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Date of birth -1939
Place of residence - Siberia, then - Nevinnomyssk, Stavropol Territory.
Specialization - rape, murder of teenage boys.
The number of victims - 33, the number of those killed - 7.
Diagnosis - vampirism, fetishism, necrophilia and sadism, pyromania are present.
Arrest - 1985 on suspicion of the disappearance of thirteen-year-old Serezha P.
The verdict is shooting.

DIFFERENT TEACHER
In 1985, a record-breaking killer was arrested, who had been raping and killing since 1964, that is, 21 years! This man turned out to be Anatoly Slivko, Honored Teacher of the RSFSR, who accounted for 17 lives of teenage boys. In the city of Nevinomyssk, Stavropol Territory, he organized a tourist club for schoolchildren. These schoolchildren basically became its victims.

He lured them into the forest and, under the pretext of an innocent game of war, invited the boys to take part in the hanging. How could the guys suspect their teacher of something prejudicial! So the gullible teenager stood on a stool, threw a noose around his neck. Another moment - and Slivko knocked out a support from under his feet. The dying maniac filmed the agony.

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 with a needle, smoothing out every crease. Slivko began to conduct experiments, "educate" in him stamina and courage: he put a stand, putting the boy's head into the noose, then he 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, Slivka 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 Cream 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 once at work, when the investigator approached a cabinet with a red arrow and the inscription: "Do not touch - 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 ...

DEATH THEATER OF PIONEER LEADER SLIVKO
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.

Slivko came to Nevinnomyssk after serving in the army, graduated from a technical school, worked at the Azot plant and, in parallel, on a voluntary basis, worked at a school as a pioneer leader. He didn't smoke, didn't drink, never used foul language. He devoted all his free time to children - he did physical training with them, taught them how to make a fire, pack a backpack and set up a tent, went with his wards on multi-day trips around his native land. Soon, a good rumor about the ascetic educator spread outside the city. They talked about Slivko at tourist rallies, the Chergid club, of which he was appointed director, was praised at meetings of district committees, and an exemplary mentor was cited as an example to colleagues.

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 46 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 21 years, remaining above suspicion.

At one of the interrogations, where, together with the operational-investigative group, he was to comment on a film of his own production, Slivko asked: "I trust the investigation, but I wanted as few people as possible to be present during the viewing. I'm scared what people will see."

If the operator himself was horrified by the shots taken ...

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.

The Slivko case has been studied quite deeply, including by doctors, which was largely facilitated by the maniac, who willingly spoke frankly with investigators and made contact with psychiatrists. The examination of Slivko was carried out twice, and his personality was studied well. In any case, scientists have picked up a lot of medical terms that characterized the mental state of the person under investigation at the time of the crime. Vampirism, fetishism, necrophilia and sadism are present in his behavior. In his perversions, he became more and more sophisticated. Pyromania noted by psychiatrists should also be included here.

All this is reflected in the films shot by Slivko. Pyromania, for example, was expressed in the fact that the maniac set fire to the victim's shoes, having previously doused them with gasoline. In some cases, he sawed shoes with a hacksaw, fixing his actions with a movie camera installed nearby.

Slivko generally had a special relationship with children's shoes, carefully cleaned and shiny. According to him, this is due to the shock he experienced in 1961. Then a tragedy occurred before his eyes: a boy died under the wheels of a car. Slivko saw the agony of a teenager dressed in a pioneer uniform, remembered a white shirt, a tie, a dark school suit and shiny shoes. Before that, there were other cases where shoes served as a fetish. But the death of the pioneer was the culmination in the formation of the psychology of the future maniac. Subsequently, he reproduced the details of that scene, playing scenarios he had invented in secluded forest glades.

He has always avoided women. Even with his own wife, he rarely had intimacy, and for the last ten years he generally slept at home in a separate room.

As a child, Slivko was sickly and weak, suffered from insomnia, lack of appetite, was embarrassed by his appearance, clumsiness, and avoided noisy games with peers and sports activities. As a schoolboy, he became interested in raising rabbits, willingly killed and butchered them (just like the boys from the tourist club who later trusted him). Although often at the sight of blood or cut off fish heads, as relatives claimed, Slivko turned pale and fainted. Here he resembles the Rostov Chikatilo. He could not stand the sight of blood, he could not even cut off the head of a chicken with an ax. But what was the "master" in the forest belt, gutting the victim with the speed and dexterity of a pathologist.

Slivko felt tender affection for boys, preferring the age of up to sixteen years. He surrounded his favorites with care, took care of, he knew how to find an approach to everyone. Feeling sympathy from the child (let me remind you that Slivko, a selfless and skillful teacher, was respected by everyone around him), the maniac, using the boys’ curiosity and craving for secrets and conspiracies, offered to participate in the survival experiment. During the investigation, he admitted that there had never been a refusal from the children. From the "subject" Slivko took a non-disclosure agreement, which also appealed to the boys - just like adults, especially since the experiment, according to the instructor, was to determine the degree of endurance, test courage.

For credibility, Slivko sketched out the script and gave it to the future victim to read. The plot was the same: the pioneer hero was subjected to various trials, including torture. The maniac explained the need for filming vaguely: he, they say, collects material and writes a book about the limits of human capabilities. In some cases, Slivko said that he must know how to provide first aid on campaigns if someone loses consciousness. The search for experimental subjects was also helped by the system of fines for misconduct: if the child owed money and did not pay, Slivko went forward - he offered to work out by participating in the experiment.

The experiments were divided into lethal and non-fatal, and only Slivko knew about it. The boys did not realize that, going to the forest with a joyfully excited uncle Tolya, they might not come back.

He prepared in advance a clean, well-ironed school uniform, a white shirt, a red tie and, of course, polished shoes. The boy promised not to eat anything ten to twelve hours before the meeting, so that during the experiment there would be no nausea or vomiting. And just before the test, the teenager had to recover. Slivko washed some of the test subjects in the river and dressed them personally - the "gourmet" was preparing for the future bloody "feast". The maniac brought victims into an unconscious state different ways. Some put a gas mask on their faces and forced them to breathe ether, others pulled a plastic bag over their heads, blocking the access of air, but most often he used a loop made of a rubber hose. If Slivko conducted a deadly experiment, then he would take the victim out of the loop after ten to fifteen minutes. Of course, in order not to violate the "purity" of the experiment, he securely tied the boys' hands and feet. From the materials of the criminal case: “Slivko’s sadism and necrophilia manifested itself in the fact that he dismembered corpses without the purpose of hiding them. penis, ears and soft tissues of the face. Sometimes the killer deliberately damaged an object that was a sexual symbol for him. For example, shoes, which he sometimes cut and set on fire. "

Slivko hung the bodies of the murdered boys by their legs, carried them in front of a movie camera on his hands, changed clothes for them, made various figures on the mat from severed legs and arms ... He received sexual relaxation without making direct contact with the victim. The maniac masturbated using various fetishes (boots, photo and film materials, body parts that he salted for long-term storage), or by conducting "experiments". But he got the greatest pleasure from killing. Mental discharge and sexual satisfaction of Slivko are directly related to scenes of torment and death of teenagers.

He committed seven murders. But their number would have grown many times (according to the materials of the criminal case, thirty-three boys are victims of non-lethal experiments), if not for the sadist's fear of being exposed.

How did he manage to stay free for so long? Why did it take twenty-one years to capture? The answer is simple and disappointing: no one was looking for the killer, although it was not difficult to calculate him.

Slivko was detained after Serezha P. disappeared. After the statement of the boy's parents, the police interviewed his peers, they remembered that the schoolboy on the eve of his disappearance talked about the upcoming filming of the film with Slivko. Children characterized him as a weirdo who makes films about strangulation and other torture. The police found out that another boy, who disappeared five years ago, was also supposed to participate in the "film shooting" of the director of "Chergid". It was then that the operatives finally looked to to the best friend children to a teacher with pedophilic tendencies Anatoly Slivko...

