Dnipropetrovsk maniacs are Ukrainian serial killers responsible for a number of murders. Soviet Andrei Chikatilo, serial killer, aka Rostov's butcher who was convicted of 53 murders and the recent Moscow maniac Alexander Pichushkin, known as the "Chessboard Killer". What makes a serial killer kill over and over again?

Russian serial killers look really intimidating, even in prison. Some of the killings were hidden from the public in some countries. There are quite a few films about serial killers in Russia based on real stories.

Here is a list of the most brutal Russian serial killers.

10. DARIA NIKOLAEVNA SALTYKOVA

A landowner from Moscow became infamous for torturing and killing more than a hundred serfs, mostly women and girls. Imprisoned for life. Saltykova in translation from Hungarian - the Countess of Blood. She lived in the 18th century. She was buried next to her relatives in the cemetery of the Donskoy Monastery.

9. BORIS GUSAKOV

Soviet serial killer, convicted of the murder of 5 people in the Moscow region between 1964 and 1968. He committed at least five murders and 15 violent sexual assaults on girls and young women before being caught and executed by firing squad in 1970. Gusakov was born into a family of alcoholics and suffered from mental health problems from an early age, but they were often ignored due to the ongoing war.

In April, Gusakov attacked a 9-year-old girl, as well as a young couple, where he hit the man with a blunt object, before killing the woman. The surviving male was able to describe the attacker to the police.

8. ALEXEY VASILIEVICH SUKLETIN

Killed and dismembered at least seven girls and women in the Republic of Tatarstan between 1979 and 1985. Born in 1943 in Kazan. Sukletin sometimes sold human meat to neighbors, claiming that it was cuttings from animal meat, subsequently killing Fedorova. Sukletin was arrested in the summer of 1985, a few months after the murder of Lydia Fedorova.

7. ANATOLY EMELYANOVICH SLIVKO

Soviet serial killer, convicted of the murder of 7 people in and around Nevinnomyssk between 1964 and 1985. Slivko was shot on September 16, 1989. On July 23, 1985, Slivko killed his last victim, a 13-year-old boy named Sergei Pavlov, who disappeared after telling a neighbor that he was going to meet with the leader of Chergid.

In 1980, a 13-year-old boy named Sergei Fatsiev disappeared, who, together with Nesmeyanov and Pogasyan, was a member of "Chergid". The next victim was fifteen-year-old Vyacheslav Khovistik, who was killed in 1982.

6. ANDREY ROMANOVICH CHICATILO

A Soviet serial killer nicknamed the Rostov Butcher, the Red Ripper, and the Rostov Ripper, who sexually assaulted, murdered, and maimed at least 52 women and children between 1978 and 1990 in the Russian SSR, the Ukrainian SSR, and the Uzbek SSR. Chikatilo himself later claimed that he did not eat bread until the age of twelve, adding that he and his family often had to eat grass and leaves to prevent hunger. Chikatilo recalled his childhood as darkened by poverty, ridicule, hunger and war.

5. NIKITA VAKHTANGOVICH LYTKIN AND ARTEM ALEXANDROVICH ANUFRIEV

The teenagers were arrested in connection with a series of six murders and nine attacks on local residents in the Akademgorodok of Irkutsk. They told doctors that they chose weak and drunk people as victims. The legal case against Anufriev and Lytkin was supposed to begin after the completion of the investigation by March 2012.

4. MAXIM VLADIMIROVICH PETROV

Russian serial killer convicted of murdering 12 people in St. Petersburg in 1999-2000. Nicknamed "Doctor Death" in the Russian media, he was a medical practitioner who stalked patients from a local medical center, killing them with lethal injection at their homes and then robbing them. Petrov was suspected of committing 19 murders, but was tried for only 17. He was sentenced to life imprisonment.

3. ALEXANDER NIKOLAEVICH CHAYKA

Ukrainian murderer, also known as Fur-Coat Hunter, convicted of murdering 4 women in Moscow over two weeks in early 1994. In 1989, 14-year-old Chaika was arrested and convicted of participating in the gang rape of a young girl, he was sentenced to 5 years in prison in Kharkov prison, but on July 16, 1993 he was released early for excellent behavior. The 19-year-old Chaika committed the first murder by killing a 38-year-old woman by stabbing her 21 times.

