The aluminum wars of the 1990s: 34 corpses for one plant. The path from oligarch to prisoner.
ALUMINUM WARS: 34 corpses for one plant | The full story of the 1990s redistribution
Roman Abramovich would later testify in a London court: "Without Badri, I would never have gone there. Someone was being killed there every three days." Thirty-four corpses around just one plant. A boxer from a village who became "Al Capone." A former factory worker from Tashkent nicknamed "Misha-the-Roof." A 26-year-old physicist from Moscow State University who slept in his office because grenade launchers were stationed outside. And aluminum—a light, silvery metal for which people killed in the 1990s like they didn't for oil or gas.
This video tells the full story of the aluminum wars: from tolling schemes through offshore companies to life sentences and mysterious deaths.
🔹 Why aluminum became the bloody metal of the 90s
🔹 Tolling: a scheme that removed the industry from the legal framework of Russia
🔹 The Cherny brothers and Trans World Group: 73% of Russian aluminum through an offshore company
🔹 Anatoly Bykov: from a physical education teacher to the owner of KrAZ
🔹 Oleg Deripaska: a physicist with honors against boxers and paratroopers
🔹 The Izmailovo organized crime group and Anton Malevsky: a cover for business
🔹 Tatarin, Tsvetomuzyka, Tolmach: people whose names were feared to be spoken out loud
🔹 General Lebed and Bykov: an alliance that fell apart
🔹 Berezovsky and Abramovich enter the game: the second aluminum war
🔹 The creation of Rusal and who emerged victorious
🔹 The mysterious death of Malevsky in South Africa The parachute didn't open.
🔹 Felix Lvov – the man who disappeared at Sheremetyevo Airport.
🔹 17 years of maximum security for Bykov – the end of an era.
KrAZ is the second-largest aluminum smelter in the world. Hundreds of thousands of tons of metal per year. Billions of dollars. And a war in which the winner took all, and the losers ended up in the ground, in prison, or in exile.
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