# List of Russian serial killers

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

| Name | Years active | Proven victims | Possible victims | Status | Notes |
| 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 |

## Soviet era (1917–1991)

| Name | Years active | Proven victims | Possible victims | Status | Notes |
| 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 4 and 13 women in the village of Kamenka, Leningrad Oblast, selling their stolen items afterwards |
| Cheryomushkin, Konstantin | 1986–1989 | 4 | 4 | Executed 1993 | Known as "The Bataysk Maniac"; brutally raped and killed girls in Bataysk, Rostov Oblast |
| Chikatilo, Andrei | 1982–1990 | 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 |
| Filippenko, Vasily | 1967 | 5 | 5 | Executed 1968 | Known as "The Leningrad Strangler"; raped and strangled women in the area of the Obvodny Canal |
| Gridin, Dmitry | 1989 | 3 | 3 | Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment | Known as "The Lifter"; 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 6 of them |
| 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 3 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 |
| 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 |
| Raevsky, Yuri | 1971 | 6 | 6 | Executed 1973 | Known as "The Vnukovo Maniac"; raped, murdered and robbed 6 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 9 people in present-day Samara, including a family of four; also raped the female victims' corpses |
| Shcherbakov, Sergey | 1985 | 6 | 6 | Executed 1988 | Murdered 5 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 |
| Slivko, Anatoly | 1964–1985 | 7 | 7 | Executed 1989 | Convicted for killing young boys around Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Krai |
| 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 |
| 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 3 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 |
| 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 |
| Utkin, Anatoly | 1968–1973 | 9 | 9 | Executed 1975 | Known as "The Ulyanovsky Maniac"; killed 8 girls and 1 man in Ulyanovsk Oblast |
| Vinnichevsky, Vladimir | 1938–1939 | 8 | 8 | Executed 1940 | Known as "The Urals Monster"; young rapist who killed children aged between 2 and 4 years old |

## After 1991

| Name | Years active | Proven victims | Possible victims | Status | Notes |
| Ageyev, Nikolai | 2006–2024 | 4 | 4 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Murdered a cellmate while serving a robbery sentence; paroled and murdered an elderly woman and a young girl during a crime spree; killed another inmate after his second incarceration |
| Aituganov, Firuz | 2011 | 4 | 4 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Illegal Tajikistani immigrant who raped and strangled women in Yekaterinburg |
| Andreev, Valeriy | 2006–2012 | 7 | 7+ | Fugitive | Known as "The Orsk Maniac"; truck driver connected to the abductions, rapes and murders of young girls in Orenburg Oblast |
| Anoufriev, Artyom | 2010–2011 | 6 | 6 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Teenager who killed people in his native Irkutsk, together with his partner-in-crime Nikita Lytkin |
| Artamonov, Yuri | 1995–1997 | 5 | 5 | Paroled in 2017 | Known as "The Izhevsk Raskolnikov"; robber who murdered elderly women during robberies in Izhevsk |
| Astashev, Alexander | 2003–2005 | 17 | 17 | Sentenced to involuntary commitment | Known as "The Cheremkhovo Poisoner"; along with his wife and mistress, traveled across Russia and poisoned pensioners in order to steal their property |
| Barausov, Andrei | 1983–1997 | 7 | 7 | 21 years imprisonment | Known as "The Lensky Maniac"; raped and murdered underage girls around Sakha |
| Barkovsky, Roman | 2008–2009 | 3 | 3 | 24 years imprisonment | Raped at least four women and girls in Rostov-on-Don and Kazachiy Yerik, killing three of them |
| Bayrambekov, Arsen | 2003–2014 | 6 | 6 | 13 years and 2 months imprisonment | Killed two entrepreneurs in contract killings; later murdered homeless people in Pagan rituals |
| Beloruscev, Stanislav | 2001–2009 | 12 | 12+ | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Murdered elderly people and acquaintances in Krasnokamsk, sometimes aided by accomplices |
| Belov, Vladimir | 1991–2002 | 9 | 9+ | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Khovrinsky Maniac"; brigand who robbed and killed 8 people in Moscow with his accomplice Sergei Shabanov; suspected of more murders |
| Bolgarov, Vasily | 2001–2010 | 4 | 4 | 25 years imprisonment | Known as "The Gagarin Killer"; committed a double murder as a minor, and later killed two women in Gagarin, Smolensk Oblast and Smolensk |
