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There are a huge number of different people living in our country, and not all of them are good. In the criminal history of Russia, there were many ruthless monsters who were noted as serial killers and bloodthirsty maniacs. Many of them you have never heard of, but, nevertheless, they committed truly terrible murders and each of them became a serial killer. Read on about the maniacs, their murders and their fate.. Not for the faint of heart! We tried to write about little-known maniacs and serial killers, so we specifically did not include Chikatilo and the Bitsa maniac in this list.
Valery Asratyan
Valery Hasratyan, also known as "The Director", was the worst nightmare of aspiring actresses. From 1988 to 1990, the Moscow maniac posed as an influential director (hence the nickname), luring unsuspecting girls to him with empty promises of wealth and fame.
Asratyan's main goal was sexual crimes, and he eventually took the path of a serial killer in an attempt to cover his tracks. During his crime spree, he raped dozens of victims, killing at least three of them. Not wanting to attract attention to himself, the criminal used different methods of murder each time, so the police did not suspect that the murders were the work of one person.
Hasratyan was very smart and had experience in psychology. His favorite method of luring the victim to his home was to pose as a director (complete with fake documents), once the victim was in the lair, he would beat the victim until he lost consciousness, and then drug him and keep him in his home as a sex toy. for many days. A few surviving prisoners, after release, testified against the maniac.
Some victims were able to indicate the place where Hasratyan kept them. During the investigation, the police managed to find and arrest the maniac, thereby ending his reign of terror. He was shot dead in 1992, in the aftermath of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Alexander Bychkov
Alexander Bychkov did not like alcoholics and homeless people. In fact, he hated them so much that he dreamed of exterminating them all. Bychkov began to call himself “Rambo”, like the hero of the famous character Sylvester Stallone, armed with a large knife and a hammer, he began to wander the streets in search of victims.
Between 2009 and 2012, "Rambo" lured at least nine hapless victims to desert areas, where he attacked, killed them, and then dismembered the bodies and hid them. Each of these attacks was carefully recorded in a journal, which he called "the bloody hunt of a predator born in the year of the dragon." He also claimed to have eaten at least two of his victims' hearts, although no evidence of this was ever found.
Bychkov was only 24 years old when he was caught. His only explanation for his actions was the desire to impress his girlfriend, for which he tried to act like a lone wolf.
Anatoly Slivko
Anatoly Slivko is a Soviet serial killer, sadist and pedophile. For many years, this monster kept the city of Nevinnomyssk in fear. Little boys began to disappear from the city, whom no one ever saw again. The police did their best to investigate the abductions, but no serious evidence was discovered.
In 1985, the criminal was finally caught. Anatoly Slivko was the leader of the local tourist club "Chergid", he successfully used his position to win the trust of young tourists. In his youth, Slivko witnessed a terrible accident, during which a motorcyclist crashed into a column of pioneers and one of them died in the inferno of burning gasoline. He experienced sexual arousal, and this image haunted him throughout his adult life. After he became the head of Chergid, he tried to recreate this terrible scenario. He forced the boys to play roles and take poses that he had once seen of a terrible incident. But soon it was not enough for him to just look at these scenes. Ultimately, Slivko began killing children, dismembering and burning the remains.
He used a frightening method to coax boys into participating in gruesome scenes. He told the boys that they could become the main characters in a film about how the Nazis abused children, which was a popular topic at the time. The maniac dressed the boys in pioneer uniforms, stretched them on ropes, hung them on a tree, observed the agony and convulsions, and then carried out resuscitation measures. The surviving victims either did not remember what happened to them, or were afraid to talk about the “secret experiment.” Nobody believed the children who still told everything.
Even after he was captured and sentenced to death, Slivko's demeanor remained strangely benevolent. He was very helpful and courteous with the authorities until the very end. When police were hunting another serial killer, he even gave a Hannibal Lecter-style interview to investigators hours before his execution.
Sergei Golovkin
Sergey Golovkin was a quiet outsider who barely interacted with other people. Although he was quite reserved and shy, he could make people nervous just by looking at him. No one could have imagined that the guy would become a serial killer. He was a serial killer known as "Boa" or "Fisher".
During my school years I suffered from enuresis. He was afraid that others could smell his urine. When masturbating, he often fantasized about torturing and killing his classmates. At the age of thirteen, sadistic tendencies first appeared. Golovkin caught a cat on the street and brought it home, where he hanged it and severed its head, causing a release to occur and the tension in which he was constantly living to subside. I also fried aquarium fish on the stove.
Between 1986 and 1992, Golovkin killed and raped 11 people. He was known for first strangling his victims and then dismembering the bodies in a gruesome manner reminiscent of horror films. He cut his victims, cut off the genitals, the head, cut the abdominal cavity, and removed internal organs. He took "souvenirs" from the remains of his victims. He even experimented with cannibalism, but it turned out that he did not like the taste of human flesh.
One of the 4 boys, whom Golovkin invited to take part in the robbery, refused to participate in the proposed case and later identified him. The three other boys were never seen again.
Golovkin was under surveillance. On October 19, 1992 he was detained. This was a surprise for Golovkin, but during interrogation he behaved calmly and denied guilt. At night in the isolation ward, Golovkin tried to open his veins. On October 21, 1992, his garage was searched and, going down into the cellar, they found evidence: a baby bath with burnt layers of skin and blood, clothes, belongings of the dead, etc.
Golovkin confessed to 11 episodes and showed investigators in detail the places of murders and burials. During the investigation, he behaved calmly, talked monotonously about the murders, and sometimes joked. He was executed in 1996.
Maxim Petrov
Dr. Maxim Petrov is not the only person known as "Doctor Death", but he is certainly one of the most feared. A ruthless killer who specialized in stalking his elderly patients. He came to pensioners' homes, without warning, usually in the morning, when their relatives went to work. Petrov measured blood pressure and informed the patient that it was necessary to give an injection. After the injection, the victims lost consciousness, and Petrov left, taking valuables with him. He even removed rings and earrings from patients. The first victims did not die. Petrov committed his first murder in 1999. The patient was already unconscious after the injection when his daughter unexpectedly returned home and saw the doctor stealing. He hit the woman with a screwdriver and strangled the patient. After this episode, Petrov’s operating principle changed. He injected victims with a variety of lethal drugs so that the police would not think that the criminal was a doctor. Petrov set fire to the houses of his victims to hide traces of the crime. The stolen items were later found in his apartment, some of which he had already sold on the market.
More than 50 people died at the hands of Petrov. One survivor remembers how they woke up in their burning house, others after waking up were in an apartment filled with gas. Petrov mercilessly killed witnesses.
He eventually put on a constant stream of murders using lethal injections and destroying apartments by fire, but he was too greedy. Investigators soon noticed a consistent connection between the illnesses of those killed and the crimes committed and compiled a list of 72 potential future victims. They soon arrested Petrov while he was “visiting” one of his patients in 2002. He is currently serving a life sentence in prison
Sergey Martynov
For some people, prison is a correctional facility. Others say it's just a place where they pass the time between crimes. These people often return to their criminal activities after release. Sergei Martynov was from the second group of people.
He had already served 14 years in prison for murder and rape after being released in 2005. The same thirst for blood seethed within him. Shortly after his release, he began traveling around the country in search of victims.
Over the next six years, Martynov began a series of murders. He traveled to ten different regions, leaving a trail of murders and rapes in his wake. His victims were mainly women and girls, in whose murders he used gruesome methods.
Martynov's bloody journey ended when he was finally caught in 2010. He was accused of at least eight murders and numerous rapes in 2012. Serving a life sentence.
"Hammermen from Irkutsk" - Academic Maniacs
Morally unstable murderers are one of the most dangerous types of criminals. They are so unpredictable, how cruel and it is very difficult to immediately recognize them as serial killers
Nikita Lytkin and Artem Anufriev were two young men who decided to try their hand at neo-Nazism, or rather, they were skinheads. Dressed all in black, they were active members of various communities dedicated to fascism. They were known online by names such as "Peoplehater" and moderated social groups such as "We are gods, we alone decide who lives and who dies."
Lytkin and Anufriev became notorious as “Academy maniacs.” Between December 2010 and April 2011, they killed between six and eight people. Luckily, the two were pretty bad at hiding their murder tracks, so their killing spree didn't last long.
On October 16, 2012, right in court, Anufriev inflicted cutting wounds on the side of his neck and scratched his stomach with a razor, which he carried in his sock when he was being taken from the pre-trial detention center to court. He couldn't explain why he did it. His lawyer Svetlana Kukareva considered this the result of a strong emotional outburst, which was caused by the fact that his mother appeared in court for the first time that day. “AiF in Eastern Siberia” mentioned the case when Anufriev, before one of the meetings, cut his neck with a screw unscrewed from the sink in the guard room.
On April 2, 2013, the Irkutsk Regional Court sentenced Anufriev to life imprisonment to be served in a special regime colony, Lytkin to 24 years in prison, of which five years (three years, since the two-year term that he served before sentencing was taken into account) he will spend in prison, and the rest - in a maximum security colony.
Vladimir Mukhankin - killer from Rostov-on-Don
In 1995, Mukhankin began to kill and committed 8 murders in 2 months. He dismembered corpses and manipulated dead and agonizing bodies. He had an unhealthy passion for internal organs and repeatedly went to bed with them. There was an episode where, after the murder, Mukhankin left a sheet of paper with a poem he had composed in the cemetery. On his last day of freedom, he commits 2 murders and 1 attempted murder. In addition to 8 murders, he also committed 14 more crimes: thefts and assaults.
Mukhankin was caught by accident after attacking a woman and her daughter. The woman was killed, but the girl survived and later identified her attacker.
During interrogations, the maniac behaved defiantly, did not repent of what he had done, called himself Chikatilo’s student, although he also said that “compared to him, Chikatilo is a chicken.” Mukhankin described his crimes in detail, while at the same time trying to persuade others to think of his insanity. However, he failed - the examination found him sane and fully aware of his actions.
At the trial, Mukhankin, realizing that he was facing capital punishment, renounced all the testimony he had given. The court found him guilty of 22 crimes, including 8 murders, of which three were minors. Vladimir Mukhankin was sentenced to death with confiscation of property. Subsequently, the execution was replaced by life imprisonment. Currently kept in the famous Black Dolphin colony.
