tyurin, a veteran of the great patriotic war, who was seriously wounded after enrolling in the ranks of the armed forces, was treated in one of the military hospitals of leningrad. after the war, he decided to stay in the city. in april 1945, tyurin got a job as a teamster at the canteen of the bolshevik plant, and was allocated a room in the hut. it was there that he lived until the moment of his arrest half a year later, and where, according to investigators, he committed all of his murders. at his disposal was also a telega drawn by a horse, which allowed him to freely remove the bodies in the dead of night.