Police surround a home in the small Russian town where Sergey Egorov shot and killed nine people on June 4 Dmitry Vinogradov / Sputnik / Scanpix / LETA

On the night of June 4, a middle-aged electrician murdered nine of his neighbors in the Russian town of Redkino. Armed with a Saiga carbine rifle, Sergey Egorov methodically shot and killed everyone in a neighboring cottage, except for a 21-year-old woman who hid herself under a blanket. Egorov then moved onto the next home, where he murdered another two people. It was only then that the police apprehended him. The evening before the killing spree, Egorov got into two heated arguments with neighbors in the community. In a special report for Meduza, Evgeny Berg went to Redkino to learn moreis housed inside a detached cabin with barred windows. On these modest little plots of land, there are greenhouses and beer cans impaled on sticks, doing the work of a scarecrow. Only a few people live here year-round; most come only for the summers or on the weekends.

Three days after the murders, the only people on the streets were police officers who cordoned off sections of the cooperative, shooing away reporters.

Behind the barricade, there was a police van, from which a stocky man in a sweater periodically emerged. This man was Sergey Egorov, the murderer, and investigators were walking him through the crime scene.

Egorov lives with his 63-year-old mother in a two-story house at the very end of the community’s second-to-last street. Tatyana Arkhipova, the former head of