Some days ago, a characteristic message flashed in the social networks of occupied Sevastopol about allegedly “local residents who went on a hiking trip.”
It was indicated that upon arriving at the outskirts of the village of Peredove (Urkusta), they discovered that in the forest someone had fenced off the previously popular recreational lake Verkhne, from which the Urkusta River originates, flowing into the Chorna River and thus providing water to Sevastopol.
On this occasion, the allegedly “unlucky tourists” contacted “Sevprirodnadzor”, where they received a rather remarkable formal reply about the “lack of authority for this territory”, since “Lake Verkhne is located on the territory of the Republic of Crimea”, and it got there in 2020 “as a result of the description of the borders between Crimea and Sevastopol.” However, as it follows from the published inscriptions on the fence near the “foreign lake”, it, as an alleged “hydraulic structure complex”, “is owned” by a certain company “Sindbad”.
In the “registers” of the occupiers, “Sindbad” is listed in the same Peredove on Magsumova Street, with a “director” in the form of a certain Pavel Sedov. But before the occupation, the private enterprise “Sindbad” was registered at the same address back in 2002, with an “eye” on fishing, aquaculture and recreation, that is, on the same Lake Verkhne.
The founder of the Ukrainian company was declared to be the infamous Sevastopol resident David Nikvashvili, who, together with Sergei Letau-Nagornov, was also the fake “founder” of the company “Sevstroimontazh” of Sevastopol resident Artem Maltsev, the husband of the well-known collaborator Olga Kovitidi.
However, the occupation “Sindbad” has a completely different “founder”, namely the Moscow company “Upranleniye Hostinits” (“Hotel Management”), to which the “subsidiary company” “Chernomor-Tour” is also “registered” in the same Peredove.
But the beneficiary of the “Hotel Management” is no longer the representatives of the Kovitidi group, but the “VSMPO-AVISMA Corporation” from the Ural Verkhnyaya Salda, a sanctioned Russian metallurgical company, the world’s largest producer of titanium and products made from it.
Thus, the Kovitidi clan, on some grounds, “transferred its sphere of interest” in Peredove to the Ural titanium magnates, and, judging by the July announcements posted on social networks about the recruitment of auxiliary workers “for the stable” in the same Peredove, where the contact emails coincide with the “official” ones from “Sindbad”, the Ural colonizers continue to develop this illegal “lake business”.
Probably, the lake itself was “transferred from Sevastopol to Crimea” four years ago for a reason: apparently, it seemed easier for the “Crimean senator” Kovitidi in this scam to provide the corresponding “guarantees of peace” to her “Ural titanium partners”. How these scams with the “border hydraulic structure” will affect the water supply of Sevastopol residents – we will probably find out in the near future.