In order to find at least some explanation for the missteps of the police, it can be said that the killer for deadly experiments usually chose boys from dysfunctional families, where children were not particularly taken care of, sometimes they did not even report their son missing. And the guys themselves were not the best: they often ran away from home, had trouble with the law.

And yet, the main reason that did not allow the maniac to be caught earlier was the lack of experience in detecting serial killers. The law enforcement system was not ready for the appearance of such monsters as Chikatilo, Slivko, Mikhasevich.

Actually, with the detention of Gennady Mikhasevich, who was arrested a year earlier than Slivko (both maniacs were shot by court order), not only began a serious study of the problem, the identity of the killer, who for a long time remained a record-breaking serial, but also the monstrous mistakes made during the investigation.

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 brought up the image of a boy that brought shock.

An unconditionally talented man, Slivko moved from a dream to a real business - 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.

Diary of a werewolf.
Part 1.

From the diary of S. - "Cosmos":
“I remember exactly the day it all started. 1961 is the year of Gagarin's flight. He went into space, but for me his own black and bottomless one opened up. It was summer. A drunk motorcyclist flew into a detachment of pioneers and knocked down a boy. The boy was covered in blood, his legs were becoming more expensive, someone picked him up and carried him to the car, but he was already unconscious, the boy. I was shocked by what I saw and could not come to my senses for a long time.

On November 14, 1973, a child disappeared in Nevinnomyssk. Sasha Nesmeyanov went to school in the morning, but did not return home. After an unsuccessful search, his mother turned to the police, and a search case was opened. The boy could not be found.

From S.'s diary (May 1973):
“Again, as usually happens to me in the spring, I experience an unpleasant state of depression and anxiety. My fantasies become more dramatic. Among the guys flashing in them, familiar from the tourist club "Chergid", Sasha appears more and more often. He starred in my film "Incident in the Woods". This time I offered him the lead role. What will happen now? I'm tired of fighting myself."
From the diary of S. - "Women":
“Apparently, my oddities are related to my sexual development. In the 60th, while serving in the Far East, I noticed that all the conversations of my colleagues about women did not arouse any feelings in me. I then, however, corresponded with a classmate. When I returned, I found out that she had an abortion and broke up with her. Another, having become pregnant by me, threatened to appeal to the command if I did not marry her. All this made me disgusted with women.
From S.'s diary (June 1973):
“I decided to cheat my vice. Agreed with Sasha on yesterday morning. I bought new clothes for him. Samples were carried out in the Donskoy forest. Sasha changed his clothes and, according to his role, began to run away from the robbers. I asked him to be more natural. We started messing around. I pretended to beat and torture him, he pretended to suffer. I was excited and sent Sasha to wash on the river. Left alone, I received satisfaction in the usual way and calmed down.

The main problem of searching for missing children is that parents do not know how their children live, with whom they meet. Interrogated classmates. It turned out that one guy was jealous of Sasha for the girl, but by the time of the disappearance he was already in the colony.
Sasha had long hair. At school, he was asked to cut his hair. He told his mother that the director of the Chergid tourist club was making a film where Sasha needed long hair. After the film, Sasha promised to cut his hair.

From Slivko's diary. - "Escape":
“In the army, I commanded a unit. There I was accepted as a candidate for the party, and upon dismissal they gave me a movie camera. Most of all I liked to shoot the pioneers, namely the boys. I was shocked and frightened by the discovery that I was not like everyone else. At the end of the 61st, I decided to go to my parents in Nevinnomyssk, away from the accident site, hoping to break the connection. But my terrible cravings came with me."

Sasha's mother explained to the teacher at school the reason long hair Sasha, but asked not to tell anyone about the shooting. But the teacher laughed at him in front of everyone. In the evening, Sasha told his mother that he would never tell her anything again.

From S.'s diary (Nevinnomyssk, May 1, 1963):
“I got a job at the Azot plant. Relations with girls do not add up, in a society of peers it is not interesting. I am drawn to children. He spoke at schools with stories about the nature of the Far East. Then he went as a pioneer leader to the 15th school, where he had studied before. I found solace among the children. I taught them kindness and loved sincerely. But I was like in 2 worlds. The real seemed dim, and where I see the torment of children - bright and exciting. The vision of the accident of '61 constantly pops up and haunts me."
From S.'s diary (summer 1963):
“I accidentally met Kolya near the cinema. He studied poorly and behaved badly. I vaguely realized that I needed this boy. I suggested going for a walk to prepare the game. He agreed. I haven't thought about what to do with it yet. In the conversation did not feel sexual arousal. Just cold and tension."

On June 5, 1974, photographs of Nesmeyany Alexander and signs of his appearance were sent by us to the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs with a request to show the photo on central television. Good photos of the boy were found by the director of the Chergid tourist club. Sasha's mother went to him.

From S.'s diary (June 1963):
“We met with Kolya at the bridge. I arrived with new clothes. Told Kolya that I needed to photograph him for my literary work tied up. I'm some kind of freak who enjoys childish suffering. I can't write, I'm choking with sobs. I wanted to kill myself again, but I couldn't."
From the diary of S. (1963) - "Discovery":
“The arrival of Nikita Sergeevich left me indifferent. Now, at the first opportunity, I escape into the world of fantasy from reality. I needed a boy who was actually unconscious. I read that as a result of a short-term hanging, consciousness is lost and everything connected with it is erased from memory.
From S.'s diary (June 2, 1964) - "Experiment":
“My first medical was more than successful. I committed an act on his shoes. The convulsions were captured on film and will give me pleasure more than once, saving me from the next victims. The boy did not suffocate for long, and quickly came to his senses, and most importantly, he did not remember anything about the experiment.
From Slivko's diary. (July 1973) - "The Riddle":
“I always take comfort in caring for the welfare of children. But I was confused by the presence of Sasha. I experimented with him with a bag, not a rope. It got a lot worse.”

Only in the winter of 1975 did a normal lead appear. In one of the colonies, the convict told a friend about the murder of a boy in Nevinnomyssk. And after a while he himself came with a confession. But this version was not confirmed.

From S.'s diary (November 7, 1973):
“I met Sasha at the demonstration. His decision to leave the club came as an unexpected blow to me. But the boy agreed to act and conduct experiments. We agreed on November 14th.
From S.'s diary (November 10, 1973) - "Boots":
“The first vivid impression in life is the occupation. I am 4 years old. I see how the policeman is going to shoot the dog, and the boy is protecting it. I don’t know what happened to the boy, but I clearly remember the polished chrome boots of the policeman, spattered with blood, which he wiped on the lying child. Maybe I need a doctor.. just what should I tell him? In my first acts of masturbation, I used a random boot.
From S.'s diary (November 13, 1973) - "Dream":
“Sometimes I have a dream from my childhood, in which there is some kind of secret, but when I wake up, I can’t remember it at all.”
From S.'s diary (May 1968) - "Victory":
“For a long time I have not been so easy and free in my soul. For the first time in my life, seeing the dirty feet of a boy, I was sober and the experiment did not take place.

On May 11, 1975, another boy disappeared - 11-year-old Andrei Pagosyan. He went to school and did not return home.

From Slivko's letter to his wife:
“Dear Lyudmila Ivanovna, let me address you in the old way. I was told about your life, you about my terrible life. I had the opportunity to review all my videos again and I regret that I filmed you and the children so little. But since we did not live normally as a woman and a man, then I could not hope for your love.
From S.'s diary (December 28, 1968) - "Chergid":
“I was hoping that getting married would help take my mind off my mind. But it was a mistake. My wife did not evoke any feelings or emotions in me, but she did not particularly irritate me. The stamp in the passport added social status. I created the club "Chergid". Parents themselves brought the kids in order to protect them from the courtyard life.

