The story of the Soviet assassin Tamara Ivanyutina - Informer. News of Sevastopol

This high-profile case began with the fact that in 1987, 13 people from one school ended up in the hospital in extreme in serious condition. Two children and two adults died almost immediately, the rest ended up in intensive care.

Accurate diagnosis doctors long time could not be established, since the symptoms were atypical for known diseases. The first thing they thought was poisoning from poor-quality food, or E. coli, since everyone who was admitted to the hospital had previously dined in the school canteen. But an unusual symptom was that the patients began to lose hair, and this was the result of exposure to toxic substances. The police opened a criminal case.

A total inspection of the school revealed another death (a woman responsible for food quality, who, as it turned out after exhumation, died from thallium poisoning). After this, they began to look for the poisoner within the school walls. When the check reached the dishwasher Tamara Ivanyutina, the police found a container with an unknown substance in her house. After testing, it was determined that it was a solution of thallium (a toxin), which is widely used in geology.

Ivanyutina admitted her guilt and, as the reason for her behavior, indicated a hostile attitude towards her colleagues and students, who were very noisy. But later she retracted her words. As it turned out later, poisoning is a favorite method of solving problems in Tamara’s family (her older sister poisoned her husband with thallium; Tamara’s parents poisoned hated neighbors and animals). From an early age she was taught that material well-being- the basis of everything. Tamara became vindictive, touchy, envious, and with high self-esteem. Where did she get the poison? A friend who works at a geological institute told her that she wanted to poison mice.

She believed that there was no point in studying, the main thing was to get married successfully, especially since her appearance made it possible to find a good match. The first time she married a rich man, who died very quickly, according to Ivanyutina - she simply poisoned him in order to stay in his apartment in the center of Kyiv. Then she married a wealthy man again, whom she gradually bullied along with his parents. So she also acquired a large country plot, which belonged to her father-in-laws.

Having got a job at the school, she immediately disliked many of the staff. From the beginning, she killed the school party organizer and wanted to poison the chemistry teacher who prevented her from stealing in the school cafeteria. The thing is that she had a dream - a black Volga car, which she wanted to buy by selling pig meat. To raise them, she stole from the school cafeteria. And that’s why she almost poisoned two children who asked for a cutlet for a stray cat.

In 1987, the entire USSR was shocked by the case of serial poisoner Tamara Ivanyutina, who poisoned 40 people with the most dangerous thallium. Among the dead were small children.

Tamara Antonovna Ivanyutina (maiden name Maslenko) (1941-1987)

The motives of the serial killer Tamara Ivanyutina were revenge and self-interest. She had grandiose fantasies about a thriving pigsty, “mountains of gold” and a black Volga. In addition, she “did not want to breed poverty” in the form of other people’s children. Very modern and well-known “trends” to us.

Psychiatrists declared Ivanyutina absolutely sane. At the same time, three main features of her personality were identified: extremely inflated self-esteem, over-touchiness and vindictiveness. All these traits are characteristic of sociopaths, paranoids and narcissists.

Tamara was born into the family of Anton Mitrofanovich and Maria Fedorovna Maslenko, and was the fourth child out of six in this large family. The main deity, the supreme idol and the main measure of success in the family was wealth.
The father did not hesitate to pour poison into a person he didn’t like, and the mother confessed the following life wisdom: “You shouldn’t write complaints, but be friends with everyone and treat them. But adding poison to food is especially harmful.”
Maslenko’s old men, without hesitation, poisoned to death their neighbor in a communal apartment, who turned on the TV too loudly and interfered with sleep. And even a relative who reprimanded them about the puddle in the toilet. This is their way of “revenge for insults.” They added rat poison to pilaf and pancakes prepared for the treat, and stuffed oranges and gingerbread with poison...
And at the same time they were very proud of their ingenuity.

