Who died recently from the Ural dumplings. The strange death of the director of "Ural dumplings" in the midst of litigation

Alexey Lyutikov passed away in the midst of a legal showdown between comedians

Alexey Lyutikov passed away in the midst of a legal showdown between comedians

On August 10, the tragic news spread around the participants of the humorous show "Ural dumplings": 42-year-old team director Alexei LYUTIKOV was found dead in a hotel room in Yekaterinburg. And although no traces of violent death were found on the lifeless body, many fans of "...dumplings" immediately suspected something was wrong. After all, in Lately Lyutikov found himself at the epicenter of a suddenly erupted scandal between the participants of the popular TV show.

News of the director's death Ural dumplings» with a cheerful surname Lyutikov made many think. Indeed, since 2009, this position has been held by Sergei Netievsky, who, along with other participants in the show, has been on stage for more than twenty years to make people laugh. And suddenly, in the fall of 2015, Alexey Lyutikov unexpectedly replaced him in a leadership position. In the past, he was also a well-known cavalry officer and, as a captain, led the "Service Entrance" team.

In October last year, a grandiose conflict arose in the once friendly and close-knit team of comedians. The reason for the disagreement was primarily money, because recently the participants of the Ural Pelmeni even got to the top of the Forbes list in terms of income. And, apparently, they relaxed, because of which the ratings of their TV shows began to fall - according to the results of the last TV season, “... dumplings” sharply lost ground.

The team blamed Netievsky for all the problems. Say, he ceased to cope with the duties of the director: he was engaged in producing other projects, did not sign financial documents on time, missed the deadlines for filing declarations with the tax office. "Ural dumplings" held a secret ballot, as a result of which Sergey lost his bread post. But the demoted chief did not agree with such a verdict and filed a lawsuit against his former comrades.

Netievsky is now a big Moscow producer, he is engaged in a bunch of projects. He became cramped in our team. And for God's sake. We have and Svetlakov at one time he left for the capital. But since Netievsky is not there, we need a person who knows all this cuisine. So we hired Lyutikov, - explained the "dumpling" Sergey Ershov.

Sergei NETIEVSKY (with a guitar around his neck) was ready for any tricks to amuse the audience. Photo: RIA Novosti

Sharpened the corners

They say that the new boss began to add fuel to the fire, forcing the conflict within the team to flare up with renewed vigor.

Lyutikov is originally from Kursk, but lived in Moscow for many years, served as a director and was a personal adviser general producer « comedy club Production,” one of the team members told us, who asked not to be named. - It was he who drew the attention of the guys to the fact that the fee from their performances is supposedly distributed unfairly. In fact, "... dumplings" receive money based on their share - each owned ten percent in the company. Only earn more Slava Myasnikov, because he, among other things, is also a songwriter for the show. Well, and Netievsky. Previously, this fact did not bother anyone, but when the popularity of "...dumplings" began to fall, which means that incomes also decreased, the people rebelled. In addition, Lyutikov found some more documents, where it was stated that the Ural Pelmeni brand belongs to Netievsky's company. In general, Alexei aggravated the situation so much that in the end he finally quarreled everyone.

Meanwhile, a month ago, the fans of "...dumplings" discussed the new director of the team on one of the forums on the Internet. Many were seriously agitated by rumors of financial scandals in which Lyutikov was allegedly involved.

In his historical homeland (in Kursk), Alexei threw a lot of people for money, - someone wrote under the nickname Safron(author's spelling and punctuation preserved. - A. B. ). - They even wanted to go to Moscow to look for him. And now there he is - great and ... continues to throw. I know that people who wrote that Lyutikov was a crystal-clearly honest person repaid debts for him.

All fans of high-quality humor know them by sight. Photo: wikipedia.org

Be that as it may, a couple of weeks ago, a court in Yekaterinburg invalidated the vote of the comedian team and returned Netievsky to the post of director. Dumplings, led by Lyutikov, did not agree with this decision and decided to appeal it. The next hearing is scheduled for October. And then suddenly Lyutikov dies ...

The body of Alexei was found by the maid of the hotel, where he settled on August 2. He arrived in Yekaterinburg with the team after a tour in Sochi. And, having dealt with current affairs, instead of going to Moscow to his wife and two daughters, he bought alcohol and locked himself in the room.

