Crime in the Soviet Union

umbrella term for organized Russian crime groups

colloquial phrase

type of professional criminal

youth street gangs in Kazan, Soviet Union, in the 1970s and 1980s

assassination attempt made upon Leonid Brezhnev

1970s–1989 corruption scandal in Soviet Uzbekistan

prison gang murders in the gulag system

umbrella term for Georgian organized crime groups

crime of sabotage in the Soviet Union

umbrella term for Armenian organized crime groups

umbrella term for Ukrainian organized crime groups

The Lyubers ( or ) was a Soviet youth movement active from the late 1970s until the early 1990s. The movement's name comes from the city of Lyubertsy, Moscow Oblast, where the movement emerged, though it later expanded to several cities across the USSR.