The thief in law Vyacheslav Yaponchik: biography, activity and crime. Yaponchik (Vyacheslav Ivankov) and Patriarch Kirill

The criminal world is full of legends and heroes. The main place in it is occupied by thieves in law. According to the gangster clan, the elected leaders stand at the highest level of the criminal hierarchy. Being in prison, such a person practically owns his environment. In freedom, he is able to influence the many criminal groups that can exist in different territories. At the moment in Russia, the number of such thieves does not reach four hundred, and one hundred of them are in places not so remote. The elected person must adhere to certain rules that rely on him according to his status. One of the brightest representatives of this privileged class was Vyacheslav Ivankov, better known as Yaponchik, who was a legend of the thieves' world.

Difficult child's life

About Vyacheslav Japonchik there were many legends that did not differ too much from the truth. He was born on January 2, 1940 in a Moscow family. His father was an alcoholic and a frequent patient of psychiatric hospitals. Ros Slava physically weak, often treated for sanatoria and clinics. At thirteen years I decided to go to the sports section to fight. With the mother, the child was rude and impudent.

After the end of the eighth grade, he entered a circus school, dreaming of becoming an aerial gymnast. And it is possible that the boy would have achieved good results, since he had high hopes. But fate decreed otherwise: on one of the training sessions, he fell from the trapeze. Vyacheslav did not apply to doctors, although he had a closed trauma to his skull. The boy's fainting became frequent, and he had to leave the school. And did not become a gymnast Vyacheslav Ivankov, Jap. His biography made a certain turn.

Something went wrong

After settling in as a fitter in the consumer service complex, he soon became the foreman of the receptionists, studying at the evening school in parallel. At twenty years Ivankov married an Assyrian from a princely family. Lydia Aivazova gave him a son. As a joke, his friends began to call him Assyrian son-in-law. Soon he was hit by a car, and he got to the hospital, after the discharge there was an intolerance of heat and driving on transport, but it was not yet Vyacheslav Yaponchik. His biography began to change rapidly, but not for the better. Already in 1965, Vyacheslav was taken to the police. Ivankov tried to make a pocket theft.

Was there a disease?

When detained, he resisted the staff. Vyacheslav was sent to undergo forensic psychiatric examination in Kashchenko, where a conclusion was reached - schizophrenia. Having learned his diagnosis, Ivankov changed the line of behavior, became more sociable and open, but the court sent him for compulsory treatment. He escaped from the hospital, did not appear at home, hiding from the bodies, but passed the external exams on secondary education. Less than six months later Ivankova was detained and returned to compulsory treatment. But six months later the expert commission discharged him from the hospital on the condition that Ivankov would be under surveillance.

The beginning of gangster life

In the early seventies Ivankov was sent to the Mongol gang, where Vyacheslav Yaponchik was born. One of the versions of obtaining such a nickname claims that the cause was the cutting of his eyes, the second indicates that it was the possession of jiu-jitsu techniques.

The criminal community included many people, and they extorted money from collectors and forefathers, trade workers and "guilds." In 1972, the gang was destroyed, but Ivankov was able to hide, after which he created his own group, which performed almost the same functions. The gang "toured" throughout the Soviet Union.

His group consisted of persons previously convicted. Dressing in the uniform of police officers and using a certificate, using firearms, they searched from those who lived on criminal incomes and businessmen of the shadow economy. They abducted money, jewelry and committed thefts in apartments. Also, having their informants in certain circles, the group appeared on well-to-do state officials and representatives of the intelligentsia and entered into direct contact with them. After this, in a deceptive way, the bandits took them out to existing apartments or out of town. Using torture and beatings, they selected the savings from the victims.

