Brothers preserved in the 90s in cemeteries. Alley of “Heroes” at Khovanskoye Cemetery

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

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

Brother's beloved wife

Pasha Tsirul went from an ordinary pickpocket to an influential leader of the criminal world, keeper of the thieves' common fund. He established the supply of heroin from Colombia, and also took control of almost the entire territory of Russia’s “air gates” - Sheremetyevo-1 and Sheremetyevo-2. He was respected by both old crime bosses and young thugs.

Tsirul lived in grand style, denying himself and his beloved woman nothing. The mansion of a crime boss near Moscow was valued at two million dollars. A 700-kilogram chandelier worth 58 thousand dollars hung in Pasha’s house. The walls and floors of the mansion were decorated with marble and luxury wood. Antiques, rare tapestries, a swimming pool, a sauna, a greenhouse, a torture chamber in the basement - all this amazed the police when they arrested Tsirul on December 9, 1994.

After Tsirul’s arrest, representatives of criminal groups began to come to his house and take money from the common fund. Mama Rosa, Rosa Gumarovna, a well-known woman in criminal circles and Tsirul’s faithful life partner, tried with all her might to stop this and get Pasha out from behind bars.

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

For the arrested Tsirul, Rosa hired the best lawyer and agreed to give her beloved a phone. The woman did everything to ensure that her Pasha sat alone in his cell, communicated with the outside world, ate well and... did not suffer from drug withdrawal. Tsirul was seriously addicted to illegal substances and constantly received them from outside. They destroyed him. Without being freed, Pasha died from an overdose.

Then they wrote all sorts of things about Rosa: either she was hiding in the USA from the gang, or she was sitting there in prison. In fact, soon after Tsirul’s death from an overdose, Mama Rosa also passed away. Little surprising: with such a chosen one, a woman simply could not help but become addicted to drugs.

Innocent victim of war

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

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

In the 2000s, Togliatti was mired in the third “great racketeer war.” At the head of the Volgovskaya organized crime group was Dmitry Ruzlyaev. Another leader of the group was considered the cruel, frostbitten bandit Sovok -. By that time, he was wanted and lived in Moscow on a “left” passport in the name of Pavel Lizunov, together with his 28-year-old bride from Togliatti - Lyudmila Matytsina.

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

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

The killer turned out to be Sovka's longtime enemy - Andrey Milovanov, aka Zeleny, one of the “godfathers” of Tolyatti.

Sovkov, seriously wounded, managed to get to the driver's seat, but died four hours later in the hospital. Before leaving, the killer fired a control shot into Lyudmila’s head.

Green was generally famous for the fact that he could absolutely calmly kill a woman in the most brutal way. He also shot the widow of the general director of the Tolyatti fish plant Alika Hasanova.

Bloody tale

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

“The girl is lucky,” they said about Hasanov’s wife - Oksana Labintseva. At first glance, indeed: a native of the Ukrainian town of Sumy, Oksana was born into a dysfunctional family, her father almost never “dry out”. Labintseva graduated from eight grades of school and entered a construction college. And then the rich Hasanov appeared with “a ticket to a beautiful life,” as it seemed to her...

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

Hasanov’s business grew: a shoe factory, a disc production plant, and the Sadko fish processing plant were purchased. In all the photos, Labintseva beams with a smile. But her life turned upside down during the celebration of Alik’s 37th birthday in the most expensive restaurant in Tolyatti. Drunk, he went outside to smoke and was killed by a killer.

