ST. PETERSBURG – A court in St. Petersburg on Friday convicted a prominent history professor on charges of murdering and dismembering a female student and sentenced him to 12 1/2 years in prison.The court found 64-year-old Oleg Sokolov, who taught at St.
Petersburg State University, guilty of shooting and killing 24-year-old doctoral student Anastasia Yeshchenko at his apartment in November 2019.Sokolov was detained after being pulled from the Moika River outside his St.
Petersburg apartment with a backpack with two severed arms inside.The limbs were identified as Yeshchenko’s, and investigators found other body parts in the river and in Sokolov’s apartment in the historic part of St.