General: Olga Romanova

The Romanov's are back in town, and this time it's Olga that's representin'. She's holed up in the huge quarry on the northeastern corner of the island. It's big, it's bad, and it's surrounded by rock. Olga will be very tough to get to.

Now, this rock wall is apparently supposed to be impregnable and unjumpoverable, at least until you get level four agility, but careful scouting will reveal a single spot that can act as a springboard for avoiding most of the travails here at a level three Agility rating. If you head to the northwest of the quarry towards what was formerly Gryzunova's training facility. If you scale the rocks to the east of the facility, there is the barest slope on one of the walls that will let you land and jump again before you slide off; from there you can grab a handhold onto the rock above and jump over. It's difficult to describe, so take our screenshot as an example.

Video Walk-through

Level 3 Agility will get you in the backdoor for Olga, but you'll still have a hard time taking her out.
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If you can't jump onto the rocks, then you'll probably have to opt for a frontal assault through the gates to the south of the quarry. You can do this anyway you like, but it's easiest to head through the first gates, then head south near the guard towers and jump onto the rocks there. That'll give you a bit of a perch from which to shoot out the guards in the nearby facilities before heading down to the quarry itself.

If you managed to jump onto the rocks, then it's a simple matter of following them around to the northeast and dropping down to the dirt path when you reach Olga's location; if you went in the hard way, you'll have to fight your way up the dirt path to it's end, which is going to require cleaning out a lot of enemies. In either case, Olga is in a small cave filled with explosives. When you find her, firing rockets into the cave will detonate the explosives and kill most of her bodyguards. Finish her off and escape through the rear of the cave.

Olga's death will remove some of the explosive weaponry from the hands of the kingpin's minions, making your journey to him a bit less complicated.

Kingpin: Vladmir Golyak

Vladmir is located in the southeastern corner of the southern island, on some kind of offshore oil derrick-ish structure. He's going to be hella hard to get to, in technical terminology. You can see the obvious route, which entails following the pipes that lead offshore to the derrick. Since you're going to be falling off it a few times anyway, though, you might as well get used to the alternate entrance and swim to the base of the tallest building in the area. There's a large opening that you'll be using to scale the derrick each time you fall off. You'll have to hop around quite a bit to get up to the fourth level or so of walkway and reach the opening leading to the walkways on the outside of the structure, which will lead you upwards.

Jump up from a bit towards the end of this walkway, nail Golyak with a rocket, then jump up and take him out.

There's a huge number of soldiers atop the derrick, so come prepared with as much ammo for your HMG as possible. Few of the soldiers will drop HMGs themselves, so you'll have to be ready if you run out of ammo and pick up a normal machinegun; they'll do a bunch less damage, so use your grenades or kicking skills as need be. If worst comes to worst, and you're on the brink of death, jump off the oil derrick to the water below to regenerate your health. You'll have to reclimb the structure, but you'll have to do so anyway if you die.

Golyak is situated at the very, very top of the derrick, on a small platform with some bodyguards. When you reach the point from which you can jump to reach the platform, walk down the walkway a bit to give yourself a bit of room to work with, then leap up and fire a rocket at the mass of humanity atop the platform. That'll clear out most of the bodyguards, and will set Golyak alight, allowing you to jump to the platform and take him out. It can be fun to kick him off the platform for the kill.

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