Cyclopedia: lists: serial killers of the USSR and Russia. The most bloodthirsty serial killers in the history of Russia and the USSR Soviet killer maniacs

Vladimir Ionesyan, nicknamed "Mosgaz", became the first officially recognized serial maniac in the Soviet Union. Posing as an employee of Mosgaz, the maniac freely entered apartments and killed the owners. The first murder was committed on December 20, 1963, the victim was a boy of 12 years old. The maniac killed the child with an ax (he always carried an ax in his bag). Later, the investigation proved the involvement of Mosgaz in six murders, including four children. January 12, 1964 Vladimir Ionesyan was detained in Kazan at the station and taken to Moscow. The offender was sentenced to the highest measure of punishment - death by firing squad. The sentence was carried out on January 31, 1964.

Andrey Chikatilo

Sergei Golovkin

A serial maniac near Moscow named Fisher, livestock specialist of the Moscow Stud Farm No. 1, Sergey Golovkin, committed murders in 1984-1992. He was suspected of 40 rapes and murders of boys in the Moscow region. On October 19, 1992, Golovkin was detained. He confessed to killing 11 children. On August 22, 1994, a closed court hearing began on Golovkin's criminal case; on October 19, 1994, he was sentenced to capital punishment - execution. In August 1996, the sentence was carried out.

Sergey Ryakhovsky

Notorious Russian serial killer, also known as the Balashikha Ripper. He committed his first murder in 1988 in Bitz, killing a homosexual. In total, he killed 19 people, 6 more people were able to escape. Most of his victims were elderly women, although he also killed five men and two teenagers. In 1993, he was detained by the police on the basis of an identikit. During the October events of 1993, the criminal wrote a letter to Alexander Rutskoi, in which he presented himself as an innocent victim of "anti-people power." In 1995, Ryakhovsky was sentenced to death, but due to the introduction of a moratorium on the death penalty, he was sent to life imprisonment in a special colony in Solikamsk. He died in 2005 from tuberculosis.

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

Vasily Kulik - "Irkutsk Monster"

As a child, Vasily was very sick, and the whole family looked after and cared for him. Due to numerous illnesses, he was forgiven for every offense, so Vasily grew up to be a very cruel and evil person, as a teenager he tortured and killed cats. As a young man, Kulik actively went in for sports and matured significantly. After he was attacked and hit on the head in 1980, he began to notice sexual desire for children behind him.
A couple of years later, 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 department, he confessed to everything, but at the trial he began to claim that he had been framed by a gang of local authority. After an investigation and undeniable evidence of Kulik's involvement in the murders, he was sentenced to death in 1989. In total, the Irkutsk Monster committed 13 murders.

The childhood of Roman Burtsev was not at all easy. His parents suffered from alcoholism, which may have influenced his future fate. He committed the first murder in 1993, the victims were the brother and sister of Churilov - the first he beat a boy to death, and then abused his sister and killed her. After that, he threw the children's corpses into a garbage pit. Burtsev was a very neat maniac: he hid the bodies well, all of them were found only after Roman showed the crime scene to the investigators. However, once Burtsev lost his vigilance: after another crime, he borrowed a shovel from his neighbor, which he never returned to her. The 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 by firing squad, but the sentence was later commuted 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 to even imagine that a criminal would get into your house, posing as an employee of Mosgaz. It was in such a simple but effective way that Vladimir Ionesyan used. The servants of the law went berserk, and all the resources were thrown to catch the bandit. As soon as they caught him, they immediately executed him. Most likely, Vladimir committed crimes for the purpose of robbery. According to another version, after 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. Mosgaz committed the very first crime in 1963 - having got into the apartment by deceit, he cut up 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 spoke 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 before his birth), from his mother he received only slaps and constant insults. Mukhankin's character underwent changes, he became evil and cruel, began to wander, stole, mocked cats and dogs. At the age of 18 he married, he had a child who died soon after. In 1995, Vladimir Mukhankin committed the first murder and in a couple of months he already had eight deaths. By mocking dying people, he made the very last seconds of their lives terrible. Mukhankin's fetish was the internal organs of the victim, with them he even went to bed. After the criminal was caught, he declared that he was a follower of Chikatilo. Vladimir with genuine pleasure told about his atrocities, but in court he refused everything that was said. It has twenty-two crimes, eight of them murders. "Lenin" will live out his life in the "Black Dolphin" prison.

