Akhat Bragin

Akhat (Alexander) Khafizovich (Sergeevich) Bragin (Ukrainian: Ахать (Олександр) Хафізович (Сергійович) Брагін , Russian: Ахать (Александр) Хафизович (Сергеевич) Брагин , Tatar: Әхәт (Александр) Хафиз улы Брагин ; 1953 — October 15, 1995) was a Ukrainian businessman of Volga Tatar descent. He was a mafia figure of the Donetsk Oblast and later the president of the football club Shakhtar Donetsk until his death.

Akhat Bragin died in a bomb attack on Sunday, October 15, 1995, at the Shakhtar Stadium in Donetsk. After this event, the new president and chairman of Shaktar Donetsk became Rinat Akhmetov. The reason for Akhat's murder was his business dealings. Known in the criminal underworld as 'Alik the Greek', his organization got into conflict with several others. The investigation into his death made little progress until the confession of a rival gangster, which led to the arrest and imprisonment of former policeman Vyacheslav Synenko.

An attempt to kill Bragin took place on March 19, 1994, at a settlement called Pisky (Bragin's hometown). Pisky, Yasynuvata Raion is a rural settlement of Yasynuvata Raion, just to the west from the Donetsk International Airport. A group of bandits from the Ryabin-Kushnir gang (run by Yevhen Kushnir and Anatoliy Ryabi) opened fire on Bragin's pigeon house. Miraculously Akhat Bragin survived the attempt.

Bragin had a wife and two children: Dilyara (1985—2009) and Ravil (b. 1989).

Akhat Hafizovich Bragin was born in 1953 in the Kuibyshevskyi Raion of Donetsk city, Ukrainian SSR. Before he became the president of Shakhtar Donetsk, he was also a butcher at a local market in Oktyabrsky Raion.