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Mikhail Popkov

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Mikhail Viktorovich Popkov (Russian: Михаи́л Ви́кторович Попко́в; born 7 March 1964) is a Russian serial killer, rapist, and necrophile who committed the sexual assault and murder of eighty-three girls and women between 1992 and 2010 in Angarsk, Irkutsk, in Siberia, and Vladivostok in Far East, although he has confessed to and is suspected of at least eighty-six in total. He is known as "the Werewolf" and "the Angarsk Maniac" for the particularly brutal nature of his crimes; he would extensively mutilate the bodies of his victims and perform sexual acts on them. Popkov was also known as "the Wednesday Murderer" due to bodies of his victims usually being found on Wednesdays. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mikhail Popkov has received more than 1,733,573 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Mikhail Popkov is the 226th most popular extremist, the 1,859th most popular biography from Russia and the 7th most popular Russian Extremist.

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  • 1.7M

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  • 47.60

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Mikhail Popkov ranks 226 out of 283. Before him are Gary Gilmore, Robert Berdella, John List, Amparo Poch y Gascón, John Christie, and Mildred Gillars. After him are Marvin Heemeyer, Donato Bilancia, John Hinckley Jr., Édouard Vaillant, Warren Jeffs, and Joseph Paul Franklin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1964, Mikhail Popkov ranks 243. Before him are Yegor Letov, Jacques Songo'o, Anfisa Reztsova, Satoshi Furukawa, Carsten Wolf, and Kaj Leo Johannesen. After him are Emmanuelle Devos, Noémie Lvovsky, Igor Plotnitsky, Salizhan Sharipov, Victor Ferreyra, and Kathy Burke.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Popkov ranks 1,859 out of 3,761. Before him are Yekaterina Mikhailova-Demina (1925), Valentin Afonin (1939), Andrey Lavrov (1962), Boris Vilkitsky (1885), Vyacheslav Ovchinnikov (1936), and Slava Polunin (1950). After him are Alexander Nevzorov (1958), Alfred Asikainen (1888), Platon Oyunsky (1893), Anatoly Kuznetsov (1930), Ramazan Abdulatipov (1946), and Viktor Pavlov (1940).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Russia

Among extremists born in Russia, Mikhail Popkov ranks 7. Before him are Pavlik Morozov (1918), Shamil Basayev (1965), Wilhelm Voigt (1849), Dokka Umarov (1964), Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov (1874), and Alexander Pichushkin (1974).

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