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The “Kazan phenomenon”, about which books have been written as a phenomenon in the history of Russia, again made people talk about themselves. Today, Kazanians were shocked by a video in which a dozen boys in pants with stripes in the courtyard of a school of the same age in the same sweatpants. "Gopota is reborn!" - video commentators were horrified. The fact that organized criminal groups in Kazan are raising their heads is also evidenced by the latest criminal reports: members of the Vtorye Gorki group will be tried for "involving minors in criminal activity" and extortion, and members of the Svetlovskie organized crime group from the Kirovsky district, who demanded 150 thousand for leaving the group, have already received deadlines. Evening Kazan experts state: the 90s are really coming back...

According to the Investigative Committee of the ICR in the Republic of Tatarstan, the Vtorye Gorki organized crime group, nine members of which from 17 to 27 years old will now go on trial, has been operating in the microdistrict of the same name since 2017. They hunted by stealing goods from stores (“mentors” taught teenagers to steal) and extorting money from those who were not members of the group - the amount of tribute reached 30 thousand.

It was this amount that the groupers demanded from a 15-year-old teenager, who was guarded at the house on Pobedy Avenue, taken to a forest plantation, and when a frightened schoolboy called them to his house for money, they ran into their parents there ...

Five guys 21-25 years old from the Svetlovsky group have already received from 7 to 9.5 years. They demanded money from a 16-year-old teenager to leave the group.

First, the teenager was beaten and demanded 10 thousand rubles from him, but, having received the money, they increased the amount of compensation to 150 thousand, - the senior assistant to the head of the Investigative Committee of the TFR for the Republic of Tatarstan told Vechernaya Kazan Andrey Sheptytsky. - The guy was methodically beaten for a year, continuing to extort money. As a result, he gave the groupers 70 thousand rubles. To get the rest, he was caught at the garages, kidnapped and transported from place to place, until he ran away, taking advantage of the moment and turned to passers-by for help...

It turns out that it is not in vain that the chief policeman of Tatarstan Artem Khokhorin that “they have not disappeared. Organized crime groups are transforming in a certain way. The slightest relaxation can lead to a rollback to the nineties ... ".

Of the same opinion, and now a researcher of the phenomenon, the creator of the public "Kazan Phenomenon" Robert Garaev.

There are groupings in Kazan, and there are many of them, - he is sure. - But after the members of the largest Kazan organized crime groups were imprisoned, they changed, they do not act as openly and harshly as they did 30 years ago. For example, today it is forbidden to present yourself on the street as a member of any group, and wars between organized crime groups are held differently. If earlier these were mass brawls “district to district”, now most often members of one group come by car to the yard of those with whom they are at enmity. They pick out the first person that comes across from this yard, take them away, and then ask for a ransom for him ... In my time, they got into groups at the age of 13-14, I myself got there at the age of 14. And this is not surprising, teenage boys need patrons, mentors, they are looking for some kind of support ...

- Of course, older bandits always stood behind all these groups, they taught young people, they collected money for them. And these bandits have not gone away, now they have served their sentences, they have gone free and are again drawing young people into the underworld. It was hard to fight this “phenomenon” before, during the Soviet era, but now, when 30 percent of the police have been reduced ... - sighs the deputy chairman of the committee on law and order of the State Council of the Republic of Tatarstan Rafil Nugumanov. “Besides, the police alone will not save us from this phenomenon. Everyone should be involved in prevention together - both the family and the school. But schools often try to hide such phenomena so as not to spoil their reputation, and now parents are trying to earn more money for their children, and they are not engaged in raising children.

Organized criminal groups have really raised their heads in Kazan and throughout the country, and this is a marker of the presence of big social problems in society, a decrease in the standard of living of our families, - the founder of the National Parents' Committee believes Irina Volynets. - A huge number of families live below the poverty line, parents have to borrow money to simply send their children to school, of course, there is no question of any payment for circles and sections. I know for myself what kind of expenses it is, I have four children who go in for sports. For example, good skates cost 50 thousand rubles. How many parents can afford it? As a result, children, left to their own devices, doing nothing outside of school hours, end up in such groups. I think that the state should bear the cost of organizing children's leisure.

