On August 8, 2003, one of the last surviving leaders of the Orekhov group, Andrei Pylev, nicknamed Dwarf, was detained in the Spanish resort of Marbella. Among the most notorious crimes of the organized crime group is the murder of the killer Alexander Solonik and businessman Otari Kvantrishvili. Who were the Orekhovskys and what happened to them - in the Kommersant-Online photo gallery.
The Orekhovskaya organized crime group was formed in the south of Moscow in the area of ​​Shipilovskaya Street in the late 1980s. It mainly included young people aged 18–25 with common sports interests.

Over the years, the organized crime group has grown into one of the largest criminal communities in Moscow. The group became famous as one of the most brutal Russian gangs of the 1990s, responsible for such high-profile cases as the murder of Otari Kvantrishvili and the assassination attempt on Boris Berezovsky in 1994, as well as the murder of the famous killer Alexander Solonik in Greece in 1997. In the second half of the 1990s, the organized crime group, most of whose leaders fell victims to internal strife, weakened. In the early 2000s, the remaining Orekhov “authorities” were put on trial and sentenced to long terms of imprisonment.

In the photo: members of the organized crime group Viktor Komakhin (second from left; shot in 1995) and Igor Chernakov (third from left; was killed in 1994 the day after the murder of the leader of the organized crime group Sylvester)

In the 90s, playing thimbles brought serious profits. Orekhovskaya brigades protected thimbles from the “Polish Fashion”, “Leipzig”, “Electronics”, “Belgrade” stores near the “Domodedovskaya” and “Yugo-Zapadnaya” metro stations

The Orekhovskaya organized crime group also extorted money from drivers engaged in private transportation near the Kashirskaya metro station. In 1989, gas stations in the Sovetsky and Krasnogvardeisky districts of Moscow came under the control of the group.
In the photo (from left to right): Andrei Pylev (Karlik; in prison), Sergei Ananyevsky (Kultik, killed in 1996), Grigory Gusyatinsky (Grisha Severny; killed in 1995) and Sergei Butorin (Osya; received a life sentence)

The leader of the group was Sergei Timofeev, who received the nickname Sylvester for his resemblance to actor Sylvester Stallone. He was killed on September 13, 1994 - his Mercedes 600 was blown up on 3rd Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street. Sylvester’s murder was a blow to the organized crime group, and the division of his inheritance cost the lives of most of the Orekhovskaya leaders. The killers have still not been found, and even Boris Berezovsky was named among the possible organizers: it was Sylvester who was associated with the assassination attempt on the businessman in the summer of 1994

According to one version, Sylvester’s murder could have been revenge for the shooting of the leader of the Bauman organized crime group, Valery Dlugach, nicknamed Globus (pictured on the right). Dlugach was killed in 1993 by Alexander Solonik, a killer of the Kurgan organized crime group, which at that moment collaborated with the Orekhovskaya group.

While Sylvester was alive, his power united several brigades, whose leaders were friends: pentathlete Igor Abramov (Dispatcher; killed in 1993), 1981 USSR boxing champion Oleg Kalistratov (Kalistrat; killed in 1993), hockey player Igor Chernakov (Double student; pictured on the right; killed in 1995), boxer Dmitry Sharapov (Dimon; killed in 1993), bodybuilder Leonid Kleshchenko (Uzbek Sr.; pictured on the left; killed in 1993)

In 1993–1994, the Medvedkov group joined the Orekhovskaya organized crime group.
In the photo: one of the Orekhovskaya leaders Sergei Butorin (left) with Medvedkov’s colleague Andrei Pylev (Karlik; currently serving a prison sentence).

One of the most high-profile cases of the Orekhovskaya organized crime group was the murder of businessman Otari Kvantrishvili, associated with criminal circles. He was killed on April 5, 1994, when leaving the Krasnopresnensky baths by one of the Orekhovskys - Alexey Sherstobitov (Lesha Soldat; sentenced to 23 years in prison in 2008)

Sylvester's heirs fought for power for many years. On March 4, 1996, not far from the US Embassy on Novinsky Boulevard, Sylvester’s closest assistant and his heir in the organized crime group, Sergei Ananyevsky (Kultik; pictured in the middle), was killed. He got his nickname because he was engaged in bodybuilding and was the 1991 USSR champion in powerlifting. As it turned out later, the killer was a member of the Kurgan organized crime group Pavel Zelenin

After the death of Sergei Ananyevsky, Sergei Volodin (Dragon; pictured on the left) became the leader of the organized crime group.
In the photo: the funeral of Sergei Ananyevsky at the Khovanskoye cemetery

Soon after the murder of Sergei Ananyevsky, Sergei Volodin (on the right) was also shot. Sergei Butorin (Osya) becomes the new leader of the organized crime group.

