Mafia Personalities

Evsei Agron (Brooklyn-based crime boss; murdered, 1985.)
Marat Balagula (Brooklyn-based crime boss and originator of billion-dollar gasoline bootlegging scam; released from American prison, 2004.)
Arbi Barayev (Chechen warlord/crime boss; killed by Russian armed forces, 2001.)
Viktor Bout (Arms merchant; international fugitive.)
Yuri Brokhin (Famed expatriate Russian dissident/international drug dealer and jewel thief; murdered, 1982.)
Michael Cherney (Israeli-based Russian crime boss.)
Konstantin Dimitrov-Samokovetsa (Bulgarian drug kingpin; murdered, 2003.)
Vitali Dyomochka (Russian mobster who produced a TV series chronicling his own activities.)
Monya Elson (Prolific professional killer; convicted of three murders and imprisoned.)
Ludwig "Tarzan" Fainberg (Southern Florida crime boss; deported to Israel.)
Georgi Iliev (Second boss of Bulgarian VIS crime group; murdered, 2005.)
Vasil Iliev (First boss of Bulgarian VIS crime group; murdered, 1995.)
Vyacheslav "Yaponchik" Ivankov (America's most powerful vor v zakone; deported to Russia.)
Zakhar "Shakro" Kalashov (International vor v zakone boss; jailed in Spain.)
Ivo Karamanski (Bulgarian crime boss; murdered, 1998.)
Otar "Otarik" Kvantrishvili (Moscow extortionist; murdered, 1994)
Ruslan Labazanov (Chechen crime boss; murdered, 1996.)
Sergey "Mikhas" Mikhaylov (Moscow-based head of Solntsevskaya bratva crime group.)
Semion Mogilevich (Billionaire Budapest-based crime lord.)
Boris Nayfeld (International drug kingpin.)
Khozh-Ahmed Noukhaev (Chechen crime boss.)
Alexander Solonik (Professional killer; murdered, 1997.)
Nikolay "Hoza" Suleimanov (Chechen head of Obshina crime group; murdered, 1994.)
Alimzhan Tokhtakhounov (Arms dealer and accused Olympic fixer.)
Alex and Vladimir Zilber (Fraternal team of gasoline bootleggers; Vladimir crippled by assassination attempt; Alex living in Russia.)