Godfather of Cherkizon Alexander Bleer. In the criminal case of the Golyanov group, Alexander Nikolaevich Bleer, why did he quit?

The trial of seven members of the Golyanov group is underway in the military court of the Moscow garrison. They are accused of banditry, murder, kidnapping and extortion. The case, for which orders and titles have already been received, is falling apart: the victims do not appear, and the witnesses claim that they testified under the dictation of MUR operatives. The same was stated by one of the leaders of the Russian State Academy of Physical Education, on whom the prosecution had high hopes. Tells Maxim Stepenin .

Money bag

As Kommersant has already told, six of the seven accused are in the dock. One of them is former FSB colonel Igor Kushnikov, because of whom the case is being considered by a military court. The seventh is in a psychiatric hospital because he became insane during the investigation. This 35-year-old Maxim Shenkov, also known as Max Golyanovsky, is a former paratrooper, European silver medalist in karate, international master of sports in judo, member of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.The investigation considers him the leader of the Golyanov group, although he considered himself a businessman. True, even lawyers cannot explain what kind of business it was, they only say that it was “some kind of connection with Abkhazia.”

However, Maxim Shenkov had closer interests. In particular, in the capital’s universal sports and entertainment complex (USZK) “Izmailovo”, where from the beginning of the 90s he, together with his brother Ilya (also a master of sports in judo), was the actual owner of a car showroom, restaurant, disco club, hall slot machines, a furniture store, etc. The struggle for USZK, which peaked in 1996-1997, played a fatal role in the fate of the brothers.

The management of the complex itself and the Russian State Academy of Physical Education (RGAFK) fought with each other. The conflict was worth it: not only that, according to eyewitnesses, “they literally carried bags of money into Izmailovo” (there is a known case when, during a police visit there, someone threw a bag with $1 million out of the window, which was picked up by a janitor who happened to be passing by ), so many retail outlets have proliferated around, also bringing in considerable income.

The stumbling block was the legally unresolved issue of USZK ownership. The Academy considered him one of its own, and the general director of Izmailovo argued that USZK was a completely independent structure. At the same time, the management of the sports complex relied on the support of its position not from ordinary employees of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate and the FSB. She was also supported by Maxim Shenkov - also not the least important person in Izmailovo. For some time their arguments prevailed.

For the glory of Russian sports

Everything changed when a strong leader appeared in the RGAFK - a recent graduate of the academy, freestyle wrestler Alexander Bleer. Now he is the director of the Institute for Advanced Studies and Retraining of Personnel at the Russian State Academy of Physical Culture, a professor at the Department of Theory and Methodology of Wrestling and Oriental Martial Arts, and in 1993-1997 he worked as an assistant to the rector. He took upon himself the resolution of controversial issues with the USZK and with the businessmen who rented its land from the academy (the USZK, the famous vernissage and the Izmailovsky markets are located on it).

Alexander Bleer was helped to resolve controversial issues by his fellow athletes and academy students, whom he himself trained. We started with the traders. Some were kicked out, others stopped placing their points anywhere and began to pay money more or less accurately. As a result, RGAFK, deprived of state funding, began to receive quite decent funds.

True, Alexander Bleer himself had problems: an operational case was opened in the Moscow RUBOP, where he was listed as the leader of an organized criminal group suspected of several murders. However, Mr. Bleer told a Kommersant correspondent that he had nothing to do with organized or unorganized crime, much less any murders, that he always acted within the law and only in the interests of Russian sports in general and the academy in particular As for the operational case, according to him, it appeared after the refusal to pay tribute to the Rubopovites: “They directly warned me then - expect trouble.” But everything worked out, and the operational case was eventually closed.

But there were more serious problems. USZK did not give up, and the company “Ekure-service”, owned by a certain citizen of Jordan, which rented a plot of land on the land of RGAFK for its market, began to lay claim to part of the adjacent territory where the retail space of the sportsmen’s company “Rikom” was located. According to investigators, the interests of USZK and Ekure-Service in this conflict were represented by Maxim Shenkov’s “brigade”.

