A Top Manager Died In Mysterious Circumstances In Russia
- 8.09.2025, 17:57
19th since the beginning of the war.
Alexei S.Alexei S., general director of potash-magnesium salt mining company K-Potash Service, was found dead near Kaliningrad on Monday, Shot reported citing sources. The body "was found without a head," a law enforcement source told RIA Novosti.
The agency's interlocutor said the decapitated corpse was lying under a bridge, with a towing cable attached to it.
As noted by The Moscow Times, the deceased headed K-Potash Service in October 2022. The company was involved in a potash mine project in the village of Nivenskoye in the Kaliningrad region. The mine was supposed to be operational in 2021, but its launch was delayed due to protests by local residents.
The deceased became at least the 19th top manager to die in Russia under mysterious circumstances in the past three and a half years. In August, the deaths of Dmitri Osipov, chairman of Uralkali, and Mikhail Kenin, founder and major shareholder of the Samolet Group, Russia's largest real estate developer, became known. The reasons for their deaths remained unknown.
In January 2022, Leonid Shulman, the 60-year-old head of Gazprom Invest's transportation service, was found dead in an elite village in the Leningrad region. Another month later, the bodies of Vladislav Avaev, former vice-president of Gazprombank, as well as his wife and daughter were found in a Moscow apartment.
In July 2022, the body of 61-year-old Yuri Voronov, general director of the Astra Shipping transportation company, which also worked on Gazprom's Arctic contracts, was found in the Morskie Terasy elite cottage village near the Gulf of Finland. He died from a gunshot to the head.
In the fall of 2022, Ravil Maganov, 67, chairman of Lukoil's board of directors, fell out of a window at the Central Clinical Hospital of the Presidential Administration for Administration of the Presidential Administration in Moscow. Vladimir Nekrasov, 66, who took his place, died a year later due to "acute heart failure." In March 2024, Vitaly Robertus, Vice President of Lukoil, died at the age of 54. The company did not disclose the reasons and circumstances of the top manager's death.
In February 2023, Vyacheslav Rovneiko, co-owner of the Belgian oil trading company Nafta (B) N.V. and general director of the Interregional Fuel Union, was found dead in a house on Rublevo-Uspenskoye highway near Moscow.
In October 2024, ex-deputy director of Norilsk Nickel Mikhail Rogachev fell out of the window of his apartment in Moscow. In July 2025, Andrey Badalov, vice-president of Transneft, fell from the 17th floor of a house on Rublevskoye highway.
Sergey Protosenya, a former top manager of Novatek, was also found shot dead in a villa in Spain; Alexander Tyulyakov, a top manager of Gazprom's financial division, was found dead in the garage of a house near St. Petersburg.
Pavel Pchelnikov, communications director of Digital Logistics (RZD), was found with signs of suicide on the balcony of an apartment in Moscow. Pavel Antov, founder of Vladimir Standard, fell out of a hotel window in India. Ivan Pechorin, director of the Far East and Arctic Development Corporation, fell out of a boat during a walk near Russky Island.
The vice-president of Loko-Bank, Kristina Baikova, fell out of a window after a party. Igor Shkurko, the first deputy head of Yakutskenergo, was found dead in the Yakutsk pre-trial detention center.