The graves of the wives of crime bosses. Unknown beauty of the gangster cemetery

In the cemeteries of our vast country, 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 criminal authorities of the dashing 90s and their entourage.

See how the monuments of Ded Khasan, Yaponchik and other pretentious graves of famous participants in gang warfare of the past look 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, his 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 term - a year and a half in prison. After that, more than once he ended up in prison and once was "crowned". Having become a thief in law, Ded Hasan gained power over the shadow business in almost all Russian regions. He belonged to the "old school" thieves, repeatedly acted as a "referee" in the showdown of large gangs.

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

Grave of thief in law Aslan Usoyan (Ded Khasan)

However, his grave is inferior in decoration and chic to the creation that the son of Bori ordered "Soda" for his late father.

The grave of Boris "Soda" Chubarov

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

It is noteworthy that the numbers 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 numbers. Unless it's an unfortunate mistake by the sculptor...

Grave of Ivankov Vyacheslav Kirillovich ("Jap")

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

Ivankov was one of the main Russian thieves in law and the head of a criminal clan in Moscow. On July 28, 2009, there was an assassination attempt on him. On October 9, "Yaponchik" died in the hospital from peritonitis that had developed in him.

Grave of Lev Genkin "Tits"

And this is the grave of Genkin Lev Leontyevich or, as he was called in gangster circles, Lyova "Tits". Lyova went to every business with his daddy under his arm ... Why? Thus, he tried to create the impression of an intelligent business person and, when caught by operatives, claimed that he was an employee of the Jewish embassy.

Grave of Nikolai Tutberidze ("Matsi")

This unusual white tombstone with a monument to a person sitting on it is located on the grave of Nikolai Tutberidze, better known as Matsi. He passed away in 2003 from cancer. This disease does not spare anyone, be it a simple worker or a criminal authority.

Portrait of Malkhaz Minadze on the tombstone of his grave

On the gravestone of Malkhaz Minadze, the thief in law and his wife are depicted, who, by the way, is alive and well ... A very unusual artistic decision.

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, compare with even more ancient antique statues. There were gods, philosophers, emperors .. And in our era - thieves in law. Disgrace!

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

What do you think of these creations?

“Why are you taking pictures of these criminals, their hands are up to the elbows in blood…,” said an old woman who was passing by and, leaning on a stick, hobbled along the path of the cemetery. And without this grandmother, the history of the criminal Urals is not a completely alien topic for me. My family faced the gangster lawlessness of the early nineties, and the abbreviation OPS Uralmash left a painful scar in the memory of tens of thousands of residents of Yekaterinburg and the region as a whole. Hundreds of corpses, blood, pain, violence, drugs. But that's part of the story modern Russia and I don't think it should be forgotten horrible dream. On the contrary, it is important to remember that this would never happen again. At two cemeteries in the city, at Shirokorechensky and Severny, you will find whole alleys with strange pathos tombstones, which depict guys who are not quite understandable in our time in leather jackets, with the keys to a Mercedes in their hands and an obligatory cross, indicating their supposedly exceptional piety. They all died young, and the years of death are almost always 1993-1995. Only on three graves the final was put down later, in 2005, and we will talk about this separately.

After the collapse of the USSR, a semblance of chaos happened, we all remember those years. The wild transition from a planned economy to a market economy brought down the once powerful state and led to a sharp increase in organized crime. The line between legal and illegal was practically erased. I remember that time, I was a schoolboy then, and we watched with delight the powerful guys in the obligatory "leather" riding on "nines" with tinted windows, from where the chanson thundered. Here they are, the real masters of life and next to them are gorgeous women. What a difference we are, the children of simple teachers, for whom it was a joy when my mother managed to stand in line at the Prodmag and buy sausage. We used to go to the train station as schoolchildren and play games slot machines issued by parents 2 rubles 15 kopecks for school lunches.

Yekaterinburg, together with Moscow, has become the center of criminal wars. The organized criminal group "Uralmash" waged a war for control over the leading enterprises of the Urals with another group that called itself "Center". They were not limited to bribing officials and politicians. They brought down each other from machine guns in the center of the city, they tortured their opponents with irons and red-hot irons. They were paid for the "protection" of all more or less functioning enterprises and even just shops in the markets. The power of these guys many times exceeded the authority and capabilities of the state.