Sergei Tkach, as a maniac debuted 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 concealed evidence very well, no traces of semen or any other evidence were found on the bodies of those killed. Only by 2005, the Weaver was detained, after the massacre of a nine-year-old girl. While the police were looking for a maniac, 14 people were unfairly convicted for all those atrocities, the author of which was Tkach. "Pavlograd maniac" will serve a life sentence in prison. For all the time 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 slowed down by a 14-year-old girl who was in a hurry to see her mother in the hospital. Utkin abused her 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 rose to the ears when, over and over again, the bodies of the disappeared girls were found: a dangerous maniac is walking around in quiet Ulyanovsk. Anatoly understood that sooner or later he could be caught, so he began to choose victims systematically. 1972 was marked by a change in the motives of the criminal: now he did not want to kill and rape, he was only interested in profit. In the same 1972, Utkin kills a man in order to rob, and in 1973 he was arrested. After all the evidence was discovered, the justice officials 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, acquaintances and relatives characterized him as an extremely pleasant person.

Sergei Golovkin was a young and handsome man in appearance, girls lay down behind him in piles, but they were of little interest to him. "Fischer" preferred teenage boys. The first pancake, as you know, 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 him, killed him and abused his body again. The killings did not stop, and this stirred up public interest, Sergei, fearing exposure, went underground. In 1989, Fisher returned to business, but changed its approach. He dug a basement in his own garage, where he killed teenagers. Due to the fact that the maniac lost his vigilance and inaccurately 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. For all the time of his activity, he killed eleven children.

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

Aleksey Sukletin did not work alone; Shakirova and Nikitin hunted with him. They killed Ekaterina Osetrova first, in 1981. Alexey 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 to, 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. Aleksey almost immediately found an accomplice - 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 hunt for robbery, on which they were caught. Four bags filled with human bones were found in the criminal's house. 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 killed in 1977. He stole a child from a stroller, took him to a wasteland and wanted to abuse him. But the frightened maniac could not do his dirty work - passers-by noticed him and had to kill the baby with a knife. In the same year, Anatoly kills and rapes several more children. Witnesses were able to notice him only during the attempt of the sixth crime. Eyewitnesses made an identikit, the investigation began its search. After the arrest, the doctors determined the diagnosis of Biryukov. Anatoly suffered from non-pyophilia - sexual desire for children, in infancy. Biryukov justified his crimes by saying 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 became his victims.

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10th John Wayne Gacy

Known in the US as the "Killer Clown". As a child, he suffered from his father's alcoholism and aggressiveness. At the age of 9 he became a victim of a pedophile. Before his first arrest in 1968 (for the rape of a teenager) he was known as an exemplary family man and workaholic. He spent 18 months in prison instead of 10 years (exemplary behavior). Having been released and married a second time, he began to participate in various holidays and festivals in a clown costume. Strangled 33 people to death between 1972 and 1978. As a rule, in the evenings he drove his car to places of entertainment, looking for a sexy guy. Then he got acquainted with him, brought him to his home, tortured and raped him for a long time. Torture was accompanied by reading passages from the Bible for the dying. The victims were buried in the basement of the house and in the river nearby. Executed May 10, 1994.

9th place Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer

One of the most brutal and savage serial killers in US history. For 13 years (1978-1991), this maniac, who defended his doctoral dissertation in chemistry, killed 17 young men and teenagers. He found his victims in bars and invited them to pose in the nude. When they, having agreed, came to his house, Dahmer drugged them, had sex with them, and then strangled them. He continued to have sex with dead bodies, dismembered them, and ate some parts of the bodies. He loved to drill a hole in the head with an electric drill while still alive. He was arrested quite by accident. On November 28, 1994, he was beaten to death by his cellmate.

