Olim Irgashev

Journalist Murad Yakubov wrote a feuilleton about the bribe-taker and slanderer Nureyev, using materials from the party commission. But later, after studying other materials, the hero came to the conclusion that he had slandered a man who was trying to expose the mafia led by the regional committee secretary Nazirov.

Tashkent, 1942. At this time, the hospitable city became a refuge for tens of thousands of people tired of hunger and cold war years. In urban stores, warehouses and markets in abundance of food and other goods. All this attracts the attention of criminals of different stripes, who in search of easy money gathered in Tashkent from all over the vast country. There are several criminal groups here. At the beginning of summer in the city there is a new gang operating with special impudence and cruelty…