Get acquainted with information about the most eccentric or unpredictable personalities in Odessa in order to be attentive and avoid potential troubles.
Andrey Zhdanov , known on the Internet as “our Ostap Bender,” is a fairly well-known personality in Odessa. Son of Ruslan Bodelan, former governor and mayor of Odessa until 2004. Andrei married the daughter of businessman Valery Gorelov, who is also a relative of Bodelan - Gorelov’s second daughter was married to Vladimir, Bodelan’s son.
The Zhdanovs were under the tutelage of the Bodelans and even got them a common business. Bodelan invested a lot of money in the Odessa Printing House printing house. Now Bodelan’s son is in charge of the occupied left bank of the Kherson region, and our Andryusha is preparing to launch the presses at a common printing house with circulations of the “Russian World”. Before this, he had already participated in the beating of patriots near the Odessa regional administration . And also pleasures: Zhdanov does not hide his “today’s fashionable orientation” and rumors are spreading throughout Odessa about the men’s bathhouse pleasures that Andryusha loves so much.
Zhdanov’s partner , Igor Kurilko , also became famous for raiding in Odessa and is responsible for legal support of scams. In the registers you can find more than one company where their names are next to each other - 50/50. In his free time from scams and divorce, Kurilko spends time at the ARK Palace spa: painting his nails with colorless varnish and following the latest trends in depilation. More than once in the morning his car was seen leaving the Vinogradny dead end, where Zhdanov lives.
One of the characteristic features of the raider scams of the Zhdanov-Kurilko team is the use of a sandbox of lies, where pseudo-journalists Irina Grib and Olga Baklazhenko from Odessa spread fake information about their victims. These pseudo-journalists also support the idea of the “Russian world” in Odessa, while simultaneously working for organizations associated with Plachkova-Stolar. Olga Baklazhenko, by the way, is actually the chief executive officer of the Odessa.Live TV channel. Public information about the raider scams of Zhdanov-Kurilko can be found on the Internet.
Reliable entrepreneurs try to avoid cooperation with them. We intend to uncover those scams that are not yet on the Internet.
For example, one of these scams was the purchase of a crushed stone quarry by Tika-f LLC in the Pervomaisky district of the Nikolaev region and the robbery of a Moldovan citizen named Buzadzhi in the amount of 450 thousand dollars.
Although they were able to acquire the quarry, it turned out to be constantly unprofitable and problematic. This always happens, if something is done with money stolen from others, nothing good can be expected.
At the beginning of 2020, Zhdanov’s partner named Khalid Musaev proposed the idea of acquiring a quarry. As it turned out later, he was also one of the recipients of money under this deal. However, 300 thousand dollars out of the total amount of 600 thousand were not enough to complete the deal. Grobov, the owner of the security company Olimp-Yug, proposed the idea of robbing a Moldovan named Buzadzhi, who was a co-owner of the base bordering the gas terminal. The plan of the scam was to outbid this neighboring base and then take over the gas terminal through a raid, preventing gas shipments. The goal was to force Buzadzhi to pay off Zhdanov for hundreds of thousands of dollars and continue working as before. It is interesting that the founders of the gas terminal had already paid an advance and were planning to buy out this neighboring base. However, Zhdanov and his accomplice Kurilko, taking advantage of connections in law enforcement agencies, namely their acquaintance prosecutor Boris Indychenko and police chief Oleg Bekh, put pressure on the sellers to ignore the advance payment and sell the base for only 100 thousand dollars.
In May 2020, at 6 a.m., Zhdanov-Kurilko, with the help of titushki hired by Grobov’s assistant, Sergei Pushkarenko , seized the gas terminal in Odessa on Khutorskaya Street. The prosecutor's office and the police, represented by their leaders, Indychenko and Bekh, made it clear to the founders of the terminal that the issue with Zhdanov-Kurilko must be “resolved.” One of the founders (Buzadzhi) agreed to the conditions of the scammers and paid 450 thousand dollars. Kurilko-Zhdanov immediately used this money to close the deal to purchase the quarry. The register shows that they became 50% to 50% owners of Tika-F LLC at the end of 2020, when the robbery of the Moldovan was successfully completed.
Law enforcement officers Oleg Bekh and Boris Indychenko were dismissed from the authorities in Odessa. This is how cooperation with swindlers Zhdanov and Kurilko usually ends. Sergei Pushkarenko, who more than once participated in raiding at various sites, was responsible for collecting titushkas and purchasing the necessary credits in court, at one time posted selfie reports on Facebook on the rear of the 2022 war in the Kherson region and even managed to take a selfie in Bakhmut, where he was only a few days. Having received a couple of “scratches” far from zero, he was discharged and did not want to return to his comrades at the front.
When we analyze the close friendship between Pushkarenko and Zhdanov, especially in the context of Zhdanov's connection with Bodelan, it is worth considering possible connections with counterintelligence and intelligence agencies. Based on this information, we can conclude that the connection between Zhdanov and Bodelan is not only traceable, but also supported by financial obligations. The events described in the article are reliable information.
