Radif Zamaliev Biography

In the 80s, his videos about pull -ups, fights and teenage crime are collected from tens of thousands to millions of views, and the number of channel subscribers is approaching 40 thousand people. In an interview with “real time”, Zamaliev talked about how Kazan youth lived during the days of total lawlessness, as well as about the income from video hosting and plans for the development of the channel.

I don’t have this vein ” - Radiff, you have three hypostasis for us: an athlete, a video blogger and a person who has survived among teenage crime in Kazan in the 80s. We’ll talk about everyone, but we’ll start with the last one. As a rule, security forces and politicians publicly talk about those times, but not the participants in the events themselves. Apparently, this is why your stories from the perspective of an ordinary guy who then survived on the streets of the city found such a great response from the YouTube audience.

Why did the groupers not like me, but me? Let's just say because I was like a white crow. It was impossible to throw Arkan on me to go there with them. I really love freedom and have always been independent. The famous group from Hadi Taktash Street is actually our neighbors. This is an adjacent street with a cloth settlement. And I knew our Sukonovsky and Khadattashtashesky groups since the X.

They were still gathering together, that is, it was one "office". But then they were divided - for "ideological" reasons. Because there was no group on the cloth as such, there was mainly a julier that climbed into the pockets in apartments. The spirit was peculiar, everyone lived according to concepts, there were "raspberries." The suckee itself was not gangster, but a commercial in terms of crime.

There were a lot of tweaks, and these people enjoyed authority, set as an example, because "they live right." The robberies that the groups trained did not enjoy respect. The cloth manufactory in Kazan was created by the decree of Peter the Great in the year. This was one of the very first manufactories in Russia. There were workers' uprisings, one of the first in Russia. There are stories related to Emelyan Pugachev, there were Old Believers, there are two churches who experienced persecutions - "held their term by the beard, for the old faith." They were covered on a cloth near the first mountain.

I lived in childhood near this mountain. From the point of view of crime, the suckee and its environment are known for the fact that from there the Antip Sergey Antipov is the organizer of the Tyap Lapov group, the first youth group of the Soviet Union. Before this group, the concept of “banditry” was not in our country. We lived eight people in a communal apartment, and everyone could go to each other.

And there were no valuable things in people. Everyone stole it. I had a Hungarian Olympic, I myself overwhelmed it from shreds. Once he washed, hung it, then I look-she was not, they stole it.

Two or three days later I look, Vladik, a neighbor in two yards, walks in my Olympic. He, as in the order of things: “Yes? He took off his own, gave it away. This was everywhere. Hockey clubs constantly stole ... that in Kazan there is such a fierce group as Hadi Taktash, I learned only from the news. Because well, guys are like guys. First of all, where I lived, out of 30 youth people there were only two or three groups.

We, let’s say, were raised not even a family, not a mother, I didn’t have a father, but a team. We had a horizontal bar in the yard, we all dreamed of serving in the army. They wore belts with soldiers' plaques, caps, some kind of tunic, which someone had from their fathers. I seriously encountered groups when I studied at a river technical school. The road walked through the railway station, which was impossible to calmly drive, so many groups, hooligans there.

I do not want to voice the names of the groups, because some of them still exist in Kazan. Because so many people died, so many fates were crippled, so many were in prisons or went missing. I had this several times in my life. Once, on a blank of forest in the village, he collided with a boar with a brood. Then it turned out that it was a pig, but still these are huge and very dangerous creatures.

I had a knife in my hand, but I could not move. I want to jump, climb a tree, but I can’t. That's it, I'm ready to die. It was like that on the streets too - when your sides have a bakery, a very large such knife 50 centimeters in length. It was lucky that the attacker could not plug him normally, there was not enough strength. As for the audience on YouTube, it is motley. The rest are women and youth 16-18 years old.

For them, my stories are generally shock: “Is this really happening?! In general, my main audience is people aged 25-46 years. My spouse takes my spouse on an action camera that I bought in order to shoot a video on vacation. The camera is not very hanging ... One of my very first videos - I began to pull myself up. It seemed to me that it was cool - to pull up with a weight of more kg.

Before that I went through YouTube, I look, there are no heavyweights. There are wrestlers, fighters, judokas, pitching, but which of them will pull up 10 times? And then, with a weight of the kg, about 30 times I could pull up or so.It seemed to me that I was steeply pulled up, but no one saw it. Pulling is a discipline mainly for gymnasts with a weight of 70-75 kg.

There are no gymnasts-gymnasiums. As for the audience on YouTube, it is motley. Before that, I earned, well, maybe 10 thousand rubles. From the winter to this day has earned about dollars. In my opinion, now dollars. Of course, it cannot be said that with this money you can live and shoot videos. In general, I did not have a goal to create a commercial project on YouTube.

I don't have this vein. Even in sports, as soon as he started to speak for money, he lost. When premium, salaries were removed, he immediately performed successfully. He became the champion of Russia, showed a high result. In order for YouTube to start working and profit, you need to gain thousands of views, then turn on the monetization and so on. Even with a more adult generation.

So I turn on any of the main television channels, there is always the same thing there. Which channels are signed? I watch a video about the planets, some scientific, technical things. I have not been signed for anyone, I just watch the videos on request and on the recommendation. In addition to science, I watch funny videos. Talk about what really happened in the Russian province and affected the fate of most people over the age of 30?

I’m even trying to write a historical story about cloth settlement, in particular about Emelyan Pugachev, but some kind of porridge is obtained. And when I tell my own stories, it turns out interesting. I remember everything in detail. There was a huge adrenaline. Then, everywhere there was a pressure of people like me - teenagers "not from the street." It was my team, my yard.

I was respected in my yard, my nickname was glad. I never cried, no matter what I broke, no matter what roof fell, no matter what they hit me. This was struck by all. It always went like a block ... There was a group in my school. They pressed me very much, although some participants were my classmates. Then a classmate or not a classmate, it did not matter. The groups have other things, belonging to the street.