| Bolkhovsky, Viktor | 1980–1999 | 4 | 4 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Necromancer Maniac"; killed his wife in 1980; paroled and murdered three women he met through lonely hearts ads in Kemerovo and Chita |
| Burtsev, Roman | 1993–1996 | 6 | 6 | Died in prison | Known as "The Kamensky Chikatilo"; raped and strangled six young children in his hometown of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky, Rostov Oblast, hiding their bodies afterwards |
| Bushuyev, Alexander | 1997–2002 | 7 | 7 | 44 years imprisonment | Known as "The Gardener Maniac"; horticulturalist who tortured and murdered young boys and teenagers in Arkhangelsk |
| Bychkov, Alexander | 2009–2012 | 9 | 11 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Belinsky Cannibal"; suspected cannibal who killed 9 people in Belinsky, Penza Oblast; suspected of 11 people based on evidence discovered in his home |
| Chyorny, Sergey | 1999 | 10 | 11 | Died in prison | Known as "The Beast"; strangled 10 women in Smolensk, and is suspected of drowning another woman |
| Chigirinsky, Nikolai | 2005–2009 | 3 | 3 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Pervouralsk Ripper"; mechanic who killed, raped and then mutilated young girls in Pervouralsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast; also burned the victims' clothes |
| Chizhov, Oleg | 2006–2007 | 4 | 4 | 22.5 years of imprisonment | Known as "The Birsky Maniac"; raped and brutally killed 4 girls in Birsk, Bashkortostan; assisted by two accomplices in his first rape |
| Christan, German | 2003–2017 | 5 | 5 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Killed acquaintances and neighbors during quarrels, setting them on fire while they were still alive |
| Chuplinsky, Yevgeny | 1998–2006 | 19 | 19+ | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Novosibirsk Maniac"; killed prostitutes around Novosibirsk |
| Churasov, Igor | 1997–2000 | 7 | 7 | Sentenced to involuntary commitment | Known as "The Scavenger of Humanity"; together with accomplice Gennady Shurmanov, killed and dismembered several people in Ryazan, then ate some of their remains |
| Dilschneider, Dmitry | 2007 | 5 | 5 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Novosibirsk Raskolnikov"; murdered five people during robberies in Novosibirsk |
| Draganer, Vladimir | 1999 | 5 | 5 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Kamyshin Maniac"; killed 4 girls and two young teenagers with accomplices in the vicinity of Kamyshin, Volgograd Oblast |
| Dolin, Vladimir | 1999–2008 | 3 | 3 | Committed suicide in prison | Known as "The Kopeysk Maniac"; killed a teenager, and after his release, raped and killed two underage girls in Kopeysk, Chelyabinsk Oblast |
| Dudin, Nikolai | 1987–2002 | 13 | 13 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Grim Maniac"; killed his father in 1987, and after his release, killed 12 more people while in an intoxicated state in Furmanov, Ivanovo Oblast |
| Elistratov, Alexander | 2005–2007 | 6 | 6 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Bloody Taxi Driver"; unlicensed taxi driver who murdered and robbed his passengers in Moscow |
| Ershov, Vadim | 1992–1995 | 19 | 19 | Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment | Known as "The Krasnoyarsk Beast"; committed 70 total crimes around Krasnoyarsk, including killing 19 people and attempting to kill 8 others |
| Falkin, Alexey | 2004–2017 | 4 | 4 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The EMERCOM Maniac"; former firefighter who raped and murdered women in Yekaterinburg and Verkhnyaya Pyshma, Sverdlovsk Oblast |
| Fokin, Viktor | 1996–2000 | 9 | 10+ | Died in prison | Known as "The Pensioner Maniac" and "The Grandfather Ripper"; lured, killed and dismembered prostitutes and alcohol abusers into his home, then disposed of their remains in garbage containers |
| Gabidullin, Farit | 1989–2000 | 14 | 14+ | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Together with his brother, Timur, sexually assaulted and murdered children and vagrants around Chelyabinsk |
| Gaichayev, Ramses | 1997–1999 | 10 | 10+ | Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment | Robbed, raped, tortured and murdered ethnic Russians with four accomplices in Chervlennaya} and Pyatigorsk |
| Gaidamachuk, Irina | 2002–2010 | 17 | 17 | 20 years imprisonment | Known as "Satan in a Skirt"; killed elderly women in Sverdlovsk Oblast in order to pay for vodka to feed her alcohol addiction |
| Galstyan, Aharon | 2005–2008 | 7 | 7 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Taxi Driver Poisoner"; Armenian-born serial killer and thief, he drugged and robbed his passengers in Saint Petersburg, resulting in seven fatalities |
| Gerankov, Pyotr | 1981–1995 | 10 | 10 | Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment | Burglar who committed a murder at age 17 in 1981 and later nine additional murders in 1995, some of which were committed with his wife |
