List of Russian serial killers

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  • Sergey Golovkin - known as "Fisher" or "The Udav" (The "Boa") killed and butchered 11 boys in Moscow area (1986-1992). Sentenced to death.
  • Vladimir Ionesyan - known as the "Ubijtsa iz Mosgaza" ("The Killer from Moscow Gas Company", as he pretented to be a worker of this company) killed 5 people and robbed their apartments in Moscow and Ivanovo (1963-1964). Sentenced to death.
  • Oleg Kuznetsov - known as "Lzhedmitriy" ("False Dmitriy" named after False Dmitriy I) killed 6 women in Moscow and Moscow area and 4 women in Kiev (1991-1992). Sentenced to life imprisonment.
  • Vasiliy Kulik - known as The Irkutskiy Monstr ("The Irkutsk Monster") killed and raped 13 people (young boys and girls as well as elderly women) in Irkutsk (1984-1986). Sentenced to death.
  • Sergei Ryakhovsky - known as "The Potroshitel iz Balashikhi" ("The Balashikha Ripper") killed 19 people (2 teenage boys and several elderly women and men) in Moscow area (1987-1993). Sentenced to death.
  • Alexander Tchayka - known as "The Okhotnik za shubami" ("The Fur Coats Hunter") killed 4 women dressed in fur coats in Moscow (January, 31 1994 - February, 16 1994). Sentenced to death.
  • Andrei Chikatilo - AKA "The Rostov Ripper" and "Hannibal Lecter", a name given to him by the Russian public after the character in the popular American film The Silence of the Lambs, which came out around the time of his arrest; killed 56 women and children throughout the many countries of the former Soviet Union before being arrested, convicted, and executed in 1994.
  • Valeriy Asratyan - known as "The Rezhissior" ("The Movie Director") killed 3 and raped of dozens women in Moscow (1988-1990). Sentenced to death.
  • Anatoly Slivko, known as "Vlad Carthas" -This may be a reference to the infamous 'Vlad the Impaler'- Convicted of the sexual murder of seven boys. Sentenced to death.
  • Sasha Spesivtsev, Russian serial killer and cannibal. Judged insane.
  • Alexander Pichushkin serial killer of 48 persons between the years 1992-2001.