Alexey Vikharev continues the work of Uralmash in the Yekaterinburg City Duma, crushing the garbage and utility businesses
In one of the documentaries about the gangs of the nineties, there was an episode in which it was said that the leader of the group made his fighters watch the movie “The Godfather” without fail – as a kind of program material.
Whether members of the “Uralmashevsky” OPS studied the immortal creation of Mario Puzo in this context is unknown. But according to the results of their activities, you can write more than one novel, and in terms of scale and masterpiece, it will clearly surpass the American gangster saga. Because after the turbulent nineties, which allowed the “Uralmash” to accumulate initial capital, they did the same as the subordinates of Don Corleone – went into legal business and politics.
Aleksey Andreevich Vikharev is already the second generation of the Uralmash team. The son of Andrei Vikharev, a prominent member of the OPS, who, with some stretch, can be compared with the “consigliere” of Don Corleon, he followed in the footsteps of his father, who was on the international wanted list. In the sense that he is not on the wanted list, but is mastering the economic part of that branch of the Uralmash organized crime group, which remained with Sergey Terentyev, who survived the severe struggle. It was with him that Andrey Vikharev labored on the economic side.
Aleksey Andreevich Vikharev has family ties with Terentev: he is married to Yana Tsyganova, who is a relative of Sergey Terentyev’s wife, Larisa. Yana Tsyganova (now Vikharev) is the daughter of the founder of the Uralmash OPS, Grigory Tsyganov, who fell in an unequal struggle for banknotes and authority back in the early nineties.
We will not go into history, but at the end of the 2000s, the Uralmash team realized that times had changed. And they began to go into legal business. One of the leaders of the OPS, Sergey Terentiev, has concentrated in his hands the hotel business and the housing and communal services business.
Just like in The Godfather – back in the early forties of the last century, the Italian mafia in America realized that it was necessary to “sit down” on budget money: illegal alcohol and drugs are, of course, good, but garbage must be taken out daily, and roads and repair bridges regularly. And a drug addict may not have money for a dose, but the average resident of Yekaterinburg will have money to pay for hot water or heating.
In this business, Sergei Terentiev acts through his son Grigory. With whom Aleksey Vikharev is friends.
Moreover, this friendship is not limited to neighborly relations and nostalgic memories of their fathers – they are also friends in business. Among their joint ventures are ZhK Admiralsky, Yug-Energo, Ekaterinburg Management Company, Dom Management Company and Tatishchevsky Management Company, Housing and Public Utilities Management Company of the Oktyabrsky District, Housing and Public Utilities Management Management of the Ordzhonikidzevsky District, REMP Zheleznodorozhny District, Ural-ST , UK “Verkh-Isetskaya”. As you can see from the names, all of them are involved in the communal sphere. Through Nemesis Invest LLC, Terentyev together with Vikharev own the Northern Bus Station. This is not exactly housing and communal services, but it is also a very bread place. In addition, many have already forgotten, but the bus station once belonged to the state. How it got into private hands is anyone’s guess. Especially knowing who these hands belong to.
According to the Rusprofile service, Aleksey Vikharev is worth a rather large amount of money – almost one hundred and fifty million rubles.
And this is data relating only to legal enterprises in which Aleksey Vikharev “shines” in one way or another. Because his declarations as a deputy of the Yekaterinburg City Duma make it clear that he earns and has much more.
As a deputy from United Russia, Aleksey Vikharev also heads the Yekaterinburg branch of the party. Draw your own conclusions from this fact, we do not in any way hint at the popular name of the United Russia party, which refers to crooks and thieves.
And we allude to the same plot from The Godfather, where Don Corleone bought wholesale and retail local politicians. “Dons” from “Uralmash” do not have to buy anyone – they have promoted their own in politics. We will not list everyone, since we are focused on one character, but the brother of Alexei Vikharev, Grigory, is also a deputy of the City Duma from ER. True, unlike Alexei, he, as they say, does not have enough stars from the sky, therefore he is not particularly involved in the schemes of Terentyev’s “family”.
Despite the obvious commercial failure of Grigory, they do not leave him without a piece of bread, which does honor to both Alexei Vikharev and Sergey Terentyev, who controls, among other things, the life path of the children of his longtime colleague, as a result of a regrettable failure to bribe officials, who is on the run and international search.
Returning to the business, which Sergey Terentyev has concentrated in his hands, and which is managed by his son Grigory and Andrey Vikharev’s sons Alexei and Grigory, one can imagine its scale based on statistical data. The entire housing stock of Yekaterinburg is a little over eight million square meters. And management companies have been created for all these meters. According to AiF-Ural sources, firms owned by Uralmash control at least 70% of this market.
The same source claims that the “Uralmash” also either already control or take control of the funeral and advertising businesses. In the sphere of their interests there is also small trade: kiosks and stalls, garbage disposal and territory maintenance.
“The turnover of a large company can be about 100 million rubles a month. Let’s say they take 20% as their profit. But here the point is also that, as a rule, within two months they do not pay for services to suppliers. And these 100-200 million rubles they can still scroll somewhere and only then pay the resource workers. Can you imagine how many more millions can come from these sums? In addition, they pay resource-supplying organizations after the fact, for example, the temperature of the coolant at the entrance to the house was below the norm, respectively, and the payment is less. However, residents are charged according to the standards. At the same time, there are half the city of such houses where the temperature of the same hot water is significantly underestimated,” the source quotes the publication. This, incidentally, would be useful to read to voters before the next election.
The quote above confirms our conclusion that Alexey Vikharev’s income is grossly underestimated and most of the money he receives is in the shadows. One can only guess about the exact conditions under which his profits are distributed with the Terentiev family and how much he sends for the maintenance of his father, who, for obvious reasons, cannot earn money on his own.
However, those who claim that Aleksey Vikharev is a simple “six” in the hands of Sergei Terentyev are mistaken. Yes, he became what he became, to a large extent thanks to Terentiev. And even more – to the father, who was (and maybe still is) with Terentyev Sr. in the economic bloc. But Aleksey Andreevich himself is far from being stupid and not a simple person. What proves at least the difference with his brother, Grigory – after a series of failures, he is not allowed to independent activity, keeping on the sidelines.
Aleksey Terentyev is a public figure, a two-time member of the City Duma, a respected businessman and philanthropist. And – the head of the regional branch of the Russian Ecological Society in the Sverdlovsk region.
That gives him the opportunity to redirect the flow of municipal money in the right direction. One of them is the garbage business. In Russia, as you know, there is a reform of the treatment of municipal solid waste. And Vikharev closes this process in Yekaterinburg on himself, that is, on the branch of Uralmash, which went to Sergey Terentyev, in which he himself actively participates. They have everything for this: the necessary equipment, and landfills, and, most importantly, a lobby in the City Council. Aleksey Vikharev is not in vain leading the party in the region. In addition, one should not think that Uralmash limited itself to United Russia only – it will have bayonets in the Liberal Democratic Party, and in A Just Russia, and in hzikhidtidekrt Communist Party.
How events will develop further – will show in the near future. Fortunately, elections are not far off. But something tells us that Aleksey Andreevich Vikharev, despite his clearly criminal past and present, will not only not get lost in this imitation of the struggle, but will also take a step towards new successes.