The unenviable fate of members of the Orekhovskaya organized criminal group (16 photos). Alley of "heroes" at the Khovansky cemetery A feature film about the sylvester of authority

Tractor driver fed Arbat prostitutes
Sergey Timofeev was born on July 18, 1955 in the remote village of Klin, Novgorod Region. After school he worked on a collective farm as a tractor driver. People who knew Timofeev claim that he was a great driver and loved to do it. In the army, Timofeev served in a sports company. The future authority moved to Moscow according to the limit in 1975. He registered in one of the Orekhovo-Borisov hostels and worked as a sports instructor in the housing and communal services department of Glavmosstroy. At that time, Timofeev could often be found at the Arbat restaurant. He was still a harmless sucker, but he met Arbat prostitutes, and later they paid tribute to him. Among the local punks, he was nicknamed Seryozha of Novgorod.
In the early 80s, Serezha got along with the punks from Orekhovo-Borisovo and joined the gang of the now unknown recidivist Ionitsa. Timofeev soldered the lads (Ionitsa subsequently drank himself and retired). But Seryozha himself did not drink on principle and worked hard in the "rocking chair". The Orekhovskaya group initially, like many metropolitan teams, existed at the expense of thimblers and gamblers. Timofeev was also taken to work. Soon Seryozha Novgorodsky succeeded, picked up the Orekhovskys for himself and turned into an authoritative Sylvester (he received such a nickname because he looked like Sylvester Stallone). His personal life has also changed. Timofeev divorced his wife Lyubov (he lived with her for 7 years and had two children from her). And he married a certain Olga Zhlobinskaya. A few years later, Timofeev took her last name, and the couple applied to leave for Israel. But later she stated that the marriage was fictitious.

Sylvester befriends the Cyclops
The criminal business flourished. Having subjugated the cheaters in the South and South-West of Moscow, the Orekhovskys took over several cooperatives for repairing cars and selling spare parts. Soon the Orekhovo, Kerch and Zagorye restaurants came under their control. In 1989, when the "Slavic" teams began conflicts with the Chechen ones, the Orekhov group found allies in the person of the Solntsevo and "Lenin" bandits. The Solntsevskys at that time were headed by the former waiter of the Khrustalny restaurant Sergey Mikhailov (nickname Mikhas), and the Leninskys were commanded by a native of the Solntsevo brigade, a former firefighter Boris Antonov (nicknamed Borya-Anton). In one of the showdowns with the Chechens, which took place in the Havana restaurant, Borya lost his eye. After that, Antonov got a new nickname - Cyclops.
Soon Sylvester, Mikhas and Cyclops became friends. They were united by hatred for Caucasians and sports. Cyclops and Sylvester were actively engaged in martial arts. It is interesting that even when Antonov was a fireman, one of the future police generals visited the gym with him (his last name has not yet been disclosed). When he took a high post, the son of this policeman got into the Cyclops brigade. By the way, this son was once under investigation in the case of robbery and infliction of grievous bodily harm to an employee of the internal affairs bodies.

The authority is interested in oil
By mid-1989, Sylvester, in addition to Orekhov, held the odd side of Leninsky Prospekt. The even one belonged to Bore-Anton-Cyclops. In the fall of that year, employees of the Russian Ministry of Security and the MUR took Sylvester, Mikhas and Avira (one of the leaders of the Solntsevo group) for racketeering. Sylvester spent two years under investigation and was released in 1991, since, according to a court verdict, he served his term in a pre-trial detention center.
By that time, significant changes had taken place in Sylvester's brigade. Left without a leader, some of Timofeev's people temporarily joined the team of Mikhas, who had left earlier (according to some reports, he had to pay a bribe of about 2 million rubles for his release) and other brigades. When Sylvester came out, his brigade gathered again. In addition, his people brought with them part of Solntsevo. Sylvester's relations with Solntsevo became cooler: Timofeev was not satisfied with the fact that his former allies made peace with Chechen groups. Even left without powerful support from Solntsevo, Sylvester successfully carries out several showdowns with the Chechens in the area of ​​​​Tsaritsinskiye Ponds and gains control of Sevastopol Avenue.
After that, Sylvester began to actively engage in legal business, for which he registered a network of offshore companies in Cyprus. According to some reports, he invested his group's money in Russian oil companies. Timofeev carried out several commercial projects with the reputable athlete Otari Kvantrishvili. In addition, Sylvester converges with such thieves and authorities as Painting, Petrik, Zakhar, Tsirul and Yaponchik. All of them were again united by their rejection of the "wild Caucasus" that invaded Moscow. Timofeev's Orekhovskaya brigade actively cooperates with the Galyanovsky, "Lenin" and Tagansky bandits, and Sylvester enjoys undeniable authority in these groups. According to some reports, at that time several "Slavic" thieves offered Sylvester to become a thief in law, but for some unknown reason he refused. By the way, Sylvester's friend Bore-Anton was denied the coronation, because he had previously worked in the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Nevertheless, Timofeev was listened to at all thieves' gatherings.

The bandits did not spare cartridges for thieves and policemen
In April 1993, a thief in law Globus (Valery Dlukach) was shot dead near the Olimpiysky sports complex. According to some reports, Sylvester was also directly involved in his murder. The murder of Globus was allegedly the result of a showdown related to the oil business. Interestingly, shortly after this murder, a meeting of thieves in Podolsk recognized the liquidation of the Globe as correct. However, the friends of the deceased decided to take revenge on the killers.
Sylvester's brigade suffers tangible losses. Lenya Kleshch, who started with Timofeev in the Orekhov team, was killed. After some time, a corpse is found in the Moscow River, in which they identify the leader of the Galyanovo group, Sergei Boroda (relatives identified him by his shoes).
Sylvester's group also strikes back. In January 1994, on the Volokolamsk Highway, the car of the authority of Bobon (Vladislav Vanner), an associate of Globus, was shot. Bobon and his driver were killed, but Vanner's young son, who was with them, was not injured. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Bobon's people swore to destroy Sylvester.
Interestingly, the police consider the murders of Globus and Bobon solved. In October last year, during a police operation on the Petrovsky-Razumovsky market, the perpetrator of the murders, a 34-year-old resident of Kurgan, was detained. His detention cost the lives of four policemen. Three more were wounded. According to the detainee, he himself carried out the liquidation of Globus and Bobon by order of criminal structures. However, it is possible that the police could simply hang the liquidation of authorities on this person (in order to increase disclosure), since the detainee has nothing to lose anyway - he will be shot.