Having become the leader of the organized crime group, Sergei Butorin entered into an alliance with the Medvedkovsky brothers Andrei and Oleg Pylev (Malaya and Sanych) and collaborated with the Kurgan organized crime group, which did not prevent him from becoming a customer of the main killer of the Kurgan gang, Alexander Solonik. In 1996, Butorin staged his own funeral and went into the shadows for a while, and in the early 2000s he fled to Spain, but was arrested in 2001 and sentenced to life imprisonment, which he is now serving

Alexander Solonik (Valeryanych) is a killer of the Kurgan organized crime group, involved in the murder of the adopted son of thief in law Yaponchik and the leader of the Bauman organized crime group, Vladislav Vanner, nicknamed Bobon. He escaped from custody three times. He was killed in Greece in 1997 by a member of the Orekhovskaya organized crime group Alexander Pustovalov (Sasha Soldat; sentenced to 22 years in prison in 2005) on the orders of Sergei Butorin

Sergei Butorin (pictured) and his accomplices are behind many high-profile murders: the leaders of the Kuntsevo group Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Kuligin, the falcon group Vladimir Kutepov (Kutep) and others

Marat Polyansky is a killer, member of the Orekhovskaya and Medvedkovskaya organized crime groups. He was involved in the murder of the Kurgan organized crime group killer Alexander Solonik, as well as Otari Kvantrishvili. He was detained in February 2001 in Spain. In January 2013, he was sentenced to 23 years in prison.

Oleg Pylev (pictured) was detained in 2002 in Odessa, Andrei Pylev in 2003 in Spain. Oleg Pylev was sentenced to 24 years in prison, Andrey - to 21 years

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The 90s in Russia and the countries of the former USSR were marked by a surge in organized crime and rampant crime. As in any field, the underworld had its most memorable personalities.

The collapse of the Soviet Union led to irreparable consequences for the younger generation, which in the early 90s had to decide on their life guidelines and values. After the disappearance of a huge state, catastrophic economic problems simultaneously arose in the former Soviet republics. Young people had no prospects of getting jobs from the state, and existing vacancies became unnecessary to anyone.

In such difficult conditions, citizens had to choose their own sources of livelihood. It was almost impossible to get rich legally at that time. These conditions were ideal for the emergence of many organized crime groups. OCGs appeared on the territory of almost all post-Soviet countries, especially affecting Russia, South-East Ukraine and the Transcaucasian republics. The groups included young people who were accustomed to relying exclusively on forceful methods in solving all issues, living according to specific criminal “concepts.”

During the active phase of their activities, bandits became famous for their particular cruelty, in comparison with which current representatives of organized crime behave quite restrained. Criminal showdowns on the streets, kidnappings, racketeering, business squeezes, contract killings, torture of dissenters - all these terrible phenomena were commonplace in the 90s.

Volgovskaya organized crime group

The Volgovskaya organized crime group is considered one of the largest and most brutal criminal groups. This gang began its activities in the city of Togliatti, Samara region, thereby sadly glorifying the small automobile town. The most famous leader of the group was Dmitry Ruzlyaev, known under the nickname Dima Bolshoi. The gang began its criminal path with protecting businesses, later retraining itself into contract killings and kidnappings of famous people. As part of numerous gang wars in Togliatti, Ruzlyaev was killed in 1998. The rest of the gang buried him in the city's elite cemetery with a full-length tombstone. As part of revenge for their leader, the bandits organized the murders of many politicians Tolyatti. The group was distinguished by its penchant for cruel methods of torture and is rightfully considered one of the most dangerous groups of the nineties. The gang consisted of hundreds of people. Currently, almost all of them are either killed or serving a sentence.


Tambov organized crime group

This gang became the most famous in the vastness of St. Petersburg. Its organizers were Vladimir Kumarov and Valery Ledovskikh, who came to the northern capital from the Tambov region. At that time, there was fierce competition in St. Petersburg among numerous criminal communities, but it was the Tambov organized crime group that managed to monopolize its control over the city. The gang managed to achieve this thanks to a well-thought-out strategy for recruiting newcomers - it included only athletes who could perfectly stand up for themselves during a showdown.