Andrei Pagosan's mother came to testify. She said that a man in the Don forest was filming. It was decided to check this version. This disappearance may have been related to Sasha's disappearance. But they didn't check anything.

From S.'s diary (July 1969) - "Miracle":
“Zhenya is a good and cheerful boy, and most importantly, a clean one. But it looks like I overexposed it in the loop. I took the poor man to the hospital. He got better, it was a miracle.”

In 1980, another boy, Serezha Fatnev, disappeared. Serezha said that he was going to a photo shoot, which was conducted by the director of the club "Chergid" - Slivko. That day Slivko appeared late and replied that he had not seen the boy.
The case was received by assistant prosecutor Tamara Languyeva. There were several versions - the boy could drown, the mother suspected. Attention was drawn to the club "Chergid" and its leader.

From the diary of S. (1975) - "Doctors":
“A visit to the doctor about the fact that nothing is working out with my wife, of course, did not lead to anything. But the most humiliating thing was the young nurse's giggle."

Langueva spent hours talking with the guys before she managed to overcome their distrust. And then for the first time she heard about the experiences associated with the risk to life, about which the director of "Chergid" asked them not to tell anyone. But she could not talk to those who participated in the experiments.

From the diary of S. (1980) - "Hell and Paradise":
“We somehow went to the sea. At one of the stations I went for a walk. 2 beautiful boys came out with me. They frolicked. Through sexual arousal, I heard the sound of an approaching train. I wanted to throw myself under it in this sweet ecstasy so that my life would end at this beautiful moment, but suddenly I crashed into an apple tree growing by the road, which I had not noticed before. I was frustrated that it didn't work out for me."
From notebook number 5:
Tail Vyacheslav. He was afraid, but did not speak. At the moment of execution, he reached out to the rope with his hands. Slightly twisted neck. The exposure time is 6 minutes. After 15-20 minutes, breathing problems began. The condition is not stable."

The city prosecutor took the information about Slivko's dangerous experiments with skepticism.
Maniac Anatoly Slivko knew how to captivate children and persuade. He explained the need for the experiment by the fact that in the campaign you can always accidentally lose consciousness and you need to train to bring yourself to your senses. He took non-disclosure receipts from the guys. And the guys did it.

From S.'s diary (May 1982) - "Happiness":
“I often come to that clearing where I was with Sasha and Andrey. More than once I figured out the tree on which I want to hang myself in order to end the torment of myself and the children whom I loved, understood, and at the same time, so tormented. In this clearing I write stories"
From S.'s diary (July 22, 1985):
“Tomorrow morning I will go to the GORONO so as not to go to a meeting with Serezha Pavlov. I know I want to have a real serious scary experience with him. I am very tired.."

Ordinary was the detention. Only one child had a tantrum. He was more in authority for them than their own father and mother.

From Slivko's diary (November 14, 1985) - "The Secret":
“While conducting an experiment with Seryozha Pavlov, I found myself on the verge of unraveling my childhood dream. I acted mechanically, but at the moment of the highest pleasure, when he thrashed in the noose, it seemed to hit me. I finally remembered our childhood games of partisans during the occupation. I remembered how the pioneers hung in the forest a boy who portrayed a fascist, and that boy was me. I grabbed Seryozha, gave him artificial respiration, but it was too late.”

Slivko:
- “The first crime was committed around 1973. During the experiment with Sasha Nesmeyanov, the boy died. I buried him in the forest."

From a letter from Slivko to his wife (June 15, 1986):
“Dear Lyudmila Ivanovna. Forgive me for all. It was only in prison that I realized that I had no right to marry and have children. I am a freak. I am sending you a list of signs of my deviation. Keep them a secret, but watch the kids. The most important thing is to become their friend. You must know their thoughts and dreams. Take courage and tell adult children about my deviation. Doctors do not recognize this as insanity, but the power of vice is such that I lost my mind and obeyed the evil will.

From the testimony of Slivko's wife:
“I have been living in a registered marriage with Anatoly Emelyanovich Slivko since 1967. We have 2 children. I suffered from sexual dissatisfaction. Already from the wedding night, he showed signs of sexual impotence. At first I blamed myself. I believe that my husband was cruel to me. He treated his children well, although he did nothing with them. The kids loved him, especially the younger one."

From Slivko's letter to his wife:
“Do not curse me, I have already been cursed by everyone and cursed myself. Nothing can be changed. You also need to separate from these facts. I am especially afraid for the children.”

The trial of Slivko took place in June 1986. He was found sane and guilty of the murder of 7 children committed over 20 years. Also 42 cases of causing grievous bodily harm. He was sentenced to capital punishment and shot in 1989 in the Novocherkassk prison. All physical evidence, with the exception of films, diaries and letters to his wife, were destroyed. Club "Chergid" was liquidated. The wife and children left for another city and by now the wife has died. The authors of the film do not know the new names and surnames of the children.

Written and directed by Arkady Kogan
Cinematographer Martins Punans
Project co-producer Vladimir Semenovykh
Composer Igor Nazaruk
The text was read by Sergey Polyansky and Alexander Lenkov
Film director Vasily Gorbunov
Chief Consultant Alexander Zvyagintsev
Project co-producer Vladimir Semenovykh
General producer of the project David Hamburg
TV channel: NTV
First broadcast date: 2000

The creation of this material would be
impossible without the help of the pupils of the club "Chergid".
We sincerely thank Tatyana, Andrey, Victor

A series of nightmarish murders of boys in the Stavropol Territory, unnoticed by anyone and at the same time lasting for more than 20 years ... Sexually motivated murders ... If anyone had known about this, they would have believed it if they had not seen with their own eyes, shuddering photographs and films taken on amateur camera? The dismembered corpse of a boy, blood flowing into a substituted flat basin. A corpse hanging in a noose above a high stump on which a fire burns. Another corpse hanging in a noose. And in all cases, the corpses are wearing neat clothes, snow-white shirts, bright scarlet pioneer ties and, of course, shiny, polished shoes. For 20 years, these frames, these terrible images, have been viewed again and again by the only viewer, who is also the director of these films. What thoughts flashed through his head when, being alone, he loaded the film into a movie projector and, in dead silence, over and over again scrolled through the scene of the terrible murder of a little boy - his pupil, whom he instilled high ideals, taught to deal with difficulties and believe in people? He is the only person in the whole wide world who is well aware that a serious danger looms over the children from the Chergid club. Under the quiet chirping of a film projector, he sees himself as businesslike and everyday, busy with his usual and well-known business - in his hands the knives are replaced by an ax, then he takes a saw ... A concentrated face, an attentive look, almost the same as he sees every time in the mirror combing his hair and straightening his tie before performing at the club - the director, a solid, respected person, but here ... here he is a killer, a monster. Emotions do not cover his eyes, all the euphoria from what he did has long since passed, there in a clearing in the Don forest, and here in a quiet room he understands with the utmost clarity who he really is ... He understands everything, but continues to live, cursing himself ...

Anatoly Emelyanovich Slivko - honored teacher, director of the tourist club. He is almost the same age as Chikatilo, only a couple of years younger. Born on December 28, 1938 in the Dagestan city of Izberbash. As a matter of fact, in those days there was no city as such. The history of the settlement begins only in 1931, when the first tent was set up near the station by workers who were conducting preparatory work for the development of oil fields. In 1935, drilling of exploratory wells began in Izberbash. The discovery of an oil field marked the beginning of the emergence and development of the oil field, which first gave life to a workers' settlement, and then to the city.

