Yevgeny Krasnoyarov

Yevgeny Valeryevich Krasnoyarov (; born 1972), known as The Ripper of Tajiks , is a Russian serial killer and Neo-Nazi who murdered six people and harmed eight others in Chita, Zabaykalsky Krai, from 2006 to 2016. Most of the killings were committed on ethnic grounds, with him claiming that he wanted to rid the country of foreign drug dealers.

For his crimes, Krasnoyarov was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.

Early life Yevgeny Krasnoyarov was born in 1972 in Chita, Chita Oblast. Little is known about his childhood, but by the 1990s, he was involved with several criminal gangs in the Transbaikal region. He eventually defected to a gang run by businessman Valery Torgaev, for whom he worked as a bodyguard until the latter died in an accident during the mid-2000s.

Following Torgaev's death, Krasnoyarov ascended the ranks and quickly garnered a reputation for his bloodthirstiness and hatred towards those he considered "non-Russians". Aside from this, he worked in a sports company, was considered one of the country's most skilled masters of the Arnis martial art and was known for his skilled usage of knives. Krasnoyarov claimed that he was innocent and that he had an alibi, but this was contradicted by many eyewitness accounts and physical evidence that matched him to the killings.

Detention After his conviction, Krasnoyarov was transferred to the Snezhinka Colony in Elban, Khabarovsk Krai. In 2019, a documentary crew who went to film an interview with another prisoner learned that Krasnoyarov, who refused to communicate with reporters and cussed them out, was considered so dangerous that he was the only prisoner in the colony whose handcuffs are not removed by prison staff when he's outside the cell. As of March 2023, this claim remains unverified.