These three graves are real story Modern Russia: Khabarov and Tsyganov. These are the creators of one of the largest, most dangerous and cruel bandit communities in post-Soviet history. Here they are -

Google with the name of this man, Khabarov. He survived them all by hanging himself in the prison cell of SIZO-1 in Yekaterinburg in January 2005. Did he hang himself, or was he hanged? Nobody knows this, is it really that important -

Grigory Tsyganov, the founder of the organization, was killed by a killer in 1991 and his place in the group was taken by brother, Konstantin. Later, when the era of big crime came to naught, he fled to Europe and hid there for several years. At some point, he even stepped out of the shadows and went into business in Bulgaria. The city newspaper Ura.ru writes that he was the guardian of the group's common fund and invested $65 million in the Costa del Croco construction project near Burgas. But then there was a corruption scandal already on Bulgarian soil, and he fell out of favor with the authorities of this European country with traditionally strong ties to Russian crime. The Ural newspapers of those years give out a lot of conflicting information and we are unlikely to ever know the truth.

But not all criminal showdowns were carried out exclusively against opponents from other groups. Many of the contract killings were arranged as acts of intimidation for their own, so that they would be afraid and serve. For example, the murder of Uralmashevites Dmitry Bezginov and Mikhail Seliverstov, who, according to the media, allegedly "concealed" (stole from their own) a lot of money. The two doomed were lured by deception to an allegedly appointed meeting, on the way their car was stopped by two people in police uniforms. Seeing the machine gun aimed at them, they realized that they were not policemen at all, but it was too late. The bodies were thrown into the pit of the road under construction. Their graves are

Alley of "heroes", so to speak -

The well-known criminal authority Mikhail Kuchin, one of the leaders of the Center group, was shot from machine guns right in the center of Yekaterinburg in February 1993. Kuchin, obviously relaxed, left his mansion on Volgogradskaya Street without guards and began to start his own BMW car. At this time, from a VAZ-2109 car passing by, the killer discharged the entire clip of "Kalashnikov" in the back of the authority -

Pay attention to the key to the Mercedes and the horseshoe for good luck in his hand. He loved Mercedes, but was killed in a BMW. The horseshoe did not help -

In the center is Oleg Vagin, the leader of the Center, who was shot on October 26, 1992 as revenge for the assassination attempt on Konstantin Tsyganov, the leader of Uralmash -

Flarit Valiev, another authority of the "Center", also killed in a gangster showdown. Notice the Muslim crescent on the monument. In 1993, during one of the gatherings of Uralmash and centers in the Golden Pegasus casino, shooting began with a bunch of corpses, one of which was Valiev. Until now, no one knows exactly whose bullet killed this gentleman.

Klementiev was killed on Samoletnaya Street in his own jeep. According to one version, he was shot from a machine gun, according to the second, several people shot at him from sniper rifles. They write that Klementiev belonged to the organized criminal community "Uralmash" and also distinguished himself in the dashing nineties. Pay attention to the year of death, 2000, by that time the bandit groups in Yekaterinburg were largely defeated. The last of the Mohicans.

Beloved women of authority deserve special interest. There are plenty of similar graves. Here you have former beauty queens and fashion models and a kind of "bohemia" of the city. The authorities loved beauty and were aesthetes. Some of these beauties fell in skirmishes from stray bullets, actually paying for their love for beautiful life, others ended up in prison as accomplices, others and their minority are still alive. Sad spectacle.

This real masterpiece -

And life goes on. Cemeteries "digested" hundreds of thousands of people, they are in order, business is going on. Death made everyone the same, both poor and rich, jocks and nerds, policemen and bandits, doctors and AIDS patients -

And it's a kind of masterpiece -

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

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

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

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

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

Brothers - composers? - visitors are talking.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Knowing that many members of the once powerful Bauman criminal group are lying on the 28th Vagankov precinct, we are looking for a black marble monument in the very center of the precinct, under which their leader, Bobon, rests. The grave, again, is a steam room. Next to Bobon (“in the world” - Vladislav Abrekovich Vygorbin-Vanner) lies his bodyguard. Bright yellow apples are laid out in a pyramid on the stove: someone close 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 at bay. Bobon, aka Vladislav Vygorbin, was considered the right hand of the Globe thief. Bobon was very fond of cars and drove around Moscow in a snow-white sports two-door Buick without a driver's license, as he spent one of his three terms in a psychiatric hospital, where he perfectly learned English language, but received a certificate of mental illness and therefore could no longer pass a commission to obtain a car license.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Monuments depicting “brothers” with playing cards, the keys to the "Mercedes" in the hands - in the past. IN last years monuments to "authorities" are created with imagination. For example, in Nizhny Novgorod at the Starozavodskoye cemetery there is a unique tombstone to a man known in criminal circles named Zaron. Next to the statue of the deceased in full height A stone swan “floats” from whose eyes ... tears flow.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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By decree of the Governing Senate in March 1771, during a plague epidemic, a churchyard was founded near the village of Vagankovo ​​near Moscow. On this topic: Tombstones of criminal authorities of Russia

