Top 10: The richest people of Chuvashia

In March 2007, the first attempt was made to compile a ranking of the richest residents of Chuvashia. When preparing the rating, open data from companies, the Central Bank, Federal service By financial markets, tax reporting, analytical reports from leading investment companies and banks, anonymous expert assessments. The authors do not guarantee the absolute correctness of the assessments.

1) Leonid Lebedev (Sintez Group) - 10.8 billion rubles
Member of the Federation Council from the State Council of Chuvashia. Leonid Leonidovich leads his commercial activities outside Chuvashia. Part of the profits received from the work of the Sintez group is sent home to Chuvashia, which has a good impact on the budget of the Republic.

2) Vladimir Ermolaev (TTK "Berezka") - 2.9 billion rubles
The most brilliant entrepreneur of Chuvashia. If you describe everything that belongs to him and his family, you will get a huge list.
IN Lately Vladimir Fedorovich is repurposing his business, directing the freed-up funds to goose farming and construction. This promises new fabulous profits.

3) Semyon Mlodik (Tractor Plants Concern) - 2.6 billion rubles
CEO company "Concern "Tractor Plants", which includes the Aggregate and Tractor Plants. Semyon Gennadievich does not stop at mechanical engineering. He owns a chain of restaurants ("Miya", "Molly Mellon", "Memphis", "Malva"), the names of each of which starts with the first letter of his last name.

4) Alexander Cherkunov (Departmentfinstroy) - 2.2 billion rubles
Alexander Sergeevich - director of Otdelfinstroy LLC - the largest construction company in Chuvashia, which owns the best construction sites in the city. In 2006, the cost of housing in Cheboksary more than doubled and the profit of developers increased by 2.5-3.0 times. Thanks to this, the owners construction companies have transformed from once humble entrepreneurs into richest people Chuvashia.

5) Igor Roshchin (Doriss Group) - 1.9 billion rubles
Igor Valentinovich is the general director of OJSC Doriss, which is also one of the largest construction companies. Unlike Otdelfinstroy, they are diversifying their business. The Doriss group is engaged in the construction of roads, residential buildings, owns a network of gas stations, a number of computer companies and much more.

6) Oleg Meshkov (Buket Chuvashia Company) - 1.8 billion rubles
General Director of "Bouquet of Chuvashia". Oleg Vadimovich's interests are not limited to beer production. "Buket Chuvashia" owns the supermarket chain "Sakharok", a chain of cafes and restaurants, several large land plots. The company has a well-functioning sales network - Buketa Chuvashia beer is sold not only throughout the republic, but throughout Russia as a whole.
In 2006, “Buket Chuvashia” successfully repelled a raider attack, which indicates the high stability of the enterprise.

7) Alexander Delman (VolgaOilService) - 1.6 billion rubles
If 95% of Chuvashnefteproduct were sold to Tatneft, then Volga Oil Service remained the only large network of gas stations, and Alexander Ivanovich remained the largest oil magnate in Chuvashia.
The sale of gasoline, although the main one, is not Delman’s only activity. Rumor has it that he plans to build the first private railway, which will connect Cheboksary with Nizhny Novgorod. Alexander Delman has already acquired and repaired a section of the railway near the village of Gremyachevo.

8) Nikolay Gerasimov (Mega Mall, MTV Center) - 1.6 billion rubles
Nikolai Mikhailovich is perhaps the fastest-rising entrepreneur in Chuvashia. As the owner of the MTV Center, he purchased the KhBK building for only 60 million rubles, and two years later the most successful shopping center Cheboksary was located in its place, attracting dozens of the largest retail chains. Nikolai Gerasimovna stops there. The expansion of the Mega Mall has already begun, and the Galaktika entertainment center is being built. Business is expanding non-stop in all directions.

9) Vladimir Ishchin (Rosinka Group) - 1.4 billion rubles
Vladimir Aleksandrovich, who began his activities with several self-service stores, is now the owner and manager of a huge network of more than 40 stores in Cheboksary, Novocheboksarsk and regions of Chuvashia. On March 1, the Beryozka supermarket chain came under his management.
Along with trading activities Vladimir Ishchin is developing a chain of fashionable bars “Tupizza”, and also at the beginning of the year opened an elite restaurant “Palitra” on the bay, equal in price to the Italian restaurant “Miya” by Semyon Mlodik.

10) Stanislav Lyapunov (ZEiM) - 1.2 billion rubles
Vladimr Iosifovich is a member of the Board of Directors of the Cheboksary "Electronics and Mechanics Plant"). Since September 13, 2006, he ceased to be the general director, but is still the owner of a large block of shares in the enterprise.

The richest officials

The richest female official, according to declarations, was Finance Minister Svetlana Enilina. She received almost three million rubles in 2016. The head of the Central Election Commission of the republic, Alexander Tsvetkov, received more - 3.5 million rubles. It should be noted that the CEC chairman’s salary increased by 800 thousand rubles over the year compared to last year. Almost the same amount as the head of the Central Election Commission was received in 2016 by the head of the administration of the head of the republic, Yuri Yegorovich. His annual salary increased by 300 thousand rubles compared to last year. The head of the region, Mikhail Ignatiev, received more than 3.7 million rubles in 2016; in addition, his other income amounted to about 424 thousand rubles. Well, perhaps the richest official in Chuvashia can be called the Chairman of the Cabinet of Ministers of the Republic, Ivan Motorin. His total income for the year amounted to more than 4.3 million rubles. Compared to last year, Mikhail Ignatiev’s annual salary increased by 260 thousand rubles, and that of Ivan Motorin - by 464 thousand rubles.