Arriving at the scene, the police found a dozen empty bottles of alcohol in the room, as well as medications for high blood pressure. The cause of Lyutikov's death was named "dilated cardiomyopathy". In other words, my heart failed. It turned out that interruptions with the “motor” of Alexei had been observed for a long time. Some time ago, he suffered a heart attack and became a frequent visitor to the cardiologist's office. Surely health problems were added by litigation. Surprisingly, none of current members humorous show did not want to talk about the untimely departure of his friend. Only Netievsky was able to squeeze out a few words:

It’s very hard for me now, - Sergey admitted. - Despite all these troubles, Alexei was our friend. This is a huge tragedy - my heart is breaking. It's hard to comment at this moment, sorry.

Alexey Lyutikov, whose biography is presented in the article, was one of the most bright participants KVN games. After leaving the Service Entrance team in 1997, he disappeared from the screens. His fate was little known to the layman, until in August 2016 the media reported his death in a hotel in Yekaterinburg.

Way to KVN

A native of the small town of Fatezh (Kursk region), Alexei Lyutikov was born on 06/02/1974. He was born with a cleft lip and was ridiculed and bullied by his peers. Already then there were problems with the heart, because the boy could not help but worry because of childish cruelty. Salvation has become school KVN, on the stage of which he caused deafening laughter auditorium. But it was a different kind of laugh, a reaction to witty jokes without poking fun at him. appearance. Fun game became his destiny.

The young man underwent five complex operations on his face, but the consequences of a congenital anomaly remained noticeable until the end of his days. Having worked out for himself the principle that you can only rely on yourself in life, Alexey Lyutikov, for whom KVN became a vocation, entered the Pedagogical Institute of the city of Kursk. Having received the profession of a social psychologist, in 1993 the young man became a member of the Kursk team "Service Entrance".

Frontman of the KVN team

Young men did not go long to their success. Already in 1997, they brilliantly reached the semi-finals, beating the popular team Ural Pelmeni in the 1/8 finals in a head-to-head meeting. Among them, the captain stood out - Alexei Lyutikov, uttering jokes with an absolutely serious expression on his face. He was followed with interest, he was quoted:

• "This is the country for the Jews, and for us - the stop."
• "We work out the sponsor's bread with our ass."
• "KVN treats corns!".

After the team did not pass the semi-final stage, the frontman left the team due to disagreements with the guys. They were considered the leaders of the 1998 season, but without their captain, they were eliminated early on, failing to progress to the professional level later on.

Follow-up, personal life

Lyutikov managed to catch on in Moscow, but he did not go on stage again. He started a family early, so he needed to get on his feet. Since 2006, Alexey Lyutikov began to cooperate with the Comedy Club, leading the direction regional development. His responsibilities included the creation of branches of the stand-up club in the field. Since 2013, he began working with Novy Kanal, and in 2014 he ended up as an executive producer at First Hand Media, led by Sergei Netievsky. He headed the created in 2009 comedy show"Ural dumplings".

By this time, Lyutikov already had two children: a son who was born when Alexei was only 20, and a daughter who was successfully engaged in rhythmic gymnastics. A little later, she will enter the youth team. Never missing her important starts, in August 2016 this tradition was for some reason broken by Alexei Lyutikov.

"Ural dumplings" - the last project of the showman

"Ural dumplings" needed a professional who would know firsthand the Moscow show business. In the summer of 2015, the team had a conflict with the leader Netievsky, whose company owned the trademark of the creative team. Despite the fact that he brought the guys to STS and did a lot for the team, there were disagreements about further development project. He took over the leadership and there was no one to deal with business in Moscow. So Alexey Lyutikov appeared in the Ural dumplings.

He is credited with the blame for inflating the conflict and the litigation, as a result of which Sergei Netievsky regained his position as the head of the show. There was a process to return the trademark to the founders. Pursuing financial affairs, Lyutikov presented the guys with documents from which it followed that the income of the head differed significantly from the fees of the artists. Be that as it may, he himself went into work with his head, signing an unprecedented contract for the team - 12 performances in Sochi in the summer of 2016. Upon his return from the tour on 08/2/2016, he was supposed to fly to his family in Moscow, but for some reason he returned from the airport to the Angelo Hotel.

Causes of death

His body was discovered on August 10 by a hotel maid. He spent the whole week alone in his room, emptying the minibar and then ordering cognac from the restaurant. Suffering from heart failure, the body could not cope with the abundance of alcohol. Presumably, the showman died from a thromboembolism, having fallen unconscious with his head on the table. As a result, the face turned out to be injured by glass fragments from a glass, so a version of a violent death was initially put forward. The artist's family refused to initiate a criminal case, recognizing the fact of death from natural causes.

