking lonely women. For some reason they did not name the exact number of victims: there was definitely one murder with rape, they talked about four episodes of attacks, but even after them the attacks continued. Panic began in the city, masses of women refused to leave the house, skipped work... They tied up one suspicious person - a private security worker - but it turned out that he himself, on his own initiative, was hunting for the maniac. Dressed in women's clothing policemen so that they would attract the villain.

It is interesting that street thieves attacked the “girls” who were walking and tried to snatch their purses from their hands. This goes to the thesis that walking in the evenings Soviet times it was absolutely safe. It seems that if the chance of being killed and raped remained relatively small, then you could lose your purse in no time.

Caught the "monster" pure chance: a policeman noticed a mushroom picker with field binoculars and decided to be curious about what the heck, actually, and he went off. But they caught the bastard anyway, it turned out to be a loader Nikolay Gridyagin. Standard story: an exemplary family man, all positive characteristics from work. In general, he started raping girls earlier, presumably since 1980 - they didn’t specify in the program. At first I wanted to pretend to be a photographer, I even lured one fool and abused him, but overall things somehow didn’t work out until with the said film about Comrade. I did not get acquainted with Holmes. By the way, to the question of the influence of television on the brains of citizens.

In general, the man who was tied up was tried and sentenced to 15 years as a stricter, but a stream of indignant letters went to the Supreme Court, the case was reviewed and they gave him a “tower”.

But Comrade Gridyagin is only one, far from the first and by far the most interesting of a whole series of monsters of the Soviet era. They appeared almost simultaneously with the beginning of that time, but they really began to appear en masse starting in the 1960s. Usually the enumeration starts with Vladimir Ionesyan, known as “Mosgaz” (because he pretended to be an employee of this glorious organization). Twice convicted, he moved from Orenburg to Moscow in the fall 1963 with his partner and in December began to rob apartments in the capital and the city of Ivanovo in order to earn a livelihood. Before his arrest at the end of January 1964, he killed six people, mostly women and children; raped one girl before murder. The court sentenced him to death, his cohabitant received 15 years in prison (she served eight).

Around the same period, he began a series of attacks on people Boris Gusakov, who worked as a photographer in the children's reception center of the Moscow City Executive Committee. His victims were mainly girls (schoolgirls, applicants and students), whom he lured to a secluded place, stunned with a blow from a blunt object, undressed, raped and killed. He has 10 attempts and 5 murders. The last two victims of the maniac managed to escape and turned to the police, and in the spring of 1968 Gusakov was arrested. The court found him sane and sentenced him to death.

In the “prosperous” era of glorious “stagnation”, women who were displaced on the basis of sexual problems began to appear throughout the country of Soviets. IN 1965 in the Stavropol Territory, perhaps the most titled of the Soviet maniacs began his “activity” - Anatoly Slivko. He was a member of the CPSU, in 1977 he received the title of “Honored Teacher of the RSFSR”, was listed as a “drummer of communist labor”, was elected as a deputy of the Nevinnomyssk City Council, and was generally a local celebrity. And he found his victims among the members of the children’s and youth tourist club “Chergid”, which he led. He carried out “scientific experiments” on children - boys: he tied them to trees by their arms and necks, and pulled the rope tied to their legs towards themselves; hung him in a noose until he lost consciousness, etc. I shot all this on film. Over the course of 20 years, 42 children went through “experiments”, he killed 7 more boys, and sophisticatedly mocked the corpses. Arrested at the end of December 1985, convicted and executed in Novocherkassk prison in 1989.

TO 1967 refers to the first criminal episode Boris Serebryakov from Kuibyshev: he tried to rape the dispatcher on duty at the control station. Since 1969, he began to carry out systematic attacks: he killed 9 people, of which two entire families, and attacked a woman and her daughter. Mothers - killed or stunned - were raped. Captured in 1970, at trial recognized as a psychopathic person with perverted sexual desires, but mentally healthy and sane, sentenced to death (1971).

IN 1968 a maniac rapist committed a series of attacks in Perm Vladimir Sulima, previously convicted of rape (13 counts), truck driver. After serving half of the appointed eight years, he returned to Perm, where within a year he killed three women(after the rape he hit them on the head with a hammer) and seriously injured seven more. One of those whom he unsuccessfully attacked was identified at a city clinic and arrested. The court sentenced him to death (1969).

And in the Ulyanovsk and Penza regions the driver began operating Anatoly Utkin. His “career” lasted with a break until the spring of 1973. He beat girls and young women: sometimes he robbed, sometimes he raped. The victims of the first stage of his “activity” were 5; another girl managed to fight off the attack. In 1969-72, Utkin, to ward off suspicion, was imprisoned for robbery, but after being freed, he went back to his old ways: the first attack on a woman failed, but then he killed a man and another girl. He got burned during the robbery of the cash register of an Ulyanovsk enterprise: he killed the cashier, but could not open the safe and set fire to the building in order to cover his tracks, but in a hurry he forgot the bucket with his name in which he brought diesel fuel. Based on the totality of all crimes, he was sentenced to VMN and executed in 1975.

IN 1969 in the vicinity of the village of Shostki, Sumy region, Ukrainian SSR, a maniac acted Pavel Danilov, who came from the Moldavian SSR through the organizational recruitment of Khimstroi. In the six months before the summer of 1970, he committed six attacks (one murder and five rapes with attempted murder). Having been caught, he was declared insane by a psychiatric examination, and in 1971 he was sentenced to 10 years in a mental hospital. After his release he left for Moldova, his further fate is unknown.

IN 1970 maniac, soldier Zaven Almazyan, originated in Lugansk, Ukraine. He attacked single women returning home from work in the evenings, threatened them with a knife, took money and personal belongings, strangled them, and raped them. Over six months, he attacked 10 women, killing two of them, but in October he was caught and sentenced to death.

IN 1971 committed his first crime Gennady Mikhasevich. He operated in Belarus, in the area between the cities of Vitebsk and Polotsk, which is why he was called the “Vitebsk Strangler” (the “Investigation Conducted...” talked about him a week earlier). Over 12 years, he killed 36 women, with the peak of murders occurring in the last year, 1984: as many as 12 cases. He strangled all the victims, either with a scarf, or a scarf, or a bunch of grass. At the same time, he worked as a manager of repair shops, had a family, and was a member of the military! As in the case of Chikatilo (see below), the valiant Soviet police screwed up in full: 14 innocent people were convicted of murder charges, “extorting” confessions through torture. One of these 14 was shot, another tried to commit suicide, the third served 10 years, the fourth went blind after a 6-year sentence... According to a court verdict, Mikhasevich was shot in 1987.

