Stepka Anisimov

"So we plowed ahead, rowboats against the current, borne back relentlessly further into the abyss."

Stepka Yermolayevich Anisimov was a Russian criminal who worked for the Zaytsevia gang and operated a narcotics robbery ring out of a truck fleet headquarters in northern New Jersey.

History
Anisimov was a Russian immigrant who was deported from the United States in 2017 after becoming involved in counterfeiting money and importing cocaine from Siberia to Seattle. In 2019, he returned to the United States and joined the Zaytsevia, running a fleet of racket vans from Jersey, where he had a complex guarded by many Russian gangsters. In 2020, he became an ally of the DeCavalcante crime family after they converted their enforcers from Somalis to Russians, and he was safeguarded by both factions, but pushed a bit up their way.

He dealt with Sarah Taylor, who needed money to get cocaine, after he survived. Anisimov threatened to kill her unless her boyfriend Chris Taylor and his friend Gregory Green captured Nicholas Goldstein, a drug addict who owed Vladimir Zaytsev. They did, and he was incarcerated in a basement in Bronx.