Top 10 serial killers in Russia

Read on to find out the top 10 worst serial killers! Dnipropetrovsk maniacs are Ukrainian serial killers responsible for a number of murders. Soviet Andrei Chikatilo, serial killer, aka Rostov's butcher who was convicted of 53 murders and the recent Moscow maniac Alexander Pichushkin, known as the "Chessboard Killer". What makes a serial killer kill over and over again?

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

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

10. Daria Nikolaevna Saltykova

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

9. Boris Gusakov

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

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

8. Alexey Vasilievich Sukletin

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

7. Anatoly Emelyanovich Slivko

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

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

6.Andrey Romanovich Chikatilo

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

5. Nikita Vakhtangovich Lytkin and Artem Alexandrovich Anufriev

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

4. Maxim Vladimirovich Petrov

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

3. Alexander Nikolaevich Chaika

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

2. Alexander Yurievich "Sasha" Pichushkin

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

1. Pavel Skachevsky

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