Dashing 90s cemeteries of crime bosses. Alley of "heroes" at the Khovansky cemetery

At the Shirokorechensky cemetery, located on the southwestern outskirts Yekaterinburg, many famous personalities of the city have found their last refuge: people's artists, scientists, heroes of the Second World War. But in one of the sections of the cemetery you can see unusual tombstones. They depict respectable men in expensive suits and leather jackets, with gold chains and tattoos. These extravagant monuments belong to criminal authorities and their entourage, who were killed during gang wars in the dashing 90s.

After the collapse of the Soviet Union, anarchy set in in Russia and other former republics. The rapid transition to a market economy has led to a sharp increase in organized crime. The line between legal and illegal was practically erased.

Yekaterinburg became the center of gang wars. The organized criminal group Uralmash staged a showdown for control over the leading enterprises of the city with another organized criminal group, which called itself "Center". During these clashes, many people were killed.

To honor the memory of the murdered "brothers", criminal elements began to order pretentious headstones for their graves. On granite slabs, full-length images of typical authorities of the nineties were depicted: in leather jackets, with thick gold chains. On some monuments, Mercedes or golden domes can be seen in the background. In some places you can even read not only the names of those killed, but also their “combat skills”. For example, "an expert in throwing knives" or "a master of deadly fisticuffs."

Some tombstones depict women who in the 90s took no less active part in gang wars.

The graves there are painted with all the colors of the rainbow.

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At all prestigious cemeteries of the capital: Vagankovsky, Staroarmyansky, Danilovsky, Nikolo-Arkhangelsk - the best places are given for bandit alleys

Granite stelae, many-pood crosses, gilded fences, angels one and a half human height... Well-known sculptors worked on these monuments. Prophetic epitaphs from Dante and other classics were selected by distinguished writers. If you grieve and remember, then on a large scale! ..

To criminal authorities and after death a particularly reverent attitude. At cemeteries, they invariably get VIP seats: at the entrance, on the central alley. The monuments are illuminated, in winter the staff in any weather clears them with soft brushes from snow and ice, in summer they put fresh flowers. There are “fraternal” alleys in all prestigious cemeteries of the capital: Vagankovsky, Staroarmyansky, Danilovsky, Nikolo-Arkhangelsky ... There are even private “fraternal” cemeteries, like the one located in Rakitki near Moscow. In the early 90s, the lads bought entire plots in rural and urban graveyards. So that in the next world the boys were together.

Our special correspondents went on a raid on the prestigious graveyards of the capital, on the graves of “gentlemen of fortune”.

At the entrance to the Vagankovskoye cemetery there is a skyscraper stele, above it is a marble angel, spreading his arms with bronze wreaths over the tombstones. On two pairs of granite slabs, the following is engraved: Amiran Kvantrishvili. Otari Kvantrishvili.

Brothers - composers? - visitors are talking.

Prominent public figures! - the former cemetery worker, now a freelance guide to the world of the dead, Valera grins cynically.

The angel is on the grave, what a big one, not like the listish skinny seraphim (nearby is the grave of TV presenter Vladislav Listyev. - Auth.), - the guests of the graveyard pay tribute to the grave.

Still would! Valera agrees. - The famous sculptor Klykov worked on the monument to the Kvantrishvili brothers, the first of whom was shot dead by sworn friends in 1993, the second a year later.

The one that Zhukov sculpted on horseback? listeners are surprised.

Valera says that the landmark building, dedicated to the memory of the Kvantrishvili brothers, was created over several years. It cost the customer obviously not cheap.

Otari Kvantrishvili was a legendary figure in Moscow in the late 80s and early 90s. He was called the godfather of the capital's mafia and at the same time a fighter for justice. Otari started out as a card player. He was a close friend of Vyacheslav Ivankov (Jap). In the fall of 1993, he created the Athletes of Russia party and took part in the defeat of the White House. He was the head of the Lev Yashin Athletes' Social Security Fund, for which the Moscow RUOP had a grudge for a long time. Honored coach of Russia in Greco-Roman wrestling. Philanthropist and businessman...

On April 5, 1994, Otari was shot by a killer sniper at the exit from the Krasnopresnensky baths. The killer has not yet been found. The investigation put forward the most fantastic versions, none of which found official confirmation. They say that the killer had the famous Solonik, Sasha of Macedon, on the hook.

However, Otari received the “black mark” a year before his death. On August 6, 1993, his brother Amiran was killed in the office of a small business. He arrived at the office of the firm together with the thief Fedya Besheny (Fyodor Ishin). The mercenaries shot both of them.

We walk along the Vagankovsky cemetery further. The prestigious churchyard is now considered closed, it is overcrowded. Here it is possible to make burials only along the line of kinship, if space permits: “to settle” the deceased with the deceased grandmother, uncle, nephew. True, a hero, an honorary or other particularly distinguished citizen can be honored to lie in a famous cemetery. But this must be a special permission of the city administration.

How the grave of the head of the Ryazan criminal group Viktor Airapetov appeared on Vagankovo ​​is a doubly mystery.

Airapet or anyone else buried for him is not known for certain. The documents are most likely fictitious. Any good owner always has a couple or two unrecorded graves hidden away. Start digging - you won't prove anything. The cemetery archive burned down in October 1941, - Valera enlightens us.

When approaching the burial place of Viktor Airapetov, one wants to close one's eyes. A massive marble slab is framed by a fence with rich gilding. They say that Viktor Airapetov himself came more than once to admire his pompous grave. Not from the underworld, but from our vain life. Did the crime boss simply fake his own death?