Salaries from 800 thousand rubles

From 800 thousand rubles to just over a million rubles per year were received by the new Commissioner for Children's Rights Elena Saparkina, the heads of the Ministry of Construction, Gostekhnadzor, the State Tariff Service and the State Housing Inspectorate.

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According to data published by Chuvashstat, over the past year the number of citizens receiving wages below living wage, increased by 12 thousand people. 232.2 people live below the poverty line in the republic. In the Volga Federal District, Chuvashia is in second place after Mari El for the lowest salaries.

Rich and poor CHGSD

Interestingly, the incomes of city deputies vary greatly. Some received about 96 thousand rubles according to their declarations for the year, others - 70 million rubles. Vladislav Krieger can be called the richest deputy in Cheboksary. He received just over 71 million rubles in 2016. Second place in terms of income in the City Assembly of Deputies can be given to Yuri Borisov, who according to declarations received 47.5 million rubles, and in third place is Vladimir Radin and his annual income of 10.7 million rubles. The poorest deputies in the republic can be considered those whose annual income according to declarations amounted to only 96 thousand rubles. Three deputies of the ChGSD live on a salary of 8,000 rubles - these are Ilyas Kalmykov, Anton Kovalev and Sergei Muravyov.

By the way

According to official information, the head of the Cheboksary city administration, Alexey Ladykov, received more than 1.3 million rubles in 2016, when his wife received 4.4 million in a year. The head of the city, Irina Klimentyeva, who was deprived of her salary when appointed to the post last year, received just over 1.2 million rubles for the year.

The Chuvash Republic is one of the poorest regions of the Volga region. This is reflected in the top of the largest enterprises. Due to lack natural resources leadership here remains with the energy and defense industry. At the same time, many large enterprises often came under the control of Russian corporations and oligarchic clans long ago. Surprisingly, businessmen from other regions also got involved in Chuvash business. Against this background, the second place in the ranking of the confectionery giant - the AKKOND factory, which is still controlled by locals, is strikingly striking. Read more in the material of Realnoe Vremya.

How they live without oil: Chuvashia’s budget is five times less than Tatarstan’s

The Chuvash Republic (hereinafter referred to as the CR) has one of the weakest economies in the Volga region. It is inferior even to its northern neighbor - Mari El (189.9 billion rubles) and Udmurtia (444.4 billion rubles). Turnover one hundred largest companies The Czech Republic is only 179.6 billion rubles. It is less only in the Kirov region, where the revenue of the hundred largest companies in 2015 amounted to only 157.5 billion rubles.

Since 2014, the economy of the Czech Republic has grown by only 14% - then the turnover of “weaving” was 157.6 billion rubles. Let us recall that the turnover of the largest hundred Tatarstan companies in 2015 amounted to 2.2 trillion rubles. Thus, the economy of the Republic of Tatarstan, the eastern neighbor of the republic, can be imagined as a freight train of 12 “Chuvash” cars (and another small bogie). As in the case of the Kirov region, this state of affairs is largely explained by the lack oil companies on the territory of the region. In both Udmurtia and Mari El, we recall that the share of the oil industry was 32.2% and 22.19%, respectively (in Tatarstan, the turnover of the two largest companies associated with the oil and petrochemical industry is half the turnover of the top 100).

However, the diversification of the economy does not yet affect overall efficiency. This very diversification, most likely, in Chuvashia could easily be exchanged for dependence on the oil needle - there could be more money in the republic. Thus, the budget of the Chechen Republic for 2017 was drawn up with a revenue portion of 35.1 billion rubles ( own income- only 25.4 billion rubles), and expenses in the amount of 35.6 billion rubles. In 2016, the budget was adopted with revenues of 32.1 billion rubles and expenses of 34.3 billion rubles. It is clear to the naked eye that, unlike, say, Tatarstan, the budget is drawn up quite conservatively: expenses have decreased, the 2017 budget is almost deficit-free. For comparison, the budget of the Republic of Tajikistan for 2017 was drawn up with a large deficit: with revenues in the amount of 178 billion rubles and expenses in the amount of 185.6 billion rubles. One way or another, the Chuvash authorities have five times less financial resources at their disposal.

CHECK today - largest debtor IDGC of VolgaPhoto energo-24.ru

CHEK: how will RusHydro, having milked its Chuvash subsidiary dry, get rid of the unprofitable company?

The largest Chuvash company, still a 100 percent subsidiary of RusHydro, is the Chuvash Energy Sales Company, which showed revenue in 2015 of 9.2 billion rubles. Previously, CHEK was part of the structures of Chuvashenergo and was still 100% owned by RAO UES of Anatoly Chubais. In 2004, Chubais’s parent company gave birth to a “daughter” - HydroOGK, which later became RusHydro. After 4 years, four divisions were separated from Chuvashenergo, two of them, CHEK and Cheboksary HPP, became part of RusHydro, which became the owner of the majority of hydroelectric power plants in the country (including the largest Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP). And in 2008, Chuvashenergo was transferred to the balance sheet of another subsidiary of RAO UES - IDGC of Volga JSC.