Irina Gaidamachuk
When your criminal nickname is "Satan in a Skirt", chances are you're not the nicest person in the world. Irina Gaydamachuk fully deserves this nickname. For seven years, she visited elderly citizens of the Sverdlovsk region as a social security worker. Once she got into the victim's apartment, she killed elderly citizens by smashing their heads with a hammer or an ax. After that, she stole money and valuables and fled the scene as if nothing had happened.
The worst thing about Gaydamachuk is that she was never an antisocial loner, she was married, and is the mother of two children. She liked to drink too much and did not like to work. She decided to kill people as an alternative method of making money. However, it was not a very profitable business; none of her robberies exceeded 17,500 rubles. And she kept doing it again, and again, and again.
She killed 17 pensioners over 8 years of criminal activity. As she told the police: “I just wanted to be a normal mother, but I was dependent on alcohol. My husband Yuri would not give me money for vodka.”
Gaidamachuk was detained only at the end of 2010. Gaidamachuk was charged with 17 murders and 18 robberies (one of the victims survived Irina’s attack). She was declared sane.
She was sentenced to 20 years in prison. Such a lenient sentence is due to the fact that, in accordance with Article 57 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, life imprisonment is not assigned to women (as well as men under 18 or over 65 years of age). 20 years was the maximum punishment for her.
Vasily Komarov
Vasily Ivanovich Komarov, the first reliable Soviet serial killer, operated in Moscow in the period 1921-1923. His victims were 33 men.
Vasily Komarov came up with an entrepreneurial scenario for his murders. He would meet a client who wanted to buy a particular product, often horses, bring him to his house, give him vodka, then kill him with a hammer, sometimes strangle him, and then pack the bodies in a bag and carefully hide them. In 1921, he committed at least 17 murders, and in the next two years, at least 12 more, although he himself later admitted to 33 murders. The bodies were found in the Moscow River, in destroyed houses, buried underground. According to Komarov, the whole procedure took no more than half an hour.
Between 1921 and 1923, Moscow was shaken by a ruthless killer who strangled and bludgeoned people to death and dumped their bodies in bags throughout the city's slums. It was, of course, Komarov. He wasn't particularly smart in his actions, however. After authorities realized that the murders were related to sales at the horse market, they quickly listed him as a suspect. Although he appeared to be a kind, innocent family man, it soon became clear that he was in fact a cruel and rude man who even tried to kill his eight-year-old son.
Komarov tried to escape from the hands of the law, he was soon arrested. Most of the bodies of Vasily Komarov’s victims were discovered only after his capture. Komarov spoke with particular cynicism and pleasure about the murders. He insisted that the motive for his atrocities was self-interest, that he only killed speculators, but all his murders brought him about 30 dollars at the then exchange rate. While indicating the burial places, angry crowds of people had difficulty pushing Komarov away.
The maniac did not repent of the crimes he had committed; moreover, he said that he was ready to commit at least sixty more murders. A forensic psychiatric examination found Komarov sane, although they recognized him as an alcoholic degenerate and a psychopath.
The court sentenced Vasily Komarov and his wife Sophia to capital punishment - execution. Also in 1923, the sentence was carried out
Vasily Kulik
Vasily Kulik, better known as the "Irkutsk Monster" is a famous Soviet serial killer. He killed to cover up the rape. Subsequently, he also admitted that he received stronger sexual satisfaction from strangling the victim.
Since childhood, Vasily Kulik felt a connection between violence and sexual arousal. As a teenager, he had many girlfriends who developed an unhealthy appetite for sex. His mental health had always been very shaky, but when the girl he loved moved to another city, his mental health took a turn for the worse.
Between 1984 and 1986, Kulik raped and murdered 13 people. His victims were elderly women or small children. Kulik committed murders in different ways: using firearms, strangulation, stabbing and other methods of killing his victims. His oldest victim was 73 years old, his youngest victim was a two-month-old baby.
During the next attack, on January 17, 1986, he was beaten and taken to the police station by passers-by. Kulik soon confessed to everything, but at the trial he refused all testimony, saying that he was forced to confess everything by a gang of a certain Chibis, which committed all the murders. The case was sent for further investigation.
However, his guilt was still proven and Kulik was arrested on his 30th birthday. On August 11, 1988, the court sentenced Vasily Kulik to capital punishment - execution.
Shortly before the sentence was carried out, Kulik was interviewed. Here is an excerpt from it:
"Kulik: ...There is already a verdict, the trial has passed, so... to remain only human, there are no more thoughts...
Interviewer: Are you afraid of death?
Kulik: I didn’t think about it..."
Kulik also wrote poems about love for women and children. On June 26, 1989, the sentence was carried out in the Irkutsk pre-trial detention center.
In 1988, he was sentenced to 1 year of suspended imprisonment for indecent acts with minors: one episode was proven, another one then remained unsolved.But last time we were talking about the most famous criminals. Besides them, in the history of Russia there were many other bloodthirsty killers that you may not have even heard of. They 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 to 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 was drunk, he killed him with a hammer, and sometimes strangled him. The bodies were packed in a bag and hidden. Already in 1921, he committed no less than seventeen murders, and over the next two years twelve more. Although Komarov later claimed that he was responsible for killing 33 people. Most of the first serial killer's victims were discovered only after he was caught. In the winter of 1922, his wife Sophia found out about the murders, but did not denounce her husband, but rather 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 Asratyan (“Director”)
Valery Georgievich Asratyan was born in 1958. He committed his first murder in 1982 by raping a minor girl. But almost immediately he was caught and sentenced to two years. After his release, he commits rape again 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 another woman (who had a minor daughter). With the help of threats, the pedophile induces his stepdaughter to have intimacy and forces her and her mother to participate in his crimes. In 1988, he comes up with a new scheme to lure victims. To do this, he introduces himself as a famous film director and invites girls to his home to audition for the role. In his apartment, he added drugs to drinks, after which he beat and raped his victims for several days. When he got tired of the new “toy”, he let it go. Later, fearing that he would be caught, he began to kill. In order to confuse the police, the “director” killed women in different ways, which is why 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 trace 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 court verdict.
