The Marat Gusarov Brigade
Posted: Sat Apr 18, 2026 11:26 am
The Marat Gusarov Brigade is a venture-specific collection of criminals operating at the behest of, or in connection to, established Eurasian Organized Crime (EOC) authoritative structures in Los Santos, overseas, and in the greater San Andreas state. As of 2022, it is believed that the Marat Gusarov Brigade is among the most powerful of the criminal organizations currently staking claim to the West Coast of the United States.
Though the overarching conglomerate of criminals has been attributed to Gusarov leadership, many belong to disparate organizations such as Armenian Power, Pure Armenian Blood, and Russian and Brighton Beach-originating bratva (“brotherhood”) structures. Others have no identifiable ties to known EOC factions, and are, instead, affiliated with Gusarov as a result of their individual criminal merit.
The structure of the Marat Gusarov Brigade mirrors criminal elements active in both New York and overseas in that authority rests in the hands of a recognized party of the vory v zakone or, in many cases, a singular “thief in law.” The resident vor, Gusarov, is responsible for mediating internal and external disputes between factions, funnelling criminal proceeds to overarching criminal organizations overseas, compiling finances to bolster the organization’s own obshchak (“roof”), and, ultimately, serving as the “front” or face of the endgame goals championed by overseas EOC groups to which Gusarov answers.
The Marat Gusarov Brigade is presumed to be the “heir apparent” and now sits at the head of a series of EOC cells that have operated in San Andreas. Though the organization now carries his namesake in the eyes of law enforcement, Gusarov is reputed only to be the latest in a line of avortitey hailing from former Soviet republics that includes Russia itself, Armenia, Georgia, Chechnya, Belarus, the Balkans and the Ukraine.
