We will talk about Sergei Ivanovich Timofeev, nicknamed Sylvester. This is one of the most authoritative foremen of times criminal wars. Distinctive feature Sylvester was that he hated “colored” criminal gangs, for which he was very respected law enforcement agencies. He served only a year and a half in prison. Sylvester is a typical representative of the “sports-military” banditry of the early 90s.
The future crime boss was born in 1955 in the Novgorod region. After graduating from school, he worked as a tractor driver on a collective farm. In 1975, he moved to Moscow on a limited basis, where he began working as a sports instructor in the housing and communal services department of Glavmosstroy. In the early 1980s, he joined the criminal group of repeat offender Ionitsa from Orekhovo-Borisovo. Gradually Timofeev gained more and more influence in the group. By the end of the 1980s, the Orekhovskaya group brought under the control of card sharpers in the South and South-West of Moscow, several cooperatives for car repairs and the sale of spare parts, as well as several restaurants.
Timofeev received his first term in 1989. He was sentenced to 3 years for a crime typical of those times - extortion. True, something else is curious here. Sylvester extorted money from no one but ex-boyfriend Alla Pugacheva Vladimir Kuzmin. Then there was such a practice - bandits “protected” artists, even those of the first magnitude. Hence the close connections of some silver screen stars with the stars of the criminal world.
However, Timofeev served only half of his sentence - he was released on parole. Once free, Sylvester again went about his usual business. There was huge money floating around in Moscow back then, you just had time to grab it. Sylvester's fate was largely predetermined... by marriage. In 1992, he signed with Olga Zhlobinskaya, who, no less, headed the Moscow Trade Bank. It was here that Boris Berezovsky’s commercial structure, the All-Russian Automobile Alliance, placed its money in 1994. The bank delayed the payment of this money to the great and terrible BAB...
In the same year, an assassination attempt was made on Berezovsky... Boris Yeltsin then publicly announced to all of Russia, as if no one knew this before, that “there is criminal chaos in the country.” As a result, the bank returned the money to the oligarch. But the Moscow RUBOP still arrested Olga Zhlobinskaya. And on September 13, 1994, the Mercedes in which Timofeev was traveling was blown up. The crime boss died...
Already in the fall of 1994, the Orekhovskys split into several dozen groups and came into conflict with each other.
Timofeev's grave is located in Moscow at the Khovanskoye cemetery. True, then there were rumors that Sylvester staged an attempt on himself in order to go to a distant foreign country with a clean biography (as shown with the crime boss Sasha Bely in the television series “Brigada”). But such rumors arise only around highly respected and significant persons who are buried in closed coffins...
SYLVESTER – BANDIT
In his youth, Sylvester (Sergei Ivanovich Timofeev) was a good guy,
a Komsomol member, a progressive worker, even a member of the combat team, and was a good athlete.
In Moscow and the region, his gang was the most brutal. Zhiglov and the MUR opera
often met with his gang. When captured they were often armed. We called them Orekhovsky.
Sylvester was at enmity with Atarik, thief in law, with businessman Berezovsky
and with the Chechens, Basayev’s militants. The MUR is inclined to believe that he ordered it
Berezovsky himself. Sometimes you think that Sylvester, like all of us, was a schoolboy, a pioneer, a karateka. He was nicknamed Sylvester Stallone due to the similarity of his hairstyle. But Stallone
According to the films, he fought for justice, and our authority Sylvester was a cruel gang leader. But sooner or later everything ends anyway. Dashing 90s
in the past, in the past and gang leaders, watchers and thieves in law.
REFERENCE INFORMATION
Sergei Ivanovich Timofeev was born on July 18, 1955 in the village of Klin Moshensky
district of the Novgorod region. Russian by nationality. Studied in high school
in the village, where, while still a schoolboy, he worked as a tractor driver on a collective farm. Got carried away
sports: I swung dumbbells, kettlebells and exercised on the horizontal bar. In 1973 he was drafted into the army. He served in Moscow, in the Kremlin regiment. In 1975, Timofeev, together with his classmate, finally moved to Moscow, where he lived in a hostel in the Orekhovo-Borisovo area and worked in the mechanization department. In the hostel, Timofeev became interested in hand-to-hand combat. Timofeev later worked as a sports instructor in the housing and communal services department of Glavmosstroy. Soon Timofeev got married and began to live on Shipilovskaya Street. After leaving the sport, Timofeev continued to train and at the same time was engaged in private driving, but this did not bring Timofeev the desired income. In the mid-1980s, Timofeev contacted
with the punks from Orekhovo and began to engage in thimblemaking. Later Timofeev
subjugated all private cab drivers, thimble makers, car thieves in the southern
outskirts of Moscow. Gradually Timofeev gained more and more influence among the punks. He was actively assisted in this by younger brother Ivanovich Jr., who later took over part of the group. After Gorbachev’s law “On Cooperation” was issued, Timofeev created his own group, the backbone of which was made up of former
young athletes, and their main activity was racketeering. Already at that time the brigade
Sylvester began to conflict with the Chechens over the market in the South Port, but there were no particularly serious clashes between them. To fight the Caucasian groups, Sylvester met the leader of the Solntsevskaya organized crime group, Sergei Mikhailov.
(Mikhas), and for some time Timofeev and Mikhailov worked together. In 1989
Sergei Timofeev, Sergei Mikhailov, Viktor Averin (Avera-Senior) and Evgeniy Lyustarnov (Lyustrik) were arrested on charges of extortion from the Fund cooperative. But the prosecution fell apart and only Timofeev went to jail, who was sentenced to three years in prison in a maximum security colony.
Sylvester served his time in Butyrka prison and was released in 1991.
