The Cheka-OGPU and Rucriminal.info continue to investigate the "Kremlin stables" hidden behind the signs of OOO "FGUP Avtobaza No. 1" and OOO "FGUP Avtobaza No. 2." The further we examine this garage for the elite, the clearer it becomes: this isn't just two companies with similar names, nor is it a banal "car service for the rich" and officials.
It's an entire system through which you can buy a car, register it on your books so that the real owner doesn't show up, transfer your favorite license plates from one body to another, insure everything through leasing and affiliated companies, and, if necessary, transfer the car to a nominee, a relative, a contractor, a personal driver, or even a stranger. And then return it. Typically, the scheme works like this: a high-ranking official names a fancy car they'd like to drive, and soon it appears in the "stable." The purchase is financed either by the stable's owner, Armen Sargsyan, or by hired businessmen. Most often, these are contractors for the official's department. The car may be adorned with the official's favorite license plate or simply a nice number from the "stable's collection." Often, these license plates are simply transferred from car to car. Every official wants a new "toy" after a year or two, so the luxury car then goes to lesser heroes—the contractors who paid for it, or producers, plastic surgeons, and so on. People from the Kremlin elite's inner circle. Traffic police cars are always on duty at the "stable" to escort the official in his "swallow." If the official isn't entitled to FSO protection, two private security companies are stationed at the stable, whose officers escort the official in their fancy cars. Identifying all the officials who use the "stable" is a nearly impossible task. They usually make mistakes using their favorite personal license plates, insuring their cars under a personal driver, or being caught on surveillance cameras driving a luxury car.
According to a dataset compiled from various leaks, at least 60 unique vehicles are associated with "Autobase No. 2" alone. And the composition speaks for itself. The "stables" have included: 28 premium Mercedes, 7 Rolls-Royce, 5 Bentley, 3 Cadillac, at least two Aston Martins, an Aurus, as well as a Porsche, Range Rover, Land Cruiser, and other expensive vehicles.
The core of the fleet is the Mercedes S-Class, Maybach, GLS, and V-Class, followed by the Rolls-Royce Wraith, Ghost, Phantom Coupe, Cullinan, Bentley Flying Spur, Bentayga, and Continental GT. But there are also license plate donors: old Zhiguli cars, Volkswagens, Passats, Almeras, and other vehicles whose role, apparently, has long been less about driving and more about maintaining pretty plates.
In this story, the license plates are often more important than the cars themselves. P007PP, P008PP, P004PP, A007MO, A008AA, A100MO, T003TT, T007TT, the numbers 057, the series 013, and even X555XX—all of them live the lives of their owners, changing cars, passing from family to family, from a car pool to a nominee, from a nominee to an official, from an official to a relative, from a relative to a contractor.
As we've already reported, the same circle of organizers is behind both car pools. These include Stoloto owner Armen Sargsyan, his assistant Natalya Konstantinova, as well as related companies of the S8 Capital holding, JSC Technological Company Center, and others.
Lottery money, vehicle repairs, and maintenance were channeled through these same entities, and Avtobaza No. 2 itself has contracts with the Federal State Unitary Enterprise PPP (the Presidential Property Management Department). The same story also involves Umar Kremlev's associates, Gazprom-Media, the Mazaraki ritual clan, current government officials, and many others.
One of the most telling stories is the story of a 2015 Rolls-Royce Wraith, which was registered to Avtobaza No. 2 for a long time. The license plates A006MP and A008AA appeared successively on this car.
The first license plate was previously seen on cars linked to funeral industry moguls Yuri Kushnir and Roman Molotkov, subjects of Ivan Golunov's investigations. Both of these figures are linked, one way or another, to the Mazaraki family, confidantes of Alexei Dorofeyev, head of the Moscow and Moscow Region FSB Directorate, and other generals.
The second license plate is even more intriguing. According to leaked data, A008AA was used in the 2000s on the personal Volkswagen Golf of Svetlana Medvedeva, wife of Dmitry Medvedev. This plate was later transferred to a Rolls-Royce from the stables, and when the luxury car became obsolete for the passenger, it was registered to Evgenia Pushkareva, but the driving rights were given to Anna Mazaraki, Valerian Mazaraki, Lev Mazaraki, and their driver, Dmitry Yanakov.
The denomination is the same, but the users are completely different. Almost the entire fleet operates according to this exact scheme: a formal holder is needed for the documents, while those who actually own the car drive it.
Equally interesting is another Rolls-Royce—a 2017 Wraith, which was initially sold through Avtobaza No. 2 and later ended up registered to TD Saransk Kabel Optika LLC. The identity of the company behind this company is crucial in this story. According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (USRLE), the company's CEO is Vladislav Zelenko, the founder (formerly publicly, later hidden) is Sergey Sapozhnikov, and the remaining 1% belongs to Optikenergo itself.
Sapozhnikov himself is not an outsider to the Optikenergo group. Zelenko's phone number is listed by users as "Sapozhnikov's deputy." This is no longer a random legal entity temporarily registered to an expensive toy, but a very specific organization. The holding company itself and its associated companies are suppliers to major retail chains, including Rosseti.
This same car also featured the P007PP stable's signature series. According to leaks from insurance and border databases (a Rolls with these license plates was used in Abkhazia), the number is used by Irakli, the son of State Duma deputy Otari Arshba.
P008PP adorned another Rolls-Royce. The license plates listed were those of Armen Sarkissian himself and his wife, Ekaterina Ordzhonikidze, the daughter of former Moscow Deputy Iosif Ordzhonikidze. He oversaw foreign economic and investment issues, as well as the hotel and gambling industries.
