On June 11, in the American city of Orlando, American singer and musician Christina Grimmie was shot dead by her fan after a concert. TUT.BY recalled other cases when musicians died from bullets fired at them.

Edward Lee Morgan February 19, 1972

During the 1960s, American jazz trumpeter Lee Morgan recorded twenty albums as a soloist and also played as a performer on other musicians' albums. The last entry was made by Lee Morgan the day before his death, in February 1972.

The trumpeter was killed early in the morning on February 19, 1972 on the stage of the New York Jazz Club Slugs "during a concert of his band. Impressed by the quarrel before the concert, his common-law wife Helen More shot him when the musician was going up to the stage. According to the testimony eyewitnesses, Miss More walked into the club and called Lee Morgan by name. He turned around and More shot him. The doorman grabbed her wrist and pulled the gun from her hand. Helen screamed: "Darling, what have I done?" and rushed to the body of Morgan. The bullet hit the chest, death was almost instantaneous. Morgan was 33 years old.

Helen More was arrested, brought to trial. After her release in 1978, she returned to her homeland in North Carolina. She died in Wilmington, New York from heart failure in March 1996.

John Lennon December 8, 1980

John Lennon gives an autograph to his killer Mark David Chapman, Chapman himself is the man in the photo, standing behind. Photo: wikipedia.org

The murder of one of the founders of The Beatles by a fan Mark Chapman has become one of the most notorious crimes of the 20th century. Investigators almost every minute restored the picture of the day of the tragedy on December 8, 1980.

Around ten o'clock in the morning, Lennon and Yoko Ono, in their apartment in the Dakota building, gave John's last interview to a music show on the RKO Radio Network. Around 2:00 pm, photographer Annie Leibovitz arrived at the Lennons' apartment to do a photo shoot for Rolling Stone magazine. At 3:30 p.m. after the shoot, Leibovitz left the apartment. Around 5:00 pm, John and Yoko left the house to get into a limousine that was supposed to take them to the New York Record Plant to mix the song "Walking on Thin Ice" (Ono's song, accompanied by Lennon's lead guitar).

As Lennon, Ono, and the RKO team passed by, the would-be assassin silently handed John a copy of the Double Fantasy album and a pen. He smiled and wrote on the copy: "John Lennon, December 1980." John asked, "Is that all you wanted?" To which Chapman replied, “Yes. Thanks, John"

At approximately 10:30 pm, after four hours of work on "Walking On Thin Ice", the Lennons left the studio and decided to return to the Dakota. Instead of getting out of the limousine in a secure courtyard, the Lennons left it right on 72nd Street. John walked a little behind Youko. He glanced briefly at Chapman as he passed him and continued walking. Seconds later, as the Lennons approached the archway, Mark David Chapman quickly fired five expansive bullets at John from his revolver. John Lennon died in a New York hospital.

Two hours after the murder, Chapman wrote a statement in which he said that two entities supposedly live inside him: the big one is very kind; the smaller one, which does not understand the surrounding world, is the devil. He also said that he never wanted to kill anyone and had nothing against John Lennon, but his lesser essence, with which he fought for a long time, won and committed the murder. On August 24, 1981, the judge sentenced Chapman to imprisonment for a term of 20 years to life, while ordering psychiatric treatment in prison.

Since 2000, Mark David Chapman has been eligible for parole, but all hearings regarding his release, held eight times every two years, were unsuccessful. In 2012, the parole board stated: “Despite your positive efforts during your imprisonment, your release at this time would greatly undermine respect for the law and reduce to banality the tragic loss of life you caused as a result of this monstrous, unprovoked, violent, cold and deliberate crime"

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Igor Talkov, October 6, 1991

The murder of Igor Talkov took place on Sunday October 6, 1991 at the Yubileiny Sports Palace in St. Petersburg during a concert of Soviet pop stars. The singer was killed from a firearm shortly before his appearance on stage in the hallway near his dressing room. The pistol from which the shot was fired has not yet been found. The full composition of the brawl participants is unknown, and the murder itself is still considered unsolved. According to the doctors who tried to bring Talkov back to life, a penetrating gunshot wound to the chest with damage to the heart and lung left him no chance of salvation.

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Tupac Shakur, September 13, 1996

American rapper, film actor and public figure, the first rapper to whom a monument was erected. Shakur has sold over 75 million albums worldwide. Murdered in 1996, the killers were never found.

A year and a half before the murder, accused of rape, Shakur and two of his acquaintances were robbed. Tupac received 5 bullet wounds. Two bullets hit in the groin, two in the head and another pierced the arm. New York rappers The Notorious B.I.G., Puff Daddy and their friends were blamed for the incident. After that, the famous war of the coasts was declared in American hip-hop. The next day, Tupac was convicted on charges of rape, taken into custody pending a final verdict. On February 7, 1995, he was sentenced to imprisonment. While in prison, the rapper recorded an album and went down in history as the first person to release an album while in prison, Me Against the World, which subsequently received multi-platinum status.

