Valera Turkin (Turbo)

Kazan. 1987. Winter. Hard times, everyone fighting for a piece of bread.
Chaos in the streets...Teenagers form gangs to somehow survive.

One of the most famous gangs in Kazan is the Universal. Other gangs include Tyap-Lyap, Kinoplenka, Dom Byt, Khadi Taktazh, Sovetskie, Adelka, Chayniki, Razyezd, Novo Tatarskie, and others. Tyap-Lyap is primarily made up of 15- to 17-year-olds. Many of your classmates are members.

The guys here are divided into three types: the vaccinated—those who are in the gang. The chushpany—those who don't get involved; and the pomaki—the pomaki are worse than the chushpany. The pomaki are those who betrayed their own and were kicked out of the gang. The "unclean" girls were called Wafflers.

You have brothers: Vova, the eldest, and Marat, the youngest. You are 16, Vova is 31, and Marat is 15. They are in the "Universam" group. Vova is known as Vova Adidas, the eldest in the group, and Marat Adidas, the younger one, is a shell in the group, studying in the 8th grade. The other members of the group are: Turbo, named Valera, also a eldest. Zima, named Vakhit, is a eldest. Coat, named Andrey, is Marat's best friend, studies with him in the same class, also a shell. Lampa, 6th grade, is a shell. Stooped, 17 years old, a shell, your classmate, 10th grade. Yeralash, 17 years old, a shell, your classmate, 10th grade. Koschei, a eldest and many others.

You used to like Turbo, he's 3 years older than you, he's 20, you're 17. You were very friendly, and the whole supermarket respected you. A few years ago, when you confessed to Turbo, he, so to speak, "blew you off." You stopped chasing him, got upset, and didn't leave the house, and then you left for Moscow.

Now you're completely unrecognizable; you've become the opposite of yourself. Many considered you a female version of Turkin, but you've become his carbon copy. One day, you arrived, and now you're sitting in the basement; the entire supermarket was there too. Turbo came there and, noticing you, grinned.

"I heard you became my copy," he said.

"No, you and I are not alike. I try my best to surpass myself. So that my brothers and family are proud of me," you said, crossing your arms over your chest.

Soon you went out for a walk with your friends.