One of the most brutal gang wars of the early 1990s is considered to be the shooting at the club of the Ryazselmash plant in Ryazan, which was planned and carried out on November 26, 1993 by the Slonovskaya organized crime group. We read further about this criminal group of the 90s.

The Slonovskaya organized crime group, organized in 1991 in Ryazan, was originally called “Prezentovskaya” (the meeting place of the group’s members was the Ryazan restaurant “Prezent”.

The group arose when the former driver of the Ryazan deputy city prosecutor Nikolai Maksimov, nicknamed Max (pictured left) and taxi driver Vyacheslav Ermolov (Elephant) decided to organize a game of thimbles in the city.

Thimble gambling was a common business among criminal gangs in the 1990s. Many people started this way. The Thimbles adhered to a strict hierarchy and discipline. This was also reflected in the income distribution. 25% of each ruble was received by the thimble maker himself - the “grassroots”. 10% went to the “top” (front men), 5% went to the “lighthouses” (those who were involved in the cover), half of the proceeds was taken by the “godfather” - the organizer.

Elephant had several groups of thimble makers, but the income did not suit him. Soon, gang members began committing fraud when buying and selling cars at the local car market. As a result of the bandits' actions, both the seller and the buyer were left without money and a car.

In the early 1990s, a fraud case was brought against the group's leaders, but many victims then retracted their testimony. As a result, Maksimov received a suspended sentence, and the court did not find any corpus delicti in the actions of Ermolov (pictured).

After this, the gang began to engage mainly in racketeering, for which Elephant created several “brigades”, each of which included at least a hundred people. By that time, Ryazan had already been divided between organized crime groups, the most powerful of which was considered Airapetovskaya, whose leader was Viktor Airapetov (pictured). After the murder of the director of a local meat processing plant, Viktor Panarin, who was protected by the Elephant gang, a war began between the groups.

On November 26, 1993, four “Slonovskys” in the Selmash recreation center in the center of Ryazan opened fire from machine guns at the “Ayrapetovskys” resting there. Seven people were killed, ten more were wounded, Airapetov himself managed to survive.

In response to this, on March 31, 1994, Maksimov was shot. At his funeral service on April 3, the “Ayrapetovskys” attempted to blow up the “elephants,” but an explosive with a radio-controlled fuse went off 150 m from the temple. On November 18, 1994, a member of the group, Leonid Stepakhov, nicknamed Bubble, shot and killed Dmitry Kochetkov, the leader of the Kochetkovskaya organized crime group, and in February 1995 of the year - the leader of another Ryazan group, Alexander Arkhipov. So the “elephants” became the largest organized crime group in Ryazan.

The Slonovskaya organized crime group actively collaborated with other groups, including the Volgovskaya - one of the largest in Togliatti. On November 18, 1994, eight “elephant” killers were sent to Togliatti, led by Gorelov and Nikolai Danilevich (aka “Kolya Togliattisky”, pictured on the left). On November 24, they held their first action against Volgovskie’s competitors. Dmitry Moguchev, nicknamed Lenin, and Vitaly Akhmetov, nicknamed Akhmet (right), near the parking lot, shot several times at a member of the organized crime group, Vladimir Vdovin, nicknamed Partner, but he remained alive.

Since 1993, the group has been involved not only in racketeering, but also in financial pyramids, as well as fraud with postal credit notifications. So, through the PIKO pyramid, the “elephants” collected 17 billion rubles from investors, and then, in November 1994, Alexey Sergeev, nicknamed Lyopa (left), shot its director Sergei Knyazhesky. At the same time, in Togliatti, eight killers from the Slonovskaya group committed one contract murder and a number of assassination attempts. In the spring of 1995, the authority Sergei Filaretov, nicknamed Felix (in the center), joined the organized crime group. He tried to introduce thieves' laws into the gang.

In the summer of 1995, the director of the Ryazan meat processing plant, Vasily Panarin, was killed, who tried to come under the “roof” of the Slonovskaya organized crime group. Having learned about this, a certain Chekirov, whose gang controlled the meat processing plant, shot the director, hoping to take his post. In response, Sergei Filaretov (Felix) killed Chekirov and his two accomplices on December 11, 1995. The murder of Panarin led to a change in the head of the Ryazan Central Internal Affairs Directorate, who became Ivan Perov, who began to actively work against the Slonovskaya organized crime group. At the same time, the Slonovskys decided to eliminate their last competitor, Viktor Airapetov (pictured on the left). He was killed in November 1995.

After the murder of Airapetov, the “elephants” no longer had any competitors. The organized crime group quickly became central in Ryazan, controlling markets, offices, housing offices, factories and collective farms. At the same time, the bandits lived in grand style; the Present restaurant remained their favorite vacation spot.

