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a few weeks ago i picked up a copy of the russian criminal tattoo encyclopedia vol. 1 and it blew my mind. this three volume series was put together by a russian prison guard who spent his lifelong career documenting over 3,000 prisoner tattoos. most of the tattoos are really, really intense -- these are a few of the more toned down ones. if you're into this kind of stuff i highly reccomend these books.

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A high-ranking, authoritative thief (left). In the early 1950s, it became customary for thieves to tattoo dots or small crosses on the knuckles, the number of dots indicating the number of terms. Prison is this thief's home, he is of the highest rank in the thieves' social hierarchy. His ring tattoos show that he was the only underage detainee in his circle of thieves, and that he is an 'anti-social': an inveterate transgressor of the prison regime, who completely refuses to work. Prison Tat, Russian Prison Tattoos, Symbol Tattoos With Meaning, Wörter Tattoos, Gang Tattoos, Russian Tattoo, Prison Tattoos, Kunst Tattoos, Cross Tattoo For Men
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Symbols of a life of crime: The fading tattoos on Russia's gangland prisoners that can be read like a criminal underworld CV

These haunting images were taken in the early 1990s by photographer Sergei Vasiliev after he gained access to some of Russia's toughest prisons at the peak of the post-Soviet Union gangland power struggle.

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Throughout the Communist era, convicts in the Soviet prison system cultivated a visual language through tattoo art. Take a look at a selection of images that helped officials decode the language of Russian tattoos and solve cases across the country: http://nyr.kr/1x6qz42 (Photograph courtesy Arkady Bronnikov/FUEL) Russian Prison Tattoos, Police File, Russian Tattoo, Prison Tattoos, Inspiration Tattoo, Old Tattoos, Juxtapoz Magazine, Vintage Tattoo, Art Style Inspiration
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Decoding Russian Prison Tattoos

Throughout the Communist era, convicts in the Soviet prison system cultivated a visual language through tattoo art. Take a look at a selection of images that helped officials decode the language of Russian tattoos and solve cases across the country: http://nyr.kr/1x6qz42 (Photograph courtesy Arkady Bronnikov/FUEL)

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ART IN HELL

I recently finished the second volume of the Encyclopedia of Russian Criminal Tattoos by Baldaev and Valsiliev. (It was a gift from my wife-- don't ask.) For over fifty years, Baldaev worked in the Russian prison camps where he studied and recorded the tattoos of thousands of criminals. The Encyclopedia documents a brutal world where hardened criminals, debased by Tsarist labor camps and Stalin's gulag, lived like animals. They killed and maimed each other impassively. Walking around naked…

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