Already on the second day after Hasanov’s death, his empire began to be torn apart. Alik’s business partners did not want to work with the heiress Oksana and did not care about her. But, being a brave woman, Labintseva decided to resist. Oksana inherited the habits of her deceased husband; she imagined herself to be a queen. Labintseva announced her rights to a large-scale business, which aroused the terrible anger of the bandits. The woman began to go to the streets and conduct a “serious bazaar.” Very quickly Oksana acquired a “roof” in her face Andrey Milovanov. Lying in bed, he promised her that he would protect her from all attacks, that together they would earn a lot of money and start life with a clean slate. But as soon as Labintseva started having problems with her cruel and reckless bandit brothers Popov, Milovanov abandoned her. Oksana failed to find a common language with the Popovs, and they ordered a competitor. For 50 thousand dollars, Labintseva was eliminated by... Milovanov. In broad daylight, the ghoul fired six bullets at Oksana.

Death for disobedience

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

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

Mother predicted her daughter's death

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

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

Work began to boil, offers from various agencies began to pour in. They even invited me to act in Hollywood, but my mother opposed it. Sasha completed two courses at the Faculty of Foreign Languages ​​and abandoned the institute. Her common-law husband is Konstantin Chuvilin- I wanted to see the girl next to me, and not behind books.

Kostya was not an ordinary guy. And 18-year-old Sasha liked “bad boys,” especially with “grandmothers,” because in her childhood and youth she lived modestly. Chuvilin was listed as unemployed, but in fact he was a member of the Chapaevskaya organized crime group - the most influential in Cheboksary. This easily explained the availability of money for a luxurious European-quality renovation in an apartment on Kirova Street and a Lada of the latest brand.

Kostya’s close friend and “colleague” was the director of the central market - Radik Akhmetov. It was because of the market that the conflict arose among Anatoly Doronitsyn, who previously owned a retail business, and the local mayor's office. According to investigators, Doronitsin hired a killer to eliminate Akhmetov, who framed him.

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

Here’s what a certain Katya Katya writes about Petrova on one forum: “She stood out very much. So modest, tall, all in black. Then I got confused with this common-law husband. I started hanging around restaurants and abandoned my studies. But in furs. The whole city saw her off, everyone loved her.”

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

“I knew this would happen. I read by hand: in Shura’s palm, the line of fate intersected with the line of mind by the age of twenty, and at the intersection there was a dot. A blow to the head at twenty years old. True, I didn’t tell her anything. There is also a sign: if you see a cockroach, it’s not good. And then they just began to fall from the wall, and no matter how much they were killed, they continued to fall... It’s unnatural the way they fell. And after what happened - that’s it, not a single cockroach,” Tatyana Nikolaevna recalled with horror.

By the way!

In the 90s, among the young stars of our show business, an affair with a crime boss was considered an extraordinary success. They were also seen in romantic relationships with bandits. Katya Lel, And Natalia Vetlitskaya, And Irina Saltykova, And Lada Dance. The list could take a long time. The “bad guys” themselves also had their eyes on respectable artists. "If it weren't for Philip, Alla Pugacheva“would become my wife,” admitted in an interview Shabtai Kalmanovich. A billionaire Alimzhan Tokhtakhunov, known by the nickname Taiwanchik, was passionately in love with Sofia Rotaru. He sponsored her concerts, gave the singer fur coats, cars and diamonds.

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 the killer Alexander Solonik and businessman Otari Kvantrishvili. Who were the Orekhovskys and what happened to them - in the Kommersant-Online photo gallery.
The Orekhovskaya organized crime group was formed in the south of Moscow in the area of ​​Shipilovskaya Street in the late 1980s. It mainly included young people aged 18–25 with common sports interests.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One of the most high-profile cases of the Orekhovskaya organized crime group was the murder of businessman Otari Kvantrishvili, associated with criminal circles. He was killed on April 5, 1994, 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, a 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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In the cemeteries of our vast homeland you can find unusual tombstones with images of respectable men. Expensive suits, leather jackets, tattoos and gold chains - all this flaunts on the monuments belonging to the crime bosses of the dashing 90s and their entourage.

See what the monuments of Ded Hasan, Yaponchik and other pretentious graves of famous participants in gang wars of the past look like in our material.

