Oleg Vladimirovich Naumov (russian: link=no, Оле́г Влади́мирович Нау́мов; born 1978) is a Russian

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, convicted for the killing of seven people on 26 January 1998, in Sakhalin Oblast.

Background

Oleg Naumov was born in 1978, and was serving as a

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in the

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, having been conscripted into the military a year before the attack. He was stationed at a military base located in Pobedino, a village on the island of

Sakhalin Sakhalin ( rus, Сахали́н, r=Sakhalín, p=səxɐˈlʲin; ja, 樺太 ''Karafuto''; zh, c=, p=Kùyèdǎo, s=库页岛, t=庫頁島; Manchu: ᠰᠠᡥᠠᠯᡳᠶᠠᠨ, ''Sahaliyan''; Orok: Бугата на̄, ''Bugata nā''; Nivkh: ...

in the

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region. Naumov had a

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and a history of

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from as early as 13-years-old, which was unknown to his commanders at the time.

Attack

On 26 January 1998, while serving on guard duty, Naumov attacked another soldier at random with an axe before grabbing his automatic rifle, when he then shot dead another soldier on guard duty and his commander, before shooting eight more soldiers in the base cafeteria and in a restroom, killing five of them.

Arrest and conviction

Naumov fled the base but was detained a few hours later while hiding in a nearby village, and was hospitalized where he was put under heavy

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. During his interrogation about the crimes at the base, Naumov claimed that he had been high off of

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vapors, and did not recollect committing the killings. Private Naumov was sentenced by the Far Eastern Military District Court to

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in a supermax penal colony.

References

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