List of post-Soviet gangsters
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{{BLP sources|date=October 2012}}
This is a list of some organized crime figures within the underworld of the former Soviet Union.
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|Mikhas | The leader of the Solntsevskaya bratva |
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|Ashkenazi Jewish (Ukrainian Jewish) |Uncle Seva, the Brainy Don | Ukrainian mobster who is regarded as one of the most powerful gangsters from the former Soviet Union. |
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| | Boss of the Tambov gang |
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|Yaponchik (the Japanese) | Notorious thief in law who later established a criminal organization in the USA. |
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|Russian/Tatar | |The leader of the Dolgoprudnenskaya gang |
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|Superkiller, the Kurgan Terminator, Sacha the Macedonian | Infamous hitman who committed several high-profile murders. |
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| | St Petersburg based businessman, suspected of using his security firms to run protection rackets. |
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|"BIG G" | Notorious leader of the Lyuberetskaya Bratva. Known for his barbaric ways of dealing with violence oppositions. "One of the most violent and homicidal gangsters in Moscow" |
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|Max | FSB agent turned gang leader, accused of being involved in the Russian apartment bombings |
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|Ashkenazi Jewish (Ukrainian Jewish) | | Was a powerful Ukrainian gangster in the USA. |
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|Ashkenazi Jewish (Russian Jewish) | | One of the first Russian gangsters to establish a powerful gang in the USA, thief in law. |
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|Ashkenazi Jewish (Ukrainian Jewish) |Tarzan | Ukrainian-Israeli drugs, arms and sex trafficker. |
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|Ashkenazi Jewish (Belarusian Jewish) |Biba | Belarusian mobster who was involved in organized crime in America as well as Europe. |
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|Ashkenazi Jewish (Ukrainian-German Jewish) | | Ukrainian mobster who was based in Antwerp.{{Cite news|url=https://www.lesoir.be/archives/recherche|title=Recherche|newspaper=Le Soir |language=FR|accessdate=May 23, 2023}} |
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| |Member of the Russian mafia in the USA. |
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|Konksu-Tom | Leader of Estonian Kemerovo crime syndicate. |
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|Belobryssy |Russian mobster and alleged member of the Brothers' Circle. |
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| | Estonian drug lord |
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|The Butcher | Estonian hitman and career criminal. |
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| | Former leader of the Chechen mafia. |
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| | Former boss of the Chechen mafia. |
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|Hoza | Prominent former member of the Chechen mafia. |
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|Alik the Greek | Donetsk-based crime lord and former owner of FC Shakhtar Donetsk |
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| | Former leader of the Kazan mafia in Moscow.{{cite web|url=http://www.compromat.ru/page_9682.htm|title=Казанская ОПГ-2 // Золотая "Жилка" - Компромат.Ру / Compromat.Ru|website=www.compromat.ru}} |
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|{{ill|Sergey Tsapok|ru|Цапок, Сергей Викторович}} | | Krasnodar-based gang leader, responsible for the Kushchevskaya massacre{{cite web|url=http://en.gazeta.ru/news/2012/07/23/a_4690561.shtml|title=Gazeta.ru - Investigation into alleged murder, racket, extortion, & arson by 'Tsapok Gang' ended|publisher=}} |
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|Taro | Georgian crime boss, thief in law. |
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| | Former thief-in-law and leader of the Mkhedrioni militia |
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|Bakha-Bakha | Powerful Georgian crime lord in Abkhazia.{{cite web|url=http://www.georgiatimes.info/en/news/56709.html|title=Famous "Mafia Boss" Deported from Russia to Abkhazia|publisher=}} |
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|Young Jumbo |Georgian crime boss, leader of Rustavi organised crime group, thief in law. |
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|Otarik | Moscow-based thief in law |
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|{{ill|Lasha Shushanashvili|ru|Шушанашвили, Лаша Павлович}} |Lasha Rustavsky | Prominent thief in law.{{cite web|url=http://1tv.ge/news-view/34037?lang=en|title=Lasha rustavsky|publisher=1tv}} |