Alexander Bychkov was born in 1988. His father and mother abused alcohol, and because of this, his father hanged himself at the age of forty. From a young age, Alexander’s mother forced him to do hard work, forcing him to earn money for her alcohol. Perhaps that is why in the future he will hate drunkards and homeless people so much that he will begin to kill them. The serial killer killed his first victim on September 17, 2009. It was Evgeny Zhidkov, who came to the Belinsky district to get documents to apply for a pension. Bychkov met him in a drink shop, 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 came up with 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.” In order to ward off suspicion, 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 stole material assets and money from the store totaling 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 admitted that he cut out internal organs from his victims and ate them. No evidence of this was found. On March 22, 2013, the Penza Regional Court sentenced the serial killer to life imprisonment, to be 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 column of pioneers, fatally injuring one child. Subsequently, Slivko claimed that at that moment he experienced strong sexual arousal and the sight of a suffering child haunted him all his life. After he organized the children's tourist club "Chergid" (through rivers, mountains and valleys) he began to use his position to recreate that terrible accident. Having good knowledge of child psychology, he used threats and bribery to involve them in the filming of films with simulated violence. Dressing the children in pioneer uniforms, he hung them on a tree or stretched them with ropes, watching with pleasure their suffering. After which he resuscitated the children. The surviving victims either did not remember what happened or were simply afraid to tell adults about it. Still, there were children who spoke about terrible experiments, but no one believed them. He filmed all his abuses and murders of children and wrote them down in his diary. In total, the murders of seven children under the age of sixteen were subsequently proven in court. Despite the disappearance of children from the tourist club and stories from students about strange filming, Slivko committed his terrible atrocities for ten years. He was arrested only on December 28, 1985. Within a year after this, he confessed to all the murders and in June 1986 was sentenced to death. The sentence was carried out in 1989 in Novocherkassk prison. A few hours before his death, the serial killer managed to consult investigator Issa Kostoev on the Chikatilo case.
Sergei Golovkin was born on November 26, 1958. At school I was a quiet and inconspicuous child who practically did not communicate with anyone or make friends. No one imagined then that a few years later he would become a serial killer known as “Fisher.” As a child, Sergei suffered from enuresis and was constantly afraid that others would smell his urine. When masturbating, he imagined himself torturing and killing his classmates. At the age of 13, he first showed his sadistic tendencies by killing and cutting off the head of a cat. He committed his first murder in April 1986, when in a forest area near the Katur station he met 15-year-old Andrei Pavlov, whom he led into the forest with threats, 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 discovered in the Odintsovo district. Later, Fischer does not admit to this murder, and the investigation will never prove his guilt. During the investigation, an acquaintance of one of Golovkin’s victims will tell that he met a man who introduced himself to him as Fischer, but it later turns out that this was just a child’s fantasy. However, the nickname “Fisher” will firmly stick to the maniac. Rumors about a maniac near Moscow began to quickly spread throughout the region, forcing Golovkin to stop killing 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 the idea of using the cellar to commit his terrible crimes came into his sick head. And already in August 1991, while driving past a bus stop in his car, Fischer met a child, whom he fraudulently brought to his garage, where he committed violent acts against the child. After which he hangs the child and skins him, and dismembers the corpse. The maniac fried the child’s soft organs on a blowtorch and ate them. He took the body parts (except for the head, which he kept as a souvenir) to the nearest forest and buried them. 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 calmly goes to work. On October 5, 1992, random mushroom pickers discover the corpses of these children in the forest. Having established the identity of the dead, investigators went to the school where they studied. One of his classmates, during interrogation, spoke about Sergei Golovkin, who gave him a lift along with the murdered schoolchildren on September 14, 1992 from the Zhavoronki station, offering to participate in the theft of a store along the way. The next day, the witness was unable to go with his friends to Moscow for the robbery. They organized surveillance of Fischer and detained him on October 19, 1992. 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 sentence was carried out on August 2, 1996. According to some reports, Sergei Golovkin was the last person 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. After which 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 with a knife. Two years later, in June 2007, in the city of Glazov, a killer kills a woman and cuts out 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 Konstantin-Elinsky Church. In the same year, in August, Martynov commits the murder of a woman in the Novgorod region. And this time he cuts out organs from his victim. Three months later, another victim. This time he kills his partner in the village of Znamenko. In 2010, the maniac again continues his murders. Now his victim has become a seventy-year-old woman in Bashkortostan. That same year, in the Voronezh region, Martynov stabbed a woman to death. This is not a complete list of victims of the Bashkir killer. 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 participants in the skinhead movement. From December 2010 to April 2011, they killed approximately eight people. If you believe Anufriev, then the idea to kill came to Lytkin. In search of a victim, they walked along the same route from the State University stop to Akademgorodok, every day from six to ten in the evening. At the same time, they could pass by dozens of people in search of exactly the victim who, in their opinion, was suitable for them. They used knives, baseball bats, hammers and mallets as murder weapons. They attacked their victims from behind, hitting them on the head, which is why the surviving victims of the academic maniacs could not tell the investigators the signs of the criminals. They were able to catch the milkmen from Irkutsk after identikit images of the criminals were distributed at the Institute of Organic Chemistry, where Lytkina’s grandmother worked. Nikita Lytkin’s grandmother and her son Vladislav noticed that the identikit looked like their relative. Vladislav went home to Lytkin to talk to him. But I didn’t find him at home, but I found a video camera in which the killers accidentally forgot a flash drive with footage of the murder of one of their victims. Having seen 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 committing robbery and theft, stunning his victims with a metal pipe. For which he was convicted several times. In 1995, a serial killer begins killing 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, mostly thefts and attacks on people. The criminal was caught by accident when he attacked a woman and her daughter. The woman was killed, but the 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 penalty was changed to life imprisonment. He is currently being held in the Black Dolphin colony.
