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The "Thief-In-Law" (Vor V Zakone) who had a significant influence in the Urals, Vladimir Kolupaylo (Severenok), spent a long time in prison, first entering the zone for theft in 1967 at the age of 15, and almost continuously remaining in custody until the late 80s.

While serving another sentence in 1978 at IK-3 ("Troika"), the prison administration pressured him, trying to force the inmate who was adhering to the thief-in-law's code to go to the industrial zone for work. Severenok, aspiring to enter criminal circles, could not afford to discredit himself, so after another conflict, during the evening check, he stabbed a warrant officer in front of other inmates. As a result, he gained great respect among the prisoners and fierce hatred from the prison authorities, who, after a new sentence, sent this dangerous inmate from one prison to another around the country, trying not to detain him in their institutions for long.

In 1988, at the instigation of Perm thief Nikolay Zykov, Severenok was endowed with thief-in-law title and "authority", upon release he settled in Yekaterinburg, virtually monopolizing all processes in criminal circles. There was no force or authority that could oppose Kolupaylo. He took under his curatorship the criminal gang known as the "Vizovskie."

When Ded Hasan began to encroach on the Urals, appointing overseers here, and in Yekaterinburg, his interests began to be represented by Temuri Mirzoyev, his nephew, from 1993, he collided with Severenok's influence when emissaries of Mirzoyev were expelled from enterprises where they wanted to "associate" as partners. After that, Hasan tried to discredit Kolupaylo in the eyes of thieves, explaining that a thief cannot have dealings with lawbreakers, hinting at the subordinated brigade of the "Vizovskie," whose members were involved in robberies and didn't live up to the Thieves Law. However, no one intended to "take away" the thief-in-law authority from Severenok, and he remained an opponent for Ded Hasan's followers until his death.

He passed away on February 28, 1995, at the Moscow clinic, where he was undergoing treatment. The official cause of death was heart failure. Unofficially – overdose....

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