In the early 90s of the last century, the master of sports in freestyle wrestling Viktor Airapetov created the most powerful underground military organization in Ryazan - the Airapetovskaya. At the international level, Yaponchik himself supported her. By 1993 Airapetov moved to Moscow. "Ayrapetovsky" were divided into brigades and numbered from 800 to 1500 members. But soon they had a serious obstacle - the “elephant” group. They shot the elite of the “Ayrapetovskie”. The gang leader himself managed to escape only by a miracle. And in Ryazan, a great criminal war began. And on November 19, 1995, at about three in the morning, the death of Viktor Airapetov was recorded. The abduction of the founder and leader of the group of the same name was attended by members of the special forces. People in masks put the guards face down, and the authority was taken away in an unknown direction. Two weeks later, an anonymous call was given the number of the plate in the common burial ground. On the corpse removed from the ground, they found a Rolex watch and the famous bandit's belt with silver plates. The wife looked at the burnt corpse with a hole in the head and calmly said: “Yes, this is it.” Later, she and the mother of the “authority” left for permanent residence in Europe. Shortly before his disappearance, Airapetov received Greek citizenship and changed his surname to Aravidis. A few years later, Ryazan entrepreneurs accidentally met Vitya Ryazansky in Europe. But officially Airapetov is dead.

Take a look at ********* site, - Valera advises us. - There are monuments to thieves in law, similar to the monument to Pushkin on Tverskaya or Minin and Pozharsky on Red Square.

We go through the massive gate to the specified churchyard. On the right hand, in an ancient armchair, a bronze man sits with a pensive look. Embossed on the pedestal: Vladimir Sergeevich Oganov. On the left perched a bronze Rudolf Sergeevich Oganov. The entire space near the graves of the brothers is lined with marble vases. Flowers - roses, lilies, chrysanthemums - that at the premiere at the Bolshoi Theater.

The Oganov brothers (Rudik Bakinsky and Vachigos Six-fingered) were not just well-known thieves. In the criminal hierarchy, they occupied one of the highest places. For which they paid. At the end of the last century, a criminal war broke out between the Oganovs and Aslan Usoyan (better known as Ded Khasan), which escalated into a war of mafia clans. Three times convicted 53-year-old Rudik was killed in February 1999 in a cafe on the Moscow Ring Road, after he accused Ded Hasan of embezzling money from the obshchak at a thieves' meeting. Grandfather Hassan was then “dethroned”. And Oganov, who had just returned from the south, received more than 40 bullets from the killers. The reason was the previous execution of thieves from the Khasan clan in Essentuki. After him, the influential Moscow “criminal general” Boris Apakia (Khropaty) gathered the mafiosi who supported Usoyan, and they pronounced a final verdict on Oganov. After some time, the same fate befell Vladimir Oganov.

We go in search of the grave of another crime boss - Peso Kuchuloria. We are stopped by an experienced gravedigger Sergey Ivanovich:

Don't seek, you won't find. I dug Peso's grave myself. At that time, the gopstopniks each paid us 200 rubles. Only a week later a scandal erupted. Peso's grave was at the burial site of an Afghan soldier. Relatives of the latter raised a fuss. The peso was dug up and taken to the Domodedovo cemetery.

Officially, Valerian Kuchuloria, nicknamed Peso, went missing in 1993. He was one of the close friends of the same Otari Kvantrishvili.

Knowing that many members of the once powerful Bauman criminal group are lying on the 28th Vagankov precinct, we are looking for a black marble monument in the very center of the precinct, under which their leader, Bobon, rests. The grave, again, is a steam room. Next to Bobon (“in the world” - Vladislav Abrekovich Vygorbin-Vanner) lies his bodyguard. Bright yellow apples are laid out in a pyramid on the stove: someone close came here for the Apple Savior.

Bobon was one of the most erudite and powerful "authorities" of the late 80s. His Bauman group kept half of Moscow at bay. Bobon, aka Vladislav Vygorbin, was considered the right hand of the Globe thief. Bobon was very fond of cars and traveled around Moscow in a snow-white sports two-door Buick without a driver's license, as he spent one of his three terms in a psychiatric hospital, where he perfectly learned English, but received a certificate of mental illness and therefore passed a commission for obtaining automobile could no longer be right.

In 1994, a dispute broke out over a nightclub, the “roof” of which was made by Globus and his team. Globus unexpectedly demanded to increase its share. He was shot by the “Kurgans”, and Solonik took responsibility for the murder. Then Bobon was also killed by the same Solonik. He and his bodyguard were going to practice at the shooting range on the Volokolamsk highway. The killers dug holes in the concrete fence ahead of time. As soon as Bobon's Ford taxied into the yard, they opened fire on it. Both Bobon, and the bodyguard, and Bobon's dog were killed. And the daughter of the "authority" managed to fall to the floor between the seats of the car.

At the Danilovsky cemetery, VIP burials are hidden from prying eyes. Only twice - following the worker Grishan - having overcome the manholes in the fence, we find ourselves in a granite world.

There is entirely Karelian granite, the guarantee for which is more than a hundred years, - says our guide. - This stone is the most expensive. A crypt with a sliding slab and a tombstone costs 10,000 "green", engraving a portrait - another 4,500. And if a sculpture is to be sculpted with all the bells and whistles - curbs, steps - 300 thousand "greens" must be prepared.

Wandering among the “concrete monuments”, we find the family burial place of the Chograshy family. On the marble steles are engraved: “Nono”, “Dato”, “Kike”.

