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Polar Owl
Federal Governmental Institution — penal colony No. 18 of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug, commonly known as the Polar Owl (russian: Полярная сова, ''Polyarnaya sova'') is a Russian prison located on the bank of the Sob (river), Sob River near the Polar Urals in the Kharp urban-type settlement. It is one of the seven Supermax prison, supermax Corrective labor colony, corrective labor colonies operated by the Federal Penitentiary Service for convicts sentenced to Life imprisonment in Russia, life imprisonment in Russia. History Kharp was founded in 1961 during the construction of the Salekhard–Igarka Railway. The core of the new settlement was a camp for prisoners who worked on laying the railway. Subsequently, the camp was transformed into a prison for particularly dangerous recidivists. The prison received the status of a colony for life convicts in 2004. In 2010–2012, there were reports in the media that some empl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federal Penitentiary Service
The Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN, Russian: Федеральная служба исполнения наказаний (ФСИН), ''Federalnaya Sluzhba Ispolneniya Nakazaniy'') is a federal agency of the Ministry of Justice of Russia responsible for correctional services. The FSIN is the federal authority for the detention of suspected and convicted persons, the security and maintenance of prisons in Russia, the transport of prisoners, and rehabilitation programs. As of 2019, it operates 954 prisons and pre-trial detention facilities housing adult and juvenile offenders of various security levels, with the majority of penal facilities being corrective labor colonies. Its head office is located at Zhitnaya Street 14 in Yakimanka District, Central Administrative Okrug, Moscow. The FSIN was established in 2004 as a new federal correctional service agency for the Ministry of Justice to replace the Soviet-era Main Administration for the Execution of Punishments (Г ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Elistratov
Alexander Ivanovich Elistratov (russian: Александр Иванович Елистратов; 1954–2011), known as The Bloody Taxi Driver (russian: Кровавый таксист), was a Russian robber and serial killer who killed six of his passengers in Moscow between 2005 and 2007, in addition to non-fatally robbing three others. He was convicted of the killings and sentenced to life imprisonment, which he was serving at the Polar Owl Colony. Early life Elistratov was born in Ulyanovsk in 1954, but moved to the Kazakh SSR at an early age. In 1990, he returned to Russia, settling in Moscow's Federal Avenue with his wife, who gave birth to two sons. The couple later divorced, with the woman claiming that Alexander never paid for anything, but they still decided to live together as a family. Elistratov was described very positively by his acquaintances, especially by his blind neighbor Alesya, who claimed that he would drive her for free around the city and even buy her fa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander And Viktor Zhizhich
Alexander Viktorovich Zhizhich (russian: Александр Викторович Жижич; born 1979) and Viktor Viktorovich Zhizhich (russian: Виктор Викторович Жижич; born 1976) are Belarusian-Russian serial killers of Polish descent who murdered three people in the Vologda Oblast between January and October 2003. Alexander Zhizhich committed two additional murders in Arkhangelsk. The brothers were found guilty after trial, with Alexander receiving a life sentence and Viktor sentenced to 23 years imprisonment. Crimes The Zhizhich brothers were unemployed vagrants who had been travelling around Russia for several years by train. Usually, when conductors found them riding without a ticket, they were dropped off at the nearest station, where they sought shelter from good samaritans before leaving the next day by train. On 7 January 2003, the brothers found themselves in the town of Sokol. After disembarking from the train, they came across a 74-year-old ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergey Zastynchanu
