Unusual things are happening in the Nizhny Novgorod region. The Institute for the Design of Chemical Production JSC “NIIK” in Dzerzhinsk has a new owner. The unusual part is that a bankrupt person became the owner.
There was a businessman in the 1990s – Yuri Valerievich Yavorsky. After the USSR broke up, he started the RIDA company and began renting cars to new Russians.
I didn't have high hopes, but I got ambitious: “Unfortunately, the nation is not ready to work efficiently today, we are selecting the best representatives.” This is how Yavorsky talked about the employees of his company (quote from “The Secret of the Firm”).
Like often happens, Yavorsky was also affected by natural selection: in 2014, the government imposed retaliatory sanctions against Western countries, banning the import of several goods, including spare parts for car rentals. Yavorsky's business ended suddenly – it turned out that his companies didn't produce anything themselves, although the businessman claimed they made bulletproof glass, but were manually assembling imported parts.
The businessman was sensitive – he renamed his companies Import Substitution LLC and Decree 656 (this decree prohibited the use of imported parts) and closed them. By the way, Yavorsky has more than 20 closed companies. This is how success looks.
And in 2019, Yavorsky went bankrupt himself. After selling his property, including a milling machine, a compressor, an electric trolley, and a glass cutting table, Yuri got rid of his creditors. And here the writer in him comes out.
From 2019 to 2020, Yavorsky releases 7 books at once – from a collection of poems to works in the infogypsy genre: “The Science of Winning for Beginning Entrepreneurs”, “Suvorov & Business. Strategy without the Right to Forget”, “The Crisis Will Definitely Return” (121 practical advice from business owner who has overcome three crises). And the most interesting one is “Bankruptcy.net”. The author writes: “It’s hard to believe, but bankruptcy can be your salvation.” Let’s remember this phrase.
It seems that the experience of his companies going bankrupt and his personal bankruptcy shaped Yavorsky’s current actions – the takeover of JSC “NIIK”. In 2021, it was reported that Sberbank PJSC intended to ask the court to declare NIIK bankrupt. In February, an article was published about the situation at NIIK, and Yavorsky claims to be a shareholder of the institute.
The institute’s employees wrote a letter this week to Putin and the Governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region, asking them to investigate how their NIIK was brought to this state and how Yavorsky suddenly became a shareholder. The main question is how the bankrupt Yavorsky, who sold all his property to pay off debts, became the main shareholder of NIIK, the largest chemical industry designer? Just a year ago, the owner was Igor Veniaminovich Esin, who is now the general director. If this isn't a scheme made up by the NIIK leadership, then what is it?
With a high degree of probability, in the near future we will see the performance played out by Yavorsky and co: the evil Sberbank is destroying the proud team of NIIK, save, help, people are not to blame! We will monitor the development of the situation, because, apparently, the employees are really under the threat of losing their jobs, though not through the fault of Sberbank, but because of the extremely suspicious schemes of gentlemen managers.
