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and the sportsmen, who dominated the organization and eventually came out on top. Another was a violent clash with the
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By the end of the decade, Uralmash's leaders legitimised their business more and more, and eventually became a registered political party, the Social-Political Union
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Founded in the late 1980s by a group of former athletes led by the
Tsyganov brothers, the group consolidated control over several businesses in the city during the transition to a free market economy, including the famous
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