Russian mass murderers

NKVD officer and chief executioner (1895-1955)

head of SMERSH, Russian Minister of State Security (1946–1951)

Chief executioner of Tsar Nicholas II (1878–1938)

rebel leader known by his nom de guerre Motorola, K.I.A., commander of the Sparta Battalion

Russian explorer

Polish-Russian-German SS-Brigadeführer (1899-1944)

Russian general of Baltic German origin (1797–1883)

Chechen militia leader (1979-2002)

Soviet politician (1876–1941)

Chechen terrorist

Chechen perpetrator of the 2013 Boston Marathon bombing (1986–2013)

Soviet secret service member, Head of GULag (1898-1939)

Russian mobster (1960–1997)

Russian hostage taker (1976–2004)

Ukrainian spree killer