The horrific true story of the 'Skopin Maniac' who raped teenage girls in his concrete dungeon for nearly four years

VIKTOR Mokhov's teenage sex slaves were starved, beaten and raped in a squalid cell for three-and-a-half years – now he's out.

And the 70-year-old monster has caused new outrage by saying he'd like to take one of his victims back in an interview with journalist alleged to be Putin's god-daughter.

Mokhov became known as the "Skopin Maniac" for his horrific imprisonment and rape of Ekaterina Martynova and Elena Samokhina, who were 14 and 17 years old respectively when he abducted the pair as they left a disco in 2000.

During their nightmare ordeal, Samokhina gave birth to two babies in the dungeon – Mokhov took the infants and abandoned them in the stairwells of apartment buildings.


Samokhina had a third, stillborn baby after she and Martynova were freed after nearly three years in May 2004.

Now in a highly controversial interview, which is already being investigated by Russian authorities, Mokhov was given airtime to justify his crimes in a chat with prominent journalist Kseniya Sobchak.



"She gave birth from me but not any more," Mokhov says of Samokhina in the interview.

"I must take her on again.”

Abducted and drugged

Samokhina and Martynova weren't even the first girls subjected to Mokhov's horrific depravity.

In 1999, former mining college student Mokhov lured a 16-year-old and her boyfriend to his home in Skopin, around 150 miles south of Moscow.


He plied them with alcohol but the teenage girl resisted his advances – after she tried to leave, he dragged her to his bunker and raped her.

She managed to escape after two weeks when he didn't lock the bunker properly, but she didn't report the incident to the police for fear Mokhov would find her.

Less than a year later, the rapist spotted Martynova and Samokhina leaving a disco and offered them a lift.

Seeing Mokhov's girlfriend Yelena Badukina was also in the car, the teenagers thought they'd be safe.


They got in and were offered vodka – which they didn't know was mixed with sedatives.

Soon they found themselves inside a dingy concrete bunker seven metres underground, locked behind steel, bolted doors.

The bunker was split into three sections, including a living space furnished with a bed and table, and a room with pornographic images plastered on the walls where Mokhov would rape the girls one at a time.

They were trapped – and would be for nearly four years.

Locked deep underground

Down in the dark, Mokhov subjected them to unimaginable suffering.

When they resisted his sex attacks, he would punish the girls by starving them for days, cutting them with a knife, or even spraying tear gas into the dungeon.

He'd also threaten to turn off the electricity and ventilation system, choking them of breathable air and plunging them into the freezing cold.

Under the thick concrete walls, no one outside could hear cries for help.

Mokhov would conversely reward them for compliance, bringing them books, music cassettes and paints, the latter of which they used to daub a sun on the grey concrete of their cell.

"It's hard to realise that you are underground and do not know when this will all end. Therefore, at first we cried a lot and often," Martynova told Meduza.

"Over time, not that we got used to it and resigned ourselves, but understood that we must live. We began to draw up a daily routine: cooking, eating, watching TV, I was drawing, Lena was studying English."

Samokhina also gave birth to two sons, delivered by Martynova, in the dank dungeon.

Mokhov knew the babies would die in the bunker, so he secretly abandoned them in places he knew they'd be found and taken to orphanages.

Eventually, Mokhov grew dissatisfied and wanted a new victim in his harem – a medical student who was lodging in his house.

By 2003, he'd been taking Martynova into an upper chamber of the bunker for fresh air, which signalled a loosening of security after keeping the girls in a six-metre-square cell for years.

He would also sometimes let her into the house to wash in a bath, as opposed to relying on the buckets of water he normally brought into the bunker.

He ordered Martynova to pretend to be his niece in a bid to convince the lodger to stay – but instead, Martynova secreted a note inside a cassette tape which she gave to the student to warn her of the mortal danger she was in.

The student fled and contacted the police, who quickly found and freed the captives.

'Lonely hell'

Officers filmed the moment they found the girls who'd been presumed dead for years.

"They did try to escape but they failed and were scared he would beat them so over time they became resigned to their fate," Major Igor Shelestiuk of the Russian Interior Ministry told the press shortly after their release.

"The girls almost got used to their conditions and just waited for the bitter end. They were convinced they would die in that lonely hell."

He added: "God knows how they will ever get over this."

At trial, it emerged that Mokhov had also been living with his mother in the home – who claimed to have no knowledge of the dungeon, or the fact that Martynova was enslaved.

"I wanted to have many children," Mokhov told investigators about his motive. "I wanted to improve the demographic situation of Russia."

Mokhov was sentenced to 17 years in a maximum security penal colony for his crimes.

His accomplice, Elena Badukina, was given five-and-a-half years for helping to kidnap the girls.

On March 3 this year, Makhov was released after serving his sentence.

"Such crimes should be given a life sentence," Martynova said earlier this month.

"I have always understood that 17 years will end sooner or later, but now it is hard to believe that he is free."

'A deep wound that won't heal'

Just three weeks on from his release, Russia was outraged by his lengthy interview with Kseniya Sobchak.

Over the course of the programme, which was published on Sobchak's YouTube channel, Mokhov tries to justify his crimes and gives the journalist a tour of the bunker as it is today.

He also tells Sobchak that he considered himself a good man who "slipped up a little", adding "who doesn't?", The Times reports.

Sobchak has defended the interview, saying accusations that her report could inspire other crimes were just as true of feature films which show fictionalised horrors.

Sobchak is the daughter of Anatoly Sobchak, the former mayor of St Petersburg who was Putin's mentor before the ex-KGB officer went into politics.

She's repeatedly denied that Putin is her godfather, but did admit that he was at her baptism when she was 12.

Mokhov's release has horrified Martynova and Samokhina, both of whom now have families, and they have condemned media outlets giving cash to their tormentor for interviews.

"What happened to me left a deep wound in my soul that will never heal,” Samokhina told Yahoo News.

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