Sylvester's last case
According to the police, at the end of 1993 Timofeev's brigade took control of the Moscow Trade Bank. The group introduced its own people into the management of the bank, and Sylvester's wife, Olga Zhlobinskaya, became the chairman of the bank's board.
Then Sylvester's people began to receive loans from various branches of the Savings Bank of Russia and the Moscow Savings Bank, as well as from a number of commercial banks. In total, Sylvester's people received loans from 20 banks. The funds received, however, were not transferred to the official account of Mostorgbank, but to various accounts opened by Sylvester's accomplices in a number of other banks. After that, the money was transferred to the accounts of private firms International Financial Group Yustinlev Inc, Concord, Arealinstrakh, whose leaders, according to operational data, also belonged to the Sylvester brigade or were under its roof.
Then the amounts were converted and transferred under fictitious contracts to Israel and Switzerland to the accounts of the companies "Seven starts Ltd." and SitAG. It is noteworthy that the head of "Seven starts Ltd." is Grigory Lerner, who in the fall of 1993 was put on the federal wanted list for embezzlement and fraud. By the way, in 1990, the former general director of the LOMOS Consortium, Grigory Lerner, was suspected of embezzling 40 million rubles, but fled from the police in Switzerland. However, in the same year, at the request of law enforcement agencies, he was extradited to Russia. In 1992, he was released from prison on bail, and the charges against him were dropped. Since April 1994, the chief of "Sit AG" Sergei Smolyanitsky has been on the federal wanted list. In 1993, heading Mass Information Communications LLP, he stole more than 6.5 billion rubles. According to the police, in total, more than 18 billion rubles were stolen by the fraudster in this way.
And on March 16, 1994, Mostorgbank sold two of its bills of 500 million rubles each to the Automobile All-Russian Alliance with a maturity date of April 6 of the same year. However, the bills were not repaid, and the people who signed an agreement with AVVA on behalf of Mostorgbank disappeared. A billion rubles was converted by fraudsters in one of the banks and also transferred under a fictitious contract to Israel. According to the police, the AVVA security service tried to find the stolen money. They managed to contact one of the organizers of the fraud, in the recent past, an employee of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Defense Ministry. He promised to return the money, but only if the AVVA management did not turn to law enforcement agencies. However, according to some reports, Boris Berezovsky nevertheless decided to report to the police. Employees of the Moscow regional department for organized crime reported that a meeting with the general director of AVVA was scheduled at the RUOP office on Shabolovka on June 6. However, due to the busyness of the businessman, it was rescheduled for the next day. And on June 7, an attempt was made on Berezovsky. Interestingly, the employees of the RUOP received information about the terrorist act at the moment when they were waiting for the entrepreneur to arrive. Three days after the failed assassination attempt, money with interest (a total of 1.2 billion rubles) was transferred to the settlement account of the Automobile All-Russian Alliance.
On June 14, several participants in the theft of loans, including Zhlobinskaya, were detained by employees of the Moscow RUOP, but three days later the investigators for some reason released them on bail. Their further fate is unknown. According to some reports, they left for Israel. In any case, as the police established, all the detainees had foreign passports with open visas to this country.
Employees of the Moscow city prosecutor's office investigating the attempt on Boris Berezovsky reported that many thieves in law and authorities, including Sylvester, appeared on the lists of suspects in organizing a terrorist act. However, it was not possible to prove his involvement in the assassination attempt.
According to AVVA Financial Director Mikhail Antonov, last spring the alliance actually purchased two promissory notes from Mostorgbank. When they came due, the persons who sold the bills asked to defer payments, citing financial difficulties. As a result, the money was returned after lengthy negotiations. Berezovsky himself did not directly participate in the negotiations, but followed their progress. As Mr. Antonov noted, the head of the alliance had no reason to apply to law enforcement agencies, especially RUOP.
Mostorgbank, according to the Main Directorate of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation for the Moscow Region, in September 1994 was deprived of a license for the right to conduct banking activities. The case of Mostorgbank is now being investigated by the investigative department of the Main Department of Internal Affairs of Moscow.

Timofeev identified by teeth
On September 13 at 19.05 in the center of Moscow near house #46 on 3rd Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street a powerful bomb was detonated. The explosion occurred in a brand new Mercedes-600. After the explosion, the car caught fire. From the wreckage, firefighters and policemen removed the charred corpse. The documents in the pockets of his clothes were burned, and several business cards and customs declarations were found in a bag found in the cabin. Among them are a business card and a declaration addressed to the manager Sergei Zhlobinsky (Sylvester's new surname). According to employees of the Tver inter-district prosecutor's office investigating the explosion on Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street, the identity of the deceased was established from a business card, declaration and jaw. Investigators contacted Sylvester's US-based dentist. The fillings and teeth of the deceased were described to him, and the doctor recognized his work.
Subsequently, the corpse of Sylvester was identified by his older brother Vladimir, a village tractor driver. During the identification, he burst into tears and said, "What are you, Seryoga, I told you: stop this business and we will collect mushrooms in the village." The authority was buried, and his killers have not yet been detained.
As prosecutors said, some time after the funeral, rumors spread around Moscow that Sylvester was alive. The prosecutor's office believes that these are nothing more than rumors and they are beneficial not only to the brigade of authority, which still uses his name, but also to those commercial structures that were under the roof of Sylvester. In other law enforcement agencies, in particular in the MUR and RUOP, there is an opinion that the authority is actually alive, and his death is just a clever trick. Sylvester needed this in order, firstly, to cover up the traces that he left in a number of criminal cases. And secondly, to save his life: the people of Globus and Bobon intended to deal with him. Police officers do not exclude the possibility that Timofeev, who has several large companies in European countries and real estate (in particular, in Tel Aviv, Sylvester owned a luxurious mansion in a prestigious area), decided to simply retire. And recently, the police received information from their agents in the criminal environment that Sylvester came to Odessa, where he met with an authority nicknamed Painting. They also saw him in the company of other thieves in Moscow, Tambov and Cyprus. The bandits themselves claim that he lives in Vienna. Rumors about the "resurrection" of Sylvester became all the more plausible after Timofeev's friend Sergei Boroda, allegedly killed in January last year, showed up. After his "death" he actually went to Latin America on forged documents, and when his enemies almost forgot about him, he reappeared in Moscow.