Bandits controlled almost all spheres of life in the city in the mid-90s. Those who disagreed with the rules they established faced severe punishment, including physical violence. Law enforcement They kept a close eye on the group's activities. With the stabilization of the crime situation in the late nineties, the hunt for members of the organized crime group began. Most failed to escape imprisonment, although some bandits managed to cover their tracks.


Orekhovskaya organized crime group

The Orekhovskaya organized crime group has become one of the most brutal and dangerous gangs in Moscow. Its initiator and leader was Sergei Timofeev, who received the nickname Sylvester for his addiction to spending his free time in the rocking chair. It was while working with iron that the future bandit leader decided to look for ways to easily get rich. Gathering around himself a company of young people similar to himself, Sylvester began to implement his plan.

The bandits, after the standard start in protecting businesses, took on more serious matters, gradually seizing power over the numerous scattered street gangs of the capital. The Orekhovites were at the peak of success, alternating with impunity between eliminating unwanted competitors and extorting large sums from ordinary Muscovites.

After Timofeev was eliminated, his namesake Sergei Butorin became the head of the organized crime group. In the late 90s, he decided to flee the country, anticipating a quick end to the connivance of law enforcement officers. Butorin hid in Europe, where he was eventually caught.

Shchelkovo organized crime group

The gangs operating in the Moscow region were in no way inferior in cruelty to their metropolitan counterparts. A striking example of this is the Shchelkovo organized crime group. Its leader Alexander Matusov is rightly considered one of the most cynical bandits of that time. Many competitors feared him, since Matusov always sought to physically destroy his enemies. This gang had no strategy at all, simply acting on a principle that required as much aggression as possible. Matusov hid from persecution for a long time, although he was recently brought to Russia, where he will be tried.

The Russian criminal world has never gravitated towards anarchy. Following the example of the state, he also tried to establish his own laws, which the Urkagans had to adhere to. In the late 1980s, after Gorbachev’s reforms, criminals raised their head, and even ordinary people were forced to get acquainted with its rules, learning what “presentations”, “graters”, “arrows”, “showdowns”, “wirings” and so on are. .

The main activity of the gangsters was the racketeering of nascent cooperatives and protection of people engaged in illegal business. And since the number of “objects” that could be levied as tribute was limited, competition immediately arose between the bandits, which was carried out using purely gangster methods - intimidation, massacre and murder.

Battle of Devyatkino

In order to prevent a war between all and all, the bandits of the old and new formations came to a certain agreement to act according to the concepts that, in particular, regulated the process of imposing tribute on entrepreneurs. First came a visit to the merchant in the form of a “punching” (peaceful form) or “assault” (aggressive form). When it turned out that the businessman already had a “roof”, then most often the arrow was clogged.

Writer Andrei Konstantinov in his book “Gangster Petersburg” describes it this way: “Most of the shooters are peaceful and very transient. "Hello!" - "Hello!" - “So-and-so pays you?” - "Us!" - “Okay, bye!” - and everyone left.

There are conflicting arrows when one of the parties believes that its interests are infringed. Such an arrow can end in a showdown, that is, a violent conflict. Since there is always a chance of running into frostbitten people, shooters are usually assigned in very crowded places where it is difficult to use weapons, or, conversely, in remote and
secluded, where each side can bring weapons without unnecessary hassle.”

The most famous arrow in the Northern capital was the emergency at the clothing market in Devyatkino in December 1988. At that time, the market was controlled by fighters from "" and ". The bone of contention was a leather jacket, which the “Tambov” brother, nicknamed Lukosha, insolently took away from the merchant. He complained to the Malyshevsky foreman, nicknamed Broiler. Broiler stood up for the merchant. Lukosha thought that it was not like a boy to “prosecute” him for some huckster. Together with two accomplices, he brutally beat Broiler. “Malyshevo” decided that this was not in accordance with the concepts, and scored on the “Tambov” shooter.

Malyshevskaya lads. Broiler - left

Soon about 80 people from both conflicting sides arrived in Devyatkino. Many were armed with brass knuckles, knives, chains and pistols. “Malyshevets,” nicknamed Elephant, even grabbed a PPSh assault rifle. However, no one dared to use firearms then. But a mass brawl could not be avoided. During it, Broiler, burning with a thirst for revenge, cut off Lukosha and dealt a fatal blow to his friend. This immediately cooled the ardor of the participants in the “battle.” Grabbing the wounded by the arms, they rushed together into the city. Although the incident caused a big scandal, only Broiler was convicted. He received 6 years of bondage. And the “Malyshevskys” and “Tambovskys” have since become blood enemies.

