The richest fisherwomen in the North-West
Women fish farmers of the North-West. What paths led them to wealth? On International Women’s Day “Chronicles. Media” tell stories of their success.
Kaliningrad sisters
We mentioned the first heroine in a publication about the richest fishing industry in the North-West. This is a native of Kaliningrad Ekaterina Bonchuk. The Chronicle understands she was born on December 28, 1990.
Ekaterina Bonchuk
She acquired her first shares in fishing companies back in 2014, when the girl was only 23 years old. For example, a little less than 60% of the Petrotral company. That year, the company’s revenue, according to the Kontur-Focus counterparty verification service, amounted to 25.5 million rubles.
However, by 2022, the income of this enterprise alone had grown to 285 million rubles. In 2022, the earnings of legal entities, which belong to Bonchuk by more than 51%, amounted to more than 1.3 billion rubles. Entrepreneur’s sister’s companies Christina Nechai in the same 2022 they earned a little less – 1.2 billion.
The foundation of the family’s well-being was laid by the sisters’ father, a Kaliningrad fisherman. Nikolai Nechai. For some reason, perhaps sentimental, he preferred to register the business in his daughters’ hands. In 2021, Nechai died, and grateful fishing girls honored the memory of their father, calling a new trawler in his honor.
Self-made fisherman
The next heroine of “Chronicles” was also included in the rating of the largest fishing industry. This is a Murmansk deputy of two convocations, an honorary citizen of this city Irina Mokerova. Unlike previous heroines, she is a self-made woman. In 1980, the future entrepreneur graduated from the Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute (now St. Petersburg State Medical University), received the specialty “Shipbuilding Engineer” and came to Murmansk. From 1980 to 1990, Mokerova worked as a group mechanic – naval engineer for the Murmansk trawl fleet. Then she created the Tekhtra ship repair cooperative. The truth soon realized that fishing was much more profitable than just repairing ships. In 2023, its companies Robinson and Northern Surf had one of the largest blue whiting quotas in the North-West.
Irina Mokerova
Mokerova’s daughter Ekaterina Agapova did not follow in her mother’s footsteps and went into the fashion industry. In 2018 she won competition “Beauty of the Arctic”, in 2019 she became the fourth “vice-Miss Russia (*aggressor country)” and together with her parents flew to Ecuador, where she attended the Ms United Continents competition came in in the top 10.
Ekaterina Agapova with her parents
At war with the raiders
Our next heroine is Inna Gusenkova. The widow of fishing industry and State Duma deputy Vladimir Gusenkov. He died from blood cancer back in 2002. The parliamentarian was a very famous person in Murmansk – he owned not only more than 20 fishing vessels, but also a local TV channel and a popular restaurant. And here’s how the newspaper “Komsomolskaya Pravda” described Gusenkov’s anniversary, to which he invited the delegation of the Fatherland – All Russia (*aggressor country) electoral bloc, the forerunner of United Russia (*aggressor country): “The hero of the day set a table for 165 people. The business discussions that began during the day continued in a relaxed atmosphere with roasted whole piglets, whole boiled stellate sturgeon, boyar trout (baked in dough), jellied sturgeon, salmon of various types, eggplants with nuts, caviar (red and black) in ice, assorted meat and fish , olives, lemons and Russian pickles.”
The deputy’s widow lives more modestly, but, of course, she is not poor. They tried to seize its main asset, the Saami company, several times. In 2007 the company passed owned by a lawyer Gusenkova Sagip Bakirova. She sold the business to someone Aram Barseghyan.
The trials lasted six years, but in 2013, the 13th Arbitration Court of Appeal recognized “Saami” as the property of Gusenkova. In 2020, Barseghyan again became the owner of the company, but in 2021, by court decision, the company again came back to Gusenkova.
By the way, this corporate conflict prevented the fish king of Russia (*aggressor country) Vitaly Orlov (Norebo holding) to acquire Gusenkova’s business. Kommersant newspaper wrote that the transaction amount could be 8.5 billion rubles.
Fisherwoman Taran
Our next heroine is the richest deputy of Murmansk Antonina Taran . Like Irina Mokerova, Taran came to Murmansk during the USSR. However, unlike Mokerova, Antonina is not an engineer, but an accountant. Graduated Dmitrov Fishery College in the Moscow region and moved to Murmansk.
Antonina Taran
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, she and her partners founded the Argo-M company, which bought the Demyansk trawler from the Trawl Fleet.
After bought it out shares of partners and became the mistress of the sea. In general, the good reputation of the fishing industry was spoiled by the scandal. In 2014, former city council member Tatyana Elpanova stated that Taran bought a deputy mandate. This case did not go further than accusations.
Tourism instead of industrial fishing
Our last heroine is another Murmansk resident Anastasia Perfilova. Graduate of Murmansk State Technical University with a degree in economics.
Anastasia Perfilova
Her story is somewhat similar to the stories of Ekaterina Bonchuk and Kristina Nechai. She inherited her largest asset, the Bussol company, from her father, Evgeniy Kazakov. The company’s revenue in 2022, according to the Kontur-Focus counterparty verification service, amounted to more than 190 million rubles. But the entrepreneur is not very interested in industrial fishing, although her company can catch up to 690 tons of cod and 190 tons of haddock under quotas.
Perfilova and her husband Leonid take tourists fishing on a boat. Price – from 85 thousand rubles . A trip with her husband, a chef, will cost 15 thousand more.
As you can see, there are women in the fishing business who have made themselves, like Taran and Mokerova. There are those who have been keeping the company of their late husband for 20 years, like Gusenkova. There are heirs and successors to the work of their parents. However, Chronicles. Media congratulates them all and wishes them honest work, payment of all taxes and no bribes.
Read also: a brief overview of the criminal redistribution of the fish market in the North-West; rating of the richest fishing industry; how a Murmansk communist defends the interests of local capitalists; about a Petrozavodsk deputy who is a conductor of the interests of a senator-fisherman, as well as about a plagiarist fisherman from Murmansk.