Sylvester was released in 1991 and managed to unite small
gangs operating in the capital's Orekhovo-Borisovo district formed a single structure.
Behind short period Timofeev subjugated everything to himself large organizations and enterprises in the south of Moscow, as well as many cafes, restaurants, night clubs, individual entrepreneurs. Orekhovskaya organized crime group constantly conquered territories
from other gangs, which led to protracted criminal wars.
According to some reports, at that time several Slavic thieves offered
Sylvester to become a thief in law, but for an unknown reason he refused.
A little later, Sylvester made influential contacts who helped
him to quickly rise to the top of the criminal hierarchy. He was friends with influential people
thieves in law and authorities: Painting, Yaponchik, Petrik, Jamal, Tsirul, Otari Kvantrishvili, Mikhas. At one time the Orekhovskaya group even
teamed up with Solntsevskaya in order to more effectively confront the blacks in Moscow.
In addition, in resolving conflicts, Timofeev sometimes resorted to the help of “Izmailovtsy”, “Golyanovtsy”, “Tagantsy”, “Perovtsy”. Timofeev also had connections with Ekaterinburg groups, which, in exchange for a share in the income from the Domodedovo airport, ceded to him part of the Ural business, including shares of some
largest privatized metallurgical enterprises.
In 1992, he married Olga Zhlobinskaya and received Israeli citizenship. Later, Olga Zhlobinskaya headed the Moscow Trade Bank, where in 1994 the commercial structure of Boris Berezovsky “Automobile All-Russian Alliance”
posted cash. The bank delayed the payment of money to Berezovsky.
By 1994, Sylvester came into conflict with a significant part of other groups in Moscow, including ethnic ones. One by one he took control of the banks, eliminating everyone who stood in his way. Timofeev was also interested oil business. As a result, he had a conflict with the authoritative head of the Party of Athletes of Russia Otari Kvantrishvili. They did not share the Tuapse Oil Refinery, and on April 5, 1994, Kvantrishvili was shot and killed by a sniper. Now investigators know that this high-profile murder was organized by order of Sylvester by the leader of the Medvedkovskaya organized crime group Grigory Gusyatinsky (Grinya) and Sergei Butorin (Osya), and carried out by Alexey Sherstobitov (Lyosha-Soldat).
At the beginning of 1993, Timofeev had disagreements with a well-known protege of Caucasian crime, thief in law Globus, over the right to control the club
"Harlequin". However, perhaps this club is only formal reason, behind which
another round of confrontation between Caucasian and Slavic groups was hidden.
Sylvester decided to eliminate Globus, which in itself was a dangerous and daring step. For
This is why he attracted the Kurgan organized crime group, unnoticed in the Moscow showdown, in particular, their professional killer Alexandra Solonika. On the night of April 9-10, 1993, on Olimpiysky Prospekt, while leaving the LIS’S discotheque, he shot Globus. On the evening of January 17, 1994, not far from the shooting club
on the Volokolamsk Highway, the famous Orekhov militant Sergei Ananyevsky (Kultik), who was covered by Solonik, fired at a Ford car, in which he died
underworld authority Vladislav Vanner, nicknamed “Bobon”, right hand
Globe.
In the summer of 1993 (according to another version in the summer of 1994), Sylvester flew to the USA, where
met with the most authoritative thief in law Yaponchik. He allegedly gave Timofeev the go-ahead to manage all of Moscow. However, this information is refuted by many.
The magazine "Ogonyok" No. 18 dated 05/05/1997 published an article by a famous journalist
and the author of “Gangster Petersburg” Andrei Konstantinov, who wrote the following: “In July 1994, Ivankov had disagreements with Sergei Ivanovich
Timofeev (Sylvester), who headed the Orekhovskaya group and controlled a significant part of the drug trade in Moscow. The conflict arose after a failed deal, when Timofeev accused Ivankov’s son Edik of embezzling three hundred thousand dollars.” The Kommersant newspaper dated 02/01/1997 provides the same information: “Around July 1994, Ivankov’s interests collided with the interests of Sergei Timofeev (Sylvester), who headed the Orekhovskaya group and controlled the drug trade in most of Moscow. Timofeev accused Ivankov’s son Edik of “not giving him” $300 thousand. Although, however, further events happened in September 1994.
On June 7, 1994, a car bomb was detonated on Novokuznetskaya Street near the LogoVaz building while Berezovsky was passing nearby. As a result of the explosion, his driver was killed and Berezovsky himself was injured. The assassination attempt on Berezovsky caused a stir in the media, President Yeltsin declared “criminal lawlessness in Russia,” and soon the Moscow Trade Bank returned the funds to Berezovsky.
On June 14, Olga Zhlobinskaya and several people from Timofeev’s criminal group were detained by the Moscow RUBOP. On June 17, a bomb exploded in the office
"United Bank", the main shareholder of which was LogoVaz.
On September 13, 1994 at 19:00 Timofeev died on the spot in a Mercedes-Benz 600SEC,
which was detonated by a radio-controlled device near the Chara Bank building on 3rd Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street near house No. 46 in Moscow. According to the recollections of one of Sylvester's closest associates, the bomb could have been planted
into the car while it was in the car wash. According to FSB specialists, the mass of the TNT charge attached by a magnet to the bottom of the car was 400 grams.
The explosion occurred as soon as Sylvester got into the car and started talking on the phone. Frame cell phone thrown 11 meters by the blast wave.
The murder of Sylvester dealt a colossal blow to the entire Orekhovskaya organized crime group. Nobody
Then I didn’t know exactly who could have committed such a daring murder: Sylvester had too many enemies. Perhaps it was the Kurganskys who did not want
remain on the sidelines; perhaps the people of Globus took revenge on Sylvester for the murder of their leader, perhaps the people of Kvantrishvili, perhaps Berezovsky, who did not want to return the money to Timofeev. Some sources claim
that Sylvester was ordered by Jap himself, and perhaps his own. Most likely
the customer of the murder was Sergei Butorin.
