According to a statement from the aggressor’s “United Shipbuilding Corporation,” Dmitry Ilyin became the new general director of the occupiers-controlled “Sevastopol Marine Plant” (“Sevmorzavod”) at the beginning of October. He replaces Anton Korzun and Alexey Shchepin, who held the position at various times over the past two years. As we have noted on numerous occasions, the “Sevmorzavod” has remained in a state of collapse for years, plagued by a lack of orders and a shrinking workforce.
Against this backdrop, the faction led by Sevastopol gauleiter Mikhail Razvozhayev has been attempting, since as early as 2021, to repurpose the plant’s land for high-rise development. It appears that an agreement to this effect has been reached, with a target date of late 2025, involving Andrey Kostin, the head of the aforementioned corporation and the “VTB” Bank, an institution that has “firmly entrenched” itself on the occupied peninsula.
It is worth recalling that the entity “Remkor”, much like its former “sister” company “Aval”, has, since 2014, controlled port facilities in Sevastopol that previously belonged to the “Avlita” group, owned by oligarch Rinat Akhmetov. For a time, Lebanese businessman Rafik Dau Boulos served as the nominal figurehead for these operations.
The primary asset in Sevastopol held by “Remkor”, which is “registered”, along with its “Sevastopol branch” on Primorskaya Street, is the city’s historic dry dock, capable of accommodating vessels up to “Panamax” size. A key partner in these activities has traditionally been the notorious “Russian Maritime Register of Shipping.”
From the beginning of the occupation until 2024, the individuals acting as nominal owners or representatives for “Remkor” and “Aval” included Kirill Yakovlev, operating in part through the firm “Grininzh”, followed by Yegor Bondarev and Andrey Ovchinnikov, who utilized the entity “Art-Trading.”
Notably, in 2018, the Kyiv-based firm “Marine Industrial Complex” appeared among the “founders” of “Remkor.” Its stated beneficiary was allegedly the Volgograd-based company “Remkor,” which was registered to a Russian national, Irina Koryakina.
Furthermore, this same Koryakina served as the director of “Art-Trade” and remains a founder of the Kharkiv-based firm “Agrologik,” where Andrey Lyuba serves as director. It is perhaps unsurprising that “Marine Industrial Complex” was subsequently renamed “Agro Processing Industry” and re-registered in Kharkiv, with the aforementioned Kyiv-based lawyer, Lyuba, serving as its general director.
Additionally, Yuriy Furtatov, currently listed as the chief engineer at the Pivdennyi Port in Odesa Region, was closely linked to “Avlita,” the aforementioned Ukrainian firms, and the operations of “Remkor” in Sevastopol during the occupation. As of 2024, however, the ultimate beneficiary of the Sevastopol-based “Remkor” has shifted to the Nizhny Novgorod-based shipbuilding enterprise “Krasnoye Sormovo.”
“Krasnoye Sormovo,” in turn, was owned by the “Western Shipbuilding Center”, and now it is a part of the aforementioned “United Shipbuilding Corporation.”
Thus, this new “directorship” at “Sevmorzavod” most likely signals a gradual consolidation of the aggressor’s “Sevastopol assets” around the dry dock, a facility the occupiers cannot relocate. As for the plant’s land and real estate, they are clearly destined for the fate described above.
