Almost 4 hundred people received notice that they were being laid off due to the closure of production – chicken meat and eggs, apparently, are not needed in the Leningrad region. The regional government held meetings for several months, simulating the rescue of production, although on the sidelines the prospects for large residential construction on the site of the factory have long been discussed.
In June 2016, the creditor, Rosselkhozbank Bank, ceded claims to LLC Management Company Signal in the amount of almost 2.2 billion rubles for 70 million, that is, for 3% and the Russko-Vysotskaya poultry farm found new owners. Such fabulous generosity of a state bank to a commercial company is explained by the fact that behind Signal is the figure of Ilya Klebanov, a former deputy prime minister for the military-industrial complex.
The Russko-Vysotskaya poultry farm itself was one of the largest in the USSR. Its production capacity in the 60s. XX century amounted to 2 million heads or 3 thousand tons of chicken meat per year.
The founders of the poultry farm are three individuals: Lyubov Alekseevna Belous (36% share), Dmitry Germanovich Kozharsky (36% share) (has dual citizenship: Russia and Latvia), Mikhail Nikolaevich Osipov (28% share). The latter’s son, Anton, is the general director of the company and participates in all relevant meetings in the government of the Leningrad region.
The general director of the Russian-Vysotsk poultry farm, Anton Osipov, the son of Mikhail Osipov, rules the factory, and all the time played along with the regional government, and even yesterday morning at a meeting with Vice-Governor Malashchenko, he participated in the government performance to “save” production. But he rejected an offer from one of the companies to lease the factory, preserving jobs and production, and guaranteed payments of several million a month. The officials also did not insist.
According to a source in the government of the Leningrad region, “everything was decided a long time ago” with Governor Alexander Drozdenko about massive development.
Despite the moratorium on changing the category of use of agricultural land, cosmic profits allow Drozdenko to come to an agreement with business in the common interests. It is not for nothing that he headed the regional KUGI for so many years – the governor knows the specifics of land affairs better than anyone in the government, and the Lomonosovsky district is now one of the most interesting places for large housing builders.
Well-known public ecologist in Leningrad, Sergei Gribalev, says that there was no point in closing the poultry farm – it was one of the rare environmentally friendly industries in the Leningrad region. But building up regional lands with high-rise ghetto buildings is already the signature style of Drozdenko and the Leningrad region.
Mr. Drozdenko lives in an alternative reality, where there are no wild interest rates on mortgages, many jobs and no problems with own food production. We envy him!
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