11.11.2016
It is not for nothing that the last decade of the 20th century in Russia is called the “dashing 90s”. Organized criminal communities, without hiding much, controlled almost all spheres of life.
The CrimeRussia website published a list of the most influential and violent Russian organized crime groups 1990s.
1. "Shchelkovskaya"
Alexander Matusov
The “Shchelkovo” organized crime group was based in the Shchelkovo district of the Moscow region from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s. The organized crime group included residents of the local village of Biokombinat. The Shchelkovskys became famous due to a number of murders they committed. According to investigators, they account for at least 60 deaths of entrepreneurs, gangsters and their own accomplices.
The founder of the group was the criminal “authority” Alexander Matusov, known by the nickname “Basmach”. Before creating his own gang, he was part of the Izmailovskaya organized crime group. “Basmach” created a group that kept the entire village in fear - from police officers to officials. The Shchelkovskys were known in the criminal world for their particular cruelty. Basmach's people preferred not to negotiate, but simply to eliminate competitors. Soon, the organized crime group began working at the request of customers throughout Russia - to kill or take hostages, who were brutally tortured, demanding to pay money. As investigators noted, most of the victims (regardless of whether they paid the ransom or not) were killed and buried in the Shchelkovsky district.
Video: “News” story about the trial of Matusov
The bloody crimes of the Shchelkovites became known law enforcement agencies only during the investigation of the case of the “Kingisepp” group friendly to them. In 2009, a criminal case was opened against members of the Shchelkovo organized crime group, and the escaped leader of the Basmach gang was put on the federal wanted list. However, in 2014, he was detained in Thailand and extradited to Russia. A jury is now being selected for him to try.
2. “Slonovskaya” organized crime group
Vyacheslav "Elephant" Ermolov
The group arose in Ryazan in 1991; its organizers were the former driver of the deputy Ryazan city prosecutor Nikolai Ivanovich Maksimov (“Max”) and taxi driver Vyacheslav Evgenievich Ermolov (“Elephant”) - it was thanks to the latter that the gang acquired its name. The criminals made their first capital by protecting local thimble makers.
Soon the group mastered larger-scale businesses: fraud in the sale of cars and racketeering; then the “elephants” moved on to seize entire enterprises. IN short time Virtually the entire city was under the control of the organized crime group.
However, in 1993, the “elephants” had a conflict with another gang operating in the city - the “Ayrapetovskys” (in honor of the leader - Viktor Airapetov, “Vitya Ryazansky”). During the “strelka”, a fight occurred between the heads of the groups, Ermolov and Airapetov, during which “Elephant” was severely beaten. This started a massive gang war. In response, the “elephants” shot the club of the Ryazselmash plant, where the “Ayrapetovskys” were relaxing. “Vitya Ryazansky” himself miraculously escaped - he managed to hide behind a column. Soon Airapetov struck - “Max” was shot at the entrance own home. The “elephants” reached “Ryazansky” only in 1995 - he was kidnapped in front of his own guards, his body was found only a month later in the forest near the highway.
"Slonovskaya" organized crime group
Already in 1996, the “Slonovskaya” organized crime group was virtually liquidated. The most influential members of the gang were convicted in 2000, receiving varying prison sentences (maximum 15 years). At the same time, the head of the group, Vyacheslav Ermolov, managed to escape. According to some reports, he now lives in Europe.
3. “Volgovskaya” organized crime group
Dmitry Ruzlyaev
The “Volgovskaya” criminal group was created by two natives of the city of Tolyatti, employees of the Volga Hotel, Alexander Maslov and Vladimir Karapetyan. The gang's main activity was related to the sale of stolen parts from the local VAZ automobile plant.
Gradually, its influence and income grew: during the gang’s heyday, when the group controlled half of the company’s car shipments and dozens of dealership companies, the Volgovskys earned over $400 million a year.
In 1992, shortly after his release, the head of the gang, Alexander Maslov, was shot. The murder of the criminal leader occurred during the war between the Volgovskys and the group of Vladimir Vdovin (“Partner”). After Maslov’s death, the organized crime group was headed by his closest associate, Dmitry Ruzlyaev, nicknamed Dima Bolshoi, and therefore the gang began to be called “Ruzlyaevskaya”. Soon the “Ruzlyaevskys” entered into an alliance with local groups - “Kupeyevskaya”, “Mokrovskaya”, “Sirotenkovskaya”, “Chechen”.
As it turned out during the arrest of “Dima Bolshoi” in 1997, he was in close contact with some influential security officials, which to a certain extent confirmed the rumors that the “Volgovskys” were supported by the local police to create a counterweight to the organized crime group “Partner”.
On April 24, 1998, Dmitry Ruzlyaev, along with his driver and two bodyguards, was shot with four machine guns in his own car. “Dima Bolshoi” was buried on the famous “Alley of Heroes” in Tolyatti along with other local “brothers”.
By the beginning of the 2000s, the group was virtually eliminated - most of the gang's leaders and killers were either killed or sentenced to long terms. The last head of the Volgovskys, Viktor Pchelin, was caught in 2007 after being on the run for 10 years.
Ruzlyaev's grave
In March 2016, it was reported that one of the previously caught active gang members, Vladimir Vorobey, was found dead in the hospital of correctional colony No. 9 with signs of suicide. Sparrow, who had been wanted since 1997, was detained only in January 2016 in St. Petersburg, where he lived under the name of Vadim Gusev.
