September 5, 1975 - Hafiz Razzakov
Operating over a five-month period in a single Russian city, Razzakov carried out a targeted killing campaign rooted in religious extremism, selecting victims on ideological grounds. The case sits at an intersection of serial violence and domestic terrorism, shaped by his membership in an organized extremist network rather than acting in isolation. His conviction and life sentence followed one of the more methodical investigations into religiously motivated serial violence in post-Soviet Russia.
From Wikipedia
Hafiz Hamzayevich Razzakov (Russian: Хафиз Хамзаевич Раззаков; born 5 September 1975), known as The Borovets Maniac (Russian: Боровецкий маньяк), is an Uzbekistani-born Russian terrorist and serial killer who murdered nine people in the city of Naberezhnye Chelny from June to October 2004. Razzakov - a member of an extremist Islamist organization named Islamic Djamaat (Russian: Исламский джамаат) - targeted victims he considered to be infidels.
He would later be arrested for the murders, tried and successfully convicted, receiving a life sentence.
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