Top 15 Most Dangerous Prisoners In Black Dolphin Supermax Prison

15 - Said Amirov

Amirov was known for his strong grip on power in Makhachkala, maintaining control over the city for 15 years.

Despite surviving multiple assassination attempts, including a 1993 attack that left him paralyzed and reliant on a wheelchair, he remained a dominant force in Dagestani politics.

His tenure was marked by allegations of corruption, criminal connections, and violent rivalries.

In June 2013, Russian authorities arrested Amirov on charges related to organizing the murder of an investigator, Arsen Gadzhibekov, in 2011.

Later, he was also accused of plotting to commit a terrorist attack using a surface-to-air missile to bring down a plane.

Prosecutors argued that he planned the attack to eliminate a political rival.

In 2014, he was sentenced to 10 years in prison for organizing a criminal group and plotting the terrorist attack.

Additional charges led to an increased sentence of life imprisonment in 2015.

Amirov's case was one of the highest-profile corruption and organized crime crackdowns in Russia.

His downfall marked a significant shift in the Kremlin’s approach to regional power brokers in the North Caucasus, as Moscow sought to exert more control over the volatile region.

Some of his supporters still claim that his prosecution was politically motivated and today, he resides at Black Dolphin Prison.

14 - Stanislav Beloruscev

Born in Krasnokamsk in 1967, he developed an addiction to alcohol sometime during the mid-1980s.

During the Soviet and post-Soviet years, Beloruscev was convicted four times on different charges.

In 2009, Beloruscev was arrested for murdering three people in Krasnokamsk.

While drinking alcohol together, a quarrel occurred between Beloruscev and his three acquaintances, during which he bludgeoned them to death with a dumbbell disk and stabbed them multiple times.

On 10 September 2010, he was convicted and received a life term, after which he was transferred to the Black Dolphin Prison to serve his sentence.

Over the following years, he would periodically contact the Investigative Committee of Perm Krai and confess to nine additional murders committed between 2001 and 2009.

In 2024, Beloruscev admitted to his twelfth known murder, and chronologically, his first known one.

He claimed that sometime in 2001, he attended a party on Entuziastov Street in a drunken state and started rummaging through the cabinets in search of valuables.

He will never leave custody due to his whole-life sentence and will die in Black Dolphin Prison.

13 - Vladimir Draganer

Known as "The Kamyshin Maniac," in 1999, at the age of 18, Draganer committed a series of brutal murders in Kamyshin, Volgograd Oblast, Russia.

Between March 8 and August of that year, he killed five individuals, including four girls and two young teenagers. His method of killing primarily involved stabbing.

Draganer was apprehended in August 1999 and subsequently convicted of murder. He received a life sentence and is currently incarcerated at the Black Dolphin Prison in Sol-Iletsk, Orenburg Oblast, Russia.

Draganer's crimes have placed him among Russia's most infamous serial killers and his case is often cited in discussions about violent crime in the country.

12 - Vadim Ershov

This convicted Russian serial killer known as "The Krasnoyarsk Beast," committed a series of heinous crimes in and around Krasnoyarsk, Russia, resulting in 19 confirmed murders and 8 attempted murders.

In May 1991, he was conscripted into the Soviet Army and served in the Far East.

During his service, he was subjected to bullying by fellow soldiers. In response, he attacked one of his abusers with a brick and a knife, leading to his desertion and return to Krasnoyarsk.

His first known crime occurred on November 28, 1992, when he raped and bludgeoned a 42-year-old food service employee with a stick.

Over the next three years, he committed 18 additional rapes, 15 of which resulted in murder.

His victims ranged from young girls to elderly women and Ershov's modus operandi often involved using a knife.

Ershov was apprehended on October 29, 1995, after attempting to rob a 16-year-old girl.

In June 1998, the Siberian Military District Court convicted Ershov on all counts and sentenced him to death by firing squad, however his sentence was commuted to life.

11 - Farit Gabidullin

One half of a 2-part brother killing team, Gabidullin came from a disadvantaged background who's parents were alcoholics.

At only three years old, both brothers were abandoned by their mother and left in the care of their grandmother, while she left her home and began to live on the streets.

In October 2000, investigators from the Chelyabinsk Police Department detained the brothers on suspicion of raping and murdering a 23-year-old woman.

During their interrogations, the twins confessed to raping and brutally killing the victim on the train tracks, but to the investigators' shock, they also admitted to committing a total of 30 such crimes in the region.

