Episode list

In the summer of 1982, Yuriy Andropov raised the issue of poor food supplies to Moscow in the CPSU Central Committee. A big purge began, which was eventually targeted at the first secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the CPSU, Viktor Grishin. Many leaders of Soviet trade were detained on charges of embezzling socialist property, including the former head of Glavtorg Tregubov and the director of the Eliseevskiy grocery store, Yuriy Sokolov.

In the early 1920s, a raider named Leonid Pantyolkin, nicknamed "Lyonka Panteleev", appeared in Petrograd. He was engaged in robberies and murders. Militia managed to neutralize the bandit, but he soon escaped from the Kresty prison, but the militia established his whereabouts. During the second detention, Pantyolkin put up armed resistance to the militia and was killed.

In 1968, a gang of the Tolstopyatov brothers appeared in Rostov-on-Don, which was engaged in armed robberies and robberies using camouflage and homemade firearms. The gang operated with impunity for 5 years. In 1971, during another attack, the bandits got into a car accident, but at the last moment they managed to escape.

In 1971-1973, the gang of the Tolstopyatov brothers continued to commit robbery attacks. But in 1973 the bandits were surrounded. One of them (Sergey Samosyuk) was killed, three more (brothers Vyacheslav and Vladimir Tolstopyatov and Vladimir Gorshkov) were detained.

On March 8, 1988, the Ovechkin family of musicians hijacked an Irkutsk-Kurgan-Leningrad flight in order to hijack it abroad. By deception, the plane was landed at the Veshchevo airfield in the Leningrad Region. The assault was unsuccessful, but seeing that they would not last long, most of the Ovechkins committed suicide.

On October 6, 1991, the famous singer Igor Talkov was killed in the Yubileynyy Sports Palace in Leningrad. The first suspect in the murder was the bodyguard of singer Aziza Igor Malakhov. However, the examination established that Talkov was shot by his director Valeriy Shlyafman. Shlyafman fled abroad, where he still lives.

On August 31, 1978, a group of guys ran through the Tatarskaya Sloboda micro-district of Kazan, beating anyone they met to death. Several people died. Soon there were several more similar actions. These runs were organized by the Tyap-Lyap (Teplokontrol) organized criminal group.

On August 5, 1977, 1,500,000 Soviet rubles were stolen from the State Bank in Yerevan. As it turned out, the robbery was committed by the brothers Nikolay and Feliks Kalachyan. They were sentenced to death. The gunner of the brothers was sentenced to 11 years.

On July 20, 1980, the day after the start of the Moscow Olympics, a foreigner was killed in a rest house near Moscow. As it turned out, the murder was committed by a prostitute Maria Lunina. Her young man, Aleksey Nepomnyashchiy, and the underground millionaire Matulis were also involved in the crime.

October 1945. Moscow is terrified by the ominous name "Black Cat". A gang of defense plant workers led by Ivan Mitin committed 28 robbery attacks on shops, savings banks and collectors and 11 murders. Ivan Mitin and two other gang members were sentenced to death.

Beginning on October 18, 1941, in besieged Leningrad, attacks on trucks with bread, vital for the city, began. The bandits killed the car drivers. As it turned out, the murders and robberies on the instructions of the Abwehr were committed by a gang of 12 former criminals led by a certain Kasharniy.

After the liquidation of the gang of criminals, the Leningrad department of the NKVD received a message that an important Nazi agent, nicknamed "Prince", had arrived in the city, who was to create a Nazi underground in the blockaded city. Some time later, a German agent, Sergey Kruglov, was arrested, and he was predicted to be a Gauleiter in Leningrad.

November 14, 1980 in Moscow, the apartment of the widow of the famous writer Aleksey Tolstoy was robbed. The richest collection of diamonds left after his death was stolen. The robber turned out to be the famous Odessa raider Anatoliy Bets. He was arrested, but managed to escape during an investigative experiment.

After the escape of Anatoliy Bets, the entire militia of the USSR set about looking for him. On December 11, 1981, the famous actress Zoya Fedorova was killed in her apartment on Kutuzovskiy Prospekt. According to some reports, this crime was also the work of Bets. Then Irina Bugrimova lost her diamonds. After some time, Bets was killed in Georgia by the traffic police.

1989 Cooperator Sergey Simakov received a videotape showing his missing son voicing the demands of the bandits who kidnapped him. Previously, the bandits had already killed Sergey's wife. The militiamen managed to rescue Simakov's son. Sergey Bityukov, who abducted him, died in a cell in a pre-trial detention center.

1978. After the death of the Secretary of the Central Committee for Agriculture Fyodor Kulakov, two people were possible candidates for the vacant post - the first secretaries of the Krasnodar Regional Committee of the CPSU Sergey Medunov and the Stavropol Regional Committee of the CPSU Mikhail Gorbachev. It was beneficial for the chairman of the KGB of the USSR, Yuriy Andropov, that Gorbachev took this place, so a development began against Medunov, which revealed a lot of his abuses of power.

