State Secretary of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Dentistry. Zubov Igor Nikolaevich
Ministry or department: Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD)
Job title: State Secretary - Deputy Minister
Age: 62
Place of birth: Moscow
Income for 2018: RUB 5,381,512.
Biography
Born on July 22, 1956 in Moscow. He graduated from the Omsk Higher Police School (1977) with a degree in jurisprudence. Since 1973 he served in the internal affairs bodies.
Since 1997 - Deputy Chief of the Main Staff of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, since 1998 - Head of the Main Organizational Inspectorate Directorate. Since 1999, he worked as Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Vladimir Rushailo. Participated in hostilities in the North Caucasus. In March 2001, he was dismissed at his own request. He worked as vice president of AFK Sistema and headed the Interregional Fund for Presidential Programs. In 2003, he took second place in the gubernatorial elections in the Tver region, gaining 14.45%. In 2007-2011 - deputy of the regional legislative assembly. Since 2011 he has taught at the Moscow University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. On June 16, 2012, he was appointed Secretary of State - Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
Doctor of Law, the topic of the dissertation is “State-legal and organizational problems of the functioning and development of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.” Acting State Councilor of the Russian Federation, first class. Awarded the Order of Courage and 15 medals. Author of over 100 scientific papers.
Deputy for the unified electoral district of the Tver region(“People's Will”)
Member of the Standing Committee on Social Policy
Chairman of the Board of the Public Association “Regional Fund for Assistance to the Development of Law Enforcement Agencies.”
Higher education. In 1977 he graduated with honors from the Omsk Higher Police School of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Doctor of Law, Professor, Senior Researcher. Author of over 100 scientific papers on problems of administrative law and management, operational investigative activities, criminal law and process.
Until September 2001, he continuously served in the internal affairs bodies. The last position was Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
From November 2001 to July 2003 he worked at AFK Sistema. Initially as president of OJSC Scientific and Technical Development Region, and then as vice president of the corporation.
From July 2003 to April 2005, he was the Chairman of the Board of the Interregional Foundation for Presidential Programs, a non-profit organization established by the Moscow Government.
Currently, he is the Chairman of the Board of the Public Association “Regional Fund for Assistance to the Development of Law Enforcement Agencies.”
Professor at Moscow University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.
Member of the Public Association “Anti-criminal Commonwealth “Motherland”.
Vice President of the International Police Association. Vice-President of the Union of Lawyers of Russia. Member of the Union of Journalists of Russia.
Full Corresponding Member of the Academy of Defense, Security and Law Enforcement; International Academy of Business; International Academy of Cosmonautics.
Participant in hostilities in the North Caucasus.
Awarded the Order of Courage, 15 medals, including two from foreign countries. Honorary employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
In 1977 he graduated from the Omsk Higher Police School of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (MVD) of the USSR (now the Omsk Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia) with a degree in jurisprudence, in 1980 - the Academy of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the USSR (now the Academy of Management of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia).
Doctor of Law. In 1999, at the St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, he defended his dissertation on the topic “State-legal and organizational problems of the functioning and development of the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.”
From 1973 to 2001 he served in the internal affairs bodies.
In 1997-1998 - Deputy Chief of the Main Staff of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.
In 1998-1999 - Head of the Main Organizational and Inspectorate Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.
From July 1999 to May 2001, he served as Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation (the department was headed by Vladimir Rushailo and Boris Gryzlov during this period). Commanded operations of internal troops in Chechnya and Dagestan.
From November 2001 to July 2003, he worked at the joint-stock financial corporation (JSFC) Sistema. Initially, as president of the joint-stock company for scientific and technical development "Region", in 2002-2003. - Vice President of AFK Sistema, dealt with issues of personnel policy and regional development.
From July 2003 to April 2005 - Chairman of the Board of the Interregional Foundation for Presidential Programs, a non-profit organization established by the Moscow government.
In December 2003, he participated in the elections for governor of the Tver region. In the second round on December 21, 2003, he lost to Dmitry Zelenin (Igor Zubov - 33.85% of the votes, Dmitry Zelenin - 57.04%).
In 2005-2011 - Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Tver Region of the fourth convocation, was a member of the standing committee on social policy. He was elected from the People's Will party of Sergei Baburin.