Grandfather Hassan was called the main mafioso of Russia, who knows no mercy and is behind all the thieves' wars. His real name is Aslan Usoyan, date of birth is February 28, 1937. Aslan committed his first crime as a child, and by the age of 16 he firmly decided that he would become a “professional” pickpocket.

Young Aslan Usoyan in the top row in the middle

At the age of 18, the future crime boss received his first sentence - a year and a half in prison. After this, he ended up in prison more than once and was once “crowned.” Having become a thief in law, Ded Hassan gained power over shadow businesses in almost all Russian regions. He belonged to the “old school” thieves, and repeatedly acted as an “arbiter” in showdowns between large gangs.

In 2013, Ded Hassan was shot and killed by a sniper. The grave of the crime boss is located at the very entrance to the Khovanskoye cemetery in Moscow. She looks rather pompous.

The grave of thief in law Aslan Usoyan (Ded Hassan)

However, his grave is inferior in decoration and chic to the creation that Bory’s son ordered “Soda” for his late father.

The grave of Boris "Soda" Chubarov

And although he did not die as “heroically” as Grandfather Hasan (the cause of Boris Chubarov’s death was cirrhosis of the liver), a real work of art was built for his grave. On it there is a monument to the deceased himself and a Mercedes car - all life-size.

It is noteworthy that the license plates on the car carry a certain hidden meaning, which is known only to the deceased and the customer of the project - his son. The thing is that the letter “F” is not used in Russian license plates. Unless it's an unfortunate mistake by the sculptor...

Grave of Ivankov Vyacheslav Kirillovich (“Jap”)

Speaking of mistakes, above is the grave of the famous “Jap” - Vyacheslav Kirillovich Ivankov. And for some reason, when creating it, they were in such a hurry that they missed one letter in the surname, writing “Ivankov” instead.

Ivankov was one of the main Russian thieves in law and the leader of a criminal clan in Moscow. On July 28, 2009, there was an attempt on his life. On October 9, “Jap” died in the hospital from peritonitis that he developed.

Lev Genkin's grave "Tits"

And this is the grave of Genkin Lev Leontyevich or, as he was called in gangster circles, Leva “Tits”. Leva went to every job he did with his daddy under his arm... Why? In this way, he tried to create the impression of an intelligent business man and, when he came across the operatives, he claimed that he was an employee of the Jewish embassy.

The grave of Nikolai Tutberidze (“Matsi”)

This unusual white tombstone with a monument to a man sitting on it is located on the grave of Nikolai Tutberidze, better known as Matsi. He died in 2003 from cancer. This disease spares no one, be it a simple worker or a crime boss.

Portrait of Malkhaz Minadze on the tombstone of his grave

The tombstone of Malkhaz Minadze depicts the thief in law himself and his wife, who, by the way, is alive and well... A very unusual artistic solution.

And here are a few more graves that stand out noticeably from others in the cemetery.

Internet users express their outrage at the honors with which criminals are buried:

“Historians of the distant future will dig up these statues and tombstones and will study them and compare them with even more ancient ancient statues. There were gods, philosophers, emperors... And in our era - thieves in law. Disgrace!

This is exactly what the last refuges of the criminal authorities who ruled the world of thieves in the dashing 90s look like. Despite all the indignation of Internet users, it is worth noting that the work of the sculptors completing the projects is surprising and deserves respect.

What do you think of these creations?

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At all the prestigious cemeteries of the capital: Vagankovsky, Staroarmyansky, Danilovsky, Nikolo-Arkhangelsky - the best places are given over to gangster alleys

Granite steles, multi-pound crosses, gilded fences, angels one and a half human height... Famous sculptors worked on these monuments. Prophetic epitaphs from Dante and other classics were selected by distinguished writers. If you grieve and remember, then on a grand scale!..

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

Our special correspondents went on a raid through the capital’s prestigious churchyards, to the graves of “gentlemen of fortune.”

At the entrance to the Vagankovskoye cemetery there is a skyscraper stele, above it there is a marble angel, arms outstretched over the tombstones with bronze wreaths. Engraved on two paired granite slabs: Amiran Kvantrishvili. Otari Kvantrishvili.

Brothers - composers? - the visitors are talking.

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

The angel on the grave is so big, no match for Listyov’s skinny seraphim (nearby is the grave of TV presenter Vladislav Listyev. - Author), - the guests of the graveyard pay tribute to the grave.

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

The one that sculpted Zhukov on a horse? - the listeners are surprised.

Valera says that the epochal building, dedicated to the memory of the Kvantrishvili brothers, took several years to create. It obviously cost the customer a lot.

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

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

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

We walk further along the Vagankovskoye cemetery. The prestigious churchyard is now considered closed and is overcrowded. Here it is possible to carry out burials only along the family line, if space allows: to “share” the deceased with the deceased grandmother, uncle, nephew. True, a hero, honorary or other particularly distinguished citizen can receive the honor of lying in a famous cemetery. But this must have special permission from the city administration.

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

It is not known for certain whether Airapet or anyone else was buried for him. The documents are most likely fictitious. Any good owner always has a couple of unregistered graves hidden away. If you start digging, you won’t prove anything. The cemetery archive burned down back in October 1941,” Valera enlightens us.

When approaching the burial place of Viktor Airapetov, you want to close your eyes. The massive marble slab is framed by a fence with abundant gilding. Rumor has it that Viktor Airapetov himself came to admire his pompous grave more than once. Not from the underworld, but from our hectic life. Did the crime boss simply fake his own death?

In the early 90s of the last century, master of sports in freestyle wrestling Viktor Airapetov created the most powerful underground fighting organization in Ryazan - “Ayrapetovskaya”. At the international level, she was supported by Yaponchik himself. By 1993, Airapetov moved to Moscow. “Ayrapetovskie” were divided into brigades and numbered from 800 to 1,500 members. But soon they encountered a serious obstacle - the “elephant” group. They shot the elite of the “Ayrapetovskys”. The gang leader himself managed to escape only by a miracle. And a great criminal war began in Ryazan. And on November 19, 1995, at about three o’clock in the morning, the death of Viktor Airapetov was recorded. Special forces officers took part in the kidnapping of the founder and leader of the group of the same name. Masked people put the guards face down, and the authority itself was taken away in an unknown direction. Two weeks later, in an anonymous call, they reported the number of the plaque in the general burial ground. A Rolex watch and the bandit’s famous belt with silver plates were found on the corpse dug out of the ground. The wife looked at the burnt corpse with a hole in the head and calmly said: “Yes, that’s him.” Later, she and the “authority’s” mother left for permanent residence in Europe. Shortly before his disappearance, Airapetov received Greek citizenship and changed his last name to Aravidis. A few years later, Ryazan entrepreneurs accidentally met Vitya Ryazansky in Europe. But officially Airapetov is dead.

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

We go through the massive gate to the indicated churchyard. On the right hand, in an antique chair, sits a bronze man with a thoughtful look. Engraved on the pedestal: Vladimir Sergeevich Oganov. On the left is the bronze Rudolf Sergeevich Oganov. The entire space near the brothers' graves is filled with marble vases. Flowers - roses, lilies, chrysanthemums - at the premiere at the Bolshoi Theater.

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

We go in search of the grave of another crime boss - Peso Kuchuloria. Experienced gravedigger Sergei Ivanovich stops us:

Don't look, you won't find. I dug Peso's grave myself. Then the gopstopniks paid us 200 rubles each. Only a week later a scandal broke out. Peso's grave turned out to be the burial site of an Afghan warrior. The latter's relatives made a fuss. The pesos were dug up and taken to the Domodedovo cemetery.

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

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

Bobon was one of the most erudite and powerful “authorities” of the late 80s. His Bauman group kept half of Moscow in fear. Bobon, aka Vladislav Vygorbin, was considered the right hand of the thief Globus. Bobon was very fond of cars and drove around Moscow in a snow-white sports two-door Buick without a driver's license, since he spent one of his three terms in a psychiatric hospital, where he learned English perfectly, but received a certificate of mental illness and therefore had to pass a commission to obtain a car license. could no longer be right.

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

At the Danilovskoye Cemetery, VIP burials are hidden from prying eyes. Only twice - following the worker Grishany - having overcome the holes in the fence, we find ourselves in the granite world.

“It’s all Karelian granite here, guaranteed for more than a hundred years,” says our guide. - This stone is the most expensive. A crypt with a sliding slab and a tombstone costs 10 thousand “greens”, engraving a portrait costs another 4.5 thousand. And if you sculpt a sculpture with all the bells and whistles - borders, steps - 300 thousand “greenery” must be prepared.

Wandering among the “concrete monuments”, we find the family burial of the Chograshi family. The following are engraved on the marble steles: “Nono”, “Dato”, “Kike”.

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

“I remember how Nodar Chograshi was buried,” continues Grisha. - There weren't many people at the ceremony. There were about twenty thieves in law and “authorities”, among them knowledgeable people identified Miho the Blind and Besik. I also remember that the grave was lined with bricks and the coffin was filled with concrete. Then I was surprised: why? It turns out that in the homeland of the deceased - in Armenia - the dead are buried in the mountains, in carved out niches.

The gravedigger Grisha smells not of vodka, but of expensive perfume. He is not wearing greasy overalls, but ironed overalls. By caring for the graves, by Grisha’s own admission, he “rows” up to 50 thousand rubles a month with an official salary of 5 thousand.

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

Brass bands are in bad taste these days. “Great people,” for example, are buried with “live” music. Opera stars arrive at the cemetery and perform pitiful arias from Italian operas. And coffins are generally the calling card of the deceased. It is in the outback that reusable dominos - “shuttles” - walk around in circles. To deliver the deceased to the cemetery, a coffin decorated with ruffles and bows is rented to the poor for 200-300 rubles. With us, everything is different.

Deceased VIPs are rolled to their final resting place in varnish and bronze. Elite coffins are a real work of coffin art: made of mahogany, equipped with bronze, “antique” handles, illuminated, air conditioning, built-in stereo music system, decorated with a reproduction of a painting by a famous artist. Particularly popular are double-lidded “senator” coffins, which are also equipped with a so-called elevator that raises or lowers the body. The cost of such a house starts from 10 thousand “green” and rushes to infinity.

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

Having telephoned the administration of several capital cemeteries, we were convinced: despite the “overcrowding,” there are no problems with organizing burial places in cemeteries. It's enough to pay. The price of the issue of “resettlement” in closed cemeteries ranges from 50 to 200 thousand rubles.

St. Petersburg does not lag behind Moscow's funeral. In August, at the Northern Cemetery, on the grave of the influential shadow “authority” Konstantin Yakovlev, better known as Kostya Mogila, an incredibly pompous monument worth 600 thousand “greens” was erected. In the center is the figure of Kostya Mogila himself, hugging an Orthodox cross with his hands. At the feet of the deceased is a snake that is about to bite him. Two half-meter-tall angels look at Kostya Mogila from different sides: one folds his hands in prayer, the second pulls them towards the “authority”. The words are inscribed in gold on the black granite: “I kissed those who betrayed me on the forehead, and not the one who betrayed me on the lips.”

Inscriptions and epitaphs on the graves of “authorities” are a separate issue. In Togliatti, on the monument to the leader of the criminal community Dmitry Ruzlyaev - Dima Bolshoi - there is a laconic inscription: “Dima”. On the tombstone of a difficult man nicknamed Blue, friends wrote: “And nothing will grow from the spiritual ashes, only time will mercilessly punish for those who will not come again.” In Vladivostok, the grave of thief in law Miho is decorated with an unambiguous inscription: “Here sleep goodness and justice.” But Mukha Bely’s friends and associates outdid everyone: they decorated the stele in the shape of a cell phone with the inscription: “The subscriber has left the service area.”