Among the first inhabitants of the workers' settlement was the Slivko family. Apparently, considering work in the oil fields promising and inspired by the enthusiasm of the first five-year plans, Yemelyan Slivko brought his wife and little son Andrei (Anatoliy's older brother) here. Unsettled life, difficult living conditions were an indispensable attribute of the life of the pioneers. Perhaps this gave Anatoly Slivko reason to subsequently tell law enforcement officials that he grew up in a family that can be called dysfunctional. He remembered the frequent quarrels between his mother and father, and even the fact that he was born prematurely, Anatoly Slivko himself explained by the fact that the mother, on the basis of quarrels with her father, tried to terminate the pregnancy. Perhaps Slivko thought that the image of a premature, restless, annoying parents with his loudness and often punished for this boy would cause him pity, coupled with other facts from life, would help to obtain an expert opinion on insanity, which would not make it possible to apply capital punishment to him. After so many years, it is difficult to understand what motives Slivko was driven by, talking about his childhood and youth. But at the same time, it should be noted that people who knew Anatoly's parents claim that it was a completely ordinary, good family, where everything was always in order and clean. Slivko's father was a quiet workaholic who loved cleanliness and tidiness. Small, frail and silent, he did not give the impression of a domestic tyrant, neighbors rarely saw his mother, since even his father almost always went to the store for shopping. Having devoted their entire lives to work for the benefit of building communism, A. Slivko's parents did not allow themselves to be lazy even in retirement - they had a dacha, and as long as they had enough strength, the old people worked on it.

Documentary sources tell about the childhood and youth of Anatoly Slivko rather sparingly:

“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.

Later there was military service, which he had been in the Navy since 1959 in the Far East. 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,” Slivko later said.

Direct speech by A. Slivko

“I realized that I matured as a man very late. I remember trying to court someone when I was in 9-10 grade. But nothing worked. He took up masturbation at the age of 22. It happened like this. One night there was a spontaneous ejaculation. Shocked by what had happened, he woke up. I experienced sweet satisfaction. I really wanted to experience this phenomenon again. In the afternoon he began to masturbate, an erection came, and then ejaculation. But he noticed a strange phenomenon: if in the process of masturbation he remembered a woman, the erection disappeared. He began to notice an increased attraction to boys ... He did not experience a pronounced aversion to women, with the exception of one case. In 1961, a girl sat on my lap and tried to arouse me. After her departure, I became ill, felt disgusted and vomited. In the army he corresponded with one girl. After the army, I went to her with the aim of getting married, but after staying with her for three days, I realized that I could not live sexually with her, and left.

And the feeling of attraction to boys arose for the first time 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 had to leave with Far East where he lived then. After the move, this desire disappeared, but after 5-6 months, immediately after ejaculation at night, this desire arose again and pursued constantly ... "

He moved to live with his parents in Nevinnomyssk.

Nevinnomyssk became a city shortly before the war, it was a former Cossack village with low adobe houses, often covered with reeds. After the war, they began to actively dig the Nevinnomyssky canal for irrigating the land (the city stands on the banks of the Kuban), in connection with this, the number of workers increased sharply. Then the construction of a nitrogen-fertilizer plant for the production of chemical fertilizers began (according to the decision of the Central Committee of the All-Union Leninist Young Communist League, the construction of a chemical plant was announced by the All-Union Shock Komsomol Construction), for which "chemists" were massively imported - those released on parole from the colonies. The city began to grow along the outskirts in the form of barracks, and then in the form of "Stalinka" and "Khrushchev". There were a lot of young people, children, they began to build schools, a stadium, clubs. The old city has not yet been touched and it retained its original appearance of the village. In 1962, the first product, ammonia, was obtained at the Nevinnomyssk nitrogen fertilizer plant. This day is considered the birthday of the plant. Most of the population was somehow connected with this production, A. Slivko, as well as his older brother, got a job at this plant. In order to start working at the plant, Anatoly needed to graduate from a chemical and technological technical school, after which in 1963 he received the qualification of a general operator and began his working career at the chemical plant. He worked selflessly, overfulfilled the plan, and soon became a shock worker of communist labor.

But Slivko did not live by work alone. He had his own all-consuming passion - tourism, there was a desire to organize hiking trips with children. Many times he spoke to schoolchildren with stories about the nature of the Far East. Among his peers, he was not very interested, and in the face of the boys, he finally got grateful listeners who were infinitely ready to trust him. In 1963, he got a job as a pioneer leader in secondary school No. 15.

It was here that the foundations of a tourist club known throughout the country began to be laid. Slivko had good organizational skills, will, a sense of humor and a desire to show children the world of mountains, the beauty of the surrounding nature. He knew how to teach, loved to do it, knew a lot about nature and loved it. And these are not just words, the former pupils of Anatoly Emelyanovich recall that in each campaign, even if it lasted only one day, the guys received some knowledge about herbs, about trees, about how to behave so that the forest does not suffer and the mountains. Pupils on campaigns never picked flowers in alpine meadows. They were eaten by cows in the mountains, and the guys were forbidden to tear under pain of punishment - once again out of turn to carry a tent during a hike. Once Slivko allowed to pick a bunch of dark tulips as a birthday present for a girl. Flowers withered quickly, but for her it was an extraordinary GIFT.

Initially, Slivko's activity as a pioneer leader was limited to organizing trips (there was no system of fines yet, there were no filming of amateur films) and largely depended on the school administration, the plan of the educational process and educational work. Apparently, Anatoly already at that time wanted more independence, thoughts appeared and became more and more real that it was necessary to create his own travel club, where he could fully realize his ideas and developments. And soon, having diverged in views with the director of the school, Slivko went to another, but the same thing is repeated here, and then he changes his place of work again, but the initially formed backbone of the members of his tourist circle, those boys and girls whom he fascinated with his work, as faithful his squires follow him wherever he goes.

In 1966, with the help of the Komsomol organization, Slivko received premises for the new tourist club "Romantic". These were a small assembly hall and tiny rooms on the second floor of an old wooden library building, located in the center of Nevinnomyssk next to the GorONO building. Stove heating, a small area (there was not even a dressing room and winter clothes had to be thrown directly on the tables), a small number of club members - all this united, and for several years later Slivko relied on this group of trusted guys who helped him in every possible way on campaigns until the guys left to Army. Victor Zagrebelny, Shestakov brothers, Andrey Udovik, Valentina Gordeeva, Tatyana Starkova. These guys were at the origins of the club.

Slivko did not stand out so much against the background of the pupils of his club, and even asked to call himself not Anatoly Emelyanovich, but Tolik - he was short, thin, but with strong muscular arms, always dressed in a plaid shirt and shabby trousers, he always had tablet for papers. He had light blue, slightly bulging eyes. Because of the shape of the eyes, it seemed that he was looking more intently and attentively than he really was. He looked without blinking, with a cold, emotionless look when he wasn't joking. It was difficult to understand whether he approved or condemned his pupils ...

Slivko was quite balanced, calm, never broke into a cry, sometimes a glance was enough to understand him. At the same time, everyone noted his secrecy, pride, rigidity in establishing discipline, however, never turning into cruelty and humiliation of children. Slivko smiled infrequently, but he was not gloomy, he liked to laugh, he joked with a serious expression on his face. Slivko spoke well - reasoned, concise, in a lively language, even colorful, when possible. He had amazing organizational skills - in the chaos that reigned due to the lack of everything necessary, thanks to his efforts, all issues of organizing campaigns were very quickly resolved. A large preparatory work, after all, it was necessary to organize buses and equipment for some kind of event, dry rations for tourists from the warehouse of the plant, resolve issues in the city party committee, etc.

When carrying out two-day trips with an overnight stay, each young tourist received a task from Slivko what to take with him so that there would be no extra potatoes and a lack of vermicelli, so that sugar would not be forgotten and there would be enough bread. Slivko always took sweets from himself and in solemn moments - after the badges were presented or after the “taking” of the pass, the pupils received 2-3 sweets, and on a cold pass with snow they could get several sips of red wine, except for sweets. Before a hike, he always asked if anyone had sweets in their backpack and offered to pour them all into one bag. If suddenly someone found a lollipop that he smacked alone, then such a tourist was threatened with a fine with the threat of departure from the tourist club for disrespect for the team and unwillingness to share all the hardships and pleasures with him.

