Four years ago, a federal-scale emergency occurred in Norilsk. Due to an accident at the local Thermal Power Plant No. 3, thousands of tons of diesel fuel spilled into the Arctic, which became the largest environmental disaster in the history of the Arctic.
Nikolay Patrushevwho at the time held the post of head of the Security Council, then declared that “climate change” and those “who seek to discredit Russia (*country sponsor of terrorism)’s policy in the Arctic” were to blame for everything, without mentioning the owner of the damaged thermal power plant, the billionaire Norilsk Nickel company Vladimir Potanin. As it turned out, Patrushev could have had very personal (even family) reasons for such loyalty to the culprit of the disaster. The security official’s matchmaker works for Potanin.
Mother and child
Nikolai Patrushev’s family is not indifferent to the Arctic. Five years ago, his youngest son Andrey Patrushevalso a former FSB officer, even founded and headed the ANO “Arctic Initiatives Center”. Until the beginning of this year, Patrushev Jr. supervised within its framework “consulting on issues of conducting commercial activities in the Arctic, monitoring environmental pollution, and scientific research and development in the field of developing the Russian North.” Due to his interests, he also closely communicated with representatives of Norilsk Nickel. But this, in fact, is not a secret.
But nothing was known about Andrei Patrushev’s personal life until this publication. Nevertheless, Sobesednik found out the identity of the Arctic defender’s wife. She turned out to be 41-year-old Tatiana Patrusheva. For some time, Tatyana, her husband and children lived in the capital’s residential complex “Vorobyovy Gory” (under the same roof as the family of Dmitry Patrushev, Andrey’s older brother). Today, Rosreestr has classified information not only about the owner, but also about the 218-meter apartment itself. And the family from “Vorobyovy Gory” moved to a new family nest – Serebryany Bor, where the wives of Dmitry and Nikolay Patrushev already have mansions.
Tatyana Patrusheva left Serebryany Bor “into the world” only last year. In the summer of 2023, the governor of the Moscow region Andrey Vorobyov (has no relation to the Vorobyovy Gory residential complex) concluded a cooperation agreement with her for the purpose of “developing modern technologies in the diagnosis and treatment of oncological diseases using nuclear medicine methods.” In the document, Tatyana Patrusheva is named the development director of Haven LLC, which is part of the Mother and Child Group of Companies, which is close to Vladimir Putin (*criminal)’s family.
At the same time, Tatyana Patrusheva (née Razumilova) is not only the mother of her husband’s children, but also the daughter of her parents. Her mother Natalya Vasilievna was also connected with the healthcare sector: she founded the National Institute of Innovative Health-Developing Technologies. This non-governmental research institute specializes in the so-called “microscopic examination of native blood” (a method of studying analyses that many qualified doctors compare to quackery). At the same time, the prices there are 7,500-10,000 rubles for an “examination”.
But the career of Sergei Razumilov, the father of Nikolai Patrushev’s daughter-in-law, is even more interesting.
He is his matchmaker
Until 2019, when Andrey Patrushev created Arctic Initiatives, his father-in-law was one of the five founders of the garage and construction cooperative Guryanova 77 (his own registration address and the location of the GSK). He has been its head since 2010, when the GSK was founded. The cooperative is small – just an open-air parking lot with a barrier for several dozen cars in the not-so-prestigious Pechatniki district of the capital. The further career rise of Nikolay Patrushev’s father-in-law is all the more surprising.
Five years ago, the manager of the courtyard parking lot received the position of CEO of the company “SG M”, which belongs to JSC “Norilsk Mining and Metallurgical Plant named after A.P. Zavenyagin” (that is, to billionaire Vladimir Potanin).
As stated on the recruitment website,
The five-story business center in Staropetrovsky Proezd actually belongs to SGM today. Its area is more than 5 thousand square meters. Part of it is occupied by Norilsk Nickel structures, but part is leased. The company is also the founder of two subsidiaries – the transport company Nortrans-Norilsk (engaged in route transportation) and the investment company Interpromleasing (invested in shared construction – for example, in the construction of the residential complex Rus in Anapa). Plus, it also ensures the operation of Potanin’s head office in the City.
When, a year after Sergei Razumilov was appointed head of SGM, an environmental disaster occurred in Norilsk, his father-in-law Nikolai Patrushev did not particularly criticize his relative’s employer. Sobesednik sent a request to Norilsk Nickel asking for an explanation of Patrushev’s peacefulness (and the appointment of Razumilov to a management position in general). Norilsk Nickel considered it best to remain silent.
Money for the roof
Norilsk Nickel did not answer another similar question.
As Sobesednik found out, Nikolai Patrushev’s second daughter-in-law, the common-law wife of his eldest son Dmitry, was also connected with Potanin’s company, albeit not directly. Marina ArtemyevaFor a long time she was the CEO of a fashion TV channel.
Here is what Sobesednik wrote about this three years ago:
The question arises, what does Potanin have to do with this? The answer lies in the ignored request of Sobesednik to the billionaire’s company, located in Moscow City:
It is indeed strange: Norilsk Nickel pays the employer (albeit former) of one of Patrushev’s daughters-in-law money for protection (literally), and offers the father of another a highly paid job… But such coincidences do not mean that the Arctic can be flooded with oil products with impunity.