How to "go to success"

Having matured, Tamara married a representative of one of the most successful professions of that time - a truck driver. People who lived in the USSR remember that “long-distance drivers,” along with sailors, were always extremely successful - no joke, they traveled around all the republics of the Union, traveled to the CMEA countries, and sometimes, lo and behold, even to capitalist countries! Live and be happy! But Tom's girlfriend was not like that. Money and an apartment, that's what you need right now. And so she began to poison her husband. Little by little, but gradually increasing the dose.
His partner, during the investigation, described the last flight this way. Tamara's husband became ill during the flight. His legs hurt badly; he couldn’t feel the pedals. I asked to replace him for an hour or two, but the poor fellow’s health was getting worse. Neither two nor three hours later the driver was able to get behind the wheel. Driving past a village stream, I asked my partner: “Maybe I should take a swim to cheer myself up? I’ll quickly douse myself with some water, get back to normal, and move on. Tomka prepared a clean towel for me...”
When the driver was drying his head, his partner was horrified to see that the entire towel was covered in hair. He refused to help himself to the sandwiches that his wife provided him with: not because he suspected anything was wrong, but simply because he was afraid to doze off after a hearty snack while driving. Soon after returning from the flight, Tamara Ivanyutina’s first husband died of a heart attack.

Through short time Tamara married Oleg Ivanyutin and took his last name. Having seen the house and plot of her parents, Ivanyutina immediately made a decision - use the old people, the plot for a small pig farm, pigs for meat and lard and get rich, get rich, get rich.
One terrible day for the elderly, Tamara and her mother-in-law prepared dinner. We sat at the table together, but only in the evening the old man began to feel ill. The next morning, his mother called Oleg and said that something bad had happened to his father: his legs were losing weight, his feet were going numb. He says he can’t put on socks himself. And when the grandmother began to help him, he roared in pain, as if he were being cut into pieces. Oleg advised calling an ambulance, but at the emergency hospital, doctors examined my grandfather and said that polyarthritis had worsened. They prescribed meds and sent me home.
Tamara became very concerned about her father’s health and insisted on going to her parents immediately. She applied a heating pad to his feet and spoon-fed him soup. In general, Oleg praised her as the most caring daughter-in-law in the world... Apparently, she just splashed this liquid into the soup. That same night, my grandfather died in the hospital.
At her husband's funeral, the widow became ill with her heart. Oleg asked Tamara to bring medicine from home. She returned with a glass of Valocordin and a glass of water. As soon as she drank the medicine, the mother began to stagger. appeared on her lips white coating, and she immediately vomited. Panic began among those present. The widow began to cry out that she had been given poison. Some woman swore that she saw with her own eyes how Tamara dripped some liquid from a bottle into the medicine, taking it out of her jacket pocket. The men began to demand the police, someone suggested taking the contents of the glass for examination. And then Tamara threw both the glass of medicine and the glass of water to the ground. Oleg Ivanyutin shielded his wife from the angry crowd and began to calm his mother. Oleg’s mother began to have the same symptoms: her arms and legs hurt, her feet went numb. She could not move her tongue and almost did not speak. By evening an ambulance took her, and two days later she died.

The road to the personal pig farm was open. But where to get food? There is only one answer - at school!

School No. 16 of the Minsk district of Kyiv.

In March 1987, three sixth-graders and 11 employees were brought to the hospital by ambulance from a Kyiv school with a diagnosis of influenza. Everyone had the same symptoms: weakness, nausea, leg pain, baldness. Despite intensive treatment, two children - Sergey Panibrat and Andrey Kuzmenko and two adults died almost immediately, the remaining 9 people were in intensive care. For that time four deaths in a row was a real emergency. The prosecutor's office took over the case. Hospital doctors, summoned to an emergency meeting of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine, suggested that the cause of death was an unknown form of influenza, so standard treatment was ineffective. The following opinion was also voiced: people were poisoned by strong toxic substances through food or water. At first, this version was not even considered, but after the investigative authorities interviewed the victims, it turned out that they all ate what was left of lunch in the school canteen: chicken soup And chicken liver. Moreover, those who had lunch on time were not harmed.

