A. Kuznetsov: Anatoly Slivko was born before the war in 1939. In the future, already at the investigation, giving evidence and trying to analyze what prompted him to commit crimes, he will say that he grew up in a dysfunctional family.

S. Buntman: Was it really like that?

A. Kuznetsov: Well, it’s difficult to look into someone else’s family, but this fact is not confirmed anywhere. The Slivko family was the most ordinary. Dad worked a lot, mom took care of the house. The boy grew up in a normal, let's say, average environment.

S. Buntman: Perhaps there were some odd behaviors?

A. Kuznetsov: In one of the materials of the case there is an indication of a thing that can by no means be considered normal: “As a child, Slivko was sickly and weak, suffered from insomnia, lack of appetite, was embarrassed by his appearance, clumsiness, avoided noisy games with peers and sports. As a schoolboy, he became interested in raising rabbits, willingly killed and butchered them.

From childish torment of animals, as you know, a lot of pathologies grow.

S. Buntman: Well, not always.

A. Kuznetsov: It would seem that Slivko did not torment the rabbits, but he quite calmly did what was not typical for a child. He is not from a rural family. One can understand if this was done by a boy who grew up in an ordinary peasant household, for whom the attitude to animals as a source of food is a completely normal thing. Still, Slivko is a more or less urban boy. Here is one of the signs.

Then the usual, quite an average Soviet life. Slivko graduated from high school, college, served in the army, then came to Nevinnomyssk, where he got a job at the Azot plant. In parallel with this, first on a voluntary basis, and then more and more immersed in this occupation, he began to collect boys and girls of school age and take them on hikes. Fortunately, Nevinnomyssk is wonderfully adapted for this.

Anatoly Slivko believed that he grew up in a dysfunctional family

S. Buntman: Organized the tourist club "Romantic" ...

A. Kuznetsov: Yes. A room was even allocated for the club. However, one night, one of the guys forgot to turn off the stove, it happened, and part of the building burned down. After some time, the club was given a new room, to which he came with a new name - "CherGiD" - "Through the Rivers, Mountains and Valleys."

S. Buntman: Non-standard. In addition to hiking, did the guys do something else in the club?

A. Kuznetsov: Certainly. The club carried out a large search work on the defense of the Caucasus, correspondence with participants in those events, trips to the places of battles. There was a good museum based on the materials of campaigns and expeditions: cartridge cases, helmets, fragments of documents, and personal belongings of soldiers were stored on small stands under glass.

S. Buntman: How was the communication in the club?

A. Kuznetsov: Slivko had built a fairly coherent pedagogical system. First, they were accepted into the club. That is, it was impossible to come from the street, sit down and say: “Now I am with you.” A certain ritual was developed. There was a hierarchy in the club. Experienced guys who made several trips and showed themselves well were members of the Council of Instructors. It was a great honor to be in it. It was the Council that was trusted by the younger tourists.

Anatoly Slivko on a hike

Before the first campaign, Slivko usually reported that the club had a system of penalty points: points were awarded for violations, and points were removed for good deeds. In the memoirs of Tatyana Khozhan, a member of the Romantika club, there is such an episode: “I really wanted to go camping, although I was a little scared, since all the school hooligans were also in the club, although this was not the main thing - my most hated subject in school - physical education, and I could not calculate my strength.

And here we are in a long chain - with bags in our hands due to the lack of backpacks - we wander along the coast of the Kuban towards Konnaya Balka. I am already exhausted from the three-hour walk, and warm clothes, and a heavy bag. Gradually I find myself closer to the tail of the column, as a boy comes up to me and asks me to give him my bag. I am surprised, even offended - what am I, the worst? I'm not hard! The guy tells me in a whisper that he has already been guilty and has earned a hundred negative points, and helping a friend write off half the fine for him.

How glad I was to rest these half an hour before the halt! Two years later, when we saw off this boy to the army, he said that he then sent him to help me Slivko, as he noticed that I was already exhausted. The boy did not have penalty points, but in order not to offend me, Slivko ordered me to say that they were.

We all then constantly encountered such help, sparing the vanity of a teenager. And the motto is “One for all, and all for one!” was not an empty phrase.

Great teaching technique, isn't it?

The name of Slivko was pronounced with gratitude in more than one hundred families

S. Buntman: I agree. It seems that two people got along in Slivko: one is a good, talented, thoughtful, selfless teacher who has done a lot of good, the other ...

A. Kuznetsov: The same Tatyana Khozhan writes: “There are many people who knew the maniac much better, closer than I did. I was not at his wedding, I don’t remember the names of his sons, but I recognized him from two different sides - this two-faced Janus - with white and black. These colors do not mix. Black paint covered the image of Slivko. And yet the seeds of kindness lay in good soil: a lot of guys who were given prison and drunkenness by school became wonderful people, excellent family men thanks to the tourist club, where the motto “one for all, and all for one” was not an empty phrase.

And what actually happened? In the mid-60s, Slivko, who had many internal problems, got married. However, he could not live a normal family life. According to his own testimony, "in seventeen years of marriage, he had sexual contact with his wife no more than a dozen times."

Why? The fact is that Slivko was more interested in boys than women. “I first felt attracted to boys in 1961, after I became an eyewitness to a traffic accident in which a boy of 13-14 years old died. He was in a school uniform with a tie, a white shirt and new black shoes. There was a lot of blood, gasoline spread on the asphalt. I suddenly had a feeling, a desire to have such a boy, to make him feel bad, hurt. This feeling haunted me constantly, and I was forced to leave the Far East, where I lived then. After the move, this desire disappeared, but after 5-6 months this attraction arose again and pursued constantly ... ”.

Anatoly Slivko with his wife Lyudmila

In addition to his passion for the club and young tourists, Slivko was also partial to cinema. He was very fond of filming and photography, and his amateur work often received various awards. In the city, Slivko was in very good standing, which allowed him to go unpunished for a long time.

S. Buntman: Who came out to him?

A. Kuznetsov: Assistant prosecutor of the city of Nevinnomyssk Tamara Languyeva, who first drew attention to the CheRGiD club. It was he who was visited by the missing boys. Communicating with members of the club, Langueva learned about the filming of films that Slivko conducted. She was surprised that in children's productions there were tortures, scenes of hanging the main characters, although the guys claimed that they were hanging for fun.

S. Buntman: Slivko's victims were 7 boys. Why wasn't the killer found sooner?

A. Kuznetsov: No one could even imagine that the missing boys had been killed. The most likely cause seemed to be an accident. The fact is that more than 40 people became victims of Slivko's experiments. Seven guys died. And all this for two decades ...