I taught prevention lessons in schools among adolescents exposed to the AUE subculture. When asked what attracts them in this, they answered that they see romance in a life of crime, there were those who, in all seriousness, said that they wanted to commit a crime and go to prison, because it seems to them that they live there according to very high standards, all brothers to each other, all for each other by the mountain, live cheerfully and interestingly, - said the psychologist of the Resource center Zarina Nafieva. - So, teenagers do not find all this in real life- support, understanding, a sense of comradeship and security. And in the group, the teenager finds people who can listen to him, protect him. Then these senior comrades will ask you to commit a crime, but how can you refuse best friends?.. Unfortunately, now parents do not talk to their children, and then they get a bunch of problems, they find out about what happened after the fact, when they are called to the PDN commission, for example. I strongly advise parents to follow the “rule of 15 minutes”: no matter how busy you are, talk to your child for 15 minutes every day and do not scold him for bad grades, but just be interested in his life.

Meanwhile, the Kazan police reported that a 17-year-old teenager who was beaten on April 5 at a school on Vagapov Street, who received a brain concussion as a result, was discharged from the hospital, nothing threatens his life and health. At least for now.

A former member of the organized criminal group "Nizy" - one of those that kept Kazan in fear in the 90s, gave a public lecture in Moscow. Robert Garaev, now a DJ, spoke about what made children and teenagers join gangs, engage in racketeering and fight against rival gangs wall to wall. With the collapse of the USSR, Garayev and his peers fell into a bloody whirlpool, from which few managed to escape. The correspondent attended the performance of the ex-fighter "Nizov" and listened to his stories about the bloody annals of Kazan in the 90s, which were included in a book that has not yet been published.

The mystery of the "Kazan phenomenon"

Robert Garaev's lecture was held in a small underground bar in the center of Moscow. A small hall, a couple of sofas, a few armchairs - the bar staff had to bring additional benches for the audience, which turned out to be quite a lot. There were also Moscow youth in ripped jeans and with glasses of beer, and an older audience - Garaev's friends, natives of Tatarstan, who caught the so-called "Kazan phenomenon".

The lecture started with documentary film with the same name. Actually, the “phenomenon” itself is that in the 80s and 90s Kazan, like other cities in the region, was divided between several groups that controlled certain areas. Among them were very serious, which included adults, but there were also youth, the backbone of which were teenagers and even children, starting with elementary school students. Every street, every neighborhood had its owners.

Street fighters positioned themselves either as athletes or as people with "correct concepts". In their environment, it was strictly forbidden to drink, smoke and use drugs, they trained a lot and obeyed their older comrades in everything. There was a strict hierarchy in the groups: "husk" or "shell" (schoolchildren from 9 to 13 years old), then - "super" (teenagers 14-16 years old), who were considered the combat core of the team, went on raids on enemy territories and took away money at the "chushpans" (those who were not part of the groupings).

Then came the "young" (17-19 years old) - they had the right to vote in deciding with whom to fight and with whom to put up. And, finally, the highest link is “authority”, he is also “grandfather” or “king”. As a rule, it was a man in his thirties, with a criminal record. It was he who disposed of the common fund - the money that the guys collected for their group.

Gangs of gopniks constantly clashed with each other, their confrontations turned into mass fights with severe beatings and murders. The most massive fight in the history of Kazan groups took place on the ice of Lake Glubokoe in the winter of 1983: about 400 teenagers gathered there. Representatives of the Zhilka and Gryaz groups came together wall to wall, armed with stakes, chains and tire irons. After such fights, many were taken to hospitals with severe injuries and injuries, some of the guys became disabled and even died without regaining consciousness.

On a crooked path

According to statistics, the lion's share - almost half of the youth groups - were vocational school students. Then there were schoolchildren, working youth and the unemployed, of whom there were no more than five percent. All were from different families- poor and wealthy, workers and intellectuals. Robert Garaev was just one of the latter: his mother worked at a research institute, and his father was a cooperator. He himself studied diligently, went to art school, so until a certain time he was not interested in criminal communities.

14-year-old Robert joined the Nizy group because of problems at school, or rather, because of a thug from a parallel class named Iskander, who was a member of the Kettle group. Iskander approached Garayev and said that now he would shake money from him: “Bring three rubles tomorrow, otherwise I’ll beat you!” The amount for the schoolboy turned out to be unbearable: a week for lunch he was given only one ruble twenty kopecks.

