Dvorkovich’s chess fork: income here, life there

Zumrud Rustamova and Arkady Dvorkovich

eldest son Arkady Dvorkovich left for Latvia and is looking for a job in Riga, discovered Octagon. At the same time, the military year of 2022 became a record profitable year for the Dvorkovichs in Russia – the family owned a business selling apartments in New Moscow, exported Sakhalin coal to Asia and valuable thorium sand to China. We are talking about income of about 4 billion rubles last year. “Octagon” assessed the state of affairs of the family President of the International Chess Federation (FIDE), who previously held the posts of Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation and head of the Skolkovo state fund, and also opposed the special operation in Ukraine. Anti-war statements did not save the business affiliated with Dvorkovich from US sanctions and from deoffshorization in Russia.


The fact that this is the account of Pavel Arkadievich Dvorkovich is confirmed by the details of the biography mentioned by him in this and other social networks. He had tried some time to advance in Instagram (owned by the Meta corporation, recognized as an extremist organization and banned in the Russian Federation) and on YouTube their performances with a saxophone, then in his Dvor&Co account gaming videos. Enjoys basketball with his father participated in charity games.

In 2018-2020, he studied at English educational institutions – Marlborough College and Coventry Business School. His father also has a line about Western education in his resume – Arkady Dvorkovich graduated from Duke University. Pavel was an employee of the event organization department of the alumni center of the Russian School of Economics, where his father also studied. At the end of 2021 Dvorkovich Jr. seen at a FIDE event in an unclear status. In the last place, he worked in Russia until September 2022, but mobilization was announced in the country and Pavel moved to Riga.


Thorium was not useful to the Soviet Union 60 years ago, instead of it, uranium was used in nuclear energy, and Redzemtechnologies is now selling monazite concentrate to China. The assets of Redzemtechnologies at the end of 2022 amounted to 6.5 billion rubles, revenue – 1.35 billion rubles (13-fold growth per year), net profit – 563.3 million rubles. The effective share of Rustamova in this business is 25 percent, therefore, the Dvorkoviches can claim up to 141 million rubles.

The largest asset of the Dvorkovich family is a stake in the Eastern Mining Company (VGK). This is one of the largest exporters of coal in Russia, delivers thermal coal from Sakhalin and Kolyma to Asian countries. The main assets of VGK are the Solntsevsky coal mine, the coal seaport of Shakhtersk and the North-Eastern Coal Company.

Previously, the ownership structure of VGK went entirely to foreign offshores, but since August 2022 it has become owned by the domestic offshore from Russky Island – International Company LLC Altraso Ventures, which is 45 percent owned by Tetraeconomicalliance and 55 percent by the Cypriot company Lazzio Commerce inc ltd. The latter is believed to be owned by the head of the Supreme Command Oleg Misevra.

The assets of VGK itself at the end of 2022 reached 84.8 billion rubles, revenue – 1.5 billion rubles, net profit – 21.8 billion rubles.

In total, about 2.5 billion rubles over the past year are supposed to be added to the Dvorkovichi piggy bank.

Moreover, judging by the indicators of the Solntsevsky coal mine, dividends for 2023 will be approximately 1.5 times higher.

On the business card website of Finconsult, the Dvorkovichs’ “password” flaunts – chess

Almost all of the listed portfolio assets of Tetraeconomicalliance previously belonged to foreign structures of the ICT group (ICT) and entered Tetraeconomicalliance after the start of the special operation: Zarechye in February 2023, VGK in September 2022, Finconsult — in June 2022. For one month, from March 22 to April 19, 2023, Tetraeconomicalliance owned 100 percent of ICT Capital LLC. Now “IST-Capital” through the firm “Triary” is owned by the same top managers of Nesis, Rustamova’s partners: Nikolai Dobrinov, Dmitry Bodunov, Igor Tsyplakov. At the same time, Triary is registered in St. Petersburg at the same address as Finconsult: Divenskaya Street, 3e.

Thus, for 15 years of friendship with the Nesis brothers, the Dvorkovichi turned out to be their full-fledged partners in the ICT group. This became clear thanks to the forced deoffshorization, which became a side effect, and perhaps one of the tasks of the special operation in Ukraine.

This suggests that the Dvorkovichi are and were beneficiaries in other projects of the ICT group, such as Polymetal or the sold rail carriers.

Of course, Arkady Dvorkovich is against such transparency and deoffshorization.

There is some possibility that all these years Rustamova has been representing in the IST (and Tetraeconomicalliance) not at all her husband and herself, but the aforementioned “master of Dagestan” Suleiman Kerimov, from whose work her career on the boards of directors began. Karimov prefers to do business through denominations. This option would further explain Dvorkovich’s immunity.

Despite the double game of Arkady Dvorkovich as an official, businessman and opponent of the special operation, expanding his business in Russia with his wife, on May 19, 2023, the Polymetal company close to him still fell under US sanctions. Now Polymetal plans to divide its assets into Russian and foreign ones and “move” from the island of Jersey to Kazakhstan. Dvorkovich as head of FIDE earlier too chose Kazakhstan for the April championship match and planted a tree in Astana – obviously wants to wait it out and return.

@imnotbozhena, 03/18/2022 10:56 AM: I remember how surprised I was that during the purge, Medvedev’s team did not touch Dvorkovich. Abyzov and the Magomedov brothers, who were considered inviolable, were cleaned up, but he is gone. And the wife of Zumrud Rustamov (who was a confidant of Suleiman Kerimov for a long time) was and is a member of the boards of directors from PIK to Polymetal and the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works. In PIK, she is still welcome, she works for them, including as a lobbyist, helps with the help of her friend Timakova put out another reputational fire when the underground parking in the next building of PIK floods. Dvorkovich has three sons, one of whom is studying in London. To him, the spouses are now away from sin and dump. Until they slammed it. — Inset K.ru