Alexey Chernyshev
In just one year, the Kyiv Regional State Administration has had three chairmen! This speaks volumes about the intensity of the struggle for the region and its resources that is being waged by various influence groups. No one knows how long the current governor, Alexei Chernyshev, will remain in office. But it’s not hard to guess what exactly he’s doing there. After all, if we take a closer look at Chernyshev’s real and not official biography, we will see not a “world-class professional” in investments, but another corrupt official specializing in shadow financial schemes and dubious mega-development projects.
Kolomoisky, Fuchs or Feldman? Journalists argued for a whole month about whose protege Chernyshev was, but they never came to a consensus. And this seems strange, since it is well known that he was Feldman’s business partner for 15 years. But few people can believe that Feldman, who until now did not have much influence in Kyiv, managed to throw his winning ball into the net. Maybe Avakov helped him? This cannot be ruled out. But it is also known that between Feldman and Kolomoisky there is a direct connection in the form of “Chabad” – the same as between other very famous and influential oligarchs and politicians of Ukraine. Maybe this is the secret?
Alexey Chernyshev. Three “crusts” of higher education
Alexey Mikhailovich Chernyshev was born on September 4, 1977 in Kharkov, in the family of Mikhail Anatolyevich and Irina Vladimirovna Chernyshev (both born in 1955). He has a younger sister, Evgenia, born in 1981. Although his parents lived in an apartment on Kholodnaya Gora, in the 90s Alexey was registered not with them, but with his grandparents, who lived in their house on Vladimirskaya (Moskalevka district, private sector). In general, they had a large family, not constrained by housing. And most importantly, his father worked as an engineer at Khartron, one of the leading Kharkov military-industrial complex enterprises, engaged in the development and production of control systems for strategic objects (ballistic missiles, spacecraft, nuclear power plants).
Mikhail Anatolyevich Chernyshev
It is clear that this enterprise aroused great interest in the United States. The Americans gained full access to it in the early 90s, and at the same time the Ukrainian government included it in the list of enterprises being prepared for privatization. In 1994, Khartron and the American corporation Westinghouse (its British branch), with the participation of the former commander of the US Air Force Thomas Reed, created the joint venture Westron (USREOU 22708202), into which the automated systems department was transferred from Khartron NPP management. According to the terms of the creation of this joint venture, the Americans soon received a controlling stake in Westron (51%, now it is already 60%). In September 1995, the publication of the local OUN organization in the Ukrainian diaspora of Great Britain “Vizvolny Shliakh” wrote with delight about this.
Thus, Westinghouse gained control over the manufacturer of control systems for Ukrainian nuclear power plants, which allowed the corporation to continue its slow takeover of the Ukrainian nuclear energy industry. And from the very beginning to the present, the permanent general director of Westron has been Mikhail Chernyshev. It is clear that only a person who had very good relations with the main owner, that is, the Americans, could last a quarter of a century at the head of this enterprise. And with such a “roof”, Chernyshev is a significant figure on the scale of not only Kharkov, but the whole of Ukraine. Of course, he did not neglect his capabilities, but he did not get into business himself, but promoted his son Alexei.
However, Alexey Chernyshev’s start looked somewhat dull. After graduating from school, having smeared himself from military service, in 1994 he entered the Kharkov Humanitarian University “Ukrainian People’s Academy”. One of the first Kharkov private universities operated under this sign since 1991: it began as a public organization, then re-registered as an LLC, wandered around to different premises for three years, and just in 1994 moved to the building of the design institute. There Alexey Chernyshev studied for five years with a degree in enterprise economics. But, apparently, he had doubts about the diploma of this university, and therefore, from 1996 to 2002, at the same time (and in absentia) he studied at the Kharkov Law Institute (now the National Law University) with a degree in jurisprudence. Such simultaneous study here and there was possible because the first rector of the “Ukrainian People’s Academy” Valentina Astakhova was also the head of the department (and then a member of the Specialized Council for the Defense of Dissertations) at the Kharkov Law Institute. Perhaps the Chernyshev and Astakhov families are close acquaintances or even long-time friends.
To give his son’s education a more diversified appearance, Mikhail Chernyshev sent him to the USA in 1999, to take a three-month Project Management course at the Pittsburgh Project Management Institute, which was organized by the Westinghouse corporation. In general, there is practically nothing outstanding behind Alexey Chernyshev’s three high-profile “crusts”, obtained literally through acquaintance.