In the same year in Kaunas (Lithuanian SSR) he began to operate Augustinas Dustars(?), electrician at a house-building plant, an exemplary husband and father. In broad daylight, wearing a black mask, he attacked lonely women in a forest, threatening them with a knife, taking money and valuables, and raping them. During 1971-75 he committed more than 20 rapes and robberies.

In the fall of the same year, the “Vnukovo maniac” was active in Moscow. Yuri Raevsky, the youngest criminal of this kind at that time (19 years old), a classic serial killer. He hunted girls in miniskirts, choosing a victim in a deserted place, attacking, raping in a sophisticated way, strangling, and then taking away valuables. So three women were killed, after which the killer left for Kharkov, where he raped and killed the fourth woman, and tried to sell her demi-season coat at the market, where he was detained. During the investigation, it turned out that in the summer of 1971 Raevsky fled from the colony (where he ended up having been convicted a year earlier for beating and attempting to rape a woman), raped a woman in Mordovia (the victim survived and testified), raped and killed two more women (in the Caucasus and in the Baltic states), and only after that he came to Moscow. In 1973 he was convicted and executed.

IN 1972 , again in Moscow, committed several maniac attacks Alexander Stolyarov- Posing as an employee of Technical Supervision, he entered the apartments of pensioners, robbed and killed them. As a result, before his arrest, he managed to kill three women. Sentenced to death.

IN 1973 first acts recorded Andrei Chikatilo: While working as a teacher at a boarding school in Novoshakhtinsk, Rostov region, he began to molest his students. These cases reached the director of the boarding school, who fired the depraved teacher. In 1978, Chikatilo and his family moved to the city of Shakhty, Rostov region, where he got a job as a teacher at the State Technical University, and in December he began committing murders of teenagers of both sexes. Over 12 years throughout the region, as well as on business trips (Tashkent, Leningrad, Moscow, Zaporozhye), he killed 53 people (the most in 1984 - 15), although the investigation could not prove three more cases of murder. As a rule, he lured teenagers into a forest belt, where he attacked with a knife, inflicted numerous wounds, mocked the corpses, and ate body parts. Among his victims were many prostitutes, tramps, alcoholics and the mentally retarded. To catch the maniac, Operation Forest Belt was organized, in which Chikatilo himself, who was in good standing, participated in the role of a vigilante and was on duty at train stations. Several people were arrested on suspicion of committing crimes, one of whom, under pressure from the investigation, confessed to the murder and was shot by court verdict. In November 1990, Chikatilo was arrested, sentenced to death in 1992, and executed in February 1994.

IN 1974 a new maniac appears in Moscow - Andrey Evseev, who attacked single women in the city and region in the evenings. The criminal's style remained unchanged: he tracked down a well-dressed woman, followed her to the entrance and brutally killed her, having previously taken away everything valuable. Over three years, Evseev committed 32 armed crimes in Moscow and the region. He brutally killed 9 people, while he raped two dying women. 18 victims miraculously survived, some of them became disabled. The criminal acted consciously and deliberately in order to complicate the search and throw off the trail, but was still detained and sentenced to capital punishment.

IN 1975 adventures began sexual maniac and murderers Anatoly Nagiyeva: in the village of Ivnitsy, Kursk region, he raped a laboratory assistant at the local SGPTU, then two more girls became his victims, but he was soon captured and sentenced to five years in prison. In 1979, for good behavior, he was transferred to a free settlement, from where he began to travel to the city of Pechora (Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic), where he committed 2 murders due to robbery and rape, which the police were unable to solve at that time. In November he was released and went to Moscow to “hunt” Alla Pugacheva (unsuccessfully). His last and most terrible (in in a certain sense Nagiyev committed an unprecedented crime on the night of July 3-4, 1980 on train No. 129 Kharkov-Moscow. An hour after the train departed, he broke into the conductor's compartment, brutally beat her, raped her and strangled her. 20 minutes later he repeated the same thing with the conductor in the next carriage. Less than half an hour later, the third train conductor died at his hands, and an hour later, the fourth. Nagiyev raped all the women in a perverted form, and got rid of the corpses by throwing them out the window. The mutilated bodies of murdered women were found on the railway track in different places the next day. Hot on the trail, the operatives managed to solve the crime; in 1981, Nagiyev was brought to trial, found guilty of 6 murders and 10 rapes, and sentenced to death.

At the same time, a unique case took place in the Moscow region - a duo of maniacs “worked”: Andrey Shuvalov and Nikolay Shestakov. Throughout 1975-76 they attacked young women, robbed and raped them, and then killed them. Having started in the Lyubertsy region, they soon began to appear in other areas of the Moscow region. In total, 20 people were attacked, of which 14 were killed. As a result, the captured criminals were tried, Shestakov was sentenced to death, and the minor Shuvalov was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

TO 1976 first offense applies Zinovia Stetsika from Rohatyn Ivano-Frankivsk region Ukrainian SSR: then he raped an 8-year-old neighbor girl, but was caught red-handed and imprisoned. Having been freed, he moved to the village of Kamenka, Ochakovsky district, Nikolaev region, where in 1984 he raped first a neighbor’s girl, and then his adopted daughter, after which he was imprisoned for 12 years. In the late 1990s, already in the Cherkasy region, he raped two girls, but was caught, sentenced to life imprisonment, and died in 2000 from a massive stroke.

That same year, the path of another maniac began in Moscow - Vladimir Churlyaev. After serving time for robbery, he got a job at the Yasnogorsk fire department, and in free time went “on fishing” to the capital. Late in the evenings, he tracked down lonely women returning home, attacked them in the hallways and robbed them. Then he started robbing store cash registers. He was detained in 1978, given a large number of the robber's victims, his insolence and danger to society, the court sentenced him to death.

And again, from “Investigations Conducted...” we know about a taxi driver from Moscow Egor Kukovkina(?). Being sick with schizophrenia, he attacked girls: he robbed, raped, and then strangled them with improvised means. They talked about three episodes. Quite quickly the killer was identified and arrested.

WITH 1977 murder was committed by a necrophiliac Mikhail Novoselov, has been previously convicted several times. On the territory of Russia, he committed 22 murders with subsequent violations of the corpses of the victims (among which there were both children of both sexes and adult women). In the south of Tajikistan, where Novoselov was hiding from the all-Russian manhunt, in 1995 the maniac committed four murders and nine attempts to rape minor girls. Possessing a broad outlook, he introduced himself to the victims as a professional photographer, artist, painter, geologist, etc., gained trust, after which he killed in a secluded place (with a blow to the head or the back of the head with something heavy, by strangulation, by stabbing). The criminal was detained while trying to sell an air rifle. IN Lately he worked in a mental hospital on the outskirts of Dushanbe.

The art of the “baby hunter” dates back to the same year. Anatoly Biryukova(an exemplary family man, father of two daughters), who over the course of two months in Moscow raped and killed (!) five babies under the age of six months: four girls and a boy. Children were stolen from strollers left by unlucky mothers near stores. In October, having attempted to commit another kidnapping in the town of Chekhov near Moscow, he was spotted and, although he managed to escape that time, he was soon arrested in Moscow. A psychiatric examination did not reveal any abnormalities, and in 1979 the pedophile was shot.

Officially, a series of crimes begins in March 1977 Sergei Grigoriev, a previously convicted truck driver. Unlike most maniacs, he did not kill his victims (schoolgirls), although he cynically raped them. Under the guise of a UGRO employee, Grigoriev entered the victim’s apartment during the daytime and, if there were no adults at home, raped her, and also took money and gold jewelry from the apartment. The series began in Leningrad, but after the Central Internal Affairs Directorate contacted colleagues in other cities and regions of the USSR, it turned out that similar crimes had been committed in Orel, Moscow, Penza, Vitebsk, Krasnoyarsk, and Zelenograd near Moscow. A check of motor transport workers began and in the spring of 1983 Grigoriev was detained. The investigation did not dare to “dig” the rapist’s past too deeply, from the moment of his release in 1972, and only investigated episodes from 1977 - however, even with this, there were about 40 proven episodes! In 1984, he was sentenced as a particularly dangerous repeat offender to 15 years in prison, which he served in full and returned to St. Petersburg, where he died under unclear circumstances in 2000.

In December of the same year, a mechanic committed his first crime. railway tracks Vladimir Tretyakov. A shock worker of communist labor, a member of a voluntary people's squad, he decided to fight female drunkenness and started with his own partner: he strangled her, and the corpse was dismembered and scattered in a vacant lot. In the same way, he further killed 6 more girls and women. Panic began in the city; there were rumors that the maniac was selling the meat of the victims he had killed at the market. Tretyakov was detained in the spring of 1978, found sane in court and executed a year later.

IN 1979 in the city of Uzunagach, Alma-Ata region of the Kazakh SSR, a rapist, murderer and cannibal appeared - a fireman Nikolay Dzhumagaliev, known by the nickname " Iron Fang" Over two years, he killed eight women: he brought random acquaintances to his home, raped them in a perverted form and killed them (sometimes this happened in the reverse order - Dzhumagaliev was also a necrophiliac), then drank fresh blood and ate their brains. He dismembered the bodies of the dead with an ax, made dumplings out of them, and kept the meat in his refrigerator. I received particular pleasure from watching the next victim eat dumplings from the meat of his predecessor. In addition, in 1979 he accidentally killed his work colleague with a gun while drinking, for which he was sentenced to 4.5 years in prison, but was released in 1980. The killer was declared insane (the usual diagnosis in such cases is schizophrenia) and was placed in the Tashkent closed psychiatric hospital. Released in 1994, returned to Uzunagach, but due to bullying local residents ran and disappeared in an unknown direction. He is currently being held in a special hospital for criminals declared insane in the village of Aktas near Almaty.

In the same year, a maniac rapist appears in Odessa Vladimir Chernega, a twice-convicted unemployed and homeless individual who, from late 1979 to late 1980, committed 11 rapes accompanied by robbery. He attacked lonely girls at night, often stunning them with a blow to the head from an iron pipe (one case ended in the death of the victim). The efforts of the police to capture the criminal did not yield results, but Chernega himself turned himself in - which did not save him from being sentenced to death (1981).

WITH 1980 “operated” on one of the most “long-lasting” maniacs in the territory former USSR- “Pavlograd maniac” Sergei Tkach. He began a series of murders in Ukraine, in Simferopol, and since 1982 he has lived permanently in Ukraine. He killed until 2005 the territories of Crimea, Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye and Kharkov regions. The victims were girls and young women aged from 9 to 17 years old: he tracked victims near highways and railways, in the adjacent forest belts, pounced, killed, squeezing the carotid artery, then raped. All things on which his fingerprints could remain were removed from the victim’s corpse and taken away. He left the scene of the murder along the sleepers so that the service dogs could not pick up the trail. Over 25 years, Tkach committed dozens of murders: he himself took on at least a hundred, but less than 50 were fully proven. In his cases during this period, at least a dozen people were innocently convicted, one of whom served 10 years, two others received 15, and Vladimir Svetlichny, detained for the “murder” of his daughter, hanged himself in a cell in the Dnepropetrovsk pre-trial detention center. Tkach himself was sentenced to life imprisonment.

At the same time, a serial killer went on a bloody path in Smolensk and the region Vladimir Storozhenko, previously convicted several times. He worked as a truck driver and used it to commit crimes: usually, after noticing the victim in dark time days, caught up on foot or put him in a car. He robbed the dead. In total, he committed 20 attacks on schoolgirls, girls, and women, killing 12 of them (including nine in 1980). In 1981 he was caught and sentenced to death (1984).

The start of the series itself dates back to the same year. bloody maniac Soviet Latvia Stanislav Rogolev. He had already been convicted four times before, and once on charges of rape. After serving his sentence, he began working as an informant for the criminal investigation department, which helped him a lot later - he received information from the management of the criminal investigation about the progress of the investigation. He committed crimes in the vicinity of railway stations and in cities at night throughout the republic (which led to panic among the population): he robbed, raped and killed. Not all attacks ended in success, sometimes the victims managed to fight off, yet the statistics are impressive: during 1980-81, alone or together with an accomplice, Latvian Aldis Svare, attacked 22 people (girls, women and, once, a boy), killing 7 of them The police accused three other men of one of the murders (one of them was sentenced to death), only after Rogolev’s confession were they acquitted. The maniac was captured at the end of 1981, declared sane and shot in 1984.

WITH 1981 a cannibal acted in Tataria Alexey Sukletin, native of Kazan. Since 1979, he was engaged in extortion, and since 1981, living in the house of the caretaker of the Kaenlyk gardening partnership near the village of Vasilyevo together with his partner Madina Shakirova, who actively helped him, he began to kill and in four years managed to tear to pieces and eat seven women. The cannibal's youngest victim was only 11 years old. The lovers together cut up the bodies of the murdered with a kitchen knife, used the meat for cutlets and stews, and drank their blood. However, they got burned by extortion, for which they were detained. During the search, the police discovered the belongings of the missing women and bones buried in the garden of the house. Sukletin was sentenced to death (the sentence was carried out in 1994), Shakirova - to 15 years in prison.

