摘要：Vladivostok and Komsomolsk-na-Amure, like other large cities in post-Soviet Russia during the 1990s, went through a period of violent turf wars between opposing organized crime groups. Numerous contract killings of businessmen and criminal authorities created a culture of violence affecting entrepreneurs and ordinary citizens alike. These excesses of violence have been inscribed in the cities’ graveyards. This article is an exploration into the iconography of organized crime, focusing on spatial nodes where organized crime becomes perceptible. Organized crime is at the same time a real and symbolic event. Gangsters’ graves and funerals are zones where the real and the symbolic aspects intersect, representing the spaces for cultural production in the shadow of organized crime.