S. Buntman: Why did the children agree?

A. Kuznetsov: A well-known case - the boys are always interested in secrets and conspiracies. Slivko told someone that he was collecting material and writing a book about the limits of human capabilities, someone that he was obliged to know how to provide first aid on hikes if someone loses consciousness. In general, he was a good psychologist, despite the lack of education.

Slivko's experiments were divided into lethal and non-lethal. The victims of the latter, I repeat, were more than 40 people. Note that these guys did not slip out of the loop themselves and did not accidentally survive - Slivko brought them to their senses and gave them life.

For two decades, Slivko filmed all his experiments on children on camera

What happened next? The prosecutor of Nevinnomyssk was skeptical about the information collected by Tamara Langueva: he, like most residents of the city, could not believe that a person who had done so much for children was involved in the murders.

S. Buntman: But did Slivko sign a search warrant for the premises of CheRGiD and the apartment?

A. Kuznetsov: There were simply no other suspects. At first, the police officers did not find anything criminal, although they carefully examined the premises of the club. Then one of the policemen drew attention to the door with a sign "Do not climb in - it will kill you!" and asked Slivko: “What is there?” He changed his face. Behind the door was a darkroom, a pile of photographs of missing children.

One of the investigators, Nikolai Modestov, who was “lucky” to handle Slivko’s case, later recalled familiarizing himself with the material evidence: “Dead silence, only a color picture on the screen, and before your eyes a child is dying in agony. Moreover, the sadist, cold-bloodedly fixing the convulsions of the agonizing boy, from time to time himself gets into the frame. He not only shoots death, but voluptuously admires it.

On the screen, the body of the victim, dressed by the killer in a pioneer uniform, is laid on a white sheet. The spasms are getting rarer, rarer... The next frame is a severed head framed by severed legs. The camera comes close to the dead child's face, distorted by a frozen grimace of suffering and fear.

The investigation was short, since the physical evidence that was found and the authenticity of which there was no doubt would be enough for ten trials. Slivko, in general, did not particularly lock himself up. It was completely pointless to do so.

One of the victims of Anatoly Slivko

“When I dismembered the victim, I did not feel disgust, but subconsciously assessed the situation, some thoughts assessed the bad side of my actions, others - stronger ones - forced me to do bad things and foreshadowed satisfaction ... . He buried corpses and body parts, and burned clothes with gasoline. I prepared for everything in advance ... For each sexual intercourse, I needed to see blood ... But after the removal of sexual pressure, that is, after the satisfaction of passion, common sense suggested that it was often impossible to do this, that it was very bad, and I was constantly looking for new opportunities, intermediate non-murder options. There was an idea to take as many photos as possible, so that after looking at them, to reproduce the whole process, to get excited, to get satisfaction. Sometimes he used the imagination of what had happened before. I felt the same feelings towards my sons…”

In January 1986 Anatoly Slivko was arrested. The trial took place in June. He was found sane, guilty of seven murders. Crime scene visits were organized and the remains of six children buried in the forests were found. The remains of another murdered child were not found.

Sergey Petrov, Slivko's lawyer, drafted a pardon petition, a petition for a re-examination. However, these efforts were in vain - on December 21, 1987, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR refused to pardon and all the following time Slivko was in solitary confinement on death row in the Novocherkassk prison. On September 16, 1989, he was shot.

At the trial, Slivko said that he sometimes wanted to kill his sons

A few hours before the execution, Slivko advised investigator Issa Kostoev on the case of Andrei Chikatilo. True, nothing helped him.

S. Buntman: And what about the title of "Honored School Teacher of the RSFSR"?

A. Kuznetsov: I must say that it was received contrary to all orders. They wrote and said about "CherGiD", which, of course, very favorably set off the work of the governing bodies of the city and the region. That is, Slivko had a lot of well-wishers and patrons in the district committee of the party, and in the city committee, and in the regional committee. In particular, the third secretary of the city party committee, Kostina, patronized him a lot, helped with buses, with equipment, with premises, and so on. And when the city was given another title, she gave it to Slivko.

I do not remember a case when the title of "Honored School Teacher of the RSFSR" would be given to a teacher of additional education. It may have happened, but very rarely. And here Slivko had neither pedagogical nor higher education in general. By the way, the city teachers were then very offended by Kostina. When everything was revealed and it became clear that there was no mistake in Slivko's arrest, Kostina locked herself in her apartment and committed suicide.

An honored teacher of the Russian Federation worked in the Krasnodar Territory, to whom other teachers came to study, learn from his experience in raising children, but no one could even guess what was hidden under the guise of an honored teacher.

Nickname: "The Ripper Leader."
Number of victims: 7
Action time: 1964 - 1985.
Soviet serial killer with the longest streak of murders - it lasted 21 years! You can also say that Slivko is the most socially adapted domestic serial killer. You can admire the list of his merits and achievements - he was a shock worker of communist labor, a member of the CPSU, bore the title of Honored Teacher of the RSFSR (although he did not have a pedagogical education), was a deputy of the city council of people's deputies, they wrote about him many times in Pionerskaya Pravda, there were at least twenty radio broadcasts on the All-Union Radio (naturally, before it became known that he was a maniac), countless diplomas and awards. All residents of Nevinnomyssk knew about Slivko and his offspring - the children's and youth tourist club "Chergid". In general, the most trustworthy and wonderful Soviet citizen.
Therefore, when Slivko was arrested in December 1985, it came as a complete surprise to everyone. At first, the townsfolk thought that for the theft of socialist property (who did not happen to the Soviet Union?), But the "reality" turned out to be terrible. The Soviet man in the street has never encountered such a thing. "Local Nevinnomyssk celebrity", an example to follow, the best friend of children Anatoly Slivko turned out to be a killer, a monster from a horror movie, practically Freddy Krueger. He killed 7 children between the ages of 11 and 15, and the murders and dismemberment of corpses were carefully filmed and photographed. Slivko kept all these “documents” ... in the premises of the Chergid club, in the electrical panel! During the search, in addition to terrible films and photographs, they also found a set of hunting knives and a camping hatchet, coils of rope, loops made from pieces of rubber hose and sawn children's shoes. In addition, Slivko's notebooks and diary were found, which he kept for many years and in which he described in detail the murders and his experiences associated with them.
He found his victims among a member of the Chergid club. He "seduced" them into participating in a secret "experiment" or "trial" in which a child was suspended in a noose (or a plastic bag was put on its head) and fainted. This was necessary, Slivko said, in order to know how to help someone who lost consciousness on a campaign. In general, Slivko told the boy that by going to the experiment, he accomplishes a feat and provides invaluable assistance to science. Seven such experiments ended in death. But besides them, there were 42 more (!) experiments with different boys, which ended more or less “successfully”, although some of its participants acquired illnesses or even disabilities for life. (Modestov's book lists 33, in fact there are more.)
Slivko got sexual arousal and relaxation, watching the torment of children. But he received the “highest pleasure” from the process of dismembering a corpse and other “necrosadistic actions”. In particular, quite "exotic" ones - he sawed the legs of a (already dead) boy shod in boots, doused the boots with gasoline and set fire to it, without fail filming it all on film. In the future, he watched his terrible films and masturbated (in most cases - in the premises of "Chergid" before the start of classes).
Slivko also tried to preserve some parts of the bodies of his victims (mainly the genitals) by salting them in an ordinary tin can.
The trial of Slivko took place in June 1986. Twice conducted forensic medical examination at the Institute. Serbian showed his full sanity. He was shot in September 1989.