That year marked the beginning of the “career” of a rapist Valery Asratyan, known under the nickname "Director". He began to commit depraved acts against young girls, for which he was sentenced to two years in prison in 1982 and 1985. Since 1988, having found a job as a teacher in a boarding school in Moscow, he committed crimes and enlisted the help of his 40-year-old partner and her 14-year-old daughter, with whom he lived in a civil marriage. He acted according to the following scheme: he met a girl, introducing himself as a film director, brought her to his home, where he pumped her full of tranquilizers, raped her (often for several days), after which, after robbing her and drugging her again, she took her out of the house. Thus, 17 rapes and three murders were committed (with a knife, through poisoning or drowning). Ultimately, one of the victims identified the area and street where the maniac lived; in 1990, he was tracked down and arrested, and sentenced to death at trial.

IN 1982 The “Irkutsk monster”, an ambulance doctor, began his journey Vasily Kulik. He started out as an ordinary sexual maniac, and specialized exclusively in young girls, whom he raped but did not kill. Since the end of 1984, Kulik changed his “orientation” and switched to older women, usually over 70 years old, who called an ambulance. Over four years, Kulik was responsible for 27 rapes and 13 murders. Six girls and boys and seven elderly women died at his hands: the youngest victim was 2 years 7 months old, the oldest was 75 years old. The maniac was caught by accident, on his birthday, while attempting to commit another rape. During the investigation, he tried to imitate insanity, but with the help of examinations he was exposed. The court sentenced him to death, carried out in 1988.

At the same time, the printer of the Ural Worker printing house, the “Upper Iset Strangler,” began committing murders. Nikolay Fefilov, an exemplary family man. He acted with strange seasonality: he usually committed a crime once a year, in April-May. He almost always lay in wait for the victims in the city park of Sverdlovsk, ambushed them, strangled them, dragged them into the bushes, and raped the dead. Then he took things, jewelry and left. He has at least six rapes and murders to his name. Investigative authorities brought to justice two innocent people for the murders, one of whom was sentenced to capital punishment in 1984, and the other died a year later from beatings from fellow inmates in a prison hospital. For this, the head of the pre-trial detention center was removed, but two crimes were “closed.” Fefilov was captured after another murder, but he did not live to see the trial, having been strangled by a cellmate in a pre-trial detention center in August 1988.

The first attacks of a sexual maniac and murderer date back to the same year. Sergei Ryakhovsky from Balashikha, Moscow region: for older women. He was soon arrested and sentenced to four years in prison. Since 1987, he resumed committing crimes on the territory of Moscow, and began to rape, maim and kill his victims. Among them were elderly women, teenage children, and old people. A total of 19 intentional murders, most of which were committed with extreme cruelty, and five miraculously surviving victims who received injuries and injuries. The maniac was detained in the spring of 1993 and sentenced to death.

In Minsk, in the summer, an unusual killer was active - the poisoner Valery Nekhaev, a stage worker at the Minsk Opera and Ballet Theater. Outraged by the neglect of his own person, he began to poison alcoholic drinks with highly toxic substances, from which three died and several more people were hospitalized. Having been detained by the police, he immediately confessed to everything and was sentenced to death (his brother, who purchased chemical reagents, received 5 years).

IN 1983 appeared in Yaroslavl Alexander Lukashov. In 1974 he was convicted of raping a minor, but was released from prison several years later with fatal diagnosis“spinal cord tuberculosis in an advanced stage.” Nevertheless, he managed to recover and began, armed with a hammer, to attack women: he stunned them, robbed them (he took jewelry and personal belongings). Five women were his victims. In addition, he raped little girls. At the end of the year he was captured, feigned madness in prison, and tried to escape. Convicted and executed in 1984.

WITH 1984 in the Moscow region, teenagers were attacked by an employee of a stud farm (located not far from the government dacha zone) Sergei Golovkin, known by the nicknames "Boa" and "Fisher". Over 8 years, he killed 11 boys aged 12 to 15 years. First he attacked teenagers in the forest: he blindfolded the victims, and then he raped and killed, and mocked the corpses. In 1988, he bought a car, set up a torture room in the basement of the garage and changed his “handwriting”: he offered the teenagers a ride, drove them to his garage, and, threatening with a knife, took them into the basement, where he abused the victims for several hours. The dismembered corpses were buried in the forest. Golovkin was arrested in 1992; he is also notable for the fact that he became the last person executed by court verdict at the time of the introduction of a moratorium on the death penalty in Russia (1996).

IN 1985 V Leningrad region a rapist and murderer appeared Igor Chernat, driver of an infantry fighting vehicle of one of the military units. Over six months (from November 1985 to May 1986), he killed four women, one of whom was pregnant. The women were relatives of the soldiers of the military unit, which made it easier to carry out atrocities: Chernat took the women into the forest area, where he raped and killed, and disguised the corpses. Having been interrogated during the investigation, he went on the run and reached Odessa, but soon, left without money, he confessed. Sentenced to death by a military tribunal (1987).

At the same time, he began to “operate” in the fall Sergey Kashintsev, released from prison where he was serving a 10-year sentence for the murder of a woman. He began to wander, traveling around the country (Chelyabinsk, Ufa, Izhevsk, Kirov, Tyumen, Tambov region), meeting women (alcoholics, beggars), inviting them to drink alcohol in basements, attics of houses, in the forest, in vacant lots. After getting drunk, he raped and strangled. He also killed single women who let him stay. From Kashintsev’s initial testimony it followed that he had visited more than 150 cities and populated areas countries where he committed the murders of 58 women (detained while drunk next to another victim in the spring of 1987). Subsequently, he stated that he had incriminated himself and confirmed only a little more than 10 episodes. He was declared sane and sentenced to death.

IN 1986 Serial killer - Mikhail Makarov(“Executioner”) - appeared in Leningrad. He committed four attacks: three on children (the boy survived, but two girls were killed) and one on a pensioner. He stole inexpensive items and money from apartments. He was caught trying to sell a stolen book to a used bookstore; during the investigation he immediately confessed to everything, was convicted and executed in 1988.

At the end 1987 a serial killer from Crimea began to carry out attacks Alexander Varlagin. While driving around the island, he attacked taxi drivers, killed firearms and robbed. He has four episodes to his name, three of which ended in murder. Arrested by police in mid-1988 and sentenced to death.

In the second half of the 1980s, in parallel with Chikatilo, the “Bataysky killer” “worked” in the Rostov region Konstantin Cheremukhin, previously convicted twice. He drove around the neighborhood in a Zhiguli car, chose a victim, offered a ride home or a ride, drove him to a desert area, strangled and raped him, after which he mocked the corpse. His victims were four girls aged 9-14 years. Arrested in 1989 in the city of his residence Bataysk, executed by court verdict.