It was not customary to hand over the offender to the police - this would lead to a boycott and general contempt. The way out was found by itself: the guys from the parallel class, Max and Dima, suggested that Garaev join the Niza group.

The new situation will radically change everything, - the schoolboy reasoned. - Iskander will immediately cease to be a threat to me. According to street law, the guys from the Nizov will fit in for me if members of other groups have any claims against me ...

After some deliberation, Garayev accepted the proposal of his peers. It was 1989.

Yours among yours

The first collection of "Nizov", which I got to, was surrounded by courtyard romance, - writes Garaev in his memoirs. - In a clearing in the middle of a wasteland overgrown with Canadian maple, a fire was burning, into which we threw potatoes. About ten of my peers were supposed to spend an hour and a half at this place. Most of all I remember two: Bisprik (from the word "boundless") - a small nimble and adventurous good-natured man, wrapping his legs with lead plates so that there was a "blow", and Kid - our "extreme" (something like a headman among fighters of our age) .

The kid was a blue-eyed blond with plump lips, oblique bangs and in the most fashionable "clothes". His "wide" pants were no less than 35 centimeters wide - the then peep of boyish fashion. He wore an imported sweatshirt, and most importantly, he rambled (communicated) no worse than an adult criminal. According to Garaev, Malysh "was really wild and dangerous."

There were two main dangers for young gopniks: the policemen, who could come and take those who did not have time to escape to the department, and the elders, who came with checks. They checked the number of boys and compliance with the rules. If someone was caught smoking, they were beaten.

Thoughts raged in my young head about what was written in the newspapers and told about the “Kazan phenomenon” on TV, Garayev recalls. - I clearly remember an article that told how two groups fought, thirty people on each side with installations (metal bars) and metal balls. And in this article there were broken skulls, deaths and police cars. And what I saw that September evening was romance, male friendship and shoulder to shoulder. Looking ahead strongly, I must say that I was cruelly mistaken ...

Life according to concepts

Members of Kazan's teenage organized crime groups lived according to their own concepts, as if in a separate state: they had their own territory, their own street, their own quarter. Boys were considered citizens in it, and they had their own social and economic resource - their own strength. They could use force against "chushpans", members of other groups and businessmen who refused to pay tribute.

There were many concepts, but everyone had to know the basic ones. “If you were called a sucker or a devil, you must fight”; “If you were sent to ..., and you didn’t stand up [delivered at least one blow without warning], then you are kicked out [expelled] with sanctions [with beatings]”; “If they spit at you, you are extinguished, no one has the right to greet you, even“ chushpan ”, but the worst thing is if they lowered you, that is, pissed on you.”

The kid could not hand over his own or others to the police and is obliged to be extremely honest with his group. The word of the kid was considered something like an oath: "the kid said - the kid did."

In case of violation of the rules, the elders could expel the boy from the group. At best - just with beatings, at worst - with beatings and extortion of money.

street laws

According to Garayev, membership in the group was somewhat like a job. In exchange for a new status, the guys were required to attend training camps three times a week and lead healthy lifestyle life. In case of violations, sanctions awaited them - beatings.

It was possible to get it for several reasons, - Garayev recalls. - Most often for cigarettes and alcohol. It was believed that we are a combat brigade of physically strong youth. Even when we wrote the name of our “office” on the walls, we used the abbreviation NSO - “Nizovsky Sports Society”. That is, the ideal member of the group is a non-drinking and non-smoking athlete, which, of course, was not the case in reality.

At the training camp, the seniors determined the limit minimum quantity attendees - 15-20 people. If the number of boys was less than expected, messengers were sent to those who were absent and dragged them by hook or by crook. Otherwise - "sanctions".

The execution took place as follows, - says a former member of the Nizov. - The elders lined up in a line, and all of ours had to take turns approaching each of them. Not everyone beat, and therefore in total you received three or four strong blows to the face. An important nuance was that it was impossible to dodge. You had to take those blows with all your might. Sometimes the elders checked: swinging, they stopped the fist in front of your very face.

If you tried to dodge, they kicked [kicked out]. Once, after such an execution, I woke up in the snow, remembering only sparks in my eyes, and then a black screen. There was a huge bruise on half of my face, my lips did not obey, and for the next two days the cigarette constantly fell out of my mouth. When a classmate came up to me the next day to ask why I didn’t come to class, he didn’t recognize me and asked: “Is Robert at home?”