On October 27, 1971, collectors of the Kazan State Bank were robbed. The driver of the taxi carrying the collectors was killed. A large amount of money was stolen - 60,000 rubles. Soon, a wave of similar crimes swept through different cities of the USSR. After some time, the bandits were arrested.

1972. Information was received by the KGB of the USSR: Moscow thieves in law are offering the KGB to hold a meeting. They stated that they were concerned about the appearance in Moscow of a gang of a certain Gennadiy Karkov, nicknamed "Mongol". But soon the gang was arrested. However, only the leader was punished (he received 14 years in prison), and another member of the criminal group was declared mentally ill and sent for treatment to a psychiatric hospital.

July 28, 1981. An unprecedented incident occurred in the Arkhangelskoye estate near Moscow - a diamond necklace was stolen from Galina Brezhneva, daughter of the General Secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Leonid Brezhnev, and after a while, the corpse of a famous thief in law was found near the estate.

From the very end of the Great Patriotic War, the Ministry of State Security of the USSR began the search for and destruction of war criminals - traitors, defectors and policemen. A special department of the KGB of the USSR for 30 years led the search for the only woman - the Nazi executioner. Antonina Makarova-Ginzburg was arrested in 1978. More than 1,500 people died as a result of her activities. She was sentenced to death, one of only three executions of women in the USSR in the post-Stalin era.

May 23, 1952. There was an arrest of General Nikolay Vlasik, the head of Stalin's security service. Many believe that it was due to Valentina Istomina, Stalin's housekeeper. The episode also talks about the wives and women of many party leaders.

December 1963. One of the first serial killers in the history of Soviet Union appeared in Moscow. After a short search, the killer of five people was arrested. It turned out to be a theater worker Vladimir Ionesyan. He was sentenced to death.

In 1980, a gang appeared in Kazan, engaged in robberies and murders. Its leader, Vladimir Pustovit, hid his accomplices under the guise of the anti-Soviet Red Brigade organization. Vladimir Pustovit and the chief executioner of the gang, Viktor Osipov, were sentenced to death.

May 1978. In the south of the RSFSR, the disappearance of drivers with their personal vehicles began. Immediately 5 cars with bullet holes were found at the bottom of the Nevinnomysskiy Canal. After a long time, a gang of 4 was established. The bandits were brothers Dmitriy, Yuriy and Valeriy Samoylenko and Sergey Lezhennikov.

August 20, 1987. In Vladimir, in protest against Gorbachev's anti-alcohol campaign, a glass factory stopped. To pacify the protesters, an unscheduled batch of vodka was sent, but the convoy of trucks did not reach Vladimir - it disappeared. Some time later, the body of the shot forwarder of the convoy was found in the forest, and then the trucks with drivers. One of them died.

March 1965. A painting by Frans Hals "Saint Luke" has disappeared from the Pushkin Museum in Moscow. However, the general public was not informed about the loss of the masterpiece. The picture was found a few years later, its thief (an employee of the Museum named Volkov) was arrested and convicted.

October 4, 1980. Pyotr Masherov, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the Belorussian SSR, died in a car accident on the Moscow-Brest highway. The car he was in collided with a truck at high speed. The truck driver, Nikolay Pustovit, was sentenced to 15 years in prison, but was later amnestied.

In September 1983, a young actress Viktoriya Shestopalova was found murdered at the Belokamennaya station. Later, her beloved Nikolay Sokol, who was a speculator, was killed. During the investigation, it turned out that the murders were ordered by the criminal Vladimir Sivushkin, the shadowy boss Georgiy Gagabiridze, because of the disruption in the supply of illegal goods, for which Nikolay was responsible.

In the late 1960s, a marriage swindler appeared in the Soviet Union. Across the country, he left dozens of robbed women, and killed one. After some time, the swindler was arrested. It turned out to be Yuriy Ladzhun. He was sentenced to death.

In 1992, riots swept through the colonies and prisons of Russia. This is how the underworld reacted to the death in the White Swan colony of the legendary thief in law Vasiliy Babushkin, nicknamed Vasya Brilliant. He was the last of the founders of the clan of thieves in law, along with Mishka Yaponchik and Naftaly Frenkel.

On September 27, 1968, in Kursk, two conscript soldiers Viktor Korshunov and Yuriy Surovtsev staged a shooting on the Railway Station Square. 13 people were killed and 11 others were injured. Korshunov was soon killed by his accomplice. Surovtsev was arrested and sentenced to death.

In the 1970s, the body of a design engineer - gunsmith Stanislav Kupriyanov was found in one of the trains. As the investigation found out, Kupriyanov lost all his money to the hustlers who were traveling with him on the train, and was killed during an attempt to recapture them. One of the hustlers was a woman.