September 7, 1996 Tupac Shakur was mortally wounded under circumstances not fully clarified. The rapper's car was shot at by unknown people on the street in Las Vegas.

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Christopher George Leitor Wallace, March 9, 1997

American rapper who has gone by the aliases Biggie Smalls, Frank White and, best known as The Notorious B.I.G. He was the leader of East Coast hip-hop.

Christopher Wallace's second album, Life After Death, released in 1997, won several awards, including Billboard's R'n'B Album of the Year. The album was released posthumously, a few weeks after his tragic death. On the morning of March 9, 1997, Wallace was returning to a Los Angeles hotel after a party when a passing car opened fire on him. The rapper died from five gunshot wounds before arriving at a nearby hospital.

Biggie's public funeral was accompanied by riots. Thousands of people in Brooklyn climbed onto cars and clashed with police for a glimpse of his hearse.

The rapper's murder brought public attention to the so-called "rap war" and called for reconciliation on both sides. Both coast rappers such as Snoop Dogg, Chuck D, Doug E. Fresh and others attended a summit held in Chicago where a unity pact was signed that included a combined tour and album. Wallace's murder, like Tupac's, remains unsolved.

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Dimebag Darrell December 8, 2004

One of the founders of the American metal bands Pantera and Damageplan, Darrell Lance Abbott, better known as Dimebag Darrell, was killed at his own concert in Columbus, Ohio on December 8, 2004.

That day, during a Pantera concert at the Alrosa Villa club, a mentally unstable fan, Nathan Gale, opened fire with a pistol, killing four people (including Darrell) and seriously injuring two. Dimebag received five wounds, one of which was to the head, killing him instantly. The musician was 38 years old.

According to the police, Gale managed to fire 15 shots and reload the weapon once. He remained silent during the shooting and was shot dead on the spot by the arriving police officers.

Early theories suggested that Gale was motivated by the breakup of Pantera or a conflict between Abbott and Pantera vocalist Phil Anselmo. But this was refuted during the investigation. Another hypothesis is that Gale believed that Abbott stole the song from him. The book A Vulgar Display Of Power, for which the killer's mother provided the author with many of Gale's personal notes, states that this is also not true, but due to schizophrenia, Gale believed that the group could read and steal his thoughts and laugh at him.

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Christina Grimmie, June 11, 2016

American pianist and singer, finalist of the sixth season of the popular television show The Voice was killed after her concert in Orlando by 27-year-old Kevin Loibl.

A resident of St. Petersburg, Florida, fired five shots at the 22-year-old singer during an autograph session. Grimmie's brother, Marcus, got into a fight with the attacker, after which the killer shot himself. The girl died in a hospital in Orlando. Loibl's motives are still unknown.

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Soviet actors whose lives were cut short due to ridiculous accidents

It's no secret that during the filming of dangerous episodes, actors are most often replaced by stuntmen, and it is their lives that are often at risk. They manage to avoid injuries only thanks to their own professionalism and special training. However, in the history of cinema there have been such tragic cases when the actors themselves took on the performance of complex stunts and paid for it with their lives. This happened to three Soviet actors whose lives ended prematurely and absurdly...

Frame from the film *Ivanna*, 1959

Inna Burduchenko's film career ended as soon as it began. The very first role in the film "Ivanna" (1959) brought her success, and the audience began to call the actress Ivushka by the name of her heroine. She played the daughter of a priest who renounced God, which later became the reason for persistent rumors that this film was anathematized by the Pope. These rumors were born after the Soviet football players visited Rome for the Olympic Games and heard about the anathema there. Decades later, the press again started talking about the curse that allegedly hung over the picture - the death of the 21-year-old actress seemed too ridiculous.


Inna Burduchenko in the film *Ivanna*, 1959

Actress Inna Burduchenko

Her life was cut short just a year after a successful film debut. On the set of the film “Nobody Loved Like This,” the heroine Burduchenko had to carry the banner out of the house, engulfed in flames. The actress worked without an understudy. They shot several takes, and during the last one a tragedy occurred: Inna's heel got stuck in wooden boards, and at that moment a burning beam collapsed on her. Miner Sergei Ivanov, who starred in the extras, rushed into the house and carried the actress out. Unfortunately, it was too late - she received 78% burns, and it was not possible to save her. The director of the film was sentenced to 4 years in prison and suspended from filming.