The club had practically no financial and logistical support - a lot rested on the bare enthusiasm of the club members, who collected thirty kopecks each to rent pioneer backpacks for two days for a hike, and even chipped in for tents. The guys brought them, repaired them, hemmed them, and dried them after the trips so that there were no complaints at the box office, because Slivko was also taken under the word, and no one wanted to let him down.

Two-day hikes in the forest beyond the Kuban were organized by older guys, and inept children from 13 to 16 years old, who did not know how to put up a tent, how to light a fire, went on a hike, and there were up to 150 people like that. The same number went to the mountains to overcome easy passes in Teberda, in order to later receive the “Young Tourist” badge from Slivko’s hands in a solemn atmosphere. But it was received by the one who not only passed the pass, but already knew how to quickly put up a tent and kindle a fire, helped his comrades and observed the commandment "One for all, and all for one."

The word about the club quickly spread, and when children began to learn that they were enrolling everyone, regardless of grades and behavior, many of the two schools located in the center of the Old Town flocked to the club. The courtyard next to the club was quite large, and in the evening teenagers, girls and older youth stood and talked there. Slivko managed to put into everyone's head the thesis of equality - no one could reproach anyone for being a bully or a whiner at school, a weakling or a hero. There was a feeling of brotherhood. The older boys solemnly held out their hands to each, greeting, asking about something, that is, they did not allow the newcomers to be in a vacuum.

In Nevinnomyssk there were many circles in the House of Pioneers, the House of Technology, at the Palace of Culture, an art school, a swimming pool, a chess school, just in secondary schools. But visiting the club at least once a week for the guys was a kind of drug. The guys came to the club, sometimes just to chat when there was free time - usually after five in the evening. There were friends with whom they bawled Vysotsky's songs, having heard them on hoarse tape recorders or read them in a notebook from some homegrown guitarist. And the guys believed these songs that you can hope "for the strength of hands, for the hands of a friend and a sure hook ...", that "only mountains that you have not yet been on can be better than mountains." It was a special time - romance was in the air, the free sixties, the cult of geologists, the film "Fidgets", books about musketeers. The motto is “one for all, and all for one!”. All this became the basis for the cult of the tourist club - a club that teaches courage, resilience, and the ability to make friends.

Almost all the time, in addition to the main work at the Azot plant, Anatoly devoted to the club he created. His working time at the club began in the evening and ended at night, because that's when the guys came after school and homework. It seemed that he had no personal life, he did not think at all about starting a family, like most of his peers. He was already about 30 years old when he succumbed to the insistence of his mother.

1967 A wedding in the yard of his parents' house, guests, cries of "Bitter"! The treat was drunk and eaten, what began in the old days was called the sacrament of marriage, the details of which came up only during interrogations.

Direct speech. Anatoly Slivko

“... I met my wife Lyudmila at work ... I didn’t feel strong feelings, before marriage I didn’t touch her and didn’t try and didn’t even kiss her. My wife told me later that she regarded this behavior of mine as a standard of modesty and only for this reason married me. She was my first and the only woman However, I could not have sexual intercourse with her after marriage registration. I tried to do it, but nothing worked, despite my sincere desire and obligation to my wife. Two months after the wedding, my wife was at the gynecologist and returned very upset, painfully worried, rude to me and kicked me out of the bedroom. I think that my wife's virginity was violated by medical intervention ... For a long time I felt remorse and helplessness before my wife, but I could not do anything. She became indifferent to me... In seventeen years of marriage, I had sexual intercourse with my wife no more than a dozen times... despite all efforts... the penis only swelled slightly and ejaculation occurred... however, the wife gave birth to two children (Igor (b. 1971) and Eugene (b. 1975)".

It cannot be said that Slivko did not try to normalize intimate life in any way. Once he even came to see a doctor, shared his problems. But in response, he heard that nothing serious was happening to him. The doctor, not particularly listening to the patient's complaints, advised him to drink Eleutherococcus tincture, sleep more and be in the fresh air more often ... A young nurse who was present at this conversation frankly giggled. It is not difficult to understand in what state Slivko left the office, expecting at least some solution to his problems. All attempts to establish a normal sex life with his wife failed, and after the birth of his youngest son, Eugene, he generally slept in a separate room.

Direct speech. Ludmila Slivko

“Over the years of my life together, I suffered greatly from sexual dissatisfaction. Already from the wedding night, he showed clear signs of sexual impotence. At first, I attributed this weakness to myself. She blamed herself and was very worried. I believe that my husband was cruel to me. Never helped at home. As Zhenya, the youngest, was born, our intimate life ceased. He treated his children well, although he did nothing with them. The kids loved him, especially the younger one."

Lyudmila never came to the club, didn’t communicate with anyone, never went hiking with the guys - the students of the club were not only not interesting to her, but were, most likely, a hindrance in her personal life, because all the attention, all the evenings Slivko spent in club.

Slivko never talked about himself or his personal life at the club. This topic was closed once and for all shortly after the wedding, when one of the guys asked why his wife did not go camping with the guys. The short answer sounded sharper than usual...

Club "Romantic" continued to develop, grow ...

Over time, the number of members of the club exceeded 200 people, Slivko began to set days of communication by age, already quite young beginners did not fall into the group with the elders, whose trips became more interesting. Either it was “catching foxes”, when at night, by flashing a flashlight, they found each other in the field, taking into account some other orientations, then they ran with direction finders, then they participated in the speed of crossing the river on a tightrope and other sports games.

One of the nights, one of the guys forgot to turn off the stove, and during the night part of the wooden building of the library burned down. The club lost its premises. The club was temporarily relocated to the emergency building of the House of Pioneers on the same street, but it was small, unsuitable, and the club's authority was serious. The city committee of the party allocated premises in the New City in the premises of the Palace of Chemists - the most important cultural center of the city. The club came to the new building with a new name. It was 1968. The tourist club was called "CherGiD" - "Through the Rivers, Mountains and Valleys."

In the late 60s, Slivko still worked at the chemical plant, but he was easily allowed to go to the club's evening events, to hike on weekends, and then he was simply listed at the enterprise.

“Even before entering shop No. 1, I was engaged in tourism with schoolchildren. Came in new team. At first, I was somehow afraid to talk about my hobby in the shift. Then I felt that my workmates were interested not only in how I work, but also in what I do in my free time. Unexpectedly, my story about schoolchildren was met with interest. It happens that my weekends are not suitable for a hike - comrades help out. It happens that I will be delayed in the campaign - without reproaches they meet me in the shop. The shift workers understood how important the task of educating the younger generation is, how difficult this work is, but also interesting. More than 1000 children visit the club every year. Photographs, films, exhibitions, various collections, experiments in biology, collection of materials on the defense of the Caucasus - all these are the activities of the club. And now courses of geologists work in our club…”

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. The theme of the war was always in the first place. The museum already existed in the first year of Slivko's work - these were small stands under glass, where cartridge cases, helmets, fragments of documents, personal belongings of soldiers found on campaigns and expeditions were kept. The exposition of the museum gradually expanded, and over time, the museum became the pride of the club, where children from nearby schools were taken on excursions. In addition to the military direction, there was geology and botany. There was a photo circle at the club, where children learned to take pictures and make films. But, as former pupils of the club recall, the most important thing was that everything was done not for show and not for show.

Communication in the club continued to remain free, there were no classes as such - there were meetings where all the necessary information was clearly and concisely presented. After the meeting, there was a record of those wishing to participate in an event or a campaign, at the same time everyone received a task that was necessary from a specific participant in the campaign. Slivko was always in the thick of some discussions, because there were many groups, there were also many responsible for some events. But all this was not strictly organized, but in a free mode, with the exception of exclusive information. In this case, Slivko could say that at so many hours he was asking everyone to leave the premises, and a group of specific individuals would remain to conduct a special operation. To "certain persons" all the guys in this case experienced white envy. If it was supposed that an evening before the New Year would be organized, then a group of participants in its preparation was created on a voluntary basis. And then already this group did not devote anyone to how things were going.