CRIME DEPARTMENT

Sergei Ivanovich Timofeev ("Sylvester", "Ivanych", "Seryozha Novgorodsky", "Tractor Driver")- (July 18, the village of Klin, Moshensky district, Novgorod region, RSFSR, USSR - September 13, Moscow, Russia) - crime boss, founding leader of the Orekhovskaya organized crime group, which arose in Moscow in 1986. Known for his uncompromising attitude towards the Caucasian criminal gangs.

Biography

Sergey Timofeev was born on July 18, 1955 in the village of Klin, Moshensky District, Novgorod Region. Russian by nationality. He studied at a secondary school in the village, where, while still a schoolboy, he worked as a tractor driver on a collective farm. He was fond of sports: he was engaged in dumbbells, kettlebells and exercised on the horizontal bar. In 1973 he was drafted into the army. He served in Moscow, in the Kremlin regiment. In 1975, Timofeev, together with his classmate, finally moved to Moscow, lived in a hostel in the Orekhovo-Borisovo area and worked in the mechanization department. In Moscow, he became interested in hand-to-hand combat and became a sports instructor in the housing and communal services department of Glavmosstroy. Soon Timofeev got married and began to live on Shipilovskaya Street. After leaving the sport, Timofeev continued to improve his physical fitness and at the same time was engaged in private transportation, but this did not bring him the desired income. In the mid-1980s, Timofeev got in touch with the punks from Orekhovo and began to engage in faux pas. Later, Timofeev subjugated all private cabbies, thimblemen, car thieves on the southern outskirts of Moscow. Gradually, Timofeev gained more and more influence among the punks, he was actively assisted in this by his younger brother "Ivanych Jr.", who later took over part of the group. After the release of Gorbachev's law "About Cooperation", Timofeev created his own group, the backbone of which was former young athletes, and racketeering became their main occupation. Already at that time, the brigade "Sylvester" began to conflict with the Chechens because of the market in the South Port, but there were no particularly serious clashes between them. To fight Caucasians "Sylvester" met with the leader of the Solntsevskaya organized criminal group Sergey Mikhailov ("Mihas"), and for some time Timofeev and Mikhailov worked together. In 1989 Sergey Timofeev, Sergey Mikhailov, Victor Averin ("Avera-Senior") and Evgeny Lyustarnov ("Lustrik") were arrested on charges of extortion from the Fond cooperative. But the accusation fell apart and only Timofeev went to jail, who was sentenced to three years in prison in a high-security colony. Your term "Sylvester" served time in Butyrskaya prison and was released in 1991.

Freed "Sylvester" managed to unite, under his authority, small gangs operating in the metropolitan area of ​​Orekhovo-Borisovo into a single structure. In a short period, Timofeev subjugated all large organizations and enterprises in the south of Moscow, as well as many cafes, restaurants, nightclubs, and individual entrepreneurs. The Orekhovskaya organized criminal group constantly recaptured territories from other gangs, which led to protracted criminal wars.

According to some reports, at that time several "Slavic" thieves offered Sylvester to become a thief in law, but for some unknown reason he refused.

A little later, Sylvester acquired influential acquaintances that helped him quickly rise to the top of the criminal hierarchy. He was friends with influential thieves in law and authorities: Painting, Yaponchik, Petrik, Jamal, Tsirul, Otari Kvantrishvili, Mikhas. At one time, the "Orekhovskaya" grouping even teamed up with the "Solntsevskaya" group in order to more effectively resist the "blacks" in Moscow.

In resolving conflicts, Timofeev sometimes resorted to the help of the Izmailovites, Golyanovites, Tagans, and Perovites. Timofeev also had connections with the Yekaterinburg gangs, who, in exchange for a share in the income from the Domodedovo airport, ceded to him part of the Ural business, including shares in some of the largest privatized metallurgical enterprises.