4. “Malyshevskaya” organized crime group
Gennady Petrov and Alexander Malyshev
The Malyshevskaya organized crime group is one of the most influential gangs in St. Petersburg, operating from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Its organizer is former wrestler Alexander Malyshev. He began his criminal career working as a “thimbler” under the “roof” of the Tambov organized crime group. However, already in the late 80s, Malyshev managed to assemble a gang under his leadership. In 1989, the first clash between the “Tambov” and “Malyshevskys” took place using firearms, after which the groups became enemies.
After a clash with the Tambov gang, Malyshev and another influential member of the gang, Gennady Petrov, were arrested on suspicion of banditry, but were soon released. Immediately after the release, the “brothers” hastened to hide abroad: Malyshev fled to Sweden, and Petrov to Spain.
After the case was closed, the leaders of the organized crime group returned to St. Petersburg, where they continued their activities. The influence of the Malyshevskys grew until the mid-90s, when they were supplanted by the more powerful Tambovskys. After the murder of most of the gang members by their competitors, Malyshev and Petrov again fled abroad. However, the enterprising “brothers” did not give up and continued to develop their criminal network in Europe. Malyshev received Estonian citizenship, then lived in Germany, and from there he moved to Spain, where Petrov later moved.
As Spanish police later established, the Malyshevskys began to actively create complex system laundering illegally acquired money invested in real estate. Subsequently, it was Petrov who would become one of the main defendants in the high-profile case of the “Russian mafia in Spain,” in which, in addition to him, a number of prominent businessmen and politicians of the Russian Federation were mentioned. In 2008, there was a mass arrest of Russian mafiosi - more than 20 gang members were detained. At the same time, the investigation proceeded in a very strange way - Petrov was soon released to his native Petersburg under the pretext of restoring his health. For some reason, he did not dare to go back to Spain.
But Malyshev spent time in a Spanish prison until 2015, after which he also returned to St. Petersburg. According to him, he retired and decided to live a quiet life, in no way connected with crime.
5. “Izmailovskaya” organized crime group
Anton Malevsky, Valery Dlugach
Originated in Moscow in the mid-1980s. It grew out of the capital’s youth gangs, historically opposed to the “Lubers”. Its leader was the “authority” Oleg Ivanov, who moved to Moscow from Kazan. Later, the leadership of the group included Viktor Nestruev (“Boy”), Anton Malevsky (“Anton Izmailovsky”), Sergei Trofimov (“Trofim”) and Alexander Afanasyev (“Afonya”), thief in law Sergei Aksenov (“Aksen”) .
The gang consisted of about 200 people (according to other sources, from 300 to 500). At the same time, Izmailovskaya united several more groups under its wing - in particular, Golyanovskaya and Perovskaya. Therefore, the organized crime group is often called “Izmailovsko-Golyanovskaya”. It operated in the Eastern, South-Eastern, North-Eastern and Central administrative districts, as well as in the Lyubertsy and Balashikha districts of the Moscow region.
At the same time, the gang was at odds with representatives of Chechen groups. Initially, the “Izmailovskys” were engaged, like many others like them, in robberies, robbery and “protection protection” small business. Subsequently, not without the help of those who joined the organized crime group former employees security agencies opened private security companies, under the cover of which the gang could quite legally acquire firearms and generally legalize their activities. Plus, communication with law enforcement officers made it possible to receive insider information and avoid punishment for bribes.
One of the active members of the gang, Anton Malevsky, was considered in the Moscow underworld to be the biggest “lawbreaker” who does not recognize “authorities.” According to some operational data, it was he who was guilty of the murder of thief in law Valery Dlugach (Globus) and his associate Vyacheslav Banner (Bobon).
The group laundered money obtained by criminal means with the help of casinos and high-ranking officials who helped the bandits carry out monetary transactions for a certain percentage. In addition, finances were transferred abroad, where they were invested in real estate. Izmailovo also created a number of enterprises for the production jewelry from precious metals and stones. In addition, the “brothers” actively participated in commercial wars for the right to own the largest Russian metallurgical enterprises.
In the mid-90s, competitors on the one hand and law enforcement officers on the other began to smash the group. In 1994, during a police pursuit, Alexander Afanasyev (“Afonya”) was seriously injured. The following year, during an assassination attempt, the gang's treasurer Liu Zhi Kai ("Misha the Chinese") and Fyodor Karashov ("The Greek") were killed. Literally a month later, two more gang members died during a “showdown.” In addition, MUR officers detained Viktor Nestruev (“Boy”) and Sergei Korolev (“Marikelo”). Anton Malevsky (“Anton Izmailovsky”) first emigrated to Israel, and in 2001 he died in South Africa during a parachute jump. Finally, in 2012, another one was convicted former member gang - Konstantin Maslov (“Maslik”), accused of murdering a Chechen businessman.
6. “Tambov” organized crime group
Vladimir Barsukov (Kumarin)
This organized group was considered one of the most powerful criminal groups operating in St. Petersburg in the 90s and early 2000s. The “Tambov” organized crime group is named after the homeland of its founding fathers - Vladimir Barsukov (until 1996 - Kumarin) and Valery Ledovskikh are natives Tambov region. Having met in St. Petersburg, they decided to organize a gang, where they “recruited” fellow countrymen and former athletes. Like many organized crime groups, the Tambov gangs started out as guards for thimbles, then moved on to racketeering.
In 1990, Kumarin, Ledovskikh and many members of their gang received sentences for extortion. Upon release, the Tambov gang returned to criminal activity. At this time, the “Tambov” organized crime group began to flourish, which was rapidly growing and establishing connections with politicians and businessmen.
In 1993, “Tambovites” began to take part in bloody showdowns. According to some reports, the gang often involved immigrants from Chechnya in solving their problems.
