[1] The incident sparked a wave of public outrage regarding the treatment of animals, and, in 2007, a monument was erected in Malchik's honour at Mendeleyevskaya station.

[1] On a winter evening in December 2001,[5] 22-year-old Yuliana Romanova (Volkova) was passing through Mendeleyevskaya station with her pet Staffordshire Bull Terrier.

[8][6] Romanova reached into her purse, removed a kitchen knife, and stabbed Malchik six times in the back, chest and stomach.

[4] In February 2007, a monument entitled "Compassion [ru]"[2] (or "Sympathy";[8] Russian: Сочувствие, Sochuvstviye) was erected at Mendeleyevskaya station.

[2] The unveiling ceremony was attended by notable artists, many of whom had donated money for the monument's installation, including Andrey Makarevich, Mikhail Shirvindt [ru], Veniamin Smekhov, Oleg Anofriev, Ludmila Kasatkina and Sergey Yursky.

[7] Joanna Bednarek wrote that Malchik's story typifies the "peculiar mix of cruelty and sentimentality present in our approach to domesticated animals, particularly dogs.