Information about Timofeev’s younger brother stopped at the end of 2008; according to the protocols, Sylvester’s younger brother died as a result of a fire in an apartment on Leninsky Prospekt in Moscow.
The grave of Sergei Timofeev is located in Moscow at the Khovanskoye cemetery
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timofeev,_Sergey_Ivanovich
Photo
Sylvester's car after the explosion
IF IN BATTLE YOU THINK ABOUT LIFE,
THEN THINK ABOUT DEATH
Combat axiom 3 RDR 781 ORB. Igor Chernykh
***
Dedicated to the veteran of combat operations in the DRA Shitov N.,
veterans of special forces “Rus”, “Vityaz”, “Peresvet”,
National Guard intelligence veterans
and to my son Svyatoslav Chernykh
Russia has become impoverished
Impoverished
And again, like an anaconda,
Enemies are coming.
Now to you, “Rus” and “Vityaz”,
Protect mothers and children.
Now all the hope is in you.
Brother, hold on until the end!
I know,
My son is also torn
Into your ranks.
Take care of him!
Glory to the military intelligence, special forces, Ministry of Internal Affairs!!!
Igor Chernykh
AFTER WINNING A BATTLE, A WARRIOR DOES NOT WORRY
AND HE'S NOT GOING CRAZY, HE'S HAPPY AND PROUD
Combat control axiom "Alpha"
To be continued...
Last September, a Mercedes-600 was blown up in the center of Moscow. A mutilated corpse was found inside the car that burned after the explosion. A few days later, detectives from the Moscow criminal investigation department announced that the famous leader of the Orekhov group Sylvester (in the world Sergei Timofeev) had been killed.
The body was solemnly buried at the Khovanskoye cemetery. IN last way Sylvester was escorted by over 300 thieves in law and authorities. And recently rumors spread throughout Moscow that Sergei Timofeev was alive. Sylvester was allegedly seen in Odessa, in the company of another authority nicknamed Painting (by the way, they also tried to blow him up), and then met in Moscow and Vienna. Even MUR employees say that Criminal authority more alive than dead. Now they remember that in the crowd surrounding the blown-up Mercedes, they saw a man similar to Sylvester. He allegedly looked at the policemen and smiled. The case of the murder of Sergei Timofeev is still being investigated by the Tver Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office.
The tractor driver was fed by Arbat prostitutes
Sergei Timofeev was born on July 18, 1955 in the remote village of Klin, Novgorod region. After school, he worked on a collective farm as a tractor driver. People who knew Timofeev claim that he drove a car well and loved to do it. In the army, Timofeev served in a sports company. The future authority moved to Moscow according to the limit in 1975.
He registered in one of the Orekhovo-Borisov hostels and worked as a sports instructor in the housing and communal services department of Glavmosstroy. At that time, Timofeev could often be found near the Arbat restaurant. He was still a harmless loser, but he met Arbat prostitutes, and later they already paid him tribute. Among the local punks he was nicknamed Seryozha of Novgorod.
In the early 80s, Serezha became friends with punks from Orekhovo-Borisovo and joined the gang of the now unknown recidivist Ionitsa. Timofeev got the gang drunk (Ionitsa later became an alcoholic and retired). But Seryozha himself, on principle, did not drink and worked hard in the “rocking chair”. Initially, like many metropolitan teams, it existed at the expense of thimblemakers and gamblers. Timofeev was also taken on the case. Soon Seryozha Novgorodsky succeeded, picked up the Orekhovskys and turned into the authoritative Sylvester (he received this nickname because he looked like Sylvester Stalone).
His personal life also changed. Timofeev divorced his wife Lyubov (he lived with her for 7 years and had two children from her). And he married a certain Olga Zhlobinskaya. A few years later, Timofeev took her last name, and the couple submitted documents to leave for Israel. But later she stated that the marriage was fictitious.
The criminal business flourished. Having subdued the cheaters in the South and South-West of Moscow, the Orekhovskys took control of several cooperatives for car repair and sale of spare parts. Soon the Orekhovo, Kerch and Zagorye restaurants came under their control. In 1989, when the “Slavic” teams began to have conflicts with the Chechen ones, the Orekhov group found allies in the Solntsevo and “Leninist” bandits.
Leninsky was commanded by a native of the Solntsevo brigade, former firefighter Boris Antonov (nickname Borya-Anton). In one of the showdowns with the Chechens that took place in the Havana restaurant, Borya lost an eye. After this, Antonov got a new nickname - Cyclops.
Soon Sylvester and Cyclops became friends. They were united by hatred of Caucasians and sports. Cyclops and Sylvester were actively involved in martial arts. It is interesting that even when Antonov was a firefighter, one of the future police generals (last name has not yet been disclosed) visited the gym with him. When he took up a high post, the son of this policeman ended up in the Cyclops brigade. By the way, this son was once under investigation for robbery and inflicting grievous bodily harm on an internal affairs officer.
By mid-1989, Sylvester, in addition to Orekhov, held the odd side of Leninsky Prospekt. The even one belonged to Bor-Anton-Cyclops. In the fall of that year, employees of the Russian Ministry of Security and the MUR arrested Sylvester and Avera (one of the leaders of the Solntsevo group) for racketeering. Sylvester spent two years under investigation and was released in 1991, since, according to the court verdict, he served his time in a pre-trial detention center.
By that time, significant changes had occurred in Sylvester's brigade. Left without a leader, some of Timofeev’s people temporarily joined the Solntsevo team. When Sylvester came out, his brigade gathered again. In addition, his people brought with them part of Solntsevo.
