A serial killer is typically a person who murders three or more people, with the murders taking place over more than a month and including a significant period of time between them. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) defines serial killing as "a series of two or more murders, committed as separate events, usually, but not always, by one offender acting alone".
Before 1917 NameYears activeProven victimsPossible victimsStatusNotesRef 1830s 57 57 Killed by fellow inmates 1830s Known as "The Odessa Jack The Ripper" or "Lone wolf"; Murdered 57 people, including prostitutes, and tore out their internal organs. death sentence was handed down, but it was commuted to twenty years of hard labor on the grounds of mental illness. 1814–1816 6 7 Unknown Servitor at Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum. He killed six or seven people between 1814 and 1816. Briscorn, Olga 1818–1822 128 128 Died 1836 Known as "The Kursk Saltychikha"; socialite who tortured and killed serfs on her estates Radkevich, Nikolay 1909 3 3 Killed by fellow inmates 1916 Known as "Vadim the Bloodsucker"; killed prostitutes in St. Petersburg because he wanted to rid the world of depraved women Saltykova, Darya Nikolayevna 1756–1762 38 147 Died 1801 Tortured and killed serfs on her Moscow Oblast estate История России. Всемирная, мировая история - Салтычиха(Салтыкова Дарья Николаевна) 1913 12 12 Hanging in 1914 Known as "The Krasnoyarsk Jack The Ripper" or "The Krasnoyarsk Maniac" or "Killer of women; Murdered 12 womens.
Soviet era (1917–1991) NameYears activeProven victimsPossible victimsStatusNotesRef Biryukov, Anatoly 1977 5 5 Executed 1979 Known as "The Hunter of Babies"; kidnapped and murdered infants in Moscow Chernat, Igor 1985–1986 4 13 Executed 1987 Known as "The Evil Spirit of Kaukjarvi"; murdered between four and 13 women in the village of Kamenka, Leningrad Oblast, selling their stolen items afterwards Criminal investigation. Petrograd-Leningrad-Petersburg. Marginal Kamensky Maniac Igor Chernat Cheryomushkin, Konstantin 1986–1989 4 4 Executed 1993 Known as "The Bataysk Maniac"; brutally raped and killed girls in Bataysk, Rostov Oblast Chikatilo, Andrei 1978–1990 52 56+ Executed 1994 Known as "The Rostov Ripper"; killed women and children throughout the Soviet Union Evseev, Andrei 1974–1977 9 9 Executed 1979 Known as "The Tagansky Maniac"; killed people in Moscow Oblast, mainly women dressed in red clothing Fefilov, Nikolai 1982–1988 7 7 Murdered by his cellmate 1988 Known as "The Urals Strangler"; raped and then strangled young girls in Sverdlovsk abusing the corpses and stealing items afterwards; several innocent men were arrested for his crimes, including one who was executed In the Urals, in search of a serial maniac, innocent people were pursued and executed, while the offender himself left the court to retaliate. Filippenko, Vasily 1967 5 5 Executed 1968 Known as "The Leningrad Strangler"; raped and strangled women in the area of the Obvodny Canal "I ground my ax" (18+) Gridin, Dmitry 1989 3 3 Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment Known as "The Liftman"; killed young girls in Magnitogorsk, Chelyabinsk Oblast Gusakov, Boris 1964–1968 6 6 Executed 1970 Known as "The Student Hunter"; raped 15 girls and young women in Moscow, killing six of them Alina Maximova - "Boris Gusakov, the Student Hunter" Ivanov, Gennady 1973–1980 8 8 Executed 1982 Known as "The Gorky Maniac"; rapist and robber who murdered in Gorky and Vurnary, Chuvashia Kashintsev, Sergey 1975–1987 8 59 Executed 1992 Misogynist who murdered a woman in 1975; after release, raped and killed women across the country Komaroff, Vasili 1921–1923 33 33 Executed 1923 Known as "The Wolf of Moscow"; horse trader who killed 33 men Korneev, Boris 1968 5 5 Murdered by roommates at psychiatric hospital 1968 Known as "The Strongman Killer"; strangled three women he cohabited with, along with the youngest one's father and a police officer Kozlov, Fyodor 1976–1989 7 7 Committed suicide in prison Known as "The Iskitim Maniac"; killed his grandmother and underage cousin, later released and continued to kill in sexually motivated attacks Kulik, Vasiliy 1984–1986 13 13+ Executed 1989 Raped over 30 young children and elderly women in Irkutsk, killing 13 of them Labutkin, Alexander 1933–1935 15 15 Executed 1935 Known as "The One-Armed Bandit"; killed people in the forest of Prigorodny settlement in Leningrad Oblast with a revolver