Anatoly Emelyanovich Slivko was born on December 28, 1938 in the Dagestan city of Izberbash. The newborn received a birth injury - was strangled by the umbilical cord. The consequences of this injury later negatively affected Slivko - he suffered from headaches all his life, and in adolescence he developed personality traits that psychiatrists call "epileptoid" or "organic" psychopathy. Such people have a “viscous” psyche, they tend to “get stuck” on some traumatic event for a long time.
For Slivko, such a traumatic event occurred in 1943, during the Nazi occupation. He witnessed the murder of a boy by a German soldier. The soldier wanted to shoot the boy's dog, and the boy tried to protect it. Both were killed. Blood spattered the soldier's polished chrome boots, and he wiped them on the child's corpse. From now on, black shiny polished boots will become Slivko's sexy fetish. Later, with older children, he played partisans - he was a pioneer hero and he was "executed" - they hung him in a noose. A couple of times such games ended for little Slivko with a loss of consciousness and, as one might assume, with an orgasm - it is known that strong squeezing of the neck can cause an erection and even ejaculation. Apparently, it was from that time that torture, strangulation and sexual pleasure merged in Slivko's mind.
As Nikolay Modestov writes, “as a child, Slivko was sickly and weak, suffered from insomnia, lack of appetite, was embarrassed by his appearance, clumsiness, avoided noisy games with peers and sports activities. As a schoolboy, he became interested in raising rabbits, willingly killed and butchered them. In adolescence, he began to engage in masturbation, using boots for this. In the 50s. the Slivko family moved to the "city of chemists" Nevinnomyssk.
Slivko's sexual development was late - he had his first wet dreams only at the age of 22, during his service in the Navy, in the Far East since 1959. There he commanded a unit, and there he was accepted as a candidate member of the CPSU. But “I didn’t have anyone in the Far East, I was lonely and scared,” he later said. In the summer of 1961, an event occurred that, according to Slivko's own admission, turned him upside down and served as the impetus for turning him into a maniac. He witnessed a car accident - a drunken motorcyclist (but not a motorist, as indicated in some sources) crashed into a detachment of pioneers at full speed and knocked down a boy of fourteen years old. “People ran to the scene, and so did I,” Slivko wrote in his diary. The boy was covered in blood, his legs were trembling. Someone picked him up and carried him to the car. He was already unconscious, his head thrown back, his arm dangling helplessly. I was shocked by what I saw and could not come to my senses for a long time.
In the same 1961, Slivko was demobilized, and for his excellent service he was awarded a valuable gift - a Quartz movie camera. Most of all, he liked to shoot teenage boys in pioneer uniforms on her. He returned to his parents in Nevinnomyssk, where he entered the Chemical Technology College. In 1963, after graduating from a technical school, Slivko got a job as a station wagon operator at the Azot chemical plant. He worked selflessly, constantly overfulfilled the plan, soon became a shock worker of communist labor, published several articles in the trade union newspaper Khimik. But Slivko was unhappy, in the company of peers he was not interested, he was drawn to children, especially boys. Many times he spoke to schoolchildren with stories about the nature of the Far East, then, in the end, he got a job on a voluntary basis as a pioneer leader in secondary school No. 15 (where he had previously studied himself).
Fantasies increasingly captured Slivko (“the vision of the accident of 61 constantly pops up in my mind and haunts me”). He saw scenes of torment and suffering of children, pioneers in bloody uniforms and shiny black boots. His "bad half", in his own words, required the realization of fantasies.
In June 1963, Slivko invited fifth-grader Nikolai to take part in filming. Taking Nikolai into the forest, he played scouts with him, then offered "a serious test of endurance." The boy agreed. Slivko tied Nikolai to the trees by the arms and by the neck, and he pulled the rope tied to his legs over himself (he called it “stretching”). Then he asked Nikolai to portray torment and suffering (writhing, kicking, etc.): this is how he sought to recreate the accident that occurred in 1961. All this was carefully recorded on film.

In a medical textbook, Slivko read about the so-called. “retrograde amnesia”, when, as a result of a traumatic brain injury or strangulation, a person loses memory for events preceding the injury. He considered that this could be very convenient - if you strangle a boy, he will lose consciousness, but he will not remember anything (and therefore will not be able to complain to his parents, among other things).
On June 2, 1964, he conducted his "first medical experiment", which consisted in the fact that the boy was suspended in a noose and after a short time lost consciousness. When he was unconscious, Slivko performed an act of onanism and ejaculated on the boy's shoes. When the boy came to his senses, he did not remember anything about what had happened. He survived, but a few months later Slivko committed his first murder. The victim was a homeless 15-year-old teenager, still unidentified. Slivko told him that he was writing a dissertation on the limits of human capabilities, and persuaded him to participate in a "scientific experiment" to test these very capabilities. The boy died suffocating in a noose. The killer tried to save him by doing artificial respiration and heart massage, but it was useless. Frightened, Slivko immediately began to get rid of the corpse - he cut it into several pieces and threw them into the Kuban. He destroyed the film on which the murder was captured, fearing that someone would find it.
In 1966, Slivko became the director of the children's and youth tourist club "Chergid" ("Through rivers, mountains and valleys"; at first the club was called "Romantic" and changed its name after a fire broke out in it and it was transferred to another room). The club became very popular among Nevinnomyssk teenagers. Parents themselves brought their children to Slivko in order to "protect them from the influence of the street." Slivko is even forced to refuse admission due to the overcrowding of the club. Members of the club went on multi-day hikes in the Stavropol Territory (more than a thousand children and teenagers participated in these hikes every year), learned how to pack a backpack, make a fire, put up a tent. There was a photo circle at the club, where children learned to take pictures and make films. They began to talk about Chergid and Slivko at meetings of district committees, in GorONO and KraiONO, write in Pionerskaya Pravda (about three dozen articles were published) and even broadcast on All-Union radio. Soon Slivko became a master of sports in mountain tourism, he was elected a deputy of the Nevinnomyssk City Council, and in 1977 he was awarded the title of Honored Teacher of the RSFSR (despite the fact that he had neither pedagogical nor higher education at all).