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Even 30 years ago, no one could have thought that at the legendary Vagankovsky cemetery, which became the place of eternal rest, truly prominent personalities, brilliant artists - Vladimir Vysotsky, Andrei Mironov, poet Sergei Yesenin will bury bandits and murderers. How did it happen that in the very heart of Moscow, not far from the tombstone of Alexander Abdulov ...

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... the modest grave of Georgy Burkov

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and TV presenter and journalist Vlad Listyev who was gangster murdered 24 years ago

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“concrete” monuments will ascend to the heavens of unheard-of pomposity, proclaiming the memory of the representatives of the fallen “brotherhood”.

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It’s even somehow embarrassing in front of the “chief of Chukotka”, the wonderful artist Mikhail Kononov, who was awarded a modest “window” in the “pedestal” of the columbarium on Vagankovsky.

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Apparently, the Ministry of Culture mourned for the popular favorite, who played the main roles in the legendary Soviet films, on a smaller scale than the “brotherhood”.

How were criminals buried in the 90s and 00s?

Leaders of brigades, criminal gangs and clans went into oblivion pompously. The media covered the event, savoring every detail of the tragedy. On the last journey of "public figures of alternative reality" those who were favored and honored top awards also in Soviet era when murderers and rapists were expected not in restaurants, but in the execution corridors of Butyrka, followed by the burial of a corpse in an unmarked mass grave under the number.

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Any, but - and not only Vagankovsky! - a cemetery is a place for mourning and sadness for the dead, but how can you hold back a smile when you see intricate photos and epitaphs of the dead against the backdrop of gilded fences?

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It was the 90s that became the time when Russia suddenly turned into the “Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors”. The sculptor, who sculpted the monument to Marshal Zhukov, went out of his way, trying to properly perpetuate the memory of the Caucasian brothers who kept half of Moscow in fear, one of whom at the time stormy youth managed to get out of prison for rape thanks to the acquired certificate of sluggish schizophrenia.

Where is the modest field marshal, who ordered to draw on a simple tombstone.

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Remarkable! The graves of artists, heroes, pop performers, at times, are in far from the most ideal condition. There is often no one to take care of them. But the tombstones of criminal authorities are always well-groomed. They are carefully cleared of ice and snow by local caretakers who are generously rewarded for their work.

So who is the most precious memory in this country? Probably about the latter.

Let's remember everyone by name! The monument to one of the undisputed leaders of Russian organized crime, Vyacheslav Ivankov, is magnificent. The deceased, glorified by the chaser "Jap", had the status of a thief in law.

He began his glorious criminal path back in the mid-60s with petty pickpocketing. But he spent most of his life in the prisons of the USSR, Russia for much more serious cases. Yaponchik also sat in the USA, where, they say, he liked to listen to songs composed by the maestro of thieves chanson - Mikhail Tanich.

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The author of this wonderful composition is folk artist Russia Alexander Rukavishnikov, an outstanding master of monumental and easel compositions, author of monuments to Gagarin, Rachmaninov, Rostropovich, Magomayev, Mikhalkov.

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Viktor Airapetov also lies at the Vagankovsky cemetery. He is "Vitya Ryazan". Monument to the creator of the legendary Airapetovskaya criminal group, which kept the whole Ryazan region, more modest. It is understandable. He was a young man, sitting smaller. But he did a lot for the country.

Airapetov's bandit group consisted of hundreds of militants, divided into units and brigades, who over the years of "productive activity" had "produced" thousands of corpses.

Starting with knocking money out of local cooperators, the Airapet gangster community took control of the entire Ryazan refinery, eliminating those who resisted, getting profit from each fuel truck, and then regularly paying tribute to ... all the same Yaponchik.

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Who knows, if it weren’t for the war with the Slonovskaya OPG, what heights would Vitya Ryazansky, who fell on the fields of the lads back in 1995, reach today? Peace be to the ashes of the failed people's choice, whose grave is surrounded by a gilded fence that impresses everyone who walks by.

