Vladimir Kuzmin

Vladimir Ivanovich Kuzmin (born September 14, 1965 in Moscow, RSFSR) is a Russian thief and serial killer, who in the early 1990s was involved in various crimes against minors, murders, and Manslaughter

Kuzmin was born on September 14, 1965 in Moscow, living alone with a sick mother. He began stealing at the age of 10, and at 12 he had several convictions for vagrancy. When he was at home, instead of caring for his blind mother, he stole money, starved and beat her when she attempted to shame him. Because of this, at the age of 14 he was sent for three years to the Kashirskaya special school, where children from dysfunctional families and juvenile criminals were kept.

Returning from the special school in June 1982, he knew that, according to societal laws, he could no longer live at his mother's. To counter this, he committed several robberies of apartments, choosing those who were on the first and second floors, where it was possible to get into from a window. Kuzmin would then sell the stolen goods. In September of the same year, he was detained and sentenced to 7 years imprisonment in a youth detention center with a strict regime. There, he was forcibly turned into a passive homosexual. In order to raise his authority, he chose even weaker inmates and acted in the same way as he was being treated. Once, for no particular reason, he splashed hydrochloric acid into another prisoner's face, blinding him, for which Kuzmin received another 5 years.

In the spring of 1993, when there was just over a year left before the end of his prison term, Kuzmin escaped from prison. After escaping, he immediately arrived in Moscow, but as his mother had died, the apartment was taken by the state. In mid-April 1993, he met a 13-year-old teenager named Denis Kalistratov near the Tsaritsyn orphanage, who was as lonely and dependent as Kuzmin himself was. Having promised to treat him with beer, he took the teenager to a construction site, where he offered to do oral sex. The teenager refused, but Kuzmin then put a knife to the boy's throat, and so Denis agreed. This was the first encounter between Kalistratov and Kuzmin, with Denis eventually coming to terms with his lot and began to live with his older suitor. At the end of May, Kuzmin brought another boy, with whom he committed lewd acts with the help of threats. But the boy managed to escape, went to the police and Kuzmin was subsequently detained.

In June 1997, he returned to Moscow, as the only person he was connected to was Kalistratov. At the old address of Shipilovskaya Street, the Kalistratovs no longer lived, but from their neighbors he managed to locate the new address and learned that Denis now lived alone, since his alcoholic mother had died and both of his brothers were imprisoned. However, Kalistratov actually lived with a girl, whom he planned to marry in the future. Kuzmin immediately demanded that he break up with the girl, threatening to reveal her the past. Kalistratov was forced to end the relationship, and Kuzmin moved in with him. Soon Denis said that he did not want to have sexual relations with him, and then Vladimir offered a deal: they would stop this kind of relationship, but in return Denis would become an unquestioning acquaintance in Kuzmin's affairs.

On July 2, 1997, Kuzmin met a 15-year-old boy named Yuri G. Yuri admitted that he did not have enough money to spend like most of his peers, and instead invited the teenager to his house for some vodka, persuading him for sex afterwards, to which the boy refused. Then Kuzmin took him to the bathroom, struck him twice with a knife and raped the teenager. When Kalistratov returned, he offered to finish the boy off by strangling him with a cable. They then got rid of his corpse at a barn near the Borisov Pond and burned the body.

Soon after, the duo committed another murder in a similar manner: on August 30, they met a 15-year-old named Vladimir V., with Kuzmin explaining that he is setting up a car unloading team and offered Vladimir V. to earn some pocket money if he wanted. The boy agreed, and an appointment was given for the next day at Kalistratov's apartment to "discuss details". When Vladimir V. got there, he was raped by Kuzmin and then suffocated with a pillow by Kalistratov, his body being subsequently thrown into the Moskva River.

However, Kalistratov eventually fled, and the rest of the murders were committed by Kuzmin alone. His motive in most cases was sex. In total, he confessed to 11 murders - 3 teenagers, 5 men and 3 women, seven of which were proven. The bodies of the four missing men (his possible victims) were not found, although Kuzmin indicated the places of the murders.

In the Borisov Pond, the body of a young man was found.The authorities identified him late in the evening as a 15-year-old by the name of Vladimir K., who had been away from his home for two days, thanks to overlaps and recent events. He was last supposed to visit the apartment of a friend named Denis Kalistratov on September 25, 1997, who had promised to sell him marijuana. Surveillance was established behind the apartment, and soon two teenagers, Artyom Malinin and Valery Vassiliev, appeared near the residence. They claimed that for two weeks they couldn't locate Kalistratov, and he was soon detained. First of all, the authorities checked the apartment and found blood in the bathroom. However, the examination showed that Denis' prints were left two weeks ago, and the blood was still fresh. Kalistratov soon confessed Vladimir Kuzmin had a second set of keys for the apartment. Finding that a cousin of his lived in Moscow, the investigators located and subsequently detained Kuzmin.

His trial began in 1999, and he was subsequently convicted of murder, rape and a number of other crimes. He was sentenced to life imprisonment, of which the first 5 years he spent in prison, and the remaining years - in a special regime Penal colony

• A documentary by the TV series "Criminal Russia" entitled The last will not"The Last Will Not" (1998) was filmed. At the time of filming, he was not sentenced yet.
• A maniac by the name of Kuzmin, played by Arsen Bosenko, appears in the TV series "The Return of Mukhtar" in the "Origami" series, where he kills young women with dark hair and leaves paper origami birds on the crime scene.