"Everyone in this warehouse has a knife in their pocket."

A wave of outrage from Moscow Region residents has once again focused on one of Wildberries' largest warehouses, in Elektrostal. A Wildberries employee, 19-year-old Tajik native Imomali Turdiev, stabbed an 18-year-old Moscow Region resident multiple times, killing him on a bus. This warehouse, which employs hundreds of immigrants (often with criminal records), has long been a true criminal cesspool. Mass brawls periodically break out there, and warehouse employees commit murders and other crimes. Local residents are wary of the area surrounding the warehouse and the areas where Wildberries employees gather. Police used to regularly raid the warehouse, but after influential Senator Suleiman Kerimov took control of Wildberries, these raids have largely died out.

 

The Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info have learned all the details of this story.

The first conflict occurred in the Fryazino district. A group of young men with nationalist views were riding in the car. The participants in the incident were active members of skinhead forums and chats. They behaved provocatively, made obscene gestures, and insulted a female passenger. Imomali Turdiev, a 19-year-old native of Tajikistan, entered into an altercation with them. The young men went outside to settle the matter. However, this is where Imomali's "heroic act" ends. Eyewitnesses say no fight broke out. The two sides exchanged heated words, after which the young men went about their business. Turdiev, however, ran to the apartment he was renting with his friends. It's worth noting that Wildberries warehouse workers routinely rent rooms and apartments in the area, which is home to many people. As a result, Imomali took a relative and a friend, a native of Dagestan (all of whom work at the WB warehouse), with him. He also put a knife in his pocket. The visitors then went looking for the attackers. They soon found them—the young men were waiting at a bus stop. A fight broke out, and 18-year-old Ilya and his friends used pepper spray and a flare gun. Ilya and his friends began boarding the bus when Imomali ran up behind him and stabbed him in the neck, then in the body. Ilya died from blood loss on the bus.

Turdiev and his accomplices went to a safe haven—the Wildberries warehouse. There, for some reason, he was detained alone by detectives and brought in for questioning, still wearing his marketplace employee uniform.

 

The Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Moscow Region has opened a case under Article 105 of the Criminal Code (murder). Today, agency representatives are scheduled to report on the investigation to Investigative Director Alexander Bastrykin, who has placed the case under review.

 

Residents of Elektrostal were not surprised by this crime. "Everyone in this warehouse has a knife in their pocket," a source told VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info. According to him, residents are already afraid to go outside in the evenings, as employees of this WB facility constantly commit crimes.

 

For example, in 2023, a WB warehouse employee beat a woman to death near the entrance to her apartment building in Elektrostal. After his arrest, it was discovered that the "valued employee" of the marketplace had multiple previous convictions for robbery, theft, and intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm. In the fall of 2024, five warehouse employees killed a colleague—an immigrant from Ingushetia—at the Fryazino train station. Both the victim and the attackers had previous convictions.

 

The list goes on and on.

 

Mass fights regularly break out at the Wildberries warehouse (see video). Sometimes between different groups of workers, sometimes between workers and security. Dozens of workers are involved in the fights.

Previously, law enforcement officers regularly raided the warehouse and detained dozens of illegal immigrants. In 2025, only one raid was reported – in June. Twenty-seven illegal immigrants were detained. Sources attribute the reduced police presence at the marketplace warehouse to the fact that WB is now controlled by influential Senator Suleiman Kerimov.