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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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
The 3rd Ukrainian Front's report on the operation, drawn up in August 1944, provides figures for the operational strength of the front on 28 March: 243,074 men, 42,512 submachine guns, 4,824 machine guns, and 344 tanks and self-propelled guns (only counting those in the 23rd Tank Corps and Cavalry-Mechanized Group), 2,112 mortars, 1,616 field ...
The movie, opening Thursday, is the culmination of five years of perfecting and four years of pitching the story of how he robbed his classmates on a train in Russia with help from the Russian mob.
In the aftermath, New York's Five Families imposed a two cent per gallon "Family tax" on Balagula's bootlegging operation, which became their greatest moneymaker after drug trafficking. [ 10 ] According to author Philip Carlo , "Because Gaspipe and Russian mobster Marat Balagula hit it off so well, Casso was soon partners with Balagula on a ...