Former member of the Tambov organized crime group Alexander Merkulov, nicknamed Chudnoy, and former singer Tatyana Ovsienko spent several days on droppers in the Pirogov center after severe intoxication. It was caused by the use of potent substances.
Tatyana Ovsienko sang under the plywood in the Mirage group. Later she started her solo career. Then she became the common-law wife of Alexander Merkulov.
Alexander Merkulov in Ryazan had the surname Chudinin and the nickname Wonderful. In 1991, he took part in the robbery of emeralds from a cadet from Afghanistan from the school of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, together with the founders of the Arkhipovskaya organized criminal group, Alexander Arkhipov (Arkhip) and Dmitry Golovanov (Golovan). He fled from the criminal case to St. Petersburg, where he changed his surname to Merkulov and became with the founder of the Tambov organized crime group Vladimir Kumarin, who, following his example, changed his surname to Barsukov, a connection for the supply of killers from Ryazan: Igor Ermoshin (Yermokh), Mikhail Karandin (Mikhryan) , who in 1993 wounded Sergei Vasilyev with pistols, as well as Oleg and Andrei Mikhalev (the Wet brothers), who in 2006 wounded Sergei Vasilyev with machine guns.
Alexander Merkulov (Chudinin) sat on Murmashy, where he opened himself (cut the veins on his left arm – see photo), which automatically translates a person into the status of a mental patient.
Roofed show business and bet on football with his friend Yuri Kupriyanov (Cooper). He helped to hide in St. Petersburg to his other friend of their Arkhipovskaya (Osokinskaya) organized crime group Alexei Lebedev (Lebed).