Members of the Tambov organized crime group operated in the most different areas– from the export of wood and the import of office equipment to the gambling business and prostitution. Since the mid-1990s, they began to “launder” their criminally earned capital, curtailing their criminal activities. They created a number of private security companies and monopolized the entire fuel and energy business of St. Petersburg. By that time, Barsukov had acquired the nickname “night governor of St. Petersburg” - he had such powerful influence.
Galina Starovoitova
However, in the 2000s, the group began to have problems, and a number of high-profile arrests followed. Barsukov was sentenced to 23 years in a maximum security colony for the attempted murder of businessman Sergei Vasiliev. In the future, Vladimir Barsukov has two more trials - in the case of the murder of State Duma deputy Galina Starovoytova, where the organizer of the crime, deputy Mikhail Glushchenko, called him the customer, and on the organization of the murder of two associates Grigory Pozdnyakov and Yan Gurevsky in 2000.
7. "Uralmash"
Konstantin Tsyganov and Alexander Khabarov
An organized criminal community arose in the city of Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg) in 1989. Initially, the group’s “working” territory was considered to be the Ordzhonikidze district of the city, in which the giant Uralmash plant was located. The founders are considered to be the brothers Grigory and Konstantin Tsyganov, whose inner circle included Sergey Terentyev, Alexander Khabarov, Sergey Kurdyumov (foreman of the Uralmash killers), Sergey Vorobyov, Alexander Kruk, Andrey Panpurin and Igor Mayevsky.
In the “best” years, the organized crime group included about 15 gangs with a total number of about 500 people. In the first half of the 90s, the Uralmash group was reputed to be adherents of harsh force methods (even to the point of “contracted” murders - of which there were subsequently about 30).
Very soon, the “Uralmash gang” entered into a confrontation with representatives of another gang – the “centers”. The result was the murder of Grigory Tsyganov in 1991 (his younger brother Konstantin took his place). In response to this, in 1992, the leader of the “centers” Oleg Vagin was eliminated. He and three bodyguards were shot with machine guns in the city center. In 1993 - early 1994, several more leaders and “authorities” of the rival group were killed (N. Shirokov, M. Kuchin, O. Dolgushin, etc.).
Then Uralmash became the most powerful criminal group in Yekaterinburg. It was led by Alexander Khabarov. In the second half of the 90s, the group gained enormous weight and began to influence the political life of the region. For example, in 1995, Uralmash helped Eduard Rossel in the elections of regional governor. A year later, during presidential elections, Alexander Khabarov organized the “Workers’ Movement in Support of Boris Yeltsin.” In 1999, he officially registered the OPS "Uralmash" (which stands for "socio-political union"). In November 2000, with the direct support of the OPS and Khabarov personally, the head of Krasnoufimsk was elected. In 2001, Alexander Kukovyakin became a deputy of the Yekaterinburg City Duma, and in 2002, Khabarov himself. All this helped the gang gain control over the criminal sectors of the economy and, having created a network of commercial enterprises (from 150 to 600), gradually legalize their activities.
Alexander Khabarov
In December 2004, Alexander Khabarov was arrested on charges of coercion to complete a transaction or refusal to complete it (Article 179 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). A year later, the leader of the Uralmash group was found hanged in a pre-trial detention center. Since then, the Uralmashites have greatly lost their influence; active members of the group for the most part became businessmen or fled abroad. One of the leaders, Alexander Kruk, was found dead in 2000 at the dacha of another gang member, Andrei Panpurin, in the suburbs of Sofia (Bulgaria). And Alexander Kukovyakin was extradited to Russia from the UAE in 2015 and stood trial on charges of unlawful actions in bankruptcy and non-payment of wages.
8. Solntsevskaya organized crime group
Sergey Mikhailov
The Solntsevskaya criminal group emerged in the late 1980s. The name of one of the largest organized crime groups operating in the CIS is associated with the municipal district of the capital Solntsevo. It was here that people with a criminal past united: Sergei Mikhailov (“Mikhas”), Khachidze Dzhemal (“thieves’” gang supervisor), Alexander Fedulov (“Fedul”), Aram Atayan (“Baron”), Victor Averin (“Avera Sr.”) , his younger brother Alexander Averin (“Sasha-Avera”, aka “Avera Jr.”). Gradually members of organized crime groups occupied the entire south-west of the capital. Other, smaller criminal structures - “Yasenevsky”, “Chertanovsky”, “Cheryomushkinsky” - came under their control.
From primitive racketeering, the Solntsevskaya gang moved into the economic sphere, taking as a basis the model of American mafia clans. Basically, the Solntsevskys were involved in smuggling, drug transit (for this they established connections in America), organizing prostitution, kidnapping and killing people, extortion and selling weapons. Among the economic frauds of the Solntsevsky gang are fake deals that the group entered into with Russian Railways contractors with the help of “friendly” banks. Russian loan", "Transport", "Western", "Most-Bank", "Antalbank", "Russian Land Bank", "Taurus", "European Express", "Rublevsky", "Intercapitalbank" (all are currently withdrawn licenses - editor's note) etc.
The money of the Solntsevskaya organized crime group was invested in real estate, large enterprises, banks, hotels - about 30 establishments in total. The number of organized criminal groups controlled then included the Radisson-Slavyanskaya, Cosmos, Central House of Tourist hotels, shopping arcades and tents, Solntsevo car market and all clothing markets of the South-Western Administrative District, including Luzhniki, Danilovsky, Kievsky, etc. .
The leader of the Solntsevskaya gang, Mikhas, is now actively involved in business and charity. He was among the first to take advantage of the so-called “forgetting law” in an effort to hide his criminal past.
