Raevsky, Yuri Nikolaevich

Yuri Raevsky was born in 1952 in Penza. He grew up in a prosperous family. In vocational school he was a Komsomol group.

The shock to everyone was when the 16-year-old Raevsky attacked his neighbor and raped her (according to other sources, he tried to rape). In 1970, the court sentenced him to imprisonment . To serve his sentence, he was transferred to the Mordovian Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic , the colony was 30 kilometers from Saransk . There he was " lowered ", and a tattoo was put on his lower back for the "lowered" - a blue rose. There is an assumption that from this moment he began to dislike the female sex. In June 1971, escapes from the colony.

Raevsky was able to win over women, including those who were older than him, and even those who were married. Future victims of the maniac themselves went with him to the most dubious places.

The day after the escape, Raevsky met on the outskirts of Saransk with a woman whom he had raped and tried to kill, first strangled and then hit on the head with a piece of asphalt. The victim survived, but remained disabled for life.

Later it turned out that before the first arrest and trial, Raevsky hid his real passport and declared his loss. After the trial, in order to complicate legalization in case of escape, his restored passport was seized from him. But after the escape, the criminal took out an old passport from the cache and got the opportunity to travel around the country.

On August 11, 27 and September 14 in Moscow, Raevsky raped, killed (repeatedly strangled, and then stabbed several times) and robbed three young women. An examination found that the second victim was pregnant. The first two murders were committed in a forest belt near the Vnukovo airport, the third - at a construction site in the vicinity of the Dynamo metro station. The maniac chose visitors as victims. When they met, he gave them a blue rose (the blue color turned out when the rose was put in ink-tinted water), which then was left next to the bodies of the dead.

During the investigation of the first murder, a witness was found who testified that he had seen a woman who was killed in a Vnukovo airport building meet with a man. They found out that the latter was the murdered bridegroom living in Moscow, and she was in a quarrel with him. The former groom was under suspicion and was arrested, but at that time a second similar murder occurred.

After the second murder, the investigation was taken under special control by the USSR Prosecutor General . It was established that the maniac did not leave fingerprints and traces of sperm at the crime scene. Found in the second and third crimes, he tore the passports of his victims to complicate identification. The actions of the offender led to the assumption that he was previously convicted. The assumption was confirmed when they found a witness who saw a tall guy (Rayevsky) with a dark spot on his lower back on the day of the third murder at a construction site near the Dynamo metro station (the witness noticed a tattoo when Rayevsky put on a T-shirt on the go). A tattoo on the lower back led investigators to the idea that the killer in the places of detention was "omitted." A check on the bases of criminal records, including reports on escapes from places of detention, made it possible to identify Rayevsky.

September 24 Raevsky planned to commit a new crime. He lured a girl into a forest-park zone in the Gagarinsky district , but they were met by a local district policeman who was suspicious of a blue rose in the girl’s hands. Noticing a policeman heading toward him, the maniac escaped. His failed victim identified his companion in photographs of Raevsky presented to her. After meeting with the district police officer, Raevsky left Moscow. Since that time, he decided to change his place of residence after each crime committed and stopped using the blue rose when meeting his victims.

In October, two weeks after leaving Moscow, in Klaipeda, Raevsky raped and killed with 14 stabs a girl from a tourist group brought to archaeological site in Klaipeda Castle. Leaving the crime scene, the maniac dropped his passport, which was noticed by local schoolchildren. They picked up a passport and gave it to the criminal, but before that they read his name and surname, after which they reported a suspicious guy to the police.

Soon Raevsky raped and killed a woman who came to Mineralnye Vody . This crime became known only after the capture of the maniac.

At the end of October in Kharkov, Raevsky raped, killed and robbed a woman. This time the victim was a local resident. The next day, while trying to sell the Polish demi-season coat of his victim, he was arrested. It is noteworthy that at the time of the arrest of Raevsky they were suspected of only speculation , the police girl who made up the protocol on the administrative offense wrote him an exit pass. But the suspect aroused in the department that the identity of the detainee could not be quickly established, he did not have a passport with him and stated that he had arrived in Kharkov from the Kursk region . But the information about the place of residence and work of the detainee could not be verified. Soon, attention was drawn to the orientation, which mentioned the murder of a woman involving rape and the abduction of a Polish demi-season coat.

The investigation lasted about a year. Forensic psychiatric examination conducted in 1972 at the All-Union Research Institute of General and Forensic Psychiatry named after V.P. Serbsky recognized Raevsky sane, but could not explain the reason for his cruelty.

February 26 ^[1] (according to other sources - in the summer) of 1973 Yuri Raevsky was sentenced to capital punishment - the death penalty by shooting . The killer filed a petition for clemency with the Supreme Soviet of the USSR , which was rejected. In December, the sentence was carried out.

In popular culture

• " Blue Rose " - a film from the series " The investigation was conducted ."
• “ Child of vice ” - a film from the series “ Legends of the Soviet Investigation ”.

• Maniacs of the Soviet Union (60-70s of the XX century)
• "Vnukovo maniac": the youngest rapist of the USSR "issued" the victim’s coat
• A.I. Rakitin. "Socialism does not generate crime ..." Page 6 (Russian) (2008-2009). Date of treatment June 12, 2010. Archived on April 28, 2012.

• A.I. Rakitin. Socialism does not give rise to crime . - Yekaterinburg: Cabinet Scientist, 2016 .-- 530 p.