Scorpion tattoo

Book "How to survive and spend time usefully in prison"

Today i start post translate of one book about russian prison. This book called "How to survive and spend time usefully in prison" and was wrote by Vitaliy Lozovkiy, owner of site about russian prison www.tyurem.net. About him and life in russian prison in his book.






How to survive and spend time usefully in prison


History of books

I should say that I didn't mean to write a book about prison. I had a desire to share my world views thus getting rid of annoying memories associated with imprisonment. So Internet mailing "How to survive and spend time usefully in prison" was born. Interest to it exceeded all my expectations - about 2000 people subscribed to it immediately. Today the total number of subscribes is around 20000. The letters started coming, and two more mailings appeared: one for questions and answers, another - for prison stories from other authors. The site www.tyurem.net was developed. Thus the fate dragged me to the moment when I couldn't help publishing the book - I found it already written without me noticing it. The history of the book writing has dictated a bit unusual for book stylistics and form of narration - the author's text is mixed with the readers' questions, notes, remarks, responses (not always positive) and the author's answers to them. What can I do - Internet enters actively our life.
Initially I tried to present this book without letters. But it didn't work. One of the readers wrote about it:

Dear Vitaliy,
It goes without saying that letters are needed. When one reads published letters everything is pictured so realistically that in some moments "the hair stands on end".
I am an ordinary engineer. I knew about prisons and prisoners only by films and books. And I always thought that everything happening in the prisons is within the law, yes, there are some "excess" but not to this scale!!! And what is described in letters is just a NIGHTMARE!!! I'd like to know TRUTH but exactly "firsthand"! You, possibly, think that I am one of those who just want "bread and circuses" but this is not so. What you are writing about is TRUTH OF LIFE! And thanks to you and to your authors of letters!
Sincerely yours, Oleg I.

But there was the evident advantage in this form of writing: each next chapter was written under the influence of the readers’ feedback. They expressed their wishes and made evaluations thus suggesting me correct direction and style. Statistics of the number of subscribers, that, sometimes to my surprise, was growing constantly, was assuring me more and more that I did necessary thing. And thanks to everybody for this.
Sometimes there will be repetitions of phrases or descriptions of events - please, don’t judge strictly. This is a side effect of the interactivity I mentioned above – conversations on different sites, by mail, in different time, with different people.
This edition also includes several chapters and abstracts that were not published before and they were written in the process of the book preparation for printing.


Word from Alexey Pavlov (Iliya Stashevskiy)

Vitaliy Lozovskiy’s work is an attempt to systematize prison knowledge that has no analogues. And I should say immediately - this attempt is successful, with outstanding result. Complexity, closed nature and inaccessibility of the prison life for study as the Mars planet for a long time kept it in frightening uncertainty while according to various estimations from every fourth to every tenth of the CIS resident either was or is in the prison. There was a need for the experience of the person who passed though the repressive system of the post-Soviet prisons and prison camps in combination with the author’s analytical and summarizing talent to demonstrate the dreadful parallel world in which, unfortunately, everybody can have a place. Photographic presentation and truthfulness of the material is confirmed by numerous participants of the discussion the author arranged in Internet. Vitaliy’s work has no weaknesses as a result of the fact that the author having passed through the prisons and the prison camps, being direct participant of the events, has remained an attentive observer and everything he writes about is truth. Lozovskiy’s book opens the road for scientific, social and philosophic researches of the prison life and the prison inhabitants whereas the human rights aspect manifests itself and becomes one of the main aspects of this multidimensional, complicated as the prisoner’s life labor that can be hardly overestimated, as it is also impossible not to foresee burning interest of the reading public to this work – to the unique work both by its content and form, the first one of this kind. This book will be the reliable assistant on the way to life and freedom for each prisoner and free person either he gets to the prison by himself or as a result of absence of the legal framework in the post-Soviet territory or he won’t get there at all. Good luck, Vitaliy.

Alexey Pavlov,
Author of the story
“It had to be not this way”
Prague, 2004

To be continued...