The film career of Yevgeny Urbansky was short, but very bright. After the first role, he won popularity and love of the audience. His film debut was the film "Communist" (1957), for participation in which he received the main prizes at festivals in Kiev and Venice. Two years later, he starred in the title role in the film The Unsent Letter. After 36 years, Francis Ford Coppola undertook the restoration of this painting and financed its distribution in the United States. In 1961, the success of Evgeny Urbansky secured the film "Clear Sky", recognized as the best picture of the year in the USSR. It seemed that a bright future awaited him, but despite all the prerequisites, he did not succeed in becoming one of the first Soviet movie stars. he managed to star in only 9 films.


Yevgeny Urbansky in the film *Communist*, 1957

Frame from the film *Communist*, 1957

In 1965, on the set of The Director, an accident occurred that took the life of a 33-year-old actor. He had a permanent understudy, a professional athlete, but the actor preferred to perform most of the tricks on his own. The first take was shot without incident, but the director suggested that the stunt be made more difficult by making the car bounce higher and that another take be shot. The truck, driven by Yevgeny Urbansky, jumped up on a sand dune and suddenly overturned. The actor broke his cervical vertebrae and died on the way to the hospital. After the tragic death of Urbansky, the picture was closed, and 4 years later it was re-shot with another actor.


Frame from the movie *Clear Sky*, 1961

Soviet actor whose life was cut short by a ridiculous accident

The sudden death of Urbansky immediately gave rise to many ridiculous rumors that made his colleagues resent. So, Aleksey Batalov said indignantly: “When they said about Urbansky that he died because he was drunk, nothing more offensive can be imagined. Once I almost quarreled with the audience, which I never do, because the gossip about Urbansky is monstrously unfair. I know that he was the most conscientious actor, that if he got into this car, which became his grave, it was only so that these very spectators would believe in his hero ... ".

Andrei Rostotsky in the film *Days of the Turbins*, 1976

Frame from the film *Loop*, 1983

Andrey Rostotsky, the son of the famous director Stanislav Rostotsky, often starred in military and heroic adventure films, staged stunts and took part in them himself, without the help of understudies, since 1997 he worked as an instructor at the Vitalis transnational survival school, deputy general director of the Russian Expeditions and Travels Foundation, conducted expeditions to the Crimean caves, was a member of the jury of the Moscow International Stunt Festival. No one doubted his experience and professionalism.


Soviet and Russian actor Andrey Rostotsky

In 2002, Rostotsky went to shoot the film "My Border", which took place in the area of ​​a ski resort near Sochi. The places where the tricks were to be filmed, he usually examined himself. Relying on his athletic training, he tried to climb the mountain slope at the Maiden's Tears waterfall without insurance and fell down from a 40-meter height. It was not possible to save the actor - he died in the hospital without regaining consciousness. The widow of Rostotsky said: “And the waterfall is called so for a reason: people died there before. There are many moving stones in this place - it seems that the boulder is firmly on the ground, but in fact it is hanging in the air. Andrey stepped on one of these. After his death, some kind of fence was put up there and a warning sign was hung ... ".


Actor with wife and daughter

Yuri Kamorny, who made his debut in the film "Zosya", was known as one of the most beautiful actors in Soviet cinema. However, his success was short-lived. At the age of 37, Kamorny died. Whether it was a stray bullet or aimed fire still remains a mystery.

Pretty boy

Yuri Yuryevich Kamorny was born in 1944 in Alapaevsk. His mother worked at the school as an English teacher. That is why the talented artist spoke this language so well. Soon the Kamorny family moved to the Murmansk region in the city of Kirovsk. From there, in 1962, Yuri went to Leningrad to enter the State Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography.

Five years later, the picture of Mikhail Bogin "Zosya" appeared on the screens of the country, one of the main roles in which was played by Yuri Kamorny. The film was very fond of the Soviet audience. And, of course, the representatives of the fair sex paid special attention to the handsome Kamorny. Until the end of his life, he will be popular with women and even be considered a kind of playboy.

Passion

Nevertheless, while still a student, Yuri got married. A daughter appeared in the family. But the marriage soon fell apart. Perhaps the reason for this was fame and, as a result, the actor's frequent trips to the side. In addition, even then he had some problems with alcohol.

In addition to women and alcohol, Kamorny, probably, like any man, adored weapons, in particular cold ones. An enviable collection has gathered in his room in a communal apartment. At the same time, Yuri perfectly owned all the weapons of his impromptu museum. He threw knives like a real pro.

None of these passions interfered with Kamorny in his main work. He starred in more than 30 films and played in the theater. However, alcohol still ruined, if not a career, but the life of a brilliant actor.

fatal shot

On November 27, 1981, Yuri Kamorny was at home, in a Leningrad communal apartment, and was drinking. At some point, the neighbors, apparently concerned about the noise, decided to call a narcologist. Although, it may turn out, they did this more than once when the actor fell into another binge. Some witnesses claimed that they called the police after a woman screamed from Kamorny's room. Be that as it may, the narcologist has arrived. And accompanied by policemen.