Since 1971, a series of brutal murders of girls and women began in the Vitebsk region. For these crimes, 14 innocent people were convicted, one of them was shot. In 1985, the real killer was nevertheless arrested, he turned out to be a state farm machine operator Gennadiy Mikhasevich. He was sentenced to death.

On November 14, 1986, the Molodyozhnyy department store was robbed in Moscow. The largest amount in the history of the police was stolen - 330,000 rubles. Boris Yeltsin personally came to the crime scene. Soon the bandits, who had fled in the car of collectors, were caught up. A shootout ensued, as a result of which one of the raiders died, the second shot himself, and the third, Senior Lieutenant Subachyov, was arrested.

In 1975, sorters of the State Bank more and more often began to find counterfeit banknotes with a face value of 25 rubles. Banknotes were confiscated throughout the country, in the end, the driver Viktor Baranov was detained, who admitted that it was he who organized the production of counterfeit money in a typographical way in his own barn.

October 30, 1973. In one of the military units near Leningrad, a sentry was killed, his Kalashnikov assault rifle was stolen. On May 8, 1974, another murder took place in Leningrad using a machine gun. During the investigation of this case, a gang of two people was established - Yuriy Balanovskiy and Andrey Zelenkov. A militia officer was introduced into this gang and his actions made it possible to detain the criminals.

December 11, 1991. In St. Petersburg, a girl was murdered. The maniac put a red rose into her hand, and scattered the petals from the second such rose around. Two more similar murders were soon committed. The path of the maniac turned out to be short-lived (after 10 days he was arrested), he turned out to be a television master from Moscow, Yuriy Semyonov.

In 1943, Hitler and Stalin organized assassination attempts on each other. The Soviet intelligence officer Igor Miklashevskiy was sent to Germany, and the converted criminal Pyotr Shilo (Tavrin) was sent to the USSR. Neither one nor the other succeeded in eliminating their goals.

On January 9, 1974, a robbery and murder of collectors took place in the capital of Latvian SSR, Riga. It took just 3 days for militia officers to catch and arrest the killers - Nikolay Krasovskiy and Vladimir Mezis. They were sentenced to death.

In 1971, a certain Magomed Tsoloev was detained at the airport in the city of Magadan, who was trying to take out a gold nugget, weighing more than 12 kilograms. As a result of the special operation, numerous dealers in gold sphere were arrested.

Viktor Tsoy died in a car accident on August 15, 1990 on the 35th kilometer of the R-126 highway in the Tukums region of Latvia, a few tens of kilometers from the capital Riga. While on vacation in Latvia (the village of Plienciems) after the tour, Tsoy at 6 o'clock in the morning went fishing on a small lake in the forest. Fishing took 5 hours, and at about 11 o'clock in the morning the musician went home in his car model "Moskvich-2141". At the same time, the Ikarus-250 bus was driving along the same highway at a speed of 60-70 kilometers per hour. The exact time of the collision of the bus with Tsoy's car is 11:38.

In the spring of 1991, the body of a girl was found in the courtyard of one of the Moscow houses, which was surprisingly similar to one of the soloists of the Combination group. As it turned out, she and several other girls were a fake group that fraudulently pretended to be the "Combination" group.

In 1947, a brutal gang appeared in Kazan, robbing and killing their victims. It took years to catch the bandits, the innocent suffered. A gang consisting of some Babaev, Peterin and the Karmakovs was arrested. Three bandits were sentenced to death, and Karmakova received 25 years in prison.

October 12, 1990, Podolsk. A robbery was committed at the warehouse of the cooperative, the leader of the gang was a girl. During the attack, a security guard was killed. Director of the cooperative Kireev, fearing checks, did not go to the militia, after some time he was sentenced to 2 years for concealing a crime. The thieves were soon arrested.

In 1924, a bugbear appeared in Petrograd, which easily opened even the most reliable safes. Zhorzhik Chyornenkiy (in the world - Georgiy Aleksandrov) was the leader of a gang that at the beginning of the last century specialized in robbery. It took him a maximum of 35 minutes to crack any safe.

In the second half of the 1940s, a raider appeared in Moscow, robbing banks and without hesitation killing everyone who tried to resist. A few years later, Pavel Andreev, nicknamed "Pashka-America", was arrested and sentenced to 25 years in prison.

In 1990, on the way from Sheremetyevo airport, $ 1,000,000 taken by the state on credit from the United States disappeared without a trace. Airport employee Nikolay Nekrasov was convicted of theft and sentenced to 9 years in prison, but the money was never found.

On the night of February 10-11, 1985, in the center of Vilnius, in the house number 49 on Lenin Street, in the apartment of the artist Kalinauskas, five sectarians beat Talgat, who did not resist, with extreme cruelty. Abay Borubaev, Grigoriy Bushmakin, Mirza Kymbatbaev, Vladimir Pestretsov and Igor Sedov took part in the beating, which lasted about 8 hours. By noon on February 11, 1985, Nigmatulin died from life-threatening injuries to internal organs.