In 1992 he married Olga Zhlobinskaya and received Israeli citizenship. Later, Olga Zhlobinskaya headed the "Moscow Trade Bank", where in 1994 the commercial structure of Boris Berezovsky "Automobile All-Russian Alliance" placed funds. The bank delayed the payment of money to Berezovsky. By 1994 "Sylvester" came into conflict with a significant part of other groups in Moscow, including ethnic ones. He took control of the banks one by one, eliminating anyone who stood in his way. Timofeev was also interested in the oil business, because of which he had a conflict with the "authoritative" head of the Party of Athletes of Russia Otari Kvantrishvili. They did not share the Tuapse refinery, and on April 5, 1994, Kvantrishvili was shot dead by a sniper. Now investigators know that this high-profile murder was organized by order "Sylvester" leader of the Medvedkovskaya OPG Grigory Gusyatinsky ("Grinya") and Sergey Butorin ("Osia"), and performed by Aleksey Sherstobitov ("Lyosha-Soldier").

At the beginning of 1993, Timofeev had disagreements with the well-known henchman of the Caucasian crime, the thief in law Globus, for the right to control the Arlekino club. However, it is possible that this club is only a formal reason behind which another round of confrontation between the Caucasian and Slavic groups was hidden. Sylvester decided to eliminate the "Globe" and brought in the Kurgan OPG, unnoticed in the Moscow showdowns, in particular, their professional killer Alexander Solonik. On the night of April 9-10, 1993, on Olympiysky Prospekt, Globus was shot dead by him when leaving the LIS'S disco. On the evening of January 17, 1994, not far from the shooting club on Volokolamskoye Highway, the well-known Orekhov militant Sergei Ananyevsky (Kultik), who was covered by Solonik, fired at the Ford car, in which crime boss Vladislav Vanner, nicknamed "Bobon", the right hand of "Globus" died.

In the summer of 1993 (according to another version, in the summer of 1994), Sylvester flew to the USA, where he met with the most authoritative thief in law Yaponchik. He allegedly gave the go-ahead to Timofeev to manage all of Moscow. However, this information is denied by many. The Ogonyok magazine No. 18 dated May 5, 1997 published an article by the well-known journalist and author of Gangster Petersburg Andrei Konstantinov, who wrote the following: “In July 1994, Ivankov had disagreements with Sergei Ivanovich Timofeev (Sylvester), who headed Orekhovskaya group and controlled a significant part of the drug trade in Moscow. The conflict arose after a failed deal, when Timofeev accused Ivankov's son Edik of embezzling three hundred thousand dollars. The Kommersant newspaper dated February 1, 1997 provides the same information: “About July 1994, Ivankov’s interests clashed with the interests of Sergei Timofeev (Sylvester), who led the Orekhov group and controlled the drug trade in most of Moscow. Timofeev accused Ivankov’s son Edik of that he "did not give" $ 300 thousand.Further events occurred in September 1994.

The Khovanskoye cemetery is located near Moscow and adjoins the remote metropolitan area Solntsev, which until recently was considered a suburb of Moscow. The Khovanskoye cemetery is the largest cemetery in Europe, but it is not difficult to find the alley where the leaders of the Orekhovskaya organized criminal group are buried. It is located on a new section of the cemetery. The fact that the “godfathers” of the criminal south of Moscow are buried here, in my opinion, transparently hints at a close connection with the famous Solntsevo “brothers”, at their common criminal roots. Indeed, sometimes the relationships of individuals are so intertwined that it is difficult to understand which of them is "Orekhov" and which is "Solntsevo". It is curious that in almost all the graves, the front sides of the tombstones and busts are turned with their backs to the pedestrian alley, thereby emphasizing the shady, criminal way of life of the deceased. It remains to be added that all other "Orekhovites" are buried at the Vvedensky, Danilovsky, Kotlyakovsky and Shcherbinsky cemeteries.

Anticipating your appropriate sarcastic grins about pompous monuments on the churchyard, Orthodox symbols, I want to remind you that for many decades on Red Square in his Mausoleum lies a man who managed to ruin and destroy, for example, hard-working peasants in the name of utopian ideals and personal ambitions. As a gift from grateful descendants, the author of the cry "Take away and divide!" received a permanent residence permit at the foot of the Kremlin, and the untimely peace of his homies, densely packed in the Kremlin wall, is guarded day and night by sentries. It seems that almost no one cares: they are already used to it. What happens, dear comrades? He killed ten - a bandit and a murderer, but killed millions - a great leader and teacher?