Kamorny grabbed a knife from his collection and put it to the throat of a certain lady, apparently from the company of his drinking companions. One of the law enforcement officers shot and hit the artist in the femoral artery. Yuri's death was almost instantaneous.

It seemed like an ordinary accident. But this story is replete with contradictory facts and the same eyewitness accounts. The injured woman herself changed her testimony more than once. And the writer Mikhail Veller claims that the policeman shot Kamorny not in the leg, but right in the head.

Virginia Rapp

In the 1920s, Virginia Rapp was known as one of the most beautiful starlets in Hollywood. Her unexpected death came a few days after Roscoe Arbuckle's raucous party, which he threw about a successful contract with Paramount. Some of the eyewitnesses of that "spree" claim that Rapp was beaten and brutally raped during a drunken orgy, which led to damage to the internal organs of the pelvis and death from peritonitis. Arbuckle was declared the rapist, but the criminal court failed to bring any charges against the comedian three times, believing that Rapp could have been the victim of an unsuccessful abortion that led to sepsis and death.

William Desmond Taylor

Having managed to make almost six dozen films between 1914 and 1922, William Desmond Taylor was considered one of the most promising Hollywood directors, but the director's life was interrupted by a shot in the back within the walls of his own home. The first suspicion fell on actress Mabel Normand, who last saw Taylor alive, but investigators could not find evidence of Normand's guilt. The investigation was greatly hampered by the fact that numerous friends of the director arrived at the crime scene before the police and "trampled" the evidence, but for a long time the main versions of what happened were the revenge of the drug dealers, from whom Taylor tried to protect his mistress, and the jealousy of the rejected actress Mary Miles Minter. Alas, the case fell apart due to lack of evidence.

Thelma Todd

Thelma Todd began her career in the era of silent films, the actress starred with Buster Keaton and the Marx brothers. With the advent of the sound era, Todd successfully moved from comedies to dramas and melodramas, but by the end of 1935 her financial situation had deteriorated sharply. This was the reason to consider Telma's poisoning by exhaust gases a suicide - the actress was found dead in her car. Todd's body was cremated and no autopsy was performed, but some witnesses claim that the 29-year-old blonde's face was disfigured with bruises and the upholstery of the car was marred with bloodstains. The ex-husband of the actress, as well as the famous gangster Lucky Luciano allegedly rejected by the star, were suspected of violence, but no evidence of these versions was found.

Elizabeth Short

Elizabeth Short, who worked as a waitress at the time of her death, can only be called a movie star - it was not the modest roles that she managed to subscribe to that made her a celebrity in the world of cinema, but her acquaintances with the Los Angeles establishment and the interest in her history of screenwriters that followed the murder directors. Nicknamed the Black Dahlia (or Black Orchid in Russian localization) for her passion for black clothing, Short was found dead in January 1947. Her body was dismembered, her face was mutilated, the blood was thoroughly washed away, Elizabeth was tortured, beaten and sexually abused. Despite a large number of suspects, the police were never able to find the killer, and Short's death remains unpunished.

George Reeves

The Kryptonian made one of the first performers of the role of Superman George Reeves famous, but not invulnerable. In the summer of 1959, the actor was found with a fatal gunshot wound to the head, and everything pointed to suicide, except for a couple of strange circumstances: the four people who were with Reeves in his house were in no hurry to call the police, and the cartridges for the pistol scattered in the room could indicate the fight that precedes the fatal shot. The police suspected the abandoned wife of George Reeves, as well as the director of the MGM studio Eddie Mannix, whose wife Tony allegedly slept with Superman the day before. In 1999, information appeared about the recognition of Toni Mannix in the murder of Reeves, but no confirmation of this was found.

Marilyn Monroe

The most famous blonde in Hollywood, Marilyn Monroe, was officially recognized as a suicide - this is evidenced by the difficult psycho-emotional state of the actress in mid-1962, frequent visits to doctors, problems with alcohol. The idea of ​​killing conspiracy lovers was suggested by the fact that the idol of millions did not leave a suicide note, and the place of her death was furnished as in an ideal movie scene: several empty sleeping pills, pills on the bed and a telephone receiver in her hand. It seems to many that Marilyn could have been the victim of a murder masquerading as suicide, the cause of which was the actress's relationship with the Kennedy brothers. Speculation about this still pops up in the yellow press.