Unfortunately, all this post-Chubais “rearranging the chairs in the quartet of musicians” affected the effectiveness of the Chek in the saddest way. Thus, the turnover of RusHydro in 2015 amounted to 361.8 billion rubles with a net profit of 27.1 billion rubles, in 2016 the turnover amounted to 371 billion rubles with a net profit of 39.75 billion (according to IFRS). At the same time, the Chuvash “daughter” in last years- the company is unprofitable, and its losses are only growing. But initially, CHEK was successful: in 2009, the company’s profit amounted to 250 million rubles with revenue of 7.5 billion rubles, in 2010 it decreased to 201 million rubles (revenue of 8.3 billion rubles), in 2011 m fell to 130 million rubles (revenue fell to 7.8 billion rubles), in 2012 it collapsed to 11.5 million rubles with revenue of 6.7 billion rubles. Since 2013, revenue began to grow again, and the company only increased its losses - it is possible that RusHydro became more profitable, sucking the juice out of its subsidiary. In 2013, revenue amounted to 7.8 billion rubles, with a profit of only 1.5 million rubles; in 2014, the company recorded a loss of 215.3 million rubles with revenue of 8 billion rubles; in 2015, the loss amounted to 234.3 million rubles...

What has been happening to RusHydro in recent years is an interesting question that deserves a separate study. But it is impossible not to notice that this year CHEK will almost certainly change its owner, just as the Bashkir “daughter” RusHydro replaced its “mother”. The Energy Sales Company of Bashkortostan was sold last year for 4.1 billion rubles to the Inter RAO group (it is curious that the new head of Bashkortostan, Rustem Khamitov, comes from RusHydro, where he held the position of deputy chairman). However, it is far from certain that they will also pay attention to the unprofitable Chuvash company - after all, the Bashkir “daughter” was a tasty morsel, despite the debt by 2016 in the amount of 5.33 billion rubles and unstable profits. The turnover of the now former Bashkir “daughter” of RusHydro in 2015 amounted to 33.6 billion rubles, more than three times more than that of its Chuvash “sister”.

The Chuvash asset was put up for sale in 2017. However, things are going very badly at the Chek. The company today is the largest debtor to IDGC of Volga (part of Rosseti, 88% of which belongs to the state) for electricity transmission services. By May 2017, the amount of debt had already exceeded 1 billion rubles! The reason, however, lies mostly in the non-payments of commercial enterprises, which in turn owed the Chuvash Energy Sales Company more than 3 billion rubles. As local media note, the republic’s enterprises “systematically ignore both the appeals of energy network workers and the decisions of the headquarters of the government of Chuvashia.” The behavior of defaulters becomes clearer if we consider that the attempt to introduce restrictions on energy consumption at the Cheboksary Tractor Plant ended in nothing - the enterprise is “socially significant.” It is unclear who will need an energy asset with such debts. But the situation with non-payments only adds dark colors to the economic picture of the region.

By 2015, the largest confectionery company in Russia was 55% owned by AKKOND-Torg LLC. Photo pravdapfo.ru

"AKKOND": why are people in Chuvashia afraid that the "chocolate asset" has been given to transnational corporations?

The second place in terms of turnover is occupied by AKKOND JSC, whose revenue in 2015 amounted to almost 9 billion rubles. Founded during the war years, the Cheboksary confectionery factory was corporatized in the 1990s, but fought off potential attacks by the Varangians - the company was headed by its director since 1987, Valery Ivanov. How this happened in general is a secret, but it is known that by the end of the 1990s, a certain Santek CJSC owned a considerable block of shares (in 2003 it was considered a “young and promising enterprise”, and already in 2005 it was declared bankrupt! ). It was with shares of what was already a profitable enterprise at that time that the company repaid the loan to Sberbank. How the shares of AKKOND came into the possession of Santec is unknown. But it is known that back in 2004 a certain block of shares belonged to the authorities of Chuvashia themselves - then the republic put this block up for sale.

By 2015, the largest confectionery company in Russia was 55% owned by AKKOND-Torg LLC (92nd place on our list), 96% of the shares of which are still owned by Valery Ivanov’s daughter Tatyana. However, at the beginning of 2015, the situation changed: by that time, rumors had been circulating among people for several years about the sale of the most successful Chuvash enterprise, which was not owned by Muscovites or transnational corporations. During the visit of the head of the Chechen Republic, Mikhail Ignatiev, to the Cheboksary market (local authorities were concerned about rising prices), to the direct question of the indignant townspeople why they sold “AKKOND”, Ignatiev answered floridly, assuring that “how Valery Ivanov worked there is how it works” and, they say , no matter whose ownership the company is. A year later, it became known that the share of AKKOND-Torg had dropped to 20%, and 57% began to belong to “citizens of the Russian Federation” - on top of everything else, in obvious attempts to hide the new owner, AKKOND became “non-public joint stock company, not obliged to report to the general public."