2. ALEXANDER YURIEVICH "SASHA" PICHUSHKIN

Also known as the Chess Killer and Maniac of Bitsevsky Park, he is a Russian serial killer. He is believed to have killed at least 48 people, possibly 60, in Bitsevsky Park in southwestern Moscow, where several bodies were found. Pichushkin fell from a swing as a child, and then hit his forehead when he swung back. Experts hypothesized that this event damaged Pichushkin's frontal cortex, since such damage is known to lead to poor impulse regulation and a tendency to aggression. Pichushkin was an outstanding chess player, and in these games against mostly elderly men, Pichushkin first found a channel for aggression, dominating the chessboard in all of his games.

1. PAVEL SKACHEVSKY

He is a Russian criminal on the list of "persons banned in Great Britain for inciting hatred." Leaders of a gang of rapists who beat migrants and posted films of their attacks on the Internet. He is believed to be behaving in an unacceptable manner, inciting serious criminal activity and trying to provoke others to commit serious criminal acts. In April 2007 he was arrested. This happened after the murder of Armenian businessman Karen Abrahamyan. Abrahamyan was stabbed at the entrance to the apartment. Skachevsky was sentenced to ten years.

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

Chikatilo

Number of victims: 53

Probably everyone who lives in Russia has heard the name of Andrei Chikatilo, the most famous Russian serial killer. Many documentaries have been shot about him, thousands of pages of articles and books have been written, and the name has become a household name. Chikatilo's bloody activities fell on the last years of the communist regime - for 12 years from 1978 to 1990, he committed 53 murders (only proven, the maniac himself confessed to committing 65 murders), keeping the whole country in fear. November 20, 1990 Chikatilo was arrested and subsequently sentenced to death. Chikatilo asked for pardon from the President of the 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: found guilty in the death of 38 people.
In the days of serfdom, cases of violence and abuse by landowners against peasants were widespread. And yet, what the noblewoman Daria Saltykova did on her estate does not fit into my head. According to the testimonies of people who knew Saltykov, it was difficult to suspect a tendency towards violence and mental deviations in her - she was devout, donated money to the church and the poor. The death of her husband changed everything.
It all started with assault - on the peasants and servants of Saltychikha, she took out anger for unscrupulous performance of duties. Over time, the punishment of the courtyards turned into real torture - she poured boiling water over her victims, 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 to continue her fanaticism - the landowner belonged to a well-known family and could count on leniency. Until Catherine II ascended the throne. The empress personally rewrote the 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 in the famous Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum, for which he received his nickname "Tsarskoye Selo Murderer". He worked in the same place - in two years (1814 -1816) he committed nine robberies and killed seven people. Neither his measure of punishment, nor his fate are known, and in general, his surname appears little in historical information about that time. But she settled in lyceum folklore - the collective poem "Sazonoviada" 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 there was already death under the scythe:
Sazonov was my servant,
And Peschel is my doctor.

Nikolay Radkevich

Number of victims: 3

Nikolai Radkevich, known by the nickname "Vadim Krovnyak", was the first recorded serial killer in Russia, and then the Russian Empire. On account of Radkevich 3 murders, while the victims of the maniac were exclusively women and exceptionally easy virtue. This choice of a criminal is explained by his sad biography - even during his studies in the cadet corps in Nizhny Novgorod, he, fourteen, was seduced by an adult woman, infecting, in addition to everything, with syphilis. Since then, the reprisal against depraved women has become for him a mission and an obsession. However, the investigation quickly enough got on his trail - he was caught red-handed in the hotel room, where he committed his last, third murder. The court's decision turned out to be surprisingly mild - 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 himself began to drink at the age of 15, lived in poverty all his life and wandered all over Russia in search of work. And yet, despite the environment and difficult living conditions, for a long time he was not noted in something larger than robberies and minor domestic violence. Komarov began to commit 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 in speculators who wanted to buy up the goods he had stolen, where he strangled or killed them with a hammer blow, after which he threw the corpses into the river or buried them. Komarov's wife also participated in the killings; after the capture of the criminals, her court sentenced her to death with her husband. 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 cafeteria, was initially arrested on suspicion of poisoning students and teachers of 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 poisoning. 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 land plot - 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 application of the death penalty 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 off relations with his girlfriend. On that day, he was going to commit suicide himself and even prepared himself a rope for hanging, but instead strangled a girl passing by with it. His subsequent victims (they were all girls) Mikheevich lured into his car and killed in uninhabited places. During the investigation of the case, he himself participated in the search, enrolled in a patrol squad of vigilantes, and wrote letters to the regional newspaper, in which, allegedly on behalf of the fictional organization Patriots of Vitebsk, he took responsibility for the crimes. This gave him away - later the investigation figured out the maniac by handwriting. The verdict is the death penalty.

But last time it was about the most famous criminals. In addition to them, in the history of Russia there were many other bloodthirsty murderers that you may not have even heard of. It is about them that will be discussed below.

