search for future slaves began, with the ideal option being a young, lone dressmaker. For a while Komin and Mikheev walked around the city looking for potential workers in the market and at the station, but without success. On January 13, 1995, near a school on Gagarin Street, Komin met a woman named Vera Talpayeva, whom he offered to celebrate the Old New Year in good company. Komin brought her to the garage. There, he gave her a drink of vodka, which had clonidine laced in it. Talpayeva could not sew, and did not want to learn. She, however, pointed Komin to the tailor Tatiana Melnikova, who would become the next prisoner. She did not remember Melnikova's address exactly, and only recalled the street - Parokhodnaya. Going on a search, Komin unexpectedly met his fellow prisoner named Nikolai Malykh. In an incredible coincidence, he turned out to be a cohabitant of Melnikova. Suggesting that they both go celebrate the meeting, he gave Malykh vodka laced with clonidine. However, Komin realised that Malykh, knowing the laws of the criminal world, would never have started working for him. Komin and Mikheev then stripped him, took him out of the garage and left the unconscious boy in the His body was discovered in a week. Work in the underground bunker and new victims Melnikova began sewing for Komin dressing gowns and shorts, which he successfully sold in markets and enterprises. In parallel, the construction of the bunker continued, where Talpayeva was an auxiliary worker. However, there was not much use for it, and therefore Komin decided to get a prisoner for the earthworks. On March 21, 1995, at a shop in Uritsky Street, Komin and Mikheev met a strong but alcoholic 37-year-old Yevgeny Shishov. He agreed to a free drink and soon found himself in the bunker. Komin figured out that Shishov was an electrician. Komin could not allow any of his prisoners to figure out the electrical junctions of the bunker and cut off the ladder from the current. For the execution of Shishov, he made an electric chair of his own design: he wrapped his legs and hands with bare wires, plugged them into an outlet and made Talpayeva and Melnikova push two switches at the same time. As Mikheev later said: "He was like this: 'Aaa!'...And everything...You know, quickly...". Shishov's body was lifted on a hoist to the top, taken