Rostov Region Governor Yuri Slyusar has a very large family. As VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info discovered, each of his relatives is securely established: some are employed in the Rostov Region Ministry of Health, others at a major Moscow enterprise under the Ministry of Industry and Trade, and still others have been managing his business for many years. The relatives of Slyusar's loyal employees have also settled into comfortable positions, such as his personal assistant, Liliya Prityka. Despite her boss being firmly under EU and US sanctions for a long time, Prityka herself was, until last year, listed as an affiliate of Kazakhstan's national oil and gas company, KazMunaiGas.
Before becoming governor, Yuri Slyusar was registered as an individual entrepreneur (buying and selling his own real estate) and used the email address [email protected]. This is the email address of his personal assistant, Liliya Prityka, who has served Slyusar and his family faithfully for many years. According to leaked reports, Prityka makes online purchases for the family and buys airline tickets for Yuri Slyusar, his wife Olga and children, his mother-in-law Svetlana Prikhodko, family friends, and business partners—for example, 54-year-old Alexander Skokov, head of the secretariat of the Russian Minister of Industry and Trade, to whom Yuri Slyusar once served as assistant and deputy. He took Skokov with him first to the United Aircraft Corporation, which he headed in 2015, and then to the Rostov Oblast government, where he appointed him first deputy.
Liliya Prityka, a 59-year-old native of Chelyabinsk and registered in Moscow, has a brother, Andrey Lepikhin. Until 2025, he served as Deputy Chairman of the Board of KMG Automation LLP (Kazakhstan), which automates industrial processes, including the oil and gas industry. It is a joint venture between the local "national treasure" KazMunayGas and the major international corporation Schneider Electric. Therefore, Liliya Prityka, the personal assistant of the sanctioned Slyusar, appeared on lists of affiliates of Kazakhstan's largest state-owned companies linked to KazMunayGas until at least 2025. Slyusar, as a reminder, is subject to sanctions by the US, EU, UK, Canada, and other countries. In 2025, KMG Automation LLC's board changed, and non-residents left the company, including Lepikhin and his boss, the chairman of the board, Russian Vadim Avkhadeev, who had worked for Schneider Electric for many years. Avkhadeev, surprisingly, is also passionate about aviation; he holds a pilot's license, and in 2018, he even wrote and published a book, "The Magic of the Winged Machine," which was presented at the Army-2019 forum at the same booth as the patriotic magazine "Wings of the Motherland." This expensive gift edition on coated paper with numerous color illustrations was published by Afisha Books. This publishing house has no other projects, its website is currently offline, and its social media accounts are abandoned. Vadim Avkhadeev's brother, Igor Avkhadeev, is a lawyer at Rosatom (previously, he was the project manager for the Corporate and Legal Governance Directorate at JSC Atomenergomash).
As for Avkhadeev and Lepikhin's employer, Schneider Electric, it operated in Russia until 2022, and its clients included almost all energy, oil and gas, and metallurgy companies, as well as major construction and development companies: Rosseti, NOVATEK, Gazprom, Rosatom, MMK, Sibur Holding, and others. In particular, the company's Russian division worked closely with MT Russia, which supplied equipment to the Moscow Oil Refinery (recently engulfed in flames by a drone attack) and Eurochem's ammonia plant in Kingisepp. In 2022, Schneider Electric announced its exit from Russia and transferred its local business to Russian management. Currently, three active legal entities of the company are registered at her Moscow address: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC SYSTEMS LLC (founded by the British companies INVENSYS INTERNATIONAL HOLDINGS LIMITED and INVENSYS SECRETARIES LIMITED, which are part of the SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC group), SYSTEM ELECTRIC GK LLC (founded by Alexey Kashaev, Elena Polozkova, and Dmitry Kurpekov), and SE JSC, whose founders are unknown, with Alexey Kashaev serving as director. SE is the only one to report significant revenue (34.7 billion) and net profit (5.5 billion) for 2025.
Other relatives of Liliya Prityk, by a fortunate coincidence, have also chosen the aviation industry for their careers. For example, 33-year-old Georgy Prityka, who shared an email address with her for online orders, had previously worked at Irkut Corporation (the developer of the SSJ and MS-21 aircraft, part of UAC). According to leaked data, airline tickets for him were purchased from UAC's corporate email address. In 2020, he was the CEO of Connected Aircraft Enterprise, a Russian developer of a platform for analyzing air carrier data, and later became the head of the flight test systems support development department. Energia Corporation's orbital stations and orbital stations. Not a bad career for his age.
