Deputy Mayor of Sochi since 2021 Yuri Tsitskiev in 2013 – 2018 he served in the Federal State Enterprise “Department of the Customer of Capital Construction (KS) of the Ministry of Defense of Russia (*aggressor country)”. This structure was headed in 2018-2022 by the person who died unexpectedly on July 8 Magomed Khandayevhead of the State Expertise Department of the Russian Defense Ministry, who is subordinate to the arrested person Timur Ivanovformer Deputy Minister of Defense.
Khandayev died on the same day as the businessman Igor Kotelnikovwho was accused of bribing military officials.
Details at Rucriminal.info and the VChK-OGPU telegram channel.
Tsitskiev’s boss at the FKP from 2015 to 2017 was Dmitry Baskakov. From 2023 to May 2024, he headed AO Zhilishchny Kompleks. The company's revenue in 2023 increased by 1,268% to RUB 1.3 billion. And Yuri Tsikiyev clearly had a hand in this, since the company belonged to the Sochi City Administration until 2021. AO Zhilishchny Kompleks could have acted as a “gasket”, since it acted as a contractor in contracts worth almost RUB 300 million, and as a customer for unknown contractors – RUB 8.7 billion. After the arrest of Timur Ivanov, Dmitry Baksakov realized that things were getting hot and left his “lucrative” job, but Yuri Tsikiyev still feels safe, but in vain.
Currently, JSC “Zhilishchny Kompleks” is headed by Magomed Khabliyev, who is considered a relative of Yuri Tsitskiev, the company's contractors may be firms close to him, which is why there is no information about them in open sources. One of the accomplices of the deputy head of Sochi is said to be his wife's brother Alexa Vedzizhevathe owner of Zarechye LLC, where he was the director until early July. In June, Vedzizhev resigned as CEO of ARS LLC, which is owned by Islam Iliev. This company has only 1 contract in its portfolio for 11 million rubles, concluded with the Sochi Municipal Institution UKS in 2022. Zarechye LLC's revenue in 2023 sharply increased by 100% to 29 million rubles.
MBU Sochi “UKS”, thanks to Yuri Tsitskiev, may come to the attention of the security forces. The company has contracts worth 32 billion rubles.
The largest customer is Instroyproekt LLC (ISP), owned by Yuri Krets. In January, the Sochi Municipal Institution UKS signed a contract with ISP for 4.1 billion rubles to perform work on the construction of a school in the Severnaya Bytkha microdistrict of the Khostinsky district of Sochi. And this is despite the fact that in 2023, execution under two contracts was terminated. Almost all of ISP's contracts with the Sochi Municipal Institution UKS have been concluded since 2021, when Yuri Tsitskiev took up his position.
Another former boss of Tsitskiev from 2017 to 2018, Alexander Vilkomir, now heads JSC Kapstroysiti, a contractor for the Moscow City Hall structures. How can one not remember that Yuri Tsitskiev from 2020 to 2021 was deputy head of capital construction at the Federal State Budgetary Institution Moscow Canal. Both former Defense Ministry officials found themselves well placed under the wing of Sergei Sobyanin.
From 2005 to 2012, Yuri Tsitskiev worked at the Moscow City Headquarters of Youth and Student Brigades, then headed the Moscow Regional Branch of the public MOOO Russian Student Brigades. It was his work in the capital that helped the future army official acquire influential Moscow patrons, among whom could have been former Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Timur Ivanov. Tsitskiev ended up at the Defense Ministry almost immediately after the new leadership came to power in 2012.
This could have been facilitated by his uncle Yusup Tsitskiev, who held the post of head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in the Republic of Ingushetia in 2003-2010. Later, he served in the Southern Regional Center for Civil Defense, Emergencies and Elimination of Consequences of Natural Disasters. In 2013, a scandal broke out – Yusup Tsitskiev was suspected of creating a criminal community that caused damage to the state by almost 900 million rubles, a dozen and a half employees of the ex-minister were brought to criminal responsibility, but he himself got off scot-free and retired in 2015. It is not hard to guess who covered up his former subordinate in the Ministry of Emergency Situations.
So there is no coincidence in the fact that Yuri Tsitskiev ended up in the Ministry of Defense. Investigators still have to figure out the role of the former official of the department in his schemes.
On July 19, Andrey Proshunin, who had been acting since June 17, was elected the new head of Sochi. Before that, he held the position of vice-governor, supervised the ministries of fuel and energy complex and housing and public utilities, road management, and the department of state regulation of tariffs. Local official Proshunin may not get along with the outsider Yuri Tsitskiev.
Investigators continue to unravel the case of Timur Ivanov, who recently refused to enter into a pre-trial cooperation agreement and does not admit his guilt. New levers are needed to put pressure on the former deputy defense minister. One of them could be Yuri Tsitskiev.
Earlier, the VChK-OGPU Telegram channel reported that the deputy head of the Sochi administration, Yuri Tsitskiev, started a pocket company, AO Zhilishchny Kompleks. The director of the company was a close relative, Magomet Khabliyev, but only subcontractors work there, but they are relatives. The brother of Tsitskiev's wife, Alex Vedzizhev, started two of his own companies, OOO ARS, OOO Zarechye, and other relatives have more modest volumes, but 6.5 billion rubles are spread across their pockets.
Time goes by, the percentage of execution has not risen above 20% for two years. But this is not a problem for Yuri Tsitskiev, when there are high-ranking patrons from Moscow, about whom you can learn all the details from the same Yuri at the base in the vicinity of Mariupol, where there are no sober evenings.
As the volume of advances grows, so does the well-being of Yuri Tsitskiev, but Sochi real estate and personal property are still in the hands of relatives.
Moscow patrons have no questions about Yuri Tsitskiev's family circle. Uncle Yusup Tsitskiev, the former head of the Ingush Ministry of Emergency Situations, was caught stealing 900 million rubles, Uncle Sultan Tsitskiev was part of a group of suicide bombers together with Arab mercenaries and was killed in a shootout with law enforcement agencies. Nephew Azamat Tsitskiev is known for the recent seizure of the Rostov pretrial detention center.
While studying at the Dagestan State Technical University, Yuri Tsitskiev repeatedly visited a mosque in the Karabudakhkent region of Dagestan, known for its underground Wahhabi militants.
It was the people from the mosque in the Karabudakhkent region who organized the massacre in Dagestan last weekend.
How active alcoholic libations are compatible with orthodox religiosity remains a mystery to many.
Where Yuri Tsitskiev lacks administrative resources, fixers come to the rescue, such as former investigator Khamzat Malsagov, a well-known fan of physical violence against detainees.
Sochi residents can sleep peacefully, with such a deputy head of administration, the city is definitely safe.