Sylvester's relations with Solntsevo became cooler: Timofeev was not happy with the fact that his former allies had made peace with Chechen groups. Even without powerful Solntsevo support, Sylvester successfully carries out several showdowns with the Chechens in the Tsaritsinsky Ponds area and gains control of Sevastopol Avenue.
After this, Sylvester began to actively engage in legal business, for which he registered a network of offshore companies in Cyprus. According to some reports, he invested his group’s money in Russian oil-producing enterprises. Timofeev carried out several commercial projects with the reputable athlete Otari Kvantrishvili. In addition, Sylvester gets along with such thieves and authorities as Painting, Petrik, Zakhar, Tsirul and Yaponchik. All of them were again united by their rejection of the “wild Caucasus” that had invaded Moscow.
Timofeev’s Orekhovskaya brigade actively collaborates with the Galyanovsky, “Leninsky” and Tagansky bandits, and Sylvester enjoys undeniable authority in these groups. According to some reports, at that time several “Slavic” thieves offered Sylvester to become a thief in law, but for an unknown reason he refused. By the way, Sylvester’s friend Bore-Anton was denied coronation because he had previously worked in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Nevertheless, Timofeev was listened to at all thieves’ gatherings.
In April 1993, near the Olimpiysky sports complex, Valery Dlukach was shot dead. According to some reports, Sylvester was directly involved in his murder. The murder of Globus was allegedly the result of a showdown related to the oil business. It is interesting that soon after this murder, a gathering of thieves in Podolsk recognized the liquidation of the Globus as correct. However, the friends of the deceased decided to take revenge on the killers.
Sylvester's brigade suffers significant losses. Lenya Kleshch, who started with Timofeev in the Orekhov team, was killed. Some time later, a corpse is found in the Moscow River, which is identified as the leader of the Galyanovsk group, Sergei Boroda (relatives identified him by his shoes).
Sylvester's group also strikes back. In January 1994, on the Volokolamsk highway, the car of the authority Bobon (Vladislav Vanner), an associate of Globus, was shot up. Bobon and his driver were killed, but Vanner's young son, who was with them, was not injured. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Bobon's people vowed to destroy Sylvester.
It is interesting that the police consider the murders of Globus and Bobon solved. In October last year, during a police operation at the Petrovsko-Razumovsky market, the perpetrator of the murders, a 34-year-old resident of Kurgan, was detained. His detention cost the lives of four policemen. Three more were wounded. According to the detainee, he himself carried out the liquidation of Globus and Bobon on the orders of criminal structures. However, it is possible that the police could simply pin the liquidation of authorities on this person (to increase the detection rate), since the detainee has nothing to lose anyway - he will be shot.
According to the police, at the end of 1993, Timofeev’s brigade took control of the Moscow Trade Bank. The group introduced its own people into the management of the bank, and Sylvester’s wife, Olga Zhlobinskaya, became the chairman of the bank’s board.
Then Sylvester's people began to receive loans from various branches of Sberbank of Russia and Moscow Sberbank, as well as from a number of commercial banks. In total, 20 banks provided loans to Sylvester’s people. The funds received, however, did not go to the official account of Mostorgbank, but to various accounts opened by Sylvester’s accomplices in a number of other banks. After this, the money was transferred to the accounts of private companies “International financial group‘Justinlev Inc’, ‘Concord’, ‘Arealinstrakh’, the leaders of which, according to operational data, were also members of Sylvester’s brigade or were under its roof.
Then the amounts were converted and transferred under fictitious contracts to Israel and Switzerland to the accounts of Seven starts Ltd. and "Sit AG". It is noteworthy that the head of “Seven starts Ltd.” is Grigory Lerner, who in the fall of 1993 was put on the federal wanted list for theft and fraud. By the way, in 1990, the former general director of the LOMOS Consortium association, Grigory Lerner, was suspected of embezzling 40 million rubles, but hid from the police in Switzerland. However, in the same year, at the request of law enforcement agencies, he was extradited to Russia.
In 1992, he was released from prison on bail and the charges against him were dropped. Since April 1994, Sit AG chief Sergei Smolyanitsky has also been on the federal wanted list. In 1993, while heading the Mass Information Communications LLP, he stole more than 6.5 billion rubles. According to the police, in total more than 18 billion rubles were stolen by the fraudster in this way.
And on March 16, 1994, Mostorgbank sold two of its bills of 500 million rubles each to the All-Russian Automobile Alliance with a maturity date of April 6 of the same year. However, the bills were not repaid, and the people who entered into an agreement with AVVA on behalf of Mostorgbank disappeared.
A billion rubles were converted by scammers in one of the banks and also sent under a fictitious contract to Israel. According to the police, AVVA's security service attempted to find the stolen money. They managed to find one of the organizers of the fraud, a recent employee of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Defense Ministry. He promised to return the money, but only if AVVA management did not contact law enforcement agencies.
Boris Berezovsky
However, according to some reports, Boris Berezovsky nevertheless decided to report to the police. Employees of the Moscow regional administration By organized crime reported that the meeting with general director AVVA was appointed at the RUOP office on Shabolovka on June 6. However, due to the businessman’s busy schedule, it was postponed to the next day. And on June 7, an attempt was made on Berezovsky.
It is interesting that RUOP employees received information about the terrorist attack at the moment when they were expecting the arrival of the entrepreneur. Three days after the failed assassination attempt, the money with interest (a total of 1.2 billion rubles) was transferred to the bank account of the All-Russian Automobile Alliance.
On June 14, several participants in the theft of loans, including Zhlobinskaya, were detained by employees of the Moscow RUOP, but three days later the investigators for some reason released them on their own recognizance. Their further fate is unknown. According to some reports, they left for Israel. In any case, as the police established, all the detainees had foreign passports with open visas to this country.