IN 1988 there was a serial killer on the territory of Leningrad Andrey Sibiryakov, twice convicted unemployed. Under the guise of a Lenenergo controller, he entered previously scouted apartments, which he selected on the basis of the absence of a man in the house, and robbed them. He killed the women in the apartment with a knife, but did not rape them. In total he carried out five attacks, during which he killed five people. Having learned about the search operation that had begun, he tried to blackmail the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, with whom he came into contact through the TV program “600 Seconds.” He introduced himself as “an acquaintance of the real killer” and demanded 50 thousand rubles for his “exposure” (in the end they managed to bring the price down to 15 thousand). During the transfer of a bag with counterfeit money, he was detained by a capture group and sentenced to death.

WITH 1989 operated by one of the most bloodthirsty maniacs of the former Soviet Union, "Ukrainian Satan" Anatoly Onoprienko. Working in the fire department of Zaporozhye, I had access to small arms, and with his partner Rogozin, he hunted for the murder of motorists parked on the side of the road. During 1989, he killed nine people, after which, until the end of 1995, he traveled around Europe illegally, without a visa, and from December 1995 he again took up murders and took the lives of 43 people, incl. several entire families. In 1999 he was sentenced to death, in connection with the moratorium on the death penalty introduced in Ukraine, which was replaced by life imprisonment.

Then another maniac acted - Fedor Kozlov, on whose account there were 10 attacks on women, he killed five of them, and two young girls were among those killed.

In the same year, Magnitogorsk was kept in fear for several months by a certain Gridin, student of the Mining and Metallurgical Institute, Komsomol activist. He received the nickname “Elevator”: he lay in wait for his victims - girls and young women - at the entrances, entered the elevator with them, attacked and dragged them into the attic or basement, where he strangled them. However, he did not rape the victims. As it turned out later, he received satisfaction from contemplating the naked body of a bound, gagged girl and from her death agony. In total, Gridin committed four murders and several more attacks until he was neutralized as a result of an operation, for the organization of which a team of investigators had to be sent from Moscow. He tried to explain his wild actions by quarrels with his wife, who “deprived him of affection for a long time.” The court sentenced him to death, commuted to life imprisonment.

Since 1990 in its hometown Svetlogorsk (Belarus) attacked children Igor Mirenkov. Being a homosexual, he attacked boys aged 9-14, raped and killed. Over the next four years he killed 6 children, with the bulk of the victims occurring in 1993, which caused panic and unrest among city residents. Having been arrested on charges of gasoline theft and fraud, he was exposed as a pedophile maniac. The investigation was carried out in the strictest secrecy, its materials were declassified only in 2007. Mirenkov himself was executed in 1996.

Perhaps the last who showed his criminal inclinations in a formally still Soviet period, became Oleg Kuznetsov. He committed his first crimes - the murder and rape of girls - in his native Balashikha (Moscow region), then went to Kiev, where he committed 4 murders, after which he moved to Moscow and there, in the area of ​​Izmailovsky Park, he killed 5 more girls and women. Arrested in March 1992, confessed to all the murders and was sentenced to VMN, but they did not have time to shoot him, he is serving a life sentence.

This, I am sure, is far from a complete list of serial killers of the Soviet Union, however, it seems to me that it quite clearly demonstrates that the “advanced socialist system” practically did not lag behind the “decaying capitalist West” in terms of crime.

Everyone knows that in the Soviet Union there was no sex, religion or democracy, and if something scandalous happened, the authorities preferred to keep silent about it. Nevertheless, it was difficult to hide the bloody details of the most terrible crimes. Some of the maniacs listed in this collection could not be caught for a long time even after the collapse of the USSR, and some people were even accused by accident.

1. Anatoly Biryukov - “Baby Hunter”

2. Alexey Sukletin - “Alligator”

3. Anatoly Onoprienko - “Citizen O”

4. Sergey Golovkin - “Fisher”

5. Anatoly Utkin - “Ulyanovsk Maniac”

6. Sergey Tkach - “Pavlograd Maniac”

7. Vladimir Mukhankin - “Lenin”

8. Vladimir Ionesyan - Mosgaz

9. Roman Burtsev - “Kamensky Chikatilo”

10. Vasily Kulik - “Irkutsk Monster”

Ekaterina Snyatovskaya

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On November 20, 1990, the whole country breathed a sigh of relief. Andrei Chikatilo was arrested. The things that this person did do not fit into the concept of mental norms. Unfortunately, he was not alone in his “terrible illness”.

Chikatilo

Number of victims: 53

Probably everyone who lives in Russia has heard the name of Andrei Chikatilo - the most famous Russian serial killer. A lot has been filmed about him documentaries, thousands of pages of articles and books have been written, and the name has become a household name. Chikatilo's bloody activities occurred in last years communist regime - in 12 years from 1978 to 1990, he committed 53 murders (only proven ones, the maniac himself admitted to committing 65 murders), keeping the entire country in fear. On November 20, 1990, Chikatilo was arrested and subsequently sentenced to death. Chikatilo asked the president for clemency Russian Federation Boris Yeltsin, but was refused. In 1994, he was executed by a shot in the back of the head.

Saltychikha

Number of victims: 38 people were found guilty of death.
During Serfdom, cases of violence and abuse by landowners against peasants were common. And yet, what the noblewoman Daria Saltykova did on her estate is beyond my comprehension. According to the testimony of people who knew Saltykova, it was difficult to suspect a penchant for violence and psychical deviations- She was pious, donated money to the church and the poor. The death of her husband changed everything.
It all started with assault - Saltychikha took her anger out on the peasants and servants for unscrupulous performance of duties. Over time, the punishments of the servants turned into real torture - she doused her victims with boiling water, left them tied in the cold, tore out their hair, and did not shy away from torturing women and even children. The intercession of bribed officials also helped her continue her fanaticism - the landowner belonged to a famous family and could count on leniency. Until Catherine the Second ascended the throne. The Empress personally rewrote the court verdict, as a result of which Saltychikha was sent to prison for life imprisonment without light and communication, where she died.

"Tsarskoye Selo Murderer"

Number of victims: 7
Konstantin Sazonov was a minister at the famous Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum, for which he received his nickname “Tsarskoye Selo Murderer.” He operated there - in two years (1814 -1816) he committed nine robberies and killed seven people. Neither his punishment nor his fate are known, and indeed in historical information His name appears little about that time. But she settled down in the lyceum folklore - collective poem“Sazonviada” and even in one of Pushkin’s epigrams.

Morning with a penny candle
I will appear before the holy image.
My friend! I stayed alive
But death was already at hand:
Sazonov was my servant,
And Peschel is my doctor.

