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Anatoly Maistruk | |
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 Family photograph (circa 1980s) | |
| Born | Anatoly Grigoryevich Maistruk 1950s Mykytyntsi, Khmelnytskyi Oblast, UkSSR, USSR |
| Died | 1981/1982 Irkutsk Oblast, RSFSR, USSR |
| Cause of death | Suicide by hanging |
| Conviction(s) | Murder x8 Manslaughter (vehicle accident) |
| Criminal penalty | Death (murders) 4 years, reduced to 2 (vehicle accident) |
| Details | |
| Victims | 8–28 |
Span of crimes | ?–1981 |
| Country | Soviet Union |
| State(s) | Irkutsk, Voronezh, others confessed |
Date apprehended | September 1981 |
Anatoly Grigoryevich Maistruk (Russian: Анатолий Григорьевич Майструк; 1950s – 1981/1982) was a Soviet serial killer who murdered at least eight men of Central Asian descent in Irkutsk and Voronezh Oblasts in 1981, most of whom he beheaded. His motive was supposedly hatred, since he had caught his girlfriend cheating on him with an Uzbekistani immigrant.
Although he initially confessed to 28 murders in total and was investigated for similar killings across the USSR, Maistruk was found guilty of his eight confirmed killings and sentenced to death - by the time the verdict was announced, however, he had hanged himself in the detention center.