Irina Gaydamachuk (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 with 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 away. Perhaps because of this she decided to kill. Under the guise of a social worker, Gaydamachuk visited elderly people, whom she killed with a blow to the head with a hammer, after which she took valuables and disappeared. Over the course of eight years, Satan in a Skirt (as she was called) killed seventeen pensioners and committed eighteen robberies. The serial killer wearing a skirt was only apprehended in 2010. The court sentenced her to twenty years in prison.
Vasily Sergeevich Kulik was born on January 17, 1956. Already from childhood he showed sadistic tendencies, torturing and killing cats. At school, Kulik played sports and even became the Irkutsk boxing champion. 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 his children were born. In 1984, Kulik committed his first murder; the body of his nine-year-old victim was discovered a few days later in the basement of one of the houses in Irkutsk. Working as an emergency doctor, he easily and unhinderedly entered the apartments of his victims. During the two years of its bloody activity, the Irkutsk monster killed thirteen people (including seven pensioners and six children). During another attack on January 17, 1986, he was captured by random passers-by 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 avoid punishment for his crimes, and on August 11, 1988, the court sentenced him to capital punishment - execution. On June 26, 1989, in the pre-trial detention center of the city of Irkutsk, the sentence was carried out.
An important indicator of the state of law and order is the structure and number. During the Soviet period, more than forty people were arrested for committing multiple murders with inhuman cruelty. After 1991 the number increased. However, the most terrible crimes were committed in the second half of the last century. The maniacs of Russia and the USSR are these individuals, most of whom have gone down in the history of Russian criminology and psychiatry. How does a person become a serial killer? And how does he manage to commit an incredible number of crimes without being caught?
Who is a serial maniac?
This term refers to a person with specific mental abnormalities. These disorders entail the emergence and development of non-standard behavior, unnatural and unreasonable aggression. But, having such mental disorders, a person remains sane. His state of mind is somewhere on the border between health and illness.
Most of the people included in the list of “Serial maniacs and murderers of the USSR and Russia” were people who were quite normal in appearance. They did not belong to antisocial elements. These people had a family, a job, an education. It is noteworthy that it was precisely the most terrible and famous maniacs of Russia and the USSR in their public and personal lives who made such a favorable impression on others that neither relatives, nor work colleagues, nor just acquaintances could believe in their guilt.
The most terrible killer of the 20th century
When it comes to such a criminal phenomenon as the maniacs of Russia and the USSR, the first name that comes to mind is Chikatilo. This serial killer operated for twelve years. According to official information alone, he has fifty-three victims. His name has become almost a household name.
Andrei Chikatilo was an exemplary family man, had a prestigious job and two higher educations. In his personal life he was a gentle and harmless person. Had a wife and children. But this man kept the entire Rostov region in fear for many years. The actions he performed on the victims were particularly cruel compared to other similar crimes committed by other maniacs in Russia and the USSR. Photos of tortured bodies petrified even experienced investigators.
Operation "Forest Belt"
In 1984, twelve mutilated bodies were discovered in the Rostov region. These were not the first and not the last victims of the unknown maniac. The signature of the crimes was the same: many traces of sexual violence. Everything indicated that the dead were victims of the same person. But the actions taken by the unknown criminal defied any logical explanation.
In domestic criminology at that time, one might say, there was no such thing as a “serial maniac.” For a long time, investigators had no idea what the psychological portrait of a criminal was. It was customary to look for suspects among people suffering from drug and alcohol addiction. The police also believed that the killer could be a person registered in a psychiatric clinic or with a criminal past. Several such citizens were arrested. One of them was even sentenced to death. But the matter still did not progress. The number of victims was growing.
The maniacs of Russia and the USSR are people who committed serious bloody crimes in different periods. The search for each of them took years, and sometimes decades. Andrei Chikotilo is the first in whose case psychiatrists took part. For the first time, Alexander Bukhanovsky said that the author of unthinkable acts is a completely successful representative of social society. His version seemed implausible to the investigator. But it was thanks to the psychological portrait created by a Soviet and Russian psychiatrist that in 1990 Chikatilo was not only detained, but also confessed.