Employees of the Moscow city prosecutor's office, investigating the assassination attempt on Boris Berezovsky, reported that many thieves in law and authorities, including Sylvester, were on the list of suspects in organizing the terrorist act. However, his involvement in the assassination attempt could not be proven.
According to financial director AVVA Mikhail Antonov, indeed, in the spring of last year the alliance acquired two promissory notes from Mostorgbank. When their maturity date approached, the persons who sold the bills asked to defer payments, citing financial difficulties. As a result, the money was returned after lengthy negotiations. Berezovsky himself did not directly participate in the negotiations, but followed their progress. As Mr. Antonov noted, the head of the alliance had no reason to contact law enforcement agencies, especially the RUOP.
Mostorgbank, according to the Main Directorate of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation for the Moscow Region, was deprived of its license to conduct banking activities in September 1994. The Mostorgbank case is now being investigated investigative department Moscow City Internal Affairs Directorate.
On September 13 at 19.05 in the center of Moscow near house 46 on 3rd Tverskaya-Yamskaya street powerful bomb. An explosion occurred in a brand new Mercedes-600. After the explosion, the car caught fire. Firefighters and police officers recovered a charred corpse from the wreckage. The documents in the pockets of his clothes were burned, and several business cards and customs declarations were found in a bag found in the cabin. Among them are a business card and a declaration addressed to manager Sergei Zhlobinsky (Sylvester’s new surname). According to employees of the Tverskaya Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office, investigating the explosion on Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street, the identity of the deceased was established by business card, declarations and jaws. Investigators contacted Sylvester's US-based dentist. The deceased's fillings and teeth were described to him, and the doctor acknowledged his work.
Subsequently, Sylvester’s corpse was identified by his older brother Vladimir, a village tractor driver. During the identification, he burst into tears and said, “What are you doing, Seryoga, I told you: give up this business and we’ll collect saffron milk caps in the village.” The authority figure was buried, and his killers have not yet been detained.
The ghost of Sylvester wanders among bandits and policemen
Last September, a Mercedes-600 was blown up in the center of Moscow. A mutilated corpse was found inside the car that burned after the explosion. A few days later, detectives from the Moscow criminal investigation department announced that a well-known criminal authority, the leader of the Orekhov group, Sylvester (in the world Sergei Timofeev), had been killed. The body was solemnly buried at the Khovanskoye cemetery. Sylvester was escorted on his last journey by over 300 thieves in law and authorities. And recently rumors spread throughout Moscow that Sergei Timofeev was alive. Sylvester was allegedly seen in Odessa, in the company of another authority nicknamed Painting (by the way, they also tried to blow him up), and then met in Moscow and Vienna. Even MUR employees say that the authority is more alive than dead. Now they remember that in the crowd surrounding the blown-up Mercedes, they saw a man similar to Sylvester. He allegedly looked at the policemen and smiled. The case of the murder of Sergei Timofeev is still being investigated by the Tver Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office. Correspondents from the Kommersant CRIME DEPARTMENT conducted their own investigation into the life and death of Sylvester.
The tractor driver was fed by Arbat prostitutes
Sergei Timofeev was born on July 18, 1955 in the remote village of Klin, Novgorod region. After school, he worked on a collective farm as a tractor driver. People who knew Timofeev claim that he drove a car well and loved to do it. In the army, Timofeev served in a sports company. The future authority moved to Moscow according to the limit in 1975. He registered in one of the Orekhovo-Borisov hostels and worked as a sports instructor in the housing and communal services department of Glavmosstroy. At that time, Timofeev could often be found near the Arbat restaurant. He was still a harmless loser, but he met Arbat prostitutes, and later they already paid him tribute. Among the local punks he was nicknamed Seryozha of Novgorod.
In the early 80s, Serezha became friends with punks from Orekhovo-Borisovo and joined the gang of the now unknown recidivist Ionitsa. Timofeev got the gang drunk (Ionitsa later became an alcoholic and retired). But Seryozha himself, on principle, did not drink and worked hard in the “rocking chair”. The Orekhovskaya group initially, like many teams in the capital, existed at the expense of thimbles and gamblers. Timofeev was also taken on the case. Soon Seryozha Novgorodsky succeeded, picked up the Orekhovskys and turned into the authoritative Sylvester (he received this nickname because he looked like Sylvester Stalone). His personal life also changed. Timofeev divorced his wife Lyubov (he lived with her for 7 years and had two children from her). And he married a certain Olga Zhlobinskaya. A few years later, Timofeev took her last name, and the couple submitted documents to leave for Israel. But later she stated that the marriage was fictitious.
Sylvester became friends with Cyclops
The criminal business flourished. Having subdued the cheaters in the South and South-West of Moscow, the Orekhovskys took control of several cooperatives for car repair and sale of spare parts. Soon the Orekhovo, Kerch and Zagorye restaurants came under their control. In 1989, when the “Slavic” teams began to have conflicts with the Chechen ones, the Orekhov group found allies in the Solntsevo and “Leninist” bandits. The Solntsevskys at that time were headed by a former waiter of the Khrustalny restaurant, Sergei Mikhailov (nickname Mikhas), and the Leninskys were commanded by a native of the Solntsevo brigade, a former firefighter, Boris Antonov (nickname Borya-Anton). In one of the showdowns with the Chechens that took place in the Havana restaurant, Borya lost an eye. After this, Antonov got a new nickname - Cyclops.