In 1967, Slivko marries a girl, Lyudmila - she, like him, worked at the Azot plant. From Slivko, she gave birth to two sons - Igor (b. 1971) and Evgeny (b. 1975). From the wedding night, Slivko developed impotence (“my wife does not arouse any desires in me, although she does not particularly annoy me,” he wrote in his diary). With his wife, he could not live a normal sexual life, and after the birth of Eugene, he generally slept in a separate room from her. Lyudmila will die of cancer in 1998.
November 14, 1973 Slivko kills 15-year-old Alexander Nesmeyanov (b. November 1, 1958). Upon the disappearance of Nesmeyanov, a criminal case was initiated, searches were carried out in the Don forests, divers examined the bottom of the Kuban River, but this did not bring any results. The version of the investigation was even the kidnapping of the boy by gypsies. Nesmeyanov's mother herself traveled throughout the Soviet Union in search of her son, wrote to all authorities, including the XXV Congress of the CPSU. She also came to Slivko - she asked him if the boy had told him about his plans to run away from home. He replied that he had not spoken. The police also came to Slivko for photographs of Nesmeyanov, which could be shown on television. He printed excellent photographs and, moreover, ... organized a search for the missing boy in the Don forests, in which up to two hundred members of Chergid participated!

Months passed, and Nesmeyanov was never found, so the case of his disappearance was closed. But in the winter of 1974/75, in one of the colonies, the prisoner Madyarov, who was a friend of Nesmeyanov, wrote a confession in which he confessed that he killed the teenager, and buried the corpse on one of the Kuban islands. However, the search for the corpse according to the schemes drawn up by Madyarov again did not lead to anything. It turned out that the prisoner did not kill the boy, but simply wanted to "unwind" by riding to Nevinnomyssk. The investigation again stalled and was suspended.
On May 11, 1975, Slivko kills his third victim - 11-year-old fifth grade student Andrei Pogasyan. (Literally a few days before this, the case of the disappearance of Alexander Nesmeyanov was closed.) On May 12, Pogasyan's school bag and clothes were found on the city embankment. A thorough examination of the banks and bottom of the Kuban River did not bring any results. After interrogating Pogasyan's parents, the investigator found out that the boy was going to “film shooting”, which was carried out by a man in the Don forest, and asked his mother to buy him new swimming trunks specifically for this. The investigator considered this information important and sent an order to the Nevinnomyssk Department of Internal Affairs to find this man, and he left for advanced training in Moscow, after which he was transferred to the Stavropol regional prosecutor's office. But no investigation was carried out to establish the identity of this “film lover”, and the investigation did not combine the two cases of missing children into one - for some reason it did not notice that Nesmeyanov and Pogasyan were about the same age and both attended Chergid. Moreover, they came to Slivko again... for photos of Andrey Pogasyan! And again Slivko "on a voluntary basis" organized the search for the boy!

Five years after that, Slivko did not kill, but “only” conducted “non-lethal” experiments with boys - he hung them, strangled him with a rope, a rubber hose, put a gas mask or a plastic bag on his head, and even forced him to breathe with ether for anesthesia. He certainly took all this on photo and film, kept notebooks (something like “case histories”), in which he recorded the date and time of the “experiment”, the actions and appearance of the boy during strangulation, the “symptoms” observed after after the victim came to his senses: "coordination is impaired", "slurred speech", etc. It was a real conveyor belt - dozens and dozens of different boys passed through the hands of Slivko, in total, 42 boys became victims of "non-fatal" experiments (in the book of Nikolai Modestov, the number 33 is called, but in fact, according to official documents of the investigation, there are more of them). Some of these victims, as a result of these "medical experiments", received lifelong illnesses and even disabilities.

It should be noted that all the victims of Slivko themselves, voluntarily went to the experiments. Some came out of respect for the teacher, some out of passion and “thirst for fame” (Slivko said that it was very honorable to participate in such an experience that the boy provides “invaluable help to science”, etc.), some because of money ( Slivko offered money to some victims - from 10 to 25 rubles), some - in order to work out the "penalty points" that they were assigned in Chergid for some kind of oversight, and these points could be removed by participating in a "medical experiment" . To all future victims, Slivko gave a typewritten leaflet to read, which explained the meaning of the upcoming experiment and which began with the words: “Dear friend! You are going for a kind of feat ... "In addition, the boys gave a receipt" on non-disclosure "- in general, Slivko created the appearance that his" medical experiments "- not some kind of his whim, they are" official ", although" strictly classified."
In 1980, Slivko killed 13-year-old Sergei Fatnev. The search for the boy again yielded nothing, and the case was closed. And again, the investigation did not draw any conclusion from the fact that the boy, like the missing Nesmeyanov and Pogasyan, was a member of the Chergid club!
In his games with the corpse, Slivko each time went “further and farther” and became more and more sophisticated. He hung and stretched the corpse on ropes in various poses, sawed and cut it in front of the camera, made up various “figures” from dismembered limbs. For example, the severed head of the victim was surrounded by severed legs in polished shoes. He opened the abdominal and chest cavities, carefully examined and filmed the internal organs. The blood was collected in a specially prepared tray and drank it with a spoon. He doused the boy's shoes with gasoline and set them on fire. Sawed his booted feet. He cut off the ears, nose, cheeks of the corpse, cut out the eyes. He salted the cut off genitals of the victims in an ordinary glass tin can. Such games could take him up to two hours. Slivko then watched the filmed films in the premises of the Chergid club (usually in the afternoon, before the start of classes) and masturbated.

