20 Facts About Vladimir Vinnichevsky

On 16 January 1940, Vinnichevsky was sentenced to death and executed several months later.

The Vinnichevsky family was considered wealthy by Soviet standards at the time: Vladimir had a suit, a tank helmet, a Swiss knife, and leather shoes.

Vladimir Vinnichevsky had been given pocket money - at the time of his arrest, he was found to have more than 20 rubles, which constituted the two-day salary of an average Soviet worker at the time.

Vladimir Vinnichevsky studied at the Sverdlovsk School No 16, in the 7 "B" grade.

Vladimir Vinnichevsky was on friendly terms with Ernst Neizvestny, who later became a famous sculptor.

Neizvestny and Vladimir Vinnichevsky were in the same year of schooling.

Vladimir Vinnichevsky entered the courtyard of the private house where the Gribanovs lived, took the girl to the kitchen garden, where he strangled her, and then struck her head 8 times with a kitchen knife, breaking it, and leaving a splinter in the victim's skull.

Vladimir Vinnichevsky later disposed of the broken knife and used a screwdriver and a folding knife in later murders.

The fifth victim of Vladimir Vinnichevsky was a boy who, most likely, survived, but could not be found.

In Sverdlovsk, Vladimir Vinnichevsky began to practice the kidnapping of children and killing them in the forest massifs to the outskirts, where the bodies were covered with branches.

Vladimir Vinnichevsky killed not only in the outskirts but near his home on Mamin-Sibiryak Street, where he kidnapped two children.

The last victim - 4-year-old Taisia Morozov - after killing her, Vladimir Vinnichevsky threw her body into a cesspool, placing her clothes into the front garden of the apartment building, hoping that it was there that they would search for the child's remains.

On 24 October 1939, during the commission of the crimes, Vladimir Vinnichevsky was detained by three police high school cadets named Popov, Angelov and Krylov.

Vladimir Vinnichevsky had kidnapped the 3-year-old Vycheslav Volkov, whom his mother left for a few minutes at the entrance of the family home.

The cadets followed the teenager and found him at a time when Vladimir Vinnichevsky was choking the boy.

Vladimir Vinnichevsky's parents brought this statement to the regional newspaper titled "The Ural Worker":.

The doctor of jurisprudence AS Skryalin emphasizes that the trial of Vladimir Vinnichevsky was held when Soviet legislation provided for the death penalty for minors who had reached the age of 12 years.

On 16 January 1940, Vladimir Vinnichevsky was sentenced to death by the Soviet court.

In one media in the summer of 2017, information appeared that the materials of the criminal case of Vladimir Vinnichevsky had been kept secret for more than 70 years.

However, according to the answer of the State Archives of the Sverdlovsk Region on 16 March 2018, the Vladimir Vinnichevsky case was archived in 1991, and since then has been freely available.