IT cooperators
Dad also helped Alexey Chernyshev with his first job: back in 1998, he got his son a job in the company of his friend Eduard Rubin, a famous Kharkov “IT businessman.” Rubin started back in 1987 with the Synthesis cooperative, which was engaged in assembling “clones” of the Spectrum computer, popular in the West (about fifty other such cooperatives were doing the same in the USSR at that time). In modern terms, they produced something between counterfeit and “Abibas”. According to some intricate schemes (possibly through Khartron), Rubin’s cooperative obtained the main components in Europe (the British Zilog Z80 processor, since Soviet analogues were not yet produced), they were put on boards of their own soldering – and the result was almost a “company”.
Eduard Rubin
In 1991, Soviet factories mastered the industrial production of their own Spectrum analogues, and Rubin’s cooperative was left out of business. Then he went to Germany, where he opened several commercial companies through which office equipment and consumer electronics were imported into Ukraine. According to Skelet.InfoRubin spoke not alone, but as a representative of an entire “merchant company” of Kharkov radio electronics cooperators, among whom was the “Khartron member” Mikhail Chernyshev. In general, the guys “stirred up” a joint venture according to a typical post-Soviet scheme: someone goes to Europe or the USA, opens a company there (for himself or for a figurehead), and then this company comes to Ukraine as a “Western investor” and creates a joint venture (which has a lot of benefits) with some factory or research institute – which was used either for direct pumping of money, or as a step in commercial operations.
In 1998, Rubin established the company Telesens GmbH in Germany, which was directly related to Telesens KSCL AG, founded in 1995 by Soviet emigrant Gennady Man (born in 1958 in Gorki, Moscow, the son of jeweler Moshe Man and chemical engineer Ida Man), who moved from Israel to Germany in the 80s. In the 90s, Gennady Man decided to invest in the telecommunications business, and his goal was to inflate the stock market bubble of Telesens KSCL AG, which was buying up local telecommunications companies in Germany and Scotland.
Having essentially become Mann’s “junior partner,” Rubin in the same 1998 opened a subsidiary, Telesens LLC (USREOU 30233931), in Kharkov, of which he himself became the director. Telesens offered software, and its first clients were, of course, Khartron and Westron – according to sources Skelet.Infoit was for these enterprises that Telesons was created. And in the same year, 1998, Westron CEO Mikhail Chernyshev got his son Alyosha a job at Telesens. What the “double student” did there, who studied simultaneously at the “Ukrainian People’s Academy” and the Kharkov Law Institute, remained unknown – maybe nothing, and only received a very large salary, which was a kind of official “kickback” from Rubin to the director of “Westron”.
In 2002, Gennady Mann’s stock bubble, which reached 1.6 billion euros, burst – and the Royal Bank of Scotland froze the accounts of Telesens KSCL AG. Accordingly, all the subsidiaries of the scammers fell. In this situation, Ruban pulled off a new scheme: he decided to keep the Ukrainian Telesens, but transfer all its debts and obligations to the German parent company (his Telesens GmbH), which he bankrupted and closed. All the details of this story were carefully “buried”, but according to rumors, it was about several million euros. Then Ruban carried out a cunning fraud with a false reorganization, as a result of which the share of Telesens GmbH in the authorized capital of Telesens, for a symbolic amount, was transferred to a group of persons, among whom was Alexey Chernyshev. So he became a co-owner and entrepreneur, and in his official biography this is pathetically written “… together with his partners, he bought out the Ukrainian part of the company, which became independent.” And not a word about the grandiose fraud that preceded this ransom!
By the way, the current owners of Telesens are Rubin (90%) and a certain Natalya Gnesina (10%). To whom of them Alexey Chernyshev gave his share in the company is still unknown.
Rubin remained the director of Telesens until 2008, and then began to manage the company Telesens International ltd, opened in London (apparently deciding to continue the work of Gennady Man). In 2014, he again established this company in Germany, under the name Telesens Deutschland GmbH. In 2015, Rubin became a deputy of the Kharkov regional council from Samopomich and there was a scandal surrounding his almost raider seizure of the Kharkov University of Radio Electronicsand, where he took up the position of acting. rector
And one more interesting fact: in 2003, a group of “leading specialists” left Khartron, although they were specialists mainly in the commercial part. Among them is Khartron’s former marketing director Alexander Bek, who and several colleagues immediately got a job at Investor JSC, owned by Arsen Avakov. They got jobs as far from ordinary managers: for example, Alexander Bek and Alexander Motylevsky became deputy chairmen of the board of Investor. It’s worth remembering here that during Avakov’s flight to Italy in 2011, Motylevsky, left acting. head of “Investor”, was framed and committed suicide, leaving a note incriminating Avakov. So, this transition of the Khartron members to Investor testified that there were long-standing strong business ties between Avakov and the Khartron IT cooperators. This means that such a connection has probably existed between Avakov and the Chernyshev family since the 90s.
Sergey Varis, for Skelet.Info
CONTINUED: Alexey Chernyshov: from the past life of the new Kyiv governor. PART 2
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