Ustinovich Mikhail Ivanovich - Russian thug

Bandits began their existence very long ago, even in the time of the knightly empire. It is generally accepted that Russian bandits are dangerous criminals who oppose the state and its administration, as well as against the social community. Banditry - the organization of a group of people who are armed, their goal is to attack institutions, organizations, or to certain individuals. This article will be devoted to one very famous bandit, and call him Ustinovich Mikhail Ivanovich.

Biography of Ustinovich Mikhail

Michael is a famous Moscow raider, who declared himself in the difficult 90-ies. The objects of the attack were most often shops, apartments and exchange offices.

Ustinovich Mikhail Ivanovich was born on March 12, 1958, he was born in a colony, as his mother was kept in custody at that time. Mikhail lived in this colony up to 2 years. After that, he lived in a boarding school. During the fight between the juvenile criminals, Michael was struck hard on the head, which caused his vision to fall. Due to the fact that he had poor eyesight, while serving his sentence in the colony, he was nicknamed "Bear blind". Ustinovich spent 22 years in his life. In his criminal activities there was robbery and theft.

The beginning of criminal crime Ustinovich Mikhail Ivanovich

In 1992, Mikhail left the colony in another country, where the fate of cities depended on the tops of criminal groups, of course, it attracted Ustinovich, and he did not want to be on the sidelines. The first attempts at robbery were in elevators, he robbed ordinary passers-by. Then he decided to create a gang, it included Nikolay Grysko, Armen Sargasian and Artsrun Karyan. In 1993, the gang committed an armed attack on the network of shops "Light", which were engaged in the sale of lighting equipment. The production was more and more. Over the month, five robberies were committed against this store, and the same attack was two. When there was a second raid, Michael threw the newspaper, where it was written about the feathers. In the gang of Ustinovich Mikhail had his own business card, they shot at the ceiling with a TT pistol.

During the raids, the gang and Mikhail did not hide their faces, they, on the contrary, specially showed them, so that people would see them. The investigators who investigated these cases initially adopted Ustinovich for another person. While serving his sentence in 1989, Mikhail met another prisoner, as it turned out, they were very similar in appearance. Therefore, Ustinovich Mikhail Ivanovich disguised himself under that prisoner and could easily commit crimes. Soon they switched to the points where they exchanged currency, Mikhail killed two people during one of the robberies. Victims of the murder were guards who tried to catch the bandits. At the time of the robbery, Mikhail lost his hat. Of course, it was processed, and the smell was conserved, in further investigations it helped a lot.

In 1993, an officer appeared in Moscow, robbing apartments and people, then no one suspected that it was Ustinovich. There were many casualties, 2 times he even killed the owners.

Jail

Mikhail and Nikolai from his gang were caught while handing over the valuables that were stolen in the apartment to the pawnshop. Almost immediately they confessed everything, and handed over the other accomplices. The cap that Ustinovich lost in the mall was identified, and this was a strong proof of Mikhail's guilt. Ustinovich and his gang committed 21 robbery attacks, many robberies and 4 murders.

In 1996, Ustinovich Mikhail Ivanovich was sentenced by the Moscow City Court to the most brutal punishment that existed at that time - the death penalty. After that, he was changed to life imprisonment. Members of his gang received different punishments: Grysko was sentenced to 14 years in prison, Sargasian received 10 years, Karyan - 6 years.

Colony "White swan"

At the moment, Mikhail is serving his life sentence. The "White Swan" colony is a correctional colony with a strict regime for life-imprisoned criminals. It is located in Russia, in the Perm region, where Mikhail is passing his days. One day journalists came to Ustinovich to write an article about him, they asked him if he wanted to spend his life in confinement, he answered that it is better to die than to live like this.

Culture and Ustinovich

About Mikhail Ustinovich made a lot of documentary films with such names:

• Documentary film "Handwriting of the Blind" - director Vakhtang Mikeladze , "Documentary Detective" cycle;
• The documentary film "The Light Strip of Mikhail Ustinovich" - the cycle "Sentenced for life" - director Vakhtang Mikeladze;
• The documentary film "Born in captivity", the cycle "Lifetime deprived of freedom", director Vakhtang Mikeladze.

Also in 1998, the program "Criminal Russia" about Ustinovich Mikhail was released, the series was called "The Violent Raider". Of these films, the viewer can learn a lot about the life of Michael behind bars.