Sergei Netievsky became famous thanks to playing in the KVN team “Ural Dumplings”. For five years the team fought for the title of winner and in 2000, finally achieved the coveted victory. However, after this, the participants’ careers on television did not end - nine years later the show “Ural Dumplings” was released, which found responses in the hearts of millions of Russians, and the participants became real stars.

Sergei Netievsky launched this show on STS and acted as the team’s producer for several years. However, now there is a gulf of misunderstanding between the team and the former leader - they are meeting in the courts. One of the recent cases, a meeting on which will take place on January 30, causes Sergei only bewilderment. They demanded 28 million rubles from him.

“The lawyers summed up all the expenses from the concerts that we organized in 2014-2015. I acted as a producer. The money was spent on about 16 concerts, each 1.5-2 million in total. This includes props, costumes, the hall, and many other little things without which it is impossible to create a show. Now it’s strange for me to hear about this lawsuit, as if the guys didn’t know how I organized the concerts. What do they expect in court? Apparently, the current management of Pelmeni, or rather Evgeniy Orlov, wants to annoy me. Although four years have already passed,” Netievsky told StarHit.

Sergei admitted that he is now trying to ignore the numerous lawsuits and concentrate on new achievements. This fall he plans to launch a new television humorous project. So far he has chosen the name “Funny Time”.

“We want to target the youth audience. Now we are filming the first programs - we invite KVN stars whom the new generation knows. We hope that the program will be a success with viewers,” says Netievsky.

Sergei noted that he does not hold a grudge against the team. Moreover, he continues to communicate with some friends from Ural Dumplings. The producer understands that former colleagues are attacking, defending themselves from two lawsuits that his company, Fest Hand Media, filed against Ural Pelmeni Production and the participants themselves in the amount of more than 80 million. Netievsky believes that later the guys will be ashamed of this situation. According to the producer, now former colleagues are receiving huge amounts of money.

“I don’t know what motivates them. I was promoting, producing, earning other money, and they simply acted as actors and authors. No one belittles their talent - everyone did their job, but how many bright talented people viewers don’t see them, they don’t appear on channels until producers start working with them, and then some shows fail, we shouldn’t forget about this either. Producers have to do great job on launch and promotion, choose a format, build relationships with the channel, with everyone the right people and services for production. And when popularity comes, the actors believe that this is only their merit, and the producer undeservedly receives his dividends. I think all showrunners will understand me, this often happens in the world of show business,” says Netievsky.

However, from conflict situation Sergei tries to extract important details. He sees one of the mistakes in his work with Ural Dumplings in the fact that he trusted the project manager Evgeny Orlov too much, who, in his opinion, made a number of dubious transactions on behalf of the company and issued loans worth multimillion-dollar sums. For his new project, Netievsky has not yet chosen a person to whom he can entrust important matters.

Where did Netievsky go from “Ural Dumplings” and will he return again? Sergei Netievsky is a very colorful character in the humorous group “Ural Dumplings”, who for some time was the director of the popular show. However, in 2015, he disappeared from TV viewers’ screens, which caused a wave of misunderstanding.

The artist’s biography dates back to the end of March 1971, when a simple and unremarkable boy was born in the small village of Basyanovsky near the Ural Mountains. Here he spent his youth and received his secondary education.

This was followed by a trip to Yekaterinburg and admission to UPI to major in Mechanical Engineering Technology. During his studies, Sergey became one of the founders and member of the Ural Dumplings team, the activities of which will accompany him for another 21 years, while for 17 years he will be the director of the team.

In addition to participating in popular show, in the biography of Sergei Netievsky from “” there are several personal achievements. This one is versatile developed person showed himself as talented actor, writer and presenter, and head of Idea Fix Media. He has worked in several television programs, writing film scripts and producing sketch shows.

In 2019, Netievsky from the Ural Dumplings will be the ambassador of the World Winter Universiade, which is to be held in Krasnoyarsk.

Personