Armenian organized crime group Immigrants from Armenia who chose the criminal profession, as a rule, began with robberies, robberies, car thefts, burglaries and extortion. Over time, their activities began to become more civilized.

Georgian organized criminal group This group is not nationally isolated; its gangs include representatives of all nationalities. The organized crime group specializes in thefts, car thefts, robberies, and hostage takings. Keeps several under control

Dagestan organized crime group Members of this group specialize in robbery, robbery, extortion, acquisition and sale of weapons, and control of prostitution. They also control a number of banks, hotels, restaurants, and acquire

Chechen organized crime group

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

According to the Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for the Republic of Tatarstan, the organized crime group “Second Gorki”, nine of whose members aged 17 to 27 years will now go to trial, has been operating in the microdistrict of the same name since 2017. They made a living 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 up to 30 thousand.

This is exactly the amount the gang members demanded from a 15-year-old teenager, who was waylaid near a house on Pobeda Avenue, taken to a forest plantation, and when a frightened schoolboy called them to his home for money, they ran into his parents there...

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

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

It turns out that it’s not for nothing that the chief police officer of Tatarstan Artem Khokhorin that “they haven’t disappeared anywhere. OCGs are transformed in a certain way. The slightest relaxation could 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 Garayev.

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

- Of course, behind all these groups there were always older bandits, they taught the youth, they collected money for them. And these bandits have not gone away, now they have served their sentences, have been released and are again dragging young people into the criminal world. It was hard to fight this “phenomenon” before, during the USSR, but now, when 30 percent of the police have been cut... - 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 work on prevention together - both family and school. But schools often try to hide such phenomena so as not to spoil their reputation, and parents are now trying to earn more money for their children, but are not involved in raising their children.

OCGs have indeed raised their heads both in Kazan and throughout the country, and this is a marker of the presence of big social problems in society, a decline in the standard of living of our families, says the founder of the National Parents Committee Irina Volynets. - A huge number of families live below the poverty line, parents have to borrow money just to get their children ready for school, of course, there is no question of paying for clubs and sections. I know from myself what an expense this is; I have four children who play sports. For example, good skates cost 50 thousand rubles. How many parents can afford this? As a result, children, left to their own devices, with nothing to do outside of school hours, end up in such groups. I believe that the state should bear the costs of organizing children's leisure time.

I conducted prevention lessons in schools among teenagers exposed to the AUE subculture. When asked what attracted them to this, they answered that they saw romance in a life of crime; there were those who said in all seriousness that they wanted to commit a crime and go to prison, because it seemed to them that they lived there according to very high standards, “We’re all brothers to each other, we all stand up for each other, we live a fun and interesting life,” said the psychologist at the Resurs center. Zarina Nafieva. - So, teenagers don’t find all this in real life- support, understanding, feeling of support and security. And in the group, the teenager finds people who can listen to him and protect him. Then these older 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 lot 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 “15-minute rule”: no matter how busy you are, talk to your child for 15 minutes every day and do not reprimand him for bad grades, but simply be interested in his life.

Meanwhile, the Kazan police reported that a 17-year-old teenager who was beaten on April 5 near a school on Vagapova Street and who received a concussion as a result was discharged from the hospital; his life and health are not in danger. At least for now.

A former member of the organized criminal group “Niza,” one of those that kept Kazan at bay in the 90s, gave a public lecture in Moscow. Robert Garayev, now a DJ, spoke about what forced children and teenagers to join gangs, engage in racketeering and fight with rival groups wall to wall. With the collapse of the USSR, Garayev and his peers found themselves in a bloody whirlpool, from which few managed to escape. The correspondent attended the performance of the ex-Nizov fighter and listened to his stories about the bloody chronicle of Kazan in the 90s, which were included in a book that has not yet been published.

The mystery of the “Kazan phenomenon”

Robert Garayev's lecture took place 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 listeners, of whom there were quite a lot. There were Moscow youth in torn jeans and glasses of beer, and older audiences - Garayev’s friends, natives of Tatarstan, who witnessed the so-called “Kazan phenomenon”.

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

Street fighters positioned themselves either as athletes or as people with “the right concepts.” Among them, drinking, smoking and using drugs were strictly forbidden; they trained a lot and obeyed their senior comrades in everything. There was a strict hierarchy in the groups: “husks” or “shells” (schoolchildren from 9 to 13 years old), then “supers” (teenagers 14-16 years old), who were considered the combat core of the team, went on raids on enemy territories and took money among the “chushpans” (those who were not part of the groups).

Then came the “young” (17-19 years old) - they had the right to vote in deciding who to fight with and who to make peace with. And finally, the highest level is “authority”, also known as “grandfather” or “king”. As a rule, he was a man in his thirties with a criminal record. It was he who managed the common fund - the money that the guys collected for their group.

Gopnik gangs were constantly in conflict with each other, their confrontations turned into mass fights with brutal beatings and murders. The largest fight in the history of Kazan gangs 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 fought side by side, armed with stakes, chains and crowbars. After such fights, many were taken to hospitals with severe injuries and mutilations, some 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 came schoolchildren, working youth and the unemployed, who numbered no more than five percent. Everyone was from different families- poor and wealthy, workers and intellectuals. Robert Garayev was one of the latter: his mother worked at a research institute, and his father was a co-operator. He himself studied diligently, went to art school, so criminal communities did not interest him until a certain time.

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

It was not customary to hand over the offender to the police - this would lead to a boycott and general contempt. The solution was found by itself: the guys from the parallel class, Max and Dima, invited Garayev to 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 sign up for me if members of other groups have any complaints against me...

After some deliberation, Garayev accepted the offer of his peers. The year was 1989.

One among one's own

The first gathering of “Nizov” that I attended was surrounded by courtyard romance,” Garayev writes 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 had to spend an hour and a half at this place. I remember two people most of all: Bisprik (from the word “limitless”) - a small, nimble and adventurous good-natured guy who wraps his legs with lead plates so that there is a “blow”, and Baby - our “extreme” (something like a headman among fighters of our age) .

The kid was a blue-eyed blond with full lips, side-swept bangs and the most fashionable clothes. His “shirochi” pants were no less than 35 centimeters wide - the squeak of boyish fashion at that time. He wore an imported sweatshirt, and most importantly, he rammed (communicated) no worse than an adult criminal. According to Garayev, Malysh “was truly wild and dangerous.”

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

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

Life according to concepts

Members of teenage organized crime groups in Kazan 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 there, and they had their own social and economic resource - their own strength. They could use force against the “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 are called a sucker or a devil, you are obliged to fight”; “If you were sent to ..., and you did not stand up [struck at least one blow without warning], then you are kicked out [kicked out] with sanctions [beatings]”; “If they spat on you, you are extinguished, no one has the right to greet you, not even a chushpan, but the worst thing is if they put you down, that is, they pissed on you.”

The boy could not hand over his own or others to the police and was obliged to be extremely honest with his group. The boy’s word was considered something like an oath: “the boy said, the boy did.”

If the rules were violated, the elders could kick the boy out of the group. At best - just beatings, at worst - with beatings and extortion of money.

Street laws

According to Garayev, membership in the group was somewhat reminiscent of work. In exchange for their new status, the guys were required to attend training camps three times a week and conduct healthy image life. In case of violations, they faced sanctions - beatings.

It was possible to get it for several reasons,” recalls Garayev. - Most often for cigarettes and alcohol. It was believed that we were a fighting 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 in reality, of course, was not the case.

At the training camp, the seniors determined the limit minimum quantity those present - 15-20 people. If the number of boys was less than required, messengers were sent to the absent ones and by hook or by crook they were brought in. Otherwise - “sanctions”.

The execution took place as follows, says a former member of “Nizov”. “The elders lined up, and all of us had to approach each of them in turn. Not everyone hit, and therefore in total you received three or four strong blows to the face. An important nuance it was that you couldn’t dodge. You had to take those blows with full force. Sometimes the elders checked: while swinging, they stopped their fist right in front of your face.

If you tried to dodge, they kicked you out [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 couldn’t move, and for the next two days the cigarette kept falling out of my mouth. When a classmate came to see me the next day to ask why I hadn’t come to class, he didn’t recognize me and asked, “Is Robert home?”

They beat me infrequently - once every two to three months. When the guilty “supers” were beaten by the young ones, they then came to have fun with the younger ones, remembering to them all the absences at the training camp and the cigarettes they smoked.