Chechen blitzkrieg

But the most difficult situation arose in Moscow. This was the most delicious pie for bandits of all stripes, and its division obviously threatened with great bloodshed. tried to regulate the process. In 1988, the leaders of a number of influential gangster clans gathered at the Dagomys hotel complex, where they tried to establish certain rules of “competition” and divide spheres of influence, especially in Moscow.

Thief in law Andrey Isaev - Painting, leader of the Taganskaya organized crime group

But their convention was cynically violated by Chechen bandits, who declared: “We ourselves will conquer Moscow, just as the Sicilians did with New York.” The Chechens did not waste words and in fact began to recapture Moscow from the “”, “”, “” and “” groups that had already divided it. At that time, these groups could attract several hundred people to the arrow. Much fewer Chechens came - several dozen. But they had unity, courage and ironclad arguments on their side, which they gave to their opponents: “If you kill us, our brothers will come and destroy you and your families. We know where you, your wives and children live. But you won’t be able to reach our relatives even if you try.” And they had nothing to object to.

The first large-scale gang shooting happened in Moscow in 1988. The Chechens clashed with the Lyubertsy. And the jocks, who were then considered a model of toughness, could not defeat the enemy. In general, in the period 1988-1989 they endured about twenty battles with their Moscow colleagues, but did not give up on their idea to conquer the capital. They stood up against “athletes” and against thieves.

On January 22, 1988, a group of thieves in law met with the leaders of the Chechen community in the Stork cafe on Bolshaya Bronnaya Street. The thieves tried in a harsh manner to explain to the Caucasians who is the owner of Moscow. Then the Chechens grabbed knives and seriously wounded two opponents.

In the end, the Chechens won their piece of the capital's tasty pie. By 1991, about 6 thousand bandits from various organized crime groups were operating in the capital and the Moscow region, who divided the territories among themselves. But the main violators of the convention remained the Chechens. In 1992, on Baumanskaya Street near the TsNIIchermet building on the spit, Chechen and. They did not reach an agreement and the Chechens left. When the leaders of the Tagans released the armed cover group and already
They were saying goodbye, and suddenly a Mercedes 600 and a jeep drove up to them, from which two machine gunners jumped out and opened fire. The leaders of the Tagans Shilo, Schmidt and Pyrya were killed,
and a student who happened to be nearby was wounded by a ricocheting bullet.

The bloodiest Moscow shootout took place at midnight on May 6, 1992 on the outskirts of the capital in the Butov new building on Kulikovskaya Street. She was multifaceted. The leaders of the “Balashikha”, “Podolsk” and “Chekhov” groups, as well as representatives of the Taganskaya and Solntsevo organized crime groups took part in it. The scumbag German Starostin also took part in the shootout, because of whom the bandit shootout ended in a real “Kulikov massacre”, in which about a hundred militants took part.

Residents of the surrounding houses later said that the continuous pops from machine gun and pistol shots resembled fireworks. It was not possible to count the dead and wounded. The accomplices took everyone with them. At the funeral of the dead, thieves and gang leaders pronounced a death sentence on the leader of the Balashikha group, who was the first to start shooting.

Bandit shooters

The bandit shooters had their own regulations. It was customary to come to a meeting accompanied by a retinue and in good cars in order to immediately demonstrate to the opponent one’s strength and toughness. It was considered especially chic to arrive in cars with flashing lights and with passes crossed out with a red stripe on the windows, prohibiting their inspection by police officers.

Failure to show up was considered a sign of weakness and defeat. However, sometimes criminal leaders missed the target, believing that they should not meet with anyone. For example, an authoritative one once ignored an invitation to a shootout coming from another thief nicknamed Zeleny, considering him an upstart. Green Caucasian thieves “crowned” him at the age of 23 and placed him in charge of several districts near Moscow.

The shooter procedure itself was described by Daniil Koretsky in his famous book “Antikiller”: “First, the parties will look at each other: who is worth what. Then the leaders will begin to “talk”, and the one who has less real forces, will be forced to compromise and make concessions to the competitor. If it is not possible to find a common language and no one wants to give in, someone can show their “toughness” and take down the enemy. In this case, the outcome is ambiguous: either his victory will be recognized immediately, or they will fire back and a general “mochilovo” will begin. And here the laws of war come into force - whoever destroyed the enemy the most wins!”

