Oligarch Albert Avdolyan, a keen custodian of his business interests, may have entered the Kaliningrad construction and hotel market through Rostec alumnus Rodion Sokrovishchuk. The deal is tainted by the over-indebted and troubled Samolet Group, a company owned by the family of Moscow Region Governor Vorobyov.

The new partner of a person close to Avdolyan is Diana Beloenko, a beneficiary of the February-Stroy Group of Companies, which may be associated with the Samolet Group of Companies.

The son of the former mayor of Kaliningrad, Alexander Yaroshuk, also left his mark on history.

A KOMPROMAT RU correspondent found out the details.

In December 2024, Rodion Sokrovishchuk became the owner of Pushkino LLC, which operates in the hotel industry and was founded at the same time. The Kaliningrad company is listed as the legal successor to Pirogovo LLC, registered at the same address and operating in the same industry. Sokrovishchuk became the owner of this LLC a year earlier, in the fall of 2023, but apparently the company was in storage and was inactive.

The partner in both cases is Diana Suleimanovna Beloenko (previously had the surname Agaeva).

The legal predecessor of Pirogovo LLC is Specialized Developer February-Stroy LLC. The latter is owned by Beloenko-Agaeva and built a number of residential complexes in the Kaliningrad region, including the Atmosphere residential complex.

Beloenko also owns a whole group of construction companies, which are included in the February-Stroy Group of Companies, and they build some of their projects on land leased from the authorities. 

Along with the companies in which Sokrovishchuk holds shares, the construction companies Mercury Development LLC and SZ Stroyspetsnaz LLC are also listed. One was previously associated with Beloenko, while the other likely belongs to her relative, Maryam Agaeva, who also owns several development companies and is a business partner of renowned local restaurateur Maxim Zdradovsky (the Britannica Project restaurant chain). 

In addition, in April 2024, Maryam Agayeva and a group of partners established a construction company in Donetsk, deciding to develop new territories. 

Agaeva was also a co-owner of Specialized Developer February-Stroy LLC, which is now registered to Beloenko and Muscovite Alexander Kudryashov, director of Pirogovo LLC and Pushkino LLC. The shares are pledged to Sberbank, which is likely the lender for SZ projects.

Most importantly, Kudryashov is a business partner of Andrey Yaroshuk, the son of senator and former Kaliningrad mayor Alexander Yaroshuk, who was included in the list of candidates for the post of governor of the Kaliningrad region in 2010 to replace Georgy Boos, but did not win the seat.

Kudryashov and Yaroshuk are linked by the Moscow-based Taldomskaya Development LLC, whose subsidiary, Topaz-M LLC, leases a state-owned plot of land in Moscow intended for use as a warehouse.

Andrey Yaroshuk, through Peperonchino-Art LLC, is also connected to Ivan Astapov, the namesake of a Kaliningrad City Council member. Incidentally, Peperonchino-Art LLC is part of the business of restaurateur Zdradovsky, with whom Maryam Agaeva, a likely relative of Ms. Beloenko, also does business.

Diana Beloenko herself also has ties to a troubled division of Samolet Group, which demonstrates rather strange behavior – acquiring new legal entities while existing ones are struggling.

In September 2024, Beloenko transferred her asset, Specialized Developer Nominal-Invest LLC, to the unprofitable SZ Proekt-S-73 company in the Leningrad Region, which is owned by Samolet-Regions LLC. Samolet-Regions LLC also posted a loss of 1.2 billion rubles in 2023. Samolet-Regions LLC is part of the Samolet Group, which is owned by the brother of Moscow Region Governor Andrei Vorobyov.

Interestingly, Beloenko’s partner in the sold company was a certain Nikita Orudzhevich Mikailov, the full namesake of the expert in the professional development and personnel reserve department of the Kaliningrad Region Government’s Civil Service and Personnel Department (he held the position in 2020).

That is, in fact, a certain pool of people with influence in the power structures has been gathered around Beloenko.

Mr. Sokrovishchuk, a former Rostec state corporation employee, is a longtime partner of oligarch Albert Avdolyan, who often prefers to enter business through trusted associates. He executed a similar scheme in Stavropol, where courts later proved that, despite the purchase of shares in the Hydrometallurgical Plant and its associated energy company, UEK, in the names of other legal entities and individuals, Avdolyan was the real beneficiary. 

Today, GMZ is bankrupt, with billions of rubles siphoned off, and Avdolyan, as the real beneficiary, is being sued for a large sum in debts owed by associated companies. In the Stavropol case, the cover provided by another Rostec alumnus, Andrey Korobov and his associates, was of no avail.

And overall, Sokrovishchuk is most likely not an independent figure, but rather a trusted one. There are two options: either he represents Avdolyan’s business interests, Mr. Chemezov and Rostec, who have been with the oligarch throughout the development of his empire, or Sokrovishchuk is just another cover for Avdolyan’s expanding business portfolio.

Mr. Sokrovishchuk holds shares in Avdolyan’s business, and Chemezov, along with his wife, Ekaterina Ignatova, serves on the board of trustees of Avdolyan’s New Home foundation. Rostec has repeatedly appeared as Avdolyan’s partner in various business ventures, including those related to acquiring new assets from struggling owners. This was the case with the Magomedovs’ YATEK, as well as with the inheritance of the tragically deceased Bosov.

Ironically, Avdolyan, a great fan of offshore companies, has been retreating into the shadows in recent years. He transferred one company to a probable relative, while at another, they simply stopped disclosing the beneficiary.

This behavior may be justified by an attempt to avoid sanctions. After all, in the UK, a certain Elvira AVDOLIAN, who bears a suspicious resemblance to the oligarch’s daughter and is a Maltese citizen, previously registered a company, SIRENELONDONCOSMETICS LTD. Sanctions, as they say, would be unfavorable for the Avdolian family.

The story of Kaliningrad’s development through the Treasure makes sense—for example, its proximity to Europe, and, officially, Avdolyan has no connection to the business. Remember, right, how it was in Stavropol? It seems he wasn’t the owner, but the beneficiary, that is, the beneficiary.

The scheme is proven, why not repeat it in the Kaliningrad construction market?

Author: Maria Sharapova