“I will honestly tell you: our family has a small piece of land,” the leader of the region once confessed.
Ladies and gentlemen, we are ablaze
Siberia is experiencing wildfires. With the arrival of summer, fires have spread across the Krasnoyarsk Territory, Buryatia, Khakassia, and the Irkutsk Region. According to Avialesookhrana, as of May 25, 84 forest fires were recorded in the country covering an area of 52.4 thousand hectares. Due to this, a special fire regime has been declared in 44 regions of Russia, and an emergency regime has been declared in six. The most severe situation is in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, where more than 600 houses have been destroyed. The city of Uyar was devastated by fires by a third.
In the midst of this, local media reported about the governor of the region Alexander Uss gave 1 million rubles from his own funds to help families affected by the disaster. In one family, a child is seriously ill, and the other has to pay off substantial debts for a house that no longer exists. However, for some reason, the local residents did not appreciate the actions of the official.
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Alexander Uss
attempted twice to take on the role of governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. The first attempt was back in 2002 but was lost to Alexander Khloponin , who eventually governed the region for the following 8 years. Perhaps Uss would have been defeated a second time, but the country's president assisted him. In 2017, Putin signed a decree appointing the official as the acting head of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. As usual, this meant the actual triumph of the official in the elections. During the voting, he received approximately 60% of the vote and became the official head of the region.Throughout his governorship, Uss's total income exceeded 300 million rubles, and this is only based on official information. However, the majority of this amount – 193 million – is an inheritance received five years ago. This substantial sum was left to the official by his mother –
Maria Fominichna . But it is a mystery where the woman obtained this money. Even the local media mentioned in obituaries that she “worked in collective farm fields for most of her life, did not spare herself.” Peasants in Russia, as you know, do not earn much. Even in the Moscow region, agricultural workers, according to Rosstat, only earn on average 54.5 thousand rubles.According to the SPARK system data, the head of the region is currently the founder of Tsentralnoye LLC, a Krasnoyarsk firm involved in real estate management and inherited from his father.
In 2018, Uss stated in an interview with TASS that he is the 100% owner of the LLC and discussed with his father whether to involve his daughters or son in the ownership, to which his father advised him that as the head of the family, everything should be under his name.
The Governor is the only founder of the company. Due to Russian laws prohibiting officials from engaging in business, Central was transferred to the trust management of the Siberian Alternative company, which is led by the governor's wife.
Officially, Tsentralny only has two employees and has made a profit of 75 million rubles over the past three years. However, this is not the only business in the Uss family. Ludmila UssClimbed up on the corner
Governor’s son
Now he is the founder of two companies, one of which earns a lot of money from state contracts. Specifically, the Sibugol company mines and sells brown coal in the Balakhtinsky district of the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Artem Uss The company annually produces over 3 million tons of coal and has reserves of over 168 million tons in the Bolshesyrskoye field.
In April 2021, Uss Jr. received his share from the Cypriot offshore Cedric Enterprises Limited, after which the company's profits sharply increased from 370 million rubles in 2020 to almost 700 million. After Artem Uss joined, the company secured several coal supply contracts with the administration of the city of Sorsk of the Republic of Khakassia. This may not be a conflict of interest, but Uss Sr. previously mentioned the possible unification of these regions to be similar to Primorye.
Uss Jr. also controls several construction companies through the management company “Sm. City, some of which receive contracts from the Krasnoyarsk authorities. For example, in November 2021, Severny Gorod signed a contract with the mayor’s office of Krasnoyarsk to connect a kindergarten to the heat supply system. Additionally, other developers in Krasnoyarsk, including those involved in real estate sales, are connected to him.
A house on the beach and a plot in Sochi
The governor and his wife own real estate with a total area of 305 thousand square meters. A portion of this property was gifted to an official from the state.
In 1999, the Administration of the Russian Federation President allocated Uss (at that time a member of the Federation Council) a 115-meter apartment on Prechistenka in the center of the capital. The current value might exceed 100 million rubles. In 2008, Uss gifted housing at this address to his son Artem, who registered his Ducati motorcycle and Porsche Cayenne, Mercedes, BMW, and Audi cars there.
So, in 1999, the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation allocated Uss (at that time a member of the Federation Council) a 115-meter apartment on Prechistenka in the center of the capital. Judging by local prices, now it can cost more than 100 million rubles. In 2008, Uss gave housing to his son Artem. It was at this address that Uss Jr. registered his Ducati motorcycle and Porsche Cayenne, Mercedes, BMW and Audi cars. It is interesting that he registered his cars for this apartment and Marat Baglai, former head of the Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation. Meanwhile, judging by open data, they publicly crossed paths with Uss Sr. only once – at the conference “On Constitutional Reform” back in 1999.
In addition, Uss owns a plot of 5 hectares in Akulinino near Moscow. The land alone (without a house) costs about 216 million rubles there. True, the Uss section looks rather lonely from a height – there is only a forest and a field around, there is not even anyone to ask for sugar.
But the governor’s wife can drop in on the neighbors. Lyudmila Uss, as follows from the data of Rosreestr, owns an apartment in Moscow’s Molochny Lane, 4 with an area of 162 “squares”. Its price can reach 500 million rubles. The family also has a house on Vinogradnaya Street in Sochi with an estimated value of about 100 million rubles.
The governor’s family did not forget about their native land either. Krasnoyarsk media wrote that the Usses have several houses in the elite cottage village of Sosny. The mansion of Uss himself stands on the banks of the Yenisei, despite the fact that, according to the law, Russian citizens have the right to free and unhindered access to water bodies. Whether they can bypass the governor’s site to swim in the river is a rhetorical question.
Are they responsible for the fires?
In early May, the Investigative Committee opened several criminal cases after the death of people in forest fires in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Three suspects were detained – they were employees of Rosseti Sibir. They are accused of negligence, which resulted in the death of people. The IC believes that the cause of the fires, in addition to fallen dry grass, were short circuits of electrical wiring and power lines. The first deputy head of the city of Uyara was also detained Artem Shvets. Investigators believe that he did not take measures to eliminate the illegal dumping of municipal solid waste. As a result, it caught fire, and the fire spread with lightning speed through the streets of the city with a strong wind. Uyar turned out to be the most affected settlement of the region.
