After the socio-economic upheavals of the country in the late 1980s to early 1990s, he quit his job and started a business travelling to Novosibirsk to buy goods and sell them in Chelyabinsk markets at an inflated price.
As a result, he decided to engage in the so-called "auto-stoppers" method, arranging car accidents in order to obtain compensation.
[2] In 1997 he bought a broken Volga with clean documents on the cheap, and decided to hijack the same car, removing the numbers and using it as a personal vehicle.
Also, his wife's cousin Andrei Bannikov, who was registered in the apartment of Elena's mother, soon returned from prison to Chelyabinsk, but Pirovskih was not going to give up his plans.
At DK Metallurgov, Alexander tore off the board from a bench and struck several crushing blows on Bannikov's head, killing him on the spot.
After the sale of the apartment, Gerasimova and her sons from the first marriage, Aleksey and Egor, loaded the things onto a rented truck and drove to the village of Tukbayevo, Sosnovsky District.
In January 2003, the Chelyabinsk Regional Court sentenced Alexander Pirovskih to life imprisonment in a special regime penal colony.