9. “Podolskaya” organized crime group
One of the most powerful organized crime groups in Russia in the 1990s was a gang called Podolskaya. Its founder and permanent leader is an entrepreneur from Podolsk, an honorary resident of this city, Sergei Lalakin, nicknamed “Luchok”. Lalakin was not convicted, but it was reported that he twice became a participant in hooligan brawls. However, the case did not reach the courts. After graduating from vocational school, Lalakin served, and after the “term” in the late 1980s he embarked on a criminal path. According to open sources, he and his friends were involved in racketeering, playing “thimbles” and currency fraud. But all these were “flowers” that in the future made Lalakin a criminal ace, capable of bribing an entire investigative department.
In the history of the “Podolsk” gang there were many internal “squabbles” due to the struggle for power, but it was Luchok who survived them all. All contenders for the role of head of the organized crime group eventually stepped aside. Under the leadership of Luchka, the group took control, in addition to Podolsk itself, of the Chekhov and Serpukhov districts of the Moscow region and most of those located in this territory commercial organizations, including banks, oil companies and even production companies. By the mid-1990s, the gang had become one of the most organized and wealthy criminal groups in Moscow and the Moscow region. According to some statements, “Luchok” at a certain stage surpassed “Sylvester” himself, and his opinion was taken into account by many major figures, such as thief in law “Yaponchik” and Otar Kvantrishvili.
Until the mid-90s, the “Podolsk” bloody battles won for themselves a “place in the sun.” During the criminal showdown, several dozen leaders of the organized crime group were killed, including Sergei Fedyaev, nicknamed “Psycho”, “authorities” Alexander Romanov, aka “Roman” and Nikolai Sobolev, nicknamed Sobol, head of the “Shcherbinsk” brigade (division of the “Podolsk” groups) Valentin Rebrov, “authority” Vladimir Gubkin, Gennady Zvezdin (“Cannon”), Volgograd “authority” Mikhail Sologubov (“Sologub”) and many others. It is noteworthy that some of these crimes had witnesses who pointed to Lalakin, but he was not named as a defendant in any of these cases. However, on October 10, 1995, Lalakin was detained by the Main Military Prosecutor's Office of Russia and charged under the article “fraud.” However, after some time, this matter came to naught.
Boxer Alexander Povetkin, Sergey Lalakin and boxer Denis Lebedev
By the mid-1990s, the crime situation in Podolsk and its environs had stabilized. It was a time of transformation, when the “brothers” had to get out of their irrelevant “sweatpants” and put on something more presentable. Then “Luchok” first declared himself as a “successful entrepreneur”: it became known that he joined the board of directors of a number of companies and became a shadow founder of the companies “Soyuzkontrakt” and “Anis”, controlled the Central International Tourist Complex, the company “Orkado” and “ Metropol". Today, judging by the Kartoteka data, Sergei Lalakin, his son Maxim, and their companions are the owners of many different companies, covering almost the entire spectrum of the market - from food and cafes to petroleum products, construction and stock exchange operations.
10. “Orekhovskaya” organized crime group
Sergey Timofeev (“Sylvester”) practices martial arts. 1979-1980
One of the most influential (if not the most influential) criminal group of the 90s arose in 1986 in the south of Moscow. It consisted of young people aged 18-25, who were fond of sports and lived in the Orekhovo-Borisovo area. The founder of the gang was the legendary Sergei Timofeev, named “Sylvester” for his love of bodybuilding and his resemblance to the famous actor.
“Sylvester” began his criminal career, like many others at that time, with “protection” for “thimbles” and extortion. Gradually, Timofeev united under his leadership many different groups, including such large ones as the “Medvedkovskaya” and “Kurgan” (a member of which was the famous killer Alexander Solonik), and his commercial interests began to cover the most profitable areas. During their heyday, the Orekhovskys controlled about thirty banks in the Central region, and also managed multimillion-dollar businesses: trading in diamonds, gold, real estate, and oil. The harsh methods of the Orekhovskys were not in vain - on September 13, 1994, Sylvester’s Mercedes-Benz 600SEC was blown up using a remote device.
After the death of such a strong leader, a bloody struggle unfolded for his place. As a result, in 1997, relying on the support of two other influential gang members, the Pylev brothers, one of the “foremen” of the organized crime group, Sergei Butorin (“Osya”), took power. He was killed on his orders famous killer Alexander Solonik, vacationing at his villa in Greece. The performer was the no less legendary killer Alexander Pustovalov (“Sasha the Soldier”). He, like another famous killer of the 90s, Alexey Sherstobitov (“Lesha the Soldier”), was a member of the Orekhovskaya organized crime group.
Alexey Sherstobitov
Alexander Pustovalov was born into a poor Moscow family. After serving in Marine Corps tried to get a job in the police special forces, but was refused due to lack of higher education. After a fight in a bar, he was accepted into the Orekhovsky fighters. In the trial of “Sasha the Soldier,” his involvement in 18 murders was proven, although, according to the investigation, there were at least 35 of them. The killer’s victims were Alexander Bijamo (father of Georgy Bedzhamov and Larisa Markus, the founders of Vneshprombank), the leader of the Greek group Kulbyakov, lawyer of the Kurgan organized crime group Baranov, head of the Koptevskaya organized crime group Naumov and Alexander Solonik. "Sasha the Soldier" was caught in 1999. The investigation into his case lasted 5 years. At the trial, the killer fully admitted his guilt and repented of his crime. The final sentence for him was 23 years in prison. However, over time, more and more details of Pustovalov’s activities are revealed: in the summer of 2016, the involvement of “Sasha the Soldier” in six more murders was discovered.