Nikolai Radkevich

Number of victims: 3

Nikolai Radkevich, known under the nickname “Vadim Krovnyak,” was the first registered serial killer on the territory of Russia, and then the Russian Empire. Radkevich has 3 murders to his name, and the victims of the maniac were exclusively women and of exceptionally easy virtue. This choice of the criminal is explained by his sad biography - even during his studies at cadet corps V Nizhny Novgorod he, fourteen years old, was seduced by adult woman, infecting on top of everything with syphilis. Since then, dealing with depraved women has turned into a mission and obsession for him. However, the investigation quickly got on his trail - he was caught red-handed in a hotel room, where he committed his last, third murder. The court's decision turned out to be surprisingly lenient - eight years of hard labor. But four years before his release, he was killed by criminals.

"Shabolovsky Murderer"

Number of victims: 33
Vasily Komarov was born into a family of alcoholics, he began drinking at the age of 15, was poor all his life and wandered all over Russia in search of income. And yet, despite the environment and difficult conditions to existence, he for a long time nothing larger than robberies and minor domestic violence were reported. Komarov began committing murders at a serious age - forty-four years old, when he moved to Moscow and settled in an apartment on Shabolovka Street. Everything happened in this apartment - Komarov called speculators who wanted to buy the goods he had stolen, where he strangled or killed them with a hammer, after which he threw the corpses into the river or buried them. Komarov’s wife also took part in the murders; after the criminals were caught, she and her husband were sentenced to death by execution. Mikhail Bulgakov dedicated a feuilleton to the investigation and crimes committed by the Komarovs.

"Poisoner"

Number of victims: 9
became one of the most high-profile criminal cases investigated in the USSR in the late 80s. Tamara Ivanyutina, who worked in the school canteen, was initially arrested on suspicion of poisoning students and teachers at the school where she worked. As the investigation later found out - the incident at school was not the only crime - together with other members of her family (sister and parents), she repeatedly committed poisonings. The reason was the desire for profit - so she poisoned her first husband and his parents in order to get their apartment and house with a plot of land - and unmotivated revenge, as in the case of school students and neighbors whom she killed because of a remark made to her . Ivanyutina was sentenced to death. The only case of the death penalty being applied to a woman in the USSR in the post-Stalin era.

"Vitebsk Strangler"

Number of victims: 36

Gennady Mikhasevich committed the first of his 36 murders after breaking up with his girlfriend. That day, he was planning to take his own life and even prepared a rope for hanging himself, but instead he strangled a girl passing by with it. Mikheevich lured his subsequent victims (all of them were girls) into his car and killed them in deserted places. During the investigation of the case, he himself participated in the search, joining the vigilante patrol team, and wrote letters to district newspaper, in which, allegedly on behalf of the fictitious organization “Patriots of Vitebsk”, he took responsibility for crimes. This gave him away - later the investigation identified the maniac by his handwriting. The sentence is death penalty.

From 1921 to 1923, who killed 33 people in Moscow, was born in 1877 into a large family. The whole family suffered from alcoholism, and Vasily began drinking at the age of 15.

Komarov killed according to the same scheme: he offered to buy some goods (it was a time of total shortage and hunger), brought him to his home, doped him with vodka and killed him with hammer blows, and to be sure, he also strangled the victim with a rope. Then he tied the corpse with a rope and put it in a bag or chest. After committing the crime, which, according to Komarov, took less than half an hour, he exclaimed: “Once - and kvass!” Then the maniac prayed all night “for the repose of the soul” of the murdered victim.

In the morning, before work, Komarov got rid of the corpse: either hid it in a destroyed house, or buried it in the ground, or drowned it in the Moscow River. For his monotonous and mechanistic execution of murders, Komarov was nicknamed “man-machine.” When Komarov’s wife found out about the murders, instead of turning the maniac over to the authorities, she began to help her husband.

In 1923, Komarov was finally arrested. The maniac did not repent of his crimes, spoke about the murders with particular cynicism and pleasure, and said that he was ready to commit murders further. Also in 1923, Komarov and his wife Sophia were shot. Bulgakov, by the way, has a story “The Komarov Affair”, dedicated to the bloody events.

Alexander Labutkin

This maniac operated during Stalin's times, from 1933 to 1935, in the area of ​​the village of Prigorodny (not far from Leningrad), where he committed 15 murders. He received the nickname " One-armed bandit”, because he lost his arm while uprooting tree stumps with explosives.

Armed with a revolver with homemade bullets made from bearing balls, he shot people relaxing in the forest, couples and even entire companies. From his victims he took things that were not of particular value: felt boots, a snare with caught birds, a suitcase with plumbing tools. With time .

During the next attack, one slightly wounded woman managed to escape, and she identified the killer. The investigation was short-lived. A special meeting decided to apply capital punishment to Labutkin, and the maniac was shot.

Vladimir Vinnichevsky

Another maniac of the Stalin era acted in 1938-1939 in Sverdlovsk. In total, Vinnichevsky carried out 18 attacks and killed 8 people, although there may have been more crimes. Vinnichevsky began killing at the age of 15 - thus becoming the youngest maniac in the USSR. He attacked and raped children from 2 to 4 years old, and wrote down his crimes in encrypted form on a piece of paper and numbered them.

Often Vinnichevsky acted according to the classic scheme: he lured children into the forest or other secluded place with promises. But often the maniac boldly committed crimes right in front of the doors or under the windows of the victims’ houses. Sometimes, under the guise of a Komsomol activist, for example, collecting scrap metal, he went directly into the victims’ houses when there were no adults there. Since, by Vinnichevsky’s own admission, he could not stand screaming, this sometimes saved the victims’ lives: the maniac simply threw the screaming children tied up and ran away.

I came across Vinnichevsky by accident. Police school cadets returning from patrol noticed a guy getting off the tram with a little boy in his arms. They were alarmed that the teenager carried the baby not towards the houses, but towards the forest. The cadets followed. They made it in time: in the thicket the guy was already strangling the child. The cadets managed to save the child and detained the attacker.

Vinnichevsky's parents, having learned about everything, were horrified and disowned their son. Since the death penalty for children from the age of 12 was introduced back in 1935, the young maniac was shot in 1940.

Vladimir Ionesyan

During Khrushchev's thaw in Moscow and Ivanovo the maniac Ionesyan operated, who managed to short term, from December 1963 to January 1964, kill five people.

This maniac adventurer came to Moscow from Orenburg, running away with a visiting ballerina from his wife and child. To convince your new lover to go with him, Ionesyan lied that he worked for the KGB and, with the help of his connections, would make her a prima dancer at the Bolshoi Theater. When this did not happen, he kept the ballerina, saying that they were waiting for the inheritance that Ionesyan’s uncle, who died in Germany, left.