Dietician Natalya Kukharenko

The first to fall at her hands was nurse Kukharenko, who had the imprudence to make comments to Ivanyutina, including for non-compliance with hygiene rules, rudeness and rudeness. Tamara did not skimp on comments to children and even teachers; she constantly hovered around the stove and looked into the pots. But it was difficult to find another dishwasher with a meager salary, so Ivanyutin was kept at work.
When Kukharenko was hospitalized, the patient complained of numbness and coldness in her legs, and doctors diagnosed her with heart failure. But just the day before the woman looked healthy, active and cheerful. Six months earlier, two schoolchildren and two teachers were hospitalized with the same symptoms. One of them told investigators that he had strangely gone bald, but the reason could not be determined.
All these facts showed that the “diseases” were not an accident. A decision was made to exhume Kukharenko’s remains. It was then that the presence of thallium in the tissues was discovered. But no one even thought about the deliberate use of this heavy metal for poisoning purposes. A request to the sanitary and epidemiological station to carry out measures to exterminate insects and rodents in the catering unit received a negative response. Experts checked all school premises, food, pots, containers for cereals and the buckwheat itself remaining in them. To no avail. But the investigators drew attention to the strange behavior of the dishwasher Ivanyutina. She obstructed the inspection in every possible way and was rude.
“I concluded that they don’t like us at this school,” recalled chemist expert Valentina Kalachikova. - The dishwasher Ivanyutina followed me on my heels like a warden. She probably decided that I would steal the pan from them or pour cereal into their pockets. It's a terrible feeling, honestly. The look is unkind, heavy... How was this vixen even allowed to work with children?!”
The next step was to check all the personal files of the canteen workers. And then it turned out that Ivanyutina’s work book was fake, since she had a criminal record for profiteering, which means she did not have the right to work in children’s institutions. This was the reason to study the life of a dishwasher in more detail. This is where the deaths of the first husband and the parents of the second came to light. They all complained of nausea and numbness in their limbs. Oleg himself had been ill for a long time (general weakness, joint pain, baldness), but doctors could not establish a diagnosis. Thus, Ivanyutina became suspect number one.

Consequence

During a search in Ivanyutina’s house, the necessary thing was found literally at the last moment.
When they had examined everything that was possible, Valentina Petrovna Kalachikova suddenly approached the bedside table, which stood by the window, and asked to open the door. Ivanyutina, who watched everything that happened with contempt, took an uncertain step towards the bedside table:
- This sewing machine, I got it from my mother-in-law. Will you take a look?
- We'll take a look, open it, or give me the key, I'll open it myself.
Ivanyutina threw the keys on the floor and almost hissed: “Open it yourself, seamstress!”

Kalachikova examined the contents of the boxes. Bobbins with threads, needles in boxes, a set of tools for embroidery, a bottle of machine oil for lubricating mechanisms... She picked up the bottle and suddenly realized that the utensils were too heavy for oil. And she put the bottle in her pocket. Analysis in the laboratory showed that the container contained Clerici liquid - the so-called aqueous solution of thallium. It is used in geology to separate minerals by density. Therefore, first of all, all organizations of the Ministry of Geology of Ukraine were subjected to inspection. And almost immediately they found a supplier. One of the laboratory assistants of the geological exploration expedition regularly supplied the Maslenko family with thallium, allegedly for baiting rats. Over the entire period of time, they received about 500 mg of poison.

Her sister Nina Matsibora, who sent her to the next world, did not lag behind Tamara. legal spouse. Nina married a man much older than her. Having registered his young wife in his apartment, the elderly husband signed his own death sentence. A week after the wedding, he was admitted to the hospital complaining of weakness and pain in his legs. His death was attributed to age.
In November 1980, mother Maria Fedorovna fell ill and went to the hospital. Her husband Anton Mitrofanovich was very worried about her health. At some point, the matchmaker decided to visit her. After the hospital, she went to Anton Mitrofanovich and expressed concerns about the matchmaker’s health. Like, she is the heaviest of the entire ward. I'm afraid it won't work. "That is?" - the matchmaker asked in bewilderment. “The truth is that there is little hope. We must prepare to have a human burial.” This phrase became a death sentence for her. Maslenko suggested that the matchmaker should not say nonsense, but rather drink to the health of his sick wife. While a relative was pouring moonshine and preparing food for the table, he seized the moment and poured poison into a glass. At night, the ambulance doctors, lost in conjecture, gave her injections - either from the heart, or to lower the pressure, but all in vain - by the morning the woman died.” By the way, the patient told the doctors that she had been poisoned boiled egg. Like, when they were having a snack, Maslenko began to peel the egg, and it turned black right in his hands. He declared that the egg was spoiled and threw it aside. But when he left, the matchmaker felt sorry to throw him away, and she finished the egg. Unfortunately, the doctors considered it a dying delirium.