Logvinov, Valery 1974–1975 6 6 Executed 1977 Known as "The Hair Hunter"; rapist who sexually assaulted and murdered women with braided hair around Saratov Maduev, Sergey 1988–1990 10 10 Died in prison Prolific brigand who committed numerous robberies around the USSR, some of which resulted in murders; noted for a daring 1991 prison escape, with the aid of a female investigator whom he had seduced Maistruk, Anatoly 1981 8 28 Committed suicide before trial Murdered and beheaded Central Asians in Irkutsk and Voronezh out of apparent hatred Makarov, Mikhail 1986 3 3 Executed 1988 Known as "The Executioner"; stabbed and killed two young girls and an older woman in Leningrad, robbing their apartments afterwards Maniac, offended mother-in-law Markin, Vyacheslav 1991 6 6 Committed suicide before trial Known as "The Skopinsky Maniac"; habitual criminal who robbed and killed apartment residents in Ryazan Oblast; also killed a former prisoner he quarreled with Nagiyev, Anatoly 1979–1980 6 6+ Executed 1981 Killed two women in Pechora, Komi Republic in 1979, then raped and murdered another four in one day aboard a train car in Oryol Oblast; suspected of more murders Преступления и наказание курского маньяка Raevsky, Yuri 1971 6 6 Executed 1973 Known as "The Vnukovo Maniac"; raped, murdered and robbed six women around the Soviet Union, changing location after each murder to avoid arrest Sakharov, Nikolay 1977 3 3 Executed 1979 Known as "The Vologda Ripper"; kidnapped, raped and murdered young girls in Vologda Serebryakov, Boris 1969–1970 9 9 Executed 1971 Known as "The Kuybyshev Monster"; murdered and mutilated nine people in present-day Samara, including a family of four; also raped the female victims' corpses«Ночная тварь» Серебряков в Куйбышеве (1969—1970 годы) Shcherbakov, Sergey 1985 6 6 Executed 1988 Murdered five women, one of whom was pregnant, and one girl in Leninsk-Kuznetsky, Kemerovo Oblast Shestakov, Nikolai 1975 12 12 Executed 1977? Known as "The Luberetsky Maniac"; truck driver who raped and killed girls and young women in the Lyuberetsky District and the Balashikhinsky District, Moscow Oblast Sibiryakov, Andrei 1988 5 5 Executed 1989 or 1990 Known as "The Maniac from Lenenergo"; killed and robbed women in Leningrad while pretending to be an employee of a municipal engineering company Документальный фильм «Неуловимый» из цикла «Следствие вели...» Slivko, Anatoly 1964–1985 7 7 Executed 1989 Convicted for killing young boys around Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Krai Hunting The Devil pp. 162 Smirnov, Vasily 1979 5 5 Executed 1980 Known as "The Gatchina Psychopath"; robbed, raped and murdered victims in Gatchina, Leningrad Oblast Storozhenko, Vladimir 1978–1981 13 13 Executed 1982 Known as "The Smolensky Strangler"; tortured and murdered women for sexual pleasure in Smolensk Oblast; four other innocent men were arrested before his capture Smolensky Strangler Vladimir Storozhenko... Sukletin, Aleksey 1979–1985 7 7 Executed 1987 Known as "The Alligator"; killed and cannibalized young girls and women in Tatarstan with accomplices Madina Shakirova and Anatoly Nikitin Sulima, Vladimir 1968 3 3 Executed 1968 Known as "The Bloody Casanova"; raped and murdered three women in Perm Oblast Tretyakov, Vladimir 1977–1978 7 7 Executed 1979 Known as "The Arkhangelsk Butcher"; killed and mutilated drunk women in Arkhangelsk Tsiuman, Yuri 1986–1991 4 5 Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment Known as "The Night Guest"; raped and strangled women in his hometown of Taganrog, all of them wearing black pantyhose Tyurin, Philipp 1945–1946 14 29 Executed 1947 Known as "The Leningrad Maniac" and "The Hellraiser"; murdered between 14 and 29 people for monetary reasons at his hut in Leningrad Память народа Usov, Vladimir 1974–1975 5 5 Died in a psychiatric clinic Known as "The Hunter of Boys"; adolescent paranoid schizophrenic who sodomized and then strangled young boys in Samara Oblast Охотник на мальчиков Utkin, Anatoly 1968–1973 9 9 Executed 1975 Known as "The Ulyanovsky Maniac"; killed eight girls and one man in Ulyanovsk Oblast Vinnichevsky, Vladimir 1938–1939 8 8 Executed 1940 Known as "The Urals Monster"; young rapist who killed children aged between two and four years old Zhestkov, Ilya 1968 5 5 Executed in 1971 Known as "The Primorsk Chikatilo"; michman who murdered a male acquaintance in Vladivostok, then raped and killed young girls and women while posing as a movie director
After 1991