Murder of Shamil Odamanov

Murder of Shamil Odamanov
Location	Losiny Ostrov National Park, Moscow, Russia
Date	20 April 2007; 17 years ago (2007-04-20)
Attack type	Double-murder by beheading and shooting
Victims	Shamil Odamanov Unidentified Tajik man
Perpetrators	Format18 and National Socialist Society
Motive	Anti-immigrant sentiment, white supremacy
Accused	Maxim Martsinkevich (died soon after confession) Sergei Korotkikh Maxim Bazylev
Convicted	Maxim Aristarkhov Sergei Marshakov
Convictions	Murder against two or more people
Sentence	Aristarkhov: 16 years in prison Marshakov: 17 years in prison

On 20 April 2007, Shamil Umakhanovich Odamanov^[a] and another unidentified man were murdered by members of a Russian neo-Nazi group. On 12 August 2007, a video depicting their deaths called Execution of a Tajik and a Dagestani (Russian: Казнь таджика и дагестанца, romanized: Kazn' tadzhika i dagestantsa) was posted on the social media site LiveJournal. The beheading video became viral, gaining the nickname The Russian neo-Nazi beheading video. The incident was considered a cold case until 2020, when the Russian government announced that one of the accused (Maxim Martsinkevich) confessed his involvement soon before his death.

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