July 23, 1985 Slivko commits his last murder. The victim was 13-year-old Sergei Pavlov (b. August 19, 1971). That day, at 7 o'clock in the morning, the boy left his house along Mira Boulevard, telling his parents that he was going fishing on the Badger River. However, he told his neighbor Lidia Polovinkina that he was going to meet with the head of the Chergid club, Slivko, and that he would photograph him for an "illustrated magazine." But by evening Pavlov had not returned. Then Polovinkina called Chergid and asked Slivko if he had seen the boy. Slivko replied that he had not seen, and the next day he left for the Black Sea with a group of pupils, and the investigator did not manage to talk to him.
On November 13, 1985, Tamara Languyeva, assistant prosecutor of the city, officially takes over the case of Pavlov's disappearance. First of all, she drew attention to the club "Chergid", which he visited. While talking with his friends at the club, she heard about a very strange thing - some medical experiments that the head of the club conducts with children and which are associated with a danger to life. Languyeva spent hours talking with members of Chergid, trying to get details from them, but to no avail. Finally, she managed to talk to a teenager, Vyacheslav Khvostik, who himself participated in the experiment. He said that Slivko hung him in a loop, after which he lost consciousness and then was unwell for several days. Then several more boys testified about their participation in Slivko's experiments, and the city prosecutor signed a search warrant in the premises of "Chergid" and in Slivko's apartment.
On the evening of December 28, 1985, policemen came to the club. Classes were going on there - Slivko and the children were preparing a meeting of the New Year. First, a set of knives, camping axes, coils of rope, rubber hose loops were found in the club. Then one of the policemen pointed to a door with a sign “Don’t get in – he’ll kill you!” and asked Slivko: “What is there?” The one that is called "changed in face." Behind the door was a photo lab, where they found stacks of shocking photographs, which depicted bound and dismembered children. They found hundreds of meters of film with scenes of torture, murder and dismemberment of children, a pioneer uniform, many children's shoes, some of which had sawn off toes. Slivko was arrested. One of the children who was present at his arrest had a tantrum when “Uncle Tolya was taken to the police”: he enjoyed such great respect and love among children.
The killer met his 47th birthday in the cell of the pre-trial detention center. During January and February 1986, he confessed to seven murders, field trips were organized, and the remains of six children were found buried in the Don forests. Slivko's first victim was never found. Residents of Nevinnomyssk with horror and shudder learned about the crimes of Slivko, a local celebrity, respected citizen, role model, best friend of children.
Club "Chergid" was instantly liquidated. All his property was burned by the inhabitants of nearby houses (it should be noted that the police did not prevent this at all). Slivko's wife and two of his children were transported by the Ministry of Internal Affairs to another city (according to some reports, right the day after the arrest).
The trial of Slivko took place in June 1986. The process was quick: direct evidence against the accused in the form of photographs and films taken by him was more than enough. Ambulances were constantly on duty near the courthouse: several participants in the process had hypertensive crises and heart attacks after watching Slivko's films. When Slivko was asked before the first viewing of the film if he had any objections to any of those present, he replied: the human race is a disgrace... I saw it once... And it can neither be washed away nor forgotten. It will leave only with death ... I'm scared that people will watch it. The third secretary of the city party organization, which in the late 70s. fussed about awarding Slivko the title of Honored Teacher of the RSFSR, committed suicide; Nevinnomyssk police chief was fired for negligence.
Conducted twice forensic psychiatric examination of Slivko (including one at the Serbsky Institute) showed his sanity and the presence of "organic psychopathy" (a personality disorder due to organic changes in the brain) and sexual perversions - pedophilia, necrophilia, sadism, necrosadism , fetishism, vampirism, pyromania. During the investigation and trial, Slivko cried all the time, showed remorse.
He was sentenced to death, but thanks to the efforts of his lawyer Sergei Petrov, he managed to get a stay of execution, and for another three years he was on death row in solitary confinement in Novocherkassk prison, writing appeals, petitions for clemency, letters to his wife, kept a diary. In September 1989, Slivko was visited by investigator Issa Kostoev, who was involved in the case of the Rostov Ripper - Andrei Chikatilo. Kostoev, like Clarissa Starling from The Silence of the Lambs, had the hope that Slivko would help to understand the psychology of the maniac from the forest belt, being himself a maniac, but nothing came of it. “It’s useless,” Slivko said after reading the case file. - This is impossible to calculate. I know for myself." He only made two remarks that turned out to be erroneous: first, one must look for someone who has an "exciting image"; secondly, murders in the forest belts are most likely committed by two: one kills boys, the other - girls. In an ordinary school notebook, Slivko wrote for Kostoev the story of his life and his crimes, and a few hours after the interview with the investigator, he was executed with the notorious single shot in the back of the head (three and a half years later, Andrei Chikatilo would be executed in the same place).
Modestov N.S., investigator in the case of Anatoly Slivko, says:

Outwardly, the biography of Anatoly Slivko looked safe and even respectable. He headed the children's and youth tourist club "Chergid" in the city of Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Territory, enjoyed unquestioning authority among the pioneers and commanded respect from his parents for his selfless work.

Later, when the investigation scrupulously studied everything related to the activities of Slivko and his tourist club, it turned out that the director of Chergid had been written about dozens of times in Pionerskaya Pravda and other newspapers, more than twenty programs had been broadcast about him on All-Union Radio, and even diplomas and thanks were innumerable.

However, publications about Slivko turned out to be no less after it became known about the second, secret, life of a maniac, directly related to hiking and children. He was detained almost by accident in 1985 on suspicion of the disappearance of thirteen-year-old Serezha P. And when they searched the premises of the club, they could hardly believe their own eyes.

Domestic forensics, and the world too, have not yet encountered similar facts. Slivko sadistically killed seven teenagers, and the death of children, their agony, the subsequent dismemberment of bodies and manipulations with them, the "honored teacher" carefully filmed with a movie or camera, and carefully stored all the material in a closet. When Slivko was arrested he was forty-six years old. He was the father of two boys, had a party card and bore the title of "Shock Worker of Communist Labor". But what is most striking is that he killed most of the children while working in Chergid. And he did this for twenty-one years), remaining above suspicion.

I confess, having received a videotape with copies of Slivko's films, I did not imagine that I would see such a thing, I did not imagine how wild and depressing the impression these terrible documents would make. It seems that we are used to everything - television makes us constant contemplators of catastrophes, epidemics, violent terrorist acts, and "video masterpieces" further lower the threshold of sensitivity, savoring the bloody scenes in neorealistic detective stories and sado-masochistic thrillers. However, I assure you that what Slivko shot cannot be reproduced by any authors of any horror films.

Dead silence, only a color picture on the screen, and in front of your eyes a child is dying in agony. Moreover, the sadist, cold-bloodedly fixing the convulsions of the agonizing boy, from time to time himself gets into the frame. He not only shoots death, but voluptuously admires it.

On the screen, the body of the victim, dressed by the killer in a pioneer uniform, is laid on a white sheet. Spasms are less and less... The next frame is a severed head framed by severed legs. The camera zooms in close to the dead child's face, distorted by a frozen grimace of suffering and fear.

The film is quite long, or maybe it seems like that. I admit, I could only watch it to the end once. It was quite enough to feel the grave cold just from the very idea of ​​​​the one who was the screenwriter, director, cameraman and spectator in one person.