Alexey Sherstobitov - a hereditary military man, was detained during his studies dangerous criminal, for which he was awarded the order. He has 12 proven murders and attempted murders. He got into the gang after meeting influential members of the Orekhovskaya organized crime group - Grigory Gusyatinsky (“Griney”) and Sergei Ananyevsky (“Kultik”). At the hands of “Lesha the Soldier”, the well-known businessman Otar Kvantrishvili, Grigory Gusyatinsky (who brought Sherstobitov into the gang), and the owner of the Dolls club Joseph Glotser died. According to the killer himself, he even had oligarch Boris Berezovsky at gunpoint, but at the last moment the order was canceled by telephone.
For a long time, investigators did not believe in the existence of “Lesha the Soldier,” considering him a kind of collective image of an entire gang of murderers. Sherstobitov was very careful: he never communicated with ordinary gang members, he never left fingerprints. When going “on business,” the killer masterfully disguised himself. As a result, the “Soldier” was caught only in 2005, when he came to the Botkin hospital to visit his father. Prior to this, a separate group of investigators had been “developing” Sherstobitov for several years.
Based on the totality of crimes, the killer, who admitted his guilt and agreed to cooperate with the investigation, received 23 years in prison. In prison, “Lesha the Soldier” is engaged in writing autobiographical books.
Dmitry Belkin and Oleg Pronin
The collapse of the Orekhovskys began with the murder of investigator Yuri Kerez, the first in Russia to open a case under Article 210 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Organization criminal community"). Kerez was the first security officer who managed to get on the trail of the Orekhovskaya gang. According to some information, the leader of the Orekhovskaya gang, Dmitry Belkin, tried to hush up the case with a bribe of $1 million, but the investigator refused. Thus, he signed his own death warrant. The employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs did not forgive the murder of their colleague and threw all their strength into the fight against the organized crime group.
Sergey Butorin
Over the next 13 years, law enforcement agencies in Russia and other countries managed to practically decapitate the Orekhovskaya group. Alexander Pustovalov, Sergei Butorin, Andrei and Oleg Pylev and others were arrested. Dmitry Belkin was the last major “Orekhovsk” “authority” who remained at large and was on the international wanted list for more than 10 years. In October 2014, Belkin and Orekhovsky killer Oleg Pronin, nicknamed Al Capone, were found guilty of murder and attempted murder. Belkin was sentenced to life imprisonment to be served in a special regime correctional colony. Oleg Pronin was sentenced to 24 years in a maximum security colony. Previously, Oleg Pronin had already been sentenced by a court to imprisonment for a term of 17 years for participating in a gang and committing particularly serious crimes within it. In addition, the Orekhovskys are behind repeated attempts on the life of Odintsovo Municipal Assembly deputy Sergei Zhurba.
, .On August 8, 2003, one of the last surviving leaders of the Orekhovskaya group, Andrei Pylev, nicknamed Dwarf, was detained in the Spanish resort of Marbella. Among the most high-profile crimes OCG - murder of killer Alexander Solonik and businessman Otari Kvantrishvili. Who were the Orekhovskys and what happened to them - in the Kommersant-Online photo gallery.
The Orekhovskaya organized crime group was formed in the south of Moscow in the area of Shipilovskaya Street in the late 1980s. It mainly included young people aged 18–25 with common sports interests.
Over the years, the organized crime group has grown into one of the largest criminal communities in Moscow. The group became famous as one of the most brutal Russian gangs of the 1990s, responsible for such high-profile cases as the murder of Otari Kvantrishvili and the assassination attempt on Boris Berezovsky in 1994, as well as the murder of the famous killer Alexander Solonik in Greece in 1997. In the second half of the 1990s, organized crime groups most of whose leaders fell victims to internal strife and weakened. In the early 2000s, the remaining Orekhov “authorities” were put on trial and sentenced to long terms of imprisonment.
In the photo: members of the organized crime group Viktor Komakhin (second from left; shot in 1995) and Igor Chernakov (third from left; was killed in 1994 the day after the murder of the leader of the organized crime group Sylvester)
In the 90s, playing thimbles brought serious profits. Orekhovskaya brigades protected thimbles from the “Polish Fashion”, “Leipzig”, “Electronics”, “Belgrade” stores near the “Domodedovskaya” and “Yugo-Zapadnaya” metro stations
The Orekhovskaya organized crime group also extorted money from drivers engaged in private transportation near the Kashirskaya metro station. In 1989, gas stations in the Sovetsky and Krasnogvardeisky districts of Moscow came under the control of the group.
In the photo (from left to right): Andrei Pylev (Karlik; in prison), Sergei Ananyevsky (Kultik, killed in 1996), Grigory Gusyatinsky (Grisha Severny; killed in 1995) and Sergei Butorin (Osya; received a life sentence)
The leader of the group was Sergei Timofeev, who received the nickname Sylvester for his resemblance to actor Sylvester Stallone. He was killed on September 13, 1994 - his Mercedes 600 was blown up on 3rd Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street. Sylvester’s murder was a blow to the organized crime group, and the division of his inheritance cost the lives of most of the Orekhovskaya leaders. The killers have still not been found, and even Boris Berezovsky was named among the possible organizers: it was Sylvester who was associated with the assassination attempt on the businessman in the summer of 1994
According to one version, Sylvester’s murder could have been revenge for the shooting of the leader of the Bauman organized crime group, Valery Dlugach, nicknamed Globus (pictured on the right). Dlugach was killed in 1993 by Alexander Solonik, a killer of the Kurgan organized crime group, which at that moment collaborated with the Orekhovskaya group.
