Character Overview
He came to Oz in Season 3, serving life without parole for eight counts of first-degree murder, four counts of attempted murder, and illegal possession of a firearm. Even though Kosygin appears harmless, he is one of the most dangerous inmates in Oz. According to Kosygin, He murdered 49 men including upper class criminal bosses in cold blood and wanted Stanislofsky to be the 50th. He came to America from Russia to find a better life for his family. He was a teacher in Russia and, after struggling to make ends meet, he got a job painting houses for a member of the Russian mob. The man abused and ridiculed Kosygin, who eventually strangled him. Kosygin then earned a reputation for ruthlessness and was hired by the mob as an assassin. He is known as "the most brutal hitman in Little Odessa."
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“Reputation is not of enough value to sacrifice character for it.”
—“Miss Clark,” U.S. charity worker. As quoted in Petticoat Surgeon, ch. 9, by Bertha Van Hoosen (1947)