In our history, there is one terrible person who was remembered by people as a counselor-ripper - Anatoly Slivko. During his working career, he was able to show enough diligence to get the title of condemned teacher of the RSFSR. But not everything is so rosy. Moreover, this story can introduce especially sensitive people into panic moods: as it turned out later, the honored teacher is a maniac and a serial killer, who had practically no equal in the Soviet Union.

Who are we talking about?

Nowadays, those interested can familiarize themselves with the materials called the “werewolf diary”: Anatoly Slivko kept records during his lifetime, from which it is possible to restore, albeit partially, his “accomplishments”. However, first things first.

Slivko is a native of the Stavropol Territory. He is among the serial killers discovered and recognized, publicly condemned during the Soviet Union. The monstrous pedophile is the most titled citizen among all those who have been identified with such a mental deviation. Prior to the discovery of his atrocities, Slivko was considered an exemplary citizen of his country.

As can be seen from the biography of Anatoly Slivko, this man was distinguished by an increased ability to adapt to social conditions. In this he was very different from most of the criminals of our world, and especially the Soviet territories. His achievements and merits are a long, impressive list that will make anyone admire. Slivko was considered a shock worker, a communist, was a member of the CPSU, earned trust to such an extent that even without a pedagogical education he received the title of honored teacher. He acted as a deputy in the council of the locality, was the object of positive articles in the local communist publication, and on All-Union Radio his achievements were praised at least two dozen times. The number of diplomas and awards he received during his lifetime is incalculable. Any resident of Nevinnomyssk knew about the exemplary, wonderful, promising tourist club "Chergid", founded by Slivko. It seemed impossible to find a more trustworthy citizen of the country.

Could this be true?

Maniac Anatoly Emelyanovich Slivko was arrested in December 1985. For many acquaintances of this man, for compatriots who had heard about him, this seemed like a monstrous mistake. The news surprised and stunned those around. At first, people thought that the honorary teacher was brought to justice for the theft of common property - this happened all the time, and the crime was so insignificant that the public practically did not condemn it. When the details of the case came out, people were horrified.

It is worth recognizing that Soviet citizens have never before encountered crimes of this kind and on such a scale. The celebrity of the city, a person who was imitated, whose example was instructed by children, the best friend of all the local youth turned out to be a real monster, which can only be in films. Anatoly Slivko's victims were seven children aged 11-15. The man recorded all the murders on a photo, film, and also carefully recorded and kept the process of dismemberment as a keepsake.

How it all began

From the photo, Anatoly Emelyanovich Slivko looks calm, looks collected and confident in his actions. This man inspired confidence with his appearance and trustworthy behavior. It's been that way from an early age. The future maniac was born at the very end of 1938 - December 28th. Native place - Izberbash, a small town in Dagestan. At birth, he was strangled by the umbilical cord, but such birth injuries were not considered too rare in those days. However, the consequences affected life - Slivko often complained of a headache. In adolescence, he showed the features of organic psychopathy - however, that's what it is called today, but in those days they did not know about such deviations. A distinctive feature of organic psychopathy is the love of prolonged concentration on some event that caused psychological trauma.

As a child, Anatoly Slivko was sickly, distinguished by poor health, sleep disturbance. He was a shy boy, clumsy, who preferred to avoid the games of his peers, and did not like sports. During the school period, he raised rabbits, which he then killed and butchered - later he will have to apply this experience to children.

So different

People familiar with Anatoly Slivko said that the blood, the severed head of a fish were sufficient reasons for the boy to lose consciousness. In many ways, he was similar to Chikatilo from Rostov - he was also afraid of blood, and the need to slaughter a chicken seemed completely unrealizable.

Experts note that Slivko's biography seems to be exceptionally trustworthy, and the person himself is respectable. Having become a teacher, the man took up the future of youth and organized a club of tourists. His authority among the pioneers was incredibly great, and the desire to constantly work earned the respect of the older generation. In Nevinnomyssk, the man ended up after the army period. Here he studied at a technical school and went to work at a local plant, where he worked as a station wagon operator. He has proven himself to be able to work responsibly and tirelessly, observing and exceeding the agreed standards. In the shortest possible time, Anatoly Slivko became a local celebrity - such a drummer could not be found throughout the Union.

Work is not all that a person needs

Already being an employee of the plant, Slivko began to engage in tourism. He took the initiative, offered to organize trips with the participation of teenagers. More than once he spoke to the audience, talking about how beautiful the Far Eastern nature is. It was easy and interesting for him among children, but he could not find a common language with his peers. It so happened that Slivko evoked a feeling of boundless trust in children. In 1963 he was hired by the fifteenth school. Anatoly Emelyanovich Slivko officially became a pioneer leader.

During this period, the base of what in the future will be a tourist club known to the country was formed. The counselor showed good qualities as an organizer, he possessed humor and sincerely wanted to show the younger ones the beauty of this world. He naturally inherited the ability to teach, he liked to do it. In addition, Slivko knew a lot about nature and had a strong love for it. The pupils of the maniac recalled that even in a short day trip they learned a lot about the environment, about behavior in the wilderness, about how not to harm nature. Anatoly Emelyanovich Slivko forbade children to pick flowers, and his group remembered for a long time the case when he once allowed picking a bouquet of wild tulips in honor of the birthday of one of the participants in the campaign. For her, such a gift has become perhaps the most unusual and even valuable in her life. About punishments: at that time there was no need to talk about anything terrible, and the most unpleasant thing that the boys could face was the need to once again carry the tent.

How did it go

At first, Anatoly Slivko was engaged in a tourist club with love and enthusiasm, but his activities were completely determined by the school administration and the educational plan. The man strove for independence, and he came up with the idea of ​​​​creating his own club, where he could realize everything he wanted without restrictions. Not agreeing with the school director, the maniac moved to another school, where the situation repeated itself, and then changed his place again. The backbone of the club, however, passed after him.

In 1966, he managed to get his own premises - a hall and several rooms in an old library building in the city center. The house was heated from the stove, it was very small, but the number of participants was small. From an interview with Anatoly Slivko, it is known that such conditions rallied people, and a group of proven, ready to assist him in everything children, organized during this period, will become the main help for the maniac in the future. They will help him until the guys disperse for army service.

Hierarchy and its manifestations

As is known from an interview with Anatoly Slivko, he did not stand out too much against the background of teenagers, moreover, he called for “Tolik” to contact him. A short and thin, casually dressed light-eyed man stared intently at those around him. As the investigators later noted, he looked without emotion, practically did not blink. The children recalled that Slivko rarely joked, and it was difficult to understand whether he approved or condemned their behavior.