In August 2001, an armored Mercedes-600 burned down in Khimki, in which two well-known ********* thieves in law, Dato and Nono Chograshy, were driving. A Mercedes with a driver and two passengers was heading towards the capital from the Sheremetyevo airport. Suddenly, on the move, the Mercedes caught fire. The fire was caused by an explosion. The brothers died of burns in the hospital. It was assumed that the attempt was connected with the division of the thieves' common fund.

I remember how Nodar Chograshy was buried, Grisha continues. There were few people at the ceremony. There were about twenty thieves in law and "authorities", among them knowledgeable people identified Miho the Blind and Besik. I still remember that the grave was lined with bricks, and the coffin was filled with concrete. I then wondered: why? It turns out that in the homeland of the deceased - in Armenia - the dead are buried in the mountains, in carved niches.

Gravedigger Grisha smells not of vodka, but of expensive perfume. He is not wearing a greasy overall, but a pressed overalls. Taking care of the graves, by his own admission Grisha, he “rows” up to 50 thousand rubles a month with an official salary of 5 thousand.

When a heartbreaking funeral march sounds in the depths of the cemetery, Grisha winces:

Brass bands are now in bad taste. "Big people", for example, are buried under "live" music. Stars of the opera stage roll into the cemetery, pitiful arias from Italian operas are performed. And coffins are generally the calling card of the deceased. It is in the outback that reusable dominoes - “shuttles” go in a circle. To deliver the deceased to the cemetery, a coffin decorated with ruffles and bows is rented to the poor for 200-300 rubles. Ours is different.

Deceased VIPs roll to their final resting place in lacquer and bronze. Elite coffins are a real work of coffin art: made of mahogany, equipped with antique bronze handles, illuminated, air-conditioned, built-in stereo music system, decorated with a reproduction of a painting by a famous artist. Particularly popular are the two-lid "senatorial" coffins, which, in addition, are equipped with a so-called elevator that raises or lowers the body. The cost of such a domino starts from 10 thousand "green" and rushes to infinity.

As the grave is covered with wreaths, they give a mourning salute - they release a rocket with black twinkling stars, - Grisha sums up.

Having phoned the administration of several metropolitan cemeteries, we were convinced that despite the “overcrowding”, there are no problems with organizing places for burials in cemeteries. Enough to pay. The price of the issue of “settlement” in closed cemeteries ranges from 50 to 200 thousand rubles.

Not far behind Moscow funeral and Peter. In August, at the Northern Cemetery, on the grave of the influential shadow “authority” Konstantin Yakovlev, better known as Kostya Mogila, a pompous utterly monumental monument worth 600 thousand “green” was erected. In the center is the figure of Kostya Mohyla himself, embracing an Orthodox cross with his arms. At the feet of the deceased is a snake that is about to bite him. From different sides, two half-meter angels look at Kostya Mogila: one folded his hands in prayer, the second pulls them to the “authority”. On black granite, the words are inscribed with gold: “I kiss those who betrayed me on the forehead, and not the one who betrayed me in the mouth.”

Inscriptions and epitaphs on the graves of "authorities" are a separate issue. In Tolyatti, on the monument to the head of the criminal community Dmitry Ruzlyaev - Dima Bolshoi - is succinctly carved: "Dima". On the tombstone of a difficult person, nicknamed Blue, friends wrote: “But nothing will sprout on the ashes of the soul, only time will mercilessly exact for those who will no longer come.” In Vladivostok, the grave of the thief in law Miho is decorated with a completely unambiguous inscription: “Goodness and justice sleep here.” But Bely's friends-comrades-in-arms outdid everyone: they decorated the stele in the form of a cell phone with the inscription: "The subscriber left the service area."

Monuments with the image of "brothers" with playing cards, the keys to the "Mercedes" in their hands - in the past. In recent years, monuments to "authorities" have been created with imagination. For example, in Nizhny Novgorod, at the Starozavodskoye cemetery, there is a unique tombstone for a man known in criminal circles named Zaron. Next to the statue of the deceased, a full-length stone swan “floats”, from whose eyes ... tears flow.

Majestic monuments cannot fail to attract the attention of collectors of non-ferrous metals. All sorts of bronze details are dragged from the graves: boards, ribbons, flowers. It happens that marauders break out and carry away entire busts for remelting. It is paradoxical, but, according to the assurances of the cemetery workers, there are never thefts from the burial places of thieves in law and "authorities". The thieves are afraid of the deceased "polozhenets" even after their death. The power of crime extends not only to earthly life? ..

The boys did not forget Kostya Grave
The most expensive tombstone worth $ 200,000 was installed in the Northern capital to an ordinary gravedigger from the Southern Cemetery in the past

The well-known St. Petersburg businessman Konstantin Yakovlev, better known in certain circles as Kostya Mogila, was shot dead on May 25, 2003 in Moscow. The car "Nissan Maxima", in which, in addition to Yakovlev, there were his bodyguard, driver and close friend, a killer passing by on a motorcycle riddled with a machine gun. The men died on the spot from their wounds, and the woman, who accidentally stooped a second before the shooting, was seriously injured, but survived.

The tragedy occurred during the celebration of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg. Until the end of the celebrations, the authorities banned funerals in the city on the Neva. Therefore, the deceased waited 10 days for burial in the Moscow Lefortovo morgue. Only on June 3, Yakovlev's body was delivered to St. Petersburg.

Many years ago, Konstantin Yakovlev worked as a gravedigger at the Southern Cemetery. For incredible achievements in digging speed - digging a grave in 40 minutes - he got his nickname. It was assumed that the mortal body of Konstantin Yakovlev would be given to the graveyard where he began his career. However, they did not bury him at the Southern Cemetery, they chose the Northern Cemetery, where his relatives are buried.

