Fall from private yacht
Next death among Russian top managers
09/13/2022 11:36 p.m
Another high-ranking Russian manager dies under strange circumstances. Rescue workers pull Ivan Peshorin’s body out of the sea in Vladivostok. The 39-year-old is said to have fallen off a private yacht.
Another Russian manager from the energy sector has died under mysterious circumstances: According to Russian media reports, Ivan Peshorin, managing director of the Corporation for the Development of the Far East and the Arctic (ERDC), fell off a private yacht at full speed on Saturday Russky Island near Vladivostok. Accordingly, the 39-year-old stayed with friends on the boat. His body was recovered from the Sea of Japan on Monday. A few days before his death, Peshorin took part in the Eastern Economic Forum organized by President Vladimir Putin in Vladivostok. Peshorin also gave a speech at the conference.
“Ivan’s death is an irreparable loss to friends and colleagues, a great loss to the company,” ERDC said in a statement released. According to the Russian daily Komsomolskaya Pravda, Peshorin was responsible for developing mineral resources in the Arctic and modernizing the aviation industry in the Far East. Peschorin’s predecessor at ERDC, Igor Nosow, died in February at the age of 43. The official cause of death is a stroke.
Since the start of Russia’s war of aggression in Ukraine, multiple deaths have rocked Russia’s business community.
- In February, Alexander Tyulyakov, deputy director general of Gazprom, was found hanged in his villa. Police found a suicide note on him.
- The head of the media group Medstom, Vasily Melnikov, died in Nizhny Novgorod in March with his wife and two children. According to investigators, the manager killed his family and then committed suicide.
- A month later, former deputy head of Gazprombank Valdislav Avayev and Sergey Protosenya, former manager of Novatek, Russia’s largest private gas producer, died. Avayev and Protosenya are also said to have committed extended suicide.
- Former Lukoil CEO Alexander Subbotin died in May after a bizarre shaman ritual, according to media reports. In the same month, Andrei Krukovsk, manager of the Gazprom-run Krasnaya Polyana ski resort, was killed. Police say he fell off a cliff while hiking.
- Two months later, oligarch Yuri Voronov was found dead in his villa’s pool from a gunshot wound to the head.
- Most recently, Rawil Maganov, CEO of oil giant Lukoil, died in early September after falling out of a hospital window.