Despite two production lines being pledged (until 2017) and a loan burden of 734 million rubles, the company is doing well in the market. Since 2009, the company's turnover has tripled over the same 6 years net profit doubled: from 630.5 million rubles to 1.3 billion. In addition to the confectionery assets, AKKOND’s business also includes the company AKKOND-agro (dairy production) and AKKOND-Trans (one of the largest transport companies in Chuvashia ), information about the owners of which is contradictory. However, until August-November 2016, AKKOND-Trans and AKKOND-agro belonged to AKKOND-torg LLC, that is, the daughter of the owner of the confectionery company. At the moment, “AKKOND-Trans” seems to belong to the state property committee of Chuvashia.

It is not surprising that residents of the Chechen Republic fear that one of the largest taxpayers in the region will legally gain a foothold somewhere in Moscow, and the authorities will have to tighten their spending even further. Local media, fearing for AKKOND, refer to the sad experience of other Chuvash enterprises bought by transnational corporations: the mothballed AB InBev plant in Novocheboksarsk (formerly Bulgar-Khmel) and the Danone plant in Cheboksary (formerly Gormolzavod).

According to one version, until 2015, AKKOND managed to avoid being absorbed by one of the three empires holding the chocolate market in Russia (Nestle, Mars and Kraft Foods) simply because all patents for the company’s products were registered personally to Valery Ivanov. In this case, even if the company is purchased by outside investors, throwing out the previous CEO would be problematic.

All patents for the company’s products are registered personally to Valery Ivanov. Photo pravdapfo.ru

Gazprom Mezhregiongaz Cheboksary: ​​how Alexey Miller was offended by the billions of dollars in debts of Chuvash companies

The top three is closed by the Gazprom Mezhregiongaz Cheboksary company, which showed revenue of 8.2 billion rubles in 2015, while turnover even fell by 10% - in 2014, revenue amounted to 9.1 billion rubles. The history of the Chuvash “daughter” of Gazprom is similar to the Kirov “daughter”, which we wrote about in our study about the “Vyatka patrimony of the boyar Belykh”. However, the situation in the Chuvash subsidiary is even worse, since the revenue of the Kirov gas company is 3 billion rubles higher. The company was created in 1996 as a branch of Mezhregiongaz LLC (later Gazprom Mezhregiongaz), a subsidiary of Gazprom.

Like their Kirov colleagues, the Chuvash authorities also did not intend to just give up the gas asset: in May 2000, on the basis of the branch of Mezhregiongaz LLC, an independent enterprise Chuvashregiongaz LLC, or the Chuvash regional gas sales company, was created, the founders of which included government of Chuvashia. Nevertheless, in 2011, Chuvashregiongaz, like other regional subsidiaries, received a “corporate name”: Gazprom Mezhregiongaz Cheboksary LLC. The Kirov asset belongs to the Kirov authorities by 24.7%, the rest is owned by the state-owned company of Alexey Miller. The Chuvash asset belongs to the authorities of the Chechen Republic by 22.73%.

Let us recall that the turnover of the “parent company” Gazprom Mezhregiongaz in 2015 fell from 896.5 to 853.5 billion rubles, not least due to non-payments in the regions. This conclusion is confirmed by the fact of the enormous debts of Chuvash companies to gas workers: according to the branch itself, the amount of debts currently amounts to 1.6 billion rubles. More than a billion rubles of debt is owed to Kommunalnye Tekhnologii LLC. By the end of 2014, when the region’s debts jumped by a third in a year, the head of the local branch, State Council member of the Chechen Republic from United Russia, Kiyametdin Miftakhutdinov, could not stand it and indignantly threatened the head of Chuvashia, Mikhail Ignatiev, with a freeze on Gazprom’s investments in the region. From 2005 to 2014, Gazprom managed to invest 1.5 billion rubles in the Czech Republic. However, in 2015, Alexey Miller’s company allocated a mocking 10 million rubles for gasification of Chuvashia, hinting that a significant reduction in investment was due to the fact that “the level of payment discipline for supplied natural gas in the region has decreased significantly.”

The level of payment discipline for natural gas supplied in the region has decreased significantly. Photo cheb.ru

The fourth largest Chuvash company is the Khimprom company, which increased its turnover in 2015 from 6 to 7 billion rubles. The company, founded back in 1960, produces large-scale chemical products (hydrogen peroxide, caustic soda, chlorine products, rubber chemicals for tire production). In 1987, some production facilities were frozen here in accordance with the Convention on the Prohibition of the Proliferation of Chemical Weapons. In 1992, the enterprise, once one of the three largest chemical plants in the USSR, was transferred to the ownership of the Chuvash Republic. In 1994, Khimprom JSC was privatized: 51% of the shares remained with Chuvashia, 25% with the workforce, the remaining stake was sold on the market - the future famous politician Oleg Mitvol became the owner of part of the stake. This was followed by bankruptcy, from which the company was withdrawn only in 1998.

Shareholder wars followed, which ended with Khimprom completely falling into the hands of Viktor Vekselberg (we already wrote about his holdings in the Kirov region), who was then building a vertically integrated chemical holding. By that time, he had in his hands such enterprises as OJSC Sayanskkhimplast, VOJSC Khimprom (Volgograd), OJSC Promsintez (Chapaevsk), and CJSC Neftekhimiya (Novokuibyshevsk). Renova Orgsintez acquired a 75% stake in 2007, valuing the enterprise at $275-300 million. Almost immediately, Vekselberg’s team changed the management of Khimprom, appointing Alexei Mitrofanov, former deputy general director of Renova Orgsintez, as director of the plant.

Vekselberg's critics became more active in 2012, when Renova, which already owned 79.59% of the shares at that time, decided to purchase the remaining stake from minority shareholders. By that time, Khimprom was becoming more and more successful every year, gradually gaining momentum. He closed 2009 with a profit of 41 million rubles and a turnover of 1 billion, and 2010 with a profit of 156.5 million rubles and a turnover of 5 billion rubles. In 2011, the company's turnover exceeded 6 billion rubles, profit increased to 233 million rubles. Those dissatisfied with Renova’s decision to completely buy up the chemical asset of Chuvashia drew attention to the fact that the joint-stock company’s profits were allegedly distributed in a strange way. 130 million rubles from the profits of 2010 went to charitable purposes in a certain Renova Charitable Foundation, while to finance the social expenses of Khimprom itself and to reserve fund The company received only 3 million and 7.8 million rubles, respectively. However, the attacks of minority shareholders ended in nothing.

Currently, 88% of the shares of Khimprom belong to Orgsintez Group LLC, a 100% subsidiary of Renova Aktiv LLC. Another 12% belongs to the general director of Orgsintez Group LLC Yaroslav Kuznetsov through KTC LLC. Vekselberg continues to invest in his assets, sometimes it comes to funny situations. Thus, in 2016 it became known that Vekselberg’s Orgsintez Group would invest 1.5 billion rubles in the construction of its thermal power plant. Thus, the plant will refuse to purchase steam and hot water from CHPP-3, built in Soviet times for the sake of Khimprom, and now owned by T Plus, which in turn is controlled by Renova of the same Viktor Vekselberg.

As for finances, in 2012 the company's revenue fell to 5.7 billion rubles, profit amounted to 234.8 million. In 2013, revenue decreased again - to 5.6 billion, profit completely fell to 40.3 million rubles. In 2014, profit amounted to a very modest 1.2 million rubles, but in 2015 it increased again to 241 million rubles. In 2016, it jumped to 669 million rubles.

Currently, 88% of the shares of Khimprom belong to Orgsintez Group LLC. Photo sovch.chuvashia.com

ShZSA: work for the Ministry of Defense

The top five largest enterprises in Chuvashia is closed by the Shumerlinsky Specialized Vehicles Plant, the largest manufacturer of special equipment in Russia. It increased its turnover 1.5 times in 2015 - to 6.4 billion rubles. Fortunately, ShZSA, founded back in 1929 and has become city-forming enterprise military-industrial complex, in a sense, was lucky - it was taken over by Proekt-Tekhnika Corporation LLC back in 1993. The corporation itself is affiliated with JSC RADON. The main customer is the Ministry of Defense. The largest shareholders of RADON are the directors of the Proekt-Tekhnika corporation Shavasp Kalashyan (52.9%), Andrey Lopukhin (21.2%) and Viktor Ukhov (25.4%) - apparently, all those who are at the end 1980s and created this cooperative.

Local “MMM”, Syrian EKRA orders, defrauded investors

There were several more interesting companies in the top ten. Among them is another representative of the defense industry, JSC Automobile Van Plant, which received revenue of 4.8 billion rubles in 2015. Founded in 1927, KAF is also located in Sumerla. In 1992, the plant was privatized and corporatized. The company today belongs to a native of Kabardino-Balkaria, Aliy Chechenov (85.3%), who also invests in enterprises in the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic. A possible brother of Aliya Chechenov, Anuar Chechenov, was elected speaker of the KBR parliament in 2009. Anuar Chechenov is considered a relative of the former Prime Minister of Kabardino-Balkaria. In June, Aliya Chechenov was awarded the medal “For Services to the Chuvash Republic” by the Chuvash Republic authorities.

In eighth place we note NFK-Sberezheniya LLC, whose turnover in 2015 amounted to 3.7 billion rubles, an increase of 66.7%. The company is curious because its local observers have been accusing it of construction for years financial pyramid and compared with Sergei Mavrodi’s MMM. Since 2012, the company, like a small boat, has been floating on huge financial waves: turnover of 11 billion rubles, profit of 2 million rubles, debts of 18.1 billion rubles. In 2013, revenue dropped to 928 million rubles, accounts payable fell to 65.8 million rubles. The results of 2015 are more or less similar to financial activities an ordinary company: debts of 153 million rubles, profit - 8.8 million. Tax authorities also make claims against the company.

In ninth place is EKRA with a turnover of 3.7 billion rubles (in 2014 it was more - 3.8 billion). Like the Proekt-Tekhnika corporation, EKRA was created by specialist technologists: Cheboksary relay workers founded the company in 1991 to produce relay protection and automation devices. And today there are five beneficiaries, each with 20% of the company. The company is considered one of the best in Chuvashia, and every now and then it finds itself in the top 3 largest taxpayers; many Cheboksary residents dream of working there (salaries relative to the average in Chuvashia are quite large). The company also operates in the foreign market, in particular in Syria (which causes a number of problems with payments - Sberbank and VTB serve Syrian cash flows Chuvash relay operators refuse). However, from an economic point of view, not everything is going well for Ekra: profits have been declining for several years in a row and the loan burden is growing. So, in 2011, net profit amounted to 649 million rubles, in 2012 533 million, in 2013 already 189.9 million - credit debt has already exceeded 1 billion rubles. In 2014, profits dropped to 41.4 million rubles, debts exceeded 3 billion rubles. In 2015, profit amounted to only 17.5 million rubles, but credit debt managed to reduce to 1.2 billion.