Ionesyan walked around apartments looking for victims, and lied to his mistress that he was leaving “on missions.” Pretending to be a controller from Mosgaz (this is how Ionesyan got the nickname “Mosgaz”), he entered apartments and chose the next victim. Ionesyan used a tourist hatchet as a weapon. One would think that Ionesyan killed for profit (to keep his mistress), but this profit was too pittance: a flashlight, an old jacket, a worn jacket, Chypre cologne, a woolen scarf, two fountain pens.

As soon as the maniac once took something worthwhile, the Start TV, he was immediately caught: locals noticed a passerby with a TV, after which it was not difficult for investigators to track down the criminal.

Another piece of evidence was an unexpected detail: witnesses noted that the suspect tied his earflaps at the back of his head, and not on the top of his head, as most Muscovites did. This led investigators to believe that the killer may be from out of town.

Ionesyan tried to hide in Kazan. The detention of the maniac was personally supervised by the Minister of Internal Affairs of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. On January 12, 1964, the killer was arrested right on the platform of the Kazan station. The case turned out to be high-profile: they had not heard of maniacs in the Soviet Union for many years. There is a version that the USSR Prosecutor General Rudenko and Khrushchev personally talked with Ionesyan, after which the latter ordered: “So that in two weeks he will no longer exist.” A few days later, Ionesyan was shot.

Gennady Mikhasevich

This maniac operated in an era of stagnation. In 1971-1985, he committed 38 (possibly more) murders of women in Vitebsk, Polotsk and surrounding rural areas in the Belarusian SSR. Outwardly, Mikhasevich was an ordinary Soviet citizen, had a family (and even a mistress!), he was set as an example as an active participant public life and a good worker.

As a child, Gennady often watched his alcoholic father beat his mother. And in his youth, Mikhasevich was modest and uncommunicative, for which he was subjected to ridicule from girls. On May 14, 1971, Mikhasevich tried to hang himself because of unhappy love, but, having changed his mind, instead strangled a girl passing by. Later, during interrogation, he explained his first murder this way: “Why would I choke on a woman, it’s better to strangle someone myself.”

Killing women, Mikhasevich, according to him in my own words, “felt mental relief.” During the investigation, the maniac admitted: “When he strangled me, he drew strength from women through his hands. He was his own doctor. After the murder it became easier.”

Most of the murders were accompanied by rape. He lured the victims into his red Zaporozhets, took them to a deserted place and, at the moment of orgasm, strangled them with improvised means, including such exotic ones as a rope woven from rye, a bunch of clover stems, a gag from a glove. There was another characteristic detail of Mikhasevich’s murders: he took off the victim’s shoes.

Despite such a bright clue, a red Zaporozhets, they searched for the killer for many years. Among the vigilantes involved in the search for the maniac was Mikhasevich himself, who diligently checked the red Cossacks. In total, 14 people were convicted for Mikhasevich's crimes. Innocent people were broken, they incriminated themselves, confessed to anything. One of the accused was executed instead of Mikhasevich, one went blind in prison, others served different sentences.

To better cover his tracks, the maniac even wrote letters to local newspapers in which the fictitious fascist organization “Patriots of Vitebsk”, allegedly fighting against the Soviet regime, and at the same time against unfaithful wives, took responsibility for the murders. But this is where the maniac burned out: Mikhasevich also put the note from the “Patriots of Vitebsk” in the mouth of another victim and they identified him based on his handwriting. On December 9, 1985, he was arrested, and on September 25, 1987, he was shot.

Andrey Chikatilo

Perhaps the most famous Soviet maniac. From 1978 to 1990, he committed between 53 and 65 murders. There is a version that when Chikatilo was little, his older brother Stepan was allegedly kidnapped and eaten, and perhaps his parents themselves did this during the terrible famine of 1946. But it is known for sure that already from childhood, Chikatilo, who was beaten by his parents and peers, began to show bad tendencies: hysterics at the slightest provocation, sudden aggression.

The maniac met future victims at bus stops and train stations and, under some pretext, lured them into the forest or other secluded place, where he unexpectedly attacked them with a knife. Up to sixty stab wounds were found on the bodies of the dead; many had their noses, tongues, genitals, breasts cut off and bitten off, and their eyes gouged out. The agony of the victims gave Chikatilo sexual satisfaction.

In December 1985, under the control of the CPSU Central Committee, Operation Forest Belt was carried out - the largest operation of Soviet law enforcement agencies. Along the way, more than a thousand crimes were solved, 48 thousand people with sexual deviations were registered, but the maniac was never found. Since 1982, the investigation had a clue - the maniac's sperm found on the victim. The sperm was of the fourth group - this, according to the laws of criminology, meant that the criminal also had blood of the fourth group. In 1984, Chikatilo was detained, but his blood type turned out to be second, and the maniac was released. Later it turned out that Chikatilo had abnormal physiology - different groups sperm and blood.

On November 6, 1990, after another murder, Chikatilo came out of the forest and was stopped by a policeman: people usually went to this forest to pick mushrooms, and Chikatilo in a suit and tie clearly did not look like a mushroom picker. There were no compelling reasons for the detention, Chikatilo was released. A few days later, the body was discovered, the facts were compared, Chikatilo was under surveillance, and on November 20, 1990, the maniac was arrested. On February 14, 1994, he was shot.

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As you know, in the Soviet Union many topics were taboo, and if something out of the ordinary happened, the authorities tried to hide it. But it was difficult to hide the bloody murders from the public, which horrified the entire country. This rating describes the most dangerous maniacs of the USSR and their sensational cases, which still make the blood run cold in the veins.

Vasily Kulik - “Irkutsk Monster”

As a child, Vasily was very sick, and the whole family looked after him and cared for him. Due to numerous illnesses, he was forgiven for every offense, so Vasily grew up very cruel and an evil person, already as a teenager he tortured and killed cats. As a young man, Kulik actively took up sports and matured significantly. After he was attacked and hit on the head in 1980, he began to notice a sexual desire for children.
Within a couple of years, Vasily commits his first rape, and in 1984 he kills a nine-year-old girl for the first time. In addition to minors, he was also interested in pensioners; the investigation later found a list of old women whom Kulik wanted to kill. In 1986, passers-by stopped Kulik during another crime. When he was taken to the police station, he confessed to everything, but at the trial he began to claim that he had been framed by a gang of a local authority. After an investigation and undeniable evidence of Kulik’s involvement in the murders, he was sentenced to death in 1989. In total, the “Irkutsk Monster” committed 13 kills.

Roman Burtsev's childhood was not at all easy. His parents suffered from alcoholism, which may have influenced his future fate. He committed his first murder in 1993, the victims were the Churilovs' brother and sister - he first beat a boy to death, and then abused his sister and killed her. After that, he threw the children's corpses into a garbage pit. Burtsev was a very careful maniac: he hid the bodies well, all of them were found only after Roman showed the crime scene to investigators. However, one time Burtsev lost his vigilance: after another crime, he borrowed a shovel from his neighbor, which he never returned to her. A neighbor suspected something was wrong and contacted the police; later law enforcement officers found Burtsev. In 1996, he was sentenced to death, but the sentence was later commuted to life imprisonment. “Kamensky Chikatilo” sent 6 people to the next world, all the victims were children.

