VChK-OGPU and Rucriminal.info continue to report on the Krasnodar oligarchs, relatives of Nikolai Shikhidi and Sofia Toros. Previously, local officials helped them develop their businesses in their region—their friends worked in the Gelendzhik mayor's office, local tax offices, and the treasury. Now, the Shikhidis are basking in luxury, vacationing in Switzerland, buying clothing and accessories from luxury brands, and enjoying life.
Shikhidi's longtime partners include Aflaton Solahov and his sons, Pantelei and Ilya. Solahov's boss is the head of the Autonomous Region of Greeks in Russia, billionaire Ivan Savvidi ($1.7 billion according to Forbes).
Pantelei Solakhov also owns the Krasnodar developer ISK Kristall (who built the Panorama and Aurora residential complexes in Gelendzhik), while his brother, Ilya Solakhov, owns SZ Kristall and OKOS Intellect, a company with a registered capital of 5 million rubles, which has received over 500,000 rubles in government support over the past few years. OKOS Intellect develops and manufactures domestic telecommunications equipment under the Torus Systems brand. Although the company was only registered in 2024, its developments are already included in the Ministry of Industry and Trade's register, and are purchased by regional Federal Tax Service departments, judicial departments, and other agencies. Currently, the company is deeply unprofitable, and there are no reviews of its products.
The "Russian equipment developer" shares a phone number with Pantelei Solakhov's ISK Kristall. Interestingly, Panteley's phone numbers list him as "Pavel Solakhov," "Pavel Grek," and "Pavel Khrestin Gelendzhik" (Viktor Khrestin is the former mayor of Gelendzhik). It's probably no coincidence that the director of the Solakhovs' companies is Anastas Ananiadi, the former head of the Gelendzhik administration's economics department.
Nikolai Shikhidi and his family members (in particular, his 22-year-old daughter Konstantina) hold Greek passports, and an online Greek directory lists a phone number and address in an apartment building in the eastern suburbs of Athens under the name Daria D. Shikhidi. Nikolai's wife, 45-year-old Daria Dmitrievna Shikhidi, previously worked with her mother-in-law, Sofia Toros, in the Federal Treasury Department for Krasnodar Krai. According to leaked data, the women were registered in the same apartment on Nakhimov Street in Gelendzhik.
In 2022, Daria suddenly became the sole founder of Moscow-based UK SGKM LLC (with a registered capital of 44.7 million rubles), previously owned by Alexey Mordashov's Severgroup. In 2023, the company was re-registered in Sochi, and in 2025, for the first time in recent years, it posted a loss. UK SGKM manages the closed-end mutual fund "Chernoye More," which was also formed in 2022. The closed-end mutual fund owns more than 30 apartments in Anapa, at 30 and 32 Anapskoye Shosse. These buildings were built by Shikhidi's companies, and he was only able to legalize the properties through the courts.
Darya Shikhidi also previously managed Vympel LLC (liquidated in 2020), which was registered to Dmitry Parfentyev (he was registered at the same address as 78-year-old Ira Rachitskaya, another participant in Shikhidi's business), as well as a certain Dmitry Pyshkin. Pyshkin is the director of IK Avista LLC, which belongs to Valery Ozerov, the second son of Sergei Ozerov, a former State Duma deputy and former mayor of Gelendzhik. Furthermore, Pyshkin is the sole founder of ERC LLC, which collects utility bills from Gelendzhik residents. He likely holds this asset for the Ozerovs as well. Furthermore, the Pyshkins apparently own the Korsar Hotel, located 50 meters from the beach in the Magnolia microdistrict of Gelendzhik. According to leaks, Dmitry Pyshkin used his email address and indicated the hotel address when purchasing car insurance, and vacationers are instructed to make payments to an account belonging to a certain Nina Pyshkina.
Interestingly, their namesake, Muscovite Igor Pyshkin, helped in the 2000s and 2010s transfer the very same land plots that Shikhidi and Toros are currently fighting over in court from the Ministry of Defense. He was the director of the firm ISK FORT, which was one of the founders of the land plot owner, 101 CARZ, a former Ministry of Defense asset. Pyshkin was linked to the business of Vitaly Yusufov, the son of the former Minister of Energy—it was from him that Toros and Shikhidi ultimately received the disputed land.