Christa Helm

Charming Christa Helm was just getting ready to become a big Hollywood star - her career was just beginning - but she managed to reach the top only in the manipulation of men. The girl quickly realized that she could move up the career ladder by providing sexual services, but she was let down by the habit of keeping a diary and writing there about all her adventures. Moreover, Helm planned to release a book of memoirs. Krista was killed at her home, an unknown person jumped up behind her and inflicted more than thirty stabs with a knife. Of course, the starlet's diary (aka an expanded list of suspects) disappeared, the book was not destined to happen. Many years later, DNA analysis showed that the killer was a woman, but this did not bring the police any closer.

Bob Crane

American actor, musician and radio host Bob Crane starred in a large number of films and TV shows, but the public was really excited by the films, the existence of which was revealed only after the death of the actor. It turned out that Crane, experiencing a constant sexual hunger, regularly met with a variety of women and, with the help of his friend John Carpenter (no, not a director, just a complete namesake), recorded his bed games on video. After another such “horizontal meeting”, the actor was found dead - the body was beaten, and the cord of an electrical appliance was entangled around the neck. Traces of blood of the same type as Crane's were found on the seat of Carpenter's car, but the investigation was so unprofessional that the suspect had to be released. However, the killer could be one of the actor's mistresses or her husband, furious with treason.

Natalie Wood

The 43-year-old West Side Story and Rebel Without a Cause star Natalie Wood was found dead in November 1981 near her husband Robert Wagner's yacht. The day before, the couple was relaxing in their country house in the company of actor Christopher Walken, and initially the investigation decided that Wood went for a ride in a boat at night and accidentally slipped into the water. The actress's hydrophobia did not really fit into this scheme, as did the evidence of the actress's quarrel with her husband and closeness with Walken on the night of death. The case was closed for 30 years, but in 2011 the police again became interested in Wood's death. True, according to investigators, Wagner and Walken are beyond suspicion, someone else could be involved in the case.

Peter Ivers

Rock musician Peter Ivers was best known for his work in the American New Wave Theatre, but his many connections with Hollywood stars, as well as writing music for films by David Lynch and Ron Howard, made Ivers a well-known person in film circles. This fame was the reason why the murder of Peter Iwers has not yet been solved. In 1983, the musician was found beaten to death in his Los Angeles apartment with a hammer, but the fact that numerous friends of the deceased arrived at the crime scene before the police made it impossible to investigate in hot pursuit. Many believe that Ivers' acquaintances deliberately destroyed the evidence in order to shield someone famous, but it is possible that the death was the result of a failed banal robbery. So far, the case has not been solved, and the circle of suspects has not decreased.

Ronnie Chasen

Ronnie Chasen was a peculiar Hollywood "star" - the sister of director Larry Cohen worked as a PR manager for several actors and a very famous publicist, for whose support many directors, composers and producers applied. So on the night of her murder in 2010, Chasen was returning home after the premiere of the film "Burlesque" - late at night, the police found a woman shot to death while driving her Mercedes. Detectives quickly determined that Ronnie was the victim of a botched robbery, but some of the facts of the case do not add up. First, the victim's wallet remained intact. Secondly, the quickly identified suspect shot himself when the police came to arrest him, but this would-be killer was a simple con man, while the assassination of the publicist looked like it had been carried out by a professional hitman. So far, detectives find it difficult to say whether the murder was accidental or custom-made, and whether there is a customer for this crime.

In this post, I will tell you about the most mysterious deaths of Russian celebrities who died under strange and inexplicable circumstances. I advise you to read, then you will learn a lot of interesting information.

Vasily Shukshin

His last year of life was very successful ... Sergei Bondarchuk offered Shukshin the role of Lopakhin in the film "They Fought for the Motherland." Filming began in August 1974 on the Don. By the beginning of October, Shukshin had almost completely completed the role, he had to star in the last episode. On October 4, he was supposed to return to Moscow ...

On October 1, Shukshin felt well. He called home to Moscow from the post office, went to the bathhouse, and until late at night, together with everyone else, watched the USSR-Canada hockey match on TV. Upon completion, they separated. At about nine o'clock in the morning Burkov went out into the corridor with the intention of waking Shukshin. He recalls: “I knocked on Shukshin’s door. The door was not locked. But I didn’t go in. I was afraid of something. I called out to him. It was time for him to get up for the shooting.
From the memoirs of Burkov: "I went down the corridor and ran into Gubenko. "Nikolai, - I asked, - look at Vasya, he will soon be shooting, but he doesn’t get up for some reason." He came in. He began to shake his shoulder, hand, as if lifeless, touched the pulse, but it was not there. Shukshin died in his sleep. "From heart failure," the doctors said "...

There is a version that on that fateful night there was a murder on the ship "Danube". After all, Vasily Makarovich never complained about his heart. Before filming, Shukshin was examined in the "Kremlin hospital". According to some members of the film crew, a day or two before the death of the actor, a stranger appeared on the site where the film "They Fought for the Motherland" was filmed. And no one knew where he came from and for what purpose he wandered there. And he disappeared immediately after the death of Vasily Makarovich.

