As discovered by the media, one of the most secretive and largest players in Russian agribusiness, GAP “Resurs,” run by brothers Viktor and Vladimir (a former GRU special forces operative) Nauruzov, is literally “drowning” in debt. In just the last six months, around a hundred lawsuits totaling more than 700 million rubles have been filed against LLC “Stavropol Broiler.” The debts of LLC “Belgorod Broiler” exceed 2 billion rubles. Apparently, as usual, the brothers rely on bank loans and support “from above” – at the start of their careers, their partner was Ekaterina Ignatova, the current wife of Rostec head Sergey Chemezov.
Last year, at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, GAP “Resurs” announced a three-year investment program of 40 billion rubles to increase broiler chicken production in the Samara, Saratov, Tambov, and Tver regions. However, such plans seem purely fantastical – the Nauruzovs’ structures cannot even pay debts of 200–300 thousand rubles. These giant plans on paper are designed entirely around large state banks, whose credit funds support the “bubble” of GAP “Resurs.” The Nauruzovs are masters of making promises they can’t keep.
For instance, the heavily indebted “Stavropol Broiler” (most lawsuits are from company contractors who didn’t receive payments, some of which the company has already lost) is the parent company of LLC “Saratov Broiler” (Tatischevsky District, Saratov region). The Nauruzovs had previously promised the Saratov governor, Roman Busargin, to invest through this company in the reconstruction of the Mikhailov poultry farm and the construction of two new facilities with 28 workshops, etc. It’s clear, as usual, that these promises remain just promises. In reality, things are getting worse and worse.
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Earlier, our project reported that there are already dozens of lawsuits against LLC “Belgorod Broiler” (part of GAP “Resurs”), with the company’s debts totaling around 2 billion rubles. The Nauruzov structure does not pay for delivered agricultural products, among other things.
The Nauruzov meat processing plant “Saratov MPK Resurs” saw revenue drop from 7.5 billion rubles in 2024 to 7 billion and losses grow from 200 million rubles to 700 million. Meanwhile, their new acquisition, the agrofirm “Rubezh,” has already attracted lawsuits. Since May 2025 (the asset was acquired earlier that year), the company has faced 26 lawsuits, five of them totaling 38 million rubles just this year. The reason is the same: “Rubezh” does not pay contractors for deliveries and services. The shares in “Rubezh” are registered to Nauruzov-related companies LLC “Stoykiy,” “Yuzhnaya Gavan,” “Rest,” and “Portgrain” and are pledged to Sberbank – the firm was purchased with a state bank loan.
The court-plagued “Stavropol Broiler” is managed by Andrey Zhibul, an old business partner of the Nauruzovs who started with them in the 2000s. He was a co-founder of “Belorechenskaya Poultry Farm” with the brothers, as well as other top managers of “Resurs” – Khasen Shkhakov and Alexander Tarin. Another notable joint venture is the first LLC “GAP Resurs,” registered in the mid-2000s and also led by Zhibul. More than 75% of it belonged to Moscow resident Ekaterina Ignatova – the second wife of Rostec head Sergey Chemezov. The company’s charter capital was 460 million rubles, with Viktor Nauruzov contributing just under 25%. For 2004, this was a considerable sum, unlikely to have been accumulated through legal business alone.
The Nauruzov brothers come from a small stanitsa in the Kursk district of Stavropol. The elder, Viktor, will turn 60 this year. They started their Moscow business over 30 years ago. One of their first family enterprises was Moscow LLC “Edelweiss” on Michurinsky Prospekt, registered in the early 1990s. At the same address, there was a company of the same name engaged in foreign economic activity. Detailed data on these companies is scarce – they were probably not large-scale operations. In the late 1990s, the family business became LLC “VilMeks” (1998–2010), which supplied feed in bulk and sold eggs. Its founders were Vladimir and Elena Nauruzov, and employee Larisa Nauruzova – Viktor’s wife – came from Kabardino-Balkaria. The company initially shared a building with the Moscow Open Social University, founded by former military officer Ivan Bezugly, author of several books on military intelligence. Initially, the Nauruzov company and Bezugly’s university even shared a phone number. Vladimir Nauruzov is said to be a graduate of the Military University of Foreign Languages of the Ministry of Defense and served in GRU special forces in Rostov, possibly where he met Bezugly, who is from Rostov region.
“VilMeks” sold raw materials for feed to enterprises in the Krasnodar region, for example, in 2003 to the Belorechensk Feed Plant, which received government subsidies. At that time, officials granting subsidies may not have known both firms were part of the same group.
Both brothers, according to leaks, own family estates in the famous Zhukovka village on Rublyovo-Uspenskoye Highway – for instance, Larisa and Viktor have a four-story mansion of 1,253 square meters. Nearby in Barvikha is the mansion of Sergey Chemezov and Ekaterina Ignatova.
Viktor Nauruzov’s son, Gleb, enjoys luxury cars and is also in business: he runs a fast-food chicken shawarma chain in Moscow under the brand “Topchik.”
During the war, the family business acquired a number of major assets across various regions – “Rubezh,” “Timashevsk Poultry Farm,” “Klin-2002,” “Sadko,” “Belopolskoye,” “Avero,” a trading house and pension fund “Altan,” “Pospelikhinsky KHP,” a sunflower oil plant “Niva,” and more. Judging by reports, “Resurs” is doing very well on paper. But producing glossy reports and making unrealistic promises is the Nauruzovs’ specialty.
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