The Rise of Uralmash: Understanding Yekaterinburg Gangs and Criminal Groups in the 2000s

2023-12-06 02:31:36

Thus, in the 2000s, Uralmash became the most influential group. There was also a group called “Blues” – classic Soviet criminals, criminals from the zone. At that time they did not have much power and were also subordinate to the Uralmash team.

It is important that in Yekaterinburg there was no deliberate involvement of minors in groups.

“Perhaps there were minors in Yekaterinburg gangs or groups, but, unlike Kazan, this was not such a massive phenomenon,” explains the criminologist. — Kazan gangs arose among minors, and Ekaterinburg gangs among adult athletes. Their youth fell on the lack of money in the nineties, and they found a way to make money in the form of protection rackets.

For the same reason, the nature of crimes in the two cities differed.

— If we take the 90s, then the Uralmash OPS is a protection racket, squeezing out business, a criminal redistribution of property. Kazan gangs are gop-stop. Later this developed into more serious crimes, but at first for a very long time it was just street robberies and attacks.

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