Agron Evsei and Marat Balagula's groups were the very first one's formed in Brighton Beach, both of these guys were Russian Jews. What I've read is that when Vyacheslav Ivankov came to Brighton Beach both of these were scared shitless because of the influence and power Yaponchik held.
But wasn't Agron already dead when Ivankov arrived? I read Ivankov was in jail from 1982 to 1991.
Yeah, Agron was dead, died on 1985. I mistook him with Nayfield.
Ivankov was on trial in these years: 1974, 1976, 1982(14 years sentence given), 1986, 1988. But yeah, he did time from 1982 to 1991, and in 1992 he went to USA. Where in 1995 he was arrested in USA.