They say that when the funeral procession of 50-60 foreign cars headed for the Northern Cemetery, accompanied by four traffic police cars and caught up with the famous "Crosses" on Arsenalnaya Embankment, the car convoy rang out lingering signals. And the prison answered with a dull echo of thousands of male voices, because they knew in advance when Kostya Mogila would be taken past the pre-trial detention center.

When Yakovlev was buried, before the monument was made, a huge oak Orthodox cross was erected on a freshly grown mound. A sea of ​​flowers and wreaths lay on the grave. On one of the wreaths was a mourning ribbon with the inscription: “Sleep well, Konstantin, we will never forget you! Boys."

And the monument to Konstantin Yakovlev was erected the most magnificent on the scale of the entire Northern capital. According to rumors, its cost is $ 200,000. In the center of the monument is the figure of Kosti Grave himself. The deceased embraces the Orthodox cross with his hands. But a snake crawled at his feet. She has already opened her mouth and is about to bite him. On black granite, the words are inscribed in gold: “I kiss those who betrayed me on the forehead, and not the one who betrayed me in the mouth.” The sculptural group also includes two half-meter angels that look at Kostya Grave from different angles. One folded his hands in prayer, the second, on the contrary, pulls them to authority.

* Prices for monuments to brothers start from $ 5-10 thousand.

* For a long time, in the criminal environment, there was a fashion for the image of the dead "comrades-in-arms" on black marble with the keys to the Mercedes and a cell phone in their hands.

* For the authority of Vasily Naumov, nicknamed Yakut, who was killed in South Korea, the Russian lads bought a coffin inlaid with gold, with an electronic refrigerator and an automatically opening lid worth $15,000.

* The grave of the Nizhny Novgorod criminal leader named Zaron is decorated with the figure of the deceased, standing next to a weeping stone swan.

* The alley of brothers at the Togliatti cemetery is opened by a monument to the head of the criminal group Dmitry Ruzlyaev - a huge marble slab with the inscription "Dima".

The Khovanskoye cemetery is located near Moscow and adjoins the remote metropolitan area Solntsev, which until recently was considered a suburb of Moscow. The Khovanskoye cemetery is the largest cemetery in Europe, but it is not difficult to find the alley where the leaders of the Orekhovskaya organized criminal group are buried. It is located in a new section of the cemetery. The fact that the “godfathers” of the criminal south of Moscow are buried here, in my opinion, transparently hints at a close connection with the famous Solntsevo “brothers”, at their common criminal roots. Indeed, sometimes the relationships of individuals are so intertwined that it is difficult to understand which of them is "Orekhov" and which is "Solntsevo". It is curious that in almost all the graves, the front sides of the tombstones and busts are turned with their backs to the pedestrian alley, thereby emphasizing the shady, criminal way of life of the deceased. It remains to be added that all other "Orekhovites" are buried at the Vvedensky, Danilovsky, Kotlyakovsky and Shcherbinsky cemeteries.

Anticipating your appropriate sarcastic grins about pompous monuments on the churchyard, Orthodox symbols, I want to remind you that for many decades on Red Square in his Mausoleum lies a man who managed to ruin and destroy, for example, hard-working peasants in the name of utopian ideals and personal ambitions. As a gift from grateful descendants, the author of the cry "Take away and divide!" received a permanent residence permit at the foot of the Kremlin, and the untimely peace of his homies, densely packed in the Kremlin wall, is guarded day and night by sentries. It seems that almost no one cares: they are already used to it. What happens, dear comrades? He killed ten people - a bandit and a murderer, but killed millions - a great leader and teacher?

As an addition to the video, in which Valery Karyshev somehow explains who is who in the Orekhov mafia:

Sergei Ivanovich Timofeev (1955-1994), nicknamed Sylvester, does not need a special introduction. As a matter of fact, this entire site is devoted to his activities.

Grigory Evgenievich Gusyatinsky (1959-1995) - founder of the Medvedkovskaya organized crime group. In the early nineties, during the life of Sylvester, the group did not play a very independent role, but was a kind of North Moscow branch of the Orekhovskaya organized criminal group. Gusyatinsky was involved in all sorts of delicate cases, such as organizing the high-profile murder of Otari Kvantrishvili. When Sylvester was blown up in September 1994, Gusyatinsky again led the Medvedkov group, but not for long. In January 1995, in Kyiv, Grisha was shot dead by his subordinate - a hired killer Alexei Sherstobitov, nicknamed Lesha Soldier, the direct executor of the order for Kvantrishvili. Apparently, Sherstobitov was afraid that he knew too much about the biography of the Sylvester feeder and therefore decided to fix the problem. Speaking about the personality of Gusyatinsky, for some reason the words of the same Lesha Soldat are recalled about how Gusyatinsky ordered his subordinates to be killed for the slightest mistake. So, for example, he ordered one to be killed for a champagne cork that got into him, and the other for refusing to carry his wife's bag. Since it is customary to say good or nothing about the dead, we will keep silent.

Stella on the graves of a prominent member of the group, Alexander Garishin, nicknamed Sasha Ryzhiy (he did not like his other nickname - Screw - he did not like), who was part of Sylvester's inner circle from the moment he was released from Tver correctional colony No. 1 (in the jargon "weave"), and his younger comrade Vladimir Baklanov (1968-1996) nicknamed Cucumber.

Sergei Taraskin (1951-1992), wrestling coach of the Kuntsevo sports school, a kind of debutant on the alley of "heroes", occupied a prominent place in the brigade of Sergei Kruglov, nicknamed Serezha Boroda, who in turn was a personal friend of Sylvester. It is known that the latter in the seventies was engaged in karate in that sports school, and therefore he probably knew Taraskin. Other signs testify to this: Timofeev's grave is adjacent to Taraskin's grave, and those who buried Sylvester - and he was the third in a row in the alley - for some reason placed authority right next to Taraskin, and not somewhere else.