As an addition to the video, in which Valery Karyshev somehow explains who is who in the Orekhov mafia:

Sergei Ivanovich Timofeev (1955-1994), nicknamed Sylvester, does not need a special introduction. As a matter of fact, this entire site is devoted to his activities.

Grigory Evgenievich Gusyatinsky (1959-1995) - founder of the Medvedkovskaya organized criminal group. In the early nineties, during the life of Sylvester, the group did not play a very independent role, but was a kind of North Moscow branch of the Orekhovskaya organized criminal group. Gusyatinsky was involved in all sorts of delicate cases, such as organizing the high-profile murder of Otari Kvantrishvili. When Sylvester was blown up in September 1994, Gusyatinsky again led the Medvedkov group, but not for long. In January 1995, in Kyiv, Grisha was shot dead by his subordinate - a hired killer Alexei Sherstobitov, nicknamed Lesha Soldier, the direct executor of the order for Kvantrishvili. Apparently, Sherstobitov was afraid that he knew too much about the biography of the Sylvester feeder and therefore decided to fix the problem. Speaking about the personality of Gusyatinsky, for some reason the words of the same Lesha Soldat are recalled about how Gusyatinsky ordered his subordinates to be killed for the slightest mistake. So, for example, he ordered one to be killed for a champagne cork that got into him, and the other for refusing to carry his wife's bag. Since it is customary to say good or nothing about the dead, we will keep silent.

Stella on the graves of a prominent member of the group, Alexander Garishin, nicknamed Sasha Ryzhy (he did not like his other nickname - Screw - he did not like), who was part of Sylvester's inner circle from the moment he was released from Tver correctional colony No. 1 (in the jargon "weaving"), and his younger comrade Vladimir Baklanov (1968-1996) nicknamed Cucumber.

Sergei Taraskin (1951-1992), wrestling coach of the Kuntsevo sports school, a kind of debutant on the alley of "heroes", occupied a prominent place in the brigade of Sergei Kruglov, nicknamed Serezha Boroda, who in turn was a personal friend of Sylvester. It is known that the latter in the seventies was engaged in karate in that sports school, and therefore he probably knew Taraskin. Other signs testify to this: Timofeev's grave is adjacent to Taraskin's grave, and those who buried Sylvester - and he was the third in a row in the alley - for some reason placed authority right next to Taraskin, and not somewhere else.

Sergei Taraskin died in the famous massacre in Butovo on May 6, 1992, when several groups near Moscow and Moscow came together to dismantle at once: on the one hand, the Balashikha group (leader German Starostin, born in 1963, nickname Gera), on the other hand, the Podolsk group ( leader Sergei Lalakin, born in 1955, nicknamed Luchok), Chekhov (leader Nikolai Pavlinov, born in 1957, nicknamed Pavlin), as well as three Moscow groups - Anton, Petrik and Serezha Beards.

From operational information: “The funeral of Taraskin took place at the Khovansky cemetery. All members of the Beard group gathered. The participants in the gathering were armed with short-barreled machine guns. The militants who were on duty at the entrances reported on the radio about the appearance of strangers. Thieves in law and authorities arrived at the cemetery. They recommended to stop the bloodshed and decide peacefully. The meeting participants agreed, but Starostin, the leader of the Balashikhas, and his closest connection, Sukhoi, as well as the Lyubertsy leaders Sam and Mani who supported them, were sentenced to death. Serezha Boroda took over the execution of the action.

The name of Taraskin is still well known among professional athletes. On December 12-14, 2014, in the Sports Complex of the Olympic Village - 80 in Moscow, an open All-Russian tournament in Greco-Roman wrestling was held, dedicated to the memory of the master of sports of the USSR Sergey Taraskin.

Sergei Vladimirovich Kotov, nicknamed Kot, was among the authoritative people of the Orekhov group, he personally knew Sergei Ivanovich Timofeev. Andrei Viktorovich Mikhailov, nicknamed Fantik, was a member of the brigade from 1993 to 1996, and when the latter was killed, he began working with the Cat.