Vasily Komarov

Vasily Ivanovich Komarov was born in 1877 and is the first Soviet serial killer. The maniac operated in Moscow from 1921 - 1923. He committed all his crimes according to one scenario: he met people who wanted to buy this or that product, after which he brought them to his home and gave them vodka. When the victim got drunk, he killed her with a hammer, and sometimes strangled her. He packed the bodies in a sack and hid them. Already in 1921, he committed at least seventeen murders, and over the next two years, twelve more. Although later Komarov claimed that he was responsible for the murder of 33 people. Most of the victims of the first serial killer were only discovered after he was caught. In the winter of 1922, his wife Sophia found out about the murders, but did not inform her husband, but, on the contrary, began to take part in the murders. The court sentenced Komarov and his wife to capital punishment - execution. The sentence was carried out in 1923.

Valery Hasratyan ("Director")

Valery Georgievich Asratyan was born in 1958. He committed his first murder in 1982 by raping an underage girl. But almost immediately he was caught and sentenced to two years. After his release, he again commits rape and again falls into the hands of law enforcement agencies. After serving his second term behind bars, his wife leaves him, but he almost immediately finds himself another woman (who had a minor daughter). With the help of threats, the pedophile inclines his stepdaughter to intimacy and makes her, together with her mother, participate in his crimes. In 1988, he comes up with a new scheme for luring victims. To do this, he introduces himself as a famous filmmaker and invites girls to his home to test for the role. In his apartment, he added drugs to drinks, after which he beat and raped his victims for several days. When a new "toy" bored him, he let it go. Later, fearing that he would be caught, he began to kill. To confuse the police, the "director" killed women in different ways, which is why the law enforcement agencies for a long time believed that the murders were the work of different people. In the process of investigating a series of murders and rapes, the police were able to track the maniac and arrest him in 1990. Fearing reprisals in the colony at the hands of other prisoners, the "director" asked the court for capital punishment. His request was granted and in 1992 the maniac was shot by a court sentence.

Alexander Bychkov was born in 1988. His father and mother abused alcohol, later because of this, his father hanged himself at the age of forty. From a young age, Alexander's mother forced him to hard work, forcing her to earn money for alcohol. Perhaps that is why in the future he will hate drunkards and homeless people so much that he will begin to kill them. A serial killer killed his first victim on September 17, 2009. It was Yevgeny Zhidkov, who came to the Belinsky district for documents to apply for a pension. Bychkov met him in a wine-glass room, after which he invited him to his apartment, and when Zhidkov fell asleep, he killed him. He killed the rest of his victims according to a similar scenario. Subsequently, he invented the nickname "Rambo" and carefully recorded each murder in a journal, which he called "the bloody hunt of a predator born in the year of the dragon." To divert suspicion from himself, he committed all the murders from May to September. It was then that workers from other republics came to his city to work. On January 21, 2012, Bychkov steals material values ​​and money from the store in the total amount of 10,000 rubles. The theft was quickly discovered and Alexander was arrested. During the investigation, he confessed to the earlier murders. During interrogation, the killer confessed that he had cut out the internal organs of his victims and used them for food. No evidence was found for this. On March 22, 2013, the Penza regional court sentenced the serial killer to life imprisonment, with the sentence being served in a special regime colony.

Anatoly Slivko was born on December 28, 1938. In 1961, he witnessed a terrible accident in which a motorcyclist crashed into a pioneer convoy, fatally injuring one child. Subsequently, Slivko claimed that at that moment he experienced strong sexual arousal and the sight of a tormented child haunted him all his life. After he organized a children's tourist club "Chergid" (across rivers, mountains and valleys), he began to use his position to recreate that terrible accident. With a good knowledge of child psychology, he used threats and bribery to involve them in the filming of films with imitation of violence. Dressing the children in pioneer uniforms, he hung them on a tree or stretched them with ropes, watching with pleasure their torment. Then he reanimated the children. The surviving victims either did not remember what happened, or were simply afraid to tell the adults about it. Still, there were children who told about the terrible experiments, but no one believed them. He filmed all his child abuse and murder and wrote it down in his diary. In total, it was subsequently proven at the trial that seven children under the age of sixteen were murdered. Despite the disappearance of the children from the tourist club and the stories of the pupils about the strange filming of films, Slivko committed his terrible atrocities for ten years. He was arrested only on December 28, 1985. Within a year after that, he confessed to all the murders and in June 1986 was sentenced to death. The verdict was carried out in 1989 in the Novocherkassk prison. A few hours before his death, the serial killer managed to consult investigator Issa Kostoev on the Chikatilo case.