Sergey Taraskin died in the famous massacre in Butovo on May 6, 1992, when several Moscow and Moscow groups agreed to dismantle at once: on the one hand, the Balashikha group (leader German Starostin, born in 1963, nicknamed Hera), on the other hand, the Podolsk group ( leader Sergei Lalakin, born in 1955, nicknamed Luchok), Chekhov (leader Nikolai Pavlinov, born in 1957, nicknamed Pavlin), as well as three Moscow groups - Anton, Petrik and Serezha Beards.

From operational information: “The funeral of Taraskin took place at the Khovansky cemetery. All members of the Beard group gathered. The participants in the gathering were armed with short-barreled machine guns. The militants who were on duty at the entrances reported on the radio about the appearance of strangers. Thieves in law and authorities arrived at the cemetery. They recommended to stop the bloodshed and decide peacefully. The meeting participants agreed, but Starostin, the leader of the Balashikhas, and his closest connection, Sukhoi, as well as the Lyubertsy leaders Sam and Mani who supported them, were sentenced to death. Serezha Boroda took over the execution of the action.

The name of Taraskin is still well known among professional athletes. On December 12-14, 2014, in the Sports Complex of the Olympic Village - 80 in Moscow, an open All-Russian tournament in Greco-Roman wrestling was held, dedicated to the memory of the master of sports of the USSR Sergey Taraskin.

Sergei Vladimirovich Kotov, nicknamed Kot, was among the authoritative people of the Orekhov group, he personally knew Sergei Ivanovich Timofeev. Andrei Viktorovich Mikhailov, nicknamed Fantik, was a member of the brigade from 1993 to 1996, and when the latter was killed, he began working with the Cat.

On March 1, 1997, Kotov and Mikhailov went to a regular meeting, apparently with someone they knew well and, leaving their wives in a restaurant, expected to return in an hour, but disappeared. Approximately five days later, the car in which they left (an armored Mercedes 140) was found in one of the parking lots with broken bulletproof glass. The guys were found a week later in the forest, it seems, on the fortieth kilometer of the Kyiv highway ...

Alexander Loginov, nicknamed Bull (1977-2001), was seen in the company of Igor Smirnov (Bear), and it seems that he was somehow involved in, since he was buried nearby. Bulya was not taken by a bullet, but by drugs. At the beginning of the 2000s, the shooting in Orekhovo-Borisovo generally subsided.

Nikolai Pavlovich Vetoshkin (1961-1998) was a member of Sylvester's inner circle, but was attracted by him mainly for "dirty" work. They met back in the eighties, when Vetoshkin worked as a loader in an Orekhov store and had the opportunity to get alcohol during Gorbachev's anti-alcohol campaign.

After the assassination of the chief, a real war broke out in the south of Moscow; the once close-knit group began to break up into separate brigades, one of which was headed by Vetoshkin. When they shot the district authority Dvoechnik, in 1996-1998. Vetoshkin actually became the main bandit of the southern outskirts of Moscow. Since Nikolai Palych often resorted to the traditional means of resolving disputes, namely shooting, by the end of the decade he managed to make a lot of enemies. Extraordinary precautions and an armored Mercedes did not save him from the natural end - execution from a Kalashnikov assault rifle.

Vladislav Albertovich Gorpishchenko, nicknamed Garp (1965-1994). Nikolai Modestov: “... One of the promising fighters, Garpishchenko (nicknamed Garp), was found dead near his own apartment. The killer fired the only headshot from the PM...” Garp was killed while Sylvester was still alive, in August 1994, and he became the second in the alley after Taraskin.

Sergei Nikolaevich Volodin (1969-1996), nicknamed the Dragon, was killed under circumstances unknown to me. According to one version, the “Kurgans” dealt with him for the debts of Sergei Ivanovich. It is possible that Alexander Solonik was the killer.

Sergei Dmitrievich Ananievsky (1962-1996), nicknamed Kultik, Honored Trainer of Russia in powerlifting (power triathlon), champion of the USSR in 1991, the first president of the Powerlifting Federation in Russia and concurrently ... Orekhov's authority.

Ananievsky is more often mentioned as the mastermind behind the assassination of Otari Kvantrishvili. He was shot during a showdown for power that followed the explosion of Sylvester, in early March 1996, near the US Embassy on Novinsky Boulevard. According to one version, the murder was committed by "Kurgan".

The graves of Volodin and Ananyevsky are united, which speaks of the joint affairs of the deceased and, possibly, friendship.

A common story for the 1990s: the parents of the "brothers" outlived their children, sometimes for decades.

In order not to lose face in front of the lads, the drug lord Tsirul married his beloved to his brother

Everyone wants love. Representatives of the criminal world are no exception. However, almost all of their amorous stories end tragically. And for the bandits, and for the unfortunate girls. After all, it only seems romantic at first glance: life is like on a volcano, constant passions, money flows like water. The terrible stories of legal and civil wives of crime bosses from the 90s show the other side of the coin.

Brother's Beloved Wife

Pasha Tsirul went from an ordinary pickpocket to an influential leader of the criminal world, the keeper of the thieves' obshchak. He arranged the supply of heroin from Colombia, and also took control of almost the entire territory of the "air gates" of Russia - Sheremetyevo-1 and Sheremetyevo-2. He was respected by both old crime bosses and young scumbags.

