The purchase of buses by Yekaterinburg led to the possible corporate conflict of the head of Rostec, Sergei Chemezov and the mayor of Moscow Sobyanin. The Ural billions claim to the Urals, the producers of passenger transport “Volgabas and Nephas” associated with them.
Yekaterinburg again became the struggle of two leading manufacturers of city buses – Nephaz and Volgabas companies. Each of the structures has powerful lobbyists, with the help of which it beats for the new billionth contract of the main city of the Urals.
Chemezovsky “Nephas”
Nefaz is deciphered as the Neftekamsk Automobile Plant, which is located in Bashkiria and is part of the KAMAZ enterprise group. The organizational form of PJSC Nephas does not say anything – the company is under the full control of the head of KamAZ Alexei Korogin and through them – Rostec and its leader Sergei Chemezov.
Except Kogogin and Chemezov, as the correspondent notes The Moscow Postthere is the interest of the Bashkir Prime Minister Andrei Nazarov, who constantly provides support for Nefaz and is in business relations with his leadership. Given the hard grip of politics and his business interests, it seems that this is not just like that.
Andrey Nazarov. Photo: https://vk.com/wall-23538975_1372018
Karaugin has been heading KamAZ since 2002 and during this time has turned into a very rich person. In fact, in a dollar billionaire. For example, when the Daimler concern (Mercedes and so on), the remaining after the Germans could go from the capital of KamAZ CAMAZ 15% of the shares. However, even without this, Kogogin owned 30% of KamAZ shares.
Despite the imported Rhetoric of Chemezov, Nephas products are ordinary and depends on foreign components. Only after their bridges and gearboxes in these buses from Bashkiria are not German, but Chinese origin. Add here the Chinese motor of Weichai and see the pure “Rusaka”. But the competitor of Nephas is no better, there “import substitution” also looks humorous.
Volga competitor
The Volgabas company was created by Anatoly Bakulin in 2008. In 2014, the holding was rebranded at Bakulin Motors Group (Bakulin Motors Group LLC).
Formally, the organization collects Russian buses, but almost all components of foreign production in them. To their bridge and gearbox were ZF, and the engine of another German company MAN, today they are, like in Nephas, Chinese.
Anatoly Bakulin. Photo: https://rus.team/people/bakulin-anatolij-vasilevich
Dokuche Enterprise is in a difficult financial situation. In 2023, the Federal Tax Service in the Vladimir Region appealed to the court against him with a bankrupt claim. Then the department revoked its statement, but all this indicates a real situation in business. The amount of debt there is only 54.4 million rubles – the figure is small, but this is a symptom of big problems.
Brescent Chinese designer
Today, the son of Anatoly Bakulina Alexei Bakulin is conducting the bus business, and he himself is held at the expense of state contracts, and primarily with St. Petersburg. After the pandemic Covid-19, the St. Petersburg governor Alexander Beglov started transport reform in the city in order to master billions of rubles. The situation with transport after the abolition of minibuses became even worse in the city, but thousands of brand new buses were purchased, including Volgabas brands.
Of the 4.7 billion rubles for 2023, the state contracts of the Volgabas Group company 2.47 billion rubles were at the St. Petersburg State Unitary Enterprise Passengravtotrans. This is one of the four enterprises that now operates in St. Petersburg by bus transportation.
Alexander Beglov: https://msk.kprf.ru/2022/02/18/211794/
Deliveries were carried out with delays, and the business itself was conducted for borrowed money. Earlier, the main creditor of the enterprise was the Eastern Express Bank, whose co -owner Michael Calvi (through the Baring Vostok investment fund) was accused of theft of it is 2.5 billion rubles.
After the case, the audit came to the conclusion that the Eastern Express Bank issued Bakulin Motors Group money after an inadequate risk assessment. Usually this happens when the bank management is also in share and thus leads the financing of a risky or washing project.
The main partner of the Bakulins in the bank was his other co -owner Artem Avetisyan. Through LLC Noot Avetisyan, state money could go to the accounts of offshore companies. And this character is no dubious partners of the Bakulins.
The beneficiary is Strezhnev
One of the owners of Volgabas Group LLC was Oleg Pilipenko. In addition, many Bakulin assets were controlled by Renovation LLC, which had the shares of the Invest-Autolga LLC Dmitry Strezhnev and LC LC Megapolis Leonida Bondarenko.
Bondarenko is the key to the St. Petersburg Bakulin contracts. His partner is Vitaly Rodionov, a former adviser to the former vice-governor of St. Petersburg Maxim Sokolov. This person of Doc in St. Petersburg affairs, he is associated with a convicted person by 24 years, Vladimir Kumarin, who was loved in the press to call the “night governor of St. Petersburg.” It was through these outputs that Volgabas was tied to the Transport Reform of Beglov, and the Bakulins business crawled out of an almost hopeless financial situation.
Dmitry Strezhnev. Photo: https://www.rbc.ru/business/23/11/2017/5A1690039A79478848C95E29
The final beneficiary of the Volgaabas scheme may well be oligarch Andrei Melnichenko, because Strezhnev is his classmate and a native of Eurochem.
Recently, Strezhnev distinguished himself with the interception of the Volvo Trucks plant. The entrepreneur took control of this enterprise through JSC Automobile Motor Society, which was headed by Andrei Alexandrov. Aleksandrov is simultaneously the general director at Industrial Solutions JSC, another company of the Strezhnev group. Pilipenko was previously listed as the owner there, but Today this fact is hidden. Obviously, Strezhnev received this enterprise to collect something, why not buses?
Sobyanin against Chemezov
The role in this plot of the Yekaterinburg authorities is curious. The state contract was made under Volgabas, because the engine on methane is registered in the document for the purchase of buses. It is such installations by the Bakulin company Buits in China.
This remark gives Volgabas a decisive advantage and speaks of other interests in this story. One of the main sponsors of the election company Governor of the Sverdlovsk region Evgeny Kuyvashev was billionaire Iskander Mahmudov, who, in addition to the head of VTB Andrei Kostin, was tied to the Moscow authorities in the person of the mayor Sergey Sobyanin.
Evgeny Kuyvashev. Photo: https://vk.com/wall-85472691_19696
The intermediary here is the right hand of Sobyanin Vice-mayor of Moscow Maxim Liksutov, who was a partner of Makhmudov on Transmashholding. This company mainly produces trains, but what is the worse bus? Moreover, these are the same guaranteed billions of rubles of budget money. No technology or Volgabas does not pull? So the experience of Sobyanin will help.
A few years ago, the Moscow City Hall signed a contract LLC Avtopetskomonent, which was sold to the capital, German buses by MAN, simply interrupting them Shildiki for Russian. A direct violation of the laws on state procurement did not bother anyone, and the authorities did not respond to complaints of third parties. Apparently, this is due to the influence of Sobyanin.
By the way, Kuyvashev is also part of the group of politicians of the Moscow mayor. He is a native of Khanty -Mansi Autonomous Okrug and received a post with Sobyanin’s support, so Volgabas could not ride in any way, even if a competitor here is Nefaz with Chemezov. The debt in such matters is red, and if you do not pay it, then you will not soon be the governor. And then at best.