On March 1, 1997, Kotov and Mikhailov went to a regular meeting, apparently with someone they knew well and, leaving their wives in a restaurant, expected to return in an hour, but disappeared. Approximately five days later, the car in which they left (an armored Mercedes 140) was found in one of the parking lots with broken bulletproof glass. The guys were found a week later in the forest, it seems, on the fortieth kilometer of the Kyiv highway ...

Alexander Loginov, nicknamed Bull (1977-2001), was seen in the company of Igor Smirnov (Bear), and it seems that he was somehow involved in, since he was buried nearby. Bulya was not taken by a bullet, but by drugs. At the beginning of the 2000s, the shooting in Orekhovo-Borisovo generally subsided.

Nikolai Pavlovich Vetoshkin (1961-1998) was a member of Sylvester's inner circle, but was attracted by him mainly for "dirty" work. They met back in the eighties, when Vetoshkin worked as a loader in an Orekhov store and had the opportunity to get alcohol during Gorbachev's anti-alcohol campaign.

After the assassination of the chief, a real war broke out in the south of Moscow; the once close-knit group began to break up into separate brigades, one of which was headed by Vetoshkin. When they shot the district authority Dvoechnik, in 1996-1998. Vetoshkin actually became the main bandit of the southern outskirts of Moscow. Since Nikolai Palych often resorted to the traditional means of resolving disputes, namely shooting, by the end of the decade he managed to make a lot of enemies. Extraordinary precautions and an armored Mercedes did not save him from the natural end - execution from a Kalashnikov assault rifle.

Vladislav Albertovich Gorpishchenko, nicknamed Garp (1965-1994). Nikolai Modestov: “... One of the promising fighters, Garpishchenko (nicknamed Garp), was found dead near his own apartment. The killer fired the only headshot from the PM...” Garp was killed while Sylvester was still alive, in August 1994, and he became the second in the alley after Taraskin.

Sergei Nikolaevich Volodin (1969-1996), nicknamed the Dragon, was killed under circumstances unknown to me. According to one version, the “Kurgans” dealt with him for the debts of Sergei Ivanovich. It is possible that Alexander Solonik was the killer.

Sergei Dmitrievich Ananievsky (1962-1996), nicknamed Kultik, Honored Trainer of Russia in powerlifting (power triathlon), champion of the USSR in 1991, the first president of the Powerlifting Federation in Russia and concurrently ... Orekhov's authority.

Ananievsky is more often mentioned as the mastermind behind the assassination of Otari Kvantrishvili. He was shot during a showdown for power that followed the explosion of Sylvester, in early March 1996, near the US Embassy on Novinsky Boulevard. According to one version, the murder was committed by "Kurgan".

The graves of Volodin and Ananyevsky are united, which speaks of the joint affairs of the deceased and, possibly, friendship.

A common story for the 1990s: the parents of the "brothers" outlived their children, sometimes for decades.

It's about Sergei Ivanovich Timofeev, nicknamed Sylvester. This is one of the most authoritative foremen of the times of criminal wars. A distinctive feature of Sylvester was that he could not stand "colored" criminal gangs, for which he was very much respected by law enforcement agencies. He served only a year and a half in prison. Sylvester is a typical representative of the "sports-military" gangsterism of the early 90s.

The future criminal authority was born in 1955 in the Novgorod region. After leaving school, he worked as a tractor driver on a collective farm. In 1975, he moved to Moscow on a limited basis, where he began working as a sports instructor in the housing and communal services department of Glavmosstroy. In the early 1980s, he joined the criminal gang of a recidivist Ionitsa from Orekhovo-Borisovo. Gradually, Timofeev gained more and more influence in the group. By the end of the 1980s, the Orekhovskaya group had taken control of cheaters in the South and South-West of Moscow, several car repair and spare parts sales cooperatives, as well as several restaurants.

Timofeev received his first term in 1989. He was sentenced to 3 years for a typical crime for those times - extortion. True, there is something else that is interesting. Sylvester extorted money from no one, but from Alla Pugacheva's ex-boyfriend Vladimir Kuzmin. Then there was such a practice - the bandits "protected" the artists, moreover, even the first magnitude. Hence, then, such close ties of some blue screen stars with the stars of the criminal world.