Since 2011, he has taught at the Moscow University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, professor of the department of constitutional and municipal law.
Since June 14, 2012, State Secretary - Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Vladimir Kolokoltsev, is responsible for the activities of the contractual legal department and the research institute of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
Chairman of the Coordination Council of Heads of Competent Authorities for Combating Illicit Drug Trafficking (CCOPN) of the member states of the Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO; since November 2016).
The total amount of declared annual income for 2014 was 4 million 836 thousand rubles, for the wife - 8 million 618 thousand rubles.
The amount of declared income for 2018 amounted to 5 million 382 thousand rubles, spouses - 50 million 142 thousand rubles.
Retired police colonel general.
Acting State Advisor of the Russian Federation, 1st class (2013).
Awarded the Order of Courage.
Honorary employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. Member of the Union of Journalists of Russia.
Married, two children.
Born in 1956 in Moscow. In 1977 he graduated with honors from the Omsk Higher Police School of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs with a degree in Jurisprudence. He continuously served in the internal affairs bodies from 1973 to 2001 in various positions. In particular, from 1997 to 1998 - Deputy Chief of the Main Staff of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia; from 1998 to 1999 - Head of the Main Organizational and Inspectorate Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia; from 1999 to 2001 - Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. Participant in hostilities in the North Caucasus. From 2007 to 2011 - deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Tver Region of the 4th convocation. Since 2011, he has taught at the Moscow University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia, professor of the department of constitutional and municipal law. On June 16, 2012, by Decree of the President of Russia, he was appointed Secretary of State - Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. Doctor of Law. The topic of the dissertation is “State-legal and organizational problems of the functioning and development of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia.” He was awarded many awards, including the Order of Courage, 15 medals. Honorary employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia. Member of the Union of Journalists of Russia. Author of over a hundred scientific works on operational investigative and administrative activities of internal affairs bodies, management in social and economic systems, constitutional and municipal law.
Based on media materials and other open sources of information.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs is preparing a draft law aimed at strengthening the fight against drunkenness and illicit trafficking in alcoholic beverages.
Mikhail Barshchevsky, a member of the presidium of the Russian Lawyers' Association, spoke with Secretary of State - Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs Igor Zubov about the problem that has become a threat to the country's national security and the proposed amendments to the criminal law.
Income is down
Mikhail Barshchevsky: Igor Nikolaevich, why do you think your department is developing a law to increase liability for violations in the production of alcoholic beverages?
Igor Zubov: We have always, as they say, by virtue of our position, been at the forefront of the fight against this evil. In addition, we have a direct order from the government, signed by then First Deputy Prime Minister Zubkov.
Barshchevsky: In your direct work, do you feel the harm of alcohol for safety, demographics, and crime control?
Teeth: Certainly. In the science of managing social systems, including internal affairs bodies, there is the concept of a triad - you, the enemy and the environment that surrounds you. And everything related to alcohol is a characteristic of the environment, and, as a rule, an extremely unfavorable one. The situation with the use of alcoholic beverages, beer and intoxicants is becoming catastrophic in the country and creating a real threat to national security. And from the point of view of the loss of the gene pool, because morbidity and mortality are increasing, moral principles are being eroded, and the level of morality is falling. And from the point of view of the impact on the criminal environment, because the so-called drunken crime is growing. At the same time, the sphere of circulation of alcoholic beverages and the intoxicating substances and beer mentioned in the draft law is today turning into a very profitable area of criminal business. This cannot but alarm us.
Barshchevsky: What percentage of crimes are committed while drunk?
Teeth: Every fourth crime.
Barshchevsky: What about the number of murders and rapes while drunk?
Teeth: In 2011, 7,139 murders were committed while intoxicated and 2,028 people committed rape, which is 63% of the total number of people who committed them.
Barshchevsky: Tell me, is the crime in the illegal production of alcohol and beer worth millions or billions of rubles?
Teeth: Billions.
Barshchevsky: Do I understand you correctly: for our country the alcohol mafia is at least as dangerous as the drug mafia?
