Woe from wine. What has the Crimean "Massandra" become? How are sales on the Russian market

09.11.2019

Born on February 19, 1976, Vizhnitsa, Chernivtsi region. Education 1983-1993 Yalta gymnasium named after A.P. Chekhov; 1993-1998 Kherson State Technical University, Non-production management; 2004-2007 National Academy of Public Administration under the President of Ukraine, Master of Public Administration; 2007-2009 National Academy of Public Administration under the President of Ukraine, Candidate of Science in Public Administration; 2011-2014 Simferopol College of the National University food technology, winemaker; 2016-2019 Federal State Autonomous Educational Institution of Higher Education "Crimean Federal University named after V.I. Vernadsky ", Master of Laws. Career 2005–2015 State Unitary Enterprise of the Republic of Crimea “Novy Svet Sparkling Wine Factory”, Director; 2002-2005 "Private Enterprise Kostin V.V." Yalta, manager, marketer, deputy director; 1998–1998 Branch of Prominvestbank of Ukraine in Yalta, economist; 1997-1998 Yalta gymnasium named after A.P. Chekhova, teacher-organizer; 1996–1997 Centertechservice store, Yalta, seller; 2010 – September 2014 Deputy of the Verkhovna Rada of the ARC; 2014-present - Chairman of the Council of the self-regulatory organization "Crimean Bureau of Grapes and Wine". Awards - Badge of labor distinction "Badge of Honor" of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine, 2006; - Diploma of the laureate of the all-Ukrainian rating of professional achievements "Leader of Ukraine", 2006; - Badge "Leader of Ukraine", 2006; - Gratitude from the Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, 2007; - Gratitude from the Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, 2007; - Certificate of honor of the Ministry of Economy of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, 2007; - Certificate of honor of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, 2007; - Certificate of honor of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine, 2007; - Diploma of the Ministry of Economy of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, 2008; - Badge of labor distinction "Badge of Honor" of the Ministry of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine, 2008; - Honorary title "Honored Worker of Agriculture of Ukraine", 2008; - Gratitude of the Prime Minister of Ukraine, 2010; - Badge "Honorary Citizen of the town. New World ", 2010; - Certificate of honor of the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, 2011; - Certificate of honor of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine, 2012; - Medal of the Imperial Order of St. Anne, 2012, for services in preserving the historical and cultural traditions of the Ukrainian and Russian peoples, useful works in the field of viticulture; - Gratitude of the Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, 2013; - Medal of the Republican Committee of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea for the protection of cultural heritage, 2013, for a significant contribution to the research, popularization and preservation of cultural heritage; - Imperial Order of the Holy Great Martyr Anastasia of the Russian Imperial House, 2013, for services to the Fatherland and the Russian Imperial House; - Imperial Medal "Anniversary of the National Feat" 1613-2013, 2013. ., for active participation in organizing the presentation of the Autonomous Republic of Crimea in Strasbourg. ; - Distinctive sign of the Head of the Republic of Crimea "Hours from the Head of the Republic", 2016; - Certificate of honor of the Administrative Department of the President of the Russian Federation for the conscientious performance of official duties based on the results of work in 2015; - Certificate of honor of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Crimea, 2016; - Gratitude for active participation in the preparation and holding of events related to the celebration of the 70th anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War; - Medal of Honor "For Contribution to the Development of the Food Industry" at the 24th International Exhibition "PRODEXPO-2017". - Certificate of honor of the Administrative Department of the President of the Russian Federation for achieving high performance in labor and in connection with the celebration of the Day of the Worker of Agriculture and Processing Industry, 2016; - Awarded the honorary title "Honored Worker of Viticulture and Winemaking of the Republic of Crimea" for a significant contribution to the development of the wine industry in the Republic of Crimea, the production of high-quality products, many years of conscientious work, high professionalism and in connection with the Day of the Worker of Agriculture and Processing Industry, 2017 , - Certificate of honor of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation for many years of conscientious work in the agro-industrial complex, 2018, - Certificate of honor of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Republic of Crimea, 2018, - Certificate of honor of the Ministry of Resorts and Tourism of the Republic of Crimea, 2018, - Honorary Diploma of the Ministry of Agriculture of the Republic of Crimea, 2018, - Diploma of the Head of the Territorial Administration of the Administrative Department of the President of the Russian Federation in the Republic of Crimea, 2018, - Honorary Badge of the Administrative Department of the President of the Russian Federation, 2019 Social activity- Chairman of the Council of the Self-Regulatory Organization of the Association of Winegrowers and Winemakers of Crimea "Crimean Bureau of Grapes and Wine" - Founder of the International Special Competition sparkling wines them. L.S. Golitsyn. - Organizer of the annual festival "Days of Golitsyn in the New World". - Member of the Expert Council for the Regulation of the Alcohol Market. She is married and has a son.

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Why is a lying and incompetent leader not being driven away?

Moses Gelman

The more incredible the lie, the sooner it will be believed.
Joseph Goebbels

The title of the article is not an anecdote. Let me remind you that on September 11 this year, the head plant of the Massandra wine-making complex in Yalta was visited by Vladimir Putin and his guest, the former head of the Italian government, Silvio Berlusconi. They came to Crimea as purely private individuals, as evidenced not only by the fashionably worn jeans of the president of the country and the absence of both ties, but also by the fact that they were not accompanied by the local authorities. If the scandalous incident provoked by the general director of the complex had not happened that day, their visit to Massandra would not have received such wide publicity in the world.

Dangerous hospitality

Typically, the visits of high-ranking visitors are preceded by careful preparation aimed at ensuring their safety. Former general director of "Massandra" Nikolai Konstantinovich Boyko, a world famous winemaker who has worked in the industry for over 40 years, of which 28 years he was in charge of this complex, said that during such visits, the route of the excursion around the head enterprise was drawn up in advance. After getting acquainted with the plant's economy and the famous wine collection, the guests, as a rule, were invited to taste several brands of collection wine - 25 grams each, but not more than 200 grams in total.

This is the maximum permissible norm justified by doctors, which does not lead to a violation of the normal state of a person. Therefore, during the preparation of the visit, the list of wines that would be served to the guests was also agreed in advance, and for the safety of their health, the quality of the contents of the selected bottles was monitored by means of biochemical analysis. According to tradition, one of the wines was chosen from the grape harvest of the year of birth of this or that high-ranking guest, and such attention gave the visit a certain human warmth. The last such tasting was organized by the head of the Russian government Dmitry Medvedev in May 2014, and a year later he was illegally fired.

The General Director of the Boyko complex was appointed the Administrative Department of the President of Russia, which is in charge of "Massandra". But, as you know, the head of Crimea, Aksenov, does not favor Moscow's appointees and expels them under all sorts of pretexts. We can say that the peninsula becomes his fiefdom with a "court" army of armed militias, which is subordinate only to him. Therefore, Aksenov did everything to put his own man at the head of Massandra (see How officials expelled the general director of the Crimean Massandra, regardless of his professionalism and merits. The unique wine-making complex of Russia is threatened with destruction. "-" Promyshlennye vedomosti "No. 4, September , 2015). It is not for nothing that bribery is flourishing in Crimea and the discontent of the local population is growing. In the case of Massandra, the expulsion of the entire former professional management of the complex is explained by the desire of some officials to freely seize the land occupied by vineyards on the southern coast of Crimea for their own needs.

With the dishonest filing of his representative in Crimea, the Chief Executive Officer of the President of the Russian Federation illegally dismissed Nikolai Boyko when he was in the hospital, and appointed a certain Yanina Pavlenko instead. This lady has a diploma of an administrative manager of the hotel type, in the present - an omnivorous manager, with a very vague idea of the unique production, which she was appointed to lead. It should be noted that the official Russian version of Yanina Petrovna's labor biography differs significantly from the previous Ukrainian version she wrote, which for some reason did not alert the personnel service and the head of the Crimean office of the Presidential Property Management Department.