| Gerashchenko, Alexander | 1998–2005 | 7 | 7 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Solikamsk Shooter"; shot and killed security guards in Solikamsk, Perm Oblast in order to steal their weapons |
| Golovachyov, Andrei | 1996–2000 | 14 | 14+ | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Apartment Maniac"; fugitive who killed various people, mostly lodgers and landlords, across six regions |
| Golovkin, Sergey | 1986–1992 | 11 | 13+ | Executed 1996 | Known as "The Fisher"; tortured, raped and killed young boys in his garage basement or forests around Moscow |
| Golubev, Dmitry | 1991–2008 | 4 | 4 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Stateless man who was convicted of a 1991 robbery-murder in Tashkent; after release, murdered three fishermen during an argument in Penza Oblast in 2008 |
| Gorbunov, Denis | 2004–2005 | 5 | 5 | Committed suicide in prison | Known as "The Ad Killer"; drug addict who killed five women in Chelyabinsk he contacted through newspaper ads |
| Gorin, Denis | 2002–2012 | 4 | 4+ | Pardoned in 2023 | Murdered acquaintances in his hometown of Aniva with the help of his brother Evgeniy, cannibalizing their remains afterwards |
| Grabovoi, Artyom | 2014 | 3 | 3 | Committed suicide to avoid apprehension | Known as "The Knyaze–Volkonskoye Maniac"; garrison officer who raped and murdered women in the village of Knyaze–Volkonskoye, Khabarovsk Krai, where he stationed at the time |
| Greba, Alexander | 1996–2004 | 5 | 5 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Goblin"; killed 5 people in Belgorod Oblast, including 4 women who resembled his mother |
| Gritsenko, Yuri | 2001 | 5 | 5 | 22 years imprisonment | Known as "The Zelenograd Chikatilo"; murdered 4 women in his native Zelenograd, Moscow, shortly after being released from prison for a previous murder committed at an unknown date |
| Gromov, Alexey | 1996–2011 | 5 | 5 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Bluebeard"; murdered four wives and one of their mothers in Yaroslavl and Oryol |
| Guryanov, Vladimir | 2007–2008 | 13 | 13+ | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Together with accomplice Elvira Egorycheva, known as "The Bloody Sectarians"; killed fortune tellers and strangers in religiously-motivated attacks in Nizhny Novgorod |
| Haroyan, Tofik | 2000–2002 | 6 | 20+ | Sentenced to compulsory treatment | Known as "The Krasnodar Chikatilo"; schizophrenic man who raped, robbed, and murdered female hitchhikers |
| Ivanov, Alexei | 2015 | 4 | 4 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as the "Taxi Driver Maniac"; raped and beat to death prostitutes in Novosibirsk, dismembering their bodies post-mortem and dumping them in the nearby woods |
| Kalinin, Denis | 2005 | 14 | 14 | 19 years imprisonment | Known as "The Salesman Maniac"; robbed and killed pensioners around Pskov, Chuvashia and Rostov Oblast |
| Kalinin, Roman | 2003–2009 | 4 | 4 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Rapist who lured, raped and subsequently killed schoolgirls in Chita; would steal some of the victim's belongings after the murder to simulate a robbery |
| Karimov, Dmitry | 2005–2006 | 7 | 7 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Concrete Products Maniac"; raped and killed women near concrete products factories in Yekaterinburg |
| Karnov, Leonid | 2005–2008 | 5 | 5 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Petersburg Othello"; killed and robbed acquaintances in Saint Petersburg after drunken quarrels |
| Kitaev, Artur | 1990–1992 | 6 | 6 | Killed by his cellmate | Beat, raped and strangled female hitchhikers in Smolensk; considered the last sexual serial killer of the USSR |
| Kiyko, Andrei | 2004–2007 | 3 | 3+ | 47 years imprisonment | Known as "The Sosnovsky Maniac"; assaulted and raped young girls and women in Saint Petersburg's Sosnovsky Park, sometimes killing them |
| Kobyzev, Roman | 1996–2014 | 6 | 6 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Murdered people during robberies and quarrels in Stavropol and Krasnodar Krai |
| Kolebin, Vladimir | 1999–2014 | 6 | 6 | 19 years imprisonment | Known as "The Rybinsky Maniac"; murdered various people in personal disputes in Rybnoye, Krasnoyarsk Krai |
| Kolesnikov, Yevgeny | 2006–2007 | 6 | 6 | Committed suicide in prison | Known as "The Orphan of Solikamsk"; robbed and killed elderly people in Solikamsk with the aid of his girlfriend |
| Komin, Aleksandr | 1995–1997 | 4 | 4 | Committed suicide in prison | Known as "The Slaveholder"; along with his accomplice Alexander Mikheev, lured and then forced people to work in his underground bunker, killing those he no longer needed or feared would expose him |
