[1] His father, Georgy Ivanovich, worked as a crew chief in municipal public utilities of Sverdlovsk, and his mother, Elizaveta Petrovna, was an accountant.

The Vinnichevsky family was considered wealthy by Soviet standards at the time: Vladimir had a suit, a tank helmet, a Swiss knife, and leather shoes.

During an interrogation on 17 November 1939, Ernst Neizvestny described Vinnichevsky with the following words:[2] I can say that he was a very humble boy, shy, loved to be alone, often in school he would be somewhere in a corner or standing by the wall.

At first, Vinnichevsky tried to perform a "natural" sexual act with the female victims, but he was convinced that, due to anatomical limitations, this could not be done.

The girl's body was beheaded by the investigative authorities: the skull was left as evidence, and the rest was given to the child's parents for burial.

In Sverdlovsk, Vinnichevsky began to practice the kidnapping of children and killing them in the forest massifs to the outskirts, where the bodies were covered with branches.

Later, 3-year-old Alya Gubina was kidnapped, whom Vinnichevsky raped, after which he stabbed her several times with a knife, leaving a wound 25 centimetres long.

The last victim - 4-year-old Taisia Morozov - after killing her, Vinnichevsky threw her body into a cesspool, placing her clothes into the front garden of the apartment building, hoping that it was there that they would search for the child's remains.

However, 4-year-old Raya Rahmatulina, thrown by Vinnichevsky into a cesspool, woke up and began to scream, alerting passers-by who rescued her.

On 24 October 1939, during the commission of the crimes, Vinnichevsky was detained by three police high school cadets named Popov, Angelov and Krylov.

[10] While patrolling at the tram stop in Verkhnyaya Pyshma, the cadets noticed a tall man who was carrying a little boy into the forest.

[11] This deprived Vinnichevsky of the opportunity to come up with an exculpatory version of his actions such as: "I wanted to fix the boy's scarf" or "loosen the button on his shirt collar".

Original in Russian: <<Мы, родители, отрекаемся от такого сына и требуем применить к нему высшую меру — расстрел.

November 1, 1939 12 o'clock in the afternoonThe doctor of jurisprudence AS Skryalin emphasizes that the trial of Vinnichevsky was held when Soviet legislation provided for the death penalty for minors who had reached the age of 12 years.

The People's Commissar for Defense, Kliment Voroshilov, on 19 March 1935, sent Stalin, Molotov and Kalinin a letter with a proposal to introduce the death penalty for children, pointing to the statistics of child crime in Moscow and, in particular, on wounding a son of the deputy prosecutor of the Soviet capital by a 9-year-old boy.

On 8 April 1935, a joint resolution of the CEC and the Council of People's Commissars of the USSR "on measures to combat juvenile delinquency" was promulgated, providing for the imposition of the death penalty from the age of 12.

The Circular explained to Prosecutor's Offices and Courts the Resolution "On measures to combat crime among minors": ... it is necessary to consider the indication in the footnote to Art.

The convict filed a request for a pardon, in which he claimed that he was ready to win forgiveness in battle, and expressed the desire to become a tanker, since at the time the USSR was at war with Finland.

These bodies were not divided for what they were shot for; therefore, all were buried in one mass grave, both those executed for political reasons and on criminal charges, such as Vinnichevsky.

On 20 November 2017, at this complex a monument titled "Masks of Sorrow: Europe-Asia" was opened, the work of a friend of Vinnichevsky, Ernst Neizvestny.