10 Murderous Russian Criminals

The mighty country of Russia is home to many kinds of people, and not all of them are particularly nice. In fact, there are a surprisingly large amount of serial killers and murderous criminals running around that vast country.

Language barriers and Russias historical reluctance to report its troubles to other countries have prevented most Western people from hearing about these ruthless monsters. That is, until now . . .

10 Valery Asratyan

To say Alexander Bychkov did not like alcoholics and vagabonds is an understatement. In fact, he was so infuriated by them that he took to killingas many of them as he could. Bychkov started calling himself 'Rambo' after Sylvester Stallone's famous character, equipped himself with a large knife and a hammer, and started roaming the streets.

Between 2009 and 2012, 'Rambo' lured at least nine unfortunate victims in deserted areas, where he attacked and mauled them, then dismembered their bodies and hid them. Every one of these attacks were meticulously recorded in a journal 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 only24 years old when he was caught. His only explanation for his actions was a desire to impress a girlfriend who had dumped him by 'acting like a lone wolf.' It is probably safe to say that flowers would have been a better choice.

8 Anatoly Slivko Hannibal Lecter-style interview . . . just hours before his execution.

7 Sergey Golovkin Doctor Maxim Petrov is not the only person known as 'Dr. Death,' but he is certainlyone of the scariest. A completely remorseless and twisted killer, he specialized in stalking his elderly patients before finally 'euthanizing' them in order to gain access to their money and valuables.

Dr. Petrov is thought to have killed over 50 people. His methods were rather more brutal than one would assume from a medically trained murderer. Although he usually administered injections to his victims, they were not always lethal, but mere sedatives to keep them in place while he turned their apartments into death traps. One survivor recalls waking up withhis home on fire; another had his flat slowly filling up with gas from the oven. Some victims were choked with stockings, and people who happened to interrupt the good doctor were stabbed with a screwdriver.

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Petrov eventually settled on a nice pattern of lethal injections and evidence-destroying house fires, but he had gotten too greedy. The police soon noticed the pattern of elderly people with similar diseases dying in the exact same way, so they put together a list of 72 potential future victims and arrested Petrov when he was visiting one of them in 2002. The court was able to link Petrov to 12 of the murders he was accused of. He is currently serving a life sentence in prison.

5 Sergei Martynov

Thrill killers are a dangerous class of criminals. They are as unpredictable as they are cruel, and although the signs can often be seen in hindsight, they are fairly difficult to recognize before they actually start killing.

Nikita Lytkin and Artem Anoufriev were two young punks who dabbled in neo-Nazism, dressed in black, and were active members (Anoufriev in particular) of various hardcore music- and fascism-related online communities. They were known online under names like 'Peoplehater,' and moderated social media groups such as 'We are gods, we alone decide whom to live and who will die.' In other words, the signs were there.

Lytkin and Anoufriev eventually identified with theDnepropetrovsk Maniacs, famous spree killers with similar life views to their own. They became copycat killers known as 'The Academy Maniacs.' Between December 2010 and April 2011, the two killed six to eight people. Luckily, the two were fairly bad at covering their tracks, so their trail of destruction didn't last too long.

The Academy Maniacs were promptly arrested and brought to trial, with no one but their mothers to mourn them.

3 Vladimir Mukhankin And The Rostov-On-Don Killers

When your criminal nickname is 'Satan in a Skirt,' chances are you're not the nicest person in the world. Irina Gaidamachuk earned this nickname to the fullest. For seven years, she visited the elderly citizens of the Sverdlov region posing asa social security worker. Once she gained their trust and was allowed inside, she murdered the senior citizens bysmashing them over the head with a hammer or an axe. After that, she stole their money and valuables and left the scene as if nothing had happened.

The most terrifying thing about Gaidamachuk is that she was never an antisocial loner, or (according to psychological reviews) even all that crazy. She was a married mother of two children who liked to drink a bit too much and hated the idea of working. So she came up with killing people as an alternative method of making money. However, this was not too lucrative: None of her hauls were bigger than $495. So she kept doing it again, and again, and again. As she stated to the police in her confession: 'I just wanted to be a normal mum, but I had a craving for drink. My husband Yury wouldnt give me money for vodka.'

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1 Vasili Komaroff Vasiliy Kulik, better known as the 'Irkutsk Monster,' was not a very nice man.

Ever since his childhood, Kulik had a morbid fascination with violence and sexuality. He was prone to torturing animals and acting like an overly masculine male stereotype. In his teens, he had many girlfriends and developed an insatiable appetite for sex. His mental health had always been very shaky, but when a girl he loved moved to another city, it took a turn for the worse.

Between 1984 and 1986, Kulik brutally assaulted andkilled 13 people. His victims were either older women or young children, and his methods of mayhem varied: He was known to use at least firearms, strangulation, and knives fairly often, though he also had other ways of dispatching his victims. The oldest of his victims was 73 years old. The youngest was a twomonth-old baby.

Kulik was caught on the day of his 30th birthday. Although his crimes were monstrously revolting, the police found the man extremely (frighteningly) courteous and polite. From the second of his arrest to the day of his execution three years later, he maintained a civilized and friendly image: Throughout the last years of his life, this brutal man enjoyed writing poetry, giving interviews, and musing on the nature of life and death to journalists.

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