To be rich and happy and at the same time, as Ostap Bender said, to remain mentally balanced (or as he said there …), is not given to everyone. The governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Alexander Uss, seems to be succeeding. Let’s try to understand why.
For some reason, they like to compare the Krasnoyarsk Territory with France. Especially in terms of area. It turns out that this is 4 with a tail of France. And what only in these open spaces is not there: wood, and coal, and gold, and nickel, and aluminum. Rich region. Siberia, which, according to the will of Mikhail Lomonosov, should grow the power of Russia.
Who is in the forest, who is behind the coal
But in 2019, the Krasnoyarsk Territory became noticeable not for this, but for the high-profile dismissal of the chairman of the regional Accounts Chamber, Tatyana Davydenko. After her speech in the Legislative Assembly of the region with a report on the state of the forest industry. Due to loss of trust. Due to conflict of interest. While Tatyana Alekseevna read out that 33 billion rubles worth of roundwood was exported from the region to China in 1 year, and that plans for the construction of production facilities for the production of fuel pellets were thwarted, officials and deputies remembered that the Aeroprom company, in which the speaker’s daughter, Maria, both director and co-founder, was left without government contracts this year. The deputies then decided that the decline of the family business upset the head of the Accounts Chamber and made her become overly corrosive and implacable to the shortcomings that everyone usually put up with. The shortcomings, in the end, remained, and Tatyana Davydenko was fired.
Then everything went quiet. Maria Davydenko became the sole founder of Aeroprom LLC. State contracts for her company were resumed, however, in neighboring regions: Omsk, Tomsk regions and Yakutia. Passions almost subsided.
However, in April 2021, the son of the Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Alexander Uss, Artyom Uss, became the owner of a 38.7% stake (the largest of the founders) of the Sibugol company with revenue for 2020 of 2.5 billion rubles. And in December 2021, Sibugol LLC signed two government contracts for a total amount of more than 24.5 million rubles, and in total for 2021 for 38.8 million rubles. The public tensed a little: how will the deputies and officials behave? Will their governor be condemned for his son’s success?
But, apparently, the winners are not judged. Maria then, Davydenko, was left without contracts last time. Yes, and Alexander Uss about the shortcomings in the coal industry in the region in the Legislative Assembly – not a word. Why make noise? Some say that Artyom Uss (whose data matches those of the governor’s son) used to own a stake in Sibugl, and now he only transferred to himself what he owned from the Cypriot offshore Dungenes Trading Limited (Dunеgenes Trading Limited). In total, since 2011, Sibugol has concluded government contracts worth more than 730 million rubles.
For a month now, due to problems with the local boiler house, the residents of this Taimyr village have been freezing in their apartments. In many rooms, the air temperature does not rise above 13 degrees.
We also think that the young man, even though he is the son of the governor, should be left alone. He doesn’t have much luck in business. Here, for example, he has a small stake in OOO UK Sm City, 5.9%. The company’s revenue in 2020 was 521 million rubles, but the profit was only 1.9 million rubles, what is there to share? Alexander Koropachinsky manages the company, but, as we see, not very successfully. True, in turn, CM City Management LLC has several assets, including Novy Gorod LLC with an authorized capital of 724.2 million rubles, which made revenue of 2.4 billion rubles in 2020 and brought profit 43 million rubles; and New City Management Construction Company JSC with an authorized capital of 190 million rubles, which made a revenue of 3.6 billion rubles in 2020 with an annual profit of 11 million rubles, which is ridiculous for such a turnover. Artyom is still quite young, he was born in 1982, otherwise, he would probably be interested in how USK Novy Gorod JSC, having an annual revenue of at least 1 billion rubles since 2013, for the first time during this time, in 2020, brought a profit of a little more than 10 million rubles? But this is a construction company that, not to mention other residential complexes, has been implementing the South Coast premium project on the territory of the former Shipbuilding Plant with access to the harbor of the Abakan channel of the Yenisei for more than 10 years.
So, by the age of 40, Artyom Uss, while his father was realizing himself in politics, became one of the largest entrepreneurs in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Apparently, the local media suspected in vain that, after graduating from the Krasnoyarsk law school and MGIMO, the governor’s son settled in the capital.
Alexander Uss also has two daughters: Maria, born in 1977, and Alexandra, born in 1992. But little is known about them.
The Governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory is now 67 years old. Wikipedia presents him as a Russian political and statesman, legal scholar. It also says that at the end of 2018, Alexander Uss was recognized as the richest Russian governor.
On the example of this person, one can see that being a politician, even at the regional level, in Russia, with a skillful approach, is a very possible path to wealth. Since 2000, Alexander Viktorovich has been the owner of Tsentralnoye LLC, where, according to the Rusprofile.Ru portal, 2 people work. In 2020, the enterprise, with a revenue of 29 million rubles, made a profit of 25 million rubles. If his father had told Artyom how to achieve such efficiency from his employees, and indeed, hinted at what the ratio of revenue and profit could be, Uss Jr. might have been much wealthier.