8th Theodore Robert Bundy

American serial killer, known by the nickname "Nylon Killer". He always looked like a needle, was friendly with everyone. But under the guise of a charismatic gentleman, the face of a cruel beast was hidden. From 1974 to 1978 he kidnapped and killed 30 young women. Experts argued that he had many more victims on his conscience. Enticing the unfortunate, he often pretended to be an invalid and asked them for a little help. He often entered houses at night and killed sleeping women. Then he had sex with them, dismembered their bodies. He took with him "souvenirs" - the heads of the dead. Executed in the electric chair in January 1989.

7th Gary Ridgway

The Green River Killer strangled at least 71 women in the 1980s and 1990s. He was arrested after the investigation was able to prove, using DNA analysis, his sexual relationship with the bodies found. Most of his victims were prostitutes. The preferred method of killing is strangulation. Arrested in 1997. In 2003 he was sentenced to 48 life terms. He is currently serving the first of them in one of the American prisons.

6th Ed Gein

This maniac committed only two murders of women. However, their cruelty, as well as the sadistic inclinations of the fanatic, shocked all of America. He dismembered the corpses, gutted them like animal carcasses, and then used them as a kind of “decor” in the house. When the police broke into Gein's home, a terrible collection was discovered there - for several years the maniac secretly dug up the graves of recently deceased young women, brought the bodies home. There he skinned them and sewed clothes from them, and hung the cut off heads on the walls. Since the court found the killer insane, Gein spent the rest of his days in a mental hospital, where he died on July 26, 1984.

5th place Henry Lee Lucas

This American serial killer has 11 proven victims. However, the criminal himself boasted that he actually committed 350 (!) murders. This subhuman began his bloody "activity" with the murder of his own mother. In 1998, he was sentenced to death in Texas, but George W. Bush, then governor of the state, canceled the execution. After a second trial, he was sentenced to life imprisonment. He died in prison on March 13, 2001.

4th Eileen Carol Warnes

The only female killer in this top ten. Many experts call her the first female maniac in the United States. This prostitute led a promiscuous sex life with both men and women. She did not shun incest with her own brother. In 1989-1990, she killed seven men in Florida. As she later explained to the investigators, they all wanted to injure her during sex. She was arrested in 1991. On October 9, 2002, a lethal injection stopped her heart.

3rd place Richard Trenton Chase

Nicknamed "Vampire from Sacramento" - he drank the blood of his victims, washed himself with it and ate parts of the bodies of those killed. Necrophilia. Within just one month in 1977, seven people were killed in northern California. He suffered from paranoid schizophrenia, incredible and painful visions. After the murder with corpses, among which were the corpses of two children, he had sex. As a murder weapon, he preferred a .22 semi-automatic pistol. Was identified by a former classmate. In 1979 he was sentenced to death in the gas chamber. However, the execution did not take place - Chase committed suicide on December 26, 1980.

2nd place went to Andrey Chikatilo

Perhaps the most famous of the serial killers of the Soviet Union. In 1978-1990, he committed 53 proven murders in the Rostov region. The maniac himself claimed to have committed 56 murders; operational data indicate 65 murders. His victims were mostly young people of both sexes and very young children. Moreover, he did not kill because of sexual intemperance (according to some reports, he was impotent), but being a very emotional sadist. For a long time he deftly evaded the investigation. In the case of the Rostov Ripper, one person was mistakenly shot. Captured as a result of a complex operation of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the KGB of the USSR in November 1990. He was shot on February 14, 1994 by court verdict.

1st place went to Denis Ryder

Received the nickname "BTK-killer" in the USA. This abbreviation refers to the way he killed his victims ("bind-torture-kill"). From 1974 to 1981 he killed ten people. After each murder, he sent letters to the police and newspapers, mocking the helplessness of the detectives. As a rule, he did not kill the victims immediately: he strangled the bound people until they lost consciousness, then brought them to their senses and repeated his terrible “experiments” over and over again. The suffering of people gave him, as he himself admitted during the investigation, a pleasure comparable to an orgasm. A Kansas court in 2005 sentenced him to 10 life terms.

P.S information taken from mport.bigmir.net

On November 20, 1990, the whole country breathed a sigh of relief. Andrei Chikatilo was arrested. The things that this person did do not fit into the concept of a mental norm. 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. The bloody activities of Chikatilo fell on the last years of the communist regime - for 12 years from 1978 to 1990, he committed 53 murders (only proven ones, 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 bullying of landlords over peasants were common. And yet, what the noblewoman Daria Saltykova did on her estate does not fit into her head. According to the testimonies of people who knew Saltykov, it was difficult to suspect a tendency to 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, Saltychikha was torn off by anger for the dishonest performance of duties. Over time, the punishments of the courtyards turned into real torture - she poured boiling water over her victims, left them tied in the cold, tore out her hair, and did not shy away from torturing women and even children. The intercession of bribed officials helped her to continue her fanaticism - the landowner belonged to a well-known family and could count on indulgence. Until Catherine the Second ascended the throne. The empress personally rewrote the court verdict, as a result of which Saltychikha was sent to prison for life imprisonment without light and communication, where she died.

"Tsarskoye Selo murderer"

Number of victims: 7
Konstantin Sazonov was a minister in the famous Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum, for which he received his nickname "Tsarskoye Selo murderer." He operated in the same place - in two years (1814 -1816) he committed nine robberies and killed seven people. Neither his punishment nor his fate is known, and in general, his surname appears little in historical references about that time. But she settled in the lyceum folklore - the collective poem "Sazonoviada" and even in one of Pushkin's epigrams.

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

Nikolai Radkevich

Number of victims: 3

Nikolai Radkevich, known by the nickname "Vadim Krovnyak", was the first registered serial killer in Russia, and then still the Russian Empire. On account of Radkevich 3 murders, while the victims of the maniac were exclusively women and of exceptionally easy virtue. This choice of the criminal is explained by his sad biography - while still studying at the cadet corps in Nizhny Novgorod, he, fourteen, was seduced by an adult woman, in addition to infecting him with syphilis. Since then, the reprisal against depraved women has become a mission and an obsession for him. However, the investigation quickly got on his trail - he was caught red-handed in a hotel room, where he committed his last, third murder. The court 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 began to drink at the age of 15, he 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 it was not noted for something larger than robberies and petty domestic violence. Komarov began to commit murders already 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 invited speculators who wanted to buy the goods he had stolen, where he strangled or killed them with a hammer blow, after which he dumped the corpses into the river or buried them. Komarov's wife also participated in the murders, her court, after catching the criminals, together with her husband, sentenced her to death. Mikhail Bulgakov devoted 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 at the school where she worked. As the investigation later found out - the case 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 the 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 he strangled a girl passing by with it. Mikheevich lured his subsequent victims (all of them were girls) into his car and killed them in deserted places. During the investigation of the case, he himself participated in the search, enrolling in the patrol team of vigilantes, and wrote letters to the regional newspaper, in which, allegedly on behalf of the fictitious organization "Patriots of Vitebsk", he took responsibility for the crimes. This betrayed him - later the investigation calculated the maniac by handwriting. The sentence is the death penalty.

Animals in human form: 10 most ruthless serial killers of the USSR and the CIS

1. Anatoly Biryukov - "Baby Hunter"
This scum is called Anatoly Biryukov. He seemed to be an exemplary family man and a respectable citizen: no one suspected that a decent husband and father was leading a double life.
Biryukov committed his first murder in 1977. He kidnapped the baby from the stroller, took it to a deserted place and tried to commit violent acts of a known nature against him. However, onlookers frightened off the maniac, and he killed the baby with a knife. In the same year, Biryukov committed several more rapes and murders of abducted babies, but by the sixth case, witnesses began to pursue him. Fortunately for the investigation, they were able to examine the rapist and make an identikit.
After the arrest, investigators and psychiatrists concluded that Biryukov suffered from a severe form of non-pyophilia - a passion for babies. In his defense, the offender said that he committed his atrocities because his wife refused to maintain intimate relations with him. In 1979, Biryukov, who killed a total of five babies, was shot.