In the summer of 1997, it came to a showdown. First, one of Alexander Bleer’s men was shot, then the athletes demolished several Ekure-Service outlets, and after that, in broad daylight at the Ricom market, two dozen thugs cut with knives and beat two Ricom managers, graduate students, with reinforcing bars RGAFK, students of Mr. Bleer. Doctors later pulled both of them out of the other world.

It was after this that Maxim Shenkov’s “brigade” became interested in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, where by this time Alexander Bleer was already their man. The fact is that in the summer of 1997 he created something like a fund with a very complex and long name, which, for simplicity, is briefly called “Sportakademgroup”. Mr. Blair headed it. The official goal is to protect the interests of organizations operating on the territory of RGAFK. In addition to the academy, the founders included the Foundation for Support of Veterans of Law Enforcement Agencies operating under the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the association of employees of the same bodies “Shield and Sword”. Mr. Bleer again works in both structures on a voluntary basis. And these connections turned out to be stronger than the connections of the USZK in the capital’s headquarters.

Suspects

In December 1997, then-Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Vladimir Kolesnikov gave instructions to liquidate the Golyanovsk organized crime group. The need for this was motivated by the fact that in October 1996 and December 1997, the vice-rector of the Russian State Academy of Physical Culture for Construction, Mikhail Bodin, and the head of the territorial association for land use regulation of the Eastern District, Antonina Lukina, were killed. Both murders, as stated in the order, could have been the work of the Golyanovskys.

True, who killed both of them has not been clarified, but, as a police colonel who had previously worked in the Moscow RUBOP later testified in court, the first to check for involvement in the murder of Antonina Lukina were not the Golyanovskys, but Alexander Bleer and his athletes. According to the colonel, there was no evidence against them, and then they took on the “Shenkovskys.” However, their involvement was not confirmed, and the murder cases were frozen.

Nevertheless, arrests began in April 1998. The first to go to jail were Maxim Shenkov and Alexander Sonis, who, according to investigators, was perhaps the most active member of the organized crime group. Following them, Ilya Shenkov was detained, but on the way to the police station he invited the operatives to look with him at the Bulgakov nightclub, where he left through the emergency exit.

In total, seven people were behind bars (five more, including Ilya Shenkov, are wanted). All have been charged with banditry, four murders (including the murder of the leader of a drug trafficking group, thief in law Boris Zilber, nicknamed the Rat), attempted murders, kidnappings, extortion and a number of smaller crimes. The investigation into this case was conducted for two years, first by the prosecutor's office of the Eastern District, then by the Moscow City Prosecutor's Office.

In the meantime, the legal status of the USZK was determined: soon after the defeat of the Golyanovskys, it was officially transferred to the balance of the Academy of Physical Education.

The security officer was promiscuous

With the exception of Max Golyanovsky, of all the accused, only one is of the greatest interest - FSB Colonel Igor Kushnikov. The prosecution considers him one of the leaders of the gang. A security officer with 22 years of experience worked in the information and analytical department of the FSB, where he was considered a specialist in macroeconomics. He was repeatedly awarded for impeccable service and official distinctions, but was burned for a relatively minor offense, in the opinion of his wife and lawyer. The colonel was let down by his connections with the family of the aforementioned Alexander Sonis.

The latter’s father served as a criminologist in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and, according to Mr. Kushnikov, provided him with significant assistance more than once. The grateful security officer, in turn, helped the criminologist: in November 1993, he pulled his son out of the police, who was drunk and driving a car down the street with a pistol under his arm. During the arrest, Sonis Jr. stuck the authentic identification of an employee of the Main Directorate of Security of the Ministry of Security (as the FSB was called at that time) in the policemen’s nose.

Interest in this story in law enforcement agencies awoke only four and a half years later, when they took the Golyanovskys seriously. The FSB Investigation Department opened a criminal case against the colonel, and in April 1998 he was offered to resign. The security officer did so, and two weeks later he was arrested on charges of abuse of power. Igor Kushnikov was sent to the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center under the supervision of his close friend and business partner (they traded carpets), who at that time was the deputy head of the pre-trial detention center.

However, the FSB officers did not find anything interesting for themselves in this case and transferred the materials to the Moscow Military Prosecutor's Office. In the fall of 1998, the case was dropped due to an amnesty, and Igor Kushnikov was released. But not for long. The prosecutor's office of the Eastern District of Moscow combined the already closed case with the case of the Golyanovsk “brigade”, and in February 1999, the amnestied colonel was again arrested. He has been sitting there ever since. Now he has been accused of much more serious crimes.

According to investigators, Igor Kushnikov was one of the leaders of the “Shenkov gang”, provided it with cover, and also supplied it with valuable information and special coupons prohibiting the inspection of cars. In addition, the prosecution charged him with illegal transactions with weapons. The last of these accusations was again related to Alexander Sonis.

The fact is that in December 1994 in Moscow, in the Khomutovsky deadlock, in the apartment rented by Sonis, an arsenal was found neatly stored in safes: Agran submachine guns, two dozen TTs, sniper rifles, machine guns, etc. Who owned all this? household, they did not find out then, since Sonis rented out the apartment to his friend, a paratrooper, who was later killed. At the same time, the seizure protocol and part of the weapon itself disappeared somewhere. Nevertheless, in 1998, the investigation decided that all this property belonged to the Golyanov group. And Sonis himself testified during interrogations that he personally transported the arsenal. And Igor Kushnikov allegedly helped him. However, Sonis generally told a lot about the activities of the “brigade”, but even during the investigation he refused everything, and in court he stated that he was heavily stuffed with psychotropic drugs.

Broken trump card

One way or another, the case was transferred to the military court of the Moscow garrison. Last Friday marked exactly two years since the start of the process. The results for the investigation are disappointing. During the trial, the state prosecutor clutched his head with a hopeless look when, during the hearings, inconsistencies in the case materials and outright falsifications surfaced. It turned out, for example, that the witness signed a different interrogation protocol than was read out in court. And this is not his signature at all. In addition, it turned out that the witness who spoke about the activities of the “Shenkov gang” could not know anything about it, since at that time he had already been in prison for a long time and firmly for theft. But since he knew one of the accused from the pre-trial detention center, the Murovsky operatives, together with the investigator, were not too lazy to go to the camp and break his ribs during interrogations (there is a corresponding medical certificate). This is how another witness for the prosecution turned out.

Other witnesses also complained that operatives either locked them in a bullpen or threatened to plant weapons and drugs. The leitmotif was: “I signed what I was told.”

There is no need to talk about the accused: they told the court in unison about the “pressure of the investigation” and renounced all their previous testimony, taken as the basis for the accusation.

However, the prosecution had at least two trump cards: Alexander Bleer and businessman Vadim Kanengiser. The latter was once engaged in trading gold and jewelry in Russia and the CIS, but in October last year he ended up in a pre-trial detention center on charges of drug possession.

Mr. Kanengiser told the investigation that the Golyanovskys, who at one time were his “roof,” gave him his “freedom,” but demanded $6 million for it. To be convincing, they kidnapped and cut his brother, after which the businessman paid the extortionists about $2 million in parts.

However, recently in court Vadim Kanengiser unexpectedly retracted his words. In the presence of his lawyer, he stated that completely different people “attacked” him, and he slandered these “under the pressure of the investigation.”

This is how hope dies

But there remained one more important witness - Professor Alexander Bleer, on whom the prosecution had high hopes. After all, during the preliminary investigation, he said that Maxim Shenkov personally shot one of his men, that the security officer Igor Kushnikov helped solve the problems of the Golyanovskys, and that another defendant, Sergei Buriy, took an active part in the attempts of the Shenkovites to seize the territory of the RGAFK.