Sergey Golovkin was born on November 26, 1958. At school he was a quiet and inconspicuous child who practically did not communicate with anyone and did not make friends. No one imagined then that in a few years he would become a serial killer known as "Fisher". As a child, Sergei suffered from enuresis and was constantly afraid that others could smell his urine. While masturbating, he imagined torturing and killing his classmates. At the age of 13, he first showed his sadistic inclinations by killing and severing the head of a cat. He committed his first murder in April 1986, when in a forest near the Katur station he met 15-year-old Andrei Pavlov, who, with the help of threats, took him into the forest, where he raped and killed. Three months later, he rapes and kills another child near the Zvezdny pioneer camp. After the murder, the maniac cut off the victim's genitals and head, ripped open the abdominal cavity and pulled out the internal organs. Four days after this brutal murder, the dismembered corpse of a sixteen-year-old teenager was found in the Odintsovo district. Later, Fischer does not confess to this murder, and the investigation will never prove his guilt. During the investigation, an acquaintance of one of the victims of Golovkin will tell that he met a man who introduced himself to him as Fisher, but later it turned out that it was just a child's fantasy. However, the nickname "Fisher" will be firmly attached to the maniac. Rumors of a maniac near Moscow began to spread rapidly throughout the region, forcing Golovkin to stop the murders for a while. In 1988, he buys a VAZ 2103 car and with its help, in 1989, he commits his third crime. In 1990, Fischer dug a cellar in his garage, planning to use it as a workshop, but his sick head comes to the idea of ​​using the cellar to commit his terrible crimes. And already in August 1991, driving past a bus stop in his car, Fischer met a child, whom he fraudulently brings to his garage, where he commits violent actions on the child. Then he hangs the child and removes the skin from him, and dismembers the corpse. The maniac fried the soft organs of the child on a blowtorch and ate it. Parts of the body (except for the head, he kept it as a keepsake) was taken to the nearest forest and buried. In 1992, a serial killer lures and kills three boys at once. Moreover, he told the children who and in what order he would kill. He rapes the last victim for twelve hours, after which he kills and quietly leaves for work. On October 5, 1992, random mushroom pickers discover the corpses of these children in the forest. Having established the identity of the murdered investigators, they went to the school where they studied. During the interrogation, one of his classmates told about Sergei Golovkin, who gave him a lift along with the murdered schoolchildren on September 14, 1992, from the Zhavoronki station, suggesting to participate in the theft of a store on the way. The next day, the witness was unable to travel with friends to Moscow for the robbery. Fischer was under surveillance and on October 19, 1992, he was arrested. During the investigation, the pedophile maniac confessed to the murder of 11 children. On October 19, 1994, the court sentenced him to capital punishment - execution. The verdict was carried out on August 2, 1996. According to some reports, Sergei Golovkin was the last executed in Russia.

Sergey Kashfulgayanovich Martynov was born on June 2, 1962. In 1991, in the city of Abakan, he raped and killed a girl, for which he was sentenced to fifteen years in prison. In 2004 he was released early. Then he began to travel around the country in search of his new victims. In the city of Kemerovo in 2005, he attempted to rape a girl by stabbing her. Two years later, in June 2007, in the town of Glazov, a murderer kills a woman and removes her organs. A month later, the maniac rapes a child in the village of Vyazovka. A year later, in Vladimir, he kills a man and commits a theft in the Constantine-Elin Church. In the same year, in August, Martynov murders a woman in the Novgorod region. And this time he is cutting organs from his victim. Three months later, another victim. This time he kills his partner in the village of Znamenko. In 2010, the maniac continues his murders again. Now his victim is a seventy-year-old woman in Bashkortostan. In the same year, Martynov stabbed a woman in the Voronezh region. This is not a complete list of the victims of the Bashkir murderer. In total, the investigation assumed that the serial killer had at least 10 victims, but only eight episodes were proven. The maniac was detained on the night of November 18-19, 2010 in the Voronezh region in a cafe where he worked and spent the night. Already in November 2012, he was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Nikita Lytkin was born on March 24, 1993, his accomplice Artem Anufriev on October 4, 1992. Artem and Nikita were members of the skinhead movement. From December 2010 to April 2011, they killed approximately eight people. If you believe Anufriev, the idea to kill came to Lytkin. In search of the victim, they walked the same route from the Gosuniversitet stop to Akademgorodok, every day from six to ten in the evening. At the same time, they could walk past dozens of people in search of exactly the victim that, in their opinion, suited them. They used knives, baseball bats, hammers and mallets as the murder weapon. They attacked their victims from behind, hitting them on the head, because of which the surviving victims of the Academic maniacs could not tell the investigation the signs of the criminals. They were able to catch the milkmen from Irkutsk after the identification of the criminals was handed out at the Institute of Organic Chemistry, where Lytkin's grandmother worked. Nikita Lytkina's grandmother and her son Vladislav noticed that the composite looks like their relative. Vladislav went home to Lytkin to talk to him. But I did not find him at home, but found a video camera in which the killers accidentally forgot a flash drive with footage of the murder of one of their victims. Seeing the recording, Vladislav took it to the police. Within an hour and a half, the academic maniacs were detained. On April 2, 2013, the Irkutsk Regional Court sentenced Lytkin to 24 years in prison, and Anufriev to life imprisonment.