2. Alexey Sukletin - "Alligator"
Sukletin has seven girls and women on his account, whom he killed and ate with his accomplices Shakirova and Nikitin. The first victim was a woman named Yekaterina Osetrova in 1981. Sukletin insisted that his mistress Shakirova help him kill, butcher and cook the dead. In love and tamed, Madina Shakirova was ready to do anything for her lover, so she agreed to take on the duties of a cook.
The cannibal idyll did not last long - after the murder of a little girl, Sukletin and Shakirova parted ways. The maniac did not grieve for long and immediately found a replacement - his relative Anatoly Nikitin often visited, with whom they eventually killed and dismembered a new victim.
Rumors began to circulate in the village that Sukletin was selling high-quality meat and tenderloin, and in the meantime the gang began to engage in extortion, on which they were caught. 4 bags of human bones were found in the garden of Sukletin. Maniac was shot in 1994, and Shakirov and Nikitin were sentenced to 15 years in prison. On account of the cannibals - at least seven victims.

3. Anatoly Onoprienko - "Citizen O"
By 1996, when Onoprienko was taken into custody, he had already killed about 52 people. The exact number of deaths to this day remains unknown, but according to the investigation, there were much more victims.
Onoprienko began his activity in 1989 together with his partner Sergey Rogozin. The "death duo" killed couples and even groups of young people, and they also broke into houses and shot all family members, including children. Often Onoprienko shot random passers-by.
The motives behind Citizen O's crimes are still unknown. According to him, he killed people because some forces and voices ordered him to do it. The crimes included three waves: against communism, nationalism and the plague of the 21st century. After a long search, the investigation finally got on the trail of Onoprienko. True, before that, an innocent person who died during torture was detained. After the trial, Anatoly Onoprienko was sentenced to death, but the sentence was never executed due to the abolition of the death penalty in Ukraine.
Died in prison

4. Sergei Golovkin - "Fisher"
Sergei was considered a young attractive man, but despite the fact that girls always curled around, he did not show interest in them. Fisher was more interested in teenage boys.
The first attempted rape and murder was an incident in 1984 (many years later, the surviving victim was able to identify Golovkin). The first murder that took place was the strangulation in 1984 of 16-year-old Andrei: threatening with reprisal, Golovkin dragged the boy into the forest, raped, strangled and abused the body. Then the killings continued and caused a public outcry, because of which Fischer decided to go underground for a while.
In 1989, Golovkin got into business, but changed his style a little. He built a basement in his garage where he tortured, raped and killed boys. Due to the fact that the killer became careless and inaccurately buried the last bodies, he was quickly identified and found. In 1992, Fischer was finally arrested. He was sentenced to death, the sentence was executed in 1996. On account of the maniac 11 killed teenagers.

5. Anatoly Utkin - "Ulyanovsk maniac"
Anatoly Utkin, born in 1942, was a driver by profession. In 1968, his car was stopped by a 14-year-old girl, Liza Makarova, who urgently needed to go to the hospital with her mother. Taking advantage of the moment, Utkin raped and killed the poor thing, leaving himself a few of her personal belongings "as a keepsake".
The victims of the rampant maniac turned out to be both young girls and middle-aged women. After the disappearances of the girls and the finds of corpses, the public started up: a serial killer appeared in calm Ulyanovsk! Over time, Utkin began to take a more prudent approach to the choice of victims - he was guided by careful planning.
In 1972, the maniac's motives changed: now his goal was not violence and murder, but profit. In the same year, Utkin killed a man for the sake of robbery, and in 1973 he was taken into custody. After the investigation and the evidence found in the house of the suspect, the police had no doubts about his guilt. In 1975, Utkin was shot; in total, nine murders of his "authorship" were established.
Oddly enough, his family and acquaintances spoke extremely favorably about Anatoly Utkin. He was married twice and had two children.

