List of Victims
| Number | Name | Sex | Age | Date of Murder | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yelena Zakotnova | F | 9 | 22 December 1978 | Chikatilo's first victim. Accosted by Chikatilo while walking home from an ice-skating rink. |
| 2 | Larisa Tkachenko | F | 17 | 3 September 1981 | Approached by Chikatilo while waiting for a bus back to her boarding school. |
| 3 | Lyubov Biryuk | F | 13 | 12 June 1982 | Biryuk was abducted while returning from a shopping trip in the village of Donskoi. |
| 4 | Lyubov Volobuyeva | F | 14 | 25 July 1982 | Killed in an orchard near Krasnodar Airport. Her body was found 7 August. |
| 5 | Oleg Pozhidayev | M | 9 | 13 August 1982 | Chikatilo's first male victim. Pozhidayev was killed in Adygea. His body was never found. |
| 6 | Olga Kuprina | F | 16 | 16 August 1982 | Killed in Kazachi Lagerya. Her body was found 27 October. |
| 7 | Irina Karabelnikova | F | 19 | 8 September 1982 | Lured away from Shakhty station by Chikatilo. Her body was found 20 September. |
| 8 | Sergey Kuzmin | M | 15 | 15 September 1982 | A runaway from a boarding school. Kuzmin's body was found at Shakhty station in January 1983. |
| 9 | Olga Stalmachenok | F | 10 | 11 December 1982 | Lured off a bus while riding home from her piano lessons in Novoshakhtinsk. |
| 10 | Laura Sarkisyan | F | 15 | After 18 June 1983 | Sarkisyan was from Armenia. Her body was never found. Chikatilo was cleared of this murder at his trial. |
| 11 | Irina Dunenkova | F | 13 | July 1983 | Dunenkova's body was found in Aviators' Park, Rostov, on 8 August 1983. |
| 12 | Lyudmila Kushuba | F | 24 | July 1983 | Killed in woodland near a Shakhty bus station. Her body was found 12 March 1984. |
| 13 | Igor Gudkov | M | 7 | 9 August 1983 | Chikatilo's youngest victim. He was killed in Aviators' Park, Rostov. Gudkov was the first male victim linked to the manhunt. |
| 14 | Valentina Chuchulina | F | 22 | After 19 September 1983 | Chuchulina's body was found on 27 November 1983 in a wooded area near Kirpichnaya station. |
| 15 | Unknown woman | F | 18–25 | Summer 1983 | Chikatilo claimed he encountered this victim while she tried to find a "man (client) with a car." |
| 16 | Vera Shevkun | F | 19 | 27 October 1983 | Killed in a mining village near Shakhty. Her body was found on 30 October. |
| 17 | Sergey Markov | M | 14 | 27 December 1983 | Disappeared while returning home from work experience. His body was found on 4 January 1984. |
| 18 | Natalya Shalapinina | F | 17 | 9 January 1984 | Killed in Aviators' Park, Rostov. Shalapinina had been a close friend of Olga Kuprina, killed by Chikatilo in 1982. |
| 19 | Marta Ryabenko | F | 45 | 21 February 1984 | Chikatilo's oldest victim. She was killed in Aviators' Park, Rostov. |
| 20 | Dmitriy Ptashnikov | M | 10 | 24 March 1984 | Lured from a stamp kiosk in Novoshakhtinsk by Chikatilo, who pretended to be a fellow collector. |
| 21 | Tatyana Petrosyan | F | 32 | 25 May 1984 | Murdered together with her daughter outside Shakhty. She had known Chikatilo since 1978. |
| 22 | Svetlana Petrosyan | F | 11 | 25 May 1984 | Svetlana saw Chikatilo murder her mother before he chased her and killed her with a hammer. |
| 23 | Yelena Bakulina | F | 22 | 22 June 1984 | Bakulina's body was found on 27 August in the Bagasenski region of Rostov. |
| 24 | Dmitriy Illarionov | M | 13 | 10 July 1984 | Vanished in Rostov while on his way to get a health certificate for summer camp. |
| 25 | Anna Lemesheva | F | 19 | 19 July 1984 | A student who disappeared on her way to visit a dentist. She was killed in Shakhty. |
| 26 | Svetlana Tsana | F | 20 | July 1984 | Originally from Riga. Her body was found on 9 September 1984 in Aviators' Park, Rostov. |
| 27 | Natalya Golosovskaya | F | 16 | 2 August 1984 | Vanished on a visit to Novoshakhtinsk, where she was to visit her sister. She was killed in Aviators' Park, Rostov. |
