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By decree of the Governing Senate in March 1771, during the plague epidemic, a graveyard was founded near the village of Vagankovo ​​near Moscow. On this topic: Tombstones of Russian crime bosses

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

The leaders of brigades, criminal groups and clans went into oblivion pompously. The media covered the event, savoring every detail of the tragedy. IN last way « public figures alternative reality" went to see off those who were treated kindly and awarded the highest awards back in Soviet era, when murderers and rapists were waited not in restaurants, but in the execution corridors of Butyrka, followed by the burial of the corpse in an unmarked mass grave under number.

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Where is the modest field marshal who ordered to write on a simple tombstone?

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So who is more dearly remembered in this country? Probably 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, famous for the driver “Jap”, had the status of a thief in law.

He began his glorious criminal career back in the mid-60s with petty pickpocketing. But most spent his life in prisons of the USSR and Russia for much more serious matters. Yaponchik also lived in the USA, where they say he loved listening to songs composed by the maestro of criminal chanson, Mikhail Tanich.

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Airapetov’s bandit group numbered hundreds, divided into units and brigades of militants, who over the years of “productive activity” had “produced” thousands of corpses.

Starting with extorting money from local co-operators, the Ayrapetov gangster community took control of the entire Ryazan oil refinery, eliminating those who resisted, receiving profit from each fuel tanker, and then regularly paying tribute... all to the same Yaponchik.

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Local caretakers say that Viktor Sergeevich himself, who skillfully evaded the pursuit of enemies and law enforcement officers, is a no-no! - and he’ll come here to be sad from Europe, where he lives in Lately. But the fact of his miraculous resurrection has not been scientifically confirmed by anyone.

Go ahead. The graves of Otari Kvantrishvili and his brother are covered with the wings of the “Angel of the Lord”. The legendary Georgian was friends with Joseph Davydovich Kobzon, was involved in robbery, money laundering, and racketeering. By 1994, when shots cut short his life at the exit from the Krasnopresnensky baths, he held half of Moscow, having shares in casinos, hotels, and the capital's restaurant business.

This did not stop Otari Kvantrishvili from heading sports foundations whose goal was... restoring the rule of law in the country. According to the version of journalist Paul Klebnikov, who was later shot, the Kvantrishvili brothers fell as a result of a fierce war between the then not entirely fraternal Slavic and Chechen organized crime groups.

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Lyuba Uspenskaya for Rudolf Sergeich for the godfather

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At the 28th section of the Vagankovsky cemetery mass grave members of the Baumanskaya organized crime group, which in the 90s gained a reputation for ferocious lawlessness. In the center of the “Walk of Fame” lie the leader of the group Bobon (Vladislav Vanner) and his bodyguard Misha Glodin. They were shot in 1994.

The monument, judge for yourself... It’s modest. Either the gang didn’t have enough money for Rukavishnikov, or they were being modest.

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What about them?

Where are crime bosses buried in other countries? You don’t have to look far for examples of a more rational approach to burying various kinds of dregs of society. Let's take a look at neighboring Belarus, where in the 90s, crime bosses of all stripes - thieves in law and other contingents - raised their heads high and proud.

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Overnight, most of them... went missing. A UFO stole them, or what? Moreover, they all disappeared so reliably that to this day (after more than 20 years) not even their bodies have been found. The opposition Belarusian press attributes their destruction to “death squads” - secret special forces for the physical elimination of undesirable elements in the local internal affairs bodies.

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

What about the people of Russia? If we believe the statements of officials, he is friendly and united, as prescribed by the Constitution. But, judging by the splendor of gangster alleys in the main Moscow churchyards, the strongest friendships are among representatives of domestic crime, cultural figures, many of whom received a start in life by performing in taverns, and... representatives of government agencies. Unfortunately, some of them pulled out their happy ticket right there.

Such a story.

November 30th, 2016

Look how beautiful she is, this marble woman.

Who is she, this Ekaterina Sharapova? The monument says that she is a catwalk star. "Gifted with the talent of a make-up artist, artist, fashion designer." With all its marble luxury, it resembles the outlines of a camp tattoo “with a beauty”. A coquettishly exposed knee and voluminous hair break the graveyard seriousness. Someone's mistress, beloved? Even the watchman of the Shirokorechensky cemetery himself does not know who she is or who erected this monument.

That's for sure eternal love. Maybe twenty-seven-year-old Catherine died at the hands of the one who staged this sculptural composition. It's not here simple people They lie, but they are terrible.