While Sylvester was alive, his power united several brigades, whose leaders were friends: pentathlete Igor Abramov (Dispatcher; killed in 1993), 1981 USSR boxing champion Oleg Kalistratov (Kalistrat; killed in 1993), hockey player Igor Chernakov (Double student; pictured on the right; killed in 1995), boxer Dmitry Sharapov (Dimon; killed in 1993), bodybuilder Leonid Kleshchenko (Uzbek Sr.; pictured on the left; killed in 1993) 
In 1993–1994, the Medvedkov group joined the Orekhovskaya organized crime group.
In the photo: one of the Orekhovskaya leaders Sergei Butorin (left) with Medvedkov’s colleague Andrei Pylev (Karlik; currently serving a prison sentence).
One of the most high-profile cases Orekhovskaya organized crime group there was the murder of businessman Otari Kvantrishvili, associated with criminal circles. He was killed on April 5, 1994, while leaving the Krasnopresnensky baths by one of the Orekhovskys - Alexey Sherstobitov (Lesha Soldat; sentenced to 23 years in prison in 2008)
Sylvester's heirs fought for power for many years. On March 4, 1996, not far from the US Embassy on Novinsky Boulevard, Sylvester’s closest assistant and his heir in the organized crime group, Sergei Ananyevsky (Kultik; pictured in the middle), was killed. He got his nickname because he was involved in bodybuilding and was the 1991 USSR champion in powerlifting. As it turned out later, the killer was a member of the Kurgan organized crime group Pavel Zelenin
After the death of Sergei Ananyevsky, Sergei Volodin (Dragon; pictured on the left) became the leader of the organized crime group.
In the photo: the funeral of Sergei Ananyevsky at the Khovanskoye cemetery
Soon after the murder of Sergei Ananyevsky, Sergei Volodin (on the right) was also shot. Sergei Butorin (Osya) becomes the new leader of the organized crime group.
Having become the leader of the organized crime group, Sergei Butorin entered into an alliance with the Medvedkovsky brothers Andrei and Oleg Pylev (Malaya and Sanych) and collaborated with the Kurgan organized crime group, which did not prevent him from becoming a customer of the main killer of the Kurgan gang, Alexander Solonik. In 1996, Butorin staged his own funeral and went into the shadows for a while, and in the early 2000s he fled to Spain, but was arrested in 2001 and sentenced to life imprisonment, which he is now serving
Alexander Solonik (Valeryanych) is a killer of the Kurgan organized crime group, involved in the murder of the adopted son of thief in law Yaponchik and the leader of the Bauman organized crime group, Vladislav Vanner, nicknamed Bobon. He escaped from custody three times. He was killed in Greece in 1997 by a member of the Orekhovskaya organized crime group Alexander Pustovalov (Sasha Soldat; sentenced to 22 years in prison in 2005) on the orders of Sergei Butorin
Sergei Butorin (pictured) and his accomplices are behind many high-profile murders: the leaders of the Kuntsevo group Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Kuligin, the falcon group Vladimir Kutepov (Kutep) and others
Marat Polyansky is a killer, member of the Orekhovskaya and Medvedkovskaya organized crime groups. He was involved in the murder of the Kurgan organized crime group killer Alexander Solonik, as well as Otari Kvantrishvili. He was detained in February 2001 in Spain. In January 2013, he was sentenced to 23 years in prison.
Oleg Pylev (pictured) was detained in 2002 in Odessa, Andrei Pylev in 2003 in Spain. Oleg Pylev was sentenced to 24 years in prison, Andrey - to 21 years
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Not only were they not afraid, but they even deliberately stood out from the crowd
The Wild Nineties actually began in the late 80s; It was then that criminal groups emerged en masse throughout the country, and bandits began to enjoy no less influence than party bigwigs. Very soon, respectable citizens learned to distinguish “brothers” from ordinary people by appearance.
Golden chain on the oak tree
There are several legends that tell us where crimson jackets came from and why the nouveau riche loved them so much. One way or another, in the early 90s it became fashionable among bandits to wear just such jackets - perhaps they just wanted maximum contrast with the deliberately grayish clothes of the Soviet nomenklatura, yesterday's " powerful of the world this."
However, the crimson jacket itself did not indicate belonging to the criminal world; it was supposed to be complemented by a massive gold chain as thick as a finger. Chains were worn directly over jackets. “Brothers” also respected gold signet rings – the larger, the better.
Instead of a jacket the color of a jungle sunset, many wore leather jackets. Many walked “in comfortable sweatpants" Three-day stubble and short hair were also in great fashion among the “bros.”
Your cherry "nine"
The VAZ-2109, or “nine,” was enormously popular among the “workers of the underworld,” that is, among those with whose hands the gangster bosses carried out their dark deeds. This car differs favorably from the same “eight” in that it had four side doors; It was possible for five of us to get out of it quite quickly, arrange a quick firefight, then quickly climb inside and drive off in an unknown direction.
Bandits of a higher class chose a “wide jeep” - Jeep Grand Cherokee. Not only did it have a comfortable, roomy interior, it could reach a decent speed and looked impressive - it could easily drive along our Russian roads where most foreign cars shamefully got stuck. True, he consumed a lot of fuel - but wealthy criminals did not care, and gasoline was prohibitively cheap back then. The Toyota Land Cruiser SUV was also valued.
And of course, BMW was very much loved in the gangster world. The abbreviation “BMW” was then deciphered by people in their own way – “ fighting machine extortionists." fast easy It was an honor to have a “bahu”.
Taganka, all nights full of fire...
Any self-respecting bandit listened to blatnyak and had a collection of corresponding CDs, including as a last resort- audio cassettes. This genre was respectfully called Russian chanson, but in reality it has nothing to do with creativity Charles Arznavour or Edith Piaf there were no songs popular among criminals. They glorified the prison world; the lyrical hero of the songs usually spoke in the first person - telling in a deliberately hoarse voice how unfair the villainous fate was to him.
