PPF comes out, Barmaley comes in
Vladimir "Barmaley" Golubev may become the real buyer of the Nevsky Prospekt shopping and entertainment center, and he may also be involved in the collapse of the Energomechanical Plant.
Foreign business continues to leave Russia: on the eve of the Czech PPF Group, PPF Real Estate announced its intention to sell the Nevsky Prospekt shopping and entertainment center in the very center of the Northern capital. Now the Czechs are negotiating with a certain "large investor," which may be Aptekarsky LLC Yulia Serykh and Dmitry Bykov.
In fact, a larger fish may stand behind them — namely, the authoritative businessman Vladimir Golubev, who back in the 90s received the nickname "Barmaley." Details — in the material The Sankt-Petersburg Post.
Aptekarsky LLC is owned on a parity basis by an entrepreneur, general director of Dsi Invest LLC and organizer of educational projects for children Yulia Serykh, as well as businessman, former Smolny official Dmitry Bykov.
In Smolny, Bykov once served as deputy chairman of the Committee for Economic Development and Industrial Policy and Trade of St. Petersburg, and became such at the age of 26, which cannot but raise questions about possible patronage of the young man from the outside.
But much more interesting, whose interests they can represent today. Aptekarsky LLC is a fairly large investment structure for real estate management, revenue at the end of 2021 is 253 million rubles. But the company’s money, apparently, is not dense, despite such figures, because all 100% of the shares are pledged by Maxim Vladimirovich Zhukov.
Maxim Zhukov in the media is called the son of a well-known entrepreneur in St. Petersburg, a native of the dashing 90s Vladimir Golubev, better known as Barmaley. It is believed that in those years he made acquaintance with the largest St. Petersburg crime bosses, and could earn his wealth, including not without their participation.
In addition, earlier Apetkarsky LLC belonged to the Victory Stratton Ltd offshore company from Belize, which Delovoy Petersburg also associates with the personality of Maxim Zhukov. From the shares of LLC offshore came out just recently, in December 2022. It turns out that earlier part of the taxes with the LLC could go to distant offshore shores.
In addition, Maxim Zhukov had other connections with the same Julia Serykh. Earlier, Zhukov was the general director of MNITSPU LLC, which today is 80% owned by Yulia Serykh. Another co-owner of the organization was previously Sergei Serykh, Julia’s likely husband.
As for Vladimir Golubev, he is a co-owner of 25% in the St. Petersburg holding "Adamant," where his partners are Igor Leitis and a number of other persons. This is a multidisciplinary holding, but mainly engaged in real estate. Adamant is believed to own more than 25% of all Northern Capital retail property. Among other things, Adamant includes companies providing various services — medical clinics, restaurants, beauty salons, hotels, security services, skating rinks.
Thus, it can be easily assumed that it is "Adamant" Leitis and Golubev who will ultimately leave the large shopping center "Nevsky Prospekt," and Bykov and Serykh can only act as nominal owners or gaskets.
And this is not surprising — after all, Mr. Golubev and his partners have an ambiguous reputation, not everyone will want to sell him large pieces of real estate directly.
"Adamant" was founded in a distant and difficult year for the country in 1992. Then, together with the class of small owners, stalls and others, organized crime groups flourished in a stormy color. The founders’ fathers — Igor Leitis and Mikhail Bazhenov began with the plumbing trade — bought Finnish toilets for cash.
Later, in an interview with Forbes, Leitis, answering the question of how they managed to survive in criminal St. Petersburg and develop into such a giant, replied: We have always agreed, and therefore we have completely third-party shareholders in some complexes.
Apparently, Golubev is just one of them. And what it means to "negotiate" in those years was interpreted unequivocally — most likely, it meant to borrow a "roof" so that there were no problems with the "brothers."
Vladimir Golubev and Maxim Zhukov. Photo: https://rus-republic.com/2022/11/01/medvedchyka-osvobodili-iz-plena-ego-ziatia-rumina-osvobodiat-iz-rossetei-2/