A thief in law

For the entire period before the second imprisonment he managed to work as a photolaborator and a children's trainer, was considered a commodity expert in a vegetable shop, until he got a disability - the second group on mental illness. But this did not prevent him from frequent visits to restaurants and "business trips". After falling for a fight in the tavern to the police, Vyacheslav Yaponchik received an article for forged documents. He was sent for an examination at the Institute of Serbian, where he was declared sane. Ivankov was convicted in 1974. In Butyrka prison, the prisoners who were there committed him to the rank of thief in law. With his wife he divorced.

Life Behind the Cordon

In 1981, received his next term, Vyacheslav Ivankov (Jap). His biography began to seem interesting and mysterious. Instead of fourteen years after serving ten, he was released. This was facilitated by the petitions of many well-known human rights activists, artists and singers. After spending less than a year in his homeland, he went to America with the crew of Rolan Bykov , where he stayed, having married a US citizen. In New York, contract killings of expatriates, who previously something to spite authority, have become more frequent. The FBI was monitoring until a suitable case was introduced. He was arrested for extortion and in 1997 was sentenced to 9 years and 7 months in prison.

The way home

In 2004, the General Prosecutor's Office of Russia asked the US law enforcement agencies to extradite Ivankov for the earlier murder in Moscow of two people in the restaurant "Fidan". The authorities of America made a positive decision, and Japonchik was sent to Russia. At that time legends were circulating about him in certain circles, Vyacheslav Yaponchik became famous not only at home. The Moscow City Court in the person of the jury admitted that Vyacheslav Ivankov was not guilty of killing two people and attempting a third one. All the victims were Turkish citizens.

Two snipers

On July 28, 2009, an attempt was made on Yaponchik. When he left the restaurant, he was fired from a sniper rifle with optical sights, two people. In an extremely difficult condition Ivankov was hospitalized and urgently operated. Sanitation of the abdominal cavity did not protect him from peritonitis. At night from September 13 to September 14, he had a clinical death. On October 9, Vyacheslav Yaponchik died in hospital of his injuries. Since the forensic medical examination was carried out, the funeral was postponed from 11 to 13 October.

The death of Yaponchik gathered the crowd at the Vagankovskoye cemetery, mostly people from the criminal world, but also the media. Buried by his comrade-in-arms and friend, thief in law Grandfather Hasan - Aslan Usoyan. There were a lot of wreaths from the "brotherhood" from different regions of Russia. The entire territory was inspected for the detection of explosives. The funeral was widely covered in all the media, which caused discontent in the Duma.

But who would have thought that after the death of the criminal authority there would be a number of such names as Vyacheslav Yaponchik and Patriarch Kirill? Two absolutely opposite persons, two sides of the same coin - two completely different people, whose fates did not intersect. An absurd combination of circumstances played a bad joke, which many people still try to explain and get to the bottom of the truth.

Is there a simple similarity?

January 27, 2009 there was an important event - Vladimir Gundyaev (in the world) was elected Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia. After a while, rumors began to emerge that Yaponchik, Vyacheslav Ivankov and Patriarch Kirill were the same person. Was the authority dead from peritonitis in the hospital? In several mass media, real hysteria started about the surprising similarity, people began to compare their photos. Some cite the fact that the body of the Japanese was not shown, and the patriarch appeared after his death. To this day, people can not believe in a mere coincidence and express numerous conjectures. Is Vyacheslav Ivankov (Yaponchik) really buried? Is the Patriarch on the throne?

One of the users of social networks under the nickname Man wrote in "Twitter" near two compared photos about what could be a murder and a simple falsification, because no one saw the body of Jap. In this story there are quite a few dark spots. Is Vyacheslav Yaponchik really dead? Patriarch Cyril appeared on people after the funeral. And this is a simple coincidence?

Vladimir Gundyaev in April 1969 was tonsured as a monk and was named after Kirill, and a year later he graduated with honors from the Theological Academy in Leningrad. For the next forty years he went his own way to obtaining the highest rank in the clergy. If desired, each person can easily see that two completely different people - Yaponchik (Vyacheslav Ivankov) and Patriarch Kirill - can not be one person. After all, almost every person on Earth has a double.