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Mikhail Popkov

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Mikhail Viktorovich Popkov (Russian: Михаи́л Ви́кторович Попко́в; born 7 March 1964) is a Russian serial killer, rapist, and necrophile who committed the sexual assault and murder of eighty-seven girls and women between 1992 and 2011 in Angarsk, Irkutsk, in Siberia, and Vladivostok in the Russian Far East, although he has confessed to and is suspected of at least ninety in total. He is known as "the Werewolf" and "the Angarsk Maniac" for the particularly brutal nature of his crimes; he would extensively mutilate the bodies of his victims and perform sexual acts on them. Popkov was also known as "the Wednesday Murderer" because most of his victims' bodies were found on Wednesdays. He is the single most prolific serial killer in Russian history. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2024). Mikhail Popkov is the 223rd most popular extremist (up from 228th in 2024), the 1,658th most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,859th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Russian Extremist.

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Among EXTREMISTS

Among extremists, Mikhail Popkov ranks 223 out of 283. Before him are Ernst Zündel, Yoo Young-chul, Robert Berdella, William Bonin, Amparo Poch y Gascón, and Abu al-Hussein al-Husseini al-Qurashi. After him are Milorad Ulemek, Mildred Gillars, Heinrich XIII Prinz Reuss, Abdullah Çatlı, Alexander Pichushkin, and Frank James.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1964, Mikhail Popkov ranks 224. Before him are Giuseppe Giannini, Naoto Ohshima, Willie Garson, David W. Panuelo, James Purefoy, and Han Suk-kyu. After him are Karen Karapetyan, Mark Waters, Petr Kellner, Matt Walsh, Valérie Lemercier, and Stuart McCall.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Popkov ranks 1,658 out of 3,761. Before him are Agnes Miegel (1879), Aleksandre Chivadze (1955), Eugene Kaspersky (1965), Galina Starovoytova (1946), Natalia Bessmertnova (1941), and Mark Zakharov (1933). After him are Viktoria Mullova (1959), Valentina Prudskova (1938), Yuri Shevchuk (1957), Klara Rumyanova (1929), Tatyana Tolstaya (1951), and Albert Razin (1940).

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Among EXTREMISTS In Russia

Among extremists born in Russia, Mikhail Popkov ranks 6. Before him are Pavlik Morozov (1918), Shamil Basayev (1965), Wilhelm Voigt (1849), Dokka Umarov (1964), and Dmitry Ilyich Ulyanov (1874). After him are Alexander Pichushkin (1974), and Aliaskhab Kebekov (1972).

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