Born and raised in Balashikha, Moscow Oblast, Kuznetsov's parents divorced when the boy was just five years old.

[1] As a child and adolescent he was extremely asocial, but he had an active sexual life, which he began at age 16.

There, the couple had sex, but in the morning the girl told him that he had to pay for the "night of love" or she would report him to the police.

On the night of 12–13 November 1991, threatening the victim with a knife, he committed another rape in one of the Balashikha cemeteries.

Taking advantage of the collapse of the USSR and the separation of Ukraine, he moved to Kyiv, where he once served, believing that in the confusion associated with the disintegration of the country, no one would be looking for him there.

He was serving his sentence in the colony of special regime IK-1 "Mordovian zone", in the Sosnovka settlement of Zubovo-Polyansky District in the Republic of Mordovia.