The head of this office, Podolko, was also not alerted by the public speeches of Yanina Petrovna as a member of the former Crimean parliament against the return of Crimea to Russia. Nevertheless, for some reason, he very strongly recommended that Moscow appoint Pavlenko, who did not have an agronomic and technological education and relevant work experience, to run a unique world-class wine-making economy with more than a century of history. As one would expect, after that the production and quality of wines in the complex decreased significantly in a short period and it seems that it is being led by a sent "Cossack".

Judging by what happened at the end of the excursion, wine tasting was not the intention of the guests. When they were brought to a rack with bottles of Jerez de la Frontera, vintage 1775, which Count Vorontsov had once brought from Spain, Silvio Berlusconi was genuinely surprised at its 240-year aging. Judging by the intonation, clearly discernible in the recording on the TV commercial, he, artlessly, without hinting at anything, asked: "And this wine can be drunk?" Yanina Pavlenko immediately reacted: they say, of course, you can. And then the following happened.

According to an eyewitness, Yanina Petrovna from the bounty of her soul, but, of course, at public expense, uncorked one of these bottles and treated the guests to the aforementioned Spanish "Sherry". There were five such bottles in the collection, four remained, three of which were inviolable, which are museum exhibits. Note that in October 2001 at Sotheby's in London, a bottle of Jerez de la Frontera, vintage 1775 from the Massandra collection, sold at a record price of $ 50,000. The sale was authorized by the then President of Ukraine Leonid Kuchma. Today, a bottle of this wine can cost about $ 100,000.

One gets the impression that Yanina Petrovna, having arbitrarily uncorked the guests a bottle of wine that had existed for 240 years at a cost of about 6 million rubles, either was playing some kind of crafty game that could somehow set the president up and set it up, or her “cleverness” does not work well ... After all, she actually imposed a very expensive gift that belonged to the state on Vladimir Putin and Silvio Berlusconi.

However, the main trouble lay not in the donation of state property, but in its possible danger to a person. I have no reason to believe that Yanina Pavlenko, on someone's assignment, was plotting the poisoning of the country's president, and at the same time his guest. But collection wines age, so from time to time their quality is checked by biochemical analysis, including for safety, and they are tasted by experts for evaluation organoleptic characteristics... This is how their longevity is examined. As for the wine, which should be drunk by distinguished guests, then in a similar way in advance, as noted, the contents of the bottle with which it is planned to be treated must be checked.

Yanina Pavlenko unauthorizedly opened the 240-year-old bottle a few minutes after Silvio Berlusconi's question, asked solely because of his curiosity. Therefore, we can say with complete confidence that the wine that the guests drank was not tested. Moreover, since it was not checked in advance, it can be confidently asserted that the security service of the president of the country did not plan a "drink" initiated by Pavlenko. Yes, and hot days were in Yalta, and there was still a walk along the Yalta embankment. Note that a laboratory biochemical analysis of wine requires at least a day to carry it out, and security officers would probably transfer it to the laboratory. They could not prevent a spontaneous, potentially dangerous wine tasting, apparently because of the suddenness of what happened, or, observing tact in front of Berlusconi and considering the impossibility of explaining in detail the reasons for the ban. After all, Berlusconi might have thought that they were sorry to give him a taste of the rarity. On the other hand, it could cast a shadow on Vladimir Putin, who in the presence of the Italian guest apparently considered it inconvenient to prevent the spontaneous manifestation of "loyal" feelings of the general director of "Massandra".

It turned out that Yanina Pavlenko, having imposed on the guests an expensive bottle of unique collection wine, really “framed” Vladimir Putin, making him, as it were, her accomplice. All this gave rise to the Ukrainian authorities and many foreign media outlets to attack him. A few days after the events described, the prosecutor's office of the virtual Autonomous Republic of Crimea opened criminal proceedings on the fact that Yanina Pavlenko inflicted damage on the Massandra NPJSC, which was once registered in Ukraine. The indictment says: “Criminal proceedings were opened on the fact of the seizure of property on an especially large scale in accordance with part 5 of article 191 of the Criminal Code of Ukraine. The damage is estimated at more than 2 million hryvnia. " The accusation notes that the wine was opened specifically for Vladimir Putin and Silvio Berlusconi during their visit to Massandra, and the cost of a bottle of such wine, according to various estimates, today ranges from $ 100,000 to $ 150,000.

This was announced on September 16 by the Kiev Center for Investigative Journalism, and the message was suddenly, somehow, amicably immediately replicated by many foreign publications, sophisticated in unfriendly headlines addressed to the President of Russia. According to Yandex, the number of "news" messages "how Putin and Berlusconi drank wine" in a few days exceeded 800.

Real bottles and crafty bookkeeping

Realizing that after such a publicity of her "hospitality" she could smell "fried", Yanina Pavlenko tried to retroactively get consent Ministry of Property and Land Relations of the Republic of Crimea, further - the Ministry, to write off the ill-fated bottle. Why exactly the Ministries is explained below. She apparently intended to take advantage of the fact that in the accounting, so “skillfully” organized by her, this bottle was accounted for at a cost of about ... 45 rubles, as if it were a work in progress. But in order to use such "unfinished" for tasting or sale, it is necessary in accordance with the Federal Law on State Regulation of Production and Turnover ethyl alcohol, alcoholic and alcohol-containing products, hereinafter referred to as the Law, to fulfill a number of mandatory procedures, including pouring wine into a new container, sticking the appropriate excise stamp on it, paying excise duty, and assessing the cost of this bottle at the latest market prices. As noted, this price is about 100 thousand dollars or 6 million rubles, but not 45 rubles.

And then something strange happened, causing many questions. The head of the shop and the chief winemaker of the head plant wrote a memo to the general director of Massandra, which said: To carry out protocol and organizational events related to the visit by the President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin to FSUE PJSC Massandra of the Administrative Department of the President of the Russian Federation, on the basis of agreement with the Ministry of Property and Land Relations of the Republic of Crimea (out. No. 01-09 / 24425 dated 11.09 .2015) I ask for your permission to use ... followed by a list of 31 single bottles of 9 different collection wines, including the aforementioned ill-fated bottle of the Spanish Jerez de la Frontera, from the 1775 vintage. At the end of the note it said: The use of tasting samples shall be carried out for the company's own needs in accordance with the established procedure.

Obviously, it should not have been about the company's own needs, but about entertainment expenses, for which special funds are usually provided in the factory budget, and the established procedure should be understood as the norms and provisions of Russian legislation. However, the general director of Massandra acted according to her own concepts, formed during the years of drinking strong drinks with the previous bosses.

The wine collection, belonging to the Republic of Crimea, was transferred for storage to FSUE PJSC Massandra under a property lease agreement. It was signed by the Ministry on behalf of the government of the republic. According to clause 2.2. of the agreement, the owner of the leased property, including the collection of wines, remains the Republic of Crimea. According to clause 1.4. the museum part of collection wines in the amount of 10,938 bottles was transferred to the tenant for storage. And according to clause 10.1. of the agreement, the lessee has the right to independently alienate the current assets of the property, which include collection wines, with the exception of their museum part, provided that the proceeds from the sale of current assets will be used for their restoration and statutory purposes. Thus, it turns out that all collection wines were actually transferred to Massandra for storage and sale, excluding museum bottles.

But does Massandra, which is not the owner of these collection wines, have the right to sell them with the permission of the Ministry? Indeed, for this, the Ministry, in accordance with paragraph 2 of Art. 18 of the Law was to obtain a license for the production, storage and supply of alcoholic and alcohol-containing food products produced by him.

However, the Ministry does not have such a license, since the production, storage and supply of produced alcoholic and alcohol-containing food products do not belong to the activities of this state body. Consequently, Massandra's permission to sell collection wine, which is written in the lease agreement, seems to be contrary to the Law and is invalid or, as the lawyers say, null and void. But even if we admit the legality of such permission, then "Massandra" according to the same paragraph 2 of Art. 18 of the Law and the Resolution of the Plenum of the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation dated July 11, 2014 No. 47, in addition to the license for its main activity, it should have received a separate storage license, as well as a license for the purchase, storage and supply of alcoholic and alcohol-containing products of another person, that is, the Ministry. But Massandra does not have such licenses.

