Two bodies were found in an apartment in a residential building on Butlerov Street in St. Petersburg.

According to local media reports, the killed are members of the family of a prominent St. Petersburg military man who recently died, 86-year-old Rear Admiral Leonid Lobanov: his 84-year-old wife and 56-year-old son.

A criminal case was initiated on the murder of two or more persons (part 2 of article 105 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

The official report of the St. Petersburg Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation notes that the bodies of a woman born in 1937 and a man born in 1965 were discovered on the evening of July 24, 2021 in an apartment on Butlerov Street.

Both of the victims had "multiple stab and cut wounds in the area of ​​the location of the vital organs of the head, neck and trunk." 

The department clarified that the investigation of the criminal case is under the control of the leadership of the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in St. Petersburg.

In addition, the head of the department, Alexander Bastrykin, instructed to report on the progress of the investigation and instructed to promptly identify the person involved in the crime.

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“The progress of the investigation has been put under control in the central office of the Investigative Committee,” the statement on the website of the RF IC says.

The Petersburg edition of Fontanka.ru reports that the bodies of Rear Admiral Lobanov's relatives were found on July 24, when his daughter Alla, who lives in Murmansk, called the police.

The woman was worried about a call from neighbors from her family's house on Butlerov Street - people complained about a strong smell from the Lobanovs' apartment.

Police officers who arrived at the scene opened the door and found disfigured bodies in the apartment.

According to the newspaper, the dead were lying on the sofa in their underwear.

Investigators did not find any traces of burglary or robbery in the apartment, nor the loss of valuable things - including several hundred thousand rubles left on the spot.

They killed Lobanov's wife and her son with extreme cruelty: according to media reports, they were first hit on the head with a frying pan, then both had their throats slit and their bellies slit open.

So far, law enforcement agencies have not named suspects in the brutal murder. 

Meanwhile, according to the St. Petersburg media, the main suspect, apparently, will be the head of the family himself - Rear Admiral Leonid Nikolayevich Lobanov.

On July 16, the man was found dead near the house on Butlerov Street, where he was registered and lived with his wife, and where his wife and son were found dead a week after his death.

Lobanov's body was found near the Ruchyi railway station in the Krasnogvardeisky district of St. Petersburg.

The body found under the Piskarevsky bridge was reported to the police by the passengers of the commuter trains passing by.

The law enforcement officers who arrived to pick up the body decided that the unfortunate man had been hit by a train when he was running across the tracks in the wrong place.

It was not immediately possible to establish the identity of the man who died on the rails three kilometers from the apartment on Butlerova - he had no documents with him.

It was noted that the police found a knife in the pocket of the deceased.

Later it turned out that 86-year-old Lobanov was killed on the rails.

Petersburg media note that the biography of Leonid Nikolaevich was outstanding, the man was respected in military circles.

He studied at the Riga Nakhimov Naval School, then graduated from the Higher Naval School of Diving, and in 1973 completed his studies at the Naval Academy in Leningrad.

After several decades of successful service, Lobanov received the rank of Rear Admiral.

He retired in 1991 as the Chief of Operations Directorate of the Northern Fleet Headquarters.

Lobanov has been married with his wife for over 60 years.

Fontanka.Ru, citing neighbors, reported that they never noticed any oddities behind the family that could portend a tragedy.

The murdered son of Lobanov, Maxim, was a musician - the man studied at the Musorgsky College of Music, played the piano, taught music.

Recently he worked as an accompanist at the Prokofiev School of Arts.

Petersburg media, citing a source in the investigating authorities, reported that during his lifetime Lobanov Jr. was characterized as a creative person, but not without oddities - the man was allegedly registered with a psychiatrist and recently even underwent appropriate treatment.