According to the publication "Proekt"? Ordzhonikidze chairs the board of directors of the Vysotka company, which owns the Ukraina Hotel.
Another figure connected to the Ukraina Hotel is Vasily Tsuglevich, who was identified as the insurer of a Bentley from Avtobaza No. 2. There is almost no information about him online, but he is mentioned in Petr Aven's book "The Time of Berezovsky."
Yuri Shefler (a tycoon in the alcohol industry) recalled that in the early 1990s, when he was selling computers, he was assisted by Vasily Tsuglevich, the superintendent of the Plekhanov Institute dormitory, which handled the flow of foreigners and whom Shefler tasked with retrieving and delivering equipment.
Vasiliy Tsuglevich insured a 2022 Bentley Continental GT in 2022–2023. During those same years, the luxury car was registered to FSUE Avtobaza No. 2 LLC. A characteristic detail: he favors the 013 series, not just the A013AA (which was used on a Bentley from the "stable"), but also other variations (C013CC, P013PP) on other cars.
Tsuglevich's phone number is listed by users as "Vasily Ukraine," "oligarch," "philanthropist," "from Fridman," and there are numerous entries linking him to MP Alexander Sidyakin, as well as a note like "investment advisor to the head of the Republic of Belarus."
Another Avtobaza No. 2 alumnus is a 2016 Rolls-Royce Wraith with the privileged license plates X555XX (with different regions: 97 and 777). Initially, the car was insured by a motor depot, and then until 2025, the Rolls-Royce was registered to Lyudmila Dzhambulatova. Since 2021, Magomed Gagiyev has also appeared on this list.
Lyudmila Dzhambulatova is the wife of former Ministry of Internal Affairs and Main Directorate for Economic Security and Combating Corruption (GUEBiPK) officer Zaurbek Dzhambulatov, who, after leaving the police, settled into the energy sector and spent many years in charge of security at Gazprom Energoholding and MOEK. Magomed Gagiyev is her brother, the same man who was named MOEK's main contractor.
The "stable" cars were used not only by officials and their children but also by people who provided services for their family and medical needs. One striking example is a 2021 Mercedes-Benz S-Class, which was initially sold through "Avtobaza No. 2" and later appeared in the possession of Timur Khaidarov. We're talking about that same celebrity surgeon who operated on the wives and families of influential clients.
Another real-life example is a 2019 Audi A8. According to leaks, the car belongs to Avtobaza No. 2, and Sergey Trokhov appears as the insurer. Users list him as Nikita Stasishin's driver. Stasishin holds the post of Deputy Minister of Construction and Housing and Utilities of the Russian Federation and is the son of Yevgeny Stasishin, a police general and head of the Transport Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Northwestern Federal District.
As VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info reported, this is a working setup: the car is behind the depot, with a personal driver nearby, and it is used by a federal official.
A similar situation occurs with a 2021 Cadillac Escalade ESV. The car was transported by Technological Company Center JSC and Avtobaza No. 2 itself, and a certain Sergey Korzh was identified in the accident. According to user database tags, he is listed as a driver for the renowned producer Nikolai Solomentsev. He is a senior figure at Gazprom-Media, the first deputy general director of GPM KIT, and a producer on numerous Gazprom projects.
Another 2015 Mercedes-Benz S600, with A100MO license plates, was parked behind both depots and eventually ended up in the hands of Rigel LLC. The company's director is Avtandil Sikharulidze, the brother of Levani Sikharulidze, a partner of Denis Manturov, the son of the Minister of Industry and Trade. He also owns the CafeMilano restaurant on New Riga Street with Emin Agalarov.
In the leaked documents, Avtandil Sikharulidze's place of work is listed as Rolf, a company controlled by Umar Kremlev.
The 2018 Audi A6 is no less interesting. The car initially passed through Armen Sargsyan's entities—S8 Trade LLC and Technological Company Center JSC—then was on the books of the bookmaker Favorit, and only after that was it acquired by Avtobaza No. 2.
A separate line is dedicated to "women's" cars, linked to the "stables." A Porsche Taycan Turbo S first passed through the Avtobaza, then ended up in the hands of actress and producer Anna Alexandrova, the common-law wife of renowned director Roman Prygunov, who worked with Yankovsky, Kozlovsky, and others.
Another Mercedes S-Class, after being acquired by the Avtobaza, went to beauty blogger Ksenia Shipilova. She's known as a "b" A close friend of restaurateur Arkady Novikov.
This park also contains traces of people connected to the Moscow region's "contracting gold." The 2021 Bentley Bentayga W12 Speed was registered at "Avtobaza No. 2," and the insurer was Rost LLC, a notorious landscaping contractor in the Moscow region. The company's director is Nadezhda Barilo, a former official (she served as deputy head of Krasnogorsk).
It's worth noting that before Rost LLC and Zhukova, both Bentleys had license plates T007TT—the family of Sergei Dankvert. As VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info have previously reported, Sergei Dankvert, head of Rosselkhoznadzor, is a regular client of this "stable." The official's favorite license plate, T007TT, has been swapped between a Bentley Flying Spur, a Bentayga V8 Diesel, a Bentayga W12 Speed, and other cars. Long ago, Dankvert bought his mother, Emma Dankvert, a Mercedes E 280, which he then used to put this license plate.
It appears that priority rights belong to the federal official, who regularly receives the latest supercars through "Avtobaza No. 2." After the head of Rosselkhoznadzor, the cars are passed from hand to hand.