It should be noted that the concept collection wine is absent in the Law. Any wine with an ethyl alcohol content of more than 0.5% of its volume is referred to by the Law as alcoholic products, and wine materials are classified as alcohol-containing products.

Thus, in whatever capacity the collection wine was listed and not used, neither accept it for storage, nor sell it by pouring it into a new container and sticking an excise stamp, the general director of Massandra, in the absence of the appropriate licenses for the enterprise, had no right under the Law ... In the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (Art. 171 of the Criminal Code), such an act is classified as illegal business.

There is no date on the above-mentioned memo, but formally it should have been written no later than September 11, the day of the visit of the distinguished guests, since in the note its authors ask permits for submission for tasting 31 bottles. Note that in translation into the language of accounting, a request meant to authorize their cancellation. Yanina Petrovna put a resolution on the note: Konovalova. In the order. But Elena Konovalova is Pavlenko's deputy, and she can sign orders only if the general director is absent due to illness or a long business trip. It seems that such a resolution speaks of the intention to evade responsibility. Indeed, October has already come, and the order to write off the mentioned bottles has not yet been issued.

Analyzing what happened, we can say with a high probability that Yanina Pavlenko did not apply to the Ministry to "agree" to write off the wine before September 11, that is, the day of the visit of Vladimir Putin and Silvio Berlusconi. Therefore, it is not clear how the response was received from the Ministry of the same September 11 on agreement, which is stated in the memo. It is also unclear how they managed to draw up the aforementioned memo, if Pavlenko announced that Friday, that day, non-working - presumably, she was afraid of the complainants, and the plant workers did not come to work? Note that wine cancellation is not stipulated by the lease agreement, which was confirmed in response to my appeal by the head of the Ministry, Anna Anyukhina. So no reconciliation write-offs wine for the company's own needs could not be from above. It can be assumed that the general director misled the authors of the memo, or, simply put, deliberately distorting the Ministry's answer, deceived them.

But was there even on September 11 such a large-scale tasting of collection wine - 31 bottles of nine brands with a total capacity of 23.1 liters, which was mentioned in the memo on its cancellation? Judging by the TV reports that day, there were only a few people accompanying the distinguished guests; together with the journalists, it is unlikely that there will be more than a dozen. If we proceed from the norm of the tasting wine of 200 g, then they drank about two liters. In fact, as eyewitnesses said, wine was distributed in bottles to some accompanying persons and journalists, and after their departure, to celebrate, the same “tasting” took place, but only by a group of Massandra workers led by Yanina Pavlenko. Apparently, therefore, it was required to write off such a large number of bottles.

The "punctures" with tasting are also evidenced by the waybill for the transfer of the mentioned bottles to the commercial bar "Massandra" for sale. Obviously, the bar should have received guests. But they didn't. This is evidenced by the invoice, which is not dated September 11, but for some reason September 16. It can be assumed that the head and the accountant of the sales department of the parent plant who signed the invoice made a forgery under pressure from the general director or, on her word of honor, to settle everything, but she then refused to issue an order to transfer the wine to the bar and write it off. It turns out now that all these bottles by Massandra employees who signed the consignment note allegedly stole and they can be brought to justice?

Before the transfer of wine for commercial sale, according to the Law, it was required to pour it into a new container, stick an appropriate excise stamp on it, paying excise duty, and assess the cost of the bottle at the latest market prices. Judging by the available information, excise stamps for the "tasted" wines were not ordered - after all, they had to be ordered and pasted before the day of the "tasting", and the stamps are not printed on the day of order. Consequently, it appears that excise duty has not been paid for the drunk bottles. In addition, it was still required to draw up a bunch of all sorts of documents, which also took a lot of time.

The "commercial" prices of wines indicated in the invoice are also surprising. About "Jerez de la Frontera" of the 1775 harvest with a "market" price of 44 rubles 12 kopecks instead of about 6 million rubles has already been mentioned. This year "Massandra" did not sell collection wines, but the stores still sell the remnants of some of its brands. So, "Jerez Massandra" in 1955 costs at least 50,000 rubles, in the invoice it is estimated at ... 44 rubles 12 kopecks, as well as "Jerez de la Frontera" of the 1775 harvest, which is 225 years older. Or here "Red Livadia Port Wine" of 1952 is sold in stores for 4000 - 5000 dollars, and in "Massandra" it was estimated at 37 rubles 93 kopecks - the accuracy of the estimate up to three kopecks is amazing. For comparison: the cost of a 0.75 liter bottle of new Massandra wine last year ranged from 75 to 100 rubles.

I will not continue to list the "commercial" prices from Yanina Pavlenko - all of them are not just too low, but are indicated, as they say, "from the bulldozer." According to the invoice, the total cost of 31 bottles was 935 rubles 97 kopecks, or an average of almost 30 rubles per bottle, while their market price exceeds 7 million rubles. In such cases, criminal cases are often initiated, since artificial understatement of prices leads to a decrease in taxes paid to the budget.

If the wine was indeed handed over to the bar for sale on September 16, then its sale to Massandra itself for its own needs had to be reflected in the memory of the cash register and all taxes had to be paid from the proceeds. But there are big doubts about this. After all, the sale must be accompanied by an appropriate write-off certificate. Yanina Petrovna managed to force some subordinates to issue a dubious consignment note, but others did not want to close the embrasure for her sake, from which a machine-gun burst could flash them. They refuse to sign the illegal act of writing off the ill-fated bottles in the accounting department without her ordering, and she continues to "substitute" her subordinates.

Copies of the memo and the waybill somehow got into the press, and Yanina Petrovna decided to use this to put the squeeze on the rebellious. Therefore, she turned to the Yalta police with a request to find the "guilty" who allegedly divulged an important commercial secret of the enterprise, and to bring them to justice. Oddly enough, the police followed her lead, although there was no trade secret in the mentioned papers, and could not be. The first one who admitted to copying the mentioned papers has already appeared, although he did not give copies anywhere and he needs them for reporting. Thus, the Yalta police, willingly or unwillingly, are covering up the unlawful tricks of the general director of Massandra, although they should have become interested in them as part of the same ongoing investigation.

In order to somehow divert attention from the scandal provoked by her, Yanina Petrovna tried to turn her illegal tricks into far-fetched virtues, and said: Massandra and her collection quite unexpectedly received a grandiose advertising campaign at the world level. The cost of a bottle of Jerez de la Frontera wine stored in our collection from 1775 has now increased at least tenfold. I am sure that the interest shown in the collection of the plant by the world media and wine connoisseurs will affect its price and increase competition for the right to own one of the world's oldest bottles. It is planned to sell it at an auction for at least 1 million euros. ".

Whether due to illiteracy, or for a fee, but many Russian media outlets, including some federal news agencies, have spread this far-fetched and unsubstantiated nonsense, especially ridiculous in the part a grandiose advertising campaign at the world level ... for one bottle of wine. In fact, Yanina Pavlenko, like a non-commissioned officer's widow, whipped herself out, admitting that she had artificially lowered the cost of a 240-year-old wine from 6 million to 44.12 rubles.

Yanina Petrovna's dreams of a million euros were replaced by her fantasies of international fame. The press service of the enterprise reported on October 5 that Massandra is taking part in the international wine competition in Hong Kong and presented there Bastardo Massandra of 2012 harvest, White Livadia Muscat of 2012, South Coast Red Port of 2011 and Jerez Massandra »Harvest 2010. Yanina Petrovna herself gaspedly declared: “Our partners from Hong Kong have invited Massandra to take part in an international competition. We are looking forward to the assessments of experts and hope that our unique, amazing wines from the sunny Crimea will be able to win their hearts and, of course, awards. "

In fact, Pavlenko continued to bluff, in which Podolko publicly supported her. Nobody invited "Massandra" to this competition - the competition is open, whoever wants to participate. The wines for the competition were presented by an entrepreneur living in Taiwan, who bought them several years ago from the previous producer - the Ukrainian enterprise "Massandra", as evidenced by the above-mentioned harvest years of the grapes from which they are made. These wines received awards from the jury of the competition, which then Yanina Petrovna presented for her achievements.