One of the most brutal gang wars of the early 1990s is considered to be the shooting at the club of the Ryazselmash plant in Ryazan, which was planned and carried out on November 26, 1993 by the Slonovskaya organized crime group. We read further about this criminal group of the 90s.

The Slonovskaya organized crime group, organized in 1991 in Ryazan, was originally called “Prezentovskaya” (the meeting place of the group’s members was the Ryazan restaurant “Prezent”.

The group arose when the former driver of the Ryazan deputy city prosecutor Nikolai Maksimov, nicknamed Max (pictured left) and taxi driver Vyacheslav Ermolov (Elephant) decided to organize a game of thimbles in the city.

Thimble gambling was a common business among criminal gangs in the 1990s. Many people started this way. The Thimbles adhered to a strict hierarchy and discipline. This was also reflected in the income distribution. 25% of each ruble was received by the thimble maker himself - the “grassroots”. 10% went to the “top” (front men), 5% went to the “lighthouses” (those who were involved in the cover), half of the proceeds was taken by the “godfather” - the organizer.

Elephant had several groups of thimble makers, but the income did not suit him. Soon, gang members began committing fraud when buying and selling cars at the local car market. As a result of the bandits' actions, both the seller and the buyer were left without money and a car.



In the early 1990s, a fraud case was brought against the group's leaders, but many victims then retracted their testimony. As a result, Maksimov received a suspended sentence, and the court did not find any corpus delicti in the actions of Ermolov (pictured).

After this, the gang began to engage mainly in racketeering, for which Elephant created several “brigades”, each of which included at least a hundred people. By that time, Ryazan had already been divided between organized crime groups, the most powerful of which was considered Airapetovskaya, whose leader was Viktor Airapetov (pictured). After the murder of the director of a local meat processing plant, Viktor Panarin, who was protected by the Elephant gang, a war began between the groups.

On November 26, 1993, four “Slonovskys” in the Selmash cultural center in the center of Ryazan opened fire from machine guns at the “Ayrapetovskys” resting there. Seven people were killed, ten more were wounded, Airapetov himself managed to survive.

In response to this, on March 31, 1994, Maksimov was shot. At his funeral service on April 3, the “Ayrapetovskys” attempted to blow up the “elephants,” but an explosive with a radio-controlled fuse went off 150 m from the temple. On November 18, 1994, a member of the group, Leonid Stepakhov, nicknamed Bubble, shot and killed Dmitry Kochetkov, the leader of the Kochetkovskaya organized crime group, and in February 1995 of the year - the leader of another Ryazan group, Alexander Arkhipov. So the “elephants” became the largest organized crime group in Ryazan.

The Slonovskaya organized crime group actively collaborated with other groups, including the Volgovskaya - one of the largest in Tolyatti. On November 18, 1994, eight “elephant” killers were sent to Togliatti, led by Gorelov and Nikolai Danilevich (aka “Kolya Togliattisky”, pictured on the left). On November 24, they held their first action against Volgovskie’s competitors. Dmitry Moguchev, nicknamed Lenin, and Vitaly Akhmetov, nicknamed Akhmet (right), near the parking lot, shot several times at a member of the organized crime group, Vladimir Vdovin, nicknamed Partner, but he remained alive.

Since 1993, the group has been involved not only in racketeering, but also in financial pyramids, as well as fraud with postal credit notifications. Thus, through the PIKO pyramid, the “elephants” collected 17 billion rubles from investors, and then, in November 1994, Alexey Sergeev, nicknamed Lyopa (left), shot its director Sergei Knyazhesky. At the same time, in Togliatti, eight killers from the Slonovskaya group committed one contract murder and a number of assassination attempts. In the spring of 1995, the authority Sergei Filaretov, nicknamed Felix (in the center), joined the organized crime group. He tried to introduce thieves' laws into the gang.

In the summer of 1995, the director of the Ryazan meat processing plant, Vasily Panarin, was killed, who tried to come under the “roof” of the Slonovskaya organized crime group. Having learned about this, a certain Chekirov, whose gang controlled the meat processing plant, shot the director, hoping to take his post. In response, Sergei Filaretov (Felix) killed Chekirov and his two accomplices on December 11, 1995. The murder of Panarin led to a change in the head of the Ryazan Central Internal Affairs Directorate, who became Ivan Perov, who began to actively work against the Slonovskaya organized crime group. At the same time, the Slonovskys decided to eliminate their last competitor, Viktor Airapetov (pictured on the left). He was killed in November 1995.