The man was distinguished by poise and calmness, did not shout, but was able to ensure that he was understood at a glance. He was secretive and proud, at times cruel when it came to discipline, but he never humiliated the pupils. Occasionally smiling, but not gloomy either, maintaining a serious look, even if he was joking, the counselor attracted with his ability to speak with reason, explain beautifully and vividly, describe colorfully. Despite the chaos caused by the lack of necessary things, Slivko perfectly organized the workflow, hiking turned into a real pleasure. He thoroughly worked in the preparation of each event, got cars, equipment, rations, negotiated with party representatives - in a word, he did everything necessary so that children had the opportunity to know and love nature.

Opportunities are growing

As is known from the diary of Anatoly Slivko, his club enjoyed considerable popularity. He took as a member everyone who wanted to, regardless of what the grades and successes were at school. Near the club there was a large courtyard where children could socialize. Slivko explained to the participants that everyone is equal, one cannot blame another for anything, and created a feeling of brotherhood. The elders always came to the aid of the younger ones, everyone greeted everyone, the newcomers felt as if they had been in this club for more than a year. Slivko had some competition - there were quite a few children's institutions and organizations in Nevinnomyssk, but the tourist club became the main hobby for children, almost an addiction. Some came here just for the sake of communication. Slivko played them Vysotsky's songs, and they sincerely believed in the hands of a friend, about whom the romantic sang.

At that time, the maniac Anatoly Slivko worked at the plant, and spent all his free time in the club. It seemed that this person did not have a personal life and could not have it. However, the mother insisted on marriage, and Anatoly, approaching the turn of the age of thirty, succumbed to her persuasion.

You and I, and we are with you

The first woman of Anatoly Slivko was his wife. The wedding was played in 1967. It was not customary to talk about the sacrament of marriage, but later, at the trial, his wife will talk about her husband’s sexual impotence, about his cruelty and indifference to her, about his unwillingness to help around the house. However, the man himself even went to the doctor once, hoping that he would be helped. True, the doctor did not particularly listen to the complaints, advised me to drink medicines with eleutherococcus and spend more time in the fresh air. The nurse, who was in the office, laughed at the patient at all. Anatoly's condition after going to the doctor became even worse, and all attempts to establish adequate intimate relations with his wife ended in failure. However, not absolute - soon the woman became pregnant, and the first child, named Zhenya, was born to the spouses. In the future, they will have another son. From that moment on, the husband lived in a separate room.

In the photo, Anatoly Slivko is mostly either alone or with the club's pupils, because it was with them that he spent the bulk of his life. His wife practically did not come to the club and did not maintain contact with the children, much less went on hikes. It seemed to her that the club was guilty of the lack of attention from her husband, and everything that was connected with him did not cause any positive emotions. The man himself never spoke about himself and his relationship with his wife with teenagers. Soon after the wedding, one of the pupils asked why the leader's wife did not participate in the campaigns, the man answered briefly, sharply and abruptly, after which the topic became taboo.

Secrets and mysticism: good or bad?

In the late 60s, the maniac Anatoly Slivko was sent to work in Japan, from where he returned with ginseng rhizomes and planted them in the Zakuban forest, telling where and how, only to three authorized persons. Each of them knew about one area. The idea was not to forget where the plants grow. Those who were entrusted with secrets did not tell anyone about the plantations, and those around were even afraid to ask what the rhizomes looked like. The topic was for many an object of discussion and fantasies. It seemed that Slivko especially trusted those whom he told about ginseng - and this made them more authoritative among their peers.

However, the club had different secrets. The majority of children could not even guess about some. Often Slivko organized survival experiments, and not one of the invitees ever refused. He signed by saying that he would not tell anyone about what was happening, and the experiment began as a way to find out how hardy and courageous the child was. Previously, the instructor prepared a script, according to the plot of which the pioneer had to endure torture. The man filmed all the experiments on camera, explaining that he wants to write a book on human capabilities. Slivko offered money to the participants in the experiment, others could count on the removal of the club fine.

How it all began

Anatoly Slivko's first crime was an experiment in which a child was hung in a noose. The boy lost consciousness, and under the impression of what he saw, the maniac ejaculated on his shoes. When he came to, the child did not remember anything. He survived - and he was frankly lucky, because a few months later the head of the club killed his first victim - fifteen-year-old Kolya, a rather naughty teenager. Slivko told him that he was preparing a dissertation, and the child had the opportunity to become the object of a scientific experiment. The boy suffocated while hanging from the noose. The man at first tried to save him, but did not achieve success, and out of fear he tried to get rid of the body, dividing it into parts and throwing it into the river. The whole process was filmed, which the maniac soon destroyed, fearing discovery.

From that moment, the personal collection of photos of the victims of Anatoly Slivko began to grow. Any experiment could end in the death of the boy, and only the tormentor knew what the result would be. The guys did not even suspect that a trip with a trusted elder could end in death. The man thoroughly prepared for each act, demanded that the children not eat for 10-12 hours before the meeting, so that vomiting would not spoil the performance. Special attention was paid to shoes - shoes had to be perfectly polished. Some Slivko washed and dressed with his own hands - this increased the expectation and sensations. Then he made the child lose consciousness, resorting to various methods. Most often, a loop made from an ordinary hose was used. Since the boys had no idea what was happening to them while they were unconscious, the maniac was not afraid that he would be betrayed.

My life my rules

Each new experiment was controlled by the tormentor from the first to the last minute. The maniac made sure to film, take photos of the victims. Anatoly Slivko wrote down what was happening in a notebook, recorded the date of the event, the type of child, symptoms, features of the return of consciousness and pulse. It turned out that a child can be practically dead for nine minutes - for such a period it is still possible to revive him, but a longer period is guaranteed to end in death.

It was a real conveyor. Some estimate the number of surviving victims at four dozen, others at a hundred. In each case, the man was clearly aware of whether he wanted the teenager to survive. The consequences of such an experiment were different, some children received a disability, others have been worried about serious illnesses all their lives.

For the first time, public panic was caused by the disappearance of Nesmeyanov, a fifteen-year-old teenager. His mother traveled all over the country trying to find her son, wrote everywhere she could, and many, many times she came to the club instructor, asking him about the plans of the child. Law enforcement officers also came to him, mainly to ask for photographs that could be shown to the entire Union. The instructor involved the club in the search for the child. According to rough estimates, about two hundred members of his club took part in the event.

What about the child?

In 1974-1975. one of the prisoners confessed to having killed the boy and even described where he had buried his body. The man was taken to the scene, but nothing was found according to his schemes - it turned out that he just wanted to get out of the colony, at least for a while. At this point, the case was recognized as a dead end and it was stopped.