Vladimir Anatolyevich Mukhankin was born on April 22, 1960. From the age of thirteen, Mukhankin began to commit robberies and thefts, stunning his victims with a metal pipe. For which he was convicted several times. In 1995, a serial killer begins to kill people and commits eight murders in two months, while performing various manipulations with dead bodies. In addition to murders, he also committed fourteen more crimes, mainly thefts and attacks on people. The criminal was caught by accident when he attacked a woman and her daughter. The woman was killed, but her daughter survived and was able to identify the killer. The court found him guilty of twenty-two crimes, including eight murders, and sentenced him to capital punishment - execution. Subsequently, the punishment was changed to life imprisonment. He is currently being held at the Black Dolphin Colony.

Irina Gaidamachuk (Satan in a skirt)

Irina Viktorovna Gaidamachuk was born on September 26, 1972. From an early age, Irina began to abuse alcohol, for which she was deprived of parental rights in relation to her eldest daughter. At the end of 1990, she moved to Krasnoufimsk, where she met a man, from whom she later gave birth to a daughter. Irina did not work anywhere, her new husband did not give her money, fearing that she would drink it on drink. Perhaps because of this, she decided to kill. Disguised as a social worker, Gaidamachuk visited elderly people, who were killed with a blow to the head with a hammer, after which she took valuables and went into hiding. For eight years, Satan in a skirt (as she was called) killed seventeen pensioners and committed eighteen robberies. A serial killer in a skirt was arrested only in 2010. The court sentenced her to twenty years in prison.

Vasily Sergeevich Kulik was born on January 17, 1956. From childhood, he showed sadistic inclinations by torturing and killing cats. At school, Kulik went in for sports and even became the boxing champion of Irkutsk. While studying at the medical faculty of the Irkutsk Medical Institute in 1980, he was beaten and robbed by teenagers. According to him, this event (and most likely a serious head injury) gave rise to his passion for children. In the same year, Kulik tries to seduce a fourth-grade student. In 1981, Kulik got married, and a year later he had children. In 1984, Kulik commits his first murder, the body of his nine-year-old victim was discovered a few days later in the basement of a house in Irkutsk. Working as an ambulance doctor, he easily and without hindrance got into the apartments of his victims. For two years of its bloody activity, the Irkutsk monster killed thirteen people (seven of them are pensioners and six children). During another attack on January 17, 1986, he was seized by bystanders and taken to the police, where he confessed to his crimes. True, at the trial, he retracted his words, saying that Chibis's gang forced him to confess everything. But this lie did not help him escape punishment for his crimes, and on August 11, 1988, the court sentenced him to capital punishment - execution. On June 26, 1989, the sentence was carried out in the pre-trial detention center of the city of Irkutsk.

As you know, in the Soviet Union, many topics indulged in 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 terrified the entire country. This rating describes the most dangerous maniacs of the USSR and their sensational deeds, 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 took care of him. Due to numerous illnesses, every offense was forgiven him, so Vasily grew up a very cruel and evil person, already as a teenager he tortured and killed cats. As a young man, Kulik actively went in for sports and matured significantly. After being attacked and hit on the head in 1980, he began to notice a sexual desire for children.
After 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, bystanders stopped Kulik during another crime. When he was taken to the police station, he confessed everything, but at the trial he began to claim that he was framed by a gang of local authority. After an investigation and conclusive evidence of Kulik's involvement in the murders, he was sentenced to be shot in 1989. In total, the "Irkutsk Monster" committed 13 murders.