Zoya Fedorova

On December 11, 1981, 71-year-old actress Zoya Fedorova was shot in the back of her head in her three-room apartment No. 243 at 4/2 Kutuzovsky Prospekt. The murder has not yet been solved. Among his possible motives are the alleged involvement of the actress in secret KGB operations (there were rumors of KGB involvement in the murder) and her connection with the so-called "diamond mafia", which consisted mainly of relatives of high-ranking Soviet officials and was engaged in buying and reselling jewelry and antiques.

Viktor Tsoi

On August 15, 1990, at 12:15 pm, on the 35th km of the Soka-Talsi (Latvia) highway, a dark blue Moskvich-2141 car collided with an Ikarus-280 regular bus. The driver of the "Moskvich" was a famous musician, the leader of the "Kino" group Viktor Tsoi.

The official version: "the car was moving along the highway at a speed of at least 130 km / h, the driver Viktor Robertovich Tsoi lost control. The death of V.R. Tsoi came instantly..."
From the case file:
"Ikarus-250" was blown off the road into the small river Töitupe, over the bridge... The driver J.K. Phibiks, who works in the Tallinn branch of Latselhoztechnika, escaped with minor bruises and fright. Before that, he took the tourist group to the airport and returned back.
The new "Moskvich-2141" Ya6832 MM was thrown 18 meters to the bridge with a powerful blow. Only the rear bumper remained intact. On examination, it is noticeable that the blow to the car fell from left to right, front to back. Apparently, the front bumper of the "Ikarus" went over the hood of the "Moskvich" straight into the cabin. The steering wheel is bent on the driver's side, the seats are knocked down, the front panel shield is broken. The hood flew off, everything else was crumpled."

A forensic medical examination showed that no alcohol was found in the blood of the deceased. Death occurred as a result of an accident from numerous injuries to the body. The criminal case was not initiated "due to the lack of corpus delicti in the actions of the drivers." And, consequently, forensic, investigative and other examinations were not carried out.

Mike Naumenko

In August 1991, Mike Naumenko, the leader of the Zoopark group, was found dead in his room in a communal apartment on Razezzhaya Street: the cause of his death was a fracture of the base of the skull. Doctors determined that death occurred on August 27, 1991 from a cerebral hemorrhage.
The circumstances of his death remain largely mysterious. As the rock journalist N. Kharitonov wrote: "With Tsoi, at least, everything was clear - if not in essence, then in form - how it all happened. Mike ... just disappeared, leaving no traces."

The drummer of the Zoopark group Valery Kirilov expressed a different point of view: according to him, Mike Naumenko really died of a cerebral hemorrhage, but it did not occur due to natural causes, but due to a fracture of the base of the skull as a result of a severe blow inflicted on him in the yard in robbery time. This is evidenced by the loss of personal belongings of Mike Naumenko.
There is also the testimony of one teenager who allegedly saw Mike being picked up from the ground in the yard. After the attack, Mike did not die on the spot, but managed to go up to his house, but there he finally weakened and lay unconscious for a long time, not noticed by anyone in the communal apartment. When his family finally found him and called an ambulance, it was already too late.
Alexey Rybin, producer of Mike Naumenko's album of songs "Mike Period Park", had his own version: "Of course, alcohol is to blame. On the night before his death, Vasin drank heavily. Mike was ill, in very serious condition, with a black face. In in such a state, falling with the back of your head on the asphalt is easier than a lung. Mike received a fracture of the base of the skull - a typical alcoholic death, when a person falls on his back in deep intoxication.

Igor Talkov

Igor Talkov was killed on October 6, 1991. It all happened in the Yubileiny Sports Palace in St. Petersburg: the singer was shot right near the dressing room as a result of a scuffle with his concert director Valery Shlyafman and Igor Malakhov. The second possible suspect in the singer's murder, Shlyafman, now lives in Israel. Criminal proceedings on the death of Talkov were suspended several years ago, but not closed.

During the investigation into the murder of Talkov, his administrator Valery Shlyafman became one of the main suspects, along with Aziza's bodyguard Igor Malakhov, who on October 6, 1991 started a showdown with shooting. After a series of examinations, the investigation concluded that the last, fatal, shot was fired from Shlyafman's pistol.
The funeral of the legendary musician, who died at the height of his fame, was crowded. The burial to this day is a place of pilgrimage for connoisseurs of his work, and a lot of mystical is connected with the grave itself, as well as with the life of Talkov.

Igor Sorin

According to the official version, Igor Sorin, the ex-soloist of the Ivanushki-International group, jumped out of the balcony of the sixth floor of the Kosmos studio. At 7.10 am Igor was taken to the 71st city hospital. Doctors ascertained a fracture of the first and fifth cervical vertebrae, kidney contusion, complete paralysis of the lower body, partial paralysis of the arms. The decision was made to operate. The operation was successful, but the artist's heart could not stand it, and on September 4, the artist died.