Since the threat of punishment for illegally drunk bottles of collection wine has not passed, and they are not allowed to write off them, Yanina Petrovna, in order to divert attention from her illegal tricks, decided on another deception. The NTV channel on October 27 in the program "Today" showed a story about "Massandra" by its Crimean correspondent Oleg Kryuchkov. It lasted no more than four minutes, but the denial of the frank lies sounded on the air requires much more time.

The presenter of the program, anticipating the plot, said: “The famous plant for the production of Crimean wines intends to sue Ukraine over counterfeit products, which are now supplied to Russia in large quantities under the Massandra brand. It looks like the same bottle, the same label, but what is inside, according to experts, has nothing to do with wine at all. "

This plot must have been edited by someone. Why didn't the editor have doubts about the reliability of the information provided by the Crimean correspondent? I wonder where Oleg Kryuchkov saw it a huge amount of counterfeit products entering Russia under the Massandra brand, through which such clandestine customs offices were bottles brought in and in which Russian cities are they sold? In fact, this is a clear slander against the Russian border guards, the customs service and Rosalkogolregulirovanie. Indeed, in order to sell a smuggled fake, which does not have accompanying documents, or is, but counterfeit, it would be necessary to order excise stamps in Russia. But this could not have been done because of the labels of the Ukrainian enterprise, which indicate its location - in the Kherson region, for the supply of products to Russia there is no contract.

Presumably, the TV show was ordered, paid for from Massandra's funds, and directed by Yanina Petrovna herself, pushing an ignorant correspondent and her subordinates to the forefront, hiding behind them. Here is the operator demonstrating several bottles of wine with the brand name "Massandra" and Oleg Kryuchkov, reporting with pretentious indignation: “The production of counterfeit goods in the Kherson region is carried out by the former director of Massandra, Nikolai Boyko, against whom several criminal cases have been brought up in Crimea at once. Nikolai Konstantinovich had been preparing for the appropriation of the world-famous brand for a long time, back in 2005 he re-registered all the trademarks of the plant on himself and his grandson. "

Then another shot floats over the viewer, in which a new character joins the reporter - a lady of respectable age with some documents in her hands. The inscription says that before us is the lawyer of the enterprise Elena Konovalova. In fact, she is the deputy general director of Massandra. Obviously, Elena Konovalova conducted a preliminary "educational program" for the correspondent, the results of which were shown to viewers.

The correspondent asked: "Was it a state-owned Ukrainian enterprise then?" Hearing an affirmative answer, he stated: “And the director of the state the property is registered to itself. Stolen". Elena Konovalova, waving documents, the content of which is hidden from the viewer, answers without a shadow of embarrassment: “It turns out that yes. Registered to myself. Illegal use of state property ".

The Massandra trademark is the property of Ukraine, and Elena Konovalova knew perfectly well that Mykola Boyko could not, on his own account, and even with his grandson, register or re-register a brand that belonged to the state and which marked the products of a state-owned enterprise. In other words, she lied without shame and conscience. In principle, there could not be any documents that would confirm her lie, since it was a lie. It is not known what papers she showed to the reporter. Therefore, the Crimean correspondent of NTV, who had clearly read these papers, also shamelessly lied to the whole country. After all, what he said could not be in them. To be convinced of this, it is enough to look on the Internet in the register of trademarks registered in Ukraine. But if the brand even belonged to Nikolai Boyko, Elena Konovalova unwittingly admitted with her lies that the Russian "Massandra" is illegally using someone else's trademark, which is explained below.

It should be noted that in the world there are such concepts as corporate honor and dignity. Nikolay Boyko is an authoritative person in the informal world corporation of winemakers, and his corporate honor will never allow him to stoop to the manufacture of counterfeits. As for several criminal cases allegedly brought against him in Russia, this is a lie. The case is one, and it was instituted due to the fact that Nikolai Konstantinovich did not want to sacrifice his honor and dignity: he did not succumb to the blackmail of the head of the Crimean unit of the Administrative Department of the President of the Russian Federation O. E. Podolko, and in response to the insistent proposals of the investigator refused to write a statement of amnesty . How officials expelled the general director of the Crimean "Massandra", regardless of his professionalism and merits. The unique wine-making complex of Russia is threatened with destruction. "-" Promyshlennye vedomosti "No. 4, September 2015).

At the end of the story, shameful for the NTV channel, for some reason, under the guise of the director of the Crimean Bureau of Wines and Viticulture, the general director of Massandra Yanina Petrovna Pavlenko appeared. Such a far-fetched detachment from the enterprise led by her was apparently caused by the desire to distance herself from the lies of her deputy - no matter what happened. After Yanina Petrovna expressed indignation at the Ukrainian "forgeries", the Crimean correspondent of NTV concluded this false program by repeating her "patriotic" intentions: “Crimean wines will be protected from counterfeiting in courts, lawyers are now preparing claims. The Crimean winemakers are going to recover the damage not only from the counterfeiters; Ukraine, as a state, will also be responsible ”.

By chance, publishing the third article about "Massandra" and the illegal acts of Yanina Pavlenko, I just can't understand, is she, like a sent "Cossack", provoking scandals against Russia, or is it just that her "reasoning" does not work well? The property of the Ukrainian concern Massandra was nationalized by the Republic of Crimea and leased to the Russian enterprise Massandra, which established the Office of the President of the Russian Federation. However, the question of the admissibility of nationalization brand“Massandra” is legally unclear, since it legally belongs to Ukraine. Therefore, it is not clear on what legal basis the Ukrainian “Massandra”, which was left without property, and which no one has yet liquidated, sold its trademark to the Russian “Massandra” which did not belong to it. I sold it for a symbolic price - one ruble. For this, the government of the Republic of Crimea for some time even appointed a new general director of the virtual Ukrainian enterprise. Some absurdity!

I repeat, the owner of the brand is Ukraine, and not a Ukrainian enterprise existing only on paper, and it had no right to carry out such a deal. Therefore, there are serious doubts about the legality of the use of the current Russian "Massandra" trade mark of the same name. But Ukraine has the right to transfer this brand to any Ukrainian enterprise, which was done. So the lawsuits against the “falsifiers” and Ukraine itself, which Yanina Pavlenko is threatening to file with no one knows where due to illiteracy, can provoke another scandals against Russia. All this dangerous chaos was created under the supervision of the same Podolko, who did not even understand the legal conflict that had arisen. Meanwhile, the issue was solved simply - by registering a new brand, for example, "New Massandra" for all brands of Massandra wines.

The question arises, why are the above-mentioned, lying, incompetent and poorly thinking leaders not being driven away?

The answer to this question, perhaps, is given by the message of the information agency "Kryminform", published on December 4: “The Crimean Council of Ministers has planned an auction for the sale of 36.5 hectares of vineyards in the Yalta region. The corresponding draft decree is included in the agenda of the government meeting scheduled for December 8. According to the document, the agricultural land is located outside the village of Gurzuf in the urban district of Yalta. The starting price is set at 149.7 million rubles. "

According to some reports, the sale of the site has been agreed upon with Kolpakov, the head of the President of the Russian Federation. Vagit Alekperov, the owner of the oil company "Lukoil", claims it. If the initial price of the plot is set at 149.7 million rubles, it turns out that a hundred square meters will cost almost 41 thousand rubles, while its current market price is at least 100 thousand rubles. Isn't a 2.5 times understated price a sign of a possible corrupt deal?

