--- title: The World's Deadliest Drug: Krokodil's Legacy description: Three years later, photographer Emanuele Satolli reunites with the survivors of the Krokodil drug epidemic canonical: https://time.com/4358805/krokodil-deadliest-drug-legacy/ author: Simon Shuster article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-09T08:00:09.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:44:37.704Z article:section: World og:title: The World's Deadliest Drug: Krokodil's Legacy og:description: Three years later, photographer Emanuele Satolli reunites with the survivors of the Krokodil drug epidemic og:url: https://time.com/4358805/krokodil-deadliest-drug-legacy/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt759c6b5beaf87000/69889698fb4eacf7bf88dce7/krokodil-emanuele-satolli-27.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: krokodil-emanuele-satolli-27 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The World's Deadliest Drug: Krokodil's Legacy twitter:description: Three years later, photographer Emanuele Satolli reunites with the survivors of the Krokodil drug epidemic twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt759c6b5beaf87000/69889698fb4eacf7bf88dce7/krokodil-emanuele-satolli-27.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The World's Deadliest Drug: Krokodil's Legacy > Sponsored content. 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Photographer Emanuele Satolli spent a year chronicling a group of Russians addicted to krokodil, a lethal opiate made with ingredients from hardware stores and pharmacies that causes skin to become scaly, rot and fall off the bone._  by [Simon Shuster](https://time.com/author/simon-shuster/)  ## Simon Shuster Senior Correspondent Jun 9, 2016 8:00 AM UTC  Diana, Zhanna’s daughter, lives with her grandmother Lyudmila in an apartment in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Diana, Zhanna’s daughter, lives with her grandmother Lyudmila in an apartment in Yekaterinburg, Russia.Emanuele Satolli  by [Simon Shuster](https://time.com/author/simon-shuster/)  ## Simon Shuster Senior Correspondent Jun 9, 2016 8:00 AM UTC Early this spring, when the snow began to melt in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg, the photographer Emanuele Satolli went knocking on apartment doors in the Uralmash district, a grimy neighborhood in the north of the city. He knew many of its hallways by heart. This was the place he’d gone in 2013 to [photograph](http://time.com/3398086/the-worlds-deadliest-drug-inside-a-krokodil-cookhouse/) young men and women addicted to a synthetic drug known as krokodil. Three years later, he came back to find them again. But their old haunts and cookhouses were mostly deserted. Krokodil, a cheap substitute for heroin, was one of the deadliest designer drugs ever to sweep through Russia. Appearing on the black market in the early 2000s, it wound up ensnaring hundreds of thousands of addicts across the country, and it spread especially fast in poor, industrial areas like Uralmash. Its appeal was simple: addicts could easily learn to cook it in their kitchens using ingredients purchased at local pharmacies and hardware stores, among them hydrochloric acid, paint thinner and red phosphorous, which they scraped from the sides of match boxes. For a fraction of the price of heroin, the drug produced a similar high and was just as addictive. But the damage it caused was far more gruesome and often irreversible. The addict’s flesh at the injection site would often rot away, while the tissues of the brain and other vital organs were severely eroded. “So my expectation was to find that some of them had died,” Satolli says of his trip to find the addicts in Yekaterinburg this year. “But not so many.” **Read more:** [**The World’s Deadliest Drug: Inside a Krokodil Cookhouse**](http://time.com/3398086/the-worlds-deadliest-drug-inside-a-krokodil-cookhouse/) Of the ten krokodil users Satolli had photographed in 2013, ranging in age from 30 to 43 at that time, three of them were dead by the time he came back this year. Extensive research and interviews with the friends and neighbors of four other addicts from Satolli’s list failed to turn up their whereabouts. “They disappeared,” says the photographer, and among those who knew them, they are usually presumed to be dead. Of the three former addicts Satolli found alive, one was in the tuberculosis ward in a local hospital; another had been bedridden for two years and unable to leave her apartment. Only one of the recovering addicts Satolli tracked down, a man in his early 30s named Pavel, had managed to kick the habit without sustaining crippling damage to his health. Photographing them presented a