Tsirul lived on a grand scale, without denying himself or his beloved woman anything. The mansion of the criminal authority near Moscow was estimated at two million dollars. A 700-kilogram chandelier worth $58,000 hung in Pasha's house. The walls and floor in the mansion were finished with marble and elite woods. Antiques, rare tapestries, a swimming pool, a sauna, a greenhouse, a torture chamber in the basement - all this amazed the police officers when they arrested Tsirulya on December 9, 1994.

After the arrest of Tsirul, representatives of criminal gangs began to gather in his house and take money from the obshchak. Mama Roza, Roza Gumarovna, a well-known woman in criminal circles, Tsirul's faithful companion, tried with all her might to stop this and pull Pasha out of jail.

Pasha adored the beautiful Tatar woman, but he could not officially marry her. The authority honored the thieves' law (according to the concepts of a thief, nothing should be kept on earth, so he should not have a wife and children). However, Cirul found a way out: he formally married Rosa to his younger brother Valentine. So they lived together. Rosa even gave birth to a child from Cyrule.

Rosa hired the best lawyer for the arrested Cirul, and agreed to transfer the phone to her beloved. The woman did everything so that her Pasha would sit alone in the cell, communicate with the outside world, eat well and ... not suffer from drug withdrawal. Cirul seriously sat on prohibited substances and constantly received them from the outside. They ruined him. Never freed, Pasha died of an overdose.

Then they wrote everything about Rosa: either hiding in the USA from the lads, or sitting there in prison. In fact, shortly after the death of Tsirul, Mama Rose also passed away from an overdose. Surprising little: with such a chosen one, a woman simply could not help but become addicted to drugs.

Innocent victim of war

In the dashing 90s, the city of Togliatti was compared with the American Chicago. It so happened because for ten years there was a bloody criminal war in pursuit of control over AvtoVAZ. According to some estimates, more than 400 people were killed in Togliatti during that period.

The beginning of the war was facilitated by the conflict between the largest Volgovskaya organized crime group and the gang Vladimira Agiya and Alexander Voronetsky. By the way, during perestroika, Volgovskaya was one of the first to start selling parts stolen from AvtoVAZ.

In the 2000s, Togliatti was mired in the third "great racketeering war." At the head of the Volgovskaya organized criminal group was Dmitry Ruzlyaev. Another leader of the group was considered the cruel, frostbitten bandit Scoop -. By that time, he was wanted and lived in Moscow on a "left" passport in the name of Pavel Lizunov, along with a 28-year-old bride from Tolyatti - Lyudmila Matytsina.

Evgeny Sovkov. Photo: TV CENTER

Sovkov often went to the Krasnopresnensky baths - a favorite place for reputable criminals. On December 26, 2000, the Scoop went to the “arrow” to these very baths, taking Lyudmila with him. The meeting took place in Stolyarny Lane. Let's jump ahead and say that a few steps from this place in 1994, the killer Lesha Soldier authority was shot Otari Kvantrishvili.

... The conversation between the Scoop and a certain man in black did not last long. When Yevgeny turned around and went back to the car, shots rang out. Matytsina jumped out of the car in horror and immediately received a bullet in the forehead.

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The killer turned out to be a longtime foe Scoop - Andrey Milovanov, he is Green, one of the "godfathers" of Togliatti.

Sovkov, with a severe wound, managed to get to the driver's seat, but died in the hospital four hours later. Before leaving, the killer made a control shot in the head of Lyudmila.

Green was generally famous for the fact that he could absolutely calmly kill a woman in the most cruel way. He also shot the widow of the general director of the Togliatti fish factory Alika Gasanova.

bloody tale

In hard times, everyone in Togliatti knew the name of Alik Gasanov. The head of the Mega-Lada company, the financier of the Ruzlyaevskaya organized crime group, is, in fact, the wallet of Dmitry Ruzlyaev. All the most cunning businessmen and high city officials revolved around the millionaire Alik. In addition, crowds of long-legged fools followed the charismatic man. But Gasanov was busy.

"Lucky girl," they said about Gasanov's wife - Oksana Labintseva. At first glance, indeed: Oksana, a native of the Ukrainian town of Sumy, was born in a dysfunctional family, her father almost did not “dry out”. Labintseva graduated from the eighth grade of the school, entered the construction college. And then rich Hasanov appeared with a “ticket to a beautiful life”, as it seemed to her ...

Oksana gave birth to Alika two sons. I drove a convertible, lived in a huge apartment, dressed luxuriously. The girl knew perfectly well what her husband was doing and what terrible people she was dealing with. However, this did not frighten her. Moreover, she participated in some of her husband's scams. In particular, in the purchase of cars at reduced prices from the AvtoVAZ plant.

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Gasanov's business grew: a shoe factory, a factory for the production of discs, and the Sadko fish processing plant were bought. In all the photos, Labintseva beams with a smile. But her life turned upside down during the celebration of Alik's 37th birthday in the most expensive restaurant in Togliatti. Drunk, he went outside to smoke and was killed by a hitman.

Already on the second day after Hasanov's death, his empire began to be torn apart. Alik's business partners did not want to work with the heiress Oksana and did not put her in anything. But, being a brave woman, Labintseva decided to resist. Oksana was given the manners of her deceased husband, she imagined herself a queen. Labintseva announced her rights to a large-scale business, which caused the terrible wrath of the bandits. The woman began to go to the arrows and conduct a "serious market". Very quickly, Oksana got a “roof” in her face Andrey Milovanov. Lying in bed, he promised her that he would protect her from all raids, that together they would earn a lot of money and start life from scratch. But as soon as Labintseva started having problems with the cruel and reckless bandits, the brothers Popovs, Milovanov abandoned her. Oksana failed to find a common language with the Popovs, and they ordered a competitor. For 50 thousand dollars, Labintseva was eliminated ... Milovanov. In broad daylight, the ghoul fired six bullets at Oksana.