Die young

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

The Kid’s appearance was deceptive: the blue-eyed blond with the face of an angel was an unbalanced psychopath, whose anger was life-threatening,” recalls Garayev. - 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 outfit, in his opinion, 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. Kuyan was also stylish in his own way. Unlike the talkative and sociable Kid, he was taciturn and strict.

The “extremes”, along with ordinary boys, participated in wars with other groups. And they beat them just like everyone else - in the gateways, in the entrances of houses. Kuyan’s dismembered body was found near Lake Kaban after working with some distant “office.” And the Kid died of cardiac arrest after hitting one of his friends during the “exchange of blows” game, popular among 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 engage in criminal activities. And yet, having joined one gang or another, 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 it. Sometimes the boys robbed dachas, mostly taking food from the refrigerator: many grew up in poor families where there was nothing to eat.

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

The habitat of the Kazan teenager, regardless of his group membership, was very limited, recalls Garayev. - Traveling to the other end of the city was dangerous - in the center the Novotatar gangs and [members of the large organized crime groups “Novotatarskaya” and “Hadi Taktash”] were raging; the neighborhoods had their own authorities, and alone you could run into trouble. But the main enemies of the “Nizov” were the neighboring “Gryaz”: 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 due to a fight between elders or the penetration of boys into someone else's territory. After this, a “strelka” was appointed, and if the guys did not agree on it, war was declared. During the war, the factions had two responsibilities: to patrol their territory for enemies and to conduct raids.

One dramatic moment comes to mind when during the “war” the “supers” came to our training camp and announced that we would now run to “Gryaz” because they were preparing a raid on us,” recalls Garayev. “They took us to a high-rise building on Serov Street, beyond which was our border, and handed out weapons. These were metal bars stolen from a construction site and metal balls. From one strong blow This type of installation broke the skull on the head. My first thought was: “Well, that’s it, we’re ****** [finished].”

And so we took the position - and the agonizing wait began. Horror was visible on the faces of all fifteen-year-old fighters. It was accompanied by ringing silence. Somehow there was none of the bravado that usually accompanies an upcoming fight. Everyone, even the elders looking at us with sympathy, understood the meaninglessness of the upcoming bloodshed. In this suspended state, we stood there for about 40 minutes, listening to extraneous sounds. The running crowd was not heard, and at some point the patrolmen returned and reported that the “Gryazevskys” 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 essence, the same group, only under the cover of the local police, working in collusion with employees. According to Garayev, those who joined it were either “rejected” from other brigades, or “applicants” with unsuitable, sometimes dramatic, biographies.

Somehow a guy came to join us, and in a short time he became everyone’s friend,” the narrator recalls. - Sociable, knew everyone intimately, and also a dashing hooligan. After about a month or two, he was sent away with severe beatings and released. The kid bragged about how he smashed his ***** [face] from his foot. It turned out that in deep childhood, when the guy was seven years old, some pedophile abused him. And the fact that he hid this from the boys was a serious offense. The fact that the boy was a child then and could not answer the pedophile was not taken into account. The only way for such guys was to go to OKOD, which we despise.

Ordinary schoolchildren also joined the “Okodovtsi”, who were harassed by the yard gopniks. Having joined the group, we fought with the offenders together with the police. They went out on raids during training camps, caught the boys and took them to the police station.

At the police station, they behaved impudently and in a possessive manner; one of their elders once locked me in the toilet and hit me in the kidneys with a brick stuffed in a felt boot,” recalls Garayev. - To my indignation, he replied that he could get away with it, since his “design” does not leave bruises or any marks at all on the victim’s body. OKOD was a clever invention of the then clumsy police; it could have become a panacea in the fight against the “Kazan phenomenon”, but it could not solve the problem. Our groups were taken in mass and quantity.

To a new life

Robert left the "Nizov" in 1991, spending 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 sent him away. They tried to lower him, but the guy fought back, spitting at the offender. The group was finished.

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 fates of other members of Kazan organized crime groups turned out 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 headed organized crime in Tatarstan. Being a thief in law, he was considered the watchdog in the region, and closely controlled all areas of business and, preferring to act with rough methods in an attempt to bring as much territory as possible under his control.

Martian Yakupov

Yakupov Martian Mavletovich was born on January 14, 1964 in Kazan. He was not like the old galaxy of criminals who tried to follow the laws of thieves and support. Marsik Kazansky rather belonged to the authorities of the new formation, busy purely with business. Despite the fact that Yakupov did not have the title of thief in the early nineties, he had great authority in the criminal environment. During the Soviet era, he managed to serve a short sentence for theft of state property, to which was added a year for attacking a colony guard.