peculiar set of challenges. Three years ago, the hardest part of producing the series for TIME LightBox was to win enough trust to be invited into the kitchens where the addicts cooked krokodil and the shabby apartments they used to shoot up. “The challenge was not to make a cliché picture of an addict with a needle in the arm,” he says. “I tried to respect them, to show that they were more than just drug addicts, to show their whole lives.” ### The World’s Deadliest Drug: Inside a Krokodil Cookhouse  The following photographs were taken in Yekaterinburg, Russia in 2013\. Alexei, age 33, injects a dose of krokodil. Because of his dependence on krokodil, Alexei has injuries and swelling around his feet and is forced to walk with a cane. Emanuele Satolli  A stage of krokodil preparation. Pills of codeine are crushed and mixed with iodine, hydrochloric acid and other chemicals. Emanuele Satolli  Olya, 35 years old, injects krokodil. Emanuele Satolli  Pavel, 31 years old, shows the effects of the krokodil on his skin. The chemicals used to prepare krokodil cause deep wounds and sores. Emanuele Satolli  A view from the top of Yekaterinburg. The city, the regional capital, has about 1.5 million inhabitants and was the first Russian city in Asia. About 80 percent of the population of the region lives in Yekaterinburg. Registered drug addicts number about 40,000. Emanuele Satolli  Zhanna, 34 years old, is out in the Uralmash district about thirty minutes after she has taken krokodil. Emanuele Satolli  A stage of krokodil's preparation. Emanuele Satolli  Andrey, 43 years old, injects Zhanna with krokodil in his apartment in the Uralmash district. Emanuele Satolli  Zhanna, under the influence of krokodil, tries to relax. Emanuele Satolli  Andrey scratches out the desomorphine left on the pot. Emanuele Satolli  Andrey prepares the pills containing codeine. The main ingredient of krokodil is desomorphine, an opiate that is obtained through the synthesis of codeine. Emanuele Satolli  Zhanna checks the krokodil while it cooks. Emanuele Satolli  Zhanna, under the influence of krokodil, tries to get up while Andrey drains the water from a pot to obtain dry sulfur. Emanuele Satolli  Andrey injects krokodil, with Zhanna in the background already under the influence of the drug. Emanuele Satolli  Zhanna, under the influence of krokodil, lies down on the couch. Emanuele Satolli  A woman walks at night on a street in Yekaterinburg during a snow storm. Emanuele Satolli  Oxana, 33 years old, cooks krokodil. Emanuele Satolli  Oxana injects krokodil. Emanuele Satolli  The codeine is boiled in a closed bottle for a few minutes as part of the preparation of krokodil. Emanuele Satolli  Alexey, 30 years old, blows air in a bottle to push the liquid through a filter and use it to prepare the krokodil. Emanuele Satolli  From the left, Alexey, Natalya, 34 years old, and her husband Ilya, 34 years old, prepare krokodil in a kitchen. Emanuele Satolli  A dose of krokodil is ready to be injected. Emanuele Satolli  Alexey injects krokodil. The effect of the drug lasts about 40 minutes. Emanuele Satolli  Alexey lies in bed soon after haven taken the krokodil. Emanuele Satolli  Elman, 40 years old, displays the injuries on his legs which hes says were caused by the use of krokodil and methadone. Emanuele Satolli But the production of his follow-up series on krokodil was in many ways more difficult. It forced Satolli to ask himself: “How can I represent the deaths, the empty places?” Sometimes the answer was clear. At the city’s crematorium, he was able to access the records of addicts who had died, as well as the names of the relatives who had identified their bodies. Some of those family members then took Satolli to see their graves, which were decorated with the photos of their young faces staring somberly out at the snow. But beyond that, the photographer was left to ring a lot of doorbells while looking for the remnants of the other addicts’ lives. “A lot of people were suspicious, especially old people who \[grew up\] in the Soviet Union,” he says. Many would stare at him through their peepholes or open a crack in the door before sending Satolli away. All of the cookhouses and drug dens he had visited in 2013 were either empty or occupied by other tenants – a sign of the fact that krokodil has, thankfully, fallen out of favor in Russia. Its decline came almost as suddenly as the epidemic that it caused. In the first three months of 2011, the country’s counter-narcotics agency said it had seized around 65 million doses of the drug, a 23-fold increase from 2009\. The agency then lobbied for the government to impose a [ban](https://www.rt.com/news/controversial-painkiller-ban-codeine/) on