A representative of the defense industry, OJSC Automobile Van Plant, received revenue of 4.8 billion rubles in 2015. Photo kombinat-avtomobilnykh-furgonov.inni.info

Finally, the top 10 largest Chuvash enterprises are closed by SUOR LLC, whose turnover in 2015 amounted to 3.6 billion rubles. The main asset of SUOR is a house-building plant. “SUOR” itself is part of the business empire of Vladimir Ermolaev, who owns a number of enterprises from a knitting factory and an agricultural holding (“Yurma” is 13th in our ranking) to a local TV channel and a supermarket. The house-building plant previously belonged to the Savva Group of Companies, owned by Nikita Kolesnikov, who was considered close to the former head of Chuvashia, Nikolai Fedorov. Through the Volgastroygroup company, in the 2000s, DSK built the Finnish Valley residential complex and the Suvar Hotel. In 2008, there was a scandal with defrauded shareholders of this very valley (“Suvar Hotel” is still unfinished). With the arrival of the new head of the Chechen Republic, Mikhail Ignatiev, the Savva empire itself gradually lost its position in the local market: one after another, Kolesnikov’s assets were bought out by businessman Vladimir Ermolaev. In 2012, he bought DSK and the Volga Textile Company, and in 2013 the 21+ TV channel. Supporters of “Savva” and Nikolai Fedorov suffered huge reputational losses in March 2016, when Nikita Kolesnikov was arrested in Moscow in connection with the theft of money within the framework of the case of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation: local authorities quickly found old papers, counted and suddenly discovered that the group of companies “Savva” “Under the previous head of the republic, she withdrew about 8 billion rubles from the economy of Chuvashia.

Top 100 enterprises of Chuvashia

	Name	Head, full name	Co-owners	Type of activity/industry	revenue for 2015, rub.
1	CHUVASH ENERGY SALES COMPANY, JSC	Management Company ESK RUSHYDRO, JSC	ESK RUSHYDRO, JSC (RUB 36,996,417.3, 100%)	Electricity trading	9.288.284.000,00
2	AKKOND, JSC	Ivanov Valery Nikolaevich	AKKOND-TORG, LLC - 55.14%, Natalia Valerievna Ivanova - 23.81%, Tatyana Valerievna Ivanova - 21.03%	Production of crackers, cookies and other baked goods, production of flour confectionery products, cakes, pastries, pies and biscuits intended for long-term storage	8.919.461.000,00
3	GAZPROM MEZHREGIONGAZ CHEBOKSARY, LLC	Miftakhutdinov Kiyametdin Sadyrtdinovich	GAZPROM MEZHREGIONGAZ, LLC (RUB 7,727.27, 77.27%) MINISTRY OF JUSTICE OF CHUVASHIA (RUB 2,272.73, 22.73%)	Distribution of gaseous fuel through gas distribution networks	8.227.177.000,00
4	KHIMPROM, PJSC	Nauman Sergey Vladimirovich	STATE PROPERTY OF CHUVASHIA (RUB 234,223,990, 100%)	Production of other chemical organic basic substances	7.069.706.000,00
5	ShZSA, JSC	Management company CORPORATION PROJECT-TECHNIKA, LLC	Kalashyan Shavasp Vachikovich - 52.98%, Ukhov Viktor Nikolaevich - 25.46%, Lopukhin Andrey Nikolaevich - 21.21%	Production vehicles	6.440.046.000,00
6	SONA, LLC	Kurnash Olga Gennadievna	Stepanov Albert Pavlovich (RUB 50,000, 90.91%) Kurnash Olga Gennadievna (RUB 5,000, 9.09%)	Non-specialized wholesale trade	4.882.708.000,00
7	KAF, JSC	Vasiliev Sergey Ivanovich	Chechenov Aliy Akhmatovich - 85.3%, Dzhubuev Mukhadin Khamitovich - 1.5%, Zakharov Vyacheslav Ivanovich - 1.5%	Production of bodies for motor vehicles; production of trailers and semi-trailers	3.852.482.000,00
8	NFK-Savings, LLC	Naumov Evgeniy Leonidovich	PIONEER-LEASING, LLC (RUB 330,000,000, 100%)	Providing services for storing valuables, depository activities	3.769.923.000,00
9	EKRA, LLC NPP	Doni Konstantin Nikolaevich	Doni Nikolay Anatolyevich (RUB 7,081,200, 20%) Naumov Alexander Mikhailovich (RUB 7,081,200, 20%) Saevich Oleg Leonidovich (RUB 7,081,200, 20%) Furashov Vladimir Sergeevich (RUB 7,081,200, 20%) Shurupov Alexey Alexandrovich (RUB 7,081,200, 20%)	Production of electrical distribution and control equipment	3.713.629.000,00

Sergey Afanasyev, Fail Gataulin

While writing this article, we came across a small rating where the richest people of Chuvashia were presented. True, it was compiled back in 2007. As you understand, some information could be outdated, and our millionaires may no longer be such. In any case, we will try to answer these questions by considering the path to success of each of the people on our list.

