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Andrei Chikatilo

1936 - 1994

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Andrei Romanovich Chikatilo (Russian: Андрей Романович Чикатило; Ukrainian: Андрій Романович Чикатило, romanized: Andrii Romanovych Chykatylo; 16 October 1936 – 14 February 1994) was a Ukrainian-born Soviet serial killer nicknamed the Butcher of Rostov, the Rostov Ripper, and the Red Ripper who sexually assaulted, murdered, and mutilated at least fifty-two women and children between 1978 and 1990 in the Russian SFSR, the Ukrainian SSR, and the Uzbek SSR. Chikatilo confessed to fifty-six murders; he was tried for fifty-three murders in April 1992. He was convicted and sentenced to death for fifty-two of these murders in October 1992, although the Supreme Court of Russia ruled in 1993 that insufficient evidence existed to prove his guilt in nine of those killings. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Andrei Chikatilo has received more than 7,053,363 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Andrei Chikatilo is the 17th most popular extremist (down from 13th in 2019), the 40th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 33rd in 2019) and the most popular Ukrainian Extremist.

Andrei Chikatilo was a serial killer who murdered and mutilated at least 52 people in the Soviet Union during the 1980s.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Andrei Chikatilo ranks 17 out of 283. Before him are Gilles de Rais, Man in the Iron Mask, Abdullah Öcalan, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, and Ramón Mercader. After him are Ted Kaczynski, Ayman al-Zawahiri, Ulrike Meinhof, Ed Gein, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, and Albert Fish.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Andrei Chikatilo ranks 14. Before him are Mario Vargas Llosa, Robert Redford, Ken Loach, Mikhail Tal, Amancio Ortega, and Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. After him are F. W. de Klerk, John McCain, Valery Legasov, Ismail Kadare, Wilt Chamberlain, and Dennis Hopper. Among people deceased in 1994, Andrei Chikatilo ranks 16. Before him are Ayrton Senna, Linus Pauling, Giulietta Masina, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, and Burt Lancaster. After him are Harry Nilsson, Melina Mercouri, Kurt Cobain, Mas Oyama, Antônio Carlos Jobim, and Léon Degrelle.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Andrei Chikatilo ranks 40 out of 1,365. Before him are Ivan Mazepa (1639), Moshe Sharett (1894), Grigory Zinoviev (1883), Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836), Leonid Kravchuk (1934), and Volodymyr Zelensky (1978). After him are Igor Sikorsky (1889), Levi Eshkol (1895), Yulia Tymoshenko (1960), Nestor Makhno (1888), Vladimir Horowitz (1903), and Simon Wiesenthal (1908).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Ukraine

Among extremists born in Ukraine, Andrei Chikatilo ranks 1. After him are Boris Savinkov (1879), and Anatoly Onoprienko (1959).

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