Bukhanovsky's theory
Based on the case of a terrible serial killer, a psychiatrist was able to unravel one of the most complex and profound mysteries of the human psyche. Where do manic tendencies come from? How to recognize a serial killer among a huge mass of people? Alexander Bukhanovsky dealt with these issues most of the time during which Chikatilo operated. Thanks to the research of a psychiatrist, the criminal at the top of the list called “The Most Worst Maniacs and Serial Killers in Russia” was arrested.
Based on the geography of the crimes and the behavior of the victims, Bukhanovsky stated that the maniac is neither an outcast nor a patient of a psychiatric hospital. He is completely ordinary. The criminal has the appearance of a successful person and intelligent manners, which inspires confidence in his future victims. What made him a maniac was his innate tendency to violence, his inability to dominate his personal life, and the cruelty he experienced as a child.
As a result of many years of work, Bukhanovsky proved that maniacs in Russia and other countries are people suffering from a severe mental disorder. This disease, like others, can and should be treated. However, this must be done, undoubtedly, when the patient has not yet had time to realize his unhealthy fantasies. The psychiatrist also developed a theory according to which it is possible to identify manic tendencies and begin treatment, thereby preventing the patient from turning into a murderer and sadist.
The first serial maniac
If you make a list of “Maniacs of Russia and the USSR” in accordance with time chronology, Vasily Komarov will head it. More than thirty men became his victims in the twenties. The newly created police in those days did a tremendous job of finding the serial maniac. At trial, Komarov argued that the motive for his crimes was self-interest. But this version seemed unlikely, since the murders brought him almost no profit. It was established that he committed them due to a severe form of alcoholism, which he suffered all his life, and psychopathy, discovered during a medical examination.
The Komarov case was quite high-profile. During the trial, the suspect behaved calmly, which brought particular horror to eyewitnesses. In addition to self-interest, according to Komarov himself, his hostility towards representatives of a certain social class pushed him to murder. He considered “cleansing the earth” of speculators and dishonest people a good deed. The personality of Komarov, like many others appearing in the list of “Serial maniacs and murderers of the USSR and Russia,” confirms the version that such criminals commit their acts, as a rule, during times of rampant socio-economic crimes. The twenties of the last century were such a period in Russian history. A difficult situation in the social and economic life of Russia developed in the first decade after the collapse of the USSR. During this period, crime increased incredibly. Considering several of the most high-profile cases, we can make an approximate list of maniacs in Russia.
Serial killers of the 90s
- Boris Bogdanov (15 victims).
- Vladimir Bychkov (9 victims).
- Irina Gaidamachuk (17 victims).
- (11 victims).
- Nikolai Dudin (13 victims).
- Oleg Kuznetsov (10 victims).
- Vladimir Mirgorod (16 victims).
- Denis Pischikov (13 victims).
- Alexander Pichushkin (49 victims).
- Mikhail Popkov (22 victims).
A terrible maniac, whose cruelty is comparable only to the atrocities of Chikotilo, is Anatoly Onoprienko. He was not included in the above list, since he began committing his crimes back in the Soviet period. And after the collapse of the USSR, he operated on the territory of Ukraine. Onoprienko committed fifty-two murders. Among his victims were also children.
"Ukrainian beast"
Onoprienko's childhood, like many bloodthirsty maniacs, was joyless. He spent some time in an orphanage. The youth of the future maniac was quite ordinary. He began his “career” with robberies and murders, which he carried out together with an accomplice. But later Onoprienko began to act independently.
The “Ukrainian beast” committed his crimes in cold blood, “working” according to an established scheme: he certainly completed all his deeds with arson. Like many other serial killers, he was an unremarkable person in life. The most bloodthirsty maniac in the history of Ukraine and one of the most terrible in the entire Soviet period had a common-law wife who had no idea that her chosen one was traveling around the country, slaughtering entire families and burning houses.
The most famous maniacs of Russia and the USSR made a positive impression in everyday life. And this is the main danger. However, psychiatrists believe that a person with manic and sadistic tendencies can be identified by facial expressions, facial expressions and other signs. But the inattention and indifference inherent in most people allows maniacs and sadists to hide their terrible inner world.
Maniac woman
In the list, which includes the most terrible maniacs and serial killers in Russia, the name Gaidamachuk especially stands out. The whole point is that it belongs to a woman. The victims of Irina Gaydamachuk were lonely pensioners. Over the eight years during which law enforcement officers tried to catch the criminal, seventeen elderly women died. The amounts that Gaidamachuk took from the houses of the murdered did not exceed fifty thousand. The woman had never worked in her life, had two daughters and, according to her confessions, was forced to take such extreme measures in order to feed her children.
Is a serial killer a criminal or a madman?
The list of maniacs in Russia and the USSR can be divided into two categories. In the first, the criminals are sophisticated. These killers have a high level of intelligence and have at least one higher education. The desire to assert themselves leads to the fact that in ordinary life they make a career and create families. And in another world, hidden from relatives and friends, they realize their terrible secret desires.
The second category of maniacs includes more primitive individuals. They also kill for the sake of killing. But they carry out their actions more calmly. Possessing a low level of intelligence and poor spiritual peace, they do not suffer or suffer from the deeds they have committed. - this is not about them. They commit their murders not so much to satisfy unnatural desires, but because, due to moral inferiority, they do not consider these actions to be so terrible. Serial maniacs of the USSR and Russia are, as a rule, representatives of the second category. A striking example of the first is Andrei Chikatilo.