Already in , Marsik was the leader of the local criminal group Sukonka. Compared to another large brigade called “Dragons,” Yakupov’s group 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 on. Soon, the “Dragons” took control of large enterprises in the region, and the leaders of the brigade bought themselves apartments in Moscow, where they moved, opening a legal business in the capital. The plans of the authorities included complete legalization, and they decided, while remaining in the “shadow” in front of the security forces, to put Yakupov in charge of criminal affairs, which completely suited them.

Thief in law Martian Yakupov - Marsik Kazansky

Despite the fact that Marsik Kazansky also already lived in Moscow, he had to often 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 them as allies. Without thinking twice, they met with Caucasian lawyers, who “presented” the thieves’ crown to their protégé Yakupov. It is not known for certain how much this agreement cost.

Having become full-fledged, Marsik Kazansky began to call on other criminal groups in the region to unite with the “Dragons”. Having gained allies in the form of influential authorities, Martian also gained 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, reserving neutrality.

Probation

Law enforcement agencies tried in vain to find Yakupov. Agent connections and constant surveillance of the observer 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 Chapaevsky OJSC 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. In just a week, Ulis received sugar, but SVZH was left with nothing. Then the management came to Kazan to the legal address of the company, but in the place of the office there was a destroyed building. The businessmen immediately contacted 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 management of the injured SVZH refused to communicate with the prosecutor’s office, and the witnesses found began to turn away from previous testimony that exposed Martian Yakupov. The management of the Zainsky sugar factory did not come at all to identify the thief in law who had extorted both sugar and money from them.

An internal audit began at SVZH; someone wanted to find the person who filed a statement about fraud on the part of “Ulis” to the police. The situation had become so aggravated that the security forces were going to involve SOBR soldiers who could ensure the safety of witnesses and victims during the investigation. But at this moment, the management of SVZH completely abandoned its claims to “Ulysses”.

Meanwhile, the prosecutor's office acknowledged the existence of damage caused to SVZH, found witnesses who identified Yakupov from photographs, and also obtained several Ulis documents with Marsik's signatures. After this, the watcher 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 “supervisor” of the detention center greeted Marsik with the utmost honor: he immediately resigned and handed over the reins to the “thief in law.”

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

Prison term

In 2003, they tried to accuse Marsik Kazansky of murdering the 34-year-old leader of the Sukonka (Salyakh) organized crime group, who was stabbed 5 times. The thief was detained a few days after the murder was committed. Yakupov did not deny it, but immediately told investigators that at his birthday party he had quarreled with Salyakh and hit him with his fist. The birthday boy, falling, smashed with his body window glass, on the fragments of which he may have cut himself. According to Marsik, he didn’t see the authority anymore and doesn’t know anything about the knife wounds. As a result, the watcher was released from custody.

In 2004, another criminal case was opened against Yakupov. According to investigators, in 2003, on behalf of a front company, Marsik entered into an agreement with Moscow businessmen for the supply of polyethylene from OJSC Kazanorgsintez. Unsuspecting businessmen transferred about two million rubles to the company’s account, but never received the polyethylene. After this they were forced to contact law enforcement agencies. The Main Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Tatarstan opened a criminal case against the fugitive for fraud. However, there was no trace of Marsik.

At the same time, since Yakupov violated the punishment procedure (according to which he was required to regularly report to the penal inspection authorities), his suspended sentence was replaced with a real one. True, in absentia, since Marsik was wanted.

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

Decoronation

To serve his sentence, Marsik went to one of the Tomsk colonies, IK-3, considered a “red” zone. They say he was unable to prove his right to bear the thieves’ “name.” Lawyers had to immediately go to “denial”, which was very severely punished by the administration. Such prisoners were placed in punishment cells and unbearable conditions were created in prison. And Marsik Kazansky, who had never been imprisoned in real conditions as a thief in law, gave up slack in a colony where power belongs to activists. Apparently he understood that so long term will not be able to spend, being a legal 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 them.

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

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

With his departure from thieves and constant rot in prison, Martian suffered greatly in health. He started having heart problems. When he was released, he no longer represented any power and had no authority. 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 give up being a thief.