Boys in the City. The War of Kazan Streets

Arthur Gafarov is a Kazan journalist who wrote "Who Did You Want to Surprise?" — the first resonant material on "Kazan gangs," published in the newspaper "Komsomolets of Tatarstan" on December 25, 1983. Forty years later, he returns to the... topic of boys' wars and the ruthless criminal daily life of Kazan in the 80s and 90s: "By flipping through the pages of this book, you will once again walk with us our path — feel the confrontation of every day. This City and we, together with it, stood at the line of Good and Evil, and the price of choice was at times the price of life..."

"...Reading the author, you can't help but note how he has managed to show the entire spectrum of confrontations of the 80s and 90s with utmost precision and clarity. Arthur Gafarov writes in the first person, and this particularly resonates with the reader, as it creates the feeling that you are in the center of events. The book conveys the tension and tragedy of the so-called 'war for asphalt'." — Alexander Avvakumov, author of 35 books on military and criminal themes, member of the Writers' Union of Tatarstan and Russia, retired police lieutenant colonel