Alexander Viktorovich Solonik, also known as Alexander the Great, Sasha the Macedonian and the Super Killer; was a Russian hitman in the 1990s who carried out hits for the Orekhovskaya Group and other criminal associations. His main targets were the leaders of other criminal organizations, he eventually formed his own syndicate after moving his operations to Greece, he was on Russia's most wanted list for many years and is suspected of may have faked his own death. Alexander showed strong psychopathic tendencies as well as personality disorder traits. Alexander was born in Kurgan, Russia in 1960 and grew up with an obsession with martial arts and guns. Not much is known about Solonik's childhood, as he has no records until he finished school and was drafted into the Soviet Army as part of a tank regiment stationed in Germany. There was a group of special intelligence officers training near the territory of Solonik's military unit and he followed these training programs as long as he could, he was even obsessed with the idea of become one. So, while serving in the army, he decided to become a cop and as soon as his conscription service ended, he joined OMON, an elite militsya unit that functioned more like a police force than a police force. a militsya. After six months, Alexander was expelled from OMON for showing excessive violence towards suspects he allegedly dealt with. After that, Solonik returned to Kurgan and was able to find a job as a gravedigger, and eventually married his wife who gave birth to his daughter. He later divorced and married another woman with whom he had a son and appeared to live out at least a half. normal life. Then, in 1987, it was middle of paper......awn: The rise of the Russian criminal state. New Haven: Yale University Press. Litvinenko, A. and Felshtinsky, Y. (January 22, 2007). Blowing Up Russia: The Secret Plot to Bring Back KGB Terror. Retrieved April 6, 2014 from http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/litvinenkos-russia--exclusive-the-book-putin-banned-433150.htmlThe fall in contract killings is illusory in numbers. Increase. (August 24, 2004). Retrieved April 9, 2014, from the St Petersburg Times website: http://www.sptimes.ru/index.php?action_id=100&story_id=1353 Dowdney, M. (2000). QUEEN ALEX Dejected; The mafia kills Miss Russia. Glasgow, Scotland: Daily Record. Belous, E. (January 24, 2003). the life and death of Russia's number one killer. Retrieved April 5, 2014 from Pravda.Ru website: http://english.pravda.ru/news/russia/24-01-2003/20886-0/