Nikolay Pavlovich Shubin (russian: Николай Павлович Шубин; born 1956), known as The Cemetery Director, is a Georgian-born

Russia Russia (, , ), or the Russian Federation, is a transcontinental country spanning Eastern Europe and Northern Asia. It is the largest country in the world, with its internationally recognised territory covering , and encompassing one-eigh ...

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, who killed 13 homeless and single people between 2004 and 2006 in the city of

Lipetsk Lipetsk ( rus, links=no, Липецк, p=ˈlʲipʲɪtsk), also romanized as Lipeck, is a city and the administrative center of Lipetsk Oblast, Russia, located on the banks of the Voronezh River in the Don basin, southeast of Moscow. Populat ...

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Shubin was born in Tbilisi.Липецкого маньяка, убившего не меньше 11 человек, отправили на лечение
// NEWSru.com, 19 марта 2008 In 1976, Shubin was hospitalized in the

Voronezh Voronezh ( rus, links=no, Воро́неж, p=vɐˈronʲɪʂ}) is a city and the administrative centre of Voronezh Oblast in southwestern Russia straddling the Voronezh River, located from where it flows into the Don River. The city sits on ...

Regional Clinical Psychoneurogical Dispensary with a diagnosis of

neurasthenia Neurasthenia (from the Ancient Greek νεῦρον ''neuron'' "nerve" and ἀσθενής ''asthenés'' "weak") is a term that was first used at least as early as 1829 for a mechanical weakness of the nerves and became a major diagnosis in North A ...

. Shubin was arrested in October 2006, after policemen detained him in connection with the disappearance of a local pensioner named Mescheryakov. He had disappeared after going to the park to play a game of

chess Chess is a board game for two players, called White and Black, each controlling an army of chess pieces in their color, with the objective to checkmate the opponent's king. It is sometimes called international chess or Western chess to dist ...

with Shubin. At the interrogation, Shubin immediately confessed to the murder and showed where he buried the body. During the investigation, he began to talk about another murder committed by him. Every week, he reported on his previous killings, and showed the locations where the bodies were buried. Shubin always disoriented his victims with a strong blow to the head, then bound their hands and feet with wire, and finally strangling them with a garrot, which he always carried with him. He did not express any shame for his crimes and talked about them proudly and very confidently.«Директора кладбища» направили на принудительное лечение
// LRNews, 18 марта 2008 Shubin called himself the "Cemetery Director". The motive for the murders was simple - a quarrel or a loss at a game in chess.
// Информационно агентство Regnum, 19 марта 2008 During the investigation, Shubin was examined, and was diagnosed with a continuous type of

paranoid schizophrenia Schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by continuous or relapsing episodes of psychosis. Major symptoms include hallucinations (typically hearing voices), delusions, and disorganized thinking. Other symptoms include social withd ...

. Because of this, the court found him unfit to stand trial and sentenced him to compulsory treatment.

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"The Cemetery Director" is waiting for his sentence in a special hospital
{{DEFAULTSORT:Shubin, Nikolay 1956 births Georgian emigrants to Russia Living people Male serial killers People acquitted by reason of insanity People from Lipetsk People with schizophrenia Russian serial killers

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