Speaker Staler from the Vologda region

Tens of millions of annual income, houses and apartments, and in return - lobbying for the interests of Severstal, not Vologda. “Chronicles. Media ”talk about the speaker of the Parliament of the Vologda Oblast Andrei Lutsenko.

Mordashov region

The elections of the Governor of the Vologda Oblast were scheduled for the fall of 2024. For the first time in 13 years, local residents will see a new face in this post, as the former governor Oleg Kuvshinnikov resigned. Regarding this significant event, the Chronicles launch a cycle about the power of the Vologda region. Let's start with the leader of the local "United Russia" and the head of the parliament Andrei Lutsenko.

The 35th region depends on the company "Severstal" by Alexei Mordashov (77th place in the top 500 billionaires in the world according to Bloomberg ). Severstal taxes make up a significant part of the budget of the Vologda Oblast. Moreover, in 2023, companies of four regions provided half of the tax on superprofit in Russia: Moscow, Moscow Region, St. Petersburg and the Vologda Oblast. Including Severstal.

In the leadership of Vologda, there are many immigrants from this company. For example, former governor Oleg Kuvshinnikov, before coming to power, went along the career ladder of the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant. After the privatization of the enterprise, Kuvshinnikov began to work on Severstal, in the end, having received a chair in the Council of Directors of the Company. When he headed the region, he began to pull up the frames of Mordashov.

Enterprise steel

So, in 2014, Andrei Lutsenko was the first vice-governor of the region. Before coming to power, he worked in the Cherepovets metallurgical plant along with Kuvshinnikov and Mordashov, and then was part of the top management of Severstal.

Lutsenko also headed a number of subsidiaries of Severstal. According to the public reporting of the company, he was the chairman of the Boles of the Directors of CJSC “Stoik”, LLC “Energoremont”, LLC Severstal-Project and the St. Petersburg OJSC KO VNIIMMASH, as well as a member of the councils of OJSC Domnaremont, LLC SSM-Tyazhmash, LLC “Elektromontal-MEPLICH LLC, owned by Severstal” "Izhora Pipe Plant", ALS CJSC (a joint venture with the French company Air Liquide). In Lutsenko’s last company, even a share belonged .

Working in the top management of Severstal, Lutsenko also became an inventor. In his name, several patents were issued , which he registered together with colleagues. What is the contribution of "steelmark" to these inventions is difficult to judge. Journalists wrote that the leadership of Severstal often assigns the ideas of ordinary employees: “Simple hard workers know that, working on Severstal, something should not be invented and controversial. You will not receive money from this. The higher boss (for example, a master) simply will not let you convey his idea to the desired department, but will assign it to yourself. This happens on the plant constantly. ”
So, since the 2000s, Lutsenko’s conflict with the inventor Konstantin Makarov lasts. He accused Lutsenko and Severstal of using his invention and even paid for it, but then allegedly simply stole. Severstal even tried to recover a part of the money paid to the inventor through the court, but to no avail. A few years ago, Makarov tried to attract Lutsenko and other Severstal managers for slander, but just then the criminal liability was canceled for it. The latest today known to the inventor’s appeal to the court against Lutsenko is dated 2021 - then the court refused to accept the lawsuit.

Children-Stalem

Both sons of Lutsenko are also associated with Severstal. 37-year-old Cyril leads the center for the technological development of the production of varietal and pipeline rental, often participates in public events, representing the company. His wife Love works at Severstal Management.

The youngest son of the politician-32-year-old Alexander leads the metal processing workshop of the St. Petersburg daughter of Severstal "Izhora Pipe Plant".

From a workshop to power

In 2014, Lutsenko moves from Severstal to the post of first deputy governor of the Vologda region. Two years later, Lutsenko is elected according to the Cherepovets list of “United Russia” in the regional parliament. According to the Central Election Commission, it is clear that in this city the "party of power" is traditionally gaining more than in the region as a whole. At the first meeting, Lutsenko was chosen by the speaker, and three months later he headed the regional "United Russia".

