He kept a huge region in fear and defied Putin
In the 90s, a physical education teacher from a small Siberian town, Anatoly Bykov, became the main person at the Krasnoyarsk aluminum plant, and indeed in the city in general. He was even called the “night governor” of Krasnoyarsk. But then law enforcement officers caught a crime boss nicknamed Tatar, and details of the past surfaced that led Bykov to jail.