They beat me infrequently - once every two or three months. When the guilty “supers” were beaten by the young, they then came to break away on the younger ones, recalling to them all the passes at the training camp and smoked cigarettes.

Died young

In addition to Malysh, another "extreme" - Kuyan, looked after the newcomers of the Nizov. Both were short and very aggressive. The duties of the "extreme" included communication with the elders and discipline among the boys.

The appearance of the Kid was deceptive: the blue-eyed blond with the face of an angel was an unbalanced psychopath, whose anger was life-threatening, Garaev recalls. - He was a favorite of the elders and a thunderstorm not only for the “chushpans”, but also for his boys. As soon as he appeared in a fashionable, in his opinion, outfit at the training camp, the Kid was right there with the phrase: “Let me bring it in.” This phrase of his meant one thing: you will not see this thing again. Kuyang was also stylish in his own way. Unlike the talkative and sociable Kid, he was laconic and strict.

"Extreme" along with ordinary boys participated in wars with other groups. And they beat them on an equal footing with everyone else - in doorways, at the entrances of houses. The dismembered body of Kuyan was found near Lake Kaban after working with some distant "office". And Malysh died of cardiac arrest after being hit by one of his own during the “exchange of blows” game, popular among the boys. Each of them was no more than 20 years old.

boy wars

The policy of the groups was such that no one forced the boys to commit criminal activity. And yet, having joined this or that gang, they could enjoy privileges - that is, collect tribute from district businessmen, shake money from schoolchildren, or take away fashionable clothes from them. If some "chushpan" went out into the street in a new tracksuit, there was a high probability that he would return home without him. Sometimes the boys robbed the dachas, mostly took food from the refrigerator: many grew up in poor families where there was nothing to eat.

The factions' foreign policy was fairly simple. Most often they fought with their closest neighbors - simply because there was nothing to do. “Absolutely useless alliances” were concluded with the distant ones.

The habitat of the Kazan teenager, regardless of belonging to the group, was very limited, Garaev recalls. - It was dangerous to travel to the other end of the city - Novotatar and [members of large organized criminal groups "Novotatarskaya" and "Khadi Taktash" raged in the center], there were authorities in the quarters, and alone you could run into trouble. But the main enemies of the Nizov were the neighboring Mud: their territory was much larger than ours - accordingly, there were more combat units living there, and they were brutal and furious.

The conflict, as a rule, began because of a fight between the elders or the penetration of the boys into foreign territory. After that, a "shooter" was appointed, and if the guys did not agree on it, war was declared. During the war, the factions had two duties: to patrol their territory for enemies and to raid.

One dramatic moment comes to mind when during the “war” “super” came to our training camp and announced that we would now run to “Gryaz”, because they were preparing a raid on us,” Garayev recalls. - We were led to a high-rise building on Serov Street, beyond which was our border, and we were handed out weapons. These were metal rebars stolen at a construction site and metal balls. From one hard hit with such a montage, a skull was broken through the head. My first thought was: "Well, that's it, we ****** [end]."

And so we stood in position - and the agonizing wait began. Horror was read on the faces of all the fifteen-year-old fighters. It was followed by a ringing silence. Somehow, there was none of the bravado that usually accompanies an upcoming fight. Everyone, even the elders who looked at us with sympathy, understood the senselessness of the upcoming bloodshed. In this suspended state, we stood there for 40 minutes, listening to extraneous sounds. The running crowd was not heard, and at some point the sentinels returned and reported that the "Gryazevsky" had left. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief and went home...

Renegades

To combat teenage groups in the region, OKOD, an operational Komsomol detachment, worked. In fact, the same grouping, only under the guise of the local police, working in collusion with employees. According to Garaev, it was either "thrown out" from other brigades, or "applicants" with an inappropriate, sometimes dramatic biography.

Somehow, a boy joined [joined] us, who in a short time became his own for everyone, - the narrator recalls. - Sociable, who knew everyone on a short foot and, moreover, a dashing hooligan. Somewhere in a month or two he was sent away with severe beatings and lowered. The kid boasted how he broke his ***** [face] from a running start, from his feet. It turned out that in deep childhood, when the guy was seven years old, some pedophile abused him. And the fact that he kept it from the boys was a serious offense. The fact that the boy was then a child and could not answer the pedophile was not taken into account. The road to such guys was only in the despised by us OKOD.