Teeth: It is up to the experts to give accurate assessments. But, judging by individual operations, we are dealing with an extensive network of organized criminal groups that specialize exclusively in the production and sale of illegal alcohol products. It is marked with counterfeit stamps and stamps that have not been used but not destroyed. The production of counterfeit goods is also on an industrial basis, including well-known brands, sometimes sold without brands at all. There is already an absolutely unaccounted beer turnover, which occupies a large segment of this criminal market. We also believe that today we have problems in the area of alcohol circulation.
Barshchevsky: A microchip costs a penny today. It is much more difficult to counterfeit than an excise stamp. Why not first install microchips on strong alcoholic drinks? Maybe we should fight counterfeit alcohol not only with repressive measures, but also with technological ones?
Teeth: We are ready to invite specialized businesses to think about technical ways to combat counterfeiting. We must use all measures. But what to do when a significant part of alcohol is sold without any brands, bypassing control and supervisory authorities, and in some cases, our authorities? A simple example is counters in factories that record the number of bottles produced. If this is an underground production, there is neither a counter nor stamps.
Barshchevsky: But you can check retail outlets. Let's be honest, many retail outlets that sell alcohol without brands or with counterfeit brands are simply paying off your employees.
Teeth: Organized crime and corruption are systemic in nature, and involve a wide variety of departments and categories of the population. We do not hide the fact that there are also facts when this illegal business is protected, including by police officers. We are talking about a lot of money, and in order to check everything, great efforts are required from the entire law enforcement system.
Beer protocol
Barshchevsky: In general, can we defeat drunkenness only through repressive measures?
Teeth: No negative social phenomenon can be overcome by repressive measures. There must be a set of measures of influence: economic, socio-cultural, and repressive. We have already had well-known experience in combating drunkenness, which gave a negative result. Therefore, the efforts of the whole society are needed. But this is how we work: if there is no stick, then the carrot does not help. For example, the administrative ban on drinking beer in public places never worked.
Barshchevsky: Tell you why? I watched the scene on Novy Arbat many times. Near the Khudozhestvenny cinema, young people are sitting with beer on the parapet of the passage, a police squad is passing by, and there is no reaction to the drinking of alcohol by young people under 14 years old. Introducing laws that you yourself, as security officials, are not trying to comply with is, at the very least, counterproductive.
Teeth: We are trying to comply. And if the outfit doesn’t notice the violation, that’s bad. But it must be said that the adopted law is aimed at limiting a mass phenomenon. That is, when illegal behavior has become commonplace for a significant part of the population. And in order to direct such behavior into a civilized, legal direction, it is necessary, first of all, to promote this law, so that it hangs on every corner, so that it is explained on television, and then repressions in the form of detentions and fines. If today tens of thousands of people commit such administrative offenses, we don’t even have anywhere to put them.
Barshchevsky: It is enough to simply start detaining and drawing up a protocol on the spot.
Teeth: Given the massive nature of such detentions, this may cause mixed reactions. We must not rock the social boat, but lead it in the right direction.
Barshchevsky: A ban has been introduced on talking on a mobile phone while driving a car. In Moscow, every second person talks in the car. Either repeal the law or enforce it. It's the same with drinking beer on the street. In the US capital, drinking beer and alcoholic beverages on the street is prohibited, and you will never see a person drinking beer or any alcohol there, he will take it in a paper bag.
Teeth: You are absolutely right about paper bags. I believe that such laws, which limit the rights of a huge number of citizens, including the right to drink beer in public places, apparently, from the point of view of democratic procedure, must undergo some kind of approval in society itself. Unfortunately, not every bill in our country has gone through this procedure, but this law already exists today, and we are obliged to implement it. About the phone, yes, they talk, but they are afraid. When they see a policeman, they immediately put down the phone. The exact number of traffic accidents that occur due to talking on the phone cannot be counted. However, in 2011, 172,614 cases were brought against drivers for violating the rules for using a telephone.
Buckle up, you're being filmed
Barshchevsky: Maybe we should analyze the current bans and come up with an initiative to cancel those that cannot be enforced? Otherwise, the concepts of prohibition and responsibility for non-compliance are blurred. There must be a line beyond which a violation inevitably leads to liability.
Teeth: Reasonable. In any case, some work needs to be done in this area. At the same time, as for talking on mobile phones in cars, here, as with tinted windows, there is still a positive shift. In general, we are accustomed to wearing seat belts. We will also get used to mobile phones.