It remains a mystery why the showman did not fly to Moscow. These days, his daughter participated in demonstration performances, and for the first time his father was not in the hall. What was Alexey Lyutikov thinking about in the last hours? "Ural dumplings" in an official appeal recognized his contribution to the development of the creative team and expressed their condolences to the family and loved ones. And rumors spread in the press about Lyutikov's possible debts and the alleged termination of the contract with him.

The real fans of KVN are really sorry that the once talented captain of the Kursk people decided to leave the stage.

General Director of the show "Ural dumplings" Alexey Lyutikov. He was found dead in a hotel in Yekaterinburg. The press service of "dumplings" reported that Lyutikov had health problems.

Huge emotional stress, flights, various problems and disputes, as in any business, and an almost round-the-clock work schedule - all this could not but affect Alexei's health, the message says.

StarHit, citing forensic experts, reported that Lyutikov died due to dilated cardiomyopathy, a myocardial disease that caused stretching of the heart cavities. Alexei also developed heart failure and heart rhythm disturbances.

Representatives of the Sverdlovsk police found a lot of empty bottles of alcohol next to the body of Lyutikov. The general director of "Ural dumplings" did not leave the room for more than a week, and there was a sign "Do not disturb" on the door.

Lyutikov, like most comedians, began his career in KVN. In the early 90s, he became the captain of the KVN team "Service Entrance", in which he reached the semifinals of the game. In 2006-2011, Lyutikov was one of the leaders of Comedy Club Production.

He became the director of the Ural dumplings in 2015 after the scandalous dismissal of Sergei Natievsky, writes Vector News. Allegedly, "Ural dumplings" brought much more money than the team members thought, and Natievsky hid it. However, after the arrival of Lyutikov, disagreements continued in the team, which mainly concerned the fees of the participants in the show.

Lyutikov greatly stirred up the water, - a friend of Sergei Netievsky, who wished to remain anonymous, explained to KP. Alexei was the catalyst for what happened. Dumplings have been together for a million years. And over the years, the team always accumulates a lot of old grievances. For me personally, it was not surprising that the director of the team Netievsky earned a little more than other participants. Lyutikov competently exacerbated the already sharp corners. He pointed to the difference in fees. Found some documents.

However, the band's statement says that Lyutikov has done a lot for the Ural Pelmeni project.

He put all his skills and accumulated experience into the show, brought it to a new level, and thanks to his efforts, the project had the opportunity to develop freely and independently, got a second wind, a second life, the message says.

Natievsky is currently challenging his dismissal in court. In addition, Lyutikov, after Netievsky left, stated that he had appropriated the exclusive rights to the verbal trademark "Ural dumplings". And the brand should belong to all members of the team. The court session with the participation of Lyutikov was to be held in October 2016.

Members of the creative association "Ural dumplings" became famous back in the 90s, when they performed in KVN. Following the victory in the final of the 2000 season, money came for fame: Yekaterinburg residents became the stars of the STS television channel and began to travel with their show all over the country. On the wave of popularity, the team twice - in 2013 and 2015 - was included in the ranking of the richest showbiz artists, earning 2.8 million and 800 thousand dollars, respectively.

The price of tickets for the concerts of the "Ural dumplings" reached tens of thousands of rubles, and new program was broadcast in prime time on federal air about once every two months. The more unexpected the quarrel looked from the outside.

How come that former friends talk to each other only through their representatives in courtrooms?.

On October 21, 2015, information appeared that Sergei Netievsky left the position of director of the show. At first, the former kaveenshchiki did not speak about the reasons for such a decision, which only contributed to the spread of rumors: “the guys expressed their distrust of him”, “financial conflict”, “Netievsky has many projects on the side.”

Later in the day CEO company "Ural dumplings production" (produces the show) Alexey Lyutikov expressed the official position of the team. As usual: "The decision to change the director was a simple management move that will increase efficiency." The problem was Netievsky's residence in Moscow, at some point this caused discomfort among his colleagues.

- There were many rumors, including that the reason for the resignation was a financial conflict. What happened?

Sergei felt cramped in Yekaterinburg. He himself said more than once in an interview that he had become a Muscovite, that he was much more comfortable in the capital. In other words, Sergei ceased to be a "dumpling in a saucepan" and became a "fish in the water."

As for rumors of political or financial disputes, we do not even comment on it. We don't want to justify ourselves to anyone. We are honest with each other. We don't have behind-the-scenes games, kitchen secrets. We find it funny to read about it in the media.

- Netievsky will remain in the team?