Death for disobedience

Irina Ziroyan, just like Labintseva, she did not want to part with her husband's business and paid for it with her life. In the early 90s, Irina married Heru Ziroyan named Monkey. From a previous marriage, Irina had a son, Ismail, whom Gera accepted as his own. The couple lived richly. Gera was in charge of the Armenian wing of the Orekhovskaya organized criminal group, under him was almost all the trade in the south of Moscow: the Zamoskvoretsky market, restaurants and shopping centers on the Varshavskoe highway. Ziroyan made huge profits daily. But one day Gera was crossed by the leader of the Mytishchi organized crime group Vlado, who was engaged in drug trafficking. Vlado was not enough of the Moscow region, he wished to expand his possessions. Ziroyan was ready to cede 20 percent of his assets to Vlado. However, this did not suit Vlado, and soon Hera was shot from a machine gun.

Irina became a widow and heiress of the authorized capital of the Zamoskvoretsky market and other enterprises of her husband. Bandits immediately showed up to her with demands to give everything to them. Irina was offered a good monthly income and was rebuffed. In the late 1990s, the first criminal case in recent Russian history "on the organization of a criminal community" was initiated against the Orekhovskys. The leaders of the organized criminal group fled abroad, many of their subordinates ended up in the dock. Therefore, Irina believed that the former colleagues of the murdered spouse were no longer as scary as before. She legalized Ziroyan's criminal business, and there was no place for many former subjects in her new empire. The ex-beholder did not want to put up with such a situation Vahagi Hovhannisyan aka Tso. After a series of threats, the bandits broke into one of Irina's shops. She managed to hide, but her 18-year-old son Ismail, who worked as a bodyguard for his mother, died. Seven years later, masked men shot Irina herself, who was in a hurry to a business meeting. They buried her next to her ex-husband and son: Irina's relatives decided that even after death she should stay away from Gera Ziroyan.

Mother predicted her daughter's death

On the evening of September 16, 2000, a resident of one of the Cheboksary "Stalins" heard a strange noise in the entrance. She opened the door, but they immediately put a gun to her forehead and pushed her back into the apartment. When everything was quiet in the stairwell, the husband of the frightened woman decided to go out.
Two men and a beautiful girl lay in pools of blood. 20 year old Alexandra Petrova She was still breathing, but the doctors could not save her. Sasha died on the way to the hospital. In two days she had planned a noisy holiday - her birthday.

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At the age of 16, Sasha Petrova left Cheboksary for Nizhny Novgorod to conquer the Miss Russia contest, which for the first time “left” the capital. A childhood dream came true - in 1996, Alexandra became the new beauty queen.

Work began to boil, offers from various agencies rained down. Even Hollywood was invited to act, but my mother opposed. Sasha completed two courses at the Faculty of Foreign Languages ​​and dropped out of the Institute. Her civil husband - Konstantin Chuvilin- wanted to see the girl next to him, and not behind the books.

Kostya was not an easy guy. And 18-year-old Sasha liked "bad boys", especially with "grandmothers", because in her childhood and adolescence she lived modestly. Chuvilin was listed as unemployed, but in fact he was a member of the Chapaev organized criminal group - the most influential in Cheboksary. This easily explained the availability of money for a luxurious renovation in an apartment on Kirov Street and a Lada of the latest brand.

A close friend and "colleague" of Kostya was the director of the central market - Radik Akhmetov. It was because of the market that the conflict arose between Anatoly Doronitsin, who previously owned a trading company, and the local mayor's office. According to investigators, Doronitsin hired a hitman to eliminate Akhmetov, who had sat him down.

The killer overtook Radik in the company of Petrova and Chuvilin. At the entrance of an elite house, a mercenary shot all three from a machine gun point-blank. The perpetrator could not be found, which is not surprising for that time.

Here is what a certain Katya Katya writes about Petrova on one forum: “She stood out very much. So modest, tall, all in black. Then I got mixed up with this common-law husband. She began to wander around restaurants, abandoned her studies. But in furs. The whole city saw her off, everyone loved her.

The worst thing is that Sasha's mother predicted the tragic fate of her daughter and was terribly afraid for her life.

“I knew this would happen. I read on the hand: in Shura's palm, the line of fate intersected with the line of the mind by the age of twenty, and at the intersection - a point. A blow to the head at twenty. In fact, I didn't say anything to her. There is also a sign: if you see a cockroach, it’s not good. And then they just began to fall off the wall, and no matter how they were stained, they continued to fall ... It's unnatural - the way they fell. And after what happened - everything, not a single cockroach, ”Tatyana Nikolaevna recalled with horror.

By the way!

In the 90s, among the young stars of our show business, an affair with a crime boss was considered an extraordinary success. In a romantic relationship with the bandits were seen and Katya Lel, and Natalya Vetlitskaya, and Irina Saltykova, and Lada Dance. The list can be long. The "bad guys" themselves stared at solid artists. "If not for Philip, Alla Pugacheva would become my wife, ”admitted in an interview Shabtai Kalmanovich. A billionaire Alimzhan Tokhtakhunov, known by the nickname Taiwanchik, was passionately in love with Sofia Rotaru. He sponsored her concerts, gave the singer fur coats, cars and diamonds.

We all know that the nineties were very hot times. Then legal and illegal business began to emerge. Sometimes they were closely related to each other. This symbiosis was so profitable that influential groups fought for the right to work together with legal businessmen, sometimes arranging real wars. As their echo today, we can observe the unusual graves of bandits of the 90s, which amaze the imagination of ordinary people.