The brothers claimed that all of their subsequent victims were children, young girls, and marginalized members of society.

Ultimately, prosecutors managed to prove the brothers' involvement in 14 murders and Farit was found guilty of 10 murders and sentenced to life imprisonment.

10 - Vadim Krotov

Krotov's early life details are sparse. He served in the military in Primorye, where he eventually settled and married, however by 1993, he had divorced and began engaging in criminal activities.

The first murder Krotov committed was on the night of 14 to 15 August 1997 and he then proceeded to commit two more murders over the following years.

He was soon arrested after word of many girls travelling to his house and not returning made there rounds in the city.

During the investigation, he showed investigators where he buried his victims and on 6 October 1999, the Primorsky Krai Court sentenced Krotov to life imprisonment.

While in prison, Krotov gave an interview but refused to admit guilt in the production of child pornography.

In 2015, Krotov tried to unsuccessfully appeal his sentence and he remains at Black Dolphin Prison.

9 - Andrei Melyukh

Known as "The Brick Maniac," between 2000 and 2002, Melyukh targeted elderly women in Chelyabinsk, attacking them with a brick to rob them.

Raised in a dysfunctional family, Melyukh spent his early years in an orphanage and after serving a prison sentence for robbery in 1997, he struggled to find stable employment upon release, leading him to commit further crimes.

Melyukh was apprehended on February 8, 2002, after a failed robbery attempt.

He was subsequently convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole and is currently incarcerated at the Black Dolphin Prison in Sol-Iletsk, Orenburg Oblast.

8 - Sergey Shipilov

Known as "The Velsk Chikatilo," Between 1996 and 1999, Shipilov committed 14 murders and nine rapes, primarily targeting women in the town of Velsk.

The first murder Shipilov committed was in 1995, when he robbed and then killed a woman, he then picked up a fellow traveller while driving his truck and she was never seen again.

Another two murders were commited in 1996 and Shipilov was subsequently arrested after a third murder attempt went wrong.

He was found to have commited another eight rapes with the Primorsky District Court sentencing him to eight years imprisonment in a general regime colony without being caught for the murders.

After his release he commited a further 12-murders and was finally caught after his honeywagon passed by a place where one of the victims had disappeared and he was seen.

He was sentenced to life imprisonment due to the moratorium in Russia on the death penalty and was sent to the Black Dolphin Prison correctional facility.

7 - Yuri Tsiuman

Known as The Black Tights Killer and The Night Guest, Tsiuman is a Soviet era serial killer who is known to have killed people who wore pantyhose, with the item of clothing becoming his calling card.

Born on the 30th January 1969, in the city of Taganrog, Russia, Tsiuman had a difficult childhood and his parents were chronic alcoholics who constantly beat him and even threatened to kill him.

Tsiuman's first murder against a 16-year old, was committed in 1986 sometime between the 24th and 25th December and he attacked her in her apartment before setting fire to it.

After another three of four murders, Tsiuman's methods of caution began to slip and on 26 November 1992, the killer was detained by two random strangers named Mikurov and Chizhevsky.

He had been caught in the act of attempting to commit another murder and by now, the investigation had gathered mounting evidence against him through hair samples and fingerprints.

On 11th February 1994, Tsiuman pleaded guilty and was sentenced to death for all four murders, later having the sentence commuted to life imprisonment.

The trial was televised and he is currently serving his sentence in the Black Dolphin Prison, where he is scheduled to be released very soon.

6 - Vladimir Mukhankin

Born in 1960, Mukhankin had a difficult childhood and experienced many hardships throughout his life. In 1995, he was arrested for multiple crimes in the Rostov region of Russia.

Mukhankin committed nine murders and two attempted murders, targeting women and girls, mostly in the town of Shakhty, Rostov Oblast.

On 1 May 1995, Mukhankin was arrested after an attack on a woman and her daughter and he was eventually convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.

He is currently serving his sentence at Black Dolphin Prison, one of Russia's most high-security facilities.

5 - Oleg Rylkov

Known for a series of serious offenses committed between 1992 and 1997 in Tolyatti, Samara Oblast, Oleg Rylkov assaulted numerous underage girls and was responsible for multiple fatalities.

In 1998, Rylkov was apprehended and sentenced to death. However, due to a moratorium on capital punishment in Russia, his sentence was commuted to life imprisonment.