"Bitsevsky maniac"
The most famous maniacs of Russia and the USSR terrified normal people. For psychopaths, their terrible fame often served as an incentive to action. Hearing the high-profile case of Chikatilo inspired the aspiring killer Alexander Pichushkin to commit further crimes. He thought about each of them long and carefully.
The first victims of the “Bitsa maniac” were predominantly antisocial individuals. Later he switched to neighbors and acquaintances. During the judicial investigation, he admitted that it was especially pleasant for him to deal with people whom he personally knew. After his arrest, Pichushkin said that if he had remained free, he would never have stopped killing. In 2007, the serial killer was sentenced to life in prison.
Serial killer phenomenon
The most famous maniacs in Russia are the subject of serious study by psychiatrists and criminologists. How and why can a person, outwardly absolutely normal, commit brutal and, at first glance, unmotivated murders?
The concept of a serial killer appeared for the first time in foreign criminology. Such a criminal commits periodic murders, the breaks between which in psychiatry are called “emotional cooling.” A maniac experiences some kind of addiction, similar to drugs or alcohol. He lives from murder to murder. By committing a crime, a non-human receives moral and physical satisfaction, which he cannot achieve in any other way. Then he forgets for a while about his terrible secret fantasies and leads an absolutely normal open existence. But later a feeling of emptiness comes and a new sacrifice is required. The offender experiences sensations similar to drug withdrawal. Only another murder can save him from such torment. The interval between crimes tends to decrease over the years, and cruelty towards victims increases.
Classification
Maniacs and murderers in Russia can be, according to foreign terminology, divided into several types:
- Sexual.
- Destroyers (such criminals can rob their victims, but the first place in their actions is getting pleasure from torturing the victims).
- Mercantile (the main motive is material gain).
Based on the motive of the crime in psychiatry, another classification was created. Researchers have identified the following types:
- Hedonists (kill for pleasure).
- Power seekers (commit crimes in order to possess the victim).
- Visiners (act according to the call of a certain voice, suffer from hallucinations).
- Missionaries (kill in an effort to “improve the world”).
Russian criminology
Domestic psychiatrists began to use the achievements of foreign researchers relatively recently. Alexander Bukhanovsky made a huge contribution to this area. The Russian scientist introduced the term “Chikatilo syndrome” into world psychiatry. The psychological portrait of such a serial maniac is a description of a person who, from childhood, experienced dislike and hostility from his peers, grew up in a single-parent family, and was a victim or witness of cruel acts. A feeling of inferiority, combined with congenital mental disorders, years later turns an insecure, quiet person into a cruel sadist.
Often the impetus for the first murder is a fatal incident. A similar situation is present in the biography of Anatoly Slivko, a Soviet serial killer. One day, having witnessed the death of a boy, he felt that such a spectacle could bring him true pleasure. And, in a desire for pleasure that he could not achieve in any other way, he brutally murdered seven teenage boys, filming his crimes.
Alexander Bukhanovsky believed that serial killers are, first of all, sick people. A special clinic was created within the walls of which adolescents and young people who show tendencies towards violence are treated. One of the patients was once Roman Emelyantsev, who stopped therapy at the age of twenty. The treatment was successful, the patient no longer showed sadistic tendencies. But only two years later, he was convicted of murdering a woman and two children. This case became unique in world criminology: a psychiatrist diagnosed a serial killer long before he committed his first crime.
“Maniacs of Russia” is a list consisting of names, the number of which could be less. The fate of his potential victims depends on the parents and close circle of a teenager who exhibits sadistic tendencies. In many cases, it is the social environment and domestic violence that turns a person into a serial killer. The number of victims of an accomplished maniac often increases due to the negligence of investigators. Having committed more than twenty murders, the most bloodthirsty maniac of the last century, Andrei Chikatilo, was detained, but was soon released by mistake. Impunity gave strength to the killer. The list of his victims was increased by thirty names.
Why do people kill each other? The reasons can be explainable from the point of view of natural selection or cruel necessity - when it comes to the struggle for resources or self-defense (ultimately, both are about survival). Another thing is that millennia of development of civilization have led humanity to the conclusion that killing is bad, immoral and destructive.
Why does the program sometimes break down and a person begins to kill for the sake of killing? Where do cruel people obsessed with death come from? Let's try to tell you about the ten most brutal maniacs in history.
John Wayne Gacy
This man is known as the “killer clown” (it was his story that prompted Stephen King to create one of the most terrible horror films - “It”). His life was, so to speak, quite typical for a maniac - Gacy experienced rape as a child, his father was an alcoholic who abused his family.John Wayne Gacy first went to jail at age 26 for raping a teenage boy. Instead of 10 years, he served a year and a half: he was released for good behavior. The failure of the penitentiary system has cost America dearly. Once free, Gacy bought a Pogo the clown costume and began working part-time at city festivals in the suburbs of Chicago.
From 1972 to 1978, he raped and murdered more than 30 people. These were young guys whom Gacy brought to his home, tortured and killed. He was detained in 1978. The remains of 29 victims were found in the basement of his house. The jury sentenced John Wayne Gacy to 12 death sentences, the only one of which was carried out on May 10, 1994.