During the reign of Khrushchev, it was hard to even imagine that a criminal would get into your house, introducing himself as an employee of Mosgaz. Just so simple, but in an effective way used by Vladimir Ionesyan. The servants of the law became furious, and all resources were thrown into catching the bandit. As soon as they caught him, they immediately executed him. Most likely, Vladimir committed crimes for the purpose of robbery. According to another version, after divorcing his wife, out of love for the ballerina Alevtina Dmitrieva, Vladimir entered other people’s houses to steal something valuable for the woman he loved. According to another version, by killing Ionesyan he asserted himself. Mosgaz committed the very first crime in 1963 - having got into an apartment by deception, he cut to pieces a 12-year-old boy who was at home by himself and stole valuables. Last time he killed in 1964, his victim was a 46-year-old woman, Vladimir was caught and he was executed. According to unconfirmed reports, Khrushchev personally talked with the criminal. In total, the killer sent five people to the next world, four of them were children.

Mukhankin grew up in a dysfunctional family, he was an unexpected child (his father left the family before his birth), and from his mother he received only slaps and constant insults. Mukhankin’s character underwent changes, he became angry and cruel, began to wander, steal, and abuse cats and dogs. At the age of 18, he got married and had a child, who died soon after. In 1995, Vladimir Mukhankin committed his first murder and in a couple of months he already had eight deaths. By mocking dying people, he made the very last seconds of their lives terrible. Mukhankin’s fetish was the victim’s internal organs; he even went to bed with them. After the criminal was caught, he declared that he was a follower of Chikatilo. Vladimir spoke with genuine pleasure about his atrocities, but in court he retracted everything he said. There are twenty-two crimes on it, eight of them murders. “Lenin” will live out his life in the Black Dolphin prison.

Sergei Tkach made his debut as a maniac in 1980; all his crimes had sexual overtones. He started committing crimes after he moved to Ukraine, the victims were girls from 9 to 17 years old. Sergei always hid evidence well; no traces of semen or any other evidence were found on the bodies of those killed. Only in 2005 was Tkach detained after the massacre of a nine-year-old girl. While the police were looking for the maniac, 14 people were unjustly convicted for all those atrocities that were authored by Tkach. The “Pavlograd maniac” will serve a life sentence in prison. During his entire career, he killed from 30 to 150 people.

Anatoly Utkin was born in 1942. After graduation, he worked as a driver. In 1968, on a warm spring day, his car was pulled over by a 14-year-old girl who was rushing to see her mother at the hospital. Utkin violated her and killed her, keeping valuable things as a souvenir. Both young girls and ladies of Balzac's age became victims of the Ulyanovsk maniac. The public was in awe when the corpses of missing girls were found over and over again: a dangerous maniac was walking around in quiet Ulyanovsk. Anatoly understood that sooner or later he could be caught, so he began to choose victims systematically. The year 1972 was marked by a change in the motives of the criminal: now he did not want to kill and rape, he was only interested in profit. In the same 1972, Utkin kills a man in order to rob him, and in 1973 he was arrested. After all the evidence was discovered, the servants of justice had no doubt about Utkin’s guilt. It was proven that he committed 9 murders and was shot in 1975. With all this, Anatoly Utkin was a respectable family man; his friends and relatives described him as an extremely pleasant person.

Sergei Golovkin looked like a young and handsome man; girls followed him in stacks, but they were of little interest to him. "Fisher" preferred teenage boys. The first damn thing, as we know, is always lumpy, and this happened with the first attempt at rape and murder, in 1984. The victim managed to escape and many years later, she identified the criminal to the police. The first successful murder was committed in 1984, Golovkin killed a 16-year-old boy: first he dragged him into a forest belt, raped him, killed him and repeatedly violated his body. The murders did not stop, and this stirred up public interest; Sergei, fearing exposure, went underground. In 1989, Fisher returned to business, but changed his approach. He dug a basement in his own garage, where he killed teenagers. Due to the fact that the maniac lost his vigilance and sloppily buried the remains latest victims, he was quickly found. In 1992, he ended up behind bars. The sentence is logical - the death penalty, which was carried out in 1996. During his entire career, he killed eleven children.

In 1996, when Onoprienok was detained, he had already killed 52 people. The exact number of those killed will remain unknown; the investigation assumed that there were many more victims. Onoprienko committed his first crime in 1989, together with Sergei Rogozin. Together they killed married couples, entered apartments and massacred entire families. Onoprienko sometimes shot random passers-by. The motives that guided Anatoly are still unknown. According to him, he had to kill people because a voice in his head ordered him to do it. While the police were looking for Onoprienko, during the investigation they detained an innocent man who died during torture. After legal proceedings, “citizen o” was sentenced to execution, but it was canceled because at that time the death penalty was abolished in Ukraine.

Alexey Sukletin did not work alone; Shakirova and Nikitin worked with him. They killed Ekaterina Osetrova first, in 1981. Alexey forced Shakirova to help him kill, butcher and cook the victims. Blinded by Shakirov’s love, she was ready to do everything that Sukletin ordered her, she began to cut and cook human meat. Their union did not last long - after they killed the little girl, Shakirova decided to leave Sukletin. Alexey almost immediately found an accomplice - his relative Anatoly Nikitin became him, and with him “Alligator” continued his brutal crimes. There were rumors in the village that Anatoly was selling good meat, and the bandits, meanwhile, began to engage in robbery, which is what they were caught doing. Four bags filled with human bones. The maniac was shot in 1994, and his accomplices received 15 years in prison each. At least seven people were killed and eaten by the cannibals.

Anatoly Biryukov was considered an exemplary family man and a respectable citizen, not suspecting that he was living double life. Biryukov killed for the first time in 1977. He stole the child from the stroller, took him to a vacant lot and wanted to abuse him. But the frightened maniac was unable to carry out his dirty deed - passersby noticed him and had to finish off the baby with a knife. That same year, Anatoly kills and rapes several more children. Only during the attempt of the sixth crime were witnesses able to notice him. Eyewitnesses compiled an identikit, and the investigation began its search. After the arrest, doctors diagnosed Biryukov. Anatoly suffered from nepyophilia - sexual desire for children in infancy. Biryukov justified his crimes because his wife did not fulfill her marital duty for a long time. In 1979, Anatoly was sentenced to death, and the verdict was carried out that same year. During his entire career, five babies became his victims.