However, it was hard for Komin to fulfil his ambitions in a small town, so he worked as a watchman, an electrician and a handyman as well.
[3] As Komin later explained, while serving his sentence, he met a prisoner who was convicted of holding several homeless people in his basement, forcing them to work for him.
After almost four years under the garage, the companions dug an underground bunker, where they arranged several rooms, wired electricity, added ventilation, and made a winch that performed the role of an elevator.
On 13 January 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.
[3] Melnikova began sewing dressing gowns and shorts for Komin, which he successfully sold in markets and enterprises.
On 21 March 1995, at a shop in Uritsky Street, Komin and Mikheev met a strong but alcoholic 37-year-old Yevgeny Shishov.
However, implementing the plan was difficult because it was open[clarification needed] and the staircase was cut off from the current only when Komin was inside.
However, Komin soon realised that this time he was mistaken: Nazimova was seriously ill mentally and physically, so he and Mikheev only had use for her as a lover.
A year later, however, Komin became bored with his companion, and after leaving her without food for several days, he eventually killed her with brake fluid.
[3] Komin laid Nazimova's corpse on a sledge and rode to the city morgue, wishing to leave it at the entrance.
Neither Komin's partner nor his neighbours suspected that any unnatural activities were happening in the garage, which had no car for a long time.
In addition to the usual products of the garment factory, the enslaved people began to sew phelonions for local priests and even wove icons.
Komin also forced them to weave a huge coat of arms of Russia, which he tried to sell to the Vyatskiye Polyana administration and even the local police but was refused.
He offered her new conditions for cooperation: now she had to look for markets for the garment factory's products in exchange for an appropriate reward and bring in new prisoners.
A few days later, Talpayeva brought into the garage 22-year-old Irina Ganyushkina, whom Komin later tried to artificially fertilize (with the help of a syringe) to produce additional enslaved people for himself.
Ganyushkina agreed, but when Komin left her for a few minutes in his apartment unattended, she ran to the police on 21 July 1997.
[clarification needed] After Melnikova and Kozikova were discovered in the bunker, they were hospitalized, with both wearing a bandages around their eyes so that they would not be blinded by the sunlight, which they had not seen in two years.
[3] Mikheev was arrested soon after Komin and began to testify, confessing to four murders, the illegal deprivation of liberty of three more people, the use of enslaved labour, and criminal entrepreneurship.