Sergey Vladimirovich Zastynchanu ( ro, Sergiu Zastânceanu, russian: Серге́й Влади́мирович Застынча́ну; born 1979), known as The Koptevsky Maniac (russian: Коптевский маньяк) is a Moldovan serial killer who operated mainly in the north of Moscow. Biography He was born in 1980 in Moldova and grew up in the small town of Fălești, where he graduated from high school. In 1996, he was forced to leave for Russia to find work as a builder. On June 10, 2004, a 70-year-old woman and her sister were killed with a kitchen knife in their apartment in the Moscow district of Koptevo. A month later, a 69-year-old woman was killed in her apartment along Horoshevskoe highway. The attacker robbed one victim of 75 thousand rubles, and the other of 15 thousand rubles. Almost all the valuable items were left untouched, but it was later found that the killer only came for the money. Three months later, a criminal in the south-west of Moscow kille ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdufatto Zamanov
Abdufatto Tashpulatovich Zamanov (russian: Абдуфатто́ Ташпула́тович Зама́нов; born April 7, 1973), known as The Krasnoyarsk Chikatilo (russian: Красноярский Чикатило), is a Tajik-born Russian serial killer. Between June 2002 and November 2004, he killed nine men and five women in Krasnoyarsk and its suburbs on the basis of personal hostility, also raping two girls aged between 12 and 16. Biography Zamanov was born in the Tajik SSR, but moved to Krasnoyarsk in 1993. He killed his victims in suburban areas, in public gardens, near cafes and roads, with the first murder committed at a cemetery. "At the same time he used knives and household items", the press release said. The bloodiest of the attacks occurred in November 2004, when he murdered five women in a village in the Mansky District. Zamanov killed them with the help of improvised weaponry. In all cases, the criminal fled the scene, taking all valuables and gold jewelry fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mikhail Yudin (serial Killer)
Mikhail Alexandrovich Yudin (russian: Михаи́л Алекса́ндрович Ю́дин; born 16 November 1975), known as The Berdsk Maniac (russian: Бердский маньяк, link=no), is a Russian serial killer who operated in and around the town of Berdsk between 1999 and 2002. Biography A native from the village of Nagorny in Altai Krai, Yudin lived with his mother and brother. After the end of 8th grade of secondary school, he served in the army, and following his discharge, he left for the Novosibirsk Oblast, to the city of Iskitim, where he worked at a construction site. From an early age, acquaintances noted Yudin's sullenness and his stiffness in communicating with people. According to them, his character changed only when in a state of intoxication. In the summer of 1998, Yudin moved to the city of Berdsk, where he met a woman and began living with her, also starting work as a constructor. On August 12, 1998, Yudin met a lone woman near the Berdsk plant "Gian ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dmitry Voronenko
Dmitry Petrovich Voronenko (russian: Дми́трий Петро́вич Вороне́нко, uk, Дмитро Петрович Вороненко; born July 29, 1971), known as The Petersburg Maniac (russian: Петербургский маньяк), is a Kyrgyzstani-Ukrainian serial killer, who killed four girls and young women in St. Petersburg between 2006 and 2007. Early life Voronenko was born in the Osh Region into the family of an electrician and a kindergarten teacher. In his childhood, he liked to choke cats and dogs. After graduating the 10th grade, he did not have a permanent job. In 1987, Voronenko moved to the Ukrainian city of Krivyi Rih, where he graduated from the vocational school for the welder specialty. In 1989 Voronenko was sentenced to three years of correctional labor at construction sites in the Crimea for theft. Shortly before his release, he stole a bottle of brandy and a phone from his shift manager, for which he was added another two years o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daily Mirror
The ''Daily Mirror'' is a British national daily tabloid. Founded in 1903, it is owned by parent company Reach plc. From 1985 to 1987, and from 1997 to 2002, the title on its masthead was simply ''The Mirror''. It had an average daily print circulation of 716,923 in December 2016, dropping to 587,803 the following year. Its Sunday sister paper is the ''Sunday Mirror''. Unlike other major British tabloids such as '' The Sun'' and the ''Daily Mail'', the ''Mirror'' has no separate Scottish edition; this function is performed by the '' Daily Record'' and the '' Sunday Mail'', which incorporate certain stories from the ''Mirror'' that are of Scottish significance. Originally pitched to the middle-class reader, it was converted into a working-class newspaper after 1934, in order to reach a larger audience. It was founded by Alfred Harmsworth, who sold it to his brother Harold Harmsworth (from 1914 Lord Rothermere) in 1913. In 1963 a restructuring of the media interests of the Harms ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Pichushkin