Local rangers say that Viktor Sergeyevich himself, who skillfully escaped from the persecution of enemies and law enforcement officers - no, no! - Yes, and he will look here to mourn from Europe, where he lives in Lately. But the fact of his miraculous resurrection has not been scientifically confirmed by anyone.

Go ahead. The wings of the "Angel of the Lord" cover the graves of Otari Kvantrishvili and his brother. The legendary Georgian was friends with Iosif Davydovich Kobzon, engaged in robbery, money laundering, and racketeering. By 1994, when the shots ended his life at the exit from the Krasnopresnensky baths, he held half of Moscow, having shares in casinos, hotels, restaurant business capital Cities.

This did not prevent Otari Kvantrishvili from leading sports funds, the purpose of which was ... to restore the rule of law in the country. According to the later shot dead journalist Paul Khlebnikov, the Kvantrishvili brothers fell as a result of a fierce war between the then not quite fraternal Slavic and Chechen organized crime groups.

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A monument to them was sculpted by Vyacheslav Klykov, laureate of the USSR State Prize, who immortalized Marshal Zhukov in the heart of the capital, who fearlessly led regiments into battle and, fortunately, did not live to see the time when he went into battle, to the singing and accompaniment of the lured folk artists USSR, go brothers.

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For the rich, you can’t say anything, tombstones were created (it’s hard to call it monuments) of crime bosses Vladimir (aka Vachkos Shestipaly) and Rudolf (aka Rudik General Bakinsky) Oganov, who, to their misfortune, quarreled with grandfather Hasan. The brothers took the legend of the Soviet criminal world and “charged” them with unauthorized “borrowing” of money from the obshchak. Recklessness, as you understand, cost them dearly. One Rudolf Sergeevich received 40 bullets from the killers in February 1999. Brother Vladimir, sentenced by the harsh Grandfather, did not survive him for long.

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Thus ended the earthly path of the brothers, for whom, with cries a la “For Rudolf Sergeevich, for the godfather!” Russian pop stars danced.

Lyuba Uspenskaya for Rudolf Sergeyevich for godfather

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They buried, it was, on Vagankovsky and the crime boss Valerian (Peso) Kuchuloria. But it was not possible to lie in a trump place for a long time. Relatives of the hero-Afghan, who "had to make room", raised a serious scandal. Peso's friends had two options: to decompose relatives (there were quite a few of them) into graves in less elite churchyards, or to take Peso away from sin... After conferring, the bandits chose the second option.

On the 28th section of the Vagankovsky cemetery, there is a mass grave of members of the Bauman organized crime group, which earned a reputation for ferocious lawlessness in the 90s. In the center of the "walk of fame" lie the leader of the Bobon group (Vladislav Vanner) and his bodyguard Misha Glodin. They were shot in 1994.

A monument, judge for yourself… Modest. Either the lads did not have enough money for Rukavishnikov, or they were modest.

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If you think that this is all, then ... you are deeply mistaken. Come to Vagankovskoye! Local caretakers will take you where you need to for a moderate fee. If you want - to Vysotsky, Talkov, Listyev, Abdulov. Well, if you want - to Yaponchik or "Bauman" ...

And how are they?

Where are crime bosses buried in other countries? It is not necessary to look far for examples of a more rational approach to the burial of various kinds of waste from society. Let's take a look at neighboring Belarus, where in the 90s criminal authorities of all stripes raised their heads high and proudly - thieves in law and other contingents.

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Among them were the crowned thief in law Shchavlik (pictured in the center), and the no less privileged "authority" Trats (pictured below).

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Alyaksandr Lukashenka, who came to power in 1994, ordered the secret services to prepare for him a list of all criminal authorities who began to become impudent just like in Russia (with a slightly smaller scope, of course).

Overnight, most of them… went missing. UFO stole them, or what? Moreover, they all disappeared so reliably that so far (after more than 20 years) even their bodies have not been found. The oppositional Belarusian press attributes their destruction to "death squadrons" - secret special squads for the physical elimination of an undesirable element in the local internal affairs bodies.

“Remember these shavliks and others. Where are they now?" - the Belarusian leader was sad at the end of 2001 on the air of the local Panorama program, transparently hinting that everything in his country was “under control”. True ... opposition politicians disappeared somewhere forever with thieves in law. But this is a topic for another article.

