A wide circle of people became aware of the Don-Stroy domestic construction and development company due to its bankruptcy, as well as the situation surrounding the House on Mosfilmovskaya in Moscow. Then the public drew attention to one of its leaders - Maxim Blazhko. In the article we will get to know better both the developer himself and his company.
Biography
The media represent Maxim Blazhko as a successful developer with twenty years of experience. He was born in the capital on September 2, 1969. He graduated from the Moscow Geological Prospecting Institute. He chose training in the specialty "Search, exploration of radioactive rare elements."
In the nineties he worked in Kazakhstan directly in his specialty. Further, the career and professional activities of Maxim Blazhko developed as follows:
- In 1994, he created the famous company Don-Stroy.
- Since 2006, he has been Chairman of the Management Board under the name DS-Holding.
- General Director of the Nordstar Development Corporation.
- Since the fall of 2016 - CEO of GORN Development.
Professional success
Since the beginning of the 2000s, more than 20 residential high-rise complexes have been built under the supervision of a developer. Their total living area exceeds 3 million m 2. These business-class and premium-class projects set a pretty high standard for the entire Russian development.
Among the projects of Maxim Evgenievich Blazhko, the first residential skyscrapers in Moscow can be distinguished. These are the following buildings:
- Housing complex on Aviation Street 77-79.
- LCD in Chapaevsky Lane, 3.
- House on Mosfilmovskaya street, 8.
- Housing complex on Rusakovskaya street, 31.
Since the fall of 2016, Maxim Evgenievich Blazhko has been the CEO of GORN Development. It is considered a private full-service development company. Her specialization is the construction of premium residential property in the capital. Already in 2016, this company began the implementation and management of a large housing complex "NON-BORING HOME & SPA" related to premium class buildings.
Awards
In telling the biography of Maxim Blazhko, it is also necessary to list the main awards of the developer:
- State award, medal "In memory of the 850th anniversary of Moscow" (awarded in 1997).
- Order of Merit for the Church (awarded in 2001).
- Title "Honorary Builder of the Russian Federation" (received in 2005).
- Order of St. A. Nevsky "For Works and Fatherland" (awarded in 2007).
- The inclusion of Maxim Blazhko (photos of the hero of our story are also posted in the article) in the rating of the Kommersant news agency. This is the TOP-1000 of the most successful professional managers in the Russian construction field. I must say that Maxim Blazhko entered the TOP-10.
Personal condition
Many have read the news about how the founder of Donstroy Maxim Blazhko loses the largest project. But is everything so bad? At the beginning of 2007, the personal fortune of the Russian developer was estimated at 550 million dollars. In addition, Maxim Blazhko took 94th place in the ranking of the 500 richest Russian millionaires, compiled by the information resource "Finance".
Personal life, hobbies
Maxim Evgenievich is married. His family is considered to be large - the developer has four children. The businessman has two main hobbies. This is diving and skiing.
Don Story
“Founder of the Donstroy Maxim Blazhko loses the largest project … So what happened? Let's tell you everything in order.
Don Stroy is a domestic development and construction company. A few facts about her:
- Foundation: 1994 year.
- General Director (present): Alena Deryabin.
- The headquarters is located in Moscow.
- Turnover: 578 million dollars (as of March 2006).
- Operating profit of the company: 7.6 billion rubles (according to 2016).
- Net profit: $ 102.8 million (as of March 2006).
Company History
The biography of Maxim Blazhko with the Don-system is directly related. Initially, this corporation, founded in 1994, belonged to two business partners - Maxim Evgenievich and Dmitry Zelenov.
Until 2009, it included many different structures that could implement not only housing, but also commercial projects - trade, office. In 2009, in connection with the restructuring of loans (previously provided to the company by the famous Russian bank VEB - today VTB) residential projects were put in a separate block. It became Don-Stroy-Invest CJSC.
Further, housing projects began to be implemented under the Don-Stroy brand. Don-Stroy-Invest shareholders are five legal entities. Any of their personal data is not disclosed. As for commercial real estate projects, they remained with Dmitry Zelenov and Maxim Blazhko. These are structures called DS Holding and DS Development.
Activity of the company
Maxim Blazhko's Don Story is a well-known organization. She is one of the ten largest developers of the capital. Its main specialization is the construction of business-class housing complexes. During the activities of the Don-Stroy Maxim Evgenievich Blazhko built more than 30 such LCDs. Their total area was 2.5 million m 2. Among the most significant buildings, the following can be distinguished:
- Triumph Palace is a residential skyscraper located in the Khoroshevsky district of the capital. Until 2007, it was he who was considered the tallest residential building in all of Europe.
- "Scarlet Sails" - a high-rise residential complex in Moscow, consisting of 5 buildings. The first building was erected in 2001. The construction is fully completed in 2017. The residential complex is located on the picturesque bank of the Moscow River.
In 2013, the company begins a large-scale project for the development of the capital Shelepikhinskaya embankment. In the same year, a no less grandiose project was launched to upgrade and reconstruct one of the oldest sickle and hammer plants in Moscow.
For the same 2013, the total investment in the company's projects amounted to 14.9 billion rubles. 4.2 million square meters were built for these amounts. meters of housing.
Among the latest remarkable projects of the Don-Stroy company are the following:
- The last hull of the Scarlet Sails.
- "The heart of the capital."
- "Falcon Fort".
- "Setun Valley."
- "Maple HOUSE".
- "Grand De Luxe on Plyushchikha".
- Smolensky De Luxe.
- Barrin House.