Jeffrey Dahmer
Cannibal and murderer Jeffrey Dahmer was also sexually abused and bullied as a child. However, for the time being he was an ordinary teenager - until he developed a strange habit of collecting animal corpses, which he placed in jars of formaldehyde. 
Dahmer killed for the first time at the age of 18 - his victim was a young man, a casual acquaintance. The killer stunned him with dumbbells, strangled him, and then cut his body into pieces and buried them under the house. Life after that went on as usual, as if nothing had happened. Damer got married, studied, was expelled for drunkenness, served in the army, worked...
In 1987, he killed again and could no longer stop. Over four years, he raped and killed 17 people. One day he brought home another victim, but a young man named Tracy Edwards managed to get out and call the police. Later, during a search of Dahmer's house, photographs of corpses, the bodies themselves, and body parts with which the refrigerator was stuffed were discovered. There was a skeleton in the closet, and three male torsos in the barrel of acid.
Jeffrey Dahmer was sentenced to fifteen life sentences, but lived in prison for only three years - in 1994, he was beaten to death by a fellow inmate.
Ted Bundy
Theodore Bundy showed great promise - he was smart and talented, an excellent student and was in good standing with his professors. It is unknown what went wrong. But in 1974, in the middle of the academic year at the university, Bundy began to skip classes and was soon expelled. Around the same time, women began disappearing without a trace on the West Coast. 
The exact number of Ted Bundy's victims is unknown. During the investigation, he confessed to 30 murders of women, but there could be more. Bundy met young girls, smiled charmingly and asked for help - he often used the fake cast trick to make it look like he couldn't handle it on his own. The girl willingly helped him, for example, carry his suitcase to the car, got into it to continue the acquaintance - and after that she was already doomed.
Bundy was arrested in 1975 after attempting to kidnap Carol DaRonch. He was sentenced to 15 years in prison. Bundy managed to escape that time. He was unable to lead a normal life for long and in January 1978 - two weeks after the escape - he broke into a women's dormitory and there, in 20 minutes, killed two women and severely maimed another.
Ted Bundy was arrested almost by accident, but the police quickly realized that they were facing the most terrible person in America. He was charged with the murders - the court sentenced Bundy to death. Over the next few years, he told the FBI more and more details about the brutal crimes he committed, hoping that the execution would be postponed for a while longer. He was eventually executed in 1989 by electric chair.
Gary Ridgway
It is noteworthy that Ted Bundy, having already been sentenced to death, in a conversation with an FBI agent, drew up a fairly clear psychological portrait of the alleged maniac who operated in the early 80s in the United States. The editors of the site note that according to this description it was possible to catch Ridgway even then, but Bundy did not listen, and Ridgway was free for another 17 years. 
Gary Ridgway, nicknamed the “Green River Killer,” killed at least 70 women over two decades and is considered one of the bloodiest and most brutal maniacs in the world. He was arrested after one of the victims managed to break free and run. Ridgway began confessing to the murders and the number of his victims grew from 42 (who were known to the police) to 71. In 2003, he was sentenced to 48 life sentences without parole.
Andrey Chikatilo
An inconspicuous engineer named Chikatilo lived in the city of Shakhty and did not attract the attention of the police for years. It never occurred to anyone that this little man could be guilty of the brutal murders of young women and children. From 1978 to 1984, 32 people disappeared or were found brutally murdered in the Rostov region.Chikatilo was arrested for the first time in 1984 - he molested young girls at a bus station in Rostov. At the same time, a completely different person was already executed for the murder of one of his victims, a certain Anatoly Kravchenko, who in 1983 incriminated himself under torture by the police.
The first arrest ended in nothing for Andrei Chikatilo - due to a mismatch of blood and sperm groups, there was no evidence against him. The maniac remained free for another six years and was arrested in 1990. On the tenth day, he began to confess and spoke about dozens of tortured victims. Chikatilo is responsible for at least 52 murders. He was shot on February 14, 1994.
Pedro Alonso Lopez - the most brutal maniac in history
This man has been “flaunting” in the Guinness Book of Records for several decades as the most cruel maniac in the world. The editors of uznayvsyo.rf sincerely hope that no one else will take this place.It is believed that this man is responsible for more than three hundred murders that were committed in Colombia, Ecuador and Peru. Pedro Alonso Lopez, who is called the “monster of the Andes,” lived as a child with an over-aged pervert who sheltered him - after the boy was thrown out onto the street by his own mother, a prostitute.
At the age of 18, Lopez brutally took revenge on his “benefactor” by raping and killing him and a gang of friends. For this crime, Lopez received 8 years in prison. After his release, he went to Peru and began killing and raping there. His victims were mainly teenage girls. From 1975 to 1978, according to some sources, he killed at least a hundred people.
Police in poor Latin American countries have little influence. According to rumors, Lopez was ordered to leave the country by a Peruvian crime boss. The killer left the country but continued his atrocities in neighboring Ecuador. One day, the girl he grabbed broke free and ran away, and Lopez was detained. The authorities could not believe their ears when the maniac began to paint his crimes.
Psychopath and murderer Pedro Lopez decided to prove to the police that he really killed many people. He showed the burial place of his victims - an examination showed that there were the remains of at least fifty girls and women there. Lopez was sentenced to 20 years in prison, the maximum sentence in Ecuador. According to rumors, he was either transferred to compulsory treatment or even released.
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