As noted, the expulsion of the entire former professional leadership of the wine-making complex is explained by the desire of some officials to freely seize the land occupied for vineyards on the southern coast of Crimea. The squandering of state property, which had been created for centuries, was hindered by the former leaders of Massandra. Therefore, instead of Nikolai Boyko, in violation of labor legislation, Yanina Pavlenko was appointed, and a criminal case was opened against him, raising many perplexed questions. Presumably, it will be one of those 170 thousand out of 200 thousand criminal cases that turned out to be far-fetched, about which the president of the country spoke with indignation recently in his message to the Federal Assembly of Russia. All this is described in detail in the article “How officials expelled the general director of the Crimean“ Massandra ”, regardless of his professionalism and merits. The unique wine-making complex of Russia is threatened with destruction ”(“ Promyshlennye vedomosti ”No. 4, September, 2015).

Thus, the illegal actions of Yanina Pavlenko, in fact encouraged by the Office of the President of the Russian Federation, and the recently organized by her false program on the NTV channel, defaming the honor and dignity of the former general director of Massandra, are closely correlated with the intentions of some Crimean and Moscow officials to start selling state agricultural land occupied under the vineyards, at discounted prices. The aforementioned TV show was supposed to confirm the special significance of Yanina Petrovna and her loyalty to employers in the matter of squandering the property of the unique wine-making complex planned by them. "Massandra", founded at the end of the 19th century by Prince Lev Golitsyn, survived even under the conditions of the German occupation, but now it, most likely, awaits the fate of the Soviet Union.

Presumably, the central investigative bodies and the prosecutor's office will nevertheless be interested in what happened in Massandra over the past year, as well as in the criminal cases initiated in Crimea against its former, illegally dismissed, leaders. Will these bodies not accuse the hostess, who is hospitable at someone else's expense, of causing significant property damage to Massandra and the state through fraud and abuse of trust - clause 3 of Art. 159 and clause 1 of Article 165 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, as well as arbitrariness - Art. 330 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation? In addition, Yanina Pavlenko carried out the storage of alcoholic drinks and the sale of alcohol-containing products of another person without an appropriate license, which qualifies as illegal business - Art. 171 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

It is impossible to find out anything about the economic indicators of the complex led by Pavlenko. Contrary to Russian law, there are no financial reports on Massandra's website about its activities and the corresponding figures are classified. As noted, in connection with the publicity of illegal attempts to write off collection wine, Yanina Pavlenko even turned to the Yalta police with a demand to initiate a criminal case for disclosing an alleged commercial secret. But on the pages in social network On Facebook, you can find records that say that in Crimea, many refuse to buy Massandra wine dated 2015 because of its poor quality, preferring to buy Massandra wine from previous years harvests from trade leftovers. On their labels there is a facsimile of the former general director Nikolai Boyko, as a guarantor of the former quality. Presumably, Rospotrebnadzor and Rosalkogolregulirovanie will be interested in the current quality of Massandra wines.

Obviously, in addition to Yanina Pavlenko, questions should also arise to O. E. Podolko, head of the Crimean division of the Presidential Property Management Department, who oversees Massandra, without having the appropriate knowledge in winemaking and experience in managing any production. Previously, he was in charge of one of the hotel facilities in Sochi. Here are just a few of his Crimean deeds.

1. In January - February of this year, Podolko repeatedly blackmailed Nikolai Boyko, demanding his dismissal of his own free will, promising in exchange to close the criminal case initiated against him. After another ultimatum demand to write a letter of resignation, on February 9, 2015, Nikolai Boyko was taken to the hospital with heart trouble. Obviously, we are talking about the excess of Podolko's official powers, which entailed a significant violation of the rights and legitimate interests of a citizen, with the threat of violence and causing grave consequences - paragraph 3c of Art. 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation ( is punished with imprisonment for a term of three to ten years with the deprivation of the right to hold certain positions or practice certain activities for up to three years).

2. On February 10 this year, accompanied by an armed group of "people's militia", which for some reason replaces the police on the peninsula and is directly subordinate to the "owner" of Crimea, Aksenov, arrived at the head enterprise of "Massandra". He did not let the deputy general director Yuri Kosmachevsky go there and, by his order, having no authority and no legal grounds, removed him from the duties of the general director. On February 11, on the instructions of the same Podolko, the "people's militias" did not allow members of the board of "Massandra", which are all directors of the enterprises included in it, to enter the head enterprise. They were forced to hold an emergency meeting of the board outside the association, and appealed to the President of the country with a request to help restore the control over Massandra. Obviously, we are also talking about the excess of Podolko's official powers, which entailed a significant violation of the rights and legitimate interests of citizens with the threat of violence - paragraph 3a of Art. 286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation, as well as on the abuse of Podolko's powers - clause 1 of Art. 201 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

3. After his appointment on February 19 of this year and. O. instead of the unlawfully expelled Yuri Kosmachevsky, and on May 5 as the general director instead of the unlawfully dismissed Nikolai Boyko, Yanina Pavlenko continued, together with Podolko, the illegal purge of objectionable specialists and leaders of Massandra, which he had begun. She dismissed on March 17 for artificially created absenteeism the deputy general director S. V. Trapeznikov, who was not allowed to work for several days by the "people's militias". Presumably, not without instructions from the same Podolko and Pavlenko. Since February of this year, this pair has dismissed all four deputy general directors, heads of four out of eight branch plants, the head of the sales department, the head of the procurement department, the chief power engineer, as well as many key specialists of the auxiliary shops. We are talking about the abuse of authority by Podolko and Pavlenko - Art. 201 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

The armed seizure of the head enterprise of "Massandra" by the "people's militia" led by a representative of the presidential administration, Podolko, reminded of the terrorist actions of the ever-memorable organized crime groups led by the "godfathers". Therefore, it is very surprising that no one has stopped the tyranny of the two mentioned officials to this day. After all, their unlawful arbitrariness, combined with incompetence, not only cause considerable damage to the production activities of Massandra and thus to the country's economic interests, but also cast a shadow on the authority of the Administrative Department of the President of the Russian Federation.

It seems that in order to restore the efficiency of the production of a unique wine-making complex, it is necessary, first of all, to stop the planned sale of land and return the illegally dismissed former leaders of Massandra, having previously apologized to them. Such a decision will be an indicator of the intentions of Alexander Kolpakov, the head of the RF President's Property Management Department, to change or not change things for the better in Massandra. He also knows for certain that cadres decide everything, which could once again be seen from the examples of the scandalous activities of his representative in Crimea and the current general director of Massandra appointed by him.

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The "interlocutor" figured out what was happening to the famous Massandra wine factory after the reunification of Crimea with Russia.

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The largest wine-making enterprise in Crimea - the famous "Massandra" - over the past year has experienced everything " side effects": Change of leadership, visits of" self-defense "detachments. As a result, according to employees, the main production was idle for several months. And from the use of "Massandra" disappeared a land plot with valuable vineyards. The special correspondent of "Interlocutor" understood the situation.

Enthusiasm for power

Unlike most of the nationalized enterprises of the peninsula, Massandra survived the Crimean Spring relatively calmly. The director of the enterprise, Nikolai Boyko, who had been in charge of it for almost 30 years, loudly rejoiced at his "return to his homeland" and until recently remained in office. The clouds were gathering over him gradually. In September, the head of the Crimea Aksenov announced financial violations during Boyko's rule for 4.3 billion rubles. Neither Mr. Aksenov nor the competent authorities explained the details of the case at that time. In winter, they started talking more specifically: the investigation announced the damage of 7 million rubles to one of the Massandra state farms: the state-owned enterprise Tavrida was forced to sell its products to the head plant at a reduced cost.

As a result, in February, there was a change of leadership at Massandra with the assistance of the irreplaceable “self-defense of Crimea”. Suspended Boyko went to the hospital with a heart. But some of the former employees did not accept the situation - they directly announced the "raider seizure" of "Massandra" and wrote a complaint with a detailed story about the difficulties experienced over the past year.

The main production of "Massandra" was idle for several months / Russian Look

Some of them, associated with the transition to Russian jurisdiction, turned out to be common for all Crimean winemakers.