Today, organizationally, the company is a large holding, which includes 30 companies. The company also owns a diversification project (expanding capabilities, scope, holding assortment) "Scarlet Sails". This is a trading network that was founded in 1999. It belongs to the mother of Maxim Evgenievich - Olga Blazhko.
Logo
The Don-Stroy company has changed several logos.
- Three transparent buildings bordered by a red border. The word "Don" was placed below. Even lower is a red part with the words "Build". Logo 1994-2010
- Concise logo: the word "Don-system", white letters on a red background. In comparison with the previous one, the font has changed. The logo did not last long - from 2010 to 2011.
- The next logo is a schematic illustration of a gray city. At the bottom of the picture was written "Don-system." The letters are also gray. The font is changed again. The logo was also selected for a short time - from 2011 to 2012.
- The last logo is a sketchy building formed of three white stripes. At the bottom (in some cases, to the right) is the word "Don-system". The letters are white and the font is again changed. This logo is valid from 2012 to the present.
Law enforcement issues
In August 2008, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs opened a criminal case against the leaders of the company associated with the brainchild of Maxim Blazhko. This is LLC Building Trust Don-Stroy. The company was one of the structures of the company, acting as a contractor for the construction of elite housing complexes.
The essence of the claim was that the management of the Don-Stroy Construction Trust was suspected of illegal reimbursement of VAT (value added tax), which was transferred to firms that, according to the investigation, had signs of fictitiousness.
However, in September 2009, the case was suspiciously suspended. According to the press, this was due to a strange deal. The media wrote that in the autumn of the same year, Andrei Khorev, the 1st deputy chief of economic security at the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, received an elite apartment (room area - 100 sq. M) in the Moscow residential complex “House on Smolenskaya Embankment” for almost nothing. By coincidence, the building was erected by Don-Stroy. What is the outcome of this case? In September 2012, it was finally closed.
Don Story and the public
The relations of the construction company Maxim Blazhko and the public are quite controversial. Residents of Moscow accused Don-Stroy of illegally seizing territory for construction. Rallies were held more than once to stop the actions of the holding. The media also reported that during one of these public appearances, protesters were beaten by armed citizens. One of the high-profile rallies took place in 2012 in Khamovniki. People opposed the illegal construction of the Don-Stroy apartment hotel Komsomolsky de Luxe. They wanted to erect the building on the site of the Travnikov Garden. The latter is one of the unique places in the capital - 13 species of plants listed in the Red Book are planted there. Many in the garden and other amazing, rare plantings.
Crisis and Bankruptcy
In 2008-2010 More than once it was said about the debts and bankruptcy of Maxim Blazhko. This is due to the fact that in 2009 Don-Stroy faced difficulties in repaying loans it had previously taken. It all ended with the fact that in August 2009 it was announced that the difficult financial condition of the company led to a restructuring of its debt to VTB Bank, where Don-Stroy took a loan for its development. The amount was 500 million dollars. Due to the fact that the company could not repay the loan, it had to transfer to the bank a controlling stake in Don-Stroy-Invest CJSC (as you remember, this is a subsidiary of Don-Stroy, which owned the housing projects of the developer) for only symbolic 500 rubles. Thus, Maxim Evgenievich Blazhko VEB ("Vnesheconombank") transferred it.
In September 2009, another piece of news became known. A controlling stake in a subsidiary of Don-Stroy, LLC DS Development (engaged in both construction and commercial real estate management), together with the Nordstar Tower business complex (a high-rise office center on the border of the Northern and Central districts of the capital), built by Don-Stroy, inferior in height only to Moscow City) were transferred to Sberbank. The reason is the same - repayment of debt to a banking organization. A controlling stake was also handed over for a symbolic sum - "several hundred rubles."
In January 2010, news was announced about the restructuring of the debt of the construction company Maxim Blazhko to Sberbank. Its size amounted to 20 billion rubles. Eleven of them were repaid by transferring the Nordstar Tower business complex to the bank. Payment of the remaining 9 billion rubles by agreement was delayed. Thus, the debts of Maxim Blazhko were repaid.
Developer debts
After the transfer to the new owner of Don-Stroy-Invest, the affairs of M. E. Blazhko were never completely settled. In 2017, the entrepreneur tried to challenge the recovery of 1.7 billion rubles from him in favor of this structure. At the same time, the Russian Capital Bank has been demanding 500 million rubles since Maxim Blazhko himself.
The entrepreneur filed three appeals against the collection of 1.74 billion rubles from him in the Khoroshevsky court of Moscow. The plaintiffs here were Don-Stroy-Invest controlled groups - SK Don-Stroy and Beleran. The documents say that Blazhko received these funds (1.7 billion rubles) from these companies under loan agreements. But at the same time, the date of their conclusion, as well as the intended use of the loan, are not specified. Developer's lawyers are confused in their explanations: someone says that the entrepreneur did not receive the loan amount at all, and someone says that he was negotiating with the plaintiffs to resolve the problem.
In addition, in April 2017, another Don-Stroy-Invest controlled company, Asol LLC, appealed to the Khoroshevsky court of Moscow to recover 17.7 million rubles from the businessman. However, the claim was denied by the court due to the expiration of the limitation period. In response to the refusal, the same Don-Stroy-Invest groups (Asol, Beleran, SK Don-Stroy, Settlement Council Euroinvest) filed seven more lawsuits.
According to representatives of the groups, Blazhko’s financial obligations to them came back at a time when they were controlled by him (before the transfer of VEB). But this is not the only duty of a businessman. In 2014, Russian Capital Bank issued River Tower LLC (one of the developer’s structures) 1.7 billion rubles. The debt was not repaid on time. In 2017, the bank estimated the debt of Maxim Evgenievich to him at 2.3 billion rubles.