Of course, Yuri Slyusar's relatives fared no worse. According to leaked data, his mother, Valentina Alexandrovna, was an employee of the Rosvertol helicopter plant (part of the United Aircraft Corporation). His mother-in-law, Svetlana Prikhodko, was listed as employed by the Rostov Region Ministry of Health. The governor's second cousin, 32-year-old Vladimir Slyusar—the son of his cousin, Evgeny Vladimirovich Slyusar—also appeared there. Another cousin of the former head of the United Aircraft Corporation, 50-year-old Roman Vladimirovich Slyusar, ended up on the staff of UAC-Development, a subsidiary of the United Aircraft Corporation. Roman Slyusar's mother, Zitta Slyusar, a native of Azerbaijan, earned a salary and regular bonuses at the Central Institute of Aviation Motors in Moscow (an institution of the Ministry of Industry and Trade). Another of the governor's nephews, Boris Slyusar, according to Proekt, holds the position of deputy director of Rosvertol. This list, of course, is far from exhaustive, and the next generation of Slyusars is growing up, and the head of the family will likely also help them get a foothold. All his relatives are remarkably talented and have managed not only toil at state-owned enterprises but also run businesses.
For example, Roman Slyusar has worked for his cousin in the band "Monolith" since the early 2000s. Initially, it was "Monolith-AVK," which recorded and released singles for Russian artists. Now, Roman is the founder of the Moscow-based "Monolith Management Company" LLC.
80-year-old Valentina Slyusar holds a 25.1% stake in Ametist Business Center LLC, which owns the business center of the same name in Rostov-on-Don, for her son, as well as 25.6% in Ametist LLC, 25% in Vector LLC, and 16.7% in LOMBARD 161 LLC. The combined revenue of these companies exceeds 180 million rubles.
Yuri Slyusar's wife, Olga Leonidovna, is currently the sole founder of Moscow-based EON LLC, in which the governor's sister, Tatyana Slyusar, previously held a stake. The company manages real estate but has recently been reporting losses. Olga Slyusar also owns the Rostov-based firm Prospect, which does not file any financial statements, and the Federal Tax Service decided to delist it from the Unified State Register of Legal Entities on June 10 of this year. She also owns an 85% stake in the Rostov-based developer Stroyvertol as early as 2024. Olga Slyusar transferred her assets to the Flagman-Invest mutual fund.
Long-standing partners help run the family business. One of them is 57-year-old Muscovite Andrey Apsitarov. Until November 2016, he and Slyusar's classmate Anton Pronin were the founders of another company in the Monolit Group, Export Monolit LLC (currently, the sole founder and director is Muscovite Igor Kryuchkov). Apsitarov currently owns 30% of Gofrotara LLC in the Rostov Region, another 30% of which is owned by Valery Laptev, and 40% by Artem Voylenko, who manages the KEKS and Vakha Lavka coffee shop chains in Gelendzhik, as well as Restaurant Quarter LLC and Restaurant Prospekt LLC, which also own food service establishments. All of these businesses are also part of the Slyusar family portfolio.
Founder Igor Kryuchkov, the owner of Monolith Export, is also a long-standing business partner of Slyusar and Pronin. In the mid-2000s, Kryuchkov was the owner of the Moscow-based Monolith-TK LLC, which was engaged in the wholesale trade of storage media—in other words, it sold movie discs (remember those, with four films on a single DVD) and music. This company was accused by its business partners of counterfeit sales, as discs purchased from it were confiscated during raids by local police officers and destroyed. However, Monolith-TK was always found not guilty in Moscow courts. And in 2010, the company was merged with a small Ural firm, which was then successfully liquidated. Incidentally, the fact that Slyusar's companies were trading counterfeit goods had previously been confirmed in court: in 2006, Andrei Razin, the former producer of "Laskovy May," accused Monolit-AVK and Monolit-Trading were accused of illegally distributing CDs containing the band's recordings. That time, Slyusar and his partners were found guilty of 22.5 million rubles.