Soon Sylvester, Mikhas and Cyclops became friends. They were united by hatred of Caucasians and sports. Cyclops and Sylvester were actively involved in martial arts. It is interesting that even when Antonov was a firefighter, one of the future police generals (last name has not yet been disclosed) visited the gym with him. When he took up a high post, the son of this policeman ended up in the Cyclops brigade. By the way, this son was once under investigation for robbery and inflicting grievous bodily harm on an internal affairs officer.
The authority became interested in oil
By mid-1989, Sylvester, in addition to Orekhov, held the odd side of Leninsky Prospekt. The even one belonged to Bor-Anton-Cyclops. In the fall of that year, employees of the Russian Ministry of Security and the MUR arrested Sylvester, Mikhas and Avira (one of the leaders of the Solntsevo group) for racketeering. Sylvester spent two years under investigation and was released in 1991, since, according to the court verdict, he served his time in a pre-trial detention center.
By that time, significant changes had occurred in Sylvester's brigade. Left without a leader, some of Timofeev’s people temporarily joined the team of Mikhas, who had left earlier (according to some sources, he had to pay a bribe of about 2 million rubles for his release) and other brigades. When Sylvester came out, his brigade gathered again. In addition, his people brought with them part of Solntsevo. Sylvester’s relations with Solntsevo became cooler: Timofeev was not happy with the fact that his former allies had made peace with the Chechen groups. Even without powerful Solntsevo support, Sylvester successfully carries out several showdowns with the Chechens in the Tsaritsinsky Ponds area and gains control of Sevastopol Avenue.
After this, Sylvester began to actively engage in legal business, for which he registered a network of offshore companies in Cyprus. According to some reports, he invested his group’s money in Russian oil-producing enterprises. Timofeev carried out several commercial projects with the reputable athlete Otari Kvantrishvili. In addition, Sylvester gets along with such thieves and authorities as Painting, Petrik, Zakhar, Tsirul and Yaponchik. All of them were again united by their rejection of the “wild Caucasus” that had invaded Moscow. Timofeev’s Orekhovskaya brigade actively cooperates with the Galyanovsky, “Leninsky” and Tagansky bandits, and Sylvester enjoys undeniable authority in these groups. According to some reports, at that time several “Slavic” thieves offered Sylvester to become a thief in law, but for an unknown reason he refused. By the way, Sylvester’s friend Bore-Anton was denied coronation because he had previously worked in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Nevertheless, Timofeev was listened to at all thieves’ gatherings.
The bandits spared no ammunition for thieves and policemen
In April 1993, thief in law Globus (Valery Dlukach) was shot dead near the Olimpiysky sports complex. According to some reports, Sylvester was directly involved in his murder. The murder of Globus was allegedly the result of a showdown related to the oil business. It is interesting that soon after this murder, a gathering of thieves in Podolsk recognized the liquidation of the Globus as correct. However, the friends of the deceased decided to take revenge on the killers.
Sylvester's brigade suffers significant losses. Lenya Kleshch, who started with Timofeev in the Orekhov team, was killed. Some time later, a corpse is found in the Moscow River, which is identified as the leader of the Galyanovsk group, Sergei Boroda (relatives identified him by his shoes).
Sylvester's group also strikes back. In January 1994, on the Volokolamsk highway, the car of the authority Bobon (Vladislav Vanner), an associate of Globus, was shot up. Bobon and his driver were killed, but Vanner's young son, who was with them, was not injured. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Bobon's people vowed to destroy Sylvester.
It is interesting that the police consider the murders of Globus and Bobon solved. In October last year, during a police operation at the Petrovsko-Razumovsky market, the perpetrator of the murders, a 34-year-old resident of Kurgan, was detained. His detention cost the lives of four policemen. Three more were wounded. According to the detainee, he himself carried out the liquidation of Globus and Bobon on the orders of criminal structures. However, it is possible that the police could simply pin the liquidation of authorities on this person (to increase the detection rate), since the detainee has nothing to lose anyway - he will be shot.
Sylvester's last case
According to the police, at the end of 1993, Timofeev’s brigade took control of the Moscow Trade Bank. The group introduced its own people into the management of the bank, and Sylvester’s wife, Olga Zhlobinskaya, became the chairman of the bank’s board.
Then Sylvester's people began to receive loans from various branches of Sberbank of Russia and Moscow Sberbank, as well as from a number of commercial banks. In total, 20 banks provided loans to Sylvester’s people. The funds received, however, did not go to the official account of Mostorgbank, but to various accounts opened by Sylvester’s accomplices in a number of other banks. After this, the money was transferred to the accounts of private companies "International Financial Group "Justinlev Inc", "Concord", "Arealinstrakh", the leaders of which, according to operational data, were also members of Sylvester's brigade or were under its roof.
Then the amounts were converted and transferred under fictitious contracts to Israel and Switzerland to the accounts of the companies "Seven starts Ltd." and "Sit AG". It is noteworthy that the head of "Seven starts Ltd." is Grigory Lerner, who in the fall of 1993 was put on the federal wanted list for theft and fraud. By the way, in 1990, the former general director of the LOMOS Consortium association, Grigory Lerner, was suspected of embezzling 40 million rubles, but hid from the police in Switzerland. However, in the same year, at the request of law enforcement agencies, he was extradited to Russia. In 1992, he was released from prison on bail and the charges against him were dropped. Since April 1994, Sit AG chief Sergei Smolyanitsky has also been on the federal wanted list. In 1993, while heading the Mass Information Communications LLP, he stole more than 6.5 billion rubles. According to the police, in total more than 18 billion rubles were stolen by the fraudster in this way.
