Russian Criminal Tatoos
Like in other countries there is a mania for tattoos among criminals, but in Russia they give much more sense for those signs on their bodies. Each even smallest detail can be interpreted as a biography verse from the life of tattoo owner, both police and criminals can just look at the body of the tattooed person and tell all his deeds. They say these days there more freedom is allowed in decorating their bodies such way, but during the Soviet regime a person could earn big disgrace from his friends if he made a tattoo not according the rules.
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am i pertamax or the FIRST?
The guy with the sunglasses/nipples combo looks like Billy mitchel from Eastenders…and the foot tatoos is a bit girly I thought.
Yes, but more importantly . . . do you think any of the men are hot?
…these guys are NOT HOT ! Tatoos can be tacky on occasion
You go tell him his tattoo is girly..
first IGOR
Who is that Igor?
well i’ve got some tatoos and i am not a criminal…
None of these tattoos are actually on a person’s skin - all these pictures show tattoos on the black soil of Ukraine itself.
I dont see any tatoo that say stories of their deeds.But its cool to have one.
Yeah,there is special symbols on fingers.Spider net is symbol for drog users…Those guys are hard core.This could be photos from investigation prison called populary ‘ZONE’.
spider web means entrapment, which can represent addiction or incarceration, lack of freedom etc etc.
Agree,I did found info in book Rusian prison tatoos (Dutch edition).
if a spider is going upwards that means that he is not going to stop his criminal acts and if its going down tha mean he is done with criminal acts
Fascinating pictures.
I agree.
Snuggles, somehow you always manage to say the right things.
you are so hot
I have a tattoo on my back which means that i’m faggot
I want the same tattoo
Faggots are not very nice, my gran eats those..it reminds me of a bollock
Fuck the RIAA!!!
Old guy in 8 picture is my boyfriend
Old guy in 8 picture is my boyfriend with big dick
Check this site http://eatx.narod.ru/zktattoo/index.html if you intrested in russian prison tatoos. It’s in russian… So i explain some the basic “rules” - image of Lenin or Stalin is kind of “protection” against shooting. Number of curch domes can tell you, how many times this man have visited “zone”. Head of predatory animal is a “fighter” symbol and tells that owner is very dangerous man, who often violates prison regime. You can be “asked” for every tattoo, and you life will be turned into hell if you cant’t “answer”.
Some more pics on the subject http://nouvellerevuemoderne.free.fr/tattoo.htm
Explanation of symbols:
http://pickledfingers.wordpress.com/2007/05/28/russian-prison-tattoo/
http://pickledfingers.wordpress.com/2007/01/22/russian-criminal-tattoo/
Tattoos instead of brains.
Photoshop !
GULAG RULES !
The tattoos are not meant to be easily deciphered unless you know the cryptic language the criminals use. Stars can represent time in prison each point represents a year. Church spires can represent number of times imprisoned. For the person who thinks the foot tattoo is girly, it represents the military you idiot.
In the rest of the world it is considered a girly tattoo. Just look at the beaches, no man will have a foot tattoo.
Hey dumnass its the fucking jail each tattoo for stands something the guy put it there cause he had to or he earned it say that shit to anyone that sat in russian jail theyle rip yuo apart
the 19th picture is a ”vor v zakone”
Am I right or is the movie eastern promises wrong? ;))
HAHA this isn’t the real Russian mafia. Real Russian mafia is spetsnaz.
Where you see word mafia ? Go eat cocks bitch ass
You will never see “real” Russian mafia in prisons. They much rather live a life of luxury and excess in corrupt or politically diametric states, while sponsoring various charities and heading various civil liberties and humain rights organisation in order to sustain their angelic image. Can you blame them? Wouldn’t you do the same if you were in their position?
Eat Fast Food,those tatoos use also Russian mafia,they don’t seat in jail.This is dark side of the moon…
LOL “dark side of the moon” What a metaphor
Spetznaz are russian specialforces. More a Navy seal team of sorts. They wear white and blue t-shirts under their fatigues, like Russian Navy
I agree.
Agree.
Interesante, saber la ficha policial solo mirando su cuerpo.
In the 6th pic, what is the symbol on the middle finger that looks like a crucifix?
looks like they are wired to something Meth? maybe
Very nice collection of tattooed bodies.but really i like pic no,17.where v.i. Lenin enjoying with Siberian tiger! ! ! ! !.may God bless on Tiger! ! ! ! ! !
Love the cat and the Lego.
Vicar or mafia or both, everyone loves cats
(Except the disgusting dog lovers)
If these guys are criminals, they aren’t very successful ones. Geez.
WWJD?
all these guys are fuck ups, there is nothing “cool” about these tattoos.
smart people never go to jail. big shots of russian mafia are involved in politics mostly,
and all the small fish does the dirty job and gets killed. like anywhere else.
some of these tattooed freaks spend most of their pathetic lives in prisons.
sounds cool, doesn’t it?
I just want to start this off by saying that pavel you are some god damn jesus freak. These people’s lifes our pathetic because they have made by choices in their lifes, unlike you i am guessing. They dont have the pleasure of growing up in america like your ungrateful ass, and tattoos are their way of making a place in their life, and lets put you in prison with all the extra time on your hands not wanting to pass some time with some tattoos. You are an idiot and you should never have posted on this site. For your sake i hope these people never see that you posted that, because i bet it will be one of the last times you will ever open up your big mouth
agreed. a lot of people judge situations from the background and oppritunities they’ve been given. not thinking about the difference of background behind the other persons decisions, and the opportunities that they had to TAKE in order to feed their families and stay alive themselves. my grandfather was in prison in siberia a long time ago. before he died, god bless his soul, he birthed my father. who as well has been in prison in Russia. i very much agree with your comment. even though my father moved to america while i was still very young (to “give me a better life with better oppritunities”, and so i wouldn’t follow in his footsteps) he never talked ill of his homeland and wore our name with pride as well as do i. so i grew up away from that type of environment. however, i still feel very strongly about the situation. whenever i visit our family, who now lives in Ukraine, i am reminded of that fact. as well as my pride in Ukraine, and mother Russia.
with respect -Joel Wazdatsky-
OMG more nazi symbols. Russia is more nazi than Germany perhaps.
Nazi and the use of the word by any Ukranian or Russian I know means nationalist.
My wife constantly talks about this person or that ancestor being a nazi. What she means is a Ukranian nationalist.
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these guys just look queer as hell, i mean did they think they were posing for gay russian of the year or were they just born that way.
the ignorant comment of the majority of people here reveal who are the true idiots.
you sadly view the world thru your limited privileged lens and cannot open your minds to alternate realities even on this earth. there are other societies and subcultures that are so restrictive that should you protest, you would die.
instead of spewing stupidity and intolerance, you could spend that time actually researching what you propose to have a glib and insipid opinion about.
Start here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_tattoo
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/shared/spl/hi/pop_ups/04/europe_russian_criminal_tattoos/html/1.stm
http://ezinearticles.com/?Russian-Criminal-Tattoo&id=1289035
And search Google for “russian criminal tattoo encyclopaedia”
learn something more beyond your immediate world.
Criminal Russia… Every russian is a potential criminal, the crime is in theirs blood from their birth. Everybody steals, no matter of social position or background, etc. A real cult of Crime has raised for the last century. Taint in jalis, russkies.
Suck my penis bitch. You jews were born retarded. Fuck you inbred american jew.
these guys are badass!!
The tattoos are very nice but the reasons are not understand why the criminals has been designed by Tattoos.
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These men are lovely looking, amazing bodies!