- In order to obtain Russian excise stamps, according to the requirements of the Federal Alcohol Market Regulation (RAR), enterprises need to install the EGAIS system, which is both technologically and financially very costly, - says one of the market participants Sergey Mazurov. - And at first, winemakers were given only regional excise taxes - we could sell products only within the Crimea. Federal excise taxes have begun to be received only recently.

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"Massandra" has not received the federal excise tax, according to the new leadership, this should happen the other day. As the previous management assures, due to the difficulties in sales, the enterprise operated at a loss during the year, and in December it had to stop production altogether. The fact that the largest Crimean winery became a Federal State Unitary Enterprise under the Presidential Property Management Department did not help either.

“Back in June, it was decided that Massandra would be transferred to the balance of the territorial UDP,” says the former executive director of the enterprise, Yuri Kosmachevsky. - But, legal difficulties and errors of officials, the fuss with documents lasted until the end of the year. In September, the Federal State Unitary Enterprise was created, to which only in December the property of the Ukrainian "Massandra" was formally transferred to lease. At the same time, for the entire "transitional period" this property did not pass the state registration required by Russian laws, which means it could not be used. We received a license from RAP only at the end of December, and there were no excise taxes. As a result, since December, the work of the parent enterprise was essentially suspended.

Sugar lands

Problems also began on the lands of eight Massandra state farms, which have now become branches of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise.

A land plot with valuable vineyards has disappeared from the use of "Massandra" / Russian Look

“We started downtime in November,” said Alexander Kiryushkin, director of the Livadia State Enterprise. - Moreover, we, as a branch, are now unable to engage in bottling and marketing of products ourselves, these areas had to be closed. Under the new rules, we can only supply wine material to the head enterprise. But since it also suspended activities, we were doing field work all this time.

By the way, the revision of “self-defense” appeared at “Livadia” long before “Massandra”, back in April. The employees had to go “into the fields” for a month, the main production was paralyzed.

- Even then, attempts were made to forcefully replace the management of the state farm, - assures Kosmachevsky. - In general, over the course of the year, all our enterprises were subjected to raids by the authorities in various forms, but with one goal - to take away from Massandra plots of valuable land on the southern coast of Crimea. For this, Boyko was also dismissed. If President Putin does not take action, the local authorities will simply take Massandra apart.

The land plot next to the Sberbank sanatorium no longer belongs to winemakers / Liana Nalbandyan

These dark prophecies might be called the vengeful speculations of displaced leaders. However, in the case of Livadia, the predictions have already come true.

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“After re-registration, we received an order from the Crimean Council of Ministers, saying that we no longer own a 12-hectare plot on the coast of Simeiz,” says Alexander Kiryushkin. - This is one of the best sites in the whole "Massandra", it grows an elite grape variety, from which we make the world famous "Red Stone White Muscat". The vineyards are still there, we even continue to cultivate them, although according to the documents they are no longer ours. Why, in whose favor the plot was withdrawn, they did not explain to us.

Next to the vineyard is the Mriya sanatorium, which has been owned by Sberbank since 2010.

- They say that our site was handed over to them and soon there will be a golf club. - Pensioners Nina and Alexander Zelenskiy have been working in this vineyard for over 30 years. “They tried to drive us out of here, even in Ukraine. Back in 2013, the former director of Livadia wanted to sell the land plot to some Armenian businessman, but then this was prevented. We were sure that this would definitely not be allowed under Russia.

Alexander Zelensky has worked on this land for over 30 years / Liana Nalbandyan

The plot with access to the sea knows how to "appreciate" any management. This is useful for grapes - the vine is filled with sugar. But for investors, the coastal land is sweeter than any nutmeg.

In the Office of Presidential Affairs, the fate of the site was confirmed to us. Who it belongs to now has not been explained. Noticing only that all decisions on the transfer of the property complex "Massandra" were "taken by the competent authorities" of the Republic of Crimea.

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Meanwhile, the ex-leaders of "Massandra" predict that the "competent authorities" will not stop there.

“In December – January, the director of the Gurzuf state farm, now dismissed, was actively persuaded to give up 34 hectares of vineyards,” says Kosmachevsky. - This is also a seaside plot, bordering on the lands that Alekperov bought back in Ukraine. I have no doubt that he will be taken away soon.

Intoxicating perspectives

The UDP did not confirm the forecast, noting that the employees of the department would not allow further seizures, but, on the contrary, would take care of the return of what was illegally lost. Indeed, the lands of "Massandra" were pulled apart piece by piece under the Ukraine. "Golden" vineyards stretch along the coast for 180 km. In 2009–2012 alone, the Crimean prosecutor's office revealed the alienation of 400 hectares of land with damage of almost 600 million rubles. And according to the UDP, "since 1991, under the former leader Boyko, more than 16 thousand hectares of land have been withdrawn."

Yanina Pavlenko, ex-director of the Novy Svet champagne factory, has become the new head of FSUE PJSC Massandra. By the way, in 2003-2008 she headed the long-suffering state farm "Livadia".

The new head of FSUE "PJSC" Massandra "Yanina Pavlenko / Frame youtube.com

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The retired leaders of "Massandra" now sarcastically recall other facts of her biography. Allegedly in 2010, she, a deputy of the State Council of Crimea, came to one of the orphanages and campaigned for the orphans for the Party of Regions. The Crimean press spread a rumor that under its leadership, Massandra would soon be merged with a champagne factory. However, Ms Pavlenko rejects these speculations, assuring that she is already establishing new distribution channels for Massandra and this year will increase production from 10.7 to 12 million bottles. True, according to employees, it is almost impossible to do this in the remaining nine months. But the workers are already glad that they started getting paid again.

“Throughout the year there were interruptions in wages, for January-February they were issued only in March,” says Ivan Marchenko, chief agronomist of Livadia. - True, we now earn less than under Ukraine. I get 15 thousand rubles, our driver - 6 thousand. And prices have tripled. But there is still no other job in Yalta.

Therefore, the staff can only come to terms with the "difficulties of the transition period."

“We are sympathetic to the situation, pleased that we are part of Russia, and even more so we entered such a serious structure as the UDP,” says the director of Livadia, who already has a portrait of President Putin in his office. - I think that we will not be left without attention, and the company - without orders.

Moreover, in the use of the same "Livadia", with the exception of the withdrawn area, there are still more than 300 hectares of vineyards. There is something to work with. The further fate of "Massandra" will show what is sweeter for Russian officials - the rivers of wine or the Crimean coast.

Moses Gelman

In the Soviet Union, there was a "deeply echeloned" system of training and selection of personnel for all levels of government, which permeated the entire country. Of course, she was not without flaws. In those days, in order to strive for “kings” it was necessary to demonstrate one's “adherence” to the communist ideology, that is, to become a member of the CPSU, since the party organs were elements of a multi-level subsystem of control built into the system of government and, in particular, its economy. However, the main criterion for the selection of personnel was then the professionalism of the candidate-applicant for this or that position. “Red directors,” as the liberal reformers later began to contemptuously call them, were selected from specialists who had passed all or almost all of the rungs of the production ladder. The same principle was applied to employees of ministries and departments. Therefore, it was rare to find a fool among the leaders of Soviet enterprises. Although sometimes they came across.

One of the “red directors” was Nikolai Konstantinovich Boyko, a world famous winemaker who had worked in the industry for over 40 years, of which the last 28 years was the general director of the unique wine-making complex “Massandra”.

Winemaking is not only a science, but also a great art that few people master. To maintain the highest level of production of classic Russian fortified wine from our own wine materials, it was necessary to form a team of classy specialists who take care of their work, which took many years. These people, led by Nikolai Boyko, preserved the integrity of the state wine-making economy, preventing the withdrawal of attractive southern Crimean lands occupied by vineyards from Massandra. That is why, apparently, so as not to interfere, the new Crimean authorities soon succeeded in expelling their leaders from the association and a number of its member farms, and a criminal case was opened against Boyko with very strange, practically and legally inexplicable charges.

