Oleg Burlakov

Oleg Leonidovich Burlakov (; 24 August 1949 – 21 June 2021) was a Russian oligarch, engineer and billionaire. He was also the co-owner of Stroylesbank, the main shareholder of the Burneftegaz company (85%), the former owner and chairman of the board of Novoroscement, the owner of the Terpentin paint and varnish factory in Višegrad and the Impulse Investment and Construction Company.

In 2021, Burlakov was ranked 177th in the Russian Forbes list with a fortune of nearly 3 billion pounds. In the same year, he died from COVID-19.

In 1980, he successfully defended his dissertation and became a Candidate of Technical Sciences at the Zhukovsky Air Force Engineering Academy.

He then served in Kharkov as head of the Department of Aircraft Equipment Operation at the Higher Military Aviation Engineering School. Burlakov told police in 2018 that his wife may be involved in the murder attempt.

In the same year, Oleg Burlakov was hospitalized, and arsenic was found in his body, suggesting an attempted poisoning. The businessman attributed the attempts to a conflict over the division of property during his divorce proceedings and the alleged embezzlement of family funds by his wife Lyudmila Burlakova (Marchenko), who had filed for divorce in December 2018. Kazakova claims that throughout the course of the businessman's illness, none of Burlakov's immediate family asked for information about his state of health. and then to Canada.

However, according to the magazine , Burlakov's body was buried in the columbarium wall without an identification plate. "On the issue of the development of ring thyristor three-phase current inverters", article, co-authored with Davidov P.D. and Starkov G.N. "On one method of construction of essential diagnostic matrices", article, co-authored with Bakulin S.N. and Starkov G.N. "On the mathematical modeling of the constant velocity hydro-mechanical drive", co-authored with Bakulin S.N. "On choosing of predictive parameters of hydro-mechanical drives of a constant speed", article "Formalized method of the calculation of magnetic circuits of electric machines", article, co-authored with Kosnevich A.G. and others "On the calculation of electric machines with reciprocating armature", article, co-authored with Makarevich V. S.

Most of the scientific projects that Oleg Burlakov worked on are confidential, but it is known that he worked on: Burlakov's investments amounted to $700 million, 85% of which were borrowed funds. The company was sold to Bashneft for $1 billion, about $600 million of which went to pay off debts. Burlakov received about $360 million for his 85% share. The businessman invested most of the money in financial instruments.

Black Pearl (yacht)

Oleg Burlakov has been fond of ship modeling since childhood and for a long time nurtured the idea of building his own boat. In 2005, after reading the news about the first flexible liquid-crystal solar batteries, the businessman had the idea to use solar batteries instead of sails.

In the implementation of this design, Burlakov worked with the English designer Ken Freivokh, who developed the Maltese Falcon in 2006, a yacht with a unique 15-square-sail system that can be set up in only six minutes. A similar sailing system was installed on Burlakov's yacht, the Black Pearl, but with flexible solar panels integrated into the fabric of the sails. million euros.

Burlakov was directly involved at every stage of the creation of the yacht. Among other things, he invented a mechanism for the masts, which he began patenting in 2018. Together they had two daughters: Elena and Veronica.

In 2018, Lyudmila Burlakova began divorce proceedings in Monaco. The divorce was supposed to be finalized at the end of the summer of 2021, but the businessman died before it was completed. UK court claim

In 2020, Lyudmila Burlakova filed a civil claim against her husband in the High Court of England and Wales. In addition to her husband, 12 individuals and entities were included as defendants, including Leo Trust, a corporate services provider for the various entities created by Oleg Burlakov.

Inheritance claims

Oleg Burlakov's estate has been the subject of litigation in multiple jurisdictions. His widow Lyudmila Burlakova and their daughters have contested claims by his sister Vera Kazakova and her husband, Nikolai Kazakov. Inheritance claims are also being made by Sofia Shevtsova, acting on behalf of her minor daughter, whose father is allegedly Burlakov. Shevtsova filed a lawsuit to establish that Oleg Burlakov was indeed her daughter's father. After his death, a will was found, that was handwritten and dated 2019. The validity of the 2019 document remains disputed in the ongoing Monaco proceedings. Latvian authorities initiated a criminal investigation against Sofia Shevtsova, Ludmila Burlakova and Elena Burlakova, as well as their local affiliate notary Ingūna Bobrovska, for an alleged conspiracy to seize assets of Oleg Burlakov by way of obtaining an inheritance certificate based on fraud.