In addition, the protocol of his interrogation contains a sensational statement about which of the high-ranking police officers provided valuable services to the leadership of the USZK and the Golyanov “brigade” for money. This, as it is written there, was police general Vasily Kuptsov, who headed the MUR until the fall of 1996, and then, as deputy head of the Moscow Main Internal Affairs Directorate, headed the criminal police service of the central administration (currently Mr. Kuptsov does not work in the police).

The appearance of such a valuable witness could make significant changes in the course of the trial. True, the court managed to get it only last week. Before this, they couldn’t figure out how to deliver a summons to the tricky address indicated in the case: Orekhovo-Zuevsky district, house 44. In the end, they decided to send it directly to RGAFK.

But the witness did not live up to the hopes of the investigation, but greatly pleased the lawyers. The professor stated that he did not know any of the defendants, and everything that he had previously told about their activities, he himself learned from MUR operatives. They, according to him, told him about General Kuptsov.

And in the protocol you tell everything in the first person, quite categorically and without any references,” the judge noted.

But I didn’t compose it,” Mr. Bleer retorted.

However, you signed it...

There was no clear explanation for this remark. But it turned out that the case was missing at least one more protocol of Mr. Bleer’s interrogation.

“And this is a question for the investigator,” said a valuable witness.

This ended the interrogation. In parting, the judge only asked the professor to tell one of the RGAFK employees, the former head of Ricom, that he had also been expected in court for a long time. As, indeed, the two victims - those same brutally beaten employees of the same Ricom, whom the court cannot find in any way, but with whom Mr. Bleer often communicates.

In 1990, he graduated from the coaching department of the State Central Order of Lenin Institute of Physical Culture with a degree in “Teacher-coach in classical wrestling.”

In 1998, he defended his Ph.D. thesis and was awarded the academic degree of Candidate of Pedagogical Sciences by decision of the dissertation council of the Russian State Academy of Physical Culture.

In 1999 he graduated from the Faculty of Law of the Institute of International Law and Economics. Griboyedov, majoring in Jurisprudence, qualified as a Lawyer.

In 2004, he graduated from the Faculty of Management Psychology of the Russian Academy of Public Administration under the President of the Russian Federation.

Currently he is the rector of the Russian State University of Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism (RGUFKSiT) and the head of the department of theory and methodology of applied sports and extreme activities of RGUFKSiT.

He was awarded medals of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II and I degrees, and departmental awards.

A.N. Bleer has published about 70 scientific papers, published 18 teaching aids and programs, under his leadership 3 candidate's dissertations were completed and successfully defended, and he is currently the supervisor of 6 applicants and graduate students.

In the period from 2002 to 2004, Bleer A.N. repeatedly traveled as part of a humanitarian mission of the Main Personnel Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia to the Temporary Operational Group of bodies and units of the Ministry of Internal Affairs conducting a counter-terrorist operation in the North Caucasus region, made a significant contribution to maintaining the morale of soldiers and commanders, as well as providing them with professional and social help.

For the successes achieved, great personal contribution and active participation in the organization and conduct of competitions in service-applied sports and charitable activities in providing humanitarian assistance to law enforcement officers located in the North Caucasus region, for assistance to internal affairs bodies and internal troops in resolving social issues -legal protection of veterans, disabled people and families of victims, Bleer A.N. awarded the badges of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation: “For nobility of thoughts and deeds”, “For fidelity to duty”, “Participant in combat operations”, “For assistance to the Ministry of Internal Affairs”, “For distinction in service” (the last four were awarded at the Group headquarters in the village of Khankala), as well as: “Gratitude from the Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia”, “Gratitude from the Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia”, “Gratitude from the Head of the Moscow City Internal Affairs Directorate”.

