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Leonid "Tarzan" Fainberg also known as Ludwig Lyosha Fainberg [1] (born January 3, 1958) is a Ukrainian mobster.Born in Odesa, Fainberg left the Soviet Union in the early 1980s for Israel, and moved to the United States following the fall of the Soviet Union.
The Chechen mafia is one of the largest ethnic organized crime groups operating in the former Soviet Union next to established Russian mafia groups. The Georgian mafia is regarded as one of the biggest, powerful and influential criminal networks in Europe, which has produced the biggest number of thieves in law in all former USSR countries.
The Odessa operation (11 January – 8 February 1920) was an offensive operation during the Russian Civil War of the South Western Front of the Red Army against the Novorossiysk Oblast Army Group of the White Armed Forces of South Russia.
British sailors in Odessa after the conquest of the city, August 1919. General Denikin in Odessa, September 1919. The Odessa operation (1919) or the Odessa landing was a successful amphibious military operation by the White Armed Forces of South Russia against the troops of the Red Army and the Odessa garrison on 20–24 August 1919.
Bond (played by Pierce Brosnan) says of the repatriation, "Not exactly our finest hour", though the Russian Mafia boss Valentin Zukovsky (played by Robbie Coltrane) replies "Still, ruthless people – they got what they deserved". [64] [65] These events provide the historical context for the Foyle's War episode "The Russian House".
Russian: Max: FSB agent turned gang leader, accused of being involved in the Russian apartment bombings: Marat Balagula: Ashkenazi Jewish (Ukrainian Jewish) Was a powerful Ukrainian gangster in the USA. Evsei Agron: Ashkenazi Jewish (Russian Jewish) One of the first Russian gangsters to establish a powerful gang in the USA, thief in law. Ludwig ...
Marat Yakovlevich Balagula (Russian: Мара́т Я́ковлевич Балагула; 8 September 1943 – 19 December 2019 [1]) was a Russian-American organized crime figure, crime boss, and close associate of the Lucchese crime family and Colombo crime family.
The Potato Bag Gang, a manifestation of the Odesa mafia, [1] was a gang of con artists from Odesa that operated in New York City's Soviet émigré community in the Brighton Beach area of New York City in the mid-1970s.