Barshchevsky: But how did you get used to wearing belts? Cars drove by and stopped those without seat belts. Why haven't hidden patrol cars been allowed in yet?
Teeth: We use them. But we must not forget that we have been reduced by 25 percent and we are not yet physically able to perform a number of functions at the previous level. Recently I spoke at a board in Tatarstan, where the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Republic of Tatarstan has traditionally been one of the most advanced units. And suddenly the indicators began to fail. We began to study and came to two conclusions. Firstly, they simply muzzled the police, checking, publishing, and holding them accountable for any reason. And secondly, purely physically there are fewer police officers. But they have a very good material and technical base, probably even the best in Russia. And I suggested acting not with numbers, but with skill. If we talk about conversations on a mobile phone, not wearing seat belts, many people have probably already started receiving so-called chain letters. In Kazan, technical capabilities make it possible to photograph not only a license plate, but also a person talking on a mobile phone or whose seat belt is not fastened. This is how we need to work, so we will definitely invest and purchase the latest equipment.
I want to go back to drinking alcohol. Even before working in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, I thought something like you - why are bans needed if we cannot implement them? Now, already deciding whether it is necessary or not, I still think that it is necessary to demand that it be fulfilled first. To do this, it is necessary to carry out an appropriate all-Russian operation, we have such experience, and try to explain to people that they cannot drink beer on the street. To begin with, without fining, without arresting, just explain.
Barshchevsky: I’m not against it, but if you want your department to be respected and stop making faces, then first you need to stop being funny. And you look funny when, while being responsible for observing something, you actually can’t do anything. Then get legislators to lift these bans, increase staffing levels, and finance, if your bans are not lifted.
Teeth: Today it is no longer possible to call the police funny. After all, this is the most powerful and numerous law enforcement agency, which performs very difficult, responsible and often really dangerous work. Tatarstan comes to mind again; in the near future we will see the discovery of several very serious, high-profile crimes that will cause a positive effect. People worked long and selflessly. I would like to say that now the police need not only the trust of civil society, but also its help and support.
Drank with a teenager - pay 3 thousand
Barshchevsky: I absolutely agree with what you say, but at the same time it still seems to me that the rule of law that we dream of begins from the ground. On earth you represent power. And, it seems to me, your task today, first of all, is to at least honestly tell both the leadership and the society about the level of crime that exists. Because no one understands how many things you have to do and, most importantly, what kind of things you would have to do if everything was registered.
Teeth: We are doing this. Everything you are talking about now is written down and included in the concept of finalizing the reform.
Barshchevsky: Just list, separated by commas, the main innovations of this bill.
Teeth: We introduce two types of novellas. One - to the Criminal Code. Firstly, we propose to strengthen the responsibility for the systematic involvement of minors in the use of alcoholic products, setting the lower threshold of punishment at 2 years, and the upper limit at 6 years. It is proposed to establish a lower threshold, contrary to the current practice of abolishing it, because in the current Criminal Code, the articles relating to minors all have a lower threshold. Everything needs to be brought into line. Secondly, we want the law to clearly explain the concepts of “alcoholic beverages”, “alcoholic products”, “alcohol-containing products”. Thirdly, Article 171 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation is supplemented with special elements of crime, providing for liability for the production, acquisition, storage, transportation for the purpose of marketing or sale of unlabeled alcoholic products, subject to mandatory marking with special or excise stamps, if the crimes are committed on a large scale or especially large size. This provision is aimed at countering the alcohol mafia. First of all, because the article comes into force only when the fact of transportation is recorded. Then, from this article, you can promote the entire chain - look for producers, consumers, organizers. The scale of the ongoing crimes is such that in just one operation recently carried out in the Moscow region, 1.3 million bottles worth 65 million rubles were discovered during transportation.
In addition, we are clarifying jurisdiction and adjusting the huge list of administrative structures. The list was prepared a long time ago, and for these essentially serious violations the fines remain small and have no effect and do not have a preventive value. We propose to establish a 2-3 times increased liability for an administrative offense in this area. In particular, for involving a minor in drinking beer and drinks made from it, alcoholic beverages and intoxicants, the fine will be from 1,000 to 3,000 rubles. For violation of the rules for the sale of alcoholic or other drinks, beer for officials from 5,000 to 15,000, for legal entities - from 50,000 rubles.