Alexander Nikolaevich Bleer is the founder of the department of theory and methodology of applied sports and extreme activities at the Russian State University of Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism. Under his leadership, the department opened a new direction in the field of physical culture and sports related to human activity in extreme conditions on land, water and in the air. Three of the five specializations of the department, namely: mountain sports, underwater sports and aviation sports, received the status of higher education for the first time in the Russian Federation. Thanks to the work of Bleer A.N. The department has developed and successfully applied new methods and technologies to improve the effectiveness of the educational process, some of which are unique and have no analogues in the world.

As part of the scientific work, Bleer A.N. actively develops cooperation between the Department of Applied Sports and Extreme Activities of the Russian State University of Physical Culture and Sports and Special Purpose Units (TsSN, FSB of the Russian Federation, Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation). 20 training programs for special employees have been developed and tested. services and law enforcement agencies in various specializations of the department and some of them are introduced into the practice of training employees of special units for special purposes (TsSN, FSB of the Russian Federation, Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation).

Being a graduate of the university, and continuing to work within its walls for many years, A.N. Bleer makes a significant contribution to the preservation and improvement of the material, educational and scientific base. In the position of rector of the Russian State University of Physical Culture and Technology, Bleer A.N. conducted and conducts events that help strengthen the position of the university in the university space. A huge role in this was played by the university’s victory in the competition of universities introducing innovative educational programs within the framework of the Priority National Project “Education”. As a result of the program, laboratory equipment was purchased and deployed for the stands of the research complex, new educational programs were developed, the material and technical base was modernized, multimedia classes, computer classes, problem-solving mini-laboratories and much more were created. All this ensures consistent, comprehensive and high-quality education for graduates of RGUFKSiT. In addition, the Russian State University of Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism was the first among sports universities to switch from a faculty to an institute system. Now the structure of RGUFKSiT includes the Institute of Physical Culture, Sports and Fitness, the Humanitarian Institute, the Institute of Tourism, Recreation and Rehabilitation, and the Institute of Correspondence and Distance Learning. Also, new specialties were opened at the university: “Organization of work with youth”, “Psychology”, “Economics”.

Alexander Nikolaevich Bleer is distinguished by the highest efficiency, self-discipline and dedication, which allows him to organically and effectively combine extensive coaching, teaching, and scientific activities.

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At the IX General Assembly of the European University Sports Association (EUSA), SCOLIFK was recognized as one of the best universities in Europe based on the results of 2007.

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1934 - for successes and achievements in the development of the Soviet physical education movement, for excellent physical training of students and good organization of the educational process, the State Center for Physical Education was awarded the Order of Lenin. 1988 - the university was awarded an International Diploma and a UNESCO Medal for outstanding achievements in the field of physical education and sports. 1997 - the university entered the European Network of Sports Sciences in Higher Education (ENSSHE), in 1998 - the International Committee of Sports Sciences and Physical Education (ICSSPE). In the spring of 2007, RGUFKSMIT became the winner in the competition of universities implementing innovative educational programs within the framework of the priority national project “Education”.

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A criminal community called “Golyanovskaya” operated on the territory of the Russian Federation from 1992 to 1998 of the last century.

Gang "Golyanovskaya": history

The Golyanovskaya criminal group was organized in the late eighties by school friends Igor Vugin and Max Shenkov. The gang members were former classmates, however, later different people were recruited into the group. Vugin was in charge of the material maintenance of the criminal community.

Community criminal activity

At the very beginning of its activity, the Golyanovskaya organized crime group “traveled” in small matters, such as guarding the leader Vugin, transporting precious metals, and showdowns with competitors. Later, members of the group took control of several market stalls, and over time, the rest of the small entrepreneurs.

Soon the “Golyanovskie” became one of the most powerful and powerful gangs in the district, they became part of the even more serious organized crime group “Izmailovskaya” and closely maintained relationships with the thieves in law of the organized crime groups “Savoskaya”, “Shishkan” and “Sylvester”. By the beginning of 1992, the gang took control of clothing markets in the eastern part of the city, cafes, restaurants, shops, and commercial organizations.