| Kopylov, Dmitry | 2004–2005 | 5 | 5 | 10 years imprisonment | Known as "The Youth Maniac"; teenager who attacked, raped and killed women and one man around Chelyabinsk Oblast |
| Kopytov, Valery | 2000–2004 | 19 | 19 | 25 years imprisonment | Known as "The Barnaul Chikatilo"; homeless man who killed other homeless people in Altai Krai |
| Kozlenya, Nikolai | 1998–2001 | 7 | 7 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Killed drivers in order to steal their cars and later sell the disassembled parts |
| Krasnoyarov, Yevgeny | 2013–2016 | 6 | 6 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Ripper of Tajiks"; neo-Nazi who murdered foreign migrants in Chita and the surrounding area |
| Krotov, Vadim | 1997–1999 | 4 | 4 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Primorsky Chikatilo"; child molester who lured young girls into his apartment in Nakhodka, Primorsky Krai to produce child pornography, killing the girls when they tried to escape |
| Kruglov, Alexey | 2005–2009 | 4 | 4 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Istra Maniac"; kidnapped and then brutally killed a trio of boys in the Istrinsky District, Moscow Oblast, strangling his niece a few years later |
| Kuleshov, Dmitry | 1994–2006 | 3 | 3 | 25 years imprisonment | Known as "The Spruce Robber"; pedophile who murdered three children in Rostov-on-Don on two separate occasions |
| Kuzikov, Ilshat | 1994–1995 | 3 | 3+ | Sentenced to compulsory treatment | Murdered and cannibalized at least three men in his apartment in Saint Petersburg |
| Kuzmin, Vladimir | 1997 | 7 | 11 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Raped and robbed between 7 and 11 people, mostly young boys and men, in Moscow; assisted in first two murders by Denis Kalistratov |
| Kuznetsov, Sergey | 2007–2008 | 6 | 8 | Sentenced to involuntary commitment | Known as "The Kryazh Maniac"; mentally-ill hoarder who poisoned and strangled drunk men in Samara, stealing their clothes and belongings afterwards |
| Laletin, Gennady | 2004–2010 | 5 | 5 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "Gena the Worm"; vagrant who stabbed and bludgeoned acquaintances to death across Buryatia |
| Lebed, Dmitry | 2012–2017 | 5 | 5+ | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Abakan Strangler"; taxi driver who raped and strangled to death at least 5 women in Abakan, Khakassia |
| Litvin, Nikolai | 1999 | 10 | 10+ | Sentenced to involuntary commitment | Known as "The Prokopyevsk Strangler"; raped and murdered young girls and women around Prokopyevsk, Kemerovo Oblast, including a pregnant woman |
| Lobacheva, Elena | 2014–2015 | 15 | 15+ | 13 years imprisonment | Main member of a Neo-Nazi gang that killed alcoholic tramps and beggars around Moscow Oblast and Yaroslavl Oblast |
| Lobanov, Alexander | 1999–2001 | 5 | 5 | Committed suicide in prison | Known as "The Motovilikha Maniac"; sadist who raped and murdered women who rejected his advances in his hometown of Perm, mutilating their bodies and disemboweling them post-mortem |
| Lokhtachyov, Alexander | 2003–2004 | 10 | 10 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Raped, killed and burned women around Magnitogorsk with accomplice Pavel Safonov; killed two male witnesses by himself |
| Lozovoi, Sergey | 2002 | 6 | 6+ | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Giant"; robber who brutally murdered people around Rostov-on-Don and Sochi; suspected of more murders |
| Lytkin, Nikita | 2010–2011 | 6 | 6 | Committed suicide in prison | Teenager who killed people in his native Irkutsk, together with his partner-in-crime Artyom Anoufriev |
| Malyuk, Viktor | 2000–2001 | 4 | 4 | Committed suicide in prison | Known as "The Ad Killer"; lured, killed and then robbed victims he found through newspaper advertisements |
| Marchev, Vladimir | 2010–2011 | 3 | 3 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Degtyarsk Maniac"; murdered three women around the Sverdlovsk Oblast for robbery, then decapitated and dismembered the bodies post-mortem |
| Markov, Anatoly | 2001–2002 | 12 | 12 | 19 years imprisonment | Known as "The Psotino Butcher"; murdered acquaintances during drunken quarrels, most of them with the help of his Ukrainian accomplice Alexander Lesnoy |
| Martirosyan, Georgy | 2011–2012 | 3 | 4 | 23 years imprisonment | Known as "Gosha the Magician"; Georgian-born Russian serial killer fraudulent spiritual healer who poisoned three women in Korolyov, Moscow Oblast |
| Martynov, Sergei | 1992–2010 | 9 | 9+ | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Torso Killer"; killed women across western and central Russia |
| Maslich, Alexander | 1989–1996 | 5 | 5 | Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment | Murdered a man during a robbery in the late 1980s and killed another four while incarcerated |