Barshchevsky: You mention intoxicating substances in the law. As a lawyer, I cannot help but notice that as long as there is no list of “intoxicating substances,” the mention of this term is, at the very least, corruptive. Shouldn't a list of these substances be developed?
Teeth: The issue has already been discussed at a government commission. Such a list exists, prepared, by the way, with the participation of the Federal Drug Control Service. It was developed at one time by the relevant commission, and at that time it was comprehensive. Then the commission was liquidated, and the list seems to be no longer recognized today. But no one canceled the decision of that commission, no one said that this decision was not valid, and that is why the list exists. The difficulty is that the number of intoxicating substances is constantly growing. Today it’s BF glue that’s intoxicating, tomorrow it’s brake fluid, the day after tomorrow it’s something else. This problem seems to need to be left for later. Today, since the norm exists, it must be applied as is, because we must act, it is important not to stop. Some intoxicants are very dangerous and quickly destroy a child's brain. We must react immediately.
"Russian newspaper" Mikhail Barshchevsky (August 2, 2012)
The case in which the State Secretary of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs appears raises a number of questions. For example, what kind of professionalism can we talk about in the police department if any more or less impudent swindler is capable of scamming Vladimir Kolokoltsev’s closest subordinates like kittens? How can generals fight crime if they are ready to voluntarily and with words of gratitude give all their savings to any swindler? And what is the value of the entire riot police of the state, where the private security company soldiers easily throw the deputy minister out of his home? On the other hand: if it weren’t for this stupid story, would we have known that the department’s state secretary It has a collection of antiques, a house in Skolkovo, large sums of money and a son assigned to a financial position in Vladimir Yevtushenkov’s Sistema?
As Kommersant has learned, the process of extraditing to Russia the owner and head of the Sivma group of companies (produces baby food under the Babushkino Lukoshko brand) Vasily Labzin, accused of major fraud, is beginning in Turin. The scandalous nature of the situation is made by the fact that the victims in the case are State Secretary-Deputy Minister of Internal Affairs of Russia Igor Zubov and his son, a businessman. The colonel-general's family, as investigators believe, was left without money as a result of the scam. housing in Skolkovo and antique collections.
Vasily Labzin will appear before the Turin Court of Appeal on June 12. The court will have to consider a request for the extradition of the entrepreneur sent by the Russian Prosecutor General's Office, which will be supported by local prosecutors.
Mr. Labzin was detained in January of this year, when he came from the French resort town of Menton, where he had recently lived in his villa, to Italy to go skiing. As it turned out, since 2013 he had been on the international wanted list through Interpol for committing a crime under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code (fraud on an especially large scale). The criminal case against him is being investigated by the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Odintsovo district of the Moscow region.
However, Mr. Labzin did not stay in prison - after two weeks he was released under so-called administrative supervision. The businessman was allowed to live in one of the hotels in the ski resort of Limone Piemonte, periodically reporting to the local police department. Mr. Labzin’s defense claims that this happened after a local lawyer told the court that his ward in France was not hiding from anyone, was engaged in beekeeping on his estate and regularly paid taxes. The defense attorney explained the criminal prosecution of the entrepreneur as a domestic conflict between his client and high-ranking Russian official, allegedly using administrative resources. The start of the trial was delayed due to the fact that additional materials on the criminal case were requested from Russia, and then they were translated into Italian.
According to Mr. Labzin, in 2003 he built a townhouse with six apartments with small plots of 3 acres in the village of Skolkovo, Odintsovo district, in which he planned to house his many relatives. However, even at the construction stage, an acquaintance from the Ministry of Internal Affairs asked the family of the then retired deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Igor Zubov, to move there (the general held this position twice, during the break he was vice president AFK "Sistema"). Previously, Mr. Zubov's relatives lived on official dacha of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but after he went into business, they had to move out.
Mr. Labzin and his defense claim that they did not formalize the rights of the Zubov family to live in Skolkovo in any way, since they were on friendly terms. However, according to Mr. Labzin, temporary accommodation dragged on for several years and in 2009 he demanded to pay for housing. Igor Zubov allegedly refused to do this, citing the fact that at the very beginning of this story he transferred $250 thousand to Mr. Labzin. As a result, a conflict began between them, first involving judicial structures, and then investigative authorities.
