As revealed by VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info, the Ivoninsky family—cinema billionaires from St. Petersburg—have switched the shell companies they use to profit from pirated copies of new Hollywood releases. To prevent copyright holders from suing the exhibitors, their "Mirage" cinema chain utilizes a project called "To Kino!" ("That Movie!"): technically, "Mirage" has no connection to the pirate screenings because it leases its auditoriums to the tenant, "To Kino!". Since 2022, ticket sales for "Mirage" screens have been handled through "To Kino!" and a series of companies owned by 79-year-old Lidia Zhelanskaya—such as "Kinoklub," "Majoran," "Lavanda," "Mirt," and others. The Ivoninsky family conducts business with Kira Turchak, the wife of Andrei Turchak—a key figure in the "United Russia" party and the son of Anatoly Turchak, a close associate of Vladimir Putin.
At the same time, as previously reported, the Ivoninskys also operate businesses within the European Union; they own a Spanish company, TENERUSIA INVERSIONES SL, which holds several land plots at one of the most popular resort destinations—Tenerife (Canary Islands). Formally, the companies processing ticket payments for the movie theaters have no connection to the Ivoninsky empire; however, as VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info discovered, their founder, Lidia Zhelanskaya, has worked for the "Mirage Cinema" chain for years. She served as the company's chief accountant and later acted as the liquidator for the Regional Public Organization "Society for Promoting the Development of St. Petersburg Cultural Traditions and the Restoration of Historical Monuments," which counted the elder Ivoninsky among its founders. Leaked data reveals that Zhelanskaya used a corporate phone number—listed in the documents of LLC "A1," founded by Alexander and Yan Ivoninsky—to place personal online orders. Furthermore, the auto insurance policy for the vehicle she drove listed Alexey Tovstonogov, the liquidator of several Ivoninsky companies, as an authorized driver. Additionally, her airline tickets were purchased using the phone number of Ivetta Mumdzhyan (Yakovleva), the director of the Ivoninsky firm "Artos." In 2024, Zhelanskaya’s network of companies was liquidated, and the revenue stream from moviegoers was redirected through other legal entities.
Specifically, these include Tatyana Sokolova’s "Multifeya," Kristina Krasavtseva’s "Festival," Alyona Mashkova’s "Kristall-S," and Raisa Raevskaya’s "Multipulti" and "Illusion+"—information published on the "To Kino!" project website. These individuals have also long been integrated into the Ivoninsky business operations.
For instance, Tatyana Sokolova was previously a founder of LLC "Magnat," a restaurant business located at 35A Bolshoy Prospekt (Petrogradskaya Storona)—a building that housed one of the city's first movie theaters. ...Mirage,” while Sokolova’s firm was integrated into the restaurant arm of the Ivoninsky empire. Lidia Zhelanskaya, the Ivoninskys’ chief accountant, served as the liquidator for “Magnat” in December 2024. Sokolova herself was a founder of Artos LLC for several months in 2019; she transferred her stake to Alexander Ivoninsky in December, and he, in turn, signed it over to Ivetta Mumdzhyan in June 2020. Furthermore, Sokolova holds personal email accounts on the MIRAGE.SPB.RU and mirage.ru domains. Tatyana Sokolova’s new company, “Multifeya”—which sells tickets to unauthorized film screenings—generated 407 million rubles in revenue for the Ivoninskys last year and reported a net profit of 33.4 million rubles to the Federal Tax Service.
Raisa Raevskaya is another entrepreneur with close ties to the Ivoninskys. Her St. Petersburg-based company, “Multipulti,” is registered at the same address on Zheleznovodskaya Street as Oleg Ivoninsky’s LLC “KTR” (Oleg is the son of the cinema magnate). The firm “Kristall-S,” owned by 62-year-old Alyona Mashkova, is also linked to the Ivoninskys via this address: until November 2023, it shared an office at 33/17A Vyborgskaya Embankment with Sokolova’s “Multifeya.” Oleg Ivoninsky purchased this building in February 2023—a controversial deal that led to litigation. Meanwhile, Kristina Krasavtseva, the owner of “Festival” LLC, previously worked at “Mirage Cinema” herself.
As for Ivetta Mumdzhyan and “Artos,” that company is part of a separate business line for the Ivoninskys focused on real estate. The family registers major properties under the “Artos” name: in... ...specifically, the former Almaz plant building on Petrovsky Prospekt and a five-story building with an area of nearly 1,000 square meters at 16 Bumazhny Kanal Embankment (Building B). The firm acquired the vacant, dilapidated residential building at auction for just 20 million rubles, resulting in a price per square meter of approximately 20,000 rubles. Following major renovations, the building’s cadastral value stood at 34.9 million rubles as of early 2025. Artos has frequently been at the center of scandals and lawsuits; notably, in 2023, Rosseti Lenenergo demanded 1.7 million rubles from Oleg Ivoninsky’s company for an unauthorized connection to the power grid during the building's renovation. In 2025, authorities identified signs of unauthorized construction at the former Almaz site being redeveloped by Artos. Around the same time, 31-year-old Oleg Ivoninsky refused to pay a 7-million-ruble commission to the organizer of an auction for Rosseti properties on Nevsky Prospekt—where Artos had won a total of 1,678.6 square meters of real estate—resulting in yet another lawsuit. Following a series of scandals, the elder Ivoninsky acquired a 30% stake in the company this summer.