In 1992, the leaders gang "Golyanovskaya" We contacted FSB Colonel Igor Kushnikov, who proposed creating a security agency. Thus, crime bosses were able to freely carry weapons, practice shooting, and physically and legally control businessmen. It should be noted that the FSB officer was directly involved in the activities of the private security company, more than once ordered crimes, including murders, issued patrol service inspector certificates to the bandits, supplied them with weapons and special equipment, provided the group with “protection” and provided valuable secret information.

By the end of 1996, the group had grown significantly and numbered more than one hundred and fifty participants. The organized crime group has taken over furniture stores, auto repair shops, a network of car dealerships, restaurants and casinos.

Criminal group was particularly cruel and insolent. Those who refused to pay them eventually lost their lives. For example, one of the entrepreneurs refused to pay them rent, the bandits severely beat him and then shot him. Fortunately, he managed to survive. Another businessman who reported the organized crime group to the police, thieves in law cut with knives.

At the beginning of 1997, a conflict arose between the Golyanovskie organized crime group and a gang led by athlete Alexander Bleer regarding the clothing market on the territory of the physics academy. As a result of the conflict, the Golyanovskys dealt with Bleer’s close associate, Mikhail Bodin. In response to this, the athletes bombed several retail outlets belonging to the Golyanovskys. After this, the bandits attacked members of the Bleer organized crime group.

In the winter of 1997, Golyanovsky mercenaries shot and killed the head of the Moskomzem association, Antonina Lukina, on whom, like Bleer, the activities of the clothing market controlled by the group depended. During the same period, thieves in law tried to take over the city’s jewelry business, in particular, they extorted compensation in the amount of six million dollars from the owner of the jewelry company. In order to save business and life, the owner was forced to pay the required amount.

In the summer of the same year, members of an organized crime group, consisting of fifteen people, burst into the territory of the market and began beating the administrators for preventing them from “bringing down” money from businessmen. Fortunately, security officers were able to save their lives.

"Roof" of the Golyanovskaya organized crime group

According to many investigators, the Golyanovskaya group had a serious “roof” over it. The police were unable to complete a single case, since it suddenly disappeared, fell apart, physical evidence disappeared, etc., and the bandits who were caught in the act were soon released.

For example, in the spring of 1993, one of the gang members was stopped by traffic police officers for driving through a red traffic light. The thief in law, nicknamed “Baby,” was detained and sent to the police station. He was found in possession of a fake FSB officer ID, a Makarov pistol and three thousand American dollars. A criminal case was opened against him, however, the crime boss was soon released.

In the winter of 1998, police detained a car in which there were several members of an organized crime group. Despite the fact that a weapon was found in the car, and one of the bandits was wanted, all members of the group were released.

According to unofficial data, the patron of the Golyanovskys was the head of the Moscow criminal investigation department, General Vasily Kuptsov.

The end of the activities of the Golyanovskiye organized crime group

At the end of 1997, acting Interior Minister Maslov created a special headquarters, which included employees of the FSB, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Central Internal Affairs Directorate, to investigate the crimes of the organized crime group and destroy it. The need to create this headquarters was associated with the involvement of bandits in the assassination attempt on Moscow Deputy Prime Minister Shantsev. In the spring of 1998, a wave of arrests of criminal gang members began. Max Shenkov and Alexander Sonis were the first to be detained. In the spring of the following year, 1999, the police detained Kushnikov, and with him almost all the other Golyanovskys. This is how the Golyanovskaya organized crime group ceased to exist.

The gang members were charged with extortion, robbery, murder, organizing murders, carrying and storing weapons, and kidnapping. Kushnikov was given a suspended sentence for exceeding his powers, but was acquitted on other charges. Sonis received two years in prison for hooliganism, Ivanovsky and Migin were sentenced to four years. Buriy received the same sentence.