The following is a list of Soviet and post-Soviet serial killers 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.
| Name | Years active | data-sort-type="number" | Proven victims! | data-sort-type="number" | Possible victims! | Status | Nickname and general information | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nikolay Sakharov | 1977 | 3 | 3 | Deceased; executed by firing squad on 5 February 1979 | "The Vologda Chikatilo"; kidnapped, raped, and bludgeoned three young girls in Vologda. | [1] | ||
| Alexander Skrynnik | 1970s–1980 | 3 | 3 | Deceased; executed by firing squad in 1981 | "The Moldavian Chikatilo"; murdered and mutilated three women in Yakutia and Kishinev. | [2] | ||
| Konstantin Cheryomushkhin | 1986–1989 | 4 | 4 | Deceased; executed by firing squad in 1993 | "Chikatilo's Double"; raped, murdered, and mutilated four girls aged 9-14 in Bataysk. | [3] | ||
| Sergey Golovkin | 1986–1992 | 11 | 13+ | Deceased; executed by gunshot at Butyrka Prison on 2 August 1996 | "Chikatilo's Apprentice"; abducted, tortured, raped, murdered, and mutilated at least 11 young boys aged 10-16 in his garage basement or forests around Moscow. | [4] |
| Name | Years active | data-sort-type="number" | Proven victims! | data-sort-type="number" | Possible victims! | Status | Nickname and general information | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nikolai Dudin | 1987–2002 | 13 | 13 | Serving a life sentence at White Swan Prison | "The Furmanov Chikatilo"; murdered his father and twelve other people he deemed to have "humiliated [his] dignity" 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, murdered, and mutilated between eight and 12 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"; robbed, raped, and murdered 19 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 five young girls aged 7-12, also bludgeoning one of the victims' 12-year-old brother, in his hometown of Kamensk-Shakhtinsky. | |||
| Vladimir Mukhankin | 1995 | 9 | 9 | Serving a life sentence at Black Dolphin Prison | "The Pupil of Chikatilo"; murdered and mutilated nine girls and women in and around Shakhty. | |||
| Sergey Shipilov | 1995–1999 | 14 | 14 | Serving a life sentence at Black Dolphin Prison | "The Velsk Chikatilo" and "The Arkhangelsk Chikatilo"; raped and murdered 14 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 four teenage girls into his apartment in Nakhodka and raped them on camera after getting them intoxicated on alcohol, 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 12 young 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 and mutilated between 19 and 29 prostitutes in and around Novosibirsk. | [10] | ||
| Sergey Cherny | 1999 | 10 | 11 | Deceased; died of pneumonia in a psychiatric hospital on 24 June 2001 | "The Smolensk Chikatilo"; strangled ten or 11 women in Smolensk. | [11] | ||
| Nikolai Litvin | 1999 | 10 | 10+ | Sentenced to compulsory treatment | "The Prokopyevsk Chikatilo"; raped and strangled at least ten girls and young women. | [12] | ||
| Tofik Haroyan | 2000–2002 | 6 | 20+ | Sentenced to compulsory treatment | "The Krasnodar Chikatilo"; schizophrenic man who raped, robbed, and murdered female hitchhikers. | [13] | ||
| Valery Kopytov | 2000–2004 | 19 | 19 | Serving a prison sentence of 25 years | "The Barnaul Chikatilo"; homeless man who killed 19 other homeless people in Altai Krai, either as a result of arguments or in order to rob them. | [14] | ||
| Yuri Gritsenko | 2001 | 5 | 5 | Serving a prison sentence of 22 years | "The Zelenograd Chikatilo"; bludgeoned five women in his hometown shortly after being released from prison for a previous murder committed at an unknown date. | [15] | ||
| 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 at least nine women and children in several regions across Russia. | [16] | ||
| Abdufatto Zamanov | 2002–2004 | 14 | 14 | Serving a life sentence at the Polar Owl prison colony | "The Krasnoyarsk Chikatilo"; murdered 14 people out of rage in Krasnoyarsk. | [17] | ||
| 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 three or four children in Nizhny Novgorod. | [18] | ||
| Artur Shayakhmetov | 2002–2010 | 9 | 9 | Serving a life sentence in prison | "The Astrakhan Chikatilo"; robbed and murdered nine people in Astrakhan. | [19] | ||
| Alexey Falkin | 2004–2017 | 4 | 4 | Serving a life sentence in prison | "The Ural Chikatilo"; raped and murdered women in and around Yekaterinburg. | [20] | ||
| 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. | [21] | ||
| 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. | [22] | ||
| 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. | [23] | ||
| 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. | [24] | ||
| 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. | [25] |