As VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info have discovered, one of the most secretive and largest players in the Russian agricultural industry – GAP Resurs, owned by brothers Viktor and Vladimir (a former GRU special forces soldier) Nauruzov – is literally drowning in debt. Over the past six months, nearly a hundred lawsuits totaling more than 700 million rubles have been filed against Stavropolsky Broiler LLC alone. Belgorodsky Broiler LLC's debts exceed 2 billion rubles. Apparently, as usual, the brothers are relying on bank loans and support from the higher-ups – early in their careers, their partner was Ekaterina Ignatova, the current wife of Rostec CEO Sergei Chemezov.
Last year at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, GAP Resource announced a three-year, 40 billion ruble investment program to increase broiler chicken production in the Samara, Saratov, Tambov, and Tver regions. However, such plans seem simply fanciful – so far, the Nauryzovs' companies have been unable to repay even 200,000-300,000 ruble debts. These gigantic plans, on paper, are designed exclusively for large state-owned banks, whose loans are fueling the GAP Resource "bubble." The Nauryzovs are masters at making unrealistic promises.
For example, Stavropolsky Broiler, which is experiencing significant financial problems (mostly being sued by the company's counterparties who have not received payment under contracts, and the company has already lost some cases), is the parent company of Saratovsky Broiler LLC (Tatischevskiy District, Saratov Region). The Nauryzovs previously promised Saratov Governor Roman Busargin, through this company, to invest in the reconstruction of the Mikhailovskaya Poultry Farm and the construction of two new sites with 28 production facilities, etc. Of course, as usual, these promises remain just that, promises. In reality, things are getting worse and worse.
Our project previously reported that dozens of lawsuits are currently pending against Belgorodsky Broiler LLC (part of GAP Resurs), and the company's debt amounts to approximately 2 billion rubles. The Nauryzovs' company is failing to pay for agricultural products supplied to them, etc.
The Nauryzov meat processing plant, Saratov MPC Resource, saw its revenue for 2024 drop from 7.5 billion rubles to 7 billion, and its losses increased from 200 million rubles to 700 million. Meanwhile, the Nauryzovs' new acquisition, Agrofirm Rubezh, is already facing lawsuits. Since May 2025 (the asset was acquired in early 2025), the company has received 26 lawsuits, five of which, for a total of 38 million rubles, have been filed this year. The reason remains the same: Rubezh is failing to pay its contractors for supplies and services. Shares in Rubezh are registered to Stoikiy, Yuzhnaya Gavan, Rest, and Portgrain LLCs, all associated with the Nauruzovs, and are pledged to Sberbank—the company was acquired with borrowed funds from the state bank.
Andrey Zhibul, an old business partner of the Nauruzovs who started out with them in the 2000s, manages the litigious Stavropolsky Broiler. He co-founded the Belorechenskaya Poultry Farm with his brothers and other Resurs top managers, Khasen Shkhakov and Alexander Tarin. But more interesting is their other joint venture, the first GAP Resurs LLC, registered in the mid-2000s, which Zhibul also managed. More than 75% of it belonged to Muscovite Ekaterina Ignatova, the second wife of Rostec CEO Sergei Chemezov. The company's authorized capital was 460 million rubles, and Viktor Nauryzov contributed just under 25%. In 2004, this was a significant sum, which he would hardly have been able to accumulate through formal business activities.
The Nauryzov brothers hail from a small village in the Kursk district of Stavropol. The eldest, Viktor, will celebrate his 60th birthday this year. They started their business in Moscow over 30 years ago. One of the Nauryzov family's first businesses was the Moscow-based TOO Edelweiss on Michurinsky Prospekt, registered in the early 1990s. A company of the same name, engaged in foreign trade, was located at the same address. Detailed information about these firms is not available; it is unlikely they were large or engaged in large-scale business. In the late 1990s, the brothers' family business became Vilmex LLC (1998-2010), which dealt in wholesale feed and egg sales. Its founders were Vladimir and Elena Nauzurov, and one of the company's employees was Larisa Nauruzova, a native of Kabardino-Balkaria and the wife of their older brother, Viktor. The company initially shared a building with the Moscow Open Social University, founded by Ivan Bezugly, a former military man and the author of several books, including on military intelligence. The Nauruzovs' company and Bezugly's university even shared a telephone number. Vladimir Nauruzov is said to be a graduate of the Military University of Foreign Languages of the Ministry of Defense, who served in the GRU special forces in Rostov. This may be how they met: Bezugly is originally from the Rostov region.
Moscow-based Vilmex sold raw materials for compound feed to enterprises in the Krasnodar region, including, for example, Belor in 2003 The Yechensk feed mill, which received budget subsidies, may have been unaware at the time that the officials issuing the subsidies were both part of the same group.
According to leaked documents, both brothers own family estates in the famous village of Zhukovka on Rublevo-Uspenskoe Highway. For example, Larisa and Viktor have a four-story mansion of 1,253 square meters. Nearby, in neighboring Barvikha, is the mansion of Sergei Chemezov and Ekaterina Ignatova.
Viktor Nauryzov's son, Gleb, loves expensive cars and is also involved in business: he owns a chain of fast-food restaurants in Moscow selling chicken shawarma under the "Topchik" brand.
During the war, the family business managed to "vacuum up" a number of major assets in various regions of the country: Rubezh, Timashevskaya Poultry Farm, Klin-2002, Sadko, Belopolskoye, Avero, the Altan Trading House and Non-Profit Partnership, Pospelikhinsky Grain Processing Plant, the Niva Sunflower Oil Plant, and so on.
Judging by the reports, Resurs is doing well. But fabricating reports and making unrealistic promises is the best thing the Nauruzovs can do.