On September 9, 1996, six members of the Slonovskaya group kidnapped businessman Khodzhiev and demanded a ransom. That same month, they were all detained and subsequently admitted to committing almost 20 contract killings. On October 1, the prosecutor's office of the Ryazan region opened another criminal case against members of an organized crime group. In a short period, most of the “Elephant” killers, led by Leonid Stepakhov (right), were arrested. In the photo, from left to right: Dmitry Moguchev (“Lenin”), Alexander Gorelov (“Morda”).

At the beginning of June 2004, the Ryazan District Court reduced Leonid Stepakhov’s sentence from 15 to 11 years, and on July 9 he was released on his own recognizance. Later, the prosecutor's office challenged the court's decision, but Stepakhov fled. On July 26, 2006, he was detained in Kolomna, near Moscow, and on July 30, he was transferred to Ryazan.

On January 25, 2000, the Ryazan Regional Court sentenced 22 gang members to a total of 214 years in prison. For the trial, a special cage was ordered from the machine-building plant. The reading of the verdict took three days; 86 murders were proven. Some of the group's leaders, including Ermolov, are still wanted.

On May 5, 2006, an attempt was made on the life of Sergei Vasiliev, co-owner of the Petersburg Oil Terminal (PNT) JV. The alleged perpetrators of the crime were former members of the Slonovsky organized crime group, brothers Oleg and Andrey Mikhalev. In October 2006, they received 18.5 and 20 years in prison. It was reported that the order to kill the businessman came from the authority of Vladimir Barsukov (Kumarin), who was trying to take possession of the terminal.

Seven members of the group are still on the federal wanted list. According to some information, the leader Ermolov lives in Europe, where he does business. One of the former members of the Slonovskaya organized crime group, Fedor Provotorov (“Fedya Lysy”), has been politically active since 1999.

In the cemeteries of our vast homeland you can find unusual tombstones with images of respectable men. Expensive suits, leather jackets, tattoos and gold chains - all this flaunts on the monuments belonging to the crime bosses of the dashing 90s and their entourage.

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

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

Young Aslan Usoyan in the top row in the middle

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

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

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

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

The grave of Boris "Soda" Chubarov

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

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

Grave of Ivankov Vyacheslav Kirillovich (“Jap”)

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

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

Lev Genkin's grave "Tits"

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

The grave of Nikolai Tutberidze (“Matsi”)

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

Portrait of Malkhaz Minadze on the tombstone of his grave

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

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

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

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

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

What do you think of these creations?

On August 8, 2003, one of the last surviving leaders of the Orekhov group, Andrei Pylev, nicknamed Dwarf, was detained in the Spanish resort of Marbella. Among the most notorious crimes of the organized crime group is the murder of the killer Alexander Solonik and businessman Otari Kvantrishvili. Who were the Orekhovskys and what happened to them - in the Kommersant-Online photo gallery.
The Orekhovskaya organized crime group was formed in the south of Moscow in the area of ​​Shipilovskaya Street in the late 1980s. It mainly included young people aged 18–25 with common sports interests.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One of the most high-profile cases of the Orekhovskaya organized crime group was the murder of businessman Otari Kvantrishvili, associated with criminal circles. He was killed on April 5, 1994, while leaving the Krasnopresnensky baths by one of the Orekhovskys - Alexey Sherstobitov (Lesha Soldat; sentenced to 23 years in prison in 2008)

Sylvester's heirs fought for power for many years. On March 4, 1996, not far from the US Embassy on Novinsky Boulevard, Sylvester’s closest assistant and his heir in the organized crime group, Sergei Ananyevsky (Kultik; pictured in the middle), was killed. He got his nickname because he was engaged in bodybuilding and was the 1991 USSR champion in powerlifting. As it turned out later, the killer was a member of the Kurgan organized crime group Pavel Zelenin

After the death of Sergei Ananyevsky, Sergei Volodin (Dragon; pictured on the left) became the leader of the organized crime group.
In the photo: the funeral of Sergei Ananyevsky at the Khovanskoye cemetery

Soon after the murder of Sergei Ananyevsky, Sergei Volodin (on the right) was also shot. Sergei Butorin (Osya) becomes the new leader of the organized crime group.