The “artists” who made films or those who prepared the celebration of initiation into tourists and the presentation of the “Young Tourist” badge also worked in the same way. Scenarios were also written by a group - they offered ideas, and only then the backbone of enthusiasts and more or less physically prepared guys prepared the final version of the script, and filming began. In feature films, there have always been pirates, spies, grotesque looking heroes of the detective. Everything was dynamic, with falls, stunts - very funny films - everyone was waiting for them. Sometimes scenes of torture also appeared in films, but this harmoniously fit into the script with “bad” heroes - no frills.

Once Slivko took out a color film and during the campaign he often drove young tourists into raspberries so that the guys would eat large bright berries, and he would take close-up shots. Lyuba Gorina had blue-blue eyes, and he photographed her most of all, now with berries, now against the backdrop of blooming rhododendrons. He was a great aesthete.

The older guys gradually left to study and join the army, they were replaced by others. And these others, having been in more or less difficult campaigns, joined the Council of Instructors at the invitation of Slivko. It was them who were trusted by the younger ones. And they went on short hikes not under the guidance of Slivko, but with new instructors authorized by Anatoly. It had no effect on discipline.

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. I peeled potatoes for soup in a thick layer - a penalty of 100 points, I was too lazy and brought little firewood to the fire, while everyone was looking, bringing, chopping sticks, doing business - get minus 100 points. He pulled up his tent and helped his comrades, otherwise he ran for water, although he was not on duty - get a plus of 50 -100 points. The guys did not notice how Slivko was following them, but they knew that he sees and remembers everything! And sooner or later everyone will receive their reward or punishment.

Direct speech. Tatyana

In our big campaign with Slivko, I had to keep a diary, how we overcome difficulties, how we live on a campaign. Only once, three days after the start of the campaign, Slivko asked me if I was taking notes. I replied that not yet - there is not enough time. He succinctly said: "Choose!" - whether about time, or about something else. I never bothered to write something based on my fresh impressions, because I was terribly tired in the mountains, and then I decided that we would do without these notes.

A month after the trip, when the Council of Instructors considered the results of our trip, I received a punishment for not keeping a diary, as if I had not completed the assignment. The punishment was not attending the Council of Instructors three times. I came on the day of the Council, but I walked among other tourists, feeling out of my element.

Meetings of the Council of Instructors were held once a week from 19 to 21-30 pm. I lived in the Old City, and Chergid was already in the New City at the Palace of Chemists. Buses rarely ran in the evening, and my mother demanded that I be at home immediately after 9 pm. I shared this with Slivko, and there was not a single meeting that at 20-50 Slivko did not say: “Tanya, now go home so that mom does not worry.” This phrase was uttered without laughter and mockery, on the contrary, with some degree of respect for the requirements of the elders. I think that it was a wonderful unobtrusive lesson for everyone sitting on this Council (about fifty people).

In the late 60s, Slivko was sent on a business trip to Japan. From there he brought ginseng roots. With three people, he shared the secret of planting ginseng in the Zakuban forest. At the gathering of tourists, he said that he had let three specific people into the secret, showing each one of the three ginseng planting sites in order not to forget himself - for safety. Among them was Valya Gordeeva. Valya did not tell anyone where the plantation was, and no one even dared to ask what these mysterious roots looked like. Perhaps it was a kind of pedagogical move that each of the guys could be privy to some kind of secret that you can’t tell anyone about. This was regarded as a huge confidence in Slivko, and increased authority among the guys.

But there were also secrets in Chergid that were kept incomparably more carefully - terrible secrets ...

Direct speech. Anatoly Slivko

« Periodically occurring sexual pressure oppressed me and required some action, which ultimately ended in masturbation. The act required imagination, fantasy associated with the appearance of a boy who died in a road accident, his clothes.In my fantasy world, which for me has become more real than reality, there are adventures, chases, smart and happy boys in black shoes. I can do whatever I want with them, they like it and they smile at me. Realizing that such fantasies would require sacrifice, I thought about how to get a boy in an unconscious state ... In books on medicine, I came across a description of retrograde amnesia, in which, as a result of a short-term hanging, a partial loss of memory occurs, everything connected with experience is erased from it. I decided to experiment…”

Using the boys' curiosity and craving for secrets and conspiracies, Slivko offered to participate in a survival experiment. During the investigation, he admitted that there had never been a refusal from the children. From the “subject” Slivko took a non-disclosure agreement, which also appealed to the boys - just like adults, especially since the experiment, according to the instructor, was to determine the degree of endurance, test courage. For credibility, Slivko sketched out the script and gave it to the future victim to read. The plot was the same: the pioneer hero was subjected to various trials, including torture. Slivko explained the need for filming vaguely: he, they say, collects material and writes a book about the limits of human capabilities. In some cases, Slivko said that he must know how to provide first aid on campaigns if someone loses consciousness. The search for experimental subjects was also helped by the system of fines for misconduct: if the child received a fine, Slivko went forward - he offered to work out by participating in the experiment. Some of the guys went to the experiment, wanting to earn money - Slivko offered money (10 - 25 rubles).

On June 2, 1964, Slivko 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 remembered absolutely nothing about what had happened. He survived, but a few months later Slivko committed his first murder. The victim was 15-year-old Nikolai Dobryshev, who did not differ in exemplary behavior. 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.

Thus, the experiments were now divided into lethal and non-lethal, and only Slivko knew what experiment would take place next. The boys did not realize that, going to the forest with a joyfully excited uncle Tolya, they might never come back. The preparation for the experiment was thorough: Slivko prepared a clean, well-ironed school uniform, a white shirt, a red tie and, of course, polished shoes in advance. The boy promised not to eat anything ten to twelve hours before the meeting, so that during the experiment there would be no nausea or vomiting. And just before the test, the teenager had to recover. Slivko washed some of the test subjects in the river and dressed him personally - the "gourmet" carefully prepared for the future bloody "feast". The maniac brought victims into an unconscious state in various ways. Some put a gas mask on their faces and forced them to breathe ether, others pulled a plastic bag over their heads, blocking the access of air, but most often he used a loop made of a rubber hose. He had no fear that he would be given away, because the boys simply could not know what was happening to them next.

Slivko clearly controlled the conduct of his experiments - he certainly took pictures and film (some shots), kept notebooks in which he recorded the date and time of the "experiment", actions and appearance boy during suffocation, the symptoms observed after the victim came to his senses, tracked the pulse of the victims. At the trial, Slivko pointed out that thanks to this approach to the experiment, he brought the boys' stay "in the next world" to 9 minutes, when the child could still be revived. It was a real conveyor belt - dozens and dozens of different boys passed through Slivko's hands, in total, more than 40 people became victims of "non-fatal" experiments (according to other sources, about 100 people). 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. But the consequences of these experiments were very difficult - some of the participants in the experiments as a result received diseases for life and even disability. Balancing on the verge of life and death with his subjects, Slivko was clearly aware of how long he needed to keep the child in the loop so that he could subsequently reanimate him, but the understanding of what needed to be done so that the experiment ended in death was just as clear. If Slivko conducted a deadly experiment, then he would take the victim out of the loop after ten to fifteen minutes.

November 14, 1973 Slivko kills 15-year-old Alexander Nesmeyanov. 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, in addition ... 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, a prisoner in one of the colonies, Madyarov, wrote a confession, in which he confessed that it was he who killed the teenager, and buried the corpse on one of the islands of the Kuban. 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 11-year-old fifth grade student Andrei Pogasyan. 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 they did not conduct any investigation 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 they 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.

None of the inhabitants of the city could even imagine that the disappeared boys could have been brutally killed, the most likely cause seemed to be an accident, especially since there were many hydraulic structures around the city, or simply the boys' craving for adventure, which could make them embark on a long journey. . Be that as it may, criminal cases were not opened on these cases - the boys were wanted, but he did not give any results.

