Vladimir Kolebin

Vladimir Alekseevich Kolebin (; born 1957), known as The Rybinsky Maniac , is a Russian serial killer who committed six murders in the village of Rybnoye, Krasnoyarsk Krai, from 1999 to 2014. Arrested after his final murder, he would later be convicted and sentenced to 19 years imprisonment.

Early life Very little is known about Kolebin's early life. Born in 1957 in Krasnoyarsk Krai, he grew up in a poor family with several brothers and sisters. Throughout his childhood, the young Kolebin spent most of his time on the street and started committing small-time crimes at age 14.

In the mid-1990s, after being released from another prison stint, Kolebin moved to Rybnoye, where his sister and brother lived. Soon afterwards, he got a job as a watchman at a local Agricultural Technical School and began living in the home of a local woman named Nina Reshetnikova. After being discharged, he learned that the attack was carried out by a local gang led by a man surnamed Masyutin, almost all of whom were later arrested and convicted. However, the man who organized the robbery—a local businessman surnamed Gruzdev—remained at large and soon began threatening Kolebin. Because of this, Kolebin decided that he would kill him. At around 3 AM on 15 October, Kolebin armed himself with a shotgun loaded with homemade buckshot and a can of gasoline, then woke up Reshetnikova and demanded that she come with him. On the way to Gruzdev's house, he ordered her to hide under a bridge over the river and wait for him to come back. He described the circumstances of each murder in detail, and over the following months, Kolebin took part in investigative experiments to verify his claims. A forensic ballistic examination confirmed that Gruzdev, Ivashchenko, Nikitina, and Ivanov had been killed with the homemade buckshot that fit Kolebin's smoothbore shotgun. At the same time, Reshetnikova admitted that she was present in at least three of the murders and even assisted Kolebin, but made a deal with prosecutors to testify against him in exchange for immunity from prosecution. He managed to avoid a life sentence due to several mitigating factors, including his confession, admission of guilt, active cooperation with law enforcement, and his advanced age. As part of her deal with prosecutors, Reshetnikova was not prosecuted.

In the media and culture Television "In A Quiet Pool" (Russian: В тихом омуте) from the documentary series "On the Trail of a Monster" (Russian: По следу монстра)

Books Antoine Casse and Irina Kapitanova (2023). The phenomenon of Russian maniacs. The first large-scale study of maniacs and serial killers from the times of tsarism, the USSR and the Russian Federation (Russian: Феномен российских маньяков. Первое масштабное исследование маньяков и серийных убийц времен царизма, СССР и РФ), Eksmo, ISBN 5046081180