From the windows of the bandit cars thundered the songs of the group "Lesopoval", songs Mikhail Krug and other performers who managed to understand what kind of money can be made from the interest of the new masters of the world in thieves' romance. And restaurant musicians, when starting work, first of all learned “Vladimirsky Central” and “Taganka”, knowing full well who would order the music for them.
Hands up!
What's a bandit without a weapon? The “barrels” they carried were very different: from imported “Beretta” or “Glock” pistols to Soviet classics like the TT (“Tula Tokarev"; he was especially respected by killers) or a pistol Makarova.
Almost every group had machine guns Kalashnikov– as well as homemade, makeshift weapons, which was usually brought with North Caucasus; take, for example, the famous Chechen Borz assault rifles.
Yes, the bandits of that time were conspicuous - obviously because of the acute sense of impunity. Nowadays everything is more difficult: not everyone can distinguish a bandit from a decent person at first glance. It's a pity.
On August 8, 2003, one of the last surviving leaders of the Orekhovskaya group, Andrei Pylev, nicknamed Dwarf, was detained in the Spanish resort of Marbella. Among the most notorious crimes of the organized crime group is the murder of killer Alexander Solonik and businessman Otari Kvantrishvili. Who were the Orekhovskys and what happened to them - in the Kommersant-Online photo gallery.
The Orekhovskaya organized crime group was formed in the south of Moscow in the area of Shipilovskaya Street in the late 1980s. It mainly included young people aged 18-25 with common sports interests.
Over the years, the organized crime group has grown into one of the largest criminal communities in Moscow. The group became famous as one of the most brutal Russian gangs of the 1990s, responsible for such high-profile cases as the murder of Otari Kvantrishvili and the assassination attempt on Boris Berezovsky in 1994, as well as the murder of the famous killer Alexander Solonik in Greece in 1997. In the second half of the 1990s, the organized crime group, most of whose leaders fell victims to internal strife, weakened. In the early 2000s, the remaining Orekhov “authorities” were put on trial and sentenced to long terms of imprisonment.
In the photo: members of the organized crime group Viktor Komakhin (second from left; shot in 1995) and Igor Chernakov (third from left; was killed in 1994 the day after the murder of the leader of the organized crime group Sylvester)
Marat Polyansky is a killer, member of the Orekhovskaya and Medvedkovskaya organized crime groups. He was involved in the murder of the Kurgan organized crime group killer Alexander Solonik, as well as Otari Kvantrishvili. He was detained in February 2001 in Spain. In January 2013 he was sentenced to 23 years in prison
Published on your favorite website. Today we’ll talk about crime of the 90s. For some, the nineties never ended - these people are still listening Tender May and walk around with purses. For some, the nineties did not end because they could not get out of prison for the pranks of that decade. Here's more about these characters:
At the end of the 80s, cooperators began to make money. Speculation became legal and the first more or less big money brought its owners more or less big problems. There was already enough crime in the USSR, but here everyone wanted money quickly - and not to make money, but just to take it. The racket has arrived. From the Italian "ricatto" - blackmail.
(The first racketeers were in the USSR in 1979. Then underground businessmen - guilds and thieves in law - gathered in Kislovodsk, and decided. For protection from the claims of criminals, the guild gives a tithe. 10% of income).
The boys went to the rocking gym and karate. Then they went to the video salon - the pernicious influence of the West, through the most understandable of arts - cinema, stuck in the heads of the people.
Strong boys, in sweatpants and leather jackets, began to provide protection for hucksters and merchants. But the cops didn’t expect this. There were no articles in the Criminal Code, and there was no riot police yet. And now there is no witness protection program. So the lads frolicked. Legends.
1. Sergey Ivanovich Timofeev and Sasha Makedonsky. King of Mayhem, Sylvester. Orekhovo-Borisovsky district of Moscow. 1988, athletes, 18-25 years old, clearly understood that they no longer wanted to work. A bodybuilder by hobby and tractor driver by profession, Sergei Ivanovich Timofeev, nicknamed “Sylvester,” (like Stallone), and assembled the basis of the future gang. They started by robbing truckers - they took trucks and sold the car and cargo. They lived on these percentages. Further more. Car thieves, thimble dealers, markets. They fought off business from the Chechens, who were still just gaining strength, and timidly objected to the Slavs.
Sergei Ivanovich Timofeev - Sylvester.
And by 1991, the Orekhovskys had grown into the banking business - 30 banks were controlled by Sylvester. Precious metals, real estate, auto trading - the gang is legalizing itself. The oil business did not work out - the Abramovichs and other top officials of the country had long been committed to the government of the country, against which the gang turned pale.
The duty killer of the Orekhovskis was Alexander Solonik, or, nicknamed for his ability to shoot with both hands, Sasha Makedonsky. Excellent mastery of almost all types of weapons, Sasha committed only 20 high-profile murders. In 1994, during his arrest, he killed 3 policemen and was wounded! The cops would have finished off the scumbag. From the hospital, Sasha Makedonsky is taken to the “Matrosskaya Tishina”, from which he escaped. The first case in the entire history of Matroska. Moreover, the warden, bribed for $500,000, helped him, bringing a rope ladder, along which he left with Sasha. In 1995, the killer settled in Athens with model Svetlana Kotova. Under the name Vladimir Kysev.