In 2020, further investigations revealed Rylkov's involvement in additional offenses committed between 1993 and 1994, leading to new charges and an extended prison sentence.

Rylkov's case is one of the most notorious in Russian criminal history and he spends his days rotting inside Black Dolphin.

4 - Vladimir Nikolayevich Nikolayev

One of the most notorious and famous criminals in russia, Nikolayev had a criminal record dating back to 1980, which included convictions for theft and robbery.

His first murder occurred during a drunken altercation, and this was later followed by a second murder with unspeakable crimes taking place.

So notorious was Nikolayev's case, he was featured in the National Geographic documentary "Russia's Toughest Prisons".

Nikolayev stated that while he is generally against the idea of the death penalty, he would prefer it for himself, rather than continuing to live in prison for the duration of his life.

His sentence was commuted to life imprisonment and he is expected to die at Black Dolphin.

3 - Kegashbek Orunbayev

Known as "The Ivolginsky Ripper." Orunbayev committed a series of heinous crimes in Russia between 1991 and 2012, resulting in the deaths of six women.

Orunbayev emigrated to Russia in the early 1990s and his first known murder occurred in March 1991 in Novoaltaysk, Altai Krai, where he killed his 76-year-old landlord after she refused his sexual advances.

Between 1991 and 1997, Orunbayev committed two additional murders and although details of the first murder are scarce, the second, in 1997, took place in Nizhnyaya Ivolga, leading to an eight-year prison sentence.

In July 2007, Orunbayev met a young woman in Ulan-Ude and they traveled together to the village of Myasokombinat, where, after she declined his sexual advances, he strangled her.

Another murder occured in July 2012, after a dispute with a woman he had invited to his hotel room in Ulan-Ude, Orunbayev strangled her and hid her body under the bed.

Following his arrest, Orunbayev confessed to multiple murders, including those committed after his 2006 release and psychiatric evaluations found him sane but diagnosed with pronounced psychopathic traits.

In 2013, he was sentenced to life imprisonment, which he is currently serving at the Black Dolphin Prison.

2 - Ilnaz Galyaviev

Galyaviev, born on September 11, 2001, was responsible for the tragic school shooting in Kazan, Russia, on May 11, 2021, an incident that resulted in the deaths of nine individuals, including seven children, and left 23 others injured.​

Galyaviev graduated from Gymnasia Number 175 in 2017 and later attended the TISBI Management Academy in Kazan but was expelled in April 2021.

Prior to the shooting, Galyaviev had no criminal record and on the morning of the attack, Galyaviev posted a message on social media expressing his intent to commit mass murder.​

On May 11, 2021, Galyaviev entered Gymnasia Number 175 armed with a legally obtained semi-automatic shotgun. He initiated gunfire, resulting in the deaths of seven students and two staff members.

The attack also caused injuries to 23 others with law enforcement apprehending Galyaviev at the scene.

Following his arrest, Galyaviev underwent psychiatric evaluations, which confirmed his mental competency to stand trial and in December 2021, he was formally charged with multiple offenses.

On April 13, 2023, Galyaviev was sentenced to life imprisonment in a special-regime penal colony and an appeals court upheld this sentence on August 7, 2023.

1 - Ramses Gaichayev

One of Russia's most dangerous criminals, Gaichayev has picked up convictions for many crimes that include ten counts of murder, rape, robbery, brigandage and genocide.

Between 1997 and 1999, he led a gang that targeted ethnic Russians in the regions of Chechnya and Stavropol, resulting in at least ten deaths.

In early 1997, Gaichayev formed a gang with fellow villagers Rustam Khalidov, brothers Rizvan and Kharat Magomadov, and Dzhabrail Espirov.

They primarily targeted ethnic Russians, though it remains unclear if this was due to racial motivations or fear of reprisals from Chechen families.

Their modus operandi involved home invasions, during which they robbed and murdered the inhabitants, displaying extreme cruelty without hesitation to harm children or the elderly. ​

Gaichayev was first arrested by Chechen militants in 1998 for the murder of an elderly woman but was released when federal security forces approached the village.

He resumed his criminal activities until his final arrest in December 1999 in Tolstoy-Yurt, near Grozny.

Prosecutors considered charging him with genocide due to the targeted killings of Russians, but the courts determined that the crimes were motivated by robbery rather than ethnic cleansing.

As of November 2022, Gaichayev is serving his life sentence at the Black Dolphin Prison.

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