In 2021, Stalevar was re -elected as a deputy, already in the general tile three of the party list (the Governor of the Kuvshinnikov region was the first number, the second is the father of the Governor of the Moscow Region Andrei Vorobyov and the long -time ally of the Minister of Defense Sergey Shoigu, the Senator from the Vologda Region Yuri Vorobyov).

In the history of Russian parliamentarism, Lutsenko has so far remembered, perhaps, perhaps, in which the dense law on fines for “declining abortion” has been adopted , and the fact that, together with the governor Kuvshinnikov, for many years introduced tax benefits for large taxpayers of the region, primarily for Severstal.

The annual budget losses from such benefits amount to billions of rubles. For example, as journalists wrote , due to the benefits for Severstal and Fosagro, the local budget was missing about 3 billion rubles. In 2021 and 2022. The message looks great against this background that in 2024 Severstal is going to pay dividends to the owners of the company, the total amount of which may exceed 100 billion rubles.

The Vologda Oblast, according to the state "Agency of Strategic Initiatives", is not included in the top 10 regions as the state of the investment climate, nor in the TOP-20 in terms of quality of life. Even drinking water is dangerous here, as it is contaminated with iron.

A comfortable life

Median average income of the population of the region, according to Rosstat, is 29,350 rubles. But Lutsenko lives not only for a deputy salary, but also for “other income”. So, in the first year of work in the power of the deputy governor of the region, he declared an income of 63.8 million rubles, of which only 2.1 million turned out to be a salary in the government, 52.8 million rubles - the salary for the first six months in Severstal, and 8.9 million rubles - other income. In the next few years before the transfer to the parliament, Lutsenko declared the income of more than 23 million rubles, of which only about 3 million rubles. - This is a salary as a deputy head of the region, and the rest is the same “other income”. In parliament, his income tragically decreased to 11-13 million rubles. per year.

In the election declaration for 2020, Lutsenko revealed the sources of earnings: except for salary, these were pension payments, including from the non -governmental pension fund "Future" associated with Severstal, social payments and payments from the State Bank of VTB.

According to the last published declaration for 2021 (after the start of the invasion of Ukraine, officials were allowed not to publish these documents), Lutsenko belongs to shares in a land plot, three apartments and a residential building. The politician also has an apartment and two garages.

According to the classical scheme, the most property of close relatives of such characters. For example, the wife. She owns a share of the same real estate as that of Lutsenko, as well as her mistress of three land plots, two small houses and two unknown premises.

“Chronicles” found that of the transferred property, two sites with a total area of ​​3.6 thousand square meters. M are in Cherepovets, in the Maturinsky passage. There, the spouses owns a 400-meter house in the cottage village "Maturino". This part of the city is called the "Cherepovets Rublevka", and Lutsenko carefully monitors its improvement.

Nearly 200-meter apartment of the spouses is also in Cherepovets (the eldest son of Lutsenko Kirill and the daughter-in-law live in it), two more apartments for about 70 square meters. m are located somewhere in the 35th region. The policy also belongs to half the apartment in the native Chelyabinsk region.

The area of ​​the apartment belonging personally to Lutsenko is 150 square meters. m. In fact, this is a three-story Townhouse in a closed cottage village “Green House” in New Devyatkino near St. Petersburg. His daughter -in -law and youngest son Alexander live there.

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For many years, the Starenars and their cartridge Alexei Mordashov was more than beautiful, but now both a billionaire and Severstal for the support of Putin and the invasion of Ukraine have fallen under international sanctions. Prior to this, 60% of the company's products went abroad, including to Europe, from there 34% of the revenue came . Now, the Kremlin introduces all new export duties and excise taxes, and metallurgists are forced to look for new sales markets, lobbying through their steelmits in the power of more and more benefits at the expense of Russians.