Stanislav Beloruscev

Stanislav Nikolayevich Beloruscev (; born 16 February 1967) is a Russian serial killer who committed at least 12 murders in Krasnokamsk, Perm Krai, from 2001 to 2009. Initially convicted of a triple murder and sentenced to life imprisonment, he has since confessed to nine other murders over a period of several years.

Early life Very little is known about Beloruscev's early life. He was born in Krasnokamsk in 1967, and developed an addiction to alcohol in the mid-1980s. During the Soviet and post-Soviet years, he has been convicted four times on different charges.

Murders In 2009, Beloruscev was arrested for murdering three people in Krasnokamsk. While drinking alcohol together, a quarrel occurred between Beloruscev and his three acquaintances, during which he bludgeoned them to death with a dumbbell disk and stabbed them multiple times. On 10 September 2010, he was convicted and received a life term, after which he was transferred to the Black Dolphin Prison to serve his sentence. Over the following years, he would periodically contact the Investigative Committee of Perm Krai and confess to nine additional murders committed between 2001 and 2009.

Initial confessions In 2013, he confessed to the murders of three other people who were killed in Krasnokamsk between August 2004 and January 2005.

Between 2015 and 2016, he admitted to two additional murders, for which he was respectively convicted and given two additional life terms by the Perm Regional Court.

Fourth and fifth confessions After the second trial, Beloruscev was returned to the Black Dolphin Prison, but in mid-2017, he was again returned to Krasnokamsk after confessing to his ninth murder. According to him, he had murdered an acquaintance surnamed Deriglazov at the man's apartment on Zvezdnaya Street in April 2004. Beloruscev claimed that after getting into an argument with him, he punched Deriglazov twice in the face and then, armed with scissors, he struck him at least four times in the neck and back. One of the cuts caused damage to Deriglazov's larynx on the right carotid artery and the jugular vein, in addition to the stabs in the back, caused him to bleed to death. His testimony was confirmed by a female cohabitant, as she stated that at the time of the crime, she worked as a saleswoman at a kiosk in the Zvezdny neighbourhood and had seen the two men drinking alcohol near her workplace before going to Deriglazov's apartment. At the end of the working day, the woman went to look for Beloruscev and met with a friend, Popova, who told her that the two men were at Deriglazov's apartment, where they got into a fight because the latter was sexually harassing her. She said that Beloruscev threatened to kill Deriglazov and then kicked her out of the apartment.

Sixth confession After spending three more years in prison, Beloruscev wrote another letter to the Investigative Committee in early 2023, confessing to his eleventh known murder. His victim was a local woman named Natalia Korneenkova, the mother of a small child who had been listed as a missing person for a long time. On 3 January 2003, Korneenkova quarrelled with her roommate and went to visit a friend named Zevakina, who herself was living with Beloruscev at the time. During the visit, he raped her in the toilet and then strangled her with a scarf, after which he took her jewellery, 400 rubles and a Nokia 3310. Zevakina claimed that when she returned to the room, Korneenkova was already dead, a claim corroborated by Beloruscev, who added that he threatened to kill her if she did not have sex with him on the sofa, where he had placed the murdered woman's body, after which he left Zevakina go. On 30 October 2023, a hearing was held in which he appeared in court via video link and changed his original testimony, claiming that he had in fact been aided by Zverev and none other than Zevakina herself.

He then stole 300 rubles from the man's trousers, as well as a bag filled with bottles and dishes, then covered up the victim's corpse and left. For this crime, he was given an additional 12 years to be served concurrently with his already existing sentences.