So, let's begin. Many people have repeatedly heard that the Russian region discussed in our article is one of the poorest: everything has been stolen, life goes on “like clockwork” only for officials. Others think the opposite - Chuvashia is a fully developed region within the Volga region federal district. Be that as it may, any point of view, even the most negative, has the right to exist. We are the ones to determine the richest people of Chuvashia in 2013, let's turn to statistics, although they are not infallible.

According to its data, in the spring of this year several thousand residents of the Republic declared their income. Compared to other Russian regions, the indicators here turned out to be relatively modest. As it turned out, only one billionaire lives in Chuvashia, as well as more than two thousand millionaires. By the way, three of them were able to earn previous year more than 500 million rubles.

1. We suggest starting the rating with representatives of the political elite. We are talking about a person who defends the interests of Chuvashia at the federal level - Leonid Lebedev. In addition to his political activities, a member of the Council of the Federation of the Russian Federation does not forget to be active entrepreneurial activity. Many rightfully consider him one of the richest people in the Chuvash Republic. His brainchild, the Sintez company, has come a long way to fame. It all started back in the 80s. At first it was a recording studio, then it became involved in the timber and pipe trade. This is such a drastic turn of events. In the 90s Lebedev’s business had reached a new level: shelves and oil fields were already being developed, banking structures. Now he is still the full owner of Sintez, although now it is a whole group of companies, including Negusneft and Kores Invest. In 2013, a domestic entrepreneur made several attempts to enter the coal business, however, only time will tell what will come of it. For now, the politician is content with his considerable fortune.

According to Forbes magazine, in 2011 his personal income exceeded 2.26 million rubles. According to the magazine, his wife lives much better - in 2011 she was able to earn about 185 million rubles. Let's not forget about the officially declared fifteen real estate objects and seven passenger cars. Now the politician and entrepreneur in one person is actively engaged in supporting cultural projects on the territory of Chuvashia, and also provides financial assistance to domestic cinema.

2. Next, we would like to move on to consider an equally famous figure in the business and political circles of Chuvashia - Vladimir Ermolaev. A successful entrepreneur, deputy of the State Council of Chuvashia, back in 2007, he was able to make a fortune for himself in the region of 3 billion rubles. According to analysts, it has now increased by approximately 2 billion. The general director of the Yurma agricultural holding was able to achieve such results even despite the fact that in 2013 he purchased the unprofitable Hosiery and Knitting Factory in Cheboksary. Having corrected the situation there, the businessman is still successfully coping with SUOR LLC, which today is among the TOP 5 largest stone processing enterprises in the Russian Federation.

In addition, one of the most influential and richest people in Chuvashia does not forget about his brainchild “Chuvashstroy”, which every year is increasingly conquering the construction market of this Russian region. At the end of last year, Vladimir Ermolaev decided to expand his business activities - he acquired the Novocheboksarsk house-building plant.

3. The fate of the next Chuvash millionaire has changed greatly over the past six years since 2007. This is about Semyon Mlodike. In 2007, he was the general director of the Tractor Plants Concern, and a year earlier he was elected to the local State Council. It would seem that what could put a damper on his rapidly growing career? The criminal case that was initiated against him. He was accused of money laundering. According to the investigation, while at the head of Promtractor-Vagon CJSC, Mlodik was able to “launder” more than 270 million rubles by concluding fictitious transactions. However, the court has already dropped the charges against him. By the way, in 2007 his fortune was estimated at 2.6 billion rubles. Now we can talk about the state only from rare reports from the press. According to sources, as a result of investigative actions, Mlodik’s property was seized. This included: a 5-room apartment in Moscow, part of a private house in the Moscow region, as well as a couple of foreign-made cars. Now the former general director of Tractor Plants heads Lesosibirsk LDK No. 1 in Krasnoyarsk.

4. By the way, academicians are also among the richest people in Chuvashia, and the latter is the general director of JSC Dorris — Igor Roshchin. His above-mentioned enterprise today determines, literally, the entire appearance of this Volga region. It is engaged in road and construction works. For several years, the company's turnover was about 3.4 billion rubles. Now these numbers have at least doubled. The entrepreneur's fortunes also improved. According to some estimates, his 2 billion fortune (2007) has increased by the same amount over these few years. Despite this, he is very popular and respected in Chuvashia. He is the winner of many awards, holder of various titles (for example, “Honorary Builder of Russia”) and other awards.

5. On the fifth line of the rating we placed several non-public figures: Kalinin Vladimir Mikhailovich and Ivanov Sergei Kirillovich. Heading the Morgaush Dairy Plant several years ago, he was considered one of the most influential and enterprising people in his homeland. His fortune was estimated at several hundred million rubles. However, his passion for money played a cruel joke on him. In 2011, he was already involved in a case of causing damage to this company. The investigation then estimated the damage caused at 46 million rubles. It seems that the entrepreneur was not very upset then, because he is still a co-owner of one of the largest and richest Chuvash enterprises - Tekstilmash OJSC.