the over-the-counter sale of codeine, the main ingredient in krokodil. By 2014, two years after the ban took effect, federal authorities announced that the drug had been practically eradicated from the streets. _Watch Emanuele Satolli’s video report from 2013_ In the stairwells of Uralmash, Satolli still found it lurking earlier this year. He says he noticed the distinctive, acrid stink that the cooking process of krokodil produces coming from a kitchen, and the man living in that apartment admitted that he still makes the drug from time to time. But other synthetic drugs, such the ones known in the streets as bath salts, now dominate the market in Russia, while the most common sign of krokodil is the quiet devastation it has left behind. **_Emanuele Satolli_** _is an Italian journalist and photographer based in Istanbul. His previous work,_ [See What Undocumented Immigrants Carry Across the Border](http://time.com/3647891/undocumented-immigrants-bags/) _and_ [The World’s Deadliest Drug: Inside a Krokodil Cookhouse](http://time.com/3398086/the-worlds-deadliest-drug-inside-a-krokodil-cookhouse/) _has been published on TIME LightBox._ **_Olivier Laurent_**_, who edited this photo essay, is the editor of TIME LightBox. Follow him on_ [_Twitter_](http://twitter.com/olivierclaurent) _and_ [_Instagram_](http://instagram.com/olivierclaurent) _@olivierclaurent_ **_Simon Shuster_** _is a TIME correspondent based in Berlin._  Oxana has been confined to a bed for more than 18 months after her use of the drug known as krokodil damaged her muscles. Photographer Emanuele Satolli first met Oxana in 2013 when she was still using the drug. Yekaterinburg, Russia. Emanuele Satolli   Oxana has now stopped using the drug known as krokodil. Yekaterinburg, Russia. Emanuele Satolli  After her husband, pictured here in a wedding photograph, died from drug abuse Oxana and her son went to live with her parents. Yekaterinburg, Russia. Emanuele Satolli  Despite several surgeries on her legs and spine, Oxana says she’s too weak to stand up. Emanuele Satolli  Olga, one of the krokodil drug users that photographer Emanuele Satolli met in 2013, is buried next to her relatives in a cemetery in the Uralmash district of Yekaterinburg, Russia. She died in 2015 due to liver failure. Emanuele Satolli  Lyudmila’s daughter, Zhanna, died in 2015 after using the drug known as krokodil. She now lives with her granddaughter, Diana. Yekaterinburg, Russia. Emanuele Satolli  Diana, Zhanna’s daughter, lives with her grandmother Lyudmila in an apartment in Yekaterinburg, Russia. Emanuele Satolli  Alexei, another user of the drug known as krokodil that photographer Emanuele Satolli met in 2013, is buried in a cemetery on the outskirt of Yekaterinburg, Russia. Alexei died in 2015. Emanuele Satolli  Natalya, shown here in the flower shop where she's working, was dating Alexei when he was using the drug known as krokodil. Alexei died in 2015. Emanuele Satolli  Alexei is shown here with his brother Pavel. The two brothers used the drug known as krokodil for several years. After Alexei’s death in 2015, Pavel quit using. Emanuele Satolli  Pavel, a former user of the drug known as krokodil, quit two years ago. Emanuele Satolli  Pavel had to undergo several surgeries to remove the gangrenous flesh, leaving scars on his legs. Emanuele Satolli  Pavel had to undergo several surgeries to remove the gangrenous flesh, leaving scars on his legs. Emanuele Satolli  Ilya and Natalya, two users of the drug known as krokodil that photographer Emanuele Satolli met in 2013, used to live in this building in Yekaterinburg, Russia. According to neighbors they both left in 2014. Emanuele Satolli  Andrey is a former user of the drug known as krokodil. He has since been diagnosed with tuberculosis. Emanuele Satolli  Andrey’s treatment for his tuberculosis is damaging his liver, he says, which had already been harmed by his use of the drug known as krokodil. Emanuele Satolli  Andrey sits on a hospital bed. Emanuele Satolli  Empty boxes of syringes distributed by Chance Plus, an organization that provides health services to drug users affected with HIV or other infectious disease. Emanuele Satolli  Ivan, a recovering drug addict, now works to help other drug users. He says that the use of the drug known as krokodil was a "real epidemic." Emanuele Satolli  Lyudmila Vince in her office at Chance Plus, an organization that supports drug users. Lyudmila claims that more people died because of the drug known as Krokodil than from heroin. Emanuele Satolli  A man carries syringes and condoms he received from Chance Plus, an organization that supports drug users. 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