And what about the people of Russia? According to the statements of officials, he is friendly and united, as prescribed by the Constitution. But, judging by the magnificence of gangster alleys on the main Moscow graveyards, the strongest friendship is among representatives of domestic crime, figures of "culture", many of whom received a start in life, speaking in taverns, and ... representatives of power structures. Unfortunately, some of them pulled out their happy ticket there.

Such a story.

As a rule, girlfriends of criminal authorities, and simply criminals of those years, became all sorts of “miss” of something. Simply put, long-legged beauties, hungry for money. We will not argue - maybe there was a place for sincere love. For the most part, their lives ended as quickly and tragically as those of the bandits themselves. And sometimes at the same time.

Corpse in a suitcase

Perhaps the loudest story on our topic is gruesome murder killer Alexandra Solonik and his mistresses Svetlana Kotova.

Sasha Solonik, aka Macedonian (he got this nickname thanks to his ability to shoot in Macedonian - with two hands), belonged to the Kurgan organized criminal group. In 1987, he was sentenced to eight years in a strict regime colony for rape. Then he ran away.

In the 90s, the killer completed the first order for the murder - he shot the head of the Ishim group - Nicholas Prichinich.

Solonik was detained on October 6, 1994 at the Petrovsky-Razumovsky market of the capital. At the police station, while trying to escape, Solonik wounded three police officers and was wounded in the kidney. From the hospital, Makedonsky was taken to Matrosskaya Tishina for investigation. But eight months after his arrest, Solonik escaped from the pre-trial detention center. By the way, throughout history famous prison he became the only person who succeeded.

Under the new name, Solonik settled in Greece, where his people from the Kurgan OPG were already located. In Langonisi, not far from Athens, the bandits rented three luxurious mansions.

Macedonian, according to neighbors, was greedy for women and every week brought a new lady into the house. But Solonik's romance with a fashion model turned out to be the longest. Sveta Kotova. And for her, it's also fatal.

The girl worked with the well-known Moscow agency Red Stars, participated in the final of the Miss Russia-96 contest. January 25, 97th Kotova performed at international exhibition Consumexpo. After that, Svetlana asked her superiors for a vacation and left for Athens.

As it turned out later, she went to Solonik, who had previously invited the model to Greece more than once. They say that Alexander even came secretly to Moscow under the guise of a Greek showman. Vladimir Kesov to convince Sveta to leave with him.

From Athens, Svetlana was going to go to a beauty contest in Italy. The girl spoke about this to her mother on the phone. Kotova called home every day until January 30th. After this date, the model disappeared.

On February 2, 1997, in the Varibobi forest, near Athens, operatives discovered the body of Solonik. He was strangled with a nylon cord. There were no documents with the killer.

The search for Kotova continued for another three months. The police found that Svetlana did not cross the borders of Greece - she was eliminated as a witness to the murder of her boyfriend.

In May, residents of the resort town of Saronides stumbled upon a suitcase lying under an olive tree. Inside, the dismembered body of a woman lay in plastic bags. The identity of the 21-year-old Kotova was established, since the decomposition process did not have time to begin in full.

There are many versions of who committed both murders. From the involvement of the Italian mafia and up to the fact that Solonik is generally alive. However, the investigation agreed that Makedonsky and Kotova were killed by members of the Orekhovskaya organized criminal group.

Mother predicted her daughter's death

On the evening of September 16, 2000, a resident of one of the Cheboksary "Stalins" heard a strange noise in the entrance. She opened the door, but they immediately put a gun to her forehead and pushed her back into the apartment. When everything was quiet in the stairwell, the husband of the frightened woman decided to go out.

Two men lay in pools of blood. beautiful girl. 20 year old Alexandra Petrova She was still breathing, but the doctors could not save her. Sasha died on the way to the hospital. In two days she had planned a noisy holiday - her birthday.

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

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

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

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

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

Here is what a certain person writes about Petrova on one forum Katya Katya: “She really stood out. So modest, tall, all in black. Then I messed with it civil husband. She began to wander around restaurants, abandoned her studies. But in furs. The whole city saw her off, everyone loved her.

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

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

Innocent victim of war

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

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

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

Sovkov often went to the Krasnopresnensky baths - a favorite place for reputable criminals. On December 26, 2000, Scoop went to the “arrow” to these very baths, taking Lyudmila with him. The meeting took place in Stolyarny Lane. Let's jump ahead and say that a few steps from this place in the 94th hitman Lesha Soldier authority was shot Otari Kvantrishvili.

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

The killer turned out to be a longtime foe Scoop - Andrey Milovanov aka Green.

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

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