During the searches, no poison was found on Maslenko. But the poisoners gave themselves away! When Tamara was already in the pre-trial detention center, Maria Maslenko baked pancakes and went to treat her neighbor. She had a large disability pension, which was the subject of Maslenko’s black envy. But the neighbor did not eat the pancakes, because she had heard that the old woman’s daughter was suspected of poisoning. She threw one pancake to the cat, and by evening the animal began to convulse, and died three hours later. A neighbor reported this to the police, and the Maslenko couple were arrested. Just like Tamara, they told in detail and with gusto who, when, how and why they were poisoned.

Initially, Ivanyutina wrote a confession. The time has come for a psychopathic benefit performance. Being in grandiosity, she goes into detail - I think with great pleasure! - told about her crimes. It turned out that she treated two sixth-graders to poison only because they refused to arrange tables and chairs. “I decided to punish them,” Tamara said.

“Ivanyutina also said that she first tested the effect of the poison on the neighbor’s chickens and cats. She experimented with quantities - she knew what dose to give to make a person slightly ill, and what dose to make sure he died. At the same time, she did not care at all about the pain in which her victims died. “There should be no accidents in such a matter,” Ivanyutina explained smugly. - My friend almost got burned on the usual chicken egg. It’s good that the doctors turned out to be mugs...”
However, Ivanyutina later stated that she confessed under pressure from the investigation and refused to give further testimony. Apparently, when the “suckers” didn’t buy her “lots of gold,” she for the first time soberly assessed reality and realized that she was really in trouble.
But the investigation already had a clear picture of the crime. So, in the fall of 1986, Ivanyutin poisoned the school party organizer to death - the woman prevented the theft of food from the canteen. Then Tamara treated two students in the first and fifth grades with thallium, who dared to ask her for the leftover cutlets for their dog. Fortunately, the guys survived, but such poisoning does not leave its mark on the body.

After the death of nurse Kukharenko in March, the head of the canteen, Noga, sensed something was wrong and began locking the back room at night so that Ivanyutina would not have access to food. The presumptuous psychopath openly declared that “The Leg will follow Kukharenko.” Then the poisoner, using a syringe, filled the orange with a solution of thallium and treated the “enemy”, but he, fortunately, did not accept the offering. On that ill-fated March day when the children were poisoned, the liver with thallium was also intended for the manager. Just by chance, because of a meeting of the trade union committee, some school workers were late for lunch. As witnesses later said, Ivanyutina watched with a satisfied smile as innocent people consumed poisoned dishes.

The end of the Kyiv Borgia family

In total, the family has 40 proven poisonings, 13 from fatal. Surprisingly, the entire family was found sane by the results of a forensic psychiatric examination. Tamara Ivanyutina was the most successful in terms of poisoning - 20 poisonings, 9 of which were fatal.

The trial of serial killers lasted several months. Husband Oleg reported in his testimony that every time Tamara brought more and more waste from school, while being glad that the children did not eat well. And the teachers got it precisely because they forced the children to finish their portions. This was not at all in the interests of the criminal, so she decided to poison especially persistent teachers. In addition, poisoning in the school cafeteria, in her opinion, should have caused distrust in school food and thereby increased the amount of waste for her pets.
Tamara Ivanyutina was sentenced to capital punishment and confiscation of property. Her father, mother and sister respectively received 13, 10 and 15 years in prison and an obligation to reimburse all victims for treatment costs.
When she was given last word, she refused to admit guilt and ask for forgiveness from the relatives of her victims. “I didn’t have the right upbringing,” she said haughtily.

Tamara Ivanyutina was shot at the end of 1987 in the Lukyanovsky pre-trial detention center in Kyiv, she became the third and last female criminal officially sentenced to death in the USSR. The old killers died in custody, sister Nina, having served part of her sentence, was released in Independent Ukraine. Then her traces are lost.

Svetlana Didenko / Ivan Siyak

In the Lukyanovsky pre-trial detention center in Kyiv, dishwasher Tamara Ivanyutina was shot 30 years ago. Read about her crimes and agree with the verdict.

On March 17 and 18, 1987, three sixth-graders, four teachers, a speech therapist, a nurse, a librarian, a driver, the head of the canteen of school No. 16 in the Podolsk district of Kyiv, and a technician who was repairing a refrigerator there were hospitalized. They all complained of weakness and severe joint pain. The original version was a flu epidemic caused by an unknown strain. Doctors contacted the police when the patients began to go bald. Before the beginning of May, two adults and two children will die.