Alexander Yuryevich Pichushkin (russian: Алекса́ндр Ю́рьевич Пичу́шкин, born 9 April 1974), also known as the Chessboard Killer (russian: Убийца с шахматной доской) and the Bitsa Park Maniac (russian: Битцевский маньяк), is a Russian serial killer who is believed to have killed at least forty-nine people, and possibly as many as sixty, between 1992 and 2006. Pichushkin was active in Moscow's Bitsa Park, where a number of the victims' bodies were found. In 2007 he was sentenced to life imprisonment. Early life Alexander Pichushkin was born on 9 April 1974 in Mytishchi, Moscow Oblast, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, and grew up on 2 Khersonskaya Street in Moscow proper. He lived there with his mother Natalia Elmouradovna, his younger half-sister, her husband, and their son in a two-bedroom apartment on the fifth floor. Their apartment building was a six-minute walk from the north end of Bitsa Park. Pichushkin is remembe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Panchenko
Ivan Petrovich Panchenko (russian: Ива́н Петро́вич Па́нченко; born January 27, 1968), known as The Svetlograd Maniac (russian: Светлоградский маньяк), is a Russian rapist and serial killer. Biography Panchenko was born on January 27, 1968, in Svetlogorsk. In 1986, he was convicted for desertion from the military and theft. He was also twice convicted for the acquisition and possession of drugs, and for the murder of a colleague with whom he deserted with. After the murder, Panchenko hid in a dugout in the forest. After returning from the prison, Panchenko began his murder spree. On September 30, 1998, he shot his 18-year-old sister-in-law on the banks of the Kalaus River, then drowned the body. Four months later, he kidnapped his wife's 16-year-old younger sister, whom he held in the dugout for three years, repeatedly raping her before eventually killing her. Four months after that, he killed a 15-year-old friend of the second victim ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergey Osipenko
Sergey Alekseevich Osipenko (russian: Серге́й Алексе́евич Осипе́нко; born March 6, 1970), known as The Rossoshansky Maniac (russian: Россошанский маньяк), is a Kazakhstani-Russian serial killer and rapist. From 2005 to 2006, he murdered 4 girls and women in the Voronezh Oblast. Biography In the 1990s, he worked in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kazakhstan. In 1999, Osipenko moved from his native Kazakhstan to the city of Rossosh, settling on the market to sell products to other vendors. He was fond of psychology and criminology, was married, and had a daughter. Osipenko committed the murders in a pattern: he would follow his victim, who lived in five-storey houses on the upper floors, go into the apartment with them, then rape and kill the owner, before plundering the place. On January 24, 2005, in Rossosh, Osipenko killed his first victim, 17-year-old Anna Berezhnaya. The killer attacked her as soon as she entered her apartm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yevgeny Kolesnikov
Yevgeny Anatolyevich Kolesnikov (en uk, Евге́ний Анато́льевич Коле́сников; 20 October 1984 – 2016), known as The Orphan of Solikamsk (Russian: ''Сирота Соликамская''), was a Russian serial killer and robber who, together with his girlfriend Olga Chekotina, robbed and killed six elderly people in Solikamsk from December 2006 to January 2007. For these crimes, he was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment, committing suicide in prison in 2016. Biography Yevgeny Kolesnikov was born on 20 October 1984 in Solikamsk. At the time of his birth, his father was in prison and his mother was an alcoholic, and as there was nobody reliable to take care of him, he was sent to an orphanage. While living there, tutors described him as a calm, but a very easily influenced and meek boy who was frequently bullied by other children. Despite this, he often attempted to provide cover for others who had committed some misdeed, apparently convinc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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