The Life and Adventures of Mishka Yaponchik (Once in Odessa)
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View on VideBits →Mishka Yaponchik was a Ukrainian gangster, Jewish, lived in Odessa at the beginning of the XX century, the military leader of two thousand of gangsters and the prototype of Benia Krik in The "Odessa Tales" by Soviet Jewish writer Isaak Babel. Born Moisei Vinnitsky, Yaponchik ("the Japanese") was an exceptional and eccentric character. Hailed as the next Robin Hood, he established his own code of conduct forbidding the robbing of the poor and professional classes.
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Vadim Norshteyn · Valentin Gaft · Evgeniy Tkachuk · Igor Artashonov · Petr Skvortsov · Maxim Belozor · Sergey Ginzburg · Ilya Lykov · Igor Savochkin · Elena Shamova · Sergey Marin · Aleksey Filimonov