6. Sergey Tkach - "Pavlograd Maniac"
Weaver has been operating since 1980, the motives for his crimes have always been of a sexual nature. The killer began to commit crimes after moving to Ukraine; he chose girls from 9 to 17 years old. The weaver carefully concealed the evidence, leaving no traces of sperm, prints and tissues on the bodies, however, he did not refuse the memorabilia of his victims, which he carefully kept.
In 2005, Tkach dealt with another victim - a nine-year-old girl - after which he was detained. During his search, 14 people were innocently convicted of crimes, which Tkach later confessed to.
Today Sergei Tkach is serving a life sentence. For some time in custody he had access to the Internet and communicated with interested people. On account of this cruel maniac from 30 to 150 victims.

7. Vladimir Mukhankin - "Lenin"
Vladimir was born into an incomplete family as an unwanted child (his father left his mother before the birth of his son), as a result of which he suffered constant bullying and a bad attitude at home. Hardened by the environment, Mukhankin periodically wandered, stole, attacked people and tortured and mocked animals. His nature did not prevent him from marrying at the age of 18, he had a son, who later died.
In 1995, "Lenin" begins to kill and commits eight murders in a few months. Mukhankin mocked his dying victims, performing horrific actions on the agonizing body. The maniac's real passion was human organs, with which he often went to bed.
After being caught, the criminal behaved obscenely and declared that he was the second Chikatilo. Mukhankin described his crimes in detail with pleasure, but at the trial he retracted all his testimony. He was found guilty of 22 crimes, eight of which were murders. Now Mukhankin is serving a life sentence in the Black Dolphin colony.

8. Vladimir Ionesyan - Mosgaz
During the Khrushchev thaw, it was hard to imagine that an intruder would get into your apartment, posing as an employee, for example, of Mosgaz or the housing office, which gave the criminal the opportunity to use this simple method. The authorities were furious, all forces were thrown into the capture of a maniac.
Due to the quick investigation and the quick reprisal against Ionesyan, his motives remained unclear. Most likely, he killed for the purpose of robbery. There is also a version that after leaving his wife for the ballerina Alevtina Dmitrieva, the criminal entered the apartments to find gifts for the woman. According to the third version, the murders helped Ionesyan to assert himself.
Mosgaz committed the first murder in 1963: having entered the apartment, he hacked to death a 12-year-old boy who was alone at home with an ax and took a few things. The last murder of a 46-year-old woman took place in 1964, the same year the criminal was taken into custody and shot.
There is an unproven version that Khrushchev himself spoke with Ionesyan. The killer has five victims, four of whom are children.

9. Roman Burtsev - "Kamensky Chikatilo"
Burtsev's parents were alcoholics, which probably influenced the formation of his personality. He began his bloody "career" as a pedophile in 1993 with the murder of his brother and sister Churilov - First he got rid of the boy, and then raped and killed the girl. The bodies were buried in a hole.
Burtsev was always distinguished by accuracy: he hid the bodies of the victims so carefully that almost all of them were found only when the killer himself showed the burial places. However, the thoroughness of the burial of the corpses let Burtsev down - after another murder, he asked for a shovel from one of the residents of his village, after which he threw away the gun. The woman described the appearance of a strange man, and a little later he was also identified by one of the victims who managed to escape.
In 1996, Roman Burtsev was caught and sentenced to death, but then the sentence was commuted to life imprisonment. "Kamensky Chikatilo" managed to kill six people.

10. Vasily Kulik - "Irkutsk Monster"
As a child, Vasily Kulik was a sickly child, but in the family he was always looked after and taken care of. Due to constant illnesses, almost everything was forgiven him, so Vasily grew up rather selfish and cruel, in his teens he poisoned and hung cats.
With age, Kulik got stronger and began to play sports. After an attack and a blow to the head in 1980, he began to have sexual desires for children, in 1982 Kulik committed the first rape, and two years later the first murder of a nine-year-old girl. The maniac did not shun the murders of pensioners: by his own admission, he compiled a list of old women of interest to him.
Panic began in Irkutsk, and the killer tried to be more careful, however, during another assassination attempt in 1986, passers-by managed to stop him. The “Irkutsk monster” confessed everything, but at the trial he suddenly began to deny his involvement, stating that he was framed by the Chibis gang. After a thorough investigation, Vasily Kulik was shot in 1989. On his account there were 13 murders.