And on March 16, 1994, Mostorgbank sold two of its bills of 500 million rubles each to the All-Russian Automobile Alliance with a maturity date of April 6 of the same year. However, the bills were not repaid, and the people who entered into an agreement with AVVA on behalf of Mostorgbank disappeared. A billion rubles were converted by scammers in one of the banks and also sent under a fictitious contract to Israel. According to the police, AVVA's security service attempted to find the stolen money. They managed to find one of the organizers of the fraud, a recent employee of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Defense Ministry. He promised to return the money, but only if AVVA management did not contact law enforcement agencies. However, according to some reports, Boris Berezovsky nevertheless decided to report to the police. Employees of the Moscow regional department for organized crime reported that a meeting with the general director of AVVA was scheduled at the RUOP office on Shabolovka on June 6. However, due to the businessman’s busy schedule, it was postponed to the next day. And on June 7, an attempt was made on Berezovsky. It is interesting that RUOP employees received information about the terrorist attack at the moment when they were expecting the arrival of the entrepreneur. Three days after the failed assassination attempt, the money with interest (a total of 1.2 billion rubles) was transferred to the bank account of the All-Russian Automobile Alliance.
On June 14, several participants in the theft of loans, including Zhlobinskaya, were detained by employees of the Moscow RUOP, but three days later the investigators for some reason released them on their own recognizance. Their further fate is unknown. According to some reports, they left for Israel. In any case, as the police established, all the detainees had foreign passports with open visas to this country.
Employees of the Moscow city prosecutor's office, investigating the assassination attempt on Boris Berezovsky, reported that many thieves in law and authorities, including Sylvester, were on the list of suspects in organizing the terrorist act. However, his involvement in the assassination attempt could not be proven.
According to AVVA financial director Mikhail Antonov, in fact, last spring the alliance acquired two promissory notes from Mostorgbank. When their maturity date approached, the persons who sold the bills asked to defer payments, citing financial difficulties. As a result, the money was returned after lengthy negotiations. Berezovsky himself did not directly participate in the negotiations, but followed their progress. As Mr. Antonov noted, the head of the alliance had no reason to contact law enforcement agencies, especially the RUOP.
Mostorgbank, according to the Main Directorate of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation for the Moscow Region, was deprived of its license to conduct banking activities in September 1994. The Mostorgbank case is now being investigated by the investigative department of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate.
Timofeev was identified by his teeth
On September 13 at 19.05 in the center of Moscow, near house #46 on 3rd Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street, a powerful bomb was detonated. An explosion occurred in a brand new Mercedes-600. After the explosion, the car caught fire. Firefighters and police officers recovered a charred corpse from the wreckage. The documents in the pockets of his clothes were burned, and several business cards and customs declarations were found in a bag found in the cabin. Among them are a business card and a declaration addressed to manager Sergei Zhlobinsky (Sylvester’s new surname). According to employees of the Tverskaya Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office, investigating the explosion on Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street, the identity of the deceased was established by a business card, declaration and jaw. Investigators contacted Sylvester's US-based dentist. The deceased's fillings and teeth were described to him, and the doctor acknowledged his work.
Subsequently, Sylvester’s corpse was identified by his older brother Vladimir, a village tractor driver. During the identification, he burst into tears and said, “Well, Seryoga, I told you: give up this business and we’ll collect saffron milk caps in the village.” The authority figure was buried, and his killers have not yet been detained.
According to prosecutors, some time after the funeral, rumors spread throughout Moscow that Sylvester was alive. The prosecutor’s office believes that these are nothing more than rumors and they are beneficial not only to the authority’s brigade, which still uses his name, but also to those commercial structures that were under Sylvester’s roof. In other law enforcement agencies, in particular in the MUR and RUOP, there is an opinion that the authority is actually alive, and his death is just a clever trick. Sylvester needed this in order, firstly, to cover up the traces he left in a number of criminal cases. And secondly, to save their lives: the people of Globus and Bobon intended to deal with him. Police officers do not exclude the possibility that Timofeev, who has several large companies in European countries and real estate (in particular, in Tel Aviv, Sylvester owned a luxurious mansion in a prestigious area), he decided to simply retire. And recently, the police received information from their agents in the criminal environment that Sylvester came to Odessa, where he met with an authority nicknamed Painting. He was also seen in the company of other thieves in Moscow, Tambov and Cyprus. The bandits themselves claim that he lives in Vienna. Rumors about Sylvester’s “resurrection” became all the more plausible after Timofeev’s friend Sergei Boroda, allegedly killed in January last year, turned up. After his “death” he actually went to Latin America, and when his enemies almost forgot about him, he reappeared in Moscow.
CRIME DEPARTMENT
The tragic end found Sergei Timofeev in a dark gray 600 Mercedes parked at house 46 on 2nd Tverskaya-Yamskaya in Moscow. Locals They already have difficulty remembering that autumn day when a terrible roar came from the car and right side the streets were engulfed in fire, from which pieces of torn iron and human flesh flew. The foreign car was blown up with a radio-controlled bomb, which was attached to the underbody.
Sergei's life ended at 19.05
Following their leader were young guys who had not seen life, but who had managed to sip on the riotous romance of perestroika poverty.
It seemed that they subconsciously did not plan a long life on this earth. This is evidenced by the fact that many members of the Orekhovskaya organized crime group purchased land at the cemetery in advance.
IN workbook employees of the organized crime department for the city of Moscow, who worked for the Orekhov group, are on the blacklist of the lads - living and dead.
The list of the dead grew with new victims almost every week; at the Vvedensky cemetery there is a whole alley of young people who did not live to be 25 years old.
... good or not at all
More long years For many dashing guys, Sergei Timofeev, nicknamed Sylvester, remains a legend of the criminal world.
As they say: either it’s good or not at all, says Novgorod authority Kirill (author’s note - name has been changed). - Those who collaborated with Sylvester about 20 years ago had and still have ambivalent attitudes towards him.
According to Kirill, today the younger generation no longer knows who he is.
