# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/mikhail-popkov
# Generated: 2026-08-13T03:28:44.356Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/mikhail-popkov"
name: "Mikhail Popkov"
slug: "mikhail-popkov"
description: "Mikhail Viktorovich Popkov is a Russian serial killer, rapist, and necrophile who committed the sexual assault and murder of eighty-seven girls and women between 1992 and 2011 in Angarsk, Irkutsk, in Siberia, and Vladivostok in the Russian Far East, although he has confessed to and is suspected of at least ninety in total. He is known as \"the Werewolf\" and \"the Angarsk Maniac\" for the particularly brutal nature of his crimes; he would extensively mutilate the bodies of his victims and perform sexual acts on them. Popkov was also known as \"the Wednesday Murderer\" because most of his victims' bodies were found on Wednesdays. He is the single most prolific serial killer in Russian history."
tagline: "Russian serial killer and rapist"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/57/Mikhail_Popkov.jpeg/330px-Mikhail_Popkov.jpeg"
gender: "male"
birthDate: "1964-03-07"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           61.47
  momentum:             6.431065824722542
  historical:           20.01270666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  40
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Popkov"
    title: "Mikhail Popkov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://af.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michail_Popkof"
    title: "Michail Popkof"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ميخائيل بوبكوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michail Viktorovič Popkov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michail_Wiktorowitsch_Popkow"
    title: "Michail Wiktorowitsch Popkow"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mija%C3%ADl_Popkov"
    title: "Mijaíl Popkov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mihhail_Popkov"
    title: "Mihhail Popkov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "میخاییل پوپکوف"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mihail Popkov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%9E%D7%99%D7%9B%D7%90%D7%99%D7%9C_%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A4%D7%A7%D7%95%D7%91"
    title: "מיכאיל פופקוב"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Միխայիլ Պոպկով"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "미하일 폽코프"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michai%C5%82_Popkow_(morderca)"
    title: "Michaił Popkow (morderca)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhail_Popkov"
    title: "Mikhail Popkov"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%BE%D0%BF%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%2C_%D0%9C%D0%B8%D1%85%D0%B0%D0%B8%D0%BB_%D0%92%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%82%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87"
    title: "Попков, Михаил Викторович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Михаил Попков"
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    title: "Mihail Popkov"
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    title: "Попков Михайло Вікторович"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump