May 5, 1950 - Zaven Almazyan
Operating across two Soviet cities over roughly a year, Almazyan committed a series of sexual assaults and three murders before his capture — a case that remained largely obscured within the Soviet state's tight control over public information about violent crime.
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Zaven Sarkisovich Almazyan (5 May 1950 – 1973), known as the Voroshilovgrad Maniac (Russian: Ворошиловградский маньяк, romanized: Voroshilovgradskiy manyak), was a Soviet serial killer and rapist who committed a series of crimes in Rostov-on-Don and Voroshilovgrad between 1969 and 1970, including three murders.
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