Despite the disappearance of two members of the club, life in Chergid, meanwhile, went on as usual ... Paradoxically, the club fully met its purpose. The children went to the club with pleasure and took an active part in all its affairs. Most importantly, they were interested in it. It makes no sense to argue that at that time there were suspicions against Slivko, even if at the court session, already knowing for sure about the crimes, the pupils spoke only enthusiastically about Chergid

Direct speech. Andrey.

“In the late 70s, the name of the club was on the lips of the whole city, especially my friends and some classmates. It was an honor to be a member of the club, not everyone was taken there, and many did not stay there for a long time for their hooligan misdeeds. The boxing coach periodically made me bring my diary so that there were no deuces, and when I first went to Slivko, I also took the diary - there should not have been triples in it. I went to the club in the 4th grade, it was 1977. I don’t remember who brought me there for the first time, but my first visit to Chergid made me great impression. It was a two or three-room apartment in a house in the city center on the 1st floor. The club itself was a small museum. The rooms were equipped with racks containing German and Soviet shot through helmets, rusty weapons, cartridges, and grenades. Some trophy and our flags, photographs hung on the wall. Everything was mysterious and mysterious and creepy as it beckoned. Slivko was then 40 years old, he was tall, with a wide open friendly face, clean-shaven, perfumed with "Shipr", his dark hair was curly. While in the club, he wore a dark suit, and on it was the badge "Honored Teacher of the School of the RSFSR". He leafed through my diary and, due to my young age, allowed me to just come to the club. The main task of "Through the Rivers of the Mountains and Valleys" was the organization and implementation of trips of schoolchildren to places of military glory, which were located in the foothills of the Caucasus. Everything was connected with the Great Patriotic War. I was at meetings in which high school students participated - grades 6-8, both boys and girls. They shared their impressions of their trips and planned future trips. Sometimes, at the urgent request of those present, he performed a great sacrament - curtained the windows with thick curtains, hung a screen on the wall and showed films. He had a video camera - a rarity in those days. And he filmed schoolchildren, but not just like that, but came up with various plots and scenarios, and their trips turned into feature short films. I saw these guys on the screen and they were sitting next to me at the same time - they were heroes and stars of the screen, moreover, films were in color, and television was still black and white at that time. At my request to take me on a hike, Slivko told me that he would definitely take me, but for this I need to grow up a little.

Thanks to Slivko's efforts, Chergid turned into an exemplary club, the pride of the whole city. It was prestigious to attend the club, to have badges and to be on the Council of Instructors. The popularity of the club became so high that Slivko was even forced to refuse admission due to the overcrowding of the club. The city committee of the Komsomol and the party helped the club in every possible way, because thousands of children were organized, difficult children did not cause trouble for the police - they were accepted into the club and re-educated without much effort. "Chergid" and Slivko constantly showed visiting guests as an example of the organization of the educational process and work with children. Slivko and his pupils regularly participated in events of various sizes, articles were written about him in Pionerskaya Pravda, and broadcasts were recorded on the All-Union Radio.

Participating in various events, Slivko personally gets acquainted with almost all the leadership of the city and the region, he has the widest connections in party structures. The third secretary of the city party committee, Kostina, literally idolized Slivko, attributing his merits to her talent as a leader and curator, so she not only helped him in providing free buses, material assistance for the purchase of mining equipment, scarce condensed milk for hiking in the mountains, but also promoted Slivko in her career stairs. Slivko 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 in general). Additional payments were made for the titles, and he received a salary from Azot, being listed as a worker in some workshop.

The honored teacher of the RSFSR was given to him, of course, illegally, but at the same time, most residents of the city perceived this award as well-deserved, because although Slivko was not a teacher, everyone knew that as an educator, psychologist, organizer, he was head and shoulders above anyone certified teacher. In contrast to this, teaching staff were unpleasantly surprised by this decision, since such titles were not given to random people - they were not even allocated to a region or city every year, and the city government, together with the city committee of the party, carefully weighed all the pros and cons of individual candidates. Such a title could not be obtained without the approval of the party authorities, and, probably, Kostina insisted that it was Slivko who received this title.

The thunder of applause and the lack of leadership from the city and other organizations provided Slivko with absolute lack of control. In this state of affairs, Slivko himself is gradually changing - this is no longer the young romantic who first came to school, but a self-confident, well-groomed, arrogant person. As many noted, he was always a rather headstrong and proud person, and due to the fact that the club was considered one of the best in the Union and the city leadership put it on display everywhere, and was not averse to including his successes in his own asset, Slivko more felt his indispensability, felt that he was allowed more than others.

In the late 70s, the Chergid club was transferred to the trade union committee of the Nevinnomyssk production association Azot and received premises in a residential building on the street. North, which belonged to the chemical plant. During this period, Slivko was given additional teaching positions, and for the first time, full-time employees appeared in his club: his deputy and cleaner, warehouse manager and other employees. Indoors on st. The new life of the club began in the North, to end in December 1985 no longer with a thunder of applause in honor of the director of the club, but with a loud exposure of a murderous maniac ...

It should be noted that Anatoly Slivko went to the next murder for a long time. He could control himself, according to forensic experts who know the history of his crimes. Slivko had a high degree of social maturity, a level of moral prohibitions. His intelligence was quite high. But the absence of a sexual life “turned on” the memories, in which the image of a bloodied boy surfaced each time, which brought shock. Fantasies increasingly captured Slivko (“the vision of the accident in 1961 constantly pops up in my mind and haunts me”). Five years have passed since the last murder and Slivko decides on a new deadly experiment.

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 chopped 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.

Direct speech. Anatoly Slivko.

“When I dismembered the victim, I didn’t 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 also had such feelings for my sons: when no one was at home and I had sexual pressure, I imagined my son in a similar situation. And masturbated on his boot ...

No, I never smoked or drank. Alcohol has always made me feel bad. I tried to get drunk in order to be attracted to women in this state, but nothing worked. In addition, I worked with children, I felt responsible, this is a matter of my morality, a matter of principle. I couldn’t appear in front of the children with the smell of alcohol ... I didn’t communicate with anyone, I didn’t know my neighbors on the site, I didn’t aspire to anything, I didn’t envy anyone. He returned to the scene of the murder several times, about a month after the murder, sometimes earlier. My imagination worked, and I needed to reconstruct everything that had happened and enjoy it. At this point, I didn't feel any fear...

After one of the murders, he left the victim's clothes and a watch, these integral details gave me an increased idea of ​​past events. I tried to make a doll so as not to kill the living, but to use the doll to relieve sexual pressure.

July 23, 1985 Slivko performs his last lethal experiment. The victim was 13-year-old Sergei Pavlov. That day, at 7 o'clock in the morning, the boy left his house at 36 Mira Boulevard, telling his parents that he was going fishing on the Barsuchki 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 was unable to talk to him. Serezha's mother, Antonina Grigorievna, sounded the alarm. I contacted the city police. They promised to take measures to search, but, unfortunately, they did not go further than promises.

A. Pavlova came with a complaint to the city prosecutor P. Zakachurin. Pavel Timofeevich carefully analyzed the facts and saw crime in them. As a result, a case was initiated on the grounds of premeditated murder and handed over to the investigator, especially since this was not the first case of the mysterious disappearance of teenagers.