Now "Massandra" is under the jurisdiction of the Administrative Department of the President of Russia. WITH

On submission of his representative in Crimea, the Chief Executive Officer of the President of the Russian Federation illegally dismissed Nikolai Boyko from his post when he was in the hospital, and appointed a certain Yanina Pavlenko instead. This lady has a diploma of an administrative manager, in the present - an "omnivorous" manager, with a very vague idea of the unique production, which she was appointed to lead.

On September 11, when President Vladimir Putin and former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi visited the head plant of Massandra, Yanina Petrovna clearly demonstrated her incompetence and ignorance in the affairs of the economy "led" by her. This is evidenced by the report of the "Kryminform" correspondent, written according to the words of Yanina Pavlenko, who accompanied the guests - in the photo in the center. Verbatim excerpts from the report (in bold) with the corresponding comments are provided below.

- As the general director of the association, Yanina Pavlenko, told the guests, the wine production in Crimea was founded in 1894 by Prince Lev Golitsyn. “The prince was looking for a place in Russia for a long time, where all climatic zones would be represented, and found him in Crimea,” Pavlenko said.

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All climatic zones by no means can be “represented” in any one “place” in Russia. Even in the Crimea. Yanina Petrovna tried to ascribe to the long-dead prince of Bose her ignorance of physical geography, and the deceased could not disown the stupidity attributed to him. At the same time, his statement about the presence in Crimea of all climatic zones, ostensibly necessary for growing grapes, Yanina Pavlenko demonstrated a complete ignorance of the agronomy of viticulture. After all, the quality of grapes and the wine materials obtained from it depends on the height of the site, the amount of precipitation falling on it, the structure of the soil, the degree of slope of the site, the annual amount of sunshine, wind load, temperature difference and other factors. All this predetermines the difference in quality, including taste, indicators of wine materials made from the same grape variety, but grown in different areas, which is typical for "Massandra".

Its creator, Prince Golitsyn, announced and confirmed the axiom of winemaking - wine is a product of this area. Therefore, you should not try to get French wine in Crimea, and Crimean wine in France. Thanks to the realization of this philosophy, Prince Golitsyn proposed the principle of producing the same wine by blending (mixing) wine materials obtained from different vineyards of the same variety. The blend makes it possible to equalize their taste differences, and to produce in industrial volumes high-quality wines with stable characteristics, regardless of weather and other natural conditions when growing raw materials. It is the stability and originality of quality that Massandra vintage wines differ from wines of similar names of other manufacturers - Russian and foreign, which allowed them to win their niche in the Russian market. Pavlenko, as follows from her statements, due to her education, knowledge and mentality is far from understanding the philosophy of Massandra winemaking.

- She invited guests to the largest tunnel facility, where 9 million decaliters can be stored at a time. “Today our barrels are only one third full, but this is just the beginning, the grape harvesting season is beginning, we plan to harvest 20 thousand tons, of which 1.8 million decaliters of wines will be obtained,” Pavlenko said.

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As Nikolai Boyko explained, to argue that the barrels are one-third full, illiterate. Wine barrels must be filled completely, under the tongue. Only Madera and Jerez are aged in 3/5 full barrels. This is the way it should be according to the technology.

Stating we plan to harvest 20 thousand tons of grapes, which will make 1.8 million decaliters of wines, Yanina Pavlenko unwittingly betrayed her innermost ideas. In the announced 20 thousand tons of grapes, about 4 thousand tons are table varieties that cannot be used for the production of wine materials. From the remaining 16 thousand tons of technical grape varieties according to Massandra technologies, no more than 1.2 million decaliters of wine materials can be obtained. The remaining 0.6 million can be made using ... ordinary water and dyes. Yanina Petrovna's experience with water in this matter is enormous, obtained when she was an administrator of a private "wine-making" enterprise. Nikolai Boyko believes that everything is heading towards this.

- According to her (Yanina Pavlenko) According to the words, there are many legends about the Massandra collection, but the main one says that the collection will be preserved as long as the people who work here will treat their work with care and love. “What cannot be said about the recent past: over the past 10 years, a lot of rare wines have been removed from the Massandra collection, for example, the Investigative Committee of Russia stopped an attempt to export 4.6 thousand unique bottles to Ukraine,” said the general director of Massandra.

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Yanina Petrovna is either disingenuous or, due to her incompetence in the business of winemaking, does not understand that thousands of bottles of wine are put into the collection for many years not to create a museum - only tasters look at it. Wine is aged for many years for a purely commercial purpose - to improve its quality and thereby increase the added value and price. In other words, the creation and maintenance of a collection of wines is part of the wine production, its last redistribution, in order to generate additional profit. The current generation of Massandra employees is working with the production of collection wines of long-term aging to make a profit for the next generations of winemakers.

Pavlenko's commented statement appears to be false from start to finish. Presumably, all this was said in order to slander the previous leadership of "Massandra", which she, under the leadership of Podolko, a representative of the Administrative Department of the President of the Russian Federation, was expelled. According to Massandra's reports, from 2003 to 2014, that is, when allegedly over the previous 10 years from the collection of "Massandra" was removed so many rare wines, in fact, the collection contained 587,892 bottles of different brands of wine. During this time, 548 611 bottles were sold, and as a result, the collection was replenished by 39 281 bottles in 10 years.

This year, already under Yanin Pavlenko, not a single collection bottle has been officially sold, and new ones have just begun to be put into the collection, with only one brand - Jerez. Previously, an average of 50 thousand bottles of 10 brands were pledged annually. As Pavlenko herself complained, there is almost no money for production. Although "Massandra" has always been profitable, as its products were in great demand. And the fact that the unique wine-making economy is now falling apart is to blame for its current incompetent curators, who unlawfully dispersed the previous leadership of Massandra in pursuit of their land interests.

So the legend about which Yanina Pavlenko spoke so pompously sounded very self-critical, which she did not realize. What is supposedly The Investigative Committee of Russia stopped an attempt to export to Ukraine 4.6 thousand unique bottles - also a lie, since there are no links to the relevant documents. It is only incomprehensible export attempt was associated with theft, or it was an attempt to carry out a normal commercial transaction. Apparently, Yanina Petrovna's head was confused.

- Now there are 3.3 million decaliters of wine materials under aging, which corresponds to a four-year supply for the production of finished wine products in the amount of 12 million bottles per year.

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The mentioned 3.3 million decaliters of aged wine materials – That's what it is that the maximum total volume of storage of wine materials at all enterprises of "Massandra", which was mentioned by Nikolay Boyko, who successfully managed this economy for 28 years. It was under him that a four-year supply for the production of finished wine products, what Yanina Pavlenko boasted to the guests, “modestly” attributing to herself other people's merits, and previously slandering the former leaders of “Massandra”, accusing them of theft.

- Putin and Berlusconi stopped at the shelves where wines from the Second World War are kept. “From 1941 to 1945, regardless of anything, wines were born and put into the collection,” the general director emphasized. True, this did not happen in the Crimea, but in central Russia, where in July 1941 Joseph Stalin ordered to evacuate the collection.

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Yanina Petrovna's knowledge in the history of "Massandra" is not much different from her knowledge of physical geography, as well as viticulture and winemaking. Part of the collection - 56,000 bottles in 1941 was exported to the mainland, partly to Georgia. But the wines were only stored there. According to the above-mentioned axiom of Prince Golitsyn, were born and put into the collection Massandra wines are always only in Massandra. Therefore, contrary to Pavlenko's assertion, Massandra wines are absent in the collection of the 1941-1943 harvests. When returning a part of the collection from Georgia, local winemakers put a certain amount of bottles of Georgian wines there for subsequent aging. The replenishment of the Massandra collection was resumed already in the seasons of 1944-1945 in the Crimea liberated from the occupiers.

- 2.3 thousand people work at 16 factories. ... Now the collection numbers about 1 million bottles, which are represented by 1.5 thousand different names and brands of wines up to two hundred years of aging, starting in 1775.