However, Timofeev served only half of his term - he was released on parole. At large, Sylvester again took up his usual business. Huge money was then circulating in Moscow, just manage to grab it. The fate of Sylvester was largely predetermined ... marriage. In 1992, he signed with Olga Zhlobinskaya, who, no less, headed the Moscow Trade Bank. It was in it that in 1994 the commercial structure of Boris Berezovsky "Automotive All-Russian Alliance" placed its money. The bank delayed the payment of this money to the great and terrible BAB...

In the same year, an attempt was made on Berezovsky's life ... Boris Yeltsin then publicly announced to all of Russia, as if no one knew this before, that "criminal lawlessness is in the country." As a result, the bank returned the money to the oligarch. But the Moscow RUBOP nevertheless arrested Olga Zhlobinskaya. And on September 13, 1994, the Mercedes in which Timofeev was traveling was blown up. Crime boss dead...

Already in the fall of 1994, the "Orekhovskaya" split into several dozen groups and came into conflict with each other.

Timofeev's grave is located in Moscow at the Khovansky cemetery. True, then there were rumors that Sylvester staged an attempt on himself in order to go abroad with a clean biography (as shown with the criminal authority Sasha Bely in the television series "Brigada"). But such rumors arise only around highly respected and significant people who are buried in closed coffins...

20 years after the murder of one of the most famous bandits of the last century, a convincing version of who killed him appeared.

On September 13, 1994, in the center of Moscow, in his Mercedes, the leader of the Orekhovskaya criminal group, Sergei Timofeev, nicknamed Sylvester, was blown up. The investigation checked many versions of this attempt, including that the crime boss was ordered by his competitors in the criminal business. But all of them have not received confirmation. A breakthrough in the investigation occurred just a few days ago.

Our source in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, who was part of the task force investigating the attempt on Sylvester at that distant time, said that the case moved forward in March of this year. Then a certain Sergei Butorin, nicknamed Osya, and his bodyguard Marat Polyansky were extradited from Spain. Both of them served more than eight years in a Spanish prison for possession of weapons.

Russian investigators have long wanted to talk to Osya. After all, after the death of Timofeev, he took his place as the leader of the Orekhovskaya gang. With his direct participation, 29 people were killed, including the well-known killer Alexander Solonik and the well-known in the criminal world Otari Kvantrishvili.

By order of the Axis, many criminal authorities of the "Orekhovskaya" organized crime group were killed - Kultik, Dragon, Vitokha and others. Eliminate henchmen for the slightest offense has become a rule for Butorin. Osya eliminated the entire top of the "Kuntsevo", "Sokolniki", "Assyrian" and "Odintsovo" ("Golyanovskaya") groups, as well as the heads of companies associated with them. In total, according to investigators, 57 murders and attempts were committed during these criminal wars.

When the detectives were about to arrest Butorin in 1996, he skillfully acted out his death "at the hands of competitors." In one of the capital's cemeteries, there is still a grave with a slab on which his photograph hangs. Osya had plastic surgery and left for Greece. Then he moved to Spain, where in 2001 he was arrested along with his bodyguard Marat Polyansky.

As soon as this became known, the Prosecutor General's Office demanded that the Spaniards extradite the criminal duo. But they had to wait almost nine years while they served time for crimes on Spanish soil.

According to our source from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the testimony of Osya's bodyguard came as a complete surprise to the investigators: Polyansky suddenly announced that Timofeev had been removed on Butorin's orders.

The reason turned out to be banal. Sylvester behaved towards many of his accomplices, to put it mildly, in a boorish way, often humiliating them in front of everyone. Especially got to his right hand Butorin. He allegedly could not bear the bullying of the chief and decided to kill him, - said the operative.

After Polyansky's testimony, two more arrested Orekhovskys stated that Osya had removed Sylvester.

In the capital division of the Investigative Committee, the RG correspondent was told: "As soon as the investigators are sure that there is enough evidence against Butorin, he will be formally charged with the murder of Timofeev."

The trial of members of the Butorin gang began in May at the Moscow City Court. Osya pleads not guilty.

By the way, there is a version that Sylvester also staged his own death. It is known that the coffin was not opened at Timofeev's funeral, and his ex-wife now lives in Israel. It is possible that Sylvester himself is hiding there.