According to the owner of Sigma, only in 2010 he managed to vacate the property with the help of private security company employees. Mr. Labzin claims that serious complaints against him from law enforcement agencies appeared after Igor Zubov returned to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in 2012 - he again became deputy minister. In particular, according to him, the suspended criminal case of arbitrariness was resumed (Article 330 of the Criminal Code). As a result, fearing arrest, as the businessman says, he was forced to move with his family to the Cote d'Azur. The Odintsovo court arrested him in absentia.
According to investigators, Mr. Labzin from the very beginning built the house not for family needs, but for sale. In 2003-2005, he concluded several sales and purchase agreements with future residents, but all transactions, according to the police, were concluded through a notary represented by the seller and none of them received the original documents. Mr. Labzin explained this by saying that the originals are needed for further registration of real estate. In turn, the buyers’ lack of documents gave him the opportunity to demand termination of the transactions and the return of the actually purchased apartments to him. Some residents chose not to contact the seller and parted with the property. The investigation believes that these people did not pay for the apartments with real money, but received them as offset for the services provided to them. For example, the daughter of one regional official moved into a townhouse, presumably in exchange for the allocation of a plot for development.
The Zubov family, according to investigators, paid in cash. Then the general’s son Denis, who then headed the Kedr company and then became vice president of the Sistema-Neft company, invested about another $350 thousand in the completion and renovation of the property. With this money, in particular, the house was surrounded with a forged metal fence, They installed a security booth at the gate and dug a pond. However, after seven years of residence, in the winter of 2010, private security company employees hired by Mr. Labzin broke down the door of the Zubovs’ apartment and put them and their small child outside. It subsequently turned out that after the Zubovs were evicted, items worth 4 million rubles disappeared from the Zubovs’ apartment, including antique furniture, paintings, icons and awards left over from the repressed relatives of the general’s wife. Therefore, Art. 158 of the Criminal Code (theft). However, there are no defendants in it yet. The apartment of the Zubov family was arrested by court decision, and the house itself, left without residents, is gradually falling into disrepair.
In the meantime, according to a source close to the investigation, the police decided to check all of Vasily Labzin’s commercial activities for tax evasion, VAT fraud and non-refund of funds from abroad. Thus, it is possible that new episodes may soon appear in the entrepreneur’s case.
Representatives of Mr. Labzin believe that the initiator of all checks is the Colonel General. The Ministry of Internal Affairs, in turn, says that the State Secretary, who is responsible in the department for contacts with the State Duma, the Federation Council and the government, could not.
Help: what is Vasily Labzin famous for?
Labzin Vasily Vasilyevich was born on September 30, 1957 in the village of Mikhailovsky, Altai Territory. He studied at the Far Eastern Naval School, which he did not graduate from. Served in the navy.
In the 1980s he worked as a photographer in Murmansk, Petrozavodsk and other cities, and since 1987 - at the Moscow Film and Photo Association. In 1991, he became director of the Jupiter photo laboratory, then founded and headed the Sivma JSC. The company equipped GUM with its own photographic goods section, and also engaged in other types of business, including the sale of baby food. In the mid-1990s, Sivma became the exclusive dealer of Hipp and Danone baby food. By the end of the 1990s, the company controlled a quarter of the domestic retail market for photographic products and services. In 2007, the Sivma group invested 1.7 billion rubles. in the construction of a baby food plant in the Moscow region on the territory of the Faustovo plant, which it acquired in 2005. Now Sivma is one of the five leading manufacturers and wholesalers of baby food in Russia.
The group operates in three main areas: production of baby food under the Babushkino Lukoshko brand (through Slashchev Trading House LLC, revenue for 2012 - 3.4 billion rubles); distribution of photographic equipment (Sivma-Fototekhnika LLC, revenue about 650 million rubles) and logistics, warehouse and transport services. The group's 30 enterprises employ about 4 thousand people. The main owner is Vasily Labzin. According to the Kartoteka.ru service, he is a co-owner of about ten companies in Moscow and the region, including LLC Grain (growing crops), LLC STK-S (construction), LLC Store Kinolyubitel (sale of photographic equipment).
