List of Soviet and post-Soviet serial killers nicknamed after Andrei Chikatilo

The following is a list of Soviet and post-Soviet serial killers[n 1] nicknamed after Andrei Chikatilo, who sexually assaulted, murdered and mutilated at least 52 women as well as children of both genders between 1978 and his arrest in 1990.

List

Soviet
NameYears activeProven victimsPossible victimsStatusNickname and general informationRef
Nikolay Sakharov 1977 3 3 Deceased; executed by firing squad on 5 February 1979 "The Vologda Chikatilo"; kidnapped, raped and murdered young girls in Vologda. [1]
Alexander Skrynnik 1970s–1980 3 3 Deceased; executed by firing squad in 1981 “The Moldavian Chikatilo”; murdered women in Yakutia and Kishinev. [2]
Konstantin Cheryomushkhin 1986–1989 4 4 Deceased; executed by firing squad in 1993 "Chikatilo's Double"; brutally raped and murdered girls in Bataysk. [3]
Sergey Golovkin 1986–1992 11 13+ Deceased; executed by gunshot at Butyrka Prison on 2 August 1996 "Chikatilo's Apprentice"; kidnapped, tortured, raped and murdered young boys in his garage basement or forests around Moscow. [4]

Post-Soviet
NameYears activeProven victimsPossible victimsStatusNickname and general informationRef
Nikolai Dudin 1987–2002 13 13 Serving a life sentence at White Swan Prison “The Furmanov Chikatilo”; murdered his father and twelve other people in Furmanov. [5]
Vladimir Retunsky 1990–1996 8 12 Free; served a sentence of 15 years at Vladimir Central Prison and was released in 2012 "The Chikatilo of Khopyor River" and “The Voronezh Chikatilo”; raped and murdered female hitchhikers in his hometown of Povorino. [6]
Vadim Ershov 1992–1995 19 19 Serving a life sentence at Black Dolphin Prison "The Krasnoyarsk Chikatilo"[n 2]; burglarized, raped and murdered young girls and elderly women in and around Krasnoyarsk. [7]
Roman Burtsev 1993–1996 6 6 Serving a life sentence at White Swan Prison "The Kamensky Chikatilo"; raped and strangled young girls in his hometown of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky.
Vladimir Mukhankin 1995 9 9 Serving a life sentence at Black Dolphin Prison "The Pupil of Chikatilo"; murdered girls and women in Rostov Oblast.
Sergey Shipilov 1995–1999 14 14 Serving a life sentence at Black Dolphin Prison "The Velsk Chikatilo" and “The Arkhangelsk Chikatilo”; raped and murdered female hitchhikers in and around the town of Velsk, most of them while out on prison leave. [8]
Vadim Krotov 1997–1999 4 4 Serving a life sentence at Black Dolphin Prison "The Nakhodka Chikatilo"; lured young girls into his apartment in Nakhodka and raped them on camera, strangling them after. [9]
Anatoly Sedykh 1998–2003 12 12 Deceased; committed suicide at the Black Berkut prison colony on 11 June 2023 "The Lipetsk Chikatilo"; raped and murdered women in Lipetsk, robbing the corpses afterwards.
Yevgeny Chuplinsky 1998–2005 19 29 Serving a life sentence at the Snezhinka labor colony "The Siberian Chikatilo"; murdered prostitutes around Novosibirsk. [10]
Sergey Cherny 1999 10 11 Deceased; died of pneumonia in a psychiatric hospital on 24 June 2001 "The Smolensk Chikatilo"; strangled women in Smolensk. [11]
Nikolai Litvin 1999 10 10+ Receiving treatment at an unspecified psychiatric institution “The Prokopyevsk Chikatilo”; raped and strangled girls and young women. [12]
Valery Kopytov 2000–2004 19 19 Serving a prison sentence of 25 years "The Barnaul Chikatilo"; homeless man who killed other homeless people in Altai Krai. [13]
Yuri Gritsenko 2001 5 5 Serving a prison sentence of 22 years "The Zelenograd Chikatilo"; bludgeoned women in his hometown shortly after being released from prison for a previous murder committed at an unknown date. [14]
Oleg Zaikin 2001–2006 9 9+ Deceased; committed suicide by hanging at SIZO No. 1 on 20 November 2006 "The Urals Chikatilo"; raped and murdered numerous women in several regions across Russia. [15]
Abdufatto Zamanov 2002–2004 14 14 Serving a life sentence at the Polar Owl prison colony "The Krasnoyarsk Chikatilo"[n 3]; murdered people for pleasure in Krasnoyarsk. [16]
Vladimir Zhukov 2002–2006 3 4 Serving a life sentence at White Swan Prison "The Nizhegorodsky Chikatilo" and “The New Chikatilo”; abducted, raped and murdered young girls in Nizhny Novgorod. [17]
Artur Shayakhmetov 2002–2010 9 9 Serving a life sentence in prison “The Astrakhan Chikatilo”; robbed and murdered people in Astrakhan. [18]
Alexey Falkin 2004–2017 4 4 Serving a life sentence in prison “The Ural Chikatilo”; raped and murdered women in and around Yekaterinburg. [19]
Oleg Chizhov 2006–2007 4 4 Serving a prison sentence of 22.5 years “The Birsky Chikatilo”; brutally raped and murdered women in and around Birsk. [20]
Vladimir Tushinsky 2010–2014 5 5 Deceased; died of cardiac arrest on 5 August 2016 “The Kamchatka Chikatilo”; raped and murdered girls and young women in Kamchatka Krai. [21]
Andrey Yezhov 2010–2020 7 7+ Deceased; committed suicide by hanging on 6 July 2020 “The Podmoskovsky Chikatilo”; raped and murdered (or murdered and then raped) young girls and elderly women in Moscow. [22]
Murad Nurmagomedov 2013–2016 (confirmed)
2004–2016 (suspected)		 4 5 Serving a sentence of 18 years at a prison labor colony “The Kaspiysk Chikatilo”; drug trafficker who murdered acquaintances at his house in Kaspiysk. [23]
Bakhtiyor Matyakubov 2015 10 10+ Serving a life sentence in prison “The Uzbek Chikatilo”; raped and murdered middle-aged women across Russia, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. [24]

Notes
  1. In the context of the article, a “Soviet” serial killer refers to one whose crimes took place primarily between the formation of the Soviet Union in 1922 and its dissolution in 1991, and a “post-Soviet” serial killer refers to one whose crimes took place primarily after said dissolution.
  2. This nickname is shared with another serial killer on this list, Abdufatto Zamanov.
  3. This nickname is shared with another serial killer on this list, Vadim Ershov.

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