Monolithic friendship. How market relations brought Konstantin Serov and Pavel Okunev closer

In the prestigious St. Petersburg suburb of Repino there is a small country village "Monolith". The name was chosen as if specifically - the streets of the village indicate the almost monolithic connection of the families of the famous politician Konstantin Serov and the chairman of the TIC No. 51 Pavel Okunev. This friendship, I must say, is not only strong, but also quite mutually beneficial.

This is how tempting the village of Monolite described one of the announcements of the sale of local cottages: “ Before the finish, Finnskogo was borrowed for 10 minutes, 20 minutes on the VELISPED or ChaC PECHOM - 4.8 km ... These meths were generally generally artist to create, [they] will share and with you unusual energy, atmospheres, atmospheres, atmospheres the country life of the St. Petersburg intelligentsia. Sand beach, our sea, the sun, the clear sky will be at your side. In the gardening itself - centuries -old pine trees, a walking area for jogging and leisurely walks, even its small beach near the sister river on the territory of the village. A playground, table tennis table, football field. Pleasant and decent neighbors ... ".

There is nothing to argue - decent neighbors in the country are extremely important. They create, as they sometimes write in such ads, a “socially homogeneous environment”. And sometimes this environment becomes homogeneous just to the degree of mixing. One such neighboring pair will be discussed.

In general, many residents of the village are somehow connected with the companies of Monolith JSC and monolithstroy OJSC Alexander Gutman. Some of them were among the founders of these companies, but now the story is not about them.

The largest site in the “Monolith - 26.6 acres with two houses officially located on it and a nearby buildings - belongs to Pavel Pavlovich Okunev. Until 2017, he also held the post of chairman of gardening - and then handed it to his wife Nadezhda.

Literally a hundred meters, after two houses, there is a mansion in which Lelia Stepanovna Serova settled - the mother of the head of the Frunze district of St. Petersburg Konstantin Serova. Its plot is more modest - only 12 acres. But what is noteworthy, it was formed from two smaller sections acquired in October 2018 from ... Marina Pavlovna Okuneva, the daughter of the former and current chairmen of the SNT "Monolith". One of these sites Marina Okuneva received from the reign of the “monolith” just three months before its further sale of Cold Serova.

One would have thought that these are just some summer deeds of the next cunning chairman of the gardening. But a close acquaintance here began long before transactions in the "monolith". The family of Pavel Okunev is very close to the political long -liver of St. Petersburg Konstantin Serov. So much so that for many years they, as they say, have been friends with houses, helping each other both in business and in politics.

Konstantin Serov - maybe not the most publicly famous city politician, but, without exaggeration, one of its veterans. Back in Soviet times, he elected to the Nevsky district council of people's deputies, and then five times became a deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg from the Nevsky district. In 2002 and in 2007 , and in 2011 , when Serov extended his mandate, Marina Okuneva was invariably in the territorial election commission of the district. At least in 2015, when Serov had already left the Mariinsky Palace and headed the Nevsky district of St. Petersburg, Okuneva Jr. officially worked as his adviser.

Relations of perch and Serov can be safely called market. In the decision on the formation of the election commission in 2002, the place of work of Marina Okuneva was indicated by the NGO “Association of clothing, food-giving markets and trade zones of St. Petersburg”, created in 1998. The vice president of this association for a long time was her father -Pavel Okunev. Together with Konstantin Serov, in the early 2000s, they were part of the Coordinating Council on Market issues and small-zone trade. Serov was a real lobby for the association and even in the late 1990s, being the head of the industrial faction,he submitted to the parliament the bill of markets initiated by her . The media also wrote about the closer ties of Serov with the sphere of trade, but they go into a completely distant past.

It is hardly a simple chance that a few years later a devoted employee of the election commission Marina Okuneva reserves her reservation that had just been purchased by the deputy’s mother, to whom she helped to be elected so many times. By the way, exactly due to the design of the cottage for his mother Konstantin Serov and did not need to declare her.

Pavel Okunev, like his daughter once, until 2020 also served as adviser Konstantin Serov, who was already transferred to the Frunze district by that time. And two years ago, our former chairman of the gardening, following the family tradition, also went into the organizers of the elections, joining the Terisbirkom No. 51 in the Nevsky district of the city. Pavel Okunev did not have any experience in the electoral system, but he immediately became the chairman of the commission, thereby taking the state position of St. Petersburg.

Officially, Okuneva put forward the United Russia party in the election room. From the same batch a member of the commission, but with the right of an advisory vote, is his daughter Marina. The party of power cemented the monolith of the friendship of families no worse than the overall interest in clothing markets-in 2004, when Konstantin Serov headed the Executive Committee of the St. Petersburg branch of United Russia, he invited Pavel Okunev to the first deputy responsible for financial and economic activities. Soon, Okunev became a member of the political council and even the Presidium of the Party-Council of Partytake, that is, he entered the narrow circle of the city party elite, but for a short while-when in 2007, as a result of the intra-party struggle of Serov, he parted with the leadership of the executive committee, the Presidium quickly left Okunev.

TIK No. 51 is responsible for the elections in the territory of the people's municipal district, which actually coincides with the boundaries of the constituency No. 38 in the “old” scheme of cutting districts that existed until 2016. It was from this territory that Konstantin Serov was five times and was elected to the city parliament. And now he continues to control her - through his mother’s neighbors in the country. Apparently, in case of resignation from the executive branch.

By the way, Pavel Okunev is one of the few owners of a public office, honestly declaring additional income. He receives them from the delivery of the premises belonging to him. For example, only a room at the Komarovo railway station is rented by a bakery store; There are other real estate objects. Honesty is good, but why is this not entrepreneurial activity whose occupation is prohibited for both officials and citizens who occupy state duty?

The Central Election Commission love to talk about unprofessionalism in the electoral system of St. Petersburg. As you can see, professionalism is not needed here. Good -neighborly relations with the right people. In the atmosphere, of course, the extraordinary energy of the prestigious country village.