Meanwhile, in July 2013, Andrey Grigoriev-Appolonov told in an interview with Yevgeny Dodolev (Moskva-24 channel) that in fact there was a manslaughter: Igor's neck was accidentally twisted and then thrown out of the window to hide the circumstances of death . Grigoriev-Apollonov clarified that he visited Sorin in the hospital - he was still conscious. “He didn’t have bruises. Will you fall from the seventh floor without bruises?” continued “red-haired Ivanushka.” “Some karateka just twisted his neck.” In this regard, on August 29, 2013, State Duma deputy Nadezhda Shkolkina sent a request to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation, Yu.

Michael Krug

On the night of June 30 to July 1, 2002, an attack was made on Krug's house in the village of Mamulino (Tver microdistrict). In the house, in addition to the singer, there were four more people - his wife, mother-in-law and children. The door of the three-story house was open.
Two unknown intruders entered the third floor of the house between approximately 11:00 p.m. and 0:15 a.m., where they found Krug's mother-in-law, and attacked her, causing her bodily harm. Mikhail Krug and his wife Irina ran to the screams of the woman. The criminals opened fire with pistols. Irina managed to hide with her neighbors, and Mikhail received two severe gunshot wounds, after which he lost consciousness for a while. The perpetrators fled the scene. Krug, who came to his senses, managed to get to the house of his neighbor Vadim Rusakov, where his wife was hiding. Rusakov took him to Tver City Hospital No. 6. In the meantime, the police and an ambulance arrived and found his wounded mother-in-law in Krug's house. The children of the Circle were not injured, as they were sleeping at the time of the crime. Mikhail Krug himself, despite the efforts of doctors, died on the morning of July 1.

A farewell memorial service was held on July 3 at 10 am at the Tver Drama Theatre. The funeral was attended by Vladimir Zhirinovsky, Alexander Semchev, Efrem Amiramov, Katya Ogonyok, the Zhemchuzhny brothers, Vika Tsyganova, many leaders of the Tver region, including its governor, Vladimir Platov. The funeral procession of cars stretched for several kilometers. After the funeral service in the Resurrection Cathedral in Tver, Krug was buried at the Dmitrov-Cherkassky cemetery.
Versions of the murder were built very different. For example, producer Vadim Tsyganov suggested that this could be an attempted robbery. Shortly before the murder, Krug recorded an album under the working title "Tverichanka" (later released under the name "Confession"), for which he was supposed to receive a fee from day to day. This version was dismissed by those who believed that Krug was sincerely respected in criminal circles, but it was she who was the most popular at the beginning of the investigation. According to another version, the Circle became the victim of a planned, and, possibly, contract killing.

Murat Nasyrov

According to the official version, Murat Nasyrov committed suicide. The prosecutor's office completed the investigation into the death of the singer and, having not found any evidence confirming the violent nature of his death, closed the case. On January 19, 2007, the singer jumped from the fifth floor, putting a camera around his neck and clutching his own portrait to his chest.

The singer’s relatives said: “For us, Murat’s death is still a mystery. But we know for sure: he definitely wasn’t going to die. But they could have pushed him to this!...
- Murat could have been poisoned, - the singer's brother believes. - This is the assumption of our family. Three hours before the incident, he was sitting in a company, everyone was drinking a cocktail. Murat also drank. Then he left, and the girl Christina from the company felt bad after the cocktail, she doesn’t even remember what happened to her next ... And Murat came home ...
From the story of his brother: “They show that Murat called Baghlan Sadvakasov’s close friend from home:“ Zhanna, everything is fine. When those events happened to Murat, that he allegedly fell into a seizure, wanted to commit suicide, they said that the daughter allegedly sent her mother a cellular message, and the mobile phone, it turns out, was at home!
“He was going to go somewhere. What happened, why did he dress so beautifully? And then, where is the camera that they all talk about? .. And then the fact itself: who saw Murat fall from the window? Murat took everything with him. But I am convinced that there was no suicide or accident."

Roman Trachtenberg

The death of the famous showman, successful TV and radio host Roman Trachtenberg struck all his colleagues, close friends and the public. Roman Trachtenberg was 41 years old, he said about himself that he had never been sick. On November 20, 2009, during the live broadcast of the Trakhty-Barakty program on Mayak, he suddenly became ill. His co-host Lena Batinova recalls: “When some song was on the air, Roma said:“ Batinova, I feel bad ... I took him to the window so that he could breathe fresh air. The editors called an ambulance, but she didn’t did not have time to take Roma to the hospital.
According to the official conclusion of experts, Trachtenberg died due to acute cardiovascular insufficiency and coronary heart disease, he also had problems with the liver. The experts explained that the causes of death were obvious: Trachtenberg had a weak heart. An average dose of alcohol was found in Roman's blood, there were no traces of drugs.
Before his death, Roman often spoke on the air about constant dreams in which he invariably died. Literally a few hours before the tragedy, on his last live broadcast, he pathetically noted: "I want to die on stage ...".