Having become the leader of the organized crime group, Sergei Butorin entered into an alliance with the Medvedkovsky brothers Andrei and Oleg Pylev (Malaya and Sanych) and collaborated with the Kurgan organized crime group, which did not prevent him from becoming a customer of the main killer of the Kurgan gang, Alexander Solonik. In 1996, Butorin staged his own funeral and went into the shadows for a while, and in the early 2000s he fled to Spain, but was arrested in 2001 and sentenced to life imprisonment, which he is now serving

Alexander Solonik (Valeryanych) is a killer of the Kurgan organized crime group, involved in the murder of the adopted son of thief in law Yaponchik and the leader of the Bauman organized crime group, Vladislav Vanner, nicknamed Bobon. He escaped from custody three times. He was killed in Greece in 1997 by a member of the Orekhovskaya organized crime group Alexander Pustovalov (Sasha Soldat; sentenced to 22 years in prison in 2005) on the orders of Sergei Butorin

Sergei Butorin (pictured) and his accomplices are behind many high-profile murders: the leaders of the Kuntsevo group Alexander Skvortsov and Oleg Kuligin, the falcon group Vladimir Kutepov (Kutep) and others

Marat Polyansky is a killer, member of the Orekhovskaya and Medvedkovskaya organized crime groups. He was involved in the murder of the Kurgan organized crime group killer Alexander Solonik, as well as Otari Kvantrishvili. He was detained in February 2001 in Spain. In January 2013, he was sentenced to 23 years in prison.

Oleg Pylev (pictured) was detained in 2002 in Odessa, Andrei Pylev in 2003 in Spain. Oleg Pylev was sentenced to 24 years in prison, Andrey - to 21 years

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Currently, many participants have been released from prison. Little is known about their future plans. Perhaps someone will settle down in freedom, someone will again take up a craft that is not reputable in our time - extortion, murder. Others may reach higher levels of crime. Someone will get a job.

Rustam Ismalov, one of the foremen of the Kazan criminal community, served his sentence back in 2011, having served 16 years for the murder of a businessman. During these years in prison, his former comrades warmed him up well from the outside. But seven years ago, Rustam’s brigade completely ceased to exist - some were imprisoned, others were killed, others are wanted. And the former authority of the group did not have people left in the wild whom they could trust and where they could return. He went out and no one met him. His brigade disappeared into oblivion.

One of the leaders of the Novokuznetsk gang, Shkabara Barybin, was also released. And his gang, too, no longer exists. But he has his own story. Shkabara was met by Izmailovo authorities, who did not lose contact with him in the zone. You need to have such people with you. Therefore, Izmailovo residents greeted him in three foreign cars and took him away with them.

Oleg Buryat was also met by representatives of someone else’s brigade, since his own had broken up a long time ago. But those who greeted him were at one time Buryat’s competitors, and it was for the attempt on their leader that he served time. So the authority was met by one of the Chelyabinsk groups and taken away in an unknown direction. After that, no one saw Buryat again.

Kurgan resident Vitaly Mosyakov, who was part of the Kurgan criminal group that caused a lot of noise, did not return to crime after leaving prison in 2012. He got a job at a service station in one of the small towns and rents an apartment.
Another of the Kurgan residents, Pyotr Zaitsev, served 6 years and was released on parole. But when he was free, he got a job in one of the security companies and again took up extortion. Currently under investigation.

The most interesting character is probably Vitya Kostromskaya. In the late 80s, he led a gang that extorted money from cooperators. Later, in the early 90s, realizing that he couldn’t take it out in Moscow alone, he joined. And in 1992 he killed a man out of jealousy towards his wife. That is, his term was not related to the main criminal activity. So to speak, I fell asleep in everyday life. The court gave him 25 years. He served 24 of them, and this year he was released as a sick and useless person.

On August 8, 2003, one of the last surviving leaders of the Orekhovskaya group, Andrei Pylev, nicknamed Dwarf, was detained in the Spanish resort of Marbella. Among the most notorious crimes of the organized crime group is the murder of killer Alexander Solonik and businessman Otari Kvantrishvili. Who were the Orekhovskys and what happened to them - in the Kommersant-Online photo gallery.
The Orekhovskaya organized crime group was formed in the south of Moscow in the area of ​​Shipilovskaya Street in the late 1980s. It mainly included young people aged 18-25 with common sports interests.
Over the years, the organized crime group has grown into one of the largest criminal communities in Moscow. The group became famous as one of the most brutal Russian gangs of the 1990s, responsible for such high-profile cases as the murder of Otari Kvantrishvili and the assassination attempt on Boris Berezovsky in 1994, as well as the murder of the famous killer Alexander Solonik in Greece in 1997. In the second half of the 1990s, the organized crime group, most of whose leaders fell victims to internal strife, weakened. In the early 2000s, the remaining Orekhov “authorities” were put on trial and sentenced to long terms of imprisonment.

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

Marat Polyansky is a killer, member of the Orekhovskaya and Medvedkovskaya organized crime groups. He was involved in the murder of the Kurgan organized crime group killer Alexander Solonik, as well as Otari Kvantrishvili. He was detained in February 2001 in Spain. In January 2013 he was sentenced to 23 years in prison

Oleg Pylev (pictured) was detained in 2002 in Odessa, Andrei Pylev in 2003 in Spain. Oleg Pylev was sentenced to 24 years in prison, Andrey - to 21 years