No one is fired, no one is fired. Now Sergei will be working on his projects in Moscow, and we wish him success in this. If Sergey Netievsky wants to continue working in the team, then we will sit down with him and discuss everything.

IN next year- the anniversary of KVN, followed by the anniversary of Alexander Vasilyevich Maslyakov. We will gladly invite both Sergei Svetlakov and Sergei Netievsky.

- You and other team members managed to save with him friendly relations?

Certainly. I think that this is such a feature of the Urals - we are kind, reasonable people. Normal, friendly relations are important to us, because it is easier to live this way. The main value is decency and good relations to each other, which we will always keep as a team.

At the same time, Sergei Netievsky tried to launch the entertainment project "Show from the Air". The co-author was Alexander Pushnoy, known for the science and entertainment program "Galileo". It was planned that the transfer will go to STS.

In February 2016, the unspoken leader of the Ural dumplings. “Netievsky went his own way ... I will not take dirty linen out of the hut. There's too much a difficult situation. It is not yet fully resolved, so…” he said.

In the spring, two participants announced their interests outside the show: Vyacheslav Myasnikov gathered his good songs in the album, and Yulia Mikhalkova wanted to go to the State Duma and. “I didn’t shoot naked. I had a photo shoot in an information magazine, ”the Ural dumplings prima responded to the question about shooting at Maxim.

As it turns out, many legal issues the teams were tied to Netievsky. To get away from past life, Sergey Isaev came up with the idea to update the branding. The winner of the competition for the best logo was promised money.

As it turned out, Sergei Netievsky himself was against changing the status quo and did not agree with his dismissal. The showman felt that he had been improperly notified. On June 1, the arbitration court began to deal with labor relations and the form of their termination.

A month later, the court sided with the ex-director. During that meeting, Ural Dumplings lawyer Olga Yuryeva suggested that in fact Netievsky did not need a seat: “This process is a way to block and slow down the process that is now underway in the Moscow Arbitration. The bottom line is that we are challenging the transfer of a trademark from one company, where Netievsky owned 10%, to another, where he owns all 100%.

At the same time, Uralskiye Pelmeni filed a lawsuit to invalidate the decision to alienate Netievsky's company the exclusive rights to a verbal trademark worth 400 million rubles.

August 10 in the hotel room Angelo. The team went underground for a month and did not speak to reporters.

In October, the 17th Arbitration Court of Appeal upheld the decision of the lower court, confirming that the director of the creative association was Sergei Netievsky.

By December, the opposing sides seem to be. Such an outcome, in theory, suited everyone. Netievsky, although de jure, was reinstated in his position, but he did not have any real influence on the team, and the participants in the Ural dumplings did not need a superstructure, albeit a formal one.

IN last week In 2016, comedians at their meeting elected a new director:.

In May 2017, Ural Pelmeni lost their trademark appeal. Lawyer Yevgeny Dedkov said that the right to the brand was already on the plaintiff's balance sheet, his client Sergei Netievsky issued a sign for the group when he was in the status of the director of dumplings. And comedians still for some reason continue to sue.

By the summer, a new lawsuit began between Netievsky and the Ural dumplings. Lyutikov's successor as CEO, Yevgeny Orlov, said that from the sale of the show on STS and touring activities. To do this, he organized the Idea Fix Media company, which, in fact, became the owner of all the Pelmeni programs.

“In general, there were always hints that something was unclean. He considers his actions legal. Nine people are wrong, and he is right! He said, “This is business. In Moscow, all producers do this. That is, for some reason he imagined himself to be our producer. Although everyone in our team has an equal contribution to the common cause, and incomes should also be equal, ”Dmitry Sokolov said then.

Sergei Netievsky, commenting on the accusations, expressed regret that his former comrades had fallen under bad influence. “A television product is created not only by actors and authors, it is created and promoted by the work of a well-coordinated team of a production company under the guidance of producers. I did great job producer and really made the team of KVN "Ural dumplings" popular television show! Launching a TV project is different compared to actors and authors, more high level responsibility, risk and, accordingly, this is another payment, ”the producer explained his point of view.

On July 17, the court again sided with Netievsky - at that time, the claims of the Ural dumplings were that the ex-director sold channel STS rights to anniversary concert“We are 16 years old. Because gladiolus! ”, Without warning the team about this. Sergey, according to the Ural dumplings, took the money from the deal for himself.

A new round of litigation started in the fall. Firstly, a trial was held in the Moscow Arbitration Court against Dmitry Sokolov, Sergey Kalugin, Vyacheslav Myasnikov. Company of Sergey Netievsky - LLC "Fest Hand Media"- asks to be canceled under contracts with its subsidiary. The court dismissed the claim.