On November 13, 1985, Tamara Langueva, an assistant to the city prosecutor, officially takes over this case. Time passed, and the investigation progressed with great difficulty. Various versions were put forward: it was assumed that the boy could drown, or perhaps one of the relatives was involved in the disappearance of the child. As already mentioned, the investigators knew that teenagers in Nevinnomyssk had disappeared before - the frequency was several years. T. Languyeva systematized these disparate cases for the first time and began to consider the disappearances of teenagers not as individual cases but like links in a chain. The development of this version began ... First of all, Langueva drew attention to the Chergid club, which was visited by S. Pavlov and other missing boys. Talking with his friends at the club, she heard about the filming of movies. She was very surprised by the theme of these children's films, in which there were torture, scenes of hanging the main characters, although the guys claimed that they did not hang them seriously, but wrapped the rope under their armpits and imitated the pose of a hanged man. The investigator was even more alarmed by vague reservations about some strange medical experiments that the head of the club conducts with children. Languyeva spent hours talking with members of Chergid, trying to get details from them, but to no avail. However, not only Langueva became interested in Slivko. Among the wards of Elena Proida, who at that time worked in the children's room of the police, there were also rumors about the "secret cinema" and "experiments" of Slivko. E. Proyda paid close attention to verifying these rumors, and, perhaps, it was to her that the children first discovered the truth about the terrible events that took place in Chergid. The first of the direct participants in the experiments, who gave official testimony to T. Langueva, was Vyacheslav Khvostik. 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 ...

An analysis of Slivko's personality, carried out by the investigator, showed that the director of the Chergid club was well known in the city and enjoyed great authority. He was listed as an apparatchik at a chemical plant, but in fact he was only involved in the club. He was excellent at work and at home. In the city behind him firmly established the reputation of an experienced teacher. He was awarded dozens of thanks and diplomas, hundreds of rave reviews about the activities of the club and its useful deeds completed the image of an excellent student of education. And yet, analyzing the available facts, the investigator could not get rid of the thought of Slivko's involvement in the disappearances of children. The integrity of Slivko and the indisputable authority of "Chergid" stood in the way of the investigation. What if an honest person, a dedicated worker, is facing the investigation? Can't they say so many good things about a rogue? It was these circumstances that hindered the investigation, moreover, there was no direct evidence against Slivko. The city prosecutor also at first took the information about Slivko's dangerous experiments with skepticism - he could not believe that a person who devoted his life to children, was a model of honesty and decency, could be accused of an unhealthy interest in children.

In addition, one cannot discount the fact that Slivko was personally acquainted with many leaders in the City Committee, the Regional Committee of the Party, the Department of Internal Affairs, and it is quite natural to assume that no one needed the scandal around the name of the honored teacher and shock worker of communist labor. As a result, the investigators working on this case experienced some pressure from people who supported Slivko for several decades, which also somewhat delayed the conduct of more active investigative actions.

But since there were no other suspects, and the stories about the club director's strange experiences with children were very eloquent, the city prosecutor eventually signed a search warrant in the Chergid premises and 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. Initially, the policemen could not find at least something, although they carefully examined the premises of the club. Then one of the policemen pointed to a door with a sign "Don't get in - they'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 a set of knives, camping axes, coils of rope, rubber hose loops, stacks of shocking photographs of 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 so much 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, when he confessed to seven murders, visits to crime scenes were organized and the remains of six children buried in the Don forests were discovered. The remains of the children killed by Slivko in the 60s were not found. The news of Slivko's detention quickly spread among the city's residents, but no one knew for what reason the respected teacher ended up in prison. There were the most incredible versions... 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 next day after the arrest). The arrest of a well-deserved teacher was also a big blow for many officials invested with power. The head of the city police, Colonel Antonenko, was removed from his post and sent to work in a strict regime colony as a deputy head. It was a big stress for him, having worked there for two years, he retired because he suffered from terrible headaches. He was not reminded of Slivko and asked nothing. And the third secretary of the city party organization, Kostina, who was busy with awarding Slivko the title of Honored Teacher, closed herself in her apartment and committed suicide after his arrest. She didn't have a family. After the arrest of Slivko, the premises of the Chergid club and equipment were transferred to the jurisdiction of the city government, and to this day the Center for Children and Youth Tourism and Excursions is located in this premises.

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:

“I expressed the wish to the investigation that the circle be as narrow as possible ... What will be presented now ... even the human race is a disgrace ... I saw it once ... And this can neither be washed away nor forgotten. It will leave only with death ... I'm scared that people will watch it.

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.

Slivko was sentenced to death, but thanks to the efforts of his lawyer Sergei Petrov, a petition for clemency was drawn up, 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 on death row in solitary confinement in the Novocherkassk prison, awaiting the execution of the sentence. Like everyone sentenced to death in the USSR, Anatoly Slivko did not know when the sentence would be carried out, and therefore he shuddered when he heard the slightest noise in the corridor. The fear that they had come for him tormented him relentlessly. So it was only natural that when, in 1988, a security guard told him about a visitor, the famous Moscow psychiatrist Dr. Kostoev, Slivko was greatly relieved.

Kostoev, who led the operation to search for the Rostov maniac, was expecting a meeting with Slivko, in the hope that a conversation with him would help him better understand the psychology of maniacs and ultimately figure out the Rostov fanatic. He knew perfectly well that he had to be very careful with the prisoner, since he could tell him very important information in order to prolong his life. Kostoev knew something about which he in no case had the right to even hint: very soon Slivko was to be executed. However, he did not need to seek recognition of Slivko, he wanted him to reveal his soul to him to the very depths. Kostoev asked him questions, wrote down something, and in parting left a green school notebook with a multiplication table on the cover and asked him to describe everything in detail in order to discuss it at the next visit

Slivko accepted the offer, which promised not only temporary peace, but also an opportunity to escape from thoughts of execution. Nevertheless, in some part of his nature, he remained a teacher and a completely trustworthy citizen of the country, and being such, he, of course, agreed that the criminal should be neutralized. The main difficulty was that the second, criminal part of his soul, which was much stronger than the first, held a different opinion.

Two days later, Kostoev again made his way through the steppe and the forest belt that separated Rostov from Novocherkassk. This time he was accompanied by Major Burakov, who was also interested in the psychology of the criminal. Burakov was supposed to play the role of Dr. Kostoev's assistant and record the conversation with Slivko. It was very important that the conversation was carried out skillfully, since Kostoev learned that in two or three hours Slivko was to be executed.

At the second meeting, Slivko returned the notebook, each page of which was covered with neatly drawn words - the fruit of the most serious thoughts, the last confession of a maniac. Slivko wrote that at the age of twenty-three he witnessed a road accident that killed a boy of about ten. The boy was dressed in a pioneer uniform - a white shirt, red tie, black shoes. There was a large pool of blood and burning gasoline on the road. Slivko was both frightened and fascinated by the spectacle, from which he could not take his eyes off and which firmly stuck in his head.

To get rid of this "sweet nightmare", Slivko got married, but on the very first night he was disappointed, unable to make his wife a woman; a little later she had to resort to surgery. Although making love to his wife meant “blood, sweat and tears” for him, he still managed to ensure that they had a son. For some time, the knowledge that he had a little son helped Slivko cope with nightmarish visions that continued to haunt him until he gave up, becoming, in his own words, "a slave to his own fantasy."

Slivko's victims were only ten-year-old boys, the most attractive in his eyes were their black shiny shoes. The red pioneer tie also became his fetish, but Slivko argued that he should by no means be suspected of "inclinations towards fascism." Slivko noted that each time he wanted to repeat the same picture. And he repeated everything again, usually a month later, sometimes earlier. Slivko admitted that the photographs that he took after the murder and developed in his darkroom satisfied him for no more than a month. He also emphasized that until now he had never told about his fantasies related to his son, and only now, finally losing hope, decided to write everything as it is.

That part of Slivko's consciousness that was in charge of a sense of justice continued to function. He cursed himself for having fallen so low that he began to associate his fantasies with his own son.

“I could describe everything I did in two completely opposite ways. I could brand myself with a curse, but I could also present my sadism as something sublime, inaccessible to ordinary people ... "

Reflecting on his character in general, Slivko pointed out that he did not smoke, did not drink or swear, and was very fond of nature, which, in his opinion, "led to the disappointing conclusion that even the most respected person can become a receptacle for evil"