Transistor (https://transistor.fm) https://feeds.transistor.fm/russia-unheard Russia Unheard tells true crime stories from inside Russia, deeply documented cases, with court records, survivors, and decades of legal history, that almost no one outside the country has ever heard. Told with restraint, from the actual sources, by a narrator who grew up there. Season one: Apartment 357. October 1996, the Siberian city of Novokuznetsk. A plumber knocks on a ninth-floor door. By that evening, the police have broken in. Six episodes. New episodes weekly. Contains accounts of violent crime. Listener discretion advised. © 2026 Kliment / Russia Unheard cce2dddb-45fd-5589-b44f-b6122219825b yes Trailer en Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:00:17 +0100 Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:01:41 +0100 https://img.transistorcdn.com/a5d7QRjg8fAfTLL0kW5-4nsKfaq25uzzWkFcsN4-sKw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:1400/h:1400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9jZWRm/ZmYxZThkNmY1MTQy/ZTFhNTNlNjU0ODlh/YzY0OC5wbmc.jpg serial Kliment Russia Unheard tells true crime stories from inside Russia, deeply documented cases, with court records, survivors, and decades of legal history, that almost no one outside the country has ever heard. Told with restraint, from the actual sources, by a narrator who grew up there. Season one: Apartment 357. October 1996, the Siberian city of Novokuznetsk. A plumber knocks on a ninth-floor door. By that evening, the police have broken in. Six episodes. New episodes weekly. Contains accounts of violent crime. Listener discretion advised. Russia Unheard tells true crime stories from inside Russia, deeply documented cases, with court records, survivors, and decades of legal history, that almost no one outside the country has ever heard. true crime, podcast, russia, siberia, investigative, documentary, serial killer, soviet, 1990s Kliment russiaunheard@gmail.com No Yes Trailer trailer 111f38df-8a7f-4023-b918-156a6e03d8b7 https://share.transistor.fm/s/5a83b8e6 October 24th, 1996. Novokuznetsk, Siberia. A plumber knocks on a ninth-floor door, three times, hard. The man inside refuses to open it. By that evening, the police have broken in - and what they find begins a case Russian courts are still trying to fully account for. Russia Unheard - Apartment 357. Six episodes. Full season launches June 18th. 

]]> October 24th, 1996. Novokuznetsk, Siberia. A plumber knocks on a ninth-floor door, three times, hard. The man inside refuses to open it. By that evening, the police have broken in - and what they find begins a case Russian courts are still trying to fully account for. Russia Unheard - Apartment 357. Six episodes. Full season launches June 18th. 

]]> Mon, 08 Jun 2026 21:51:17 +0100 Kliment Kliment 110 October 24th, 1996. Novokuznetsk, Siberia. A plumber knocks on a ninth-floor door, three times, hard. The man inside refuses to open it. By that evening, the police have broken in - and what they find begins a case Russian courts are still trying to fully account for. Russia Unheard - Apartment 357. Six episodes. Full season launches June 18th. 

]]> true crime, podcast, russia, siberia, investigative, documentary, serial killer, soviet, 1990s No 1 1 Episode 1: The Knock full 80fb2c1e-1e62-4870-b7a5-bb17c45a26c7 https://share.transistor.fm/s/7b90d853 A plumber climbs nine floors on a routine drainage call. The door doesn't open. He smells something he can't unsmell, goes downstairs, and calls the police. By the end of that October afternoon in 1996, the door to apartment 357 has been forced - and what's behind it will take the rest of the season to account for. 

]]> A plumber climbs nine floors on a routine drainage call. The door doesn't open. He smells something he can't unsmell, goes downstairs, and calls the police. By the end of that October afternoon in 1996, the door to apartment 357 has been forced - and what's behind it will take the rest of the season to account for. 

]]> Thu, 18 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0100 Kliment Kliment 1447 A plumber climbs nine floors on a routine drainage call. The door doesn't open. He smells something he can't unsmell, goes downstairs, and calls the police. By the end of that October afternoon in 1996, the door to apartment 357 has been forced - and what's behind it will take the rest of the season to account for. 

]]> true crime, podcast, russia, siberia, investigative, documentary, serial killer, soviet, 1990s No 2 2 Episode 2: The River full 7d3cb86f-e042-4a22-821c-5ad117fa35ae https://share.transistor.fm/s/3533e7ca Before the apartment, there was the river. The Aba runs cold through the industrial edge of Novokuznetsk - not a river anyone visits. In the autumn of 1996, it became part of the investigation, not for what it contained, but for what it returned. How a city searched in every direction except the right one. 

]]> Before the apartment, there was the river. The Aba runs cold through the industrial edge of Novokuznetsk - not a river anyone visits. In the autumn of 1996, it became part of the investigation, not for what it contained, but for what it returned. How a city searched in every direction except the right one. 

