February 28, 1937 - Aslan Usoyan
Known by the nickname "Grandpa Hassan," Usoyan rose through the Soviet criminal underworld to become what The Economist described as Russia's most powerful mafia boss — a distinction earned across decades of operation spanning Georgia, Moscow, Siberia, and Central Asia. His career traced the full arc of organized crime in the post-Soviet space, from regional enforcer to a figure whose reach extended across much of the former empire. He survived multiple assassination attempts before eventually being killed by a sniper in Moscow in 2013.
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Aslan Rashidovich Usoyan (Georgian: ასლან რაშიდოვიჩ უსოიანი, Russian: Асла́н Раши́дович Усоя́н; 27 February 1937 – 16 January 2013), also known as Baba Gurgur and Grandpa Hassan ("Дед Хасан") or just Grandpa ("Дедушка"), was a Georgian-born Soviet-Russian crime boss of Yazidi Kurdish descent, who began his career operating in Georgia, continued in Moscow, Ural, Siberia, Uzbekistan, Krasnodar, Sochi, and other parts of the former Soviet Union. According to The Economist, he was 'reputed to be Russia's mafia boss'.
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