It turned out that on the eve of the disease, all the victims remained at school after the end of the school day. The adults were waiting for an advance payment. The sixth graders helped carry the new chairs. In the dining room they were fed with the leftovers of lunch: buckwheat soup and fried chicken liver.

They began to figure out who controls the preparation of food. Nobody. Diet nurse Natalya Kukharenko died two weeks before the events. The diagnosis is cardiovascular failure.

“It’s strange that my hands are going numb, but I can’t warm my feet. And they also go numb. The pain in my joints is so bad that I can’t sleep at night…” she told her colleague before her death.

Kukharenko's body was exhumed. Traces of the toxic metal thallium were found in the remains. A survey of teachers revealed that at the end of 1986, two schoolchildren, a chemistry teacher and a party organizer, were ill with similar symptoms. The children recovered, the chemist lost his hair, and the party organizer died.

Maria Sidorchuk and Vasily Yurchenko from the school cafeteria ended up in intensive care and died a few days later. Screenshot from the program “The investigation was conducted... with Leonid Kanevsky” / NTV Diet nurse Natalya Kukharenko (left). Screenshot from the program “The investigation was conducted... with Leonid Kanevsky” / NTV

The trail is taken

A search in the canteen yielded nothing, but all the workers were under suspicion. One of the operatives met with the husband of the school dishwasher Tamara Ivanyutina. He was just on sick leave. Oleg Ivanyutin complained to the policeman about pain in his legs and baldness. He said that recently his parents died almost simultaneously, leaving their spouses private house with the site.

“At my father’s funeral my mother became ill. Tamara brought Valocordin and water. After drinking the medicine, the mother staggered and immediately vomited. Two days later she died,” this is how the operative recounted Ivanyutin’s words to the investigator.

During a search in the Ivanyutins' house, from a drawer sewing machine The Singer expert recovered a bottle of lubricant. Analysis showed that it contained Clerici solution based on thallium. The liquid is used by geologists to determine the density of minerals.

Kyiv school No. 16, where Tamara Ivanyutina worked. Photo: Google Maps

Housing issue

Tamara Ivanyutina got a job at the school in September 1986. Since she had a criminal record for profiteering, she presented a fake work book. The woman dreamed of getting rich and buying a black Volga. She poisoned her first husband for the sake of an apartment. The parents of the second - for the sake of the plot where she began to raise pigs.

Ivanyutina fattened the animals with waste from the dining room and killed anyone who interfered. The party organizer and the dietician, because they controlled the write-off of products. Students to create distrust in school lunches and take away more waste.

On March 17, 1987, Ivanyutina poured thallium into the canteen manager’s plate. The soup cooled, and the man poured it back into the cauldron, from which he later fed 13 people. Four did not survive this.

Tamara Ivanyutina. Screenshot from the program “The investigation was conducted... with Leonid Kanevsky” / NTV

From the memoirs of investigator Poddubny

“The worst thing is that the criminals remained unpunished for a very long time. Believing in their exclusivity, they got used to vindictively dealing with those who stood in their way, splashing a few drops of Clerici liquid into their food or into a glass of tap water.”

Family business

The police found a laboratory assistant on a geological exploration expedition who had been giving thallium solution to a friend for almost 10 years. married couple Maslenko to poison rodents. Friends had daughters - Nina and Tamara (after her second marriage she became Ivanyutina). Both buried their spouses and became apartment owners.

Already during the investigation of Tamara Ivanyutina, her parents treated a neighbor with a large pension to pancakes. She turned out to be suspicious and fed the treat to the cat, and after the animal’s painful death she called the police.

It turned out that Tamara and Nina were taught by their parents to poison unwanted people. Among their victims were a neighbor communal apartment, who was watching TV at high volume, and a relative who reprimanded him for the puddle in the toilet.

Investigators were able to prove that the Maslenko-Ivanyutin dynasty was responsible for 40 poisonings, 13 of them fatal. Tamara committed 9 murders and 20 attempts. A psychiatric examination found all the defendants sane.

Lukyanovsky pre-trial detention center in Kyiv. There, under the USSR, death sentences were carried out. Photo: Artemka / CC BY-SA 4.0

Mentally healthy

The meeting room of the Kyiv City Court was packed throughout the entire trial. Acquaintances of the Maslenko family, friends of their victims, teachers and parents of students from school No. 16, and journalists came. Every day there was a crowd of people at the entrance who did not get inside.

The verdict sentenced the 79-year-old head of the family to 13 years in prison, his 77-year-old wife to 10, and his daughter Nina to 15. A riot almost broke out in the hall, with spectators demanding a death sentence.

The court sentenced Tamara to death. When Ivanyutina was given the last word, she refused to admit guilt and ask for forgiveness from the relatives of the victims. “I didn’t have the right upbringing,” said the serial killer.

Ivanyutin was shot in the Lukyanovsky pre-trial detention center in Kyiv. This was only the third and last execution women by court verdict in the post-war history of the USSR. Before serial killer The Nazi executioner Antonina Makarova and the plunderer of state property Berta Borodkina were executed.

Antonina Makarova (Ginsburg) nicknamed “Tonka the Machine Gunner”. During World War II, at the direction of the German authorities and Russian collaborators, she shot more than 1,500 people. Found and arrested in 1978, executed in 1979.

In 1987, a high-profile tragic incident occurred in one of the Kyiv schools: for an unknown reason, 13 people were admitted to the hospital with extremely severe poisoning (more precisely, with symptoms in some places similar to poisoning).2 children and 2 adults died almost immediately. The rest were urgently resuscitated.

Maria Sidorchuk and Vasily Yurchenko from the school canteen ended up in intensive care and died a few days later

The worst thing is that for a long time doctors could not understand what happened to the victims. The symptoms were atypical, so at first attributing everything to poisoning in the school cafeteria, the doctors quickly abandoned this version.

The situation became a little clearer when patients admitted to intensive care began to rapidly lose hair. This means that somehow there was a toxic substance in their blood.

Employees law enforcement agencies could not help but react to the situation and almost immediately opened a criminal case, which led to inspections educational institution. During one of them, it turned out that another woman died at the school, who, by the way, was responsible for the quality of products supplied to the canteen.

Experts exhumed the woman and found out that she died from lethal impact thallium

It became clear that the other victims were also exposed to this substance, and this happened at school.

The thread led to the dishwasher - Tamara Ivanyutina. And it’s no coincidence. In her house, police found a container with thallium solution.

Diet nurse Natalya Kukharenko died two weeks before the events

In this story, what is most puzzling is Ivanyutina’s cold indifference: the woman did not deny her guilt, but immediately clarified: she does not like her colleagues, and the schoolchildren have become too noisy. True, Vasyutina later assured that she had not said anything like that.

Family tradition

During the investigation, it turned out that Ivanyutina took an example from her parents and older sister. So, it turned out that Tamara’s sister poisoned her husband with the same thallium, and the criminal’s father and mother dealt with annoying neighbors and animals in this way.

It was not difficult for the vengeful and envious Ivanyutina to obtain poison: under the pretext of baiting mice, Tamara asked for thallium from her friend, who worked at the geological institute.

Tamara Ivanyutina

Tamara was generally an extraordinary person. She believed that there was no point in studying, since it was enough to just get married well. It was this path that Ivanyutina took. Beautiful woman attracted attention wealthy man, whom, however, she later poisoned because of the apartment. The second time Tamara followed the beaten path: she poisoned her next husband and, just in case, his parents: this is how she got a country plot.

After Ivanyutina got a job at school, she had a very wide field of activity. Whoever the dishwasher wanted to poison: both the party organizer and the chemistry teacher, who were trying to stop theft in the school canteen.

Yes, Ivanyutina also stole. The woman dreamed of buying a black Volga, so she stole meat from the dining room, sold it and saved the money.

In total, it was possible to prove 40 episodes of poisoning committed by Maslenko (Tamara’s family), of which 13 were fatal. Tamara herself tried to poison at least 20 people, 9 of whom died.

Ivanyutin was sentenced to death. It is noteworthy that even before her death, Tamara did not repent and did not want to ask for forgiveness from the relatives of the murdered. The case is also unusual in that the main accused, a woman, was sentenced to capital punishment - execution.

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