Yevgeny Sidorenko

Yevgeny Yevgenyevich Sidorenko , known as The Chernigov Butcher , is a Russian serial killer who committed seven violent murders in his native village of Sibirtsevo, Primorsky Krai, from July to December 2005, shortly after being paroled from a manslaughter conviction.

Ruled unfit to stand trial, Sidorenko was ordered to undergo treatment at a psychiatric facility for an indefinite period.

Early life Very little is known about the early years of Sidorenko's life. He was born in 1982 in the village of Sibirtsevo, where he grew up in poverty. From an early age, he began to show signs of a mental illness and lost interest in learning, leading to him performing poorly at school. After serving several years in prison, he was granted parole and released in 2004, but by then his mental state had deteriorated dramatically, after which he started committing murders.

On the night of 12 July 2005, Sidorenko murdered an acquaintance he had a personal dislike for, as well as her male companion, near the railway station in Sibirtsevo. The corpses were found at the intersection of Komsomolskaya Street and the Military Highway near the railroad tracks.

In August, Sidorenko broke into the house of an acquaintance in the early morning hours and set fire to some items in a closet. As a result, all of the occupants – the house's owner, his wife and young child - died in the blaze.

At the request of his lawyers, a forensic psychiatric examination was conducted, and Sidorenko was found incapable of standing trial. At the end of 2006, the Chernigov District Court acquitted him by reason of insanity and was transferred to a psychiatric hospital with intensive supervision.