A bit of history

In the early 90s of the last century, various groups and gangs actively developed. They took control of small, medium, and later large businesses. Doing practically nothing, they made good profits. Of course, each gang wanted to win as much of its influence as possible. For this purpose, cold and firearms were used. And in the cemeteries there were graves of bandits of the nineties.

It is known that in the first place, the heads of groups who were worshiped and who had the most money from illegal business fell under the bullets. For example, in Yekaterinburg, the "brothers" even managed to establish international illegal ties to earn money by selling scrap metal. Here the very first big war began, as a result of which several hundred "brothers" died on both sides. The same wars were in St. Petersburg and other cities.

Unprecedented luxury

After high-profile murders, luxurious graves of bandits began to appear in cemeteries. Uralmash was one of the first to erect real masterpieces in honor of its leaders.

These monuments are characterized by the fact that they did not spare granite and marble for their construction. Tombstones were made both in the form of a classical slab and a full-length monument. The greater the position held by the deceased, the more granite was used for his monument.

Sometimes you can even find entire memorials that occupy a huge area. In addition to the monument and tombstone, stone flowerpots, tables and benches for relaxation are also located in such places.

Friends and relatives tried to ensure that the monuments on the graves of the bandits fully reflected the fact how significant the deceased was during his lifetime. Even more luxury can be observed on family graves, where relatives who were in the same group are buried. In this case, the burial place looks especially regal.

Full length portrait

But no matter how luxurious the tombstone, the graves of bandits of the 90s are also distinguished by the special style of portraits on it. The deceased is depicted, as a rule, in full growth. Outwardly, it has a characteristic look for that time: the clothes of a classic bandit.

There are several options here. The deceased can be depicted in a tracksuit and an eight-piece cap, if the “brothers” knew him in this form. But it can appear before you in a leather jacket of a cut characteristic of that time and in jeans.

Later graves depict businessmen in crimson jackets. Moreover, it is not even necessary that the portrait be in color. It is immediately clear to everyone that it is crimson in color.

As for the image itself, the engraving on the stone is often done in color, although this is much more expensive than the usual two-color design.

It's all about the details

Not the last place in portraits is taken by their detailing. Almost every one depicts the famous golden chains - the main attributes of the leaders of that time. It does not matter: these are the graves of bandits in Moscow or in other cities.

There are also very specific details. There are portraits with a bunch of car keys in hand or with a favorite keychain. In some portraits, the deceased is depicted with a handful of seeds, which he loved so much during his lifetime.

Frequent and such details as a lighter, a matchbox, a cigarette, a mobile phone, rings, rings, seals. All these details create the impression that a living person is looking at you from the tombstone, who is about to call you. This causes fear and apprehension among strangers, as it was during the life of the person depicted on the tombstone. Looking at him, you immediately understand - in front of you is the real authority of the criminal world.

Embracing with angels

It is known that the criminals have a special concept of the Christian faith. They created their code on the basis of its main postulates, bringing them under their own realities. Therefore, the monuments on the graves of bandits are very often strewn with Christian symbols.

The most common is the cross. But this is not surprising, since it is also on the graves of other people, it is under the cross that a person is sent to the afterlife. The cross also protects his soul in the "other world."

But images for ordinary people are rare. Since most of the authorities did not die by their own death, then not just crosses, but higher deities should protect their peace. Therefore, the monuments on the graves of the bandits are hugged by angels, they are also standing over the deceased, as if fulfilling their mission, which they did not cope with during his lifetime.

Characteristic also for bandits and tombstones in the form of churches and domes. In the criminal world, this is a special symbol that the "brothers" transferred to cemeteries, for their brothers and colleagues.

On a Mercedes to the underworld

Perhaps the most surprising part of the tombstones that adorn the graves of the bandits of the 90s can be called their cars. It was the 600th Mercedes that became the symbol of that time, it was not the one that the most authoritative bandits drove, it was his image that was transferred to the tombstones.

It seemed to some that a simple drawing was not enough, so the graves of the bandits of Togliatti and other cities are decorated with memorial cars. Carved from granite in full size, they stand right on the grave of the deceased.

True, Mercedes is not the only brand that can be found in cemeteries. There are gravestones even in the form of motorcycles. Particularly interesting specimens are a half-carved car, while the other half remains uncut stone.

Paired graves

Along with single graves in the cemeteries where the bandits of the 90s lie, there are also paired ones. Close relatives are buried in them. For example, the graves of the Uralmash gangsters in Yekaterinburg are famous for the common burial place of the brothers who founded this sports gangster group. They are united by one tombstone, on which those who are buried in them are carved in full growth.

The same graves are typical for brother and sister, and for husband and wife. There are even family graves in which their children lie next to their parents, since the gang wars were extremely cruel. They killed everyone: both children and adults. As a tribute to their memory, the most luxurious tombstones and family crypts were erected.

Simplicity and conciseness

But not all the graves of the bandits of the 90s are so striking. There are simple but tasteful places in the cemeteries. And this does not mean that a person during his lifetime was completely uninfluential, or he had little money. It’s just that his relatives and friends understood that he no longer needed excessive window dressing. Therefore, such graves are decorated with a simple tombstone, on which, in addition to the main portrait, there can be 1-2 more minor ones, illustrating the life of this person in all its manifestations.

Decades later, we can already talk about such a cultural phenomenon as the bandits of the 90s, and what is left of them. These are unusual tombstones, demonstrating the special attitude of people towards the memory of their dead comrades.