Roman Burtsev's childhood was not easy at all. His parents suffered from alcoholism, which may have influenced his future fate. The first murder he committed in 1993, the victims were the brother and sister of the Churilovs - he first beat the boy to death, and then outraged his sister and killed her. After that, he threw the corpses of the children into the trash pit. Burtsev was a very neat maniac: he hid bodies well, all of them were found only after Roman showed the crime scene to investigators. However, once Burtsev lost his guard: after another crime, he borrowed a shovel from his neighbor, which he never returned to her. A neighbor suspected that something was wrong and turned to the police, later the servants of the law found Burtsev. In 1996 he was sentenced to death, but later the sentence was changed to life imprisonment. "Kamensky Chikatilo" sent 6 people to the next world, all the victims are children.

During the reign of Khrushchev, it was hard even to imagine that a criminal would get into your house, posing as a Mosgaz employee. It was this simple, but effective method that Vladimir Ionesyan used. The servants of the law were furious, and all resources were thrown into the capture of the bandit. As soon as they caught him immediately and executed. Most likely, Vladimir committed crimes for the purpose of robbery. According to another version, after a divorce from his wife, because of his love for the ballerina Alevtina Dmitrieva, Vladimir entered other people's houses in order to steal something valuable for his beloved woman. According to another version, killing Ionesyan asserted himself. The very first crime "Mosgaz" committed in 1963 - getting into an apartment by deception, he hacked to death a 12-year-old boy who was at home himself and stole valuables. The last time he killed was in 1964, his victim was a 46-year-old woman, Vladimir was caught and he was put to death. According to unconfirmed reports, Khrushchev personally talked with the criminal. In total, the killer sent five people to the next world, four of them are children.

Mukhankin grew up in an inferior family, he was an unexpected child (his father left the family even before he was born), from his mother he received only slaps in the face and constant insults. Mukhankin's character underwent changes, he became angry and cruel, began to wander, steal, mocked cats and dogs. At the age of 18 he got married and had a child who soon died. In 1995, Vladimir Mukhankin committed the first murder and in a couple of months he has already accounted for eight deaths. 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 refused everything that was said. It has twenty-two crimes, eight of them murder. "Lenin" will live out his life in the Black Dolphin prison.

Sergei Tkach, as a maniac, made his debut in 1980, all his crimes had a sexual connotation. He began to commit crimes after he moved to Ukraine, the victims were girls from 9 to 17 years old. Sergei always perfectly concealed evidence, no traces of semen or any other evidence were found on the bodies of those killed. Only by 2005, Tkach was 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, the author of which was Tkach. "Pavlograd maniac" will serve a life sentence in prison. For the entire period of his activity, 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 stopped by a 14-year-old girl, who was hurrying to her mother in the hospital. Utkin outraged and killed her, keeping valuable things as a keepsake. The victims of the Ulyanovsk maniac were both young girls and ladies of Balzac age. The public got on their ears when, over and over again, the bodies of the disappeared girls were found: a dangerous maniac is walking in quiet Ulyanovsk. Anatoly understood that sooner or later he could be caught, so he began to select victims systematically. 1972 was marked by a change in the criminal's motives: 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 found, the ministers of justice had no doubts about Utkin's guilt. It was proved that he committed 9 murders and in 1975 he was shot. With all this, Anatoly Utkin was a respectable family man, friends and relatives characterized him as an extremely pleasant person.

Sergei Golovkin looked like a young and handsome man, girls lay down behind him, but they were of little interest to him. Fischer preferred teenage boys. The first pancake, as is always known, is always lumpy, so it happened with the first attempt at rape and murder, in 1984. The victim managed to escape and after many years, she identified the perpetrator in the police. The first successful murder was committed in 1984, Golovkin killed a 16-year-old guy: first he dragged him into a forest belt, raped, killed and repeatedly abused his body. The killings did not stop, and this stirred up public interest, Sergei, fearing exposure, went underground. In 1989, Fischer 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 carelessly buried the remains of the last victims, he was quickly tracked down. In 1992, he ended up behind bars. The verdict is logical - the death penalty, which was carried out in 1996. During his entire career, he killed eleven children.

In 1996, when Onoprienko was detained, he had already killed 52 people. The exact number of those killed will remain unknown, the investigation assumed that there were much more victims. Onoprienko committed his first crime in 1989, together with Sergei Rogozin. Together they killed married couples, entered apartments, and massacred entire families. Onopriyenko sometimes shot bystanders. The motives that led 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 Onopriyenko, during the investigation they detained an innocent man who died during torture. After the court proceedings, "citizen o" was sentenced to death, but it was canceled, because at that time, the death penalty was abolished in Ukraine.