There are legends about Sergei Ivanov and his billions in Chuvashia, but there is no confirmation that his income today exceeds 1.3 billion rubles. It is only known that he controls such enterprises as Avtomatstrom-Renta LLC, Avtomatstrom LLC, Volga Transfo LLC and Kontrakt LLC.

6. Finally, in sixth place we will place three people whose incomes have been steadily growing since 2007:

• Grigoriev Pavel Viktorovich And Grigorieva Irina Olegovna. Their business is known far beyond the Republic. They own hotels, the largest Tekstilmash plant, Snabresursy JSC, Hotel OJSC, Parsek-Invest LLC and a number of other enterprises. Their fortune today is estimated at 2 billion rubles.

• We haven't forgotten about Oleg Meshkov, who today is the general director of the Buket Chuvashia brewing company. The company's products are known not only in the businessman's home region, but also beyond its borders. The company's turnover is becoming more and more nationwide every year. Today his personal income exceeds 2 billion rubles, and his company’s turnover in 2011 exceeded 136 million rubles.

Our new TOP rating of the richest people in Chuvashia could be extended by several more positions, but the incomes of these “nominees” over the past six years either remained at the same level or fell completely. If you wish, you can view them in the old list.

The well-known Forbes ranking of the richest people in the world consists of hundreds of people. In Chuvashia, perhaps a hundred truly rich people can be found, but such an investigation would be extremely difficult. Nevertheless, we cannot help but please those who like to count other people’s money and it was decided to stop at the seven richest people in Chuvashia.

The richest people of Chuvashia 2014:

. Businessman, co-owner of the Sintez company.

The only (officially) dollar billionaire in Chuvashia. The methods used to raise so much money will sound quite stereotypical in relation to oligarchs - the Sintez group of companies is indirectly related to oil production. It is worth noting that Leonid Lebedev, unfortunately or fortunately, conducts most of his commercial affairs outside the territory of Chuvashia.

However, part of the profit is still sent back to Chuvashia, which has a beneficial effect on the economy of the region. In addition to many business projects, Lebedev is also a Member of the Federation Council in Chuvashia. Among the additional income, one can highlight the film company “Red Arrow”, in which Leonid Lebedev is one of the founders.

General state: More than $2 billion In 2011, he was in 53rd place on the Forbes list.

2. Ermolaev Vladimir. A very well-known figure in Chuvash business, almost to all residents of the republic. Unlike Lebedev, Ermolaev conducts a significant part of his business on the territory of Chuvashia.

There are many large manufacturing companies under his management. Chuvash Republic, among which there is the Yurma agricultural holding, as well as the construction organization SUOR LLC, which, according to Ermolaev himself, is one of the five main stone processing plants in the country.

General state: More than 4 billion rubles.

3. Roshchin Igor. General Director of Dorris LLC.

One of the successful entrepreneurs in Chuvashia takes pride of place among the three richest people in the republic. “Dorris” is a construction organization, which in its essence is, perhaps, the main “worker” in the field of construction of cities in Chuvashia.

Add to list construction work Highly profitable industries such as road and residential building construction are included. Among other things, the Dorris group also owns a network of gas stations.

General state: more than 3 billion rubles.

. Former General Director of the Tractor Plants concern.

A very scandalous person for Chuvashia. The essence of the scandal lies precisely in the heyday of Mlodik’s activities. In Chuvashia, when back in 2007 Semyon Mlodik was the general director of the Tractor Plants concern, in the same year a lawsuit was filed against him for “money laundering” in the amount of 270 million rubles. With all this, the charges against the oligarch were subsequently dropped, and yet Mlodik now prefers to conduct his business in Krasnoyarsk, and not in 21 regions.

General state: Approximately 2.5 billion rubles.

5. Meshkov Oleg. General Director of the company "Buket Chuvashia".

"Bouquet of Chuvashia" has become one of the main companies in Chuvashia in many respects. To some extent, for many Russians, even the very acquaintance with Chuvashia happened thanks to the products of this company - this organization has “promoted” so well outside the Chuvash Republic. Kvass, beer and other products are exported in tons to the shelves of neighboring regions, including Moscow.

In addition to his activities in business, Oleg Meshkov is also vice-speaker of the State. Council of Chuvashia.

General state: more than 2 billion rubles.

6. Alexander Cherkunov.Director of Otdelfinstroy LLC.

The owner of one of the main construction companies in Chuvashia, who significantly increased his budget during the period of rising housing prices in 2006-2007.

General state: More than 2 billion rubles.

7. . The largest oil tycoon in Chuvashia.

So, if you are not yet tired of counting other people’s money, then we go further down the list - of course, many gas stations in the republic have long since gone into the hands of neighboring regions, but Oleg Delman is one of the few who has his share in the oil business of Chuvashia, while also being involved affairs of the company under the auspices of our republic. To be precise, Delman is the owner of VolgaOilService. In addition to the oil sector, the businessman is also involved in the construction of railways.

General state: more than 1.5 billion rubles.

Here are all the money tycoons we have selected for the list: The richest people of Chuvashia 2014 . It is worth noting that the actual state of funds of the persons on the list, as well as their place in this list, although quite accurate, may differ somewhat from reality.