Alexander Solonik and Svetlana Kotova
They lived in a villa in the suburbs of Athens. They weren't poor. In 1997, Moscow friends from work in the Orekhov group, Andrei Pylev and his comrades, came to visit Sasha Makedonsky. It seems like they strangled him and threw him into the forest. They cut his girlfriend into pieces and buried her. For this murder, Andrei Pylev received 21 years. But Solonik’s lawyer, who came to Greece, did not identify the famous killer in the murdered man. And Alexander’s mother, who came to the funeral, after examining the body, flew home without waiting for the funeral. No one looked after the grave and it was transferred to a general burial. There is a version that Sasha the Great still lives in Greece. Moreover, according to another version, he served in the special forces to fight crime. Hence his shooting skills.
Only suicide can kill a real murderer.
But the Orekhovskys’ number one was still Sylvester. He becomes a big businessman - he has a lot of accounts abroad, receives Israeli citizenship like Sergei Zhlobinsky. Increasingly, he sits behind the cordon, not touching on criminal matters; his deputies were responsible for them. In 1992, the deposit of Boris Berezovsky, who was a member of Yeltsin and the Kremlin at that time, was placed in Sylvester's bank. However, the bank was in no hurry to return the money. Moreover, soon they tried to blow up Berezovsky himself in the car - the driver died, and BB himself was wounded. Yeltsin announced on TV about criminal lawlessness and the bank did return the money.
Boris Yeltsin was a good man. But in the nineties it was survival of the fittest. Money had nothing to do with it.
In the nineties, the Orekhovskys bought fighters and took away businesses outside their area. The group includes 1000 bandits. Almost all the groups in Moscow were at knifepoint with them, but were reluctant to fight. And in the fall of 1994, at the age of 39, Sylvester was blown up in his 600 Mercedes. The group breaks up into a dozen small gangs.
The car in which Sylvester crashed and his grave.
Over the next four years, during the redistribution of business, 150 fighters were killed. "Orekhovskie" existed until 2002 - in 2011, 13 members of the top group were imprisoned for a long time.
2. Vladimir Labotsky. The Regions were also fun. Novokuznetsk, mining, processing of coal and metal. Money is spinning. And in 1992, former paratrooper, master of sports in wrestling, Vladimir Labotsky, organized his fellow soldiers to take action - to take their hometown into their hands. The beginning was the crushing of markets and hucksters - those who disagreed were immediately killed, so business went smoothly. With the first money, the gang in England ordered listening equipment and special communications. The fighters did not drink or smoke. They received salaries and bonuses. Trainings are on schedule. Soon the gang also clamped down on large businesses in Novokuznetsk. And yet they took it, in the first year they knocked out the competitors, intimidated all the local businesses and came to an agreement with the cops. The gang's signature style was killing with tourist hatchets. The very next year, the gang moved to Moscow, leaving Novokuznetsk as a tit, constantly sponsoring the gang.
Volodya Lobotsky.
Before the march on Moscow, Labotsky compiled a card index of Moscow authorities and a summary of the structures under their control. I bought housing for my bulls in the same area. They communicated on protected frequencies, with their own coded words. The army guys, damn them.
At the first shootouts with the Moscow ones, Labotsky came alone. Like one. He listened to his opponents, then asked them to look around. The meeting place was surrounded by snipers and machine gunners. This is how the Novokuznetsk soldiers conquered Moscow. However, foolishly, envy came to the gang - Labotsky decided that his deputy, Shkabara, aka right hand. Labotsky stupidly brought a bomb home to Shkabara, but it went off in his hand. So Shkabara led the gang. The discipline was ironclad. Shkabara personally killed those who did not complete the task. For this, the Novokuznetsk people began to be called disposable. Soon the bloody trail became full of evidence and the gang was captured. 60 murders by Novokuznetsk have been proven. Everyone sat down.
Nineties. Happiness. Yes, such that it’s easier to shoot yourself right away.
3. Podolsky Luchok with comrades. The biggest gang of the 90s. 2500 bandits in one group. From the 200,000 people of Podolsk near Moscow came the largest gang, a whole army, in the process. The army was organized by a former paratrooper (Airborne Forces again!), Sergei Lalakin, nickname Luchok. Moreover, he was given a nickname at school. Having never been convicted, Luchok worked as a butcher and was a petty swindler. I sold “dolls” near the exchangers and made confidants. With the very first money, he gathered around himself the same young and unprincipled goofballs, usually athletes-wrestlers. They help him push competitors out of the thimble business. Then there was traditional racketeering, control over the auto business, wholesalers of everything. Young people were willingly taken into the gang, forced to work hard and paid well. This is how the gang became the biggest. Soon most areas of the Moscow region fall under the influence of the largest gang. Now both factories and banks are quietly paying luchka and its caudle.
The first serious rebuff to the Luchka gang was in 1992 and a criminal nicknamed crazy. He collected bruises around him, people just as convicted as himself. Therefore, the conflict with Luchko was a conflict between the old and new school banditry, two worldviews collided. Soon Psycho was found with his head severed.
Then there was Luchka’s fellow countryman, Kolya Sobol, who was shot in his Mercedes in broad daylight in the city center. Authority Roman, caught from the river. An authority figure from Moscow, Sponge, was shot dead in his own car near his home.
And the gang developed - branches of Podolsk residents were opened - in Urengoy and Kyiv groups of Luchkovsky Podolsk residents successfully functioned.
However, Luchka’s most striking project remains the financial pyramid “Vlastelin”. For the first four months, it paid investors 100% per month and collected about 20 billion rubles from Russians. Much like MMM. Moreover, crazy amounts were paid on the spot from scratch. There is a version that money from arms and drug trafficking was laundered in this way. After all, “Vlastelin” closed on the eve of the Chechen war.
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