Secondly, other lawsuits from LLC "Fest Hand Media" to Uralskiye Pelmeny Production, where the plaintiff claims that Yevgeny Orlov, as CEO of Idea Fix Media, caused damage to the company. He allegedly sold 73 archival concerts to Uralskiye Pelmeni Production for 861 thousand rubles, after which Uralskiye Pelmeni Production transferred the recordings to STS for 231.3 million rubles. The first instance dismissed the claim, after which Fest Hand Media filed an appeal.

A few days ago, the Sverdlovsk Arbitration Court began to consider the next application of the Ural dumplings. Lawyers want, which he allegedly appropriated for himself while he held the position of director of the UE. Netievsky spent these funds through his own individual entrepreneur, although there was no need for this, the representative of Pelmeni said, the plaintiff believes.

On February 28, the director of one of the legal entities - OOO " Creative association"Ural dumplings"- Natalya Tkacheva became, replacing Andrei Rozhkov. Previously, she was responsible for media communications.

To be continued.

Pathologists have established the cause of death of the 42-year-old director of the Ural dumplings. It turned out that he died of cardiac arrest and suffered from dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM). IN last years Lyutikov was diagnosed with a type of myocardial disease characterized by distension of the cavity of the heart, and then he developed progressive heart failure and heart rhythm disturbance.

The result was thromboembolism (acute blockage of a blood vessel by a blood clot), which ultimately led to death.

The body of the director of the "Ural dumplings" the day before, on August 10, was discovered by a maid in the room of the Angelo hotel. It is known that the man lived in the hotel since August 2 and practically did not leave the room, he had a “Do Not Disturb” sign on the door. Bottles of alcohol and various medicines were found at the scene. Official representative for Sverdlovsk region Alexander reported "URA.Ru" that the initial task of forensic scientists was to find out whether the death had a criminal character. “The final results of histological examinations, on the basis of which it will be possible to put an end to the pre-investigation check, will be only in 1.5 months. Polls are ongoing," Shulga added.

The death of Lyutikov became the occasion for discussion in in social networks. “Aleksey went through a difficult but interesting life path. He was both a successful captain of the KVN team, and a top manager of large productions, and a talented leader in the television industry. message, published in the official Pelmeni public on VKontakte, Alexey did a lot for the Ural Pelmeni project.

He put all his skills and accumulated experience into the show, brought it to a new level, and thanks to his efforts, the project had the opportunity to develop freely and independently, got a second wind, a second life.”

As noted in the statement, huge emotional stress, flights, various problems and disputes, as in any business, and an almost round-the-clock work schedule - all this could not but affect Alexei's health. The post ends with the words of condolences: “He passed away talented person, good friend, loving and beloved father and husband. The Ural dumplings team expresses its sincere condolences to the family and close relatives of Alexei Lyutikov. Alexey, we will always remember you and continue all your undertakings!

From open sources it is known that Lyutikov graduated from the Kursk Pedagogical Institute with a specialization " social Psychology". In the early 90s, he became the captain of the Service Entrance KVN team, in which he reached the semifinals of the game. In 2006-2011, Lyutikov also held one of the leading positions in the Comedy Club Production, and since 2013 he has been the director of his own production at Novy Kanal.

According to the Kartoteka.Ru database, Lyutikov was the general director of Ural Pelmeni Production LLC (registered as a micro-enterprise), a similar position is indicated on the Pelmeni official website. The founders of the company are, in fact, the whole team - Maxim Yaritsa and other stars with the exception of Sergei Netievsky. At the same time, there is another LLC "Creative Association" Ural Pelmeni ", the founders of which are also the entire creative team. Now, litigation is underway against this company - the fact is that Netievsky was previously its director, but subsequently the meeting of the founders deprived him of this position, and he headed the company.

Now Netievsky is protesting this decision, in July his claim was satisfied by the court.

The aggravation of relations in the "Ural dumplings" was allegedly due to Lyutikov: according to the Ural media, he allegedly found some documents confirming the big difference in the fees of the team members. One of Netievsky's friends, who was dismissed from the leadership with a scandal, said that the conflict with Lyutikov was largely the reason for his departure. In addition, after the departure of Netievsky, Lyutikov stated that he appropriated the exclusive rights to the verbal trademark “Ural dumplings”. According to the deceased ex-director of Pelmeni, the brand should belong to all members of the team. The court session in this case with the participation of Lyutikov was to be held in October 2016.