Editing Andrei Chikatilo (section)

==Teaching career==
Chikatilo chose to enrol<!--- Please do not fix the spelling of enrol. Article is written in British English.---> as a correspondence student at [[Southern Federal University|Rostov University]] in 1964,{{sfn|Conradi|1992|p=29}} studying [[Russian literature]] and [[philology]];{{sfn|Cullen|1994|p=231}} he obtained his degree in these subjects in 1970. Shortly before obtaining his degree, he obtained a job managing regional sports activities.{{sfn|Krivich|1993|p=160}} Chikatilo remained in this position for one year, before beginning his career as a teacher of [[Russian language]] and literature at Vocational School No. 32 in [[Novoshakhtinsk]].{{sfn|Mariner|1992|p=242}}

Chikatilo was largely ineffective as a teacher; although knowledgeable in the subjects he taught, he was seldom able to maintain discipline in his classes and was regularly subjected to mockery by his students who, he claimed, took advantage of his modest nature.{{sfn|Conradi|1992|p=30}}

One of Chikatilo's duties at this school was ensuring the students who boarded at the school were present in their dormitories in the evenings; on several occasions, he is known to have entered the girls' dormitory in the hope of seeing them undressed. On other occasions, he discovered adolescent pupils who boarded at the school engaged in sex. He later stated the sight of adolescents engaged in intercourse "disturbed" him as he was confronted with the sight of "children doing what I hadn't done even when I was thirty years old."{{sfn|Cullen|1994|p=221}}

===Sexual assaults===
In May 1973, Chikatilo committed his first known sexual assault upon one of his pupils. In this incident, he swam towards a 15-year-old girl and groped her breasts and genitals, ejaculating as the girl struggled against his grasp. Months later, Chikatilo sexually assaulted and beat another teenage girl whom he had locked in his classroom.{{sfn|Cullen|1994|p=187}}{{refn|group=n|When discussing the circumstances immediately preceding this second incident of molestation in 1993, Chikatilo recounted: "She was an older girl, in the senior class. Her name was Ultseva, I think. She was already developed and everything. She had breasts and all ... something started to gnaw at me. This was what I hadn't had: a youth, a childhood, and there she was, sitting like that with her legs open. Well, I spanked her on the legs, on the rear end, and on her breasts. Then I locked her in the classroom."{{sfn|Cullen|1994|p=266}}}} He was not disciplined for either of these incidents,{{sfn|Conradi|1992|p=32}} nor for the occasions in which fellow teachers observed Chikatilo fondling himself in the presence of his students.
[[File:Профессиональный лицей №33 г. Шахты.JPG|thumb|Technical School No. 33, [[Shakhty]]. Chikatilo worked at this school at the time of his first murder.{{sfn|Conradi|1992|p=35}}]]

In response to the increasing number of complaints lodged against him by pupils, the director of the school summoned Chikatilo to a formal meeting and informed him he should either resign voluntarily or be fired. Chikatilo left his employment discreetly and found another job as a teacher at another school in Novoshakhtinsk in January 1974. He lost this job as a result of staff cutbacks in September 1978, before finding another teaching position at Technical School No. 33 in [[Shakhty]], a coal-mining town forty-seven miles north of Rostov.{{sfn|Cullen|1994|p=223}}

By Chikatilo's own admission, by the mid-1970s, his desire to view naked children drove him to loiter around public toilets, where he frequently spied on young girls. He also purchased chewing gum which he gave to female children he encountered in efforts to initiate contact and gain their trust. Chikatilo is known to have sexually assaulted at least three girls whom he encountered via this method.{{sfn|Krivich|1993|pp=163; 173}}

Chikatilo's career as a teacher ended in March 1981 following several complaints of [[child molestation]] against pupils of both sexes.{{sfn|Conradi|1992|p=252}} The same month, he began a job as a supply clerk for a factory based in Rostov which produced construction materials.{{sfn|Cullen|1994|p=228}} This job required him to travel extensively across much of the Soviet Union either to physically purchase the raw materials required to fulfil [[production quota]]s, or to negotiate supply contracts.{{sfn|Krivich|1993|p=181}}