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

Majestic monuments cannot but attract the attention of non-ferrous metal collectors. All kinds of bronze details are dragged from the graves: boards, ribbons, flowers. It happens that looters break out entire busts and take them away for melting down. It’s paradoxical, but, according to the assurances of cemetery workers, there are never any thefts from the burials of thieves in law and “authorities.” Thieves are afraid of deceased “positioners” even after their death. The power of crime extends not only to earthly life?..

The boys didn’t forget Kostya Mogila
The most expensive tombstone, worth $200,000, was installed in the Northern capital for an ordinary former gravedigger from the Southern cemetery

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

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

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

They say that when the funeral procession of 50–60 foreign cars headed to the Northern Cemetery, accompanied by four traffic police cars, and on Arsenalnaya Embankment drew level with the famous “Crosses,” lingering signals from the column of cars were heard. And the prison responded with a dull echo of thousands of male voices, since they knew in advance when Kostya Mogila would be transported past the pre-trial detention center.

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

And the monument to Konstantin Yakovlev was erected, the most magnificent in the entire Northern capital. It is rumored to be worth $200,000. In the center of the monument is the figure of the Bone of the Grave itself. The deceased embraces the Orthodox cross with his hands. But a snake crawled to his feet. She has already opened her mouth and is about to bite him. On the black granite, inscribed in gold, are the words: “I kissed those who betrayed me on the forehead, and not the one who betrayed me on the lips.” The sculptural group also includes two half-meter angels who look at Kostya Mogila from different sides. One folds his hands in prayer, the second, on the contrary, pulls them towards authority.

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

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

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

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

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

Even after their death, bandits are treated with particular reverence. In cemeteries they only get VIP seats: on the central alley or at the very entrance. Some monuments have special lighting; even in winter you won’t see any snow or ice on them, but in summer everything here is filled with fresh flowers. The graves of criminal authorities are located on all the prestigious Danilovsky, Staroarmyansky or Nikolo-Arkhangelsky. There are even special private cemeteries for the lads, like the one located in Rakitki near Moscow. In the 90s, bandits bought out entire plots of land so that the boys would remain together after death. Today we will go on a short excursion around and “look” at the graves of crime bosses; photos of monuments to the most famous bandits will be presented below.

Legendary personality of Moscow in the late 80s

Otari Kvantrishvili was considered the godfather of capital crime and at the same time a fighter for justice. At first he was just a card player. By the way, he was one of the close friends of Vyacheslav Ivankov, known as Yaponchik. In 1993, Otari created a party called “Athletes of Russia” and took part in the destruction of the government building (White House). Headed the Fund for Social Protection of Athletes named after. Yashina. What else can be said about This is an honored Greco-Roman wrestling coach and businessman.

In 1994, on April 5, he was shot by a sniper killer while leaving the Krasnopresnenskaya bathhouse. The killer has still not been found. None of the versions put forward by the investigation were officially confirmed. There is an opinion that the famous Russian killer Alexander Solonik, aka Sasha the Great, was in the killer's wake. He has dozens of murders to his name, including crime bosses.

Head of the Ryazan criminal group

We walk further along the Vagankovsky churchyard. The prestigious cemetery is currently considered closed and is overcrowded. Only family line burials are possible here. However, new graves of crime bosses (bandits) still mysteriously appear in the churchyard. So, for example, it is unclear for what reasons the tombstone of Viktor Airapetov appeared here. Approaching the monument, you want to close your eyes. The heavy one is surrounded by a richly gilded fence. Some say that Airapetov himself came to admire the pompous grave. Not from the other world, of course, but from our ordinary life. According to the official version, the bandit is dead, but in fact (according to one version), shortly before his faked death, he received Greek citizenship and a new surname, Aravidis.