Lenin tattoo

Lenin is vor's tattoo too. Lenin is The leader of the October Revolution - Vozhd Oktiabrskoy Revolucii - vor.

Führer tattoo

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday card for brother or for big friend. Card from prison, at bottle inscription Rum.

I think it's in english but what is this i don't know. What it mean?

Epaulette 13

What mean number 13 i don't know.

Father of one visitor from russian blog

Legcuffs tattoo from prison

Tattoo of legcuffs mean 5 years of prison each.

Another meaning of tattoo Scorpion:

5.Scorpion in optical sight - Owner has seen combat (Chechnya).

I don't know waht is this, or BARS or TIGR

hotels in Yalta

Scorpion and Zoloto tattoo

On the right breast abbreviation Zoloto(Gold) - Zapomni, Odnazhdi Liudi Ostaviat Tebia Odnogo - Remember, one day people will leave you alone.

The meaning of the Scorpion tattoo was unknown till just recently, when a few meanings came to light in the comments section of the Russian blog. I decided to put them all together so people can pick the one that fits them best.

The meanings of the Scorpion:

1.Astrological Sign
2.Special Forces tattoo. If the claws are open then the owner has seen combat.
3.Did Box-time (time in the hole)
4.Drug-Addiction. Stinger up-means still using. Stinger down means "I quit".
5.Scorpion in optical sight - Owner has seen combat (Chechnya).
If more meanings come to light, I will add them here.

Murder of businessman in Moscow

Today, on the night of April 29, 2010 in Moscow, from Kalashnikov and pistol was killed Dagestani businessman, deputy general director Uniway management for the production of wine and vodka Abdulmedzhid Hasanov.

The killer shot the businessman in his own Porsche Cayenne in front of his wife and children.

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Zhmurki

"Zhmurky" AKA "Dead Man's Bluff" has finally been released in English. As I stated in a previous post Russian criminal movies , the film is an excellent humorous representation of the Russian criminal element of the early 90's. I highly recommend.



I hope more and more Russian criminal dramas will be available in English in the future.

Murders in Nizhniy

On Friday night April 16 in Nizhniy Novgorod, was shot and killed a local crime avtoritet, nicknamed Samvel. That night, Samvel Karapetyan celebrated its 35 anniversary. After he left the cafe from a passing car VAZ 21010 opened fire, as it turned out later fired from Kalashnikov. Avtoritet was killed on the spot.



But a year earlier in the same Nizhniy Novgorod was committed another murder of another avtoritet Zahar Grigoryan. He was killed by car thieves from whom he extorted money. Everything happened as he left the cafe, the killers immediately opened fire from a parked car. Zahar tried to run to his Mercedes but was killed. The killers were caught and convicted. It is noteworthy that both the killers and their victims are natives of Armenia.

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Lada which was on the line of fire

Sulim Yamadaev. Mysticism chechen.

Once wrote on the blog about the murder of Sulim Yamadaev.

И вот недавно все СМИ России или почти все раструбили новость о том что Сулим Ямадаев жив и даже выложили его фотографию. Вот она



Recently almost all of the Russian media revealed that Sulim Yamadaev is alive and even showed his photo. Here it is:



The photo doesn't appear to be a fake or doctored. Before this photo, there was another photo of Sulim circling the net.

But the interesting fact is that the killers of Sulim were sentenced to life in prison, even though Sulim is still alive. I myself believed that something was amiss. There was never a body found. His brother Isa revealed that Sulim is alive just after 2 days of the news of his death. I'm interested how all this will end

PS:Since 1996, Sulima Yamadaev, the most conservative estimates, there were some 19 attempted murder.

Save and Protect

Olia with ex

Drawing of Bardak

Nice drawing from prison.

Tattoos on fingers

On the index finger Spades tattoo, most likely this is thief's suit.
On middle finger otritsala.
On ring finger - The sun shines in the side of the bars - Half his life in prison - The owner of tattooing was serving a long prison term.
On the little finger - Save and Protect, convicted hopes only to themselves.

Tattoo Adidas

This tattoo i think is just joke.