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| | Leader of Lithuanian organised crime group. Last person to be executed in that country (1995). |
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|Pzo | Armenian thief in law in the USA involved in drug trafficking, extortion,etc...but most famous for the 2010 Medicaid fraud{{cite web|url=https://www.fbi.gov/newyork/press-releases/2010/nyfo101310.htm|title=Manhattan U.S. Attorney Charges 44 Members and Associates of an Armenian-American Organized Crime Enterprise with $100 Million Medicare Fraud|publisher=}} |
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| | Crime boss in Moscow.{{cite web|url=http://www.tert.am/en/news/2012/07/30/kamo-safaryan/|title=Ethnic Armenian crime boss arrested in Moscow|website=www.tert.am}} |
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| | Armenian gangster.{{cite web|url=http://news.am/eng/news/58851.html|title=Armenian crime boss killed in France identified|website=news.am}} |
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| | Powerful gangster of Azerbaijani descent.{{cite web|url=http://russianorganizedcrime.blogspot.com/2011/06/azerbaijani-mafia-boss-dadash.html|title=Russian Organized Crime: Azerbaijani "mafia boss" "Dadash Novkhaninskiy" arrested in Moscow|last=Vor|date=11 June 2011|publisher=}} |
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|Rovshan Lankaransky | One of top leaders of organized crime in Russia.{{cite web|url=http://mignews.com.ua/en/print-articles/43745.html|title=Influential Caucasian authority arrested. Photo|publisher=}} |
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|Lotu Guli | One of top leaders of organized crime in Russia.{{cite web|url=https://en.crimerussia.com/criminalauthorities/thieves-in-law-get-counted-billionaires-among-them-revealed/|title=Thieves in law get counted; billionaires among them revealed. Photo|publisher=|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190502162324/https://en.crimerussia.com/criminalauthorities/thieves-in-law-get-counted-billionaires-among-them-revealed/ |archive-date=2019-05-02 }} |
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| Kamal Tovuzsky | Leader of powerful Azeri organized crime family in Moscow.{{cite web|url=https://www.compromat.ru/page_9890.htm|title=Азербайджанская ОПГ-1 // Лидеры - Компромат.Ру / Compromat.Ru|website=www.compromat.ru}} |
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| Arif | Leader of powerful Gardabani organized crime society in Moscow, it is consisted of ethnic Azeris from Georgia.{{cite web|url=https://www.compromat.ru/page_24517.htm|title=Азербайджанская ОПГ-2 // Лидеры - Компромат.Ру / Compromat.Ru|website=www.compromat.ru}} |
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| Hikmet Sabirabadsky, Lotu Hikmet |
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|Grandpa Hassan | Powerful thief in law in Moscow. |
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|Shagro Junior | Powerful Georgian thief in law |
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|Kolya-Kyrgyz | Kyrgyz thief in law and alleged member of the Brothers' Circle |
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| | Kyrgyz mobster who was killed in a drive-by shooting.{{cite web|url=http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insight/articles/eav051506.shtml|title=Eurasianet|website=www.eurasianet.org}} |
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| | Kyrgyz crime boss turned politician after 2005 coup, killed later that year. |
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| | Alleged Uzbek organized crime figure and member of the Brothers' Circle. |
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| | Alleged Uzbek crime lord.{{cite web|url=http://enews.fergananews.com/news.php?id=1982|title=Wikileaks: Uzbek mafia boss Salim sells official positions and treats Uzbek ministers - Ferghana Information agency, Moscow|website=enews.fergananews.com}} |
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|Taivanchik (the Taiwanese) | Alleged thief in law |
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| | Leader of the Ingush 'Malgobek' mafia in Moscow.{{cite web|url=http://www.compromat.ru/page_9888.htm|title=Ингушская ОПГ // Лидеры - Компромат.Ру / Compromat.Ru|website=www.compromat.ru}} |
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| | Leader of the Dagestani mafia in Sint-Petersburg.{{cite web|url=http://www.compromat.ru/page_9889.htm|title=Дагестанская ОПГ-1 - Компромат.Ру / Compromat.Ru|website=www.compromat.ru}} |
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| | Leader of a Dagestani criminal gang in Moscow.{{cite web|url=http://nadoelo2000.narod.ru/mafia.htm|title=Дагестанцы в Москве|website=nadoelo2000.narod.ru}} |
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