First from myself: Well, I do not believe that important information does not reach the GDP, that the GDP is not aware of what is happening in Massandra. That is, the president of the neighboring state - Lukashenko - knows, but his own president does not? Well, I don’t believe it.
I also remembered how one Uzbek who worked for us once told such a story. It was about the presidents ... like Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. I don’t remember the details - about which particular presidents. So, under one president, as expected, all the routes of visits were known in advance. Accordingly, the facades were repaired, new drogs were installed, the grass was painted, etc. And the other just poked his finger at the map and said "let's fly here." We boarded a helicopter and were soon there.
So I don’t believe it.

Now "Massandra" is under the jurisdiction of the Administrative Department of the President of Russia. WITH
On submission of his representative in Crimea, the Chief Executive Officer of the President of the Russian Federation illegally dismissed Nikolai Boyko from his post when he was in the hospital, and appointed a certain Yanina Pavlenko instead. This lady has a diploma of an administrative manager, in the present - an "omnivorous" manager, with a very vague idea of the unique production, which she was appointed to lead.

It should be noted that the official Russian version of Yanina Petrovna's labor biography differs significantly from the previous Ukrainian version she wrote, which for some reason did not alert the personnel service and the head of the Crimean office of the Presidential Property Management Department. The head of this office, Podolko, was also not alerted by the public speeches of Yanina Petrovna as a member of the former Crimean parliament against the return of Crimea to Russia. Nevertheless, for some reason, he very strongly recommended that Moscow appoint Pavlenko, who did not have an agronomic and technological education and relevant work experience, to run a unique world-class wine-making economy with more than a century of history. As expected, after that, the production of wines in the complex for a short period decreased significantly, and it seems that it is led by a sent "Cossack". After all, those who have something to hide usually hide and distort the facts of their biographies (see How officials expelled the general director of the Crimean "Massandra", regardless of his professionalism and merits. ).

On September 11, when President Vladimir Putin and former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi visited the head plant of Massandra, Yanina Petrovna clearly demonstrated her incompetence and ignorance in the affairs of the economy "led" by her. This is evidenced by the report of the "Kryminform" correspondent, written according to the words of Yanina Pavlenko, who accompanied the guests - in the photo in the center. Verbatim excerpts from the report (in bold) with the corresponding comments are provided below.

As the general director of the association, Yanina Pavlenko, told the guests, the wine production in Crimea was founded in 1894 by Prince Lev Golitsyn. “The prince was looking for a place in Russia for a long time, where all climatic zones would be represented, and found him in Crimea,” Pavlenko said.

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All climatic zones by no means can be “represented” in any one “place” in Russia. Even in the Crimea. Yanina Petrovna tried to ascribe to the long-dead prince of Bose her ignorance of physical geography, and the deceased could not disown the stupidity attributed to him. At the same time, with her statement about the presence in Crimea of all climatic zones allegedly necessary for growing grapes, Yanina Pavlenko demonstrated complete ignorance of the agronomy of viticulture. After all, the quality of grapes and the wine materials obtained from it depends on the height of the site, the amount of precipitation falling on it, the structure of the soil, the degree of slope of the site, the annual amount of sunshine, wind load, temperature difference and other factors. All this predetermines the difference in quality, including taste, indicators of wine materials made from the same grape variety, but grown in different areas, which is typical for "Massandra".

She invited guests to the largest tunnel facility, where 9 million decaliters can be stored at a time. “Today our barrels are only one third full, but this is just the beginning, the grape harvesting season is beginning, we plan to harvest 20 thousand tons, of which 1.8 million decaliters of wines will be obtained,” Pavlenko said.

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At the head plant in question, there are no cellars where 9 million decaliters of wine materials can be stored at the same time. The largest is the middle basement, designed for 600 thousand decaliters. It should be noted that the total volume of containers of all enterprises of the complex is 3.3 million decalitres, that is, almost three times less than the volume incorrectly indicated by Pavlenko only for one of the basements of the parent plant.
As Nikolai Boyko explained, it is illiterate to say that the barrels are one-third full. Wine barrels must be filled completely, under the tongue. Only Madera and Jerez are aged in 3/5 full barrels. This is the way it should be according to the technology.

Having announced that we plan to harvest 20 thousand tons of grapes, from which 1.8 million decaliters of wines will be obtained, Yanina Pavlenko unwittingly betrayed her innermost ideas. In the announced 20 thousand tons of grapes, about 4 thousand tons are table varieties that cannot be used for the production of wine materials. From the remaining 16 thousand tons of technical grape varieties according to Massandra technologies, no more than 1.2 million decaliters of wine materials can be obtained. The remaining 0.6 million can be made using ... ordinary water and dyes. Yanina Petrovna's experience with water in this matter is enormous, obtained when she was an administrator of a private "wine-making" enterprise. Nikolai Boyko believes that everything is heading towards this.

According to her (Yanina Pavlenko), there are many legends circulating about the Massandra collection, but the main one says that the collection will be preserved as long as the people working here are careful and lovingly treat their work. “What cannot be said about the recent past: over the past 10 years, a lot of rare wines have been removed from the Massandra collection, for example, the Investigative Committee of Russia stopped an attempt to export 4.6 thousand unique bottles to Ukraine,” said the general director of Massandra.

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Pavlenko's commented statement appears to be false from start to finish. Presumably, all this was said in order to slander the previous leadership of "Massandra", which she, under the leadership of Podolko, a representative of the Administrative Department of the President of the Russian Federation, was expelled. According to Massandra's reports, from 2003 to 2014, that is, when a lot of rare wines were allegedly removed from the Massandra collection over the previous 10 years, in fact, 587,892 bottles of different brands of wine were put into the collection. During this time, 548 611 bottles were sold, and as a result, the collection was replenished by 39 281 bottles in 10 years.

So the legend about which Yanina Pavlenko spoke so pompously sounded very self-critical, which she did not realize. The fact that the Russian Investigative Committee allegedly stopped the attempt to export 4.6 thousand unique bottles to Ukraine is also a lie, since there are no links to the relevant documents. It is not clear only whether the export attempt was related to theft, or it was an attempt to carry out an ordinary commercial operation. Apparently, Yanina Petrovna's head was confused.

Now 3.3 million decaliters of wine materials are under aging, which corresponds to a four-year supply for the production of finished wine products in the amount of 12 million bottles per year.

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The aforementioned 3.3 million decaliters of aged wine materials - this is the maximum total storage volume of wine materials at all Massandra enterprises, which Nikolay Boyko, who has successfully led this economy for 28 years, said about it. It was under him that a four-year reserve was created for the production of finished wine products, which Yanina Pavlenko boasted to the guests, “modestly” attributing to herself other people's merits, and previously slandering the former leaders of “Massandra”, accusing them of theft.

Putin and Berlusconi stopped at the shelves where wines from the Second World War are kept. “From 1941 to 1945, regardless of anything, wines were born and put into the collection,” the general director emphasized. True, this did not happen in the Crimea, but in central Russia, where in July 1941 Joseph Stalin ordered to evacuate the collection.

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Yanina Petrovna's knowledge in the history of "Massandra" is not much different from her knowledge of physical geography, as well as viticulture and winemaking. Part of the collection - 56,000 bottles in 1941 was exported to the mainland, partly to Georgia. But the wines were only stored there. According to the aforementioned axiom of Prince Golitsyn, Massandra wines were always born and put into the collection only in Massandra. Therefore, contrary to Pavlenko's assertion, Massandra wines are absent in the collection of the 1941-1943 harvests. When returning a part of the collection from Georgia, local winemakers put a certain amount of bottles of Georgian wines there for subsequent aging. The replenishment of the Massandra collection was resumed already in the seasons of 1944-1945 in the Crimea liberated from the occupiers.

2.3 thousand people work at 16 factories. ... Now the collection numbers about 1 million bottles, which are represented by 1.5 thousand different names and brands of wines up to two hundred years of aging, starting in 1775.