The Mangazeya group of companies, led by Sergei Yanchukov, plans to build up a territory in Moscow. As a result of development, some neighboring buildings may be demolished.
According to the correspondent The Moscow Postthe address of the site chosen by Yanchukov for development is Leningradsky Prospekt, 80, it is located next to the Adrenaline Stadium club – one of the largest concert venues in Moscow.
“Child of Privoz”
On February 8, 2022, by order of the Moscow Architecture Committee No. 166, the boundaries for the preparation of a planning project for the territory bounded by Leningradsky Prospekt, Leningradskoye Highway, Baltiyskaya Street and the Kalininsky Overpass of the Moscow Railway were approved.
The total area of the territory for which the planning decision will be made is 56.92 hectares.
Obviously, the Mangazeya Group of Companies does not claim the entire area. However, according to the authors of the Telegram channel “Real estate insider”, allegedly this group of companies plans to build about 400 thousand square meters there. housing and commercial real estate. For which, as the authors of the telegram channel suggest, the developer, on occasion, will even be ready to demolish the concert hall.
Here you can visually assess the boundaries of the territory on which development will begin in the near future.
The founder and owner of the Mangazeya Group of Companies is businessman Sergei Yanchukov. As reported Forbes, sometime in the mid-1990s, the then 18-year-old Sergey Yanchukov began his activity at the exchange office at the Odessa “Privoz”. Allegedly, his father sent him to this area – the first deputy head of the Odessa branch of the National Bank of Ukraine Valentin Yanchukov. Sergey Yanchukov worked at Privoz for about a year, later his father attached him to Aval Bank to deal with securities. Yanchukov also dealt with analogues of Russian vouchers, converting them into shares of Odessa thermal power plants.
Married right
Yanchukov’s first major deal with Russian companies was an agreement on oil refining at the Kremenchug refinery. Yanchukov negotiated oil supplies with Russian companies. But this business “stalled” after 2004, when the “orange revolution” took place in Ukraine. In 2005 Sergey Yanchukov moved to Moscow.
In Russia, he took up oil trading and tried to develop his own oil production. But in 2007, Rostekhnadzor of the Tyumen region found out that Yanchukov’s company was violating license requirements and the Odessa citizen was threatened with a criminal case. Then, in some incomprehensible way, the troubles were hushed up.
Sergey Yanchukov
Together with partners Anatoly Ternavsky and Alexander Ryazanov, they bought the Mangazeya oil and gas company from the municipal property of the Krasnoselkupsky district of Yamal.
Approximate reserves of Mangazeya are estimated at 624 million barrels of oil equivalent. Yanchukov and his partners did not have enough funds for development, the employees of Mangazeya were not paid salaries, which is why on November 18, 2009, representatives of the prosecutors met Yanchukov at the Krasnoselkupsky airport. Forbes reports that Yanchukov spent several days in a pre-trial detention center, after which he promised to pay off wage arrears.
In 2011, Sergei Yanchukov married the daughter of the mayor of Kiev (at that time) Leonid Chernovetsky. This relationship, apparently, gave a new impetus to the career of Sergei Yanchukov. First, in 2012, his partners in Mangazeya went out of business, then in 2014 the company filed for bankruptcy. It is not known to what extent Yanchukov was helped by his father-in-law, how his connections and money were useful, but in January 2015 he managed to resolve issues with creditors, and in April of the same year, Mangazeya received permission from Gazprom to connect one of the fields to the main pipeline.
Leonid Chernovetskiy
Golden fever”
In addition, Yanchukov decided to engage in gold mining. In 2013, he already owned 70.25% of the Canadian company WTG, which, in particular, was mining at the Savkino field.
Business connected with WTG, Yanchukov started together with Maxim Finsky, but then the partners broke up. Yanchukov, in particular, considered that Finsky had deceived him regarding the scale of the reserves of the Savkino field. Yanchukov demanded 150 million dollars from Finnish. The Moscow Post wrote about this in detail. here.
On March 20, 2015, Finnish was placed under house arrest, but cut off his electronic bracelet and fled Russia, according to Forbes. Showdown between Finnish and Yanchukov went into a new circle. Finsky filed $185 million lawsuits against Yanchukov for “seizure of business using threats, blackmail and criminal prosecution.”
Maxim Finnish
Later WTG was renamed to Mangazeya Mining. Yanchukov even managed to get the state corporation Rostec as a partner. The parties organized a joint “Mogochinskaya Mining Company”, in which “Mangazeya” got 75% minus 1 share.
However, as it turned out, gold mining gave Yanchukov many more problems.
So, the Itaklinskoye deposit (more precisely, the possibility of owning it) led to a conflict with Viktor Lituev, this was also written our edition. In Itakinskaya Gold Mining Company (IZK), Lituev and Yanchukov each had 50% shares. But, as Lituev says, he transferred 50% of the IPC to Yanchukov, but he did not pay for them. According to Yanchukov, there was nothing to pay for, since Lituev changed his mind about selling the asset.
Viktor Lituev
Then almost “criminal showdowns” began. Yanchukov appealed to the investigating authorities with a statement about the kidnapping by the son of his partner, Yegor Lituyev, of property from PJSC Ksenievskiy mine. Lituev Jr. was detained in the summer of 2019 on suspicion of illegal logging and embezzlement, reported “Regnum”.
In August of the same year, Yegor Lituev managed to get out on bail. At the same time, he was found unreasonably prosecuted. Egor Lituev received an official apology on behalf of the state.
Dmitry Kochergin
To manage gold mining in the Trans-Baikal Territory, Sergey Yanchukov founded Mangazeya Zoloto LLC. Dmitry Kochergin was appointed its general director, who became a fairly close associate of Yanchukov. In 2016, Kochergin is transferred to the chair of the head of the administration of the governor of the Trans-Baikal Territory. Today Dmitry Kochergin is Vice Governor – Head of the Department of Domestic Policy Samara region. In the Samara region, Kochergin has not yet been noticed in an addiction to gold mining.
Hoping for a miracle
Sergey Yanchukov’s entry into the Moscow development market coincided with his acquaintance in 2010 with Telman Ismailov, the beneficiary of Cherkizovsky Market. But relations with Ismailov did not work out for Yanchukov. Allegedly, he persuaded Yanchukov to sponsor development projects. According to Forbes, it was about $ 100 million, which Ismailov did not return to Yanchukov for many years. The parties were drawn into lengthy lawsuits. During the bankruptcy of Telman Ismailov, as The Moscow Post reported, Sergey Yanchukov is one of the largest creditors with claims in the amount of 8.5 billion rubles.
Telman Ismailov
It is possible that it is precisely after spending money on lending to Ismailov that Sergey Yanchukov is now trying to earn at least something in the real estate market. However, apparently, Yanchukov can only hope for loans from VTB, with whose head Andrey Kostin he seems to have a good relationship.
However, if Sergei Yanchukov manages to make new enemies while trying to build up the territory around 80 Leningradsky Prospekt, then, probably, neither his father-in-law’s money, nor his connections with VTB and Rostec may not fit. Especially if, indeed, we are talking about the demolition of buildings that are very dear to their owners.