| Matyakubov, Bakhtiyor | 2015 | 10 | 10+ | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Uzbek Chikatilo"; Uzbekistani migrant who stabbed women to death across Russia, Uzbekistan and Ukraine |
| Melyukh, Andrei | 2000–2002 | 10 | 10 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Brick Maniac"; robbed and murdered elderly women in Chelyabinsk by hitting them on the head with a brick |
| Meshcheryakov, Andrei | 2002 | 5 | 5 | 25 years imprisonment | Known as "The Balashikhinsky Maniac"; strangled women in the span of two months for the purpose of robbery in Moscow |
| Mirgorod, Vladimir | 2002–2004 | 18 | 18 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Also known as "The Strangler"; raped and strangled 17 women in Moscow, also killing a woman's son |
| Mukhankin, Vladimir | 1995 | 9 | 9 | Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment | Known as "The Pupil of Chikatilo"; killed women in Rostov Oblast |
| Mursalimov, Yakhiya | 1998–1999 | 13 | 13 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Murdered thirteen people during robberies in Orenburg Oblast |
| Murylev, Alexander | 1993–1994 | 8 | 8 | Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment | Known as "Yeltsin's Sanitary"; stock broker who killed alcoholics around Moscow in order to appropriate and then sell their apartments |
| Nagorny, Yevgeny | 1998 | 10 | 10 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Automechanic who, together with accomplice Sergei Stavitsky, killed clients with expensive cars in order to sell them later on |
| Neznamov, Mikhail | 2000–2005 | 6 | 6 | 17 years imprisonment | Known as "The Kamensk Strangler"; raped and murdered teenage girls and women in his hometown of Kamensk-Uralsky |
| Novosyolov, Mikhail | 1977–1995 | 22 | 22 | Sentenced to civil commitment | Known as "The Necrophile Rebel"; Tajik necrophile who killed people in Russia and his native country |
| Nurmagomedov, Murad | 2013–2016 | 4 | 5 | 18 years imprisonment | Killed four acquaintances in Moscow and Dagestan over arguments; suspected in a 2004 murder |
| Orunbayev, Kegashbek | 1991–2012 | 6 | 6 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Ivolginsky Ripper"; Kyrgyzstani laborer who killed, raped, dismembered and cannibalized his victims' corpses in Altai Krai and Buryatia |
| Osipenko, Sergey | 2005–2006 | 4 | 4 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Rossoshansky Maniac"; Kazakhstani man who raped, murdered and robbed 4 women in Voronezh Oblast |
| Panchenko, Ivan | 1998–2008 | 5 | 5 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Svetlograd Maniac"; kidnapped and killed young girls in Svetlograd, Stavropol Krai, and also killed a colleague he deserted with |
| Petrosyan, Oleg | 1992–2008 | 6 | 7 | Sentenced to compulsory treatment | Known as "The Karate Maniac"; schizophrenic sadist who confessed to murdering a homeless man in his youth, and later killed six more between 2005 and 2008 in Moscow |
| Petrov, Maxim | 1999–2000 | 12 | 19 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "Doctor Death"; practicing doctor who killed his patients for the purpose of robbery |
| Petrov, Yevgeny | 1998–2003 | 11 | 11 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Novouralsk Ripper"; pedophile who kidnapped, raped and killed young girls around Novouralsk, Sverdlovsk Oblast, mutilating and burning their corpses afterwards |
| Pichushkin, Alexander | 1992–2006 | 49 | 60 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Chessboard Killer"; killed at least 49 people in Moscow's Bitsa Park |
| Pirovskih, Alexander | 1997–1999 | 5 | 5 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Fraudster who murdered people for monetary purposes, including his wife and her children from the first marriage |
| Pischikov, Denis | 2002–2003 | 14 | 17 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Shivering Creature"; robbed and killed elderly people in Moscow and Vladimir Oblast |
| Podkopaev, Roman | 2007–2013 | 30 | 30 | Unknown | Family of robbers, led by Roman and his wife Inessa Tarverdiyeva, who robbed and killed people around the North Caucasian Federal District |
| Podshivalov, Timofey | 2011 | 4 | 4 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Zakamsky Maniac"; considered one of the worst criminals in Perm's history |
| Popkov, Mikhail | 1992–2010 | 86 | 86 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Werewolf"; assaulted and murdered 85 women and 1 of his colleagues in Angarsk, Irkutsk and Vladivostok; |
| Prodan, Fyodor | 1997–2017 | 4 | 4 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Murdered his cohabitants during quarrels |
| Prodan, Ion | 1998–1999 | 5 | 5+ | Released in 2014 | Known as "The Domodedovo Ghoul"; Moldovan guest worker who killed people near railways |
