Dmitry Tambasov

Dmitry Aleksandrovich Tambasov , known as The Perm Chikatilo , is a Russian serial killer and rapist who committed at least three rape-murders in Perm from 2001 to 2002. After his arrest, he confessed to committing one additional murder, but investigators suspect that he is responsible for a total of nine to eleven.

Convicted for his known murders, Tambasov was initially sentenced to life imprisonment, but this was later commuted to 25 years imprisonment.

Early life Dmitry Tambasov was born on 2 February 1983, in Perm, the middle child in a family with two female siblings. From an early age, he began to show signs of mental illness as, according to his mother, he suffered from panic attacks at night. Despite this, he was never properly treated, as the doctor advised his mother to treat Dmitry with valerian.

Tambasov studied at a specialized school for troubled teenagers to become a baker. According to investigator Dmitry Baichurin, Tambasov would claim that at age 16, he had a sexual relationship with one of the teachers, who was a sadomasochist and liked anal sex, which greatly affected his psycho-emotional state. A year prior to this, Tambasov also had sex with a female relative of the same age as him. Upon hearing this, Tambasov offered that they go there together, claiming that a friend of his was there already. The woman agreed, after which Tambasov hailed a cab and first went to his house with his new acquaintance to get some money, after which they both went to the Palace of Culture.

In the midst of their struggle, Tambasov put his hand in the victim's mouth, whereupon she bit him and managed to push him off. She then clawed at his face and immediately ran up the ravine, all the while he shouted at her to come back and that he wouldn't kill her. At some point, the roommate had an argument with Shulenina over her alcoholism and promiscuous sex life before eventually leaving. Tambasov claimed that he and Shulenina had consensual sex shortly afterwards, but he began hurting her. She then tried to resist, upon which Tambasov began strangling her, at one point inserting a carrot into her anus.

During the re-investigation into his crimes, questions were raised about why Tambasov's fingerprints were not found on the condom used in the Nikitenko murder, even though his fingerprints were in a database due to his 2003 rape conviction. The trial prosecutor was initially unable to explain this, but in 2022, investigator Gulnara Abibulaeva gave an interview to the media in which she clarified that the reason for this was the due to the lack of advanced technology such as DNA in the early 2000s.

While in prison, Tambasov married, but constantly got in trouble with prison administration. However, prison administration issued a statement clarifying that this was not the case and that Tambasov continues to be incarcerated. His projected release date is approximated to be sometime in the summer of 2028.