All repeats

Andrey Pogasyan became a new victim among the children of Anatoly Slivko. The boy was 11 years old. Clothes, a child's briefcase were found on the embankment of the city, but the study of the river did not give any results. The investigators found out that the child was planning to become the object of filming in the forest, they learned that a certain man was supposed to shoot him, but there were no ideas who exactly. A special investigation was not organized and did not even pay attention to the fact that both missing boys were about the same age and attended the same club. Slivko, in turn, again attracted members of the tourist club to search for the child.

It seemed to many that the children were victims of an accident. There are a lot of hydraulic units around the city, there was always a possibility that the boys just ran away. In the meantime, the club became exemplary, difficult children were taken here and easily re-educated. The organizer of the club acquired many influential acquaintances and received the status of an honored teacher. At the same time, Slivko did not stop his "career" as a maniac. Criminologists found out that he kept himself in good hands, responsibly prepared for each new crime and was distinguished by his understanding of moral prohibitions. Fantasy played a key role in everything, and the accident seen in 1961 popped up in the man’s head again and again, pushing him to a new experiment. Five years after her second child, Slivko decides to kill another boy.

How did it all end

In July 1985, Serezha Pavlov, a thirteen-year-old member of the club, was chosen as a new victim. The investigation again ended in nothing, but in November of the same year, Languev's prosecutor's assistant took up the case officially, began to investigate similar cases and drew attention to the connection with the tourist club. She talks to the boys and learns about making films, talks to the children for hours, but she can't get the details. She became the first person in whom Slivko aroused at least some suspicion. Elena Proyda from the children's room of the police comes to her aid. Thanks to the joint work of the two women, the boys begin to talk about hanging in a noose. However, the authority of the man, his integrity was an almost insurmountable obstacle - those around him could not even think that Anatoly could behave in an indecent way, let alone a propensity to kill.

The other suspects were never found, and under pressure from the women, the prosecutor issued a warrant to search the residence of the head of the club. The police also looked into the club's premises, where the photo lab was located. It contained photographs of dismembered victims, murder weapons, children's shoes, many without toes. The next day after the arrest, the man took his wife and two children to another city. Many Nevinnomyssk officials were fired or transferred to low positions. The secretary of the party, thanks to which Slivko received the position of honored teacher, committed suicide. In the summer of 1986, Slivko was tried, the man's sanity and the presence of sexual perversions were confirmed. The punishment was imposed in the form of the death penalty. During the period of detention in the detention center, the man tried to commit suicide twice, and at the trial he cried and showed how much he repented. The maniac was executed by a shot in the back of the head in the same place where, 3.5 years later, Andrei Chikatilo was executed.

Murderers and maniacs [Sexual maniacs, serial crimes] Revyako Tatyana Ivanovna

ANATOLY SLIVKO MANYAK - HONORED TEACHER OF THE RSFSR

ANATOLY SLIVKO

MANYAK - HONORED TEACHER OF THE RSFSR

Anatoly Slivko left behind 17 victims of ritual murders. He lived in Siberia with his mother. He didn't have a father. He was worried about his weak potency, which became especially noticeable after he returned home after serving in the army. It was depressing, humiliating, but I had to put up with it.

But in a person's life sometimes chance dominates. Such was the case with Anatoly. One day he was walking along the street of his city, saw a crowd, approached, made his way forward, and an unexpected, tragic thing opened up before him: a boy was lying on the pavement - the victim of a street incident. He had a beautiful face. Surprisingly clean, ironed school uniform: snow-white shirt, pioneer tie, black trousers and black boots. When the eyes stopped on these boots, and then on the blood, Slivko had an orgasm. For him, this was an unexpected shock, after which he could not recover. He persuaded his mother to leave this city, to change his place of residence. He fled from this incomprehensible thing that shocked him.

In the city of Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Territory, Anatoly got a job as a mechanic at a local chemical plant. But you can't run from yourself. Still not giving an account of what he was doing, Anatoly organized a tourist club for schoolchildren on a voluntary basis. He gave himself unreservedly to this cause. I used my own money to buy school uniforms for the children. She had already become different than that of that boy, but Anatoly took out old-style boots with a massive toe, polished them himself to a shine, ironed shirts and pioneer ties.

Not only parents, but also teachers noticed his efforts. Time passed. Slivko was awarded the honorary title of Honored Teacher of the RSFSR. At the same time, his individual work with each child was noted.

And she was dangerous. Having dressed the boy to the brim, smoothing out every crease, Slivko began to conduct experiments, “educate” stamina and courage in him: he put a stand, putting the boy’s head into the noose, then knocked out the support from under the child’s feet. And - instantly pulled out of the loop.

Wild ritual? But, bringing the boy to consciousness, doing artificial respiration, performing other manipulations, Slivko received sexual satisfaction exactly as it happened in a distant Siberian city.

But he still felt sorry for the boys. He was still aware of the danger to them of such experiments. However, he no longer had the thought that they should be stopped. I bought a camera and filmed the whole procedure. Then, looking at the photographs, he reproduced the ritual in his imagination, and this calmed him down. I got bored, I needed a “fresh” picture - the ritual was repeated. Slivko bought a movie camera and got a live image, it lasted longer, and still needed a "renewal".

Some boys could not be revived. He hid the bodies well. Almost the same as Chikatilo - he dug in forest belts. Once, having knocked out a support from under his feet, he saw that the teenager bit his lip, blood began to flow, and Slivko immediately had an orgasm. He wanted a repeat of the feeling. He took a hacksaw and sawed off the shiny toe of his boot, watched the red stream flow out of the foot. The movie camera continued to work, and Slivko enjoyed it.

Since then, he has never revived children, “worked” every time with a hacksaw, sawing his victims into pieces, scattering them, burying them in the thickets.

Boys disappeared from 1964 to 1985. The police, of course, noticed that they were all members of the tourist club. Searches and searches, however, yielded nothing, as did the surveillance established for Slivko. But one day at work, when the investigator approached a cabinet with a red arrow and the inscription: "Do not touch it - it will kill you!", Slivko's face changed. It was noticed. And they took out a school uniform, photographs, video cassettes from behind the door ...

Anatoly Slivko went to the murder for a long time. According to criminologists who know the history of his crimes, he could control himself. He had a high degree of social maturity, the level of moral prohibitions. Not the lowest was his intelligence. But the absence of a sexual life "turned on" the memories, which each time evoked the image of a boy that brought shock.

An unconditionally talented man, Slivko moved from a dream to a real thing - the creation of a tourist club with real, and not from the realm of fantasy, boys, and no longer in dreams, but in reality, he became the main performer of the role played by his sick imagination. He moved from a corpse thrown to him by the will of fate, to the production of corpses.

(Both V. Maniac. M., 1992)