After the murder of Airapetov, the “elephants” no longer had any competitors. The organized crime group quickly became central in Ryazan, controlling markets, offices, housing offices, factories and collective farms. At the same time, the bandits lived in grand style; the Present restaurant remained their favorite vacation spot.

On September 9, 1996, six members of the Slonovskaya group kidnapped businessman Khodzhiev and demanded a ransom. That same month, they were all detained and subsequently admitted to committing almost 20 contract killings. On October 1, the prosecutor's office of the Ryazan region opened another criminal case against members of an organized crime group. In a short period, most of the “Elephant” killers, led by Leonid Stepakhov (right), were arrested. In the photo, from left to right: Dmitry Moguchev (“Lenin”), Alexander Gorelov (“Morda”).

At the beginning of June 2004, the Ryazan District Court reduced Leonid Stepakhov’s sentence from 15 to 11 years, and on July 9 he was released on his own recognizance. Later, the prosecutor's office challenged the court's decision, but Stepakhov fled. On July 26, 2006, he was detained in Kolomna, near Moscow, and on July 30, he was transferred to Ryazan.

On January 25, 2000, the Ryazan Regional Court sentenced 22 gang members to a total of 214 years in prison. For trial A special cage was ordered from the machine-building plant. The reading of the verdict took three days; 86 murders were proven. Some of the group's leaders, including Ermolov, are still wanted.

On May 5, 2006, an attempt was made on the life of Sergei Vasiliev, co-owner of the Petersburg Oil Terminal (PNT) JV. The alleged perpetrators of the crime were former members of the Slonovsky organized crime group, brothers Oleg and Andrey Mikhalev. In October 2006, they received 18.5 and 20 years in prison. It was reported that the order to kill the businessman came from the authority of Vladimir Barsukov (Kumarin), who was trying to take possession of the terminal.

Seven members of the group are still on the federal wanted list. According to some information, the leader Ermolov lives in Europe, where he does business. One of the former members of the Slonovskaya organized crime group, Fedor Provotorov (“Fedya Lysy”), has been politically active since 1999.

Currently, many participants have been released from prison. Little is known about their future plans. Perhaps someone will settle down in freedom, someone will again take up a craft that is not reputable in our time - extortion, murder. Others may go further high level crimes. Someone will get a job.

Rustam Ismalov, one of the foremen of the Kazan criminal community, served his sentence back in 2011, having served 16 years for the murder of a businessman. During these years in prison, his former comrades warmed him up well from the outside. But seven years ago, Rustam’s brigade completely ceased to exist - some were imprisoned, others were killed, others are wanted. And the former authority of the group did not have people left in the wild whom they could trust and where they could return. He went out and no one met him. His brigade disappeared into oblivion.

One of the leaders of the Novokuznetsk gang, Shkabara Barybin, was also released. And his gang, too, no longer exists. But he has his own story. Shkabara was met by Izmailovo authorities, who did not lose contact with him in the zone. You need to have such people with you. Therefore, Izmailovo residents greeted him in three foreign cars and took him away with them.

Oleg Buryat was also met by representatives of someone else’s brigade, since his own had broken up a long time ago. But those who greeted him were at one time Buryat’s competitors, and it was for the attempt on their leader that he served time. So the authority was met by one of the Chelyabinsk groups and taken away in an unknown direction. After that, no one saw Buryat again.

Kurgan resident Vitaly Mosyakov, who was part of the Kurgan criminal group that caused a lot of noise, did not return to crime after leaving prison in 2012. He got a job at a service station in one of the small towns and rents an apartment.
Another of the Kurgan residents, Pyotr Zaitsev, served 6 years and was released on parole. But when he was free, he got a job in one of the security companies and again took up extortion. Currently under investigation.

The most interesting character is probably Vitya Kostromskaya. In the late 80s, he led a gang that extorted money from cooperators. Later, in the early 90s, realizing that he couldn’t take it out in Moscow alone, he joined. And in 1992 he killed a man out of jealousy towards his wife. That is, his term had nothing to do with the main criminal activity. So to speak, I fell asleep in the household appliances. The court gave him 25 years. He served 24 of them, and this year he was released as a sick and useless person.