The Shirokorechenskoye cemetery in Yekaterinburg is half occupied by gang graves. For two decades now, the names of many who are buried here have been mentioned with a breath of horror. Their murderous competitors became billionaires, settled in administrative bodies, and fled abroad with huge capital. And those who are unlucky lie under luxurious monuments. And most of them are not even thirty...

“Uralmash men” are defending the Saldinsky metallurgical plant they captured, and a group rivaling them is preparing to storm the plant’s management.

This is a frame of herself real war, where blood flowed and corpses lay under the slabs of expensive tombstones.

The barbaric luxury of the monuments amazes with their straightforwardness. Full-length photo and Mercedes keys in hands. Misha Kuchin, honorable Sir Yekaterinburg, friend of Roizman.

This man’s wife, a gypsy, gave 75 thousand dollars for the monument to her beloved husband. At that time - the price of three apartments in Yekaterinburg.

The grave of a serious man Oleg Vagin and his guards.

Here's a closer look at the guards' faces.

Oops, my namesake! “Center” Flarit Valiev was leaving the casino and ran into a burst of machine gun fire, but continues to smile dashingly at the monument.

How nimble is this Valiev. I caught his photo three times at different ends of the post. Calm down, man.

I don’t know what kind of guy, but I smiled back at him:

The leader of the Sverdlovsk Afghans is Lebedev. We all know that former internationalist soldiers en masse became bandits, was there such a time?

And next to it is a monument to Viktor Kasintsev and his bodyguards. Victor was in charge of the Afghans while Lebedev was in prison. Well... it ended the same for everyone.

Monument to the thief in law. Alexander Khorkov (Ferret), born 1958 - killed in 1992 in an apartment by a shot through a window.

Gypsy graves. Gypsies are simple guys. Kolka and Vaska, ghouls and ghouls of narcotic Yekaterinburg, lie in the ground.

A certain Screamer - what does it have to do with driving.

This beautiful monument It was not staged at all for someone’s mistress or model wife. Marina Degtyarenko caught a taxi and became a victim of a serial killer. She was such a beauty.

I can say about the luxurious bandit graves - they would have been during the establishment of the feudal system modern technologies, the cannibals and thieves of that time would have received an even more luxurious memory! Cannibals and thieves are, in the future, best surnames and purest noble blood. Aristocracy.

The images on the monuments remind me of those feudal battles. Especially Lebedev with the sword.

As a rule, various kinds of “misses” of something became girlfriends of criminal authorities, and simply criminals of those years. Simply put, long-legged beauties hungry for money. We won’t say for sure – maybe there was a place for sincere love there. For the most part, their lives ended as quickly and tragically as those of the bandits themselves. And sometimes at the same time as them.

Corpse in a suitcase

Perhaps the most notorious story on our topic is the terrible murder of a killer Alexandra Solonika and his mistresses Svetlana Kotova.

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

In 1990, the killer carried out his first murder order - he shot the head of the Ishim group - Nikolai Prichinich.

Solonik was detained on October 6, 1994 at the Petrovsko-Razumovsky market in 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 for investigation to Matrosskaya Tishina. But eight months after his arrest, Solonik escaped from the pre-trial detention center. By the way, in the entire history of the famous prison, he became the only person who succeeded.

Under a new name, Solonik settled in Greece, where his people from the Kurgan organized crime group were already located. In Langonisi, near Athens, the bandits rented three luxurious mansions.

Macedonsky, according to neighbors, was greedy for women and brought them to the house every week new lady. But the longest was Solonik’s affair with a fashion model. Sveta Kotova. And for her it was also fatal.

The girl worked with the famous Moscow agency Red Stars and participated in the finals of the Miss Russia-96 contest. On January 25, 1997, Kotova performed at international exhibition"Consumexpo". After which Svetlana asked her superiors for leave 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 talked about this on the phone to her mother. Kotova called home every day until January 30. After this date the model disappeared.

On February 2, 1997, in the Varibobi forest, near Athens, operatives discovered Solonik’s body. 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 established 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 Saronida came across a suitcase lying under an olive tree. Inside, in plastic bags, lay the dismembered body of a woman. The identity of 21-year-old Kotova was established because the decomposition process had not yet fully begun.

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

Mother predicted her daughter's death

On the evening of September 16, 2000, a resident of one of the Cheboksary Stalin apartments heard a strange noise in the entrance. She opened the door, but they immediately put the barrel of a gun to her forehead and pushed her back into the apartment. When on staircase everything calmed down, the husband of the frightened woman decided to come out.

Two men lay in pools of blood and 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 a noisy holiday planned - her birthday.