- Some have only heard about it, some have read it, so everyone has a different opinion. Some people respect him for the fact that he was able to unite the warring factions, but these were mainly Orekhovsk youth or gangster clowns. Recall kind words those who moved with him in the same sphere. In criminal circles, many did not approve of his action when he ordered the murder of thief in law Otari Kvantrishvili. The order for the murder of Kvantrishvili was carried out by Alexey Sherstobitov. By the way, there is still a legend about Sylvester that he allegedly faked his death and was seen at his own funeral, and then in Israel surrounded by a thief in law. But I think this is just speculation. This legend was invented by the Orekhovites themselves, who at least temporarily tried to contain the collapse of the gang. After the death of Sylvester, the Orekhov group collapsed into 15 small disparate groups.
A guy from the outback
Sergey Timofeev was born in the village of Klin, Moshensky district, Novgorod region on July 18, 1955. He worked on a collective farm as a tractor driver. Military service carried in the sports company. At the age of 20, the young boy was attracted by the lights of the big city and he moved to Moscow. There he got a job as a sports instructor at a construction trust. Then he got a wife and children.
Who knows, perhaps the fate of this person would have turned out completely differently if not for the government unrest and the gradual collapse of the once fundamental values of the Soviet state.
The athlete got along well with people and knew how to defend his point of view, so in Moscow he quickly found friends with similar interests.
Hand-to-hand combat classes, which he practiced in the hall of the police building, helped him become a qualified fighter.
“Rocking chairs”, which grew like mushrooms after rain in semi-basements in the 80s, beckoned the children of the proletariat. The first youth brigades were formed from the “jocks” who took the wing, which provided protection for cooperatives and commercial tents.
Interest in such brigades arose among underground entrepreneurs who needed protection from visiting bandits.
No rules
The slogan “No rules” became distinctive feature. Concepts were denied in them, and prison services were not recognized.
Strength came to the fore. Who is stronger is right. The first blood began to be shed in the 80s, when youth gangs fought to the death.
But in real war gangster gatherings escalated in 1992, when the Orekhovskaya, Nagatinskaya and Podolsk brigades fought for spheres of influence in the south of Moscow.
Pacification of the “frostbitten”
The murders of the “jocks” from the brigades came one after another, the Vvedenskoye cemetery was overgrown with fresh graves. At this moment, authorities from the older generation decided to intervene in the conflict and reconcile the parties. However, young bandits, as the “frostbitten” old men called them, took up arms against the leaders of the older generation and decided to eliminate them.
The bloody denouement took place in February 1993 in the Kashirskoye and Kiparis cafes, when six members of the Orekhov group were killed in a fierce shootout.
On Yeletskaya Street in April, 50-year-old Moscow authority Viktor Kogan (nicknamed Monya) dies. The killers were young “jocks”. The enterprises controlled by Monya were divided among themselves by the Orekhovsk thugs.
Over the course of six months, several more murders occur, in which the Orekhov authority Leonid Kleshchenko (Uzbek) dies. He was shot dead in October on the same street on Yeletskaya.
At this time, in the fall of 1989, Sylvester suffered a setback. Together with Mikhas and Avira, the leaders of the Solntsevo brigade, he was detained by officers of the ICBM and MUR for racketeering. He had to spend 2 years under investigation. He was able to be released only in 1991, since, according to a court verdict, he served his time in a pre-trial detention center.
Neither the police nor the leaders of the Moscow criminal world knew how to stop the gang war. At the meeting of authorities, the candidacy of Sergei Timofeev was nominated, and not by chance.
According to the characterization of law enforcement agencies, he was an outstanding, intelligent person who knew how to negotiate with people and convince them.
According to a Moscow investigator, some militants of the group called Selvester a demigod.
The choice was a success. In a matter of days, Ivanovich restored order and united the disparate groups. The chicks of Sylvester's nest began banditry activities together, dividing spheres of influence.
The autumn of 1993 in the south of Moscow turned out to be quiet and unremarkable; news channels were silent about high-profile criminal showdowns.
Seryozha Novgorodsky united Solntsevo, Medvedkovo and Kurgan thugs. The bad world brought its first fruits for good purposes.
Into legal business
Under the wing of Sylvester, the Orekhov bandits began to emerge from the shadows and make their first investments in legal business. Ivanovich understood that the time of dividing up the Soviet inheritance would end and those who managed to grab the tidbits of the pie would live better than the gods.
Criminal groups of Yekaterinburg begin to cooperate with the Orekhovskys. Here there is a mutually beneficial exchange of spheres of influence. True, these opportunities appeared only after the murder of thief in law Globus in April 1993.
Several large commercial banks come under Sylvester's control. At the same time, the group’s money was actively invested in the development of infrastructure in the Southern District: they opened outlets, restaurants, cafes and gyms. There is information that Sylvester has registered several offshore companies in Cyprus.
It is worth noting that law enforcement agencies do not deny that with the arrival of Sylvester, order was established in Orekhovo.
Employees of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate compared the south of Moscow with Novgorod, which was also controlled by Sylvester. According to one former employee KGB of the USSR, in Novgorod he removed “frostbitten” people and prostitutes from the city streets in just a couple of days.
With the advent of Seryozha Novgorodsky, the increase in crime in the south of Moscow decreased noticeably, and the work of the Southern District Internal Affairs Directorate for 1994 was noted at the board of the Central Internal Affairs Directorate. Sylvester’s activities found support in the criminal world: after the murder of Otari Kvantrishvili in April 1994, he flew to New York to see Yaponchik, who, according to some sources, gave him the right to rule all of Moscow.
But Sylvester did not have time to feel all the sweetness of power...
Selvester's ashes rest in the Khovanskoye cemetery along with his fighters in Moscow.
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