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Alexander Pichushkin

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Alexander Yuryevich Pichushkin (Russian: Алекса́ндр Ю́рьевич Пичу́шкин; born 9 April 1974), also known as the Chessboard Killer (Убийца с шахматной доской) and the Bitsa Park Maniac (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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Pichushkin has received more than 1,846,324 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Alexander Pichushkin is the 218th most popular extremist (down from 186th in 2019), the 1,706th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,465th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Russian Extremist.

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  • 1.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 55.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Alexander Pichushkin ranks 218 out of 283. Before him are Dawood Ibrahim, Jonathan Wild, Dick Turpin, Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi, Ottis Toole, and Marshall Applewhite. After him are Nguyễn Văn Trỗi, Gary Gilmore, Robert Berdella, John List, Amparo Poch y Gascón, and John Christie.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1974, Alexander Pichushkin ranks 104. Before him are Carsten Jancker, Shavo Odadjian, Kenan İmirzalıoğlu, Taribo West, Costinha, and Daniel Wu. After him are Romain Duris, Xzibit, Zoran Zaev, Petter Solberg, Alexander Wurz, and Mirko Cro Cop.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Alexander Pichushkin ranks 1,706 out of 3,761. Before him are Agnes Miegel (1879), Anatoli Ilyin (1931), Valeri Zolotukhin (1941), Yury Grigorovich (1927), Marina Ladynina (1908), and Tamara Rylova (1931). After him are Vasily Bazhenov (1737), Irina Alfyorova (1951), Vitaly Bianki (1894), Serhii Plokhy (1957), Vyacheslav Ivanov (1938), and Alexandra Zabelina (1937).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Russia

Among extremists born in Russia, Alexander Pichushkin ranks 6. Before him are Pavlik Morozov (1918), Shamil Basayev (1965), Wilhelm Voigt (1849), Dokka Umarov (1964), and Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov (1874). After him are Mikhail Popkov (1964).

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