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

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

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

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

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

This is what someone writes about Petrova on one forum: Katya Katya: “She really stood out. So modest, tall, all in black. Then I got confused about it common-law husband. I started hanging around restaurants and abandoned my studies. But in furs. The whole city saw her off, everyone loved her.”

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

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

Innocent victim of war

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

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

In the 2000s, Togliatti was mired in the third “great racketeer war.” At the head of the Volgovskaya organized crime group was Dmitry Ruzlyaev. Another leader of the group was considered the cruel, frostbitten bandit Sovok - Evgeniy Sovkov. By that time he was wanted 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 visited the Krasnopresnensky baths - favorite place authoritative criminals. On December 26, 2000, Sovok went to the “arrow” to these very baths, taking Lyudmila with him. The meeting took place in Stolyarny Lane. Let's jump ahead and say that a few steps from this place in the 94th killer Lesha Soldier the authority was shot Otari Kvantrishvili.

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

The killer turned out to be Sovka's longtime enemy - Andrey Milovanov, aka Green.

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

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

In addition to fat pieces of property, they were in a hurry to stake their claim on prestigious plots in city cemeteries. For all their coolness, the brothers understood that a person is mortal, and today you are the king of life, and tomorrow you are a corpse. After all, people were killed often and regularly in those days. So entire blocks of “authoritative” graves appeared in city cemeteries. Until the 90s of the last century, the funeral of a thief in law differed from ordinary ones only in the number of people who came to honor his memory. Otherwise, everything is the same as everyone else: a standard coffin, wreaths, grave, metal monument or best case scenario made of marble. But when the country began to rule the roost, everything changed.

In the early 90s, it was not even thieves who set the criminal tone, but “authoritative” entrepreneurs and “athletes.” These could include the Kvantrishvili brothers - and. The eldest, Amiran, in his youth, made friends with gamblers and became a card player. The younger one was engaged in wrestling, but following the example of his older brother, he also became involved in crime. In the 80s, despite the absence of the title “”, the Kvantrishvili brothers had the same weight at gatherings as the generals of the criminal world. And in the early 90s they were already dollar millionaires, communicating on equal terms with major officials.

Vagankovskoye Cemetery - authorities

But it was precisely this force that caused their death. On August 6, 1993, Amiran Kvantrishvili, together with thief in law Fedya Besheny, was shot dead in an office on Dimitrova Street in Moscow. A year later, a killer, now well-known to everyone, cut short the life of his brother, chairman of the Lev Yashin Athletes Fund, Otari, near the Krasnopresnensky Baths. Then even Russian President Boris Yeltsin sent condolences to the family of the deceased. It is not surprising that Otari’s funeral was attended by a huge crowd of people.

People such as Joseph Kobzon, Archil Gomiashvili, Ivan Yarygin and others came to honor his memory. The brothers were buried at the prestigious and long-closed Vagankovskoe cemetery. Their grave at the main entrance has long become a landmark of the churchyard. A huge angel with a mournful face reaches out to two granite tablets on which the names of the brothers are inscribed. For the uninformed, it is worth noting that the monument is not just a hack job by an unknown master, but a work belonging to a chisel famous sculptor Vyacheslav Klykov. Among his works is a monument to Cyril and Methodius, Marshal Zhukov, Ivan Bunin, Dmitry Donskoy and other celebrities.

The Vagankovsky churchyard became the last refuge for the authority - the head of the most powerful organized crime group in Ryazan, Viktor Airapetov. On November 19, 1995, on Rublevskoye Highway, Airapetov’s car was stopped by fake riot police and taken away by mafiosi in an unknown direction.

His charred corpse was later identified by his wife. Although experts insist that it was a staged act, the black granite obelisk with a massive fence claims that this is where the leader of the criminal Ryazan is buried. However, there are rumors that already in the 2000s, Vitya came here in person and even laid flowers at his monument.

Khovanskoye Cemetery - authorities

Another pillar of organized crime in the 90s can be considered the founder of the Orekhovskaya organized crime group, nicknamed Sylvester. Officially, he died on September 13, 1994 as a result of the explosion of a Mercedes Benz 600SEC from a radio-controlled land mine. Sylvester was buried at the Khovanskoye cemetery in Moscow, traditional for the Orekhovskys. His black marble monument is made in the form of a huge bas-relief of the crucified Christ. Above is a photo of Timofeev and an Orthodox cross.

Grave of Timofeev Sergei - Sylvester

On back side- an image of the Virgin Mary, and below the epitaph: “Hurry up to admire man, for you will miss the joy...”. Compared to the monuments of deceased colleagues, Sylvester’s tombstone is quite modest. It is possible that the grave contains the remains of another person who was burned almost to ashes in the explosion. After all, no one carried out DNA testing in those years.