Ordinary schoolchildren, who were offended by yard gopniks, also went to the “Kodovets”. Having joined the group, they fought the offenders together with the police. They went to round-ups during the training camp, caught the boys and took them to the department.

At the police station, they behaved arrogantly and in a businesslike way, one of their elders somehow locked me in the toilet and beat me on the kidneys with a brick stuffed in a felt boot, ”recalls Garaev. - To my indignation, he replied that he could get away with it, since his "design" does not leave bruises and generally no marks on the body of the victim. OKOD was a cunning invention of the then clumsy police, it could have become a panacea in the fight against the "Kazan phenomenon", but could not solve the problem. Our groupings were taken by weight and quantity.

To a new life

Robert left the "Nizov" in 1991, having spent two years in them. Over time, being in the organization ceased to seem interesting to him - and he began to skip training camps. They took the usual measure for that time - they “repulsed” him. They tried to lower him, but the guy fought back, spitting at the offender. The grouping was over.

In order to live in peace, the young man had to move to his father in another area. He was educated as a historian at Kazan University, and moved to Moscow in the 2000s. Now he is a famous DJ, musician, guide of the Jewish Museum and the Tolerance Center.

The fate of other members of the Kazan organized crime groups developed differently. Some of the guys were killed, some became disabled, and some are serving sentences in colonies. Some of yesterday's street bandits, according to Garayev, have become respected people in the region - officials, deputies and businessmen.

Martian Yakupov long time led organized crime in Tatarstan. Being a thief in law, he was considered the watcher in the region, and tightly controlled all areas of business and, preferring to act with rude methods in an attempt to bring as much territory under his control.

Martian Yakupov

Yakupov Martian Mavletovich was born on January 14, 1964 in Kazan. He did not look like the old galaxy of criminals who tried to follow the thieves' laws and support. Marsik of Kazan rather belonged to the authorities of the new formation, occupied with purely business. Despite the fact that Yakupov did not have a thieves' title in the early nineties, he had great authority in the criminal environment. During Soviet times, he managed to serve a short term for embezzlement of state property, to which they added a year for attacking a prison escort.

Already in , Marsik was the leader of the local criminal group Sukonka. Against the background of another large brigade called "Dragons", Yakupov's grouping was insignificant. Therefore, he met with the leaders of a powerful gang and agreed that his structure would become part of the Dragons. That's what the leaders decided. Soon, the Dragons took control of large enterprises in the region, and the leaders of the brigade bought apartments in Moscow, where they moved, opening a legal business in the capital. The plans of the authorities included full legalization, and they decided, remaining in the "shadow" in front of the security forces, to put Yakupov in charge of criminal cases, who completely suited them.

Thief in law Martian Yakupov - Marsik Kazansky

Despite the fact that Marsik Kazansky also already lived in Moscow, he often had to visit Kazan, where he began to directly lead the gang. But this was not enough for the authorities, they also needed influence on the isolation wards and prisons of Tatarstan. But for this it was necessary to have in allies. Without thinking twice, they met with the Caucasian lawyers, who "presented" the crown of thieves to their protégé Yakupov. How much this contract cost is not known for certain.

Having become full-fledged, Marsik Kazansky began to call for other criminal groups in the region to unite with the "Dragons". Having received allies, in the person of influential authorities, Martian also gained the long-awaited control over the prison institutions of the Republic. Even the leaders of "" did not hide the fact that major matters were always coordinated with the "Dragons". And only "" did not make contact with the beholder, leaving behind neutrality.

Probation

Law enforcement agencies tried in vain to find Yakupov. Agent communications and constant surveillance of the beholder did not bear fruit. Then the republican prosecutor's office entered the case. Employees quickly found a case of fraud on the part of Yakupov, who was listed as the director of the Kazan company Ulis. It was on behalf of this company that the thief in law promised Chapaevskoe JSC Srednevolzhsky Chemical Plant (SVZH) to collect a debt from Tatsakharprom in the amount of 480 thousand rubles for the sugar they did not supply to SVZH in exchange for fertilizers. Literally in a week, Ulis received sugar, but SVZH was left with nothing. Then the management arrived in Kazan at the legal address of the company, but a destroyed building stood in the place of the office. The businessmen immediately turned to the police, and in July 2000 the Tatar prosecutor's office accepted the fraud case.