]]> Thu, 18 Jun 2026 08:01:00 +0100 Kliment Kliment 1380 Before the apartment, there was the river. The Aba runs cold through the industrial edge of Novokuznetsk - not a river anyone visits. In the autumn of 1996, it became part of the investigation, not for what it contained, but for what it returned. How a city searched in every direction except the right one. 

]]> true crime, podcast, russia, siberia, investigative, documentary, serial killer, soviet, 1990s No 3 3 Episode 3: The Mother's Bed full 9e6a6375-4c72-4595-8fa0-9ecb6dcaca80 https://share.transistor.fm/s/79b4d59f To understand the man behind the door, you have to start before he was a man. A boy at a kitchen table in 1982. A mother who worked among criminal case files and brought them home. The household that formed Alexander Spesivtsev - recorded, carefully, by investigators who came later. 

]]> To understand the man behind the door, you have to start before he was a man. A boy at a kitchen table in 1982. A mother who worked among criminal case files and brought them home. The household that formed Alexander Spesivtsev - recorded, carefully, by investigators who came later. 

]]> Thu, 25 Jun 2026 08:00:00 +0100 Kliment Kliment 1460 To understand the man behind the door, you have to start before he was a man. A boy at a kitchen table in 1982. A mother who worked among criminal case files and brought them home. The household that formed Alexander Spesivtsev - recorded, carefully, by investigators who came later. 

]]> true crime, podcast, russia, siberia, investigative, documentary, serial killer, soviet, 1990s No 4 4 Episode 4: The Hunting Ground full a2b7b44a-8d64-4eb5-8364-bf1785d2a194 https://share.transistor.fm/s/a73f43ed A release that returned him home without ever facing the original charges. A dog, a mother, and a year - and how he used it. Inside the neighbourhood gatherings, the disappearances no one connected, and the apartment that sat undisturbed on the ninth floor of a building full of people. 

]]> A release that returned him home without ever facing the original charges. A dog, a mother, and a year - and how he used it. Inside the neighbourhood gatherings, the disappearances no one connected, and the apartment that sat undisturbed on the ninth floor of a building full of people. 

]]> Thu, 02 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0100 Kliment Kliment 1177 A release that returned him home without ever facing the original charges. A dog, a mother, and a year - and how he used it. Inside the neighbourhood gatherings, the disappearances no one connected, and the apartment that sat undisturbed on the ninth floor of a building full of people. 

]]> true crime, podcast, russia, siberia, investigative, documentary, serial killer, soviet, 1990s No 5 5 Episode 5: Olga's Testimony full 50396c32-d7b2-4578-a11e-c31d72ec085f https://share.transistor.fm/s/efde3296 Her name was Olga. She was fifteen. She survived three days inside apartment 357, and gave investigators, from a hospital bed in the days before her death, the testimony that became the basis for the entire case. Reconstructed from the published case file, with the most graphic content abstracted.
Content advisory: this episode contains accounts of serious violence against a minor. Listener discretion is strongly advised.

]]> Her name was Olga. She was fifteen. She survived three days inside apartment 357, and gave investigators, from a hospital bed in the days before her death, the testimony that became the basis for the entire case. Reconstructed from the published case file, with the most graphic content abstracted.
Content advisory: this episode contains accounts of serious violence against a minor. Listener discretion is strongly advised.

]]> Thu, 09 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0100 Kliment Kliment 1257 Her name was Olga. She was fifteen. She survived three days inside apartment 357, and gave investigators, from a hospital bed in the days before her death, the testimony that became the basis for the entire case. Reconstructed from the published case file, with the most graphic content abstracted.
Content advisory: this episode contains accounts of serious violence against a minor. Listener discretion is strongly advised.

]]> true crime, podcast, russia, siberia, investigative, documentary, serial killer, soviet, 1990s No 6 6 Episode 6: Nineteen full ebab87d4-9cad-4ebe-857c-f810963ad41a https://share.transistor.fm/s/eba19868 Two courtrooms, two years apart, two different outcomes. In 1996 the count was four. It is no longer four - and for years the case was not closed. The legal history that followed Alexander and Lyudmila Spesivtsev across decades, and what the number finally became. 

]]> Two courtrooms, two years apart, two different outcomes. In 1996 the count was four. It is no longer four - and for years the case was not closed. The legal history that followed Alexander and Lyudmila Spesivtsev across decades, and what the number finally became. 

]]> Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0100 Kliment Kliment 1397 Two courtrooms, two years apart, two different outcomes. In 1996 the count was four. It is no longer four - and for years the case was not closed. The legal history that followed Alexander and Lyudmila Spesivtsev across decades, and what the number finally became. 

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