There, on Khovansky, there is the grave of the right hand of Sylvester, the founder - Grigory Gusyatinsky. Once a KGB officer, he became one of the prominent authorities in Moscow and did not disdain the bloodiest work. In January 1995, in Kyiv, Gusyatinsky was liquidated by the same Alexey Sherstobitov, better known in criminal circles under the nickname Lesha Soldier. The obelisk of Gusyatinsky is a black marble stele on which the sculptor carved the face of the deceased. It can be seen there female hand, reaching out to a face bowed in sorrow.

In addition to Timofev and Gusyatinsky, on the “alley of heroes” of the Khovanskoye cemetery lie several dozen more brothers from the “Orekhovsky” and allied groups. Their graves are easy to distinguish by their black marble, pompous inscriptions and photographs of the deceased.

In addition to the gang from the 90s, the last pillar of crime, thief in law No. 1 Aslan Usoyan, nicknamed , is also buried on Khovanskoye. He managed to build the most extensive criminal empire. But not all thieves recognized Hassan as the leader. On January 16, 2013, another attempt was made on his life, which ended in the death of the authority. Relatives wanted to bury Usoyan in Tbilisi, but the Georgian authorities refused to accept the plane with his body. As a result, the thief was buried on Khovanskoye.

A permanent monument to authority appeared on the grave only a year and a half after the funeral. It consists of two black marble steles with epitaphs and years of life, between which stands a sculpture of Usoyan. The monument was made by the talented sculptor Aram Grigoryan, who created monuments to the first cartographer of Siberia Remizov and academician Marchuk.

The monument to another iconic thief, . Ivankov missed the dashing 90s, hanging out. But when he returned to his homeland in 2005, he began to actively interfere in the course of the thieves’ processes. Speaking on the side of Aslan Usoyan, Yaponchik still remained independent and strong figure. Therefore, it did not suit many people. As a result, on July 28, 2009, while leaving the restaurant, Ivankov was wounded by a sniper, and on October 9, 2009, he died.

The authority was buried in front of a huge crowd of people at the Vagankovskoye cemetery. Despite the fact that times were already different, Ivankov’s mother was buried in the cemetery and he had the right to be buried next to her. The monument to the deceased also did not appear at the grave immediately. Nevertheless, he makes passers-by pay attention to him. Against the background of a three-meter block with a cross, an intelligent-looking man sits and looks into the distance. Local old-timers take people to the thief’s grave for a small fee. Provincial mafiosi often come here. There are always fresh flowers in a vase on the stove, and Ivankov likes to leave a glass of vodka in his hand. Others lay under his foot banknote. They say it's for good luck.

Bandit Cemetery of Yekaterinburg

It is worth noting that the province is not inferior to the capital in the pomp of thieves’ and bandits’ obelisks. In Yekaterinburg, the capital of the Urals, many authoritative people died in the 90s. The main ones are the founders, the famous and their protege. Now these people lie in the Northern Cemetery of the city. The first to be shot was the founder of the organized crime group, Grigory Tsyganov, in 1991, then in 1993, the Uralmash authority, Sergei Ivannikov, died. And in 2005, the leader of the group, Alexander Khabarov, was found hanged in a jail cell.

All three authorities are buried nearby, on the central alley of the churchyard. Their monuments are made in the style of busts of party leaders buried near the Kremlin wall. The people nicknamed this place “three heads,” although today’s youth no longer know who these people are.

Banykinskoe cemetery - bandits

Another famous bandit graveyard is the Banykinskoye cemetery in Tolyatti. In the mid-90s, a real one unfolded in the motor city. Bandits died here by the dozens a day, and the cemetery gates were almost never closed. The lads were buried depending on their rank. Thus, the central alley of the churchyard is occupied by the graves of the leaders and foremen of numerous organized crime groups: the Bukreev brothers.

The Banykinskoe cemetery amazes not so much with the pathos of the obelisks, but with the mass of burials. By the way, among these fallen gangsters you can hardly find those who lived to see
thirty. IN currently Tolyatti authorities are thinking about organizing a tourist route to the Banykinskoye cemetery under the sign “Tolyatti - Russian Chicago.” However, similar burials can be found in the cemetery of any large city Russia, because the dashing 90s left unhealed wounds on the body of the entire country.

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

Legendary personality of Moscow in the late 80s

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

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

Head of the Ryazan criminal group

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

Monuments to authorities

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

The most erudite “authority” of the late 80s

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

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

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

It's not the place that makes the man

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

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

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

New attraction of the Vagankovskoe cemetery

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

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