Mikhail Ivanovich Ustinovich (b. March 12, 1958 , a colony in the Vagai district of the Tyumen region ) is a well-known Moscow raider in the early 1990s. The objects of his attacks were shops, apartments and currency exchange points.
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| Birth name | Mikhail Ivanovich Ustinovich |
| Nickname | " Bear Blind " |
| Date of Birth | March 12, 1958 (61 years old) |
| Place of Birth | Colony (Komsomolskoye village) in the Vagaysky district of the Tyumen region |
| Citizenship |  USSR  Russia |
| Crime | |
| Crime | He committed 21 robberies at shops, currency exchange offices and apartments, killed 4 people |
| Punishment | The death penalty , commuted to life imprisonment |
Content
- 1 First convictions
- 2 Raider career
- 3 Arrest, investigation and trial
- 4 In popular culture
- 5 notes
First convictions
Mikhail Ustinovich was born on March 12, 1958 in a colony (in the village of Komsomolskoye) in the Vagaysky district of the Tyumen region, where his mother was serving his sentence. There he lived up to 2 years. Then he was sent to a boarding school. In a fight between juvenile delinquents, he was seriously injured in the head , as a result of which Ustinovich's vision deteriorated seriously. In the colony, he received the nickname "Bear the Blind." Then there were more convictions for robberies and thefts [1] .
In total, at the time of the arrest of his 35 years, Ustinovich spent 22 years behind bars.
Raider career
In 1992, Ustinovich was once again freed from the colony. He was released in a completely different country, where the fate of the cities was decided by criminal groups, and Ustinovich did not want to stay away. Initially, Ustinovich was engaged in robbing Muscovites in elevators [1] .
Ustinovich created a gang, which included Nikolai Grysko, Armen Sargsyan and Artsrun Karyan. At the end of 1993, the gang began to carry out armed attacks on the chain of stores "Light", engaged in the sale of lighting equipment. The extraction of criminals each time became several million rubles at the then prices. Only from August to November 1993 they carried out 5 robberies at Svet stores, and the same 2 times. During the second raid, Ustinovich planted a newspaper with a note on the first. The gang's calling card was a shot at the ceiling with a TT pistol [2] .
During the raids, Ustinovich and his accomplices did not hide their faces, moreover, they did everything possible to be remembered. The investigation team that investigated the case at first mistook Ustinovich for being wanted for a series of robberies and murders of Valery Volovik. The fact is that Ustinovich, serving his last sentence, in 1989 met Volovik in prison and was struck by their external similarity. Deciding to disguise himself as Volovik, he committed his crimes [2] .
Soon the gang switched to currency exchange points, and Ustinovich, during one of the robberies, committed a double murder . The victims were two security guards of the Lubyansky shopping center, who tried to resist the bandits. During the raid, Ustinovich lost his hat. It was processed and the smell was preserved. Subsequently, this played an important role.
In 1993, Moscow was frightened by the adventures of a werewolf officer who went into apartments, robbed and sometimes killed the owners, and no one could assume that these crimes were the work of Ustinovich. Several apartments suffered from his attacks. In 2 cases, Ustinovich committed the killing of the owners [2] .
Arrest, investigation and trial
Ustinovich and Grysko were detained while trying to hand over the valuables stolen from the apartments to a pawnshop . Almost immediately, they confessed to all crimes and extradited Sargsyan and Karyan.
The smell from the cap lost by Ustinovich in the Lubyansky shopping center was identified, which served as one of the strongest proofs of his guilt. In total, on the account of Ustinovich and his gang there were 21 robberies, a number of robberies and 4 murders [2] .
On August 23, 1996, the Moscow City Court sentenced Ustinovich to an exceptional measure of punishment - the death penalty , which was subsequently replaced by life imprisonment . Grysko received 14 years in prison, Sargsyan - 10 years, Karyan - 6 years [3] .
Currently, Mikhail Ustinovich is being held in the White Swan colony. When journalists came to interview him and asked him a question, if he would like to live forever in prison, he said that he would prefer the death penalty, because such a life is worse than any death [4] .
In popular culture
- Criminal Russia , The Furious Raider series (1998)
- The documentary film of Vakhtang Mikeladze "Handwriting of the Blind" from the series " Documentary Detective " (2000).
- The documentary film "The Bright Strip of Mikhail Ustinovich" from the cycle of Vakhtang Mikeladze "Sentenced for Life" (2008).
- The documentary film "The crafty philosophy of a killer." From the cycle of Vakhtang Mikeladze "Detective stories" (2006-2009 (
- The documentary film “Born in Captivity” from the cycle of Vakhtang Mikeladze “Life Imprisoned” (2009-2010 (
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Letters from Hell. Part 2. Memoirs of the prosecutor . LiveJournal (March 20, 2008). Date of treatment April 22, 2010. Archived April 24, 2012.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 "Furious Raider." Documentary from the series “Criminal Russia” . NTV (1995). Date of treatment April 22, 2010.
- ↑ Alexei Gerasimov. "The ideological monarchist" will be shot . The newspaper Kommersant (No. 153 (1111) dated 09/14/1996). Date of treatment April 22, 2010. Archived April 24, 2012.
- ↑ Would you personally like to live forever? . The newspaper " Komsomolskaya Pravda " (05/22/2002). Date of treatment April 22, 2010. Archived April 24, 2012.