Vladimir Turchinsky

Vladimir Turchinsky died on December 16, 2009 in his country house in the village of Pashukovo, Noginsk district. According to experts, Turchinsky died as a result of acute coronary insufficiency. Upon the death of Vladimir Turchinsky, investigators checked the medical facilities where he was observed for the last six months of his life. One of the clinics that was checked first of all was a hospital in the Begovaya district, where Dynamite performed a blood purification procedure.
His friends said: “Volodya was supposed to stay in the clinic for a day after the transfusion, but instead he immediately went home to spend the night. he was crazy ... All because of this rejuvenation "

Vladislav Galkin

On February 27, 2010, at about 2:00 pm, Vladislav Galkin was found dead in a Moscow apartment. The day before, the actor's father sounded the alarm, informing a family friend that Vladislav had not been in touch for more than a day. Friends came to the actor's apartment, but no one answered the doorbell. The called rescue team opened the door of the apartment at 14:07. According to differing reports, the body of the actor was found in bed, or on the floor, he was lying face down.

During the initial external examination of the body, no signs of violent death were found. The examination showed that the actor died approximately two to three days before the discovery of the body, and acute heart failure with cardiac arrest was named the cause of death. The death certificate lists "cardiomyopathy (sudden cardiac arrest)" as the cause.
In the program "Man and the Law", the father of Vladislav Galkin, actor Boris Galkin, provided facts on the basis of which one can make an assumption about a premeditated murder. So, on February 19, Vladislav Galkin withdrew $ 136,000 from the bank, which he was going to spend on repairs in the apartment he bought after breaking up with his wife. According to his father, the actor kept the money at home (which the alleged customers and perpetrators of the crime could know about); in addition, threatening SMS messages came to the phone of Galkin Jr., and a few days after the visit to the bank, bruises appeared on the face of the actor.
According to Boris Galkin, abrasions and bruises were visible on the body of an already dead actor and during the initial medical examination immediately after the discovery of the corpse. The amount indicated by Galkin Sr. was not found during the search of the apartment. The father was also embarrassed by the presence in the room next to the body of a bottle of cognac and a package of tomato juice: after Vladislav was diagnosed with pancreatitis, he stopped drinking alcohol and went on a diet. The version of Boris Galkin is also supported by a family friend, doctor Mikhail Zakharov, who suggests that the characteristic bruising and hemorrhage speak of death as a result of strangulation.

Alexander Belyavsky

On September 8, 2012, in the center of Moscow, People's Artist Alexander Belyavsky died jumping out of the window of his apartment. The performer of the role of Fox in the Soviet TV series "The meeting place cannot be changed" died on the spot as a result of hitting the ground, law enforcement agencies reported.
According to preliminary data, the 80-year-old actor jumped out of a window on the landing between the fifth and sixth floors of a residential building. At the same time, he lived on the second floor and, after suffering a stroke, could hardly move. The eldest daughter of the actor, Nadezhda, claims that even if he could independently climb the stairs to the fifth floor, he could hardly climb onto the windowsill. She is absolutely sure that the death of her father is a tragic accident. He could have fallen out of the window due to heart problems.

Andrei Panin

On March 7, 2013, Andrey Panin was found dead in an apartment building on Balaklavsky Prospekt. Initially, the cause of death was given as an accident. The actor was found lying on the floor in his apartment, and experts at first believed that he fell from his own height and hit his head.
However, some time later, forensic experts came to the conclusion that before his death, the artist was severely beaten. The actor had multiple fractures of the vault and base of the skull, severe brain contusion, abrasions on the knuckles and bruises on his knees. Strange sounds and groans were also heard by the neighbors, who did not pay due attention to them.

"They beat me with hard blunt objects. Wooden legs from stools and chairs. And also with bottles," experts say. They said that they found fragments of glass in Panin's wounds, which got there during blows. Also on Panin's head there were at least three serious wounds.
A close friend of the artist, Boris Polunin, said that at the time Panin's body was found, the entire apartment was covered in blood. "There was blood in all the rooms," he said. According to him, Andrei Panin was found in the kitchen, while the balcony was closed and propped up with a kitchen table and chairs.
Investigators opened a criminal case on the death of actor Andrei Panin in Moscow. The case was initiated under part 4, article 111 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (causing grievous bodily harm, negligently resulting in the death of the victim).

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