Monuments to authorities

The graves of crime bosses in the Armenian section are similar to the monument to Pushkin on Tverskaya Square. The tombstone of Vladimir Sergeevich Oganov is made in the form of an antique chair on which a pensive bronze man sits. To his left is his brother, Rudolf. The entire space near the graves is filled with marble vases with roses, lilies and chrysanthemums. The Oganov brothers, also known as Vachigos Six-fingered and Rudik Bakinsky, were not just thieves, they occupied the highest places in the criminal hierarchy. This is exactly what they had to pay for. In the last century, the Oganov brothers and Grandfather Hassan (Aslan Usoyan) started a criminal war, which later became a war of mafia clans.

The most erudite “authority” of the late 80s

We move further through the cemetery, where we will see the graves of the criminal authorities of the Bauman criminal group. In the very center of the 28th section of the Vagankovsky cemetery there is a black monument, under which the leader of the lads, Bobon (Vladislav Abrekovich Vygorbin-Vanner), is buried. His bodyguard rests next to him.

Bobon was considered one of the most widely knowledgeable and powerful "authorities". His criminal group intimidated half of Moscow. He, in turn, was the right hand of the bandit Globus (Valery Dlugach). Bobon's passion was cars; he often drove his white Buick sports car without a driver's license, which he simply did not have. The fact is that he served one of his terms in a place where he mastered English perfectly, but with a certificate of mental illness, he could not pass the commission and obtain a driver’s license.

Due to a dispute that erupted in 1994 regarding a nightclub patronized by Globus and his group, Dlugacz unexpectedly asked to increase his percentage of the share. For which he was shot by the Kurganites, and Solonik decided to take all the blame for the murder upon himself. He later killed Bobon. The killers prepared in advance for the operation: holes were drilled in advance in the concrete fence on the territory of the shooting range located on Volokolamsk Highway. As soon as Bobon's car drove into the yard, shooting opened on it. Along with the crime boss, his bodyguard also died. The only survivor was her daughter, who fell to the floor just in time.

It's not the place that makes the man

At the Danilovsky cemetery, the graves of crime bosses are hidden from prying eyes. Once in the world of granite, the first thing you pay attention to is the Chograshi family burial place. On the marble stelae are engraved: “Nono”, “Kike” and “Dato”.

In 2001, in August, the 600th Mercedes in which the famous Armenian thieves in law, the Chogrash brothers, were driving, burned down in Khimki. The car was moving towards Sheremetyevo, but unexpectedly caught fire along the way. The cause of the fire was an explosion. Brothers Dato and Nono died in hospital from severe burns. Presumably the attempt is connected with the division of the thieves' common fund.

Deceased crime bosses roll into their final resting place in bronze and varnish. Their coffins can be considered a real work of art: they are made of mahogany, equipped with bronze handles, have lighting, air conditioning and even a built-in stereo music system, some are decorated with paintings by famous artists. Double-lid coffins equipped with an elevator have become especially popular. The cost of such a “dwelling” is at least 10 thousand dollars. Places for the graves of crime bosses in Moscow cost 50-200 thousand rubles.

New attraction of the Vagankovskoe cemetery

In 2009, the entire criminal world saw off Ivankov (Yaponchik) on his last journey. His grave is located in one of the most famous cemeteries in the capital - Vagankovsky. Such outstanding personalities as the poet Yesenin, the actor Mironov, the athlete Yashin and the artist Surikov are buried here. In a word, mere mortals cannot get here. But Ivankov’s gang found his mother’s grave in the depths, so the city authorities gave permission to bury the authority. Hundreds of bandits attended the funeral.

In any city in Russia, the graves of criminal authorities stand out noticeably against the background of old, sometimes rusty monuments.