Alexey Sukletin did not work alone, Shakirova and Nikitin hunted with him. They killed Ekaterina Osetrova first, in 1981. Alexei forced Shakirova to help him in the murder, butchering and cooking of the victims. Blinded by Shakirov's love, she was ready to do everything that Sukletin ordered her, she began to butcher and cook human meat. Their union did not last long - after they killed a little girl, Shakirova decided to leave Sukletin. Alexei almost immediately found an accomplice for himself - his relative Anatoly Nikitin became him, with him "Alligator" continued his atrocious crimes. There were rumors in the village that Anatoly was selling good meat, and the bandits, meanwhile, began to trade in robbery, which they caught. In the house of the criminal, they found 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 a double life. The first time Biryukov was killed in 1977. He stole the child from the stroller, took him to the wasteland and wanted to abuse him. But the frightened maniac could not do his dirty deed - passers-by noticed him and had to kill the baby with a knife. In the same year, Anatoly kills and rapes several more children. It was only when the sixth crime was attempted that the witnesses were able to notice him. Eyewitnesses made a composite sketch, the investigation began its search. After the arrest, the doctors determined Biryukov's diagnosis. Anatoly suffered from non-pyophilia - a sexual desire for children, in infancy. Biryukov justified his crimes by the fact that his wife did not fulfill her marital duty for a long time. In 1979, Anatoly was sentenced to death, and in the same year the verdict was carried out. For all the time of his activity, five babies have become his victims.

05/21/2019 at 14:16 · VeraSchegoleva · 7 710

10 most dangerous maniacs of the USSR and Russia

Even children know that in no case should you take sweets from other people's uncles, agree to an offer to drive a car or see a kitten. Here are just murders and rapes from this does not diminish.

Not only children, but also adults become victims of maniacs. These people deftly rub themselves into trust or act unexpectedly, surreptitiously.
Maniacs are those who kill at the behest of the soul.

Serial killers include not only men, but also women and even children. These are terrible people, they are dangerous for themselves and for society. No one knows what prompts such horrific crimes.

Many people say that recently there have been many more "sick in the head" of people. Of course, the availability of pornography and computer games have a negative effect on the human psyche, but such people have existed at all times. Our country is no exception.

Below are the 10 most dangerous maniacs in Russia and the USSR.

10. Anatoly Sedykh, 12 murders

"Lipetsk Chikatilo" gave the impression of an ordinary man. Work, family, children. He committed his first murder in 1998. His victim was a young girl, Anatoly beat her, raped and strangled her.

The Sedykhs had an old "six". The girls themselves got into the car, mistaking him for "bombila", but none of them made it to the house.

Anatoly's victims are young people from 16 to 28 years old, all of them were strangled.

After a series of murders, law enforcement agencies began to work actively, Sedykh fell under suspicion, like the rest of the men who had bright sixes.

As in the story with Chikatilo, on the basis of a semen analysis, they were looking for a maniac with a 4 blood group. The Sedykhs had the third. He was released.

After a while, Anatoly was caught because he decided to use the phone of one of the victims. He was sentenced to life in prison.

9.Maxim Petrov, 12 murders

Maxim Petrov from St. Petersburg worked as a paramedic in an ambulance.

It is not known what prompted him to criminal activity, but the man began to visit his patients. He came to the elderly, measured their pressure, and then offered to give them an injection. The patients happily agreed. After the injection, they fell asleep, Maxim robbed the apartment.

At the next visit to the patient, he ran into the daughter of the euthanized. The maniac killed both of them. Since then, he began to kill his victims. Medicines were made by Doctor Death himself.

In 2000 he was detained. The killer received a life sentence.

8. Irina Gaidamachuk, 17 murders

Raskolnikov in a Skirt. This woman killed 17 old women with ... a hammer.

Irina became addicted to alcohol early. Even the birth of a child could not affect her. The woman did not want to work, but she could no longer live without alcohol.

She found a way out: she decided to rob the old woman. An elderly woman tried to resist Gaidamachuk, for which she received a fatal blow with a hammer.

There were many more casualties. Irina came to the elderly, introduced herself as a social worker, killed and then robbed.

Nizhny Tagil, Yekaterinburg, Krasnoufimsky - these are not all cities visited by Gaidamachuk. They have been looking for her for 8 years.

In 2010, Irina was caught. Doctors found her sane, she committed all the murders for profit. The woman was sentenced to 20 years in prison.

7.Sergey Ryakhovsky, 18 murders

Sergey was born into a prosperous family, his parents loved and protected him very much.

In 1982 he started attacking women when he was 20 years old. Ryakhovsky raped them and then released them. He was identified by another victim, Sergei was imprisoned.

As you know, prisoners do not like rapists very much. In prison, Ryakhovsky decided that the victims should not be left alive, and he also hated homosexuals.