Opposition to the investigation from the criminal world began immediately. In a strange way, the leadership of the injured SVZH refused to communicate with the prosecutor's office, and the witnesses found began to turn out to be from the previous testimony that denounced Martian Yakupov. The leadership of the Zainsky sugar factory did not come at all to identify the thief in law, who knocked out both sugar and money from them.

An official check began at the SVZH, someone wanted to find the person who had filed a complaint about the fraud on the part of "Ulis" to the police. The situation became so aggravated that the security forces were going to use SOBR fighters who could ensure the safety of witnesses and victims during the investigation. But at that moment, the leadership of the SVZH completely abandoned its claims to Ulis.

Meanwhile, the prosecutor's office acknowledged the damage caused by the SVZH, found witnesses who identified Yakupov from photographs, and also obtained several Ulis documents with Marsik's signatures. After that, the beholder was put on the wanted list. They found Yakupov in Moscow, but while the Kazan capture group was traveling to the capital, the thief was notified of this and slipped away again. As a result, Yakupov was arrested in Kazan. The "watchman" of the detention center met Marsik with maximum honor: he immediately resigned and handed over the reins of government to the "thief in law".

However, the sentence for fraud, despite such work done by the prosecutor's office, was suspended for five years with a probationary period.

Prison term

In 2003, they tried to accuse Marsik Kazansky of murdering the 34-year-old authority of the Sukonka (Salyakh) organized criminal group, who was stabbed 5 times. The thief was detained a few days after the murder. Yakupov did not deny it, but immediately told the investigators that he had quarreled with Salyakh at his birthday party and hit him with his fist. The birthday boy, falling, broke with his body window glass, on the fragments of which, perhaps, he cut himself. More, according to Marsik, he did not see authority and knows nothing about stab wounds. As a result, the beholder was released from custody.

In 2004, another criminal case was opened against Yakupov. According to investigators, in 2003, on behalf of a shell company, Marsik entered into an agreement with Moscow merchants for the supply of polyethylene from OJSC Kazanorgsintez. Unsuspecting merchants transferred about two million rubles to the company's account, but they never received polyethylene. After that, they had to turn to law enforcement. The Main Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tatarstan initiated a criminal case against the fugitive on the fact of fraud. However, Marsik and the trace caught a cold.

At the same time, since Yakupov violated the order of punishment (according to which he had to be regularly reported to the bodies of the penitentiary inspection), the suspended sentence for him was replaced with a real one. True, in absentia, since Marsik was wanted.

They managed to arrest Yakupov only at the beginning of 2006 in Kazan in the course of operational work. In July 2006, the Sovetsky District Court of Kazan found Martian Yakupov guilty of fraud and, taking into account the previous sentence, sentenced him to 7 and a half years in prison.

Decoronation

To serve his sentence, Marsik went to one of the colonies of Tomsk IK-3, which is considered the "red" zone. They say he could not prove his right to bear the thieves' "name". Lawyers had to immediately go to the “negative”, which was very severely punished by the administration. Such prisoners were placed in a punishment cell, created unbearable conditions in prison. And Marsik Kazansky, who never sat in real conditions as a thief in law, gave in to the one in the colony where power belongs to activists. Apparently he understood that long term will not be able to spend, being a legitimate thief, and feeling all the hardships of prison life. In addition to the fact that he was not supported by the prisoners, he was subjected to constant beatings from their side.

As a result, Martian Yakupov spoke on the prison radio and said that he realized all the mistakes, embarked on the path of correction and wishes the same for others. In addition, he joined the discipline maintenance squad. After that, a photograph was even brought to Kazan, in which the former general of the criminal world is standing with a “duty” bandage. In general, on Marsik as a "thief" a bold cross was put.

Thief in law Martian Yakupov - Marsik Kazansky in IK-3 Tomsk

With the departure from thieves' affairs, and the constant spread of rot in prison, Martian lost a lot in health. He started having heart problems. When he was released, he no longer represented any power and had no authority. Yes, and the former thief in law died, literally a short time after his release - on October 31, 2012 in Kazan from a heart attack. As people who knew him say, Martian was very worried about those moments because of which he had to abandon the thieves.