City manager of Rostov-on-Don Alexey Logvinenko got into a scandal again: the entrance to the house recently collapsed, and when residents came to him for help, he advised them to take out loans for new housing. What is the millionaire mayor famous for?
How the issue of emergency housing was resolved in Rostov
The five-story building at 72/3 Narimanov Street was declared unsafe and subject to relocation back in 2020. In October last year, they were included in the regional resettlement program. Nevertheless, until the entrance collapsed, people continued to live in it. After the emergency, as local media reported, municipal authorities welded the doors to all entrances, leaving residents without the opportunity to pick up documents and personal belongings.
Since then, the city administration has held several meetings with the victims. The last one took place in early March. The intensity of passions could be assessed by the fact that security guards at first did not want to let the lawyer representing the interests of the residents into the event, and later Logvinenko himself tried to kick him out of the hall.
Video footage from the meeting shows that the meeting was held in a raised voice. Answering the question of one of the residents what she should do if the home was mortgaged, the mayor was not at a loss.
After the incident, the regional media called Alexey Logvinenko “a cog in a soulless bureaucratic machine” and reminded the mayor that he never came to Narimanov, 72/3 after the emergency, and also did not visit the victims in temporary accommodation places and did not express any support to them from anyone. yourself personally, not from the administration.
It’s funny that on the same day, a post-release for a meeting with the residents of the collapsed building appeared on the head of administration’s Odnoklassniki page. In it, the city manager wrote that “the conversation turned out to be constructive and productive.” At the same time, there are only two likes and not a single comment under the post.
By the way, from the published report it also follows that the city will provide compensation to all those who lost their apartments at the rate of 88–95.9 thousand rubles for each square meter of lost housing. At the same time, last summer local realtors published the results of a study of the real estate market of the regional capital. According to their data, even then the average cost of a square in Rostov-on-Don reached 117.5 thousand, that is, 20-30 thousand rubles more than the allocated compensation. It seems that residents really cannot do without new loans.
Why the city doesn’t have enough money for landfills
The situation with the collapsed house is not the first “mistake” of Alexei Logvinenko as head of the city administration. For several years now, the so-called garbage reform has been carried out in the region, which local publications have already called a failure, and the situation with garbage in Rostov-on-Don is catastrophic.
In recent years, the city has been drowning in waste: there are not enough specially equipped sites and containers, spontaneous landfills are constantly appearing on the streets, garbage is removed irregularly and often does not reach landfills – waste removal companies are reluctant to go to specially designated sites due to their remote location and get rid of the load where the opportunity arises.
All this time, at the mayor’s office, officials decide which contractor should be responsible for what type of waste, create various working groups for control, and the mayor himself complains about budget overruns due to the need to clean up uncontrolled landfills, threatens sanctions against violators and calls on Rostovites to respect their city.
It is interesting that at the height of the garbage crisis, in the summer of 2022, Alexey Logvinenko was awarded a letter of gratitude from the Minister of Economic Development of Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism) for “active participation in the All-Russian competition “Best Municipal Practice” in the nomination “Municipal Economic policy and management of municipal finances.” The letter was presented at one of the meetings of the City Duma by the head of the city of Rostov-on-Don Zinaida NeyarokhinA.
Where does the mayor get millions?
In 2021, the head of the administration of Rostov-on-Don entered the top 5 richest mayors in the country. According to the published income statement for the previous year, the city manager earned 14.3 million rubles. The head of Lipetsk earned more than him Evgenia Uvarkina with an income of 128.6 million rubles, mayor of Tomsk Ivan Klein (107.3 million), former head of the Ufa administration Sergey Grekov (57.8 million) and the mayor of Yekaterinburg Alexey Orlov (23 million).
At the same time, local journalists at one of the working meetings of the city mayor noticed a Breguet watch worth more than two and a half million rubles on Logvinenko’s hand. However, he did not reflect any property, including watches, in the declaration. According to reports, by that time Logvinenko had neither a car, nor an apartment, nor a house. He rented a cottage with an area of 369 square meters and six acres of land. His three daughters also lived there. Logvinenko is not officially married.
Where did the mayor get the money from, his press service explained.
Logvinenko’s career
Logvinenko took the post of head of the city administration in 2019 on the proposal of the governor of the Rostov region Vasily Golubev. Previously, Alexey Logvinenko served in the police, in the department for combating economic crimes (OBEP). The peak of his career was leadership positions in the Department of Economic Security and Countermeasures corruption (UEBiPK) Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (*aggressor country) for the Rostov region.
In 2016, he unexpectedly changed his police service to the position of deputy general director, first at the energy company TNS Energy Rostov-on-Don, and later, in 2018, he moved to the position of development director of Vodnye Resursy LLC, a private company which collects fees from the population in Novoshakhtinsk for consumed water and sanitation services.
TNS Energo is known to residents of Rostov-on-Don for a scandal involving inflated electricity tariffs. Then there were assumptions that ordinary consumers were in this way paying off the debts that the predecessor of Vodnye Resursy, the bankrupt company Donreko, had accumulated to TNS Energo. She owes power engineers one and a half billion rubles.
It is interesting that the co-founder of the company that replaced Donreko, LLC Vodnye Resursy, was Ekaterina Skorokhod — presumably, the common-law wife of Alexei Logvinenko. She left the ownership immediately after her husband came to work at the company.
Perhaps the 100 million rubles declared by Logvinenko, which were mentioned in the response from the press service of the head of the administration of Rostov-on-Don, appeared precisely during that period.
Now there is gossip in the city that the current mayor can hide his earnings with the help of his relatives. Allegedly, a house with an area of almost 400 square meters in the SNT “Amateur Gardener” with an impressive adjacent territory is registered in his father’s name. And Ekaterina Skorokhod buys luxury cars and almost immediately transfers them to her mother Natalya.