page_title: Malchik
section_title: Death
hierarchical_section_title: Malchik / Death
caption_attribution_description: Mendeleevskaya
context_page_description: Malchik was a black mongrel stray dog living in Moscow, Russia. For about three years, Malchik lived at the Mendeleyevskaya station on the Moscow Metro. In 2001, he was killed when a 22-year-old woman, Yuliana Romanova, stabbed him with a kitchen knife. The incident sparked a wave of public outrage regarding the treatment of animals, and, in 2007, a monument was erected in Malchik's honour at Mendeleyevskaya station.
context_section_description: On a winter evening in December 2001, 22-year-old Yuliana Romanova (Volkova) was passing through Mendeleyevska station with her pet Staffordshire Bull Terrier. They encountered Malchik in a pedestrian underpass, and the stray dog barked at the pair. One report holds that Romanova set her dog on the sleeping Malchik. Romanova reached into her purse, removed a kitchen knife, and stabbed Malchik six times in the back, chest and stomach. The dog died several minutes later.
  A shopkeeper from a nearby stall tried to prevent the attack, but Malchik died before the police and an ambulance arrived. The woman was said to have fled the scene and there was no formal investigation initially. However, Romanova was traced back as the killer by Irina Ozyornaya, an investigative reporter of the popular newspaper Izvestiya, who started writing articles about the incident, identifying Romanova as a young fashion model. When contacted by the reporter, Romanova reportedly shrugged off the incident. Later it was revealed that Romanova has a long history of cruelty to animals and psychiatric treatment. After a year of campaigning, however, Romanova was arrested and tried, and underwent one year of psychiatric treatment. The story of Malchik's death received widespread coverage in the Russian media.
caption: Mendeleyevskaya metro station, where Malchik lived until its death
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