In total, he committed 18 murders, two attempted murder attempts. Among his victims were gay and traditional men, women of all ages, and even teenagers. He mocked the bodies of those killed, inflicted damage on them, chopped off body parts.

In 1993 he was detained, in 1995 Ryakhovsky was sentenced to death.

6.Mikhail Popkov, 78 murders

Mikhail was a police officer, rose to the rank of "junior lieutenant", and then quit. Was married. He committed murders between 1994 and 2000.

His victims were young women, a little overweight, and many of them were intoxicated.

It is known that Mikhail began to kill while still a law enforcement officer. He inflicted stab and cut wounds on his victims, subjected them to sexual violence.

One of the victims survived and even identified Popkov, but since no forensic medical examination was carried out, he was acquitted.

In 2012, Mikhail was detained, he confessed to all the crimes he had committed. He killed 77 women, 78 became his fellow policeman. The experts recognized the man as sane.

5. Gennady Mikhasevich, 36 murders

Gennady served in the Byelorussian SSR from 1971 to 1985. He gave the impression of a respectable Soviet citizen. He had both a wife and a mistress, he was an excellent worker and public figure.

In 1971, Gennady broke up with his girlfriend and decided to hang himself. In a moment, his plans changed, and he strangled a young woman passing by. He attacked the victims, raped and killed.

After Mikhasevich got a car, it became even easier to act. He offered the girls a ride, the victims themselves got into his car.

In 1985 he was detained, in 1987 he was executed. Gennady was recognized as sane, but he had a tendency to sexual dysfunctions.

4.Sergey Tkach, 37 murders

Sergei Tkach is a Soviet and Ukrainian maniac. For some time he worked as an investigator, so he knew how to cover up his tracks. On account of his 37 murders, after the verdict, he confessed to 107 more crimes.

His victims were girls from 9 to 17 years old, the maniac sexually abused and killed them. The Weaver took from each of them something as a keepsake. He was detained in 2005.

When asked about the motive, he replied: "I wanted to prove the professional unsuitability of the operatives." The man was found sane. Not only girls suffered at his hands, but also innocently convicted men who paid for the Weaver's crimes. Sergei himself died in prison.

3.Alexander Pichushkin, 49 murders

Alexander grew up without a father, but he had a grandfather. When the boy was 14 years old, his grandfather decided to take up his personal life and moved in with a woman. Pichushkin took this as a betrayal.

Many elderly men were among his victims. He seemed to be taking revenge on his grandfather for leaving him.

Alexander committed his first murder at the age of 18. The victim is a fellow student, Pichushkin strangled him, but the body was never found.

Alexander was called "the chessboard killer." His dream is to fill all cells of the board (and there are 64 of them) with killed victims. Moreover, he hid corpses so skillfully that the police did not even have a thought about a serial killer. Soon Pichushkin changed his tactics, he no longer hid bodies.

In 2006, he was detained, the maniac confessed to the crimes he had committed. He was given a life sentence.

2.Alexander Spesivtsev, 19 murders

Alexander grew up in a dysfunctional family. In 1988 he was sent for compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital. In 1991, he committed his first crime.

He met a girl, but after Alexander raised his hand to her, his beloved decided to break up with him. The man locked her in the apartment, for a month he beat and tortured his victim. The girl died.

He began to lure young women and girls into his apartment. His mother contributed to the crimes in every possible way, even invited victims for her son herself.

Alexander and his mother together dismembered and hid the corpses, and later began to eat them. In 1997 he was detained, only 3 murders were proved. After some time, 16 more were proven. Spesivtsev was sent for compulsory treatment.

If he is cured, most likely he will "shine" for life. His mother was sentenced to 15 years.

1.Andrey Chikatilo, 53 murders

The most brutal maniac in the USSR. Since childhood, he behaved more than strange: tantrums, uncontrollable attacks of aggression. He committed his first crime in 1978, until 1990 he continued to kill.

According to the official version, Chikatilo committed 53 crimes, he himself confessed to 56 murders. Andrei got to know his future victims, lured them into a secluded place and pounced. The maniac inflicted knife wounds, and then mocked the victims: he raped, inflicted terrible injuries.

Soviet law enforcement agencies organized events to capture the maniac. Crimes were solved, the perpetrators were found, but the situation did not change.

In 1982, the investigation had a clue: they were looking for a maniac with a 4 blood group. In 1984, Chikatilo was detained, but he had to be released due to the inconsistency of the blood group tests. In fact, the analysis was carried out incorrectly.

In 1990, Chikatilo was detained, in 1994 he was shot.

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