| Ptitsyn, Igor | 2009–2011 | 3 | 3+ | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Kazan Maniac"; serial rapist who killed three women between 2009 and 2011, primarily around Lake Glubokoe |
| Rakhmanov, Anushervon | 2014–2015 | 7 | 7 | Committed suicide before trial | Known as "Mosgaz-2"; copycat of Vladimir Ionesyan who murdered and robbed his victims to support his drug and alcohol addictions |
| Retunsky, Vladimir | 1990–1996 | 8 | 12 | Released 2015 | Known as "The Povorinsky Maniac"; kidnapped, raped and killed hitchhikers in his hometown of Povorino, Voronezh Oblast; also suspected of abusing the corpses; initially sentenced to death, but commuted to 15 years imprisonment and subsequently released in 2015 |
| Roldugin, Andrei | 2002 | 3 | 3 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Voronezh Maniac"; serial rapist who raped and killed teenagers in Voronezh, sexually abusing them post-mortem |
| Romanov, Vladimir | 1991–2005 | 12 | 20 | Committed suicide in prison | Known as "The Kaliningrad Maniac"; pedophile who raped and murdered 12 girls and young women in Kaliningrad Oblast; suspected of more murders |
| Ryakhovsky, Sergei | 1988–1993 | 19 | 19+ | Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment | Known as "The Hippopotamus"; killed prostitutes and homosexuals in order to "cleanse" society |
| Rylkov, Oleg | 1994–1997 | 6 | 9 | Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment | Known as "The Tolyatti Ripper"; rapist and pedophile who raped between 37 and 39 underage girls, and killed 6 people in Tolyatti, Samara Oblast; suspect in three other murders |
| Ryno, Artur | 2006–2007 | 37 | 37 | 10 years of penal labour | Leader of racist skinhead gang, along with Pavel Skachevsky, who killed immigrants |
| Ryzhkov, Alexey | 2000–2001 | 5 | 5 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Rubtsovsk Ripper"; raped and murdered five females in Rubtsovsk, Altai Krai between November 2000 and January 2001 |
| Safonov, Pavel | 2003–2004 | 8 | 8 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Raped, killed and burned women around Magnitogorsk with accomplice Alexander Lokhtachyov |
| Samsonova, Tamara | 1995–2015 | 13 | 13+ | Sentenced to compulsory treatment | Known as "The Granny Ripper"; St. Petersburg woman who killed and allegedly cannibalized 13 people |
| Sarabashyan, David | 2000–2018 | 5 | 5 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Suvorov Maniac"; soldier who raped and strangled women around Rostov Oblast, most of them while AWOL |
| Sedov, Sergey | 1998–1999 | 6 | 6 | Sentenced to compulsory treatment | Known as "The Sokolniki Maniac"; mentally-ill man who killed people in Moscow's Sokolniki Park, sexually abusing the corpses afterwards |
| Sedykh, Anatoly | 1998–2003 | 12 | 12 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Lipetsk Chikatilo"; raped and murdered 12 women in Lipetsk, robbing the corpses afterwards |
| Seleznev, Eduard | 2002–2018 | 5 | 5 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Arkhangelsk Cannibal"; stabbed, dismembered and cannibalized the remains of drinking companions in Arkhangelsk |
| Serebrennikov, Gennady | 2002–2003 | 5 | 5 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Former police major who murdered witnesses to prevent his son from going to trial |
| Shayakhmedov, Shavkat | 1994–2021 | 5 | 6+ | Died in prison | Known as "The Zalegoshchensky Maniac"; Uzbekistani-born rapist who raped and murdered children and one young woman in Tajikistan and Russia |
| Shayakhmetov, Artur | 2002–2010 | 9 | 9 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Astrakhan Killer"; murdered people during arguments and robberies, sometimes with two accomplices |
| Shemyakov, Eduard | 1996–1998 | 10 | 10 | Sentenced to compulsory treatment | Known as "The Resort Maniac"; raped, killed and dismembered 10 women in St. Petersburg, supposedly cannibalizing one of the victims |
| Shipilov, Sergey | 1995–1999 | 14 | 14 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Velsk Chikatilo"; killed 14 female hitchhikers in Velsk, Arkhangelsk Oblast, most of them while out on prison leave |
| Shishikhin, Ruslan | 2006–2007 | 3 | 3 | Sentenced to involuntary commitment | Known as "The Yudino Maniac"; mentally-ill schizophrenic who sexually assaulted and killed two women and a young girl in Kazan |
| Shubin, Nikolay | 2004–2006 | 13 | 13 | Sentenced to compulsory treatment | Known as "The Cemetery Director"; Georgian-born Russian serial killer, paranoid schizophrenic who killed 13 people in Lipetsk after losing in chess games to them |
| Shumkov, Konstantin | 2008 | 5 | 5 | 25 years imprisonment | Leader of "The Blood Magic Gang"; along with four teenage accomplices, murdered 5 homeless people in Irkutsk from January to June 2008 and wounded 3 others |
| Shuvalov, Pavel | 1991–1995 | 5 | 5 | Died in prison | Known as "The Nevsky Forest Park Maniac"; policeman who lured, raped and then killed young girls who wore pantyhoses in St. Petersburg |
| Skachevsky, Pavel | 2006–2007 | 37 | 37 | 10 years of penal labour | Leader of a racist skinhead gang, together with Artur Ryno, who killed immigrants |
| Skoptsov, Valery | 1995–1996 | 9 | 9 | Died in prison | Known as "The Villain of all Trades"; prolific career criminal noted for his wide variety of crimes, including murders in Oryol and Bryansk Oblasts |
| Solovyov, Vyacheslav | 2003–2007 | 6 | 6 | Died from phlegmon while incarcerated | Known as "The Yaroslavl Poisoner"; poisoned 6 people in his hometown of Yaroslavl, including his wife, daughter and an investigator |
| Sotnikov, Viktor | 2000–2011 | 8 | 8 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Killed 8 people in Lipetsk and Tambov Oblasts |
| Sparikhin, Yuri | 1980–2020 | 4 | 4 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Murdered four people over the span of 40 years in Krasnodar Krai, including two children |
| Spesivtsev, Alexander | 1991–1996 | 20 | 80+ | Sentenced to compulsory treatment | Known as "The Siberian Ripper"; tortured and killed street children and young women with the help of his mother Lyudmila, allegedly cannibalizing some of them |
| Steblyakov, Serhiy | 2010 | 5 | 5 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Old Lady Strangler"; Ukrainian guest worker who, together with two accomplices, strangled then robbed elderly female veterans and gay men around Moscow |
| Stepanov, Yuri | 2003–2008 | 7 | 7 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Murdered homeless people in Tyumen, including his accomplice |
| Strack, Ivan | 2004–2017 | 4 | 4 | 22 years imprisonment | Known as "The Leningrad Maniac"; killed his grandfather and two schoolgirls as a minor; killed another woman 12 years later after release from a psychiatric hospital |
| Surikov, Andrei | 2008 | 3 | 3 | Sentenced to involuntary commitment | Known as "The Naro-Fominsk Maniac"; former traffic policeman who murdered women in Naro-Fominsk, Moscow Oblast in the name of Lucifer |
| Sushko, Yuriy | 2013–2015 | 5 | 5 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Homeless Killer"; homeless Ukrainian man who beat to death four drinking companions and his girlfriend to death in Uzlovaya, Tula Oblast; also burned their bodies |
| Tagirov, Radik | 2011–2012 | 31 | 31 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Volga Maniac"; from March 2011 to September 2012, in the Volga and Ural Federal Districts, Tagirov murdered 31 people in khrushchevkas, all of whom were single women aged 75 to 90 years old |
| Tambasov, Dmitry | 2001–2002 | 3 | 11 | Sentenced to life imprisonment; commuted to 25 years imprisonment | Known as "The Perm Chikatilo"; mentally-ill sexual deviant who raped and murdered young women in Perm |
| Taran, Alexander | 2003–2004 | 3 | 3 | 23 years imprisonment | Known as "The Voroshilov Sharpshooter"; beekeeper who murdered police officials in order to avenge his children; guilt has been questioned |
| Tarverdiyeva, Inessa | 2007–2013 | 30 | 30 | Unknown | Family of robbers, led by Inessa and her husband Roman Podkopaev, who robbed and killed people in the North Caucasian Federal District |
| Ten, Oleg | 2004–2005 | 3 | 3+ | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Maniac Policeman"; Uzbekistani-born policeman who stabbed and mutilated women during robberies in Saint Petersburg |
| Tigoyev, Alexey | 1990–2003 | 7 | 9 | Sentenced to involuntary commitment | Known as "The Medvezhyegorsk Maniac"; killed his father's friend in 1990; after release, hacked to death several acquaintances and strangers in Karelia and Pskov |
| Tsukanov, Sergey | 1989–1999 | 8 | 8 | Sentenced to involuntary commitment | Known as "The Cemetery Maniac"; raped and killed elderly women around Tula, beginning when he was a teenager |
| Tushinsky, Vladimir | 2010–2014 | 5 | 5 | Died from a cardiac arrest while incarcerated | Known as "The Kamchatka Chikatilo"; killed 5 girls in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to satisfy his sexual urges; also raped his underage stepdaughter |
| Ushkalo, Alexander | 1998–1999 | 6 | 6 | Sentenced to involuntary commitment | Kyrgyzstani-born schizophrenic thief who killed and robbed various victims in Kemerovo and Novosibirsk |
| Ustinovich, Mikhail | 1992–1993 | 4 | 4 | Sentenced to death; commuted to life imprisonment | Prolific career criminal who murdered some of his robbery victims in Moscow |
| Vasilyev, Alexander | 1997–2001 | 17 | 17 | Died in 2020 | Known as "The Black Angel"; tortured, killed and robbed pensioners and cab drivers around Krasnoyarsk out of a homicidal mania |
| Voitov, Pavel | 2014–2015 | 15 | 15+ | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Leader of a Neo-Nazi gang that killed alcoholic tramps and beggars around Moscow and Yaroslavl Oblasts |
| Voronenko, Dmitry | 2006–2007 | 4 | 4 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Petersburg Maniac"; Kyrgyzstani-Ukrainian rapist who raped and killed girls and young women in St. Petersburg |
| Voronov, Valery | 2005–2007 | 3 | 3+ | Sentenced to compulsory treatment | Known as "The Lyuban Maniac"; attacked women and girls near toilet stalls in Lyuban, Leningrad Oblast, killing some of them |
| Vygovsky, Alexey | 2006–2009 | 17 | 17 | 22 years imprisonment | Known as "The Station Poisoner"; together with two accomplices, drugged and robbed commuters on trains along Moscow railway stations, some of whom died from the attacks |
| Wirth, Oleg | 2011–2012 | 5 | 5 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Murdered five acquaintances in drunken quarrels in Urusha, Amur Oblast; aided by his girlfriend in two of them |
| Yaikov, Vyacheslav | 2002–2003 | 6 | 6 | Sentenced to compulsory treatment | Known as "The Kopeysk Strangler"; mentally-ill rapist who killed 6 women in Kopeysk, Chelyabinsk Oblast |
| Yezhov, Andrey | 2010–2020 | 7 | 7+ | Committed suicide before trial | Known as "The Kashirsky Maniac"; voyeur who broke into homes of elderly women around Moscow, whom he strangled and raped |
| Yudin, Mikhail | 1999–2002 | 5 | 5 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Berdsk Maniac"; raped and killed 5 women in Berdsk, Novosibirsk Oblast, stealing their valuables and then giving them to his wife or mother |
| Yurkin, Andrei | 1994–1995 | 5 | 5 | Sentenced to death; commuted to 15 years | Known as "The Mordovian Maniac"; robbed, raped and killed women in Saransk with two accomplices; served sentence in full and released in 2009 |
| Zaikin, Oleg | 2001–2006 | 9 | 9+ | Committed suicide in prison | Known as "The Chernikov Maniac"; committed numerous rapes and at least 9 murders in several regions across Russia |
| Zakharchenko, Andrei | 2000s–2014 | 11 | 11 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Kartaly Arsonist Maniac"; killed ten acquaintances in Kartaly during petty arguments after being released from a prior murder conviction |
| Zamanov, Abdufatto | 2002–2004 | 14 | 14 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Krasnoyarsk Chikatilo"; killed 14 people in Krasnoyarsk for his personal pleasure, as well raping two adolescent girls |
| Zamulin, Roman | 2006 | 6 | 6 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Night Carrier"; FSO praporshchik who raped and killed women in Yekaterinburg |
| Zastynchanu, Sergey | 2004 | 4 | 4 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Koptevsky Maniac"; killed 4 elderly women in Koptevo District, Moscow Oblast |
| Zhizhich, Alexander | 2003 | 5 | 5 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Together with his brother, Viktor, killed three people in Vologda, as well as two others on his own in Arkhangelsk |
| Zhizhich, Viktor | 2003 | 3 | 3 | 23 years imprisonment | Together with his brother, Alexander, killed three people in Vologda |
| Zhukov, Vladimir | 2002–2006 | 3 | 4 | Sentenced to life imprisonment | Known as "The Nizhegorodsky Chikatilo"; pedophile who abducted, raped and murdered young girls in Nizhny Novgorod; suspected of other crimes, including an additional murder |
| Zhukova, Sofia | 2005–2019 | 3 | 3 | Died before trial | Murdered three people in Khabarovsk with an axe, dismembering their remains afterwards |
| Zubov, Denis | 2013–2014 | 3 | 3 | 21 years imprisonment | Murdered three people in Volgograd, severing the genitalia of the first two victims |

## Unidentified serial killers

| Name | Years active | Proven victims | Possible victims | Regions where active | Notes |
| Barnaul Maniac | 1997–2000 | 11 | 11 | Altai | Murdered women and girls in Barnaul and Buranovo; the main suspect, market trader Alexander Anisimov, committed suicide after confessing some of the murders, but his guilt has not been conclusively proven |
| Danilovsky Maniac | 2004–2007 | 7 | 7+ | Vologda | Raped and murdered 7 young girls and women in Cherepovets; also suspected of murdering a woman in Vologda in 2010, as well as a series of murders of young girls between 1999 and 2003 |
| Forest Maniac | 1993–1997 | 12 | 18 | Samara | Stalked and killed couples around Samara and its suburbs. A police major was convicted for two of the murders and served a prison sentence for it, but his guilt is disputed. |
| Tyumen Maniac | 1997–2009 | 8 | 8+ | Tyumen | Thought to be responsible for the disappearances and murders of children around Tyumen; Vitaly Berezhnoy arrested |