| 28 | Lyudmila Alekseyeva | F | 17 | 7 August 1984 | A student lured from a bus stop by Chikatilo, who offered to direct her to Rostov's bus terminal. |
| 29 | Unknown woman | F | 20–25 | 8–11 August 1984 | Killed in Tashkent by Chikatilo while on a business trip to the Uzbek SSR. |
| 30 | Akmaral Seydaliyeva | F | 12 | 13 August 1984 | A runaway from Alma-Ata, Kazakhstan, also killed by Chikatilo in Tashkent. |
| 31 | Aleksandr Chepel | M | 11 | 28 August 1984 | Killed on the banks of the Don River, near where Alekseyeva had been killed. |
| 32 | Irina Luchinskaya | F | 24 | 6 September 1984 | A Rostov librarian, killed by Chikatilo in Aviators' Park, Rostov. |
| 33 | Natalya Pokhlistova | F | 18 | 31 July 1985 | Lured off a train by Chikatilo near Domodedovo Airport, Moscow Oblast. Her body was found on 3 August. |
| 34 | Irina Gulyayeva | F | 18 | 27 August 1985 | Killed in a grove of trees near Shakhty bus station. Her body was found the following day. |
| 35 | Oleg Makarenkov | M | 13 | 16 May 1987 | Killed in Revda, Sverdlovsk Oblast. Chikatilo led police to Makarenkov's remains after his arrest. |
| 36 | Ivan Bilovetskiy | M | 12 | 29 July 1987 | Killed in woodland alongside a rail line in the Ukrainian city of Zaporizhia. His body was found by his own father on 30 July. |
| 37 | Yuri Tereshonok | M | 16 | 15 September 1987 | Lured off a train in Leningrad. Chikatilo led police to his remains after his arrest. |
| 38 | Unknown woman | F | 18–25 | 1–4 April 1988 | Killed near Krasny Sulin station. Her body was found on 6 April. |
| 39 | Aleksey Voronko | M | 9 | 15 May 1988 | Voronko was killed near a station in Ilovaisk, Ukraine, on the Rostov–Ukraine rail route. |
| 40 | Yevgeniy Muratov | M | 15 | 14 July 1988 | The first victim killed near Rostov since 1985. Muratov's body was found on 10 April 1989. |
| 41 | Tatyana Ryzhova | F | 16 | 8 March 1989 | A runaway from Krasny Sulin, she was killed in Chikatilo's own daughter's apartment. |
| 42 | Aleksandr Dyakonov | M | 8 | 11 May 1989 | Killed in Rostov city centre the day after his 8th birthday. His body was found on 14 July. |
| 43 | Aleksey Moiseyev | M | 10 | 20 June 1989 | Killed in Vladimir Oblast, east of Moscow. Chikatilo confessed to this murder after his arrest. |
| 44 | Helena Varga | F | 19 | 19 August 1989 | A student from Hungary who had a child. She was lured off a bus and killed in a village near Rostov. |
| 45 | Aleksey Khobotov | M | 10 | 28 August 1989 | Vanished from outside a theater in Shakhty. Chikatilo led police to his remains after his arrest. |
| 46 | Andrey Kravchenko | M | 11 | 14 January 1990 | Lured from a cinema by Chikatilo. He was in killed in Shakhty. Kravchenko's body was found on 19 February. |
| 47 | Yaroslav Makarov | M | 10 | 7 March 1990 | Lured from a Rostov station by Chikatilo. He was killed in Rostov Botanical Gardens. |
| 48 | Lyubov Zuyeva | F | 31 | 4 April 1990 | Lured off a train near the Donleskhoz station near Shakhty. Her body was found on 24 August. |
| 49 | Viktor Petrov | M | 13 | 28 July 1990 | Killed in Rostov Botanical Gardens, a few yards from where Makarov had been murdered. |
| 50 | Ivan Fomin | M | 11 | 14 August 1990 | Killed at Novocherkassk municipal beach. His body was found on 17 August. |
| 51 | Vadim Gromov | M | 16 | 17 October 1990 | A mentally handicapped student from Shakhty. Gromov vanished while riding the train to Taganrog. |
| 52 | Viktor Tishchenko | M | 16 | 30 October 1990 | Killed in Shakhty. Tishchenko fought hard for his life; he was the victim who bit and broke Chikatilo's finger. |
| 53 | Svetlana Korostik | F | 22 | 6 November 1990 | Chikatilo's last victim. Her body was found 13 November in woodland near Donleskhoz station. |
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