Born on 5 August 1961, in the Yakut ASSR, he spent his childhood and youth in the city of Lensk, graduating from a local high school as a professional driver.
[2] Barausov, who lived in the building where the truck had been parked, was immediately considered a suspect due to a previous arrest for indecent exposure in 1991.
[4] At the end of August 1997, Barausov was invited over to the police station and interrogated - to the investigators' surprise, he admitted to going to the forest on the day the two girls had been murdered but claimed that he was not involved.
[2] Among the officers who detained Barausov were Vitaly Yegorov and Vladislav Pshennikov, the latter being the head investigator of the Lensk District Department of Internal Affairs.
[4] In 1998, he was found guilty on all charges and sentenced to death, later reduced to 18 years imprisonment due to the moratorium on capital punishment imposed on the country.
After serving out his sentence in full, Barausov was released in 2015 and moved to the village of Glyadin in Altai Krai, where his daughter was living at the time.
[2] Following this latest conviction and after receiving no response from the Altai Ministry of Internal Affairs, Yegorov wrote two letters addressed to the Children's Rights Commissioner Anna Kuznetsova and the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin.
[2] After receiving the letter, Bastrykin ordered that the old criminal cases be assigned to Alexei Kalachev, one of the most respected officers of the Investigative Committee of Yakutia.
In exchange for a transfer to a penal colony with more relaxed conditions, he pleaded guilty to five murders and rapes, agreeing to show the burial sites and demonstrate how he killed each victim.
On that day, his uncle's wedding was taking place in an apartment on Pervomaiskaya Street in Lensk, and after having a hearty meal and drinking, he went out for a walk.
[6] His next known murder was committed on 3 August 1991 - Barausov was driving by Oyunsky Street in Lensk when he saw two little girls, 4-year-old Marina V. and 5-year-old Katya G., standing on the road.
[6] He approached them with his truck and successfully convinced them to hop in, whereupon he drove them to a wooded area on the northwest edge of the city, where he raped and stabbed them to death near the Mukhtuyka River.
[6] He then took her to an intersection on Ammosova and Oktyabrskaya Streets, where he stopped the truck, got out and opened the back door, requesting that the girl take the tools from a bag he was carrying.
After the girl leaned over the back seat to the bag, Barausov struck her on the head with a tyre iron, causing her to lose consciousness.