Serial Killers of the Soviet Union

Dzhumagaliev killed and ate nine people, mostly women. He was declared insane by the court and was imprisoned for compulsory treatment in a psychiatric clinic, until his escape in 1989, but was caught two years later and is currently serving his sentence.

Sergei Golovkin was a serial killer who was accused of 40 murders, but was only convicted for 11 of them. He would go after teenage boys, because of his own childhood trauma.

Vladimir Vennechevskyi was Soviet Union’s serial killer and rapist. He was convicted of 8 murders and 10 murder attempts toward children aged 2-5 years old. Check out our Instagram @sovietunionkillers

Anatoly Biryukov was a Soviet Union serial killer, convicted for killing and raping 5 babies in the Moscow area between September and October 1977

Oleksandr Berlizov was a Soviet Union serial killer who operated in his hometown, Dnepropetrovsk(Dnepr). He committed 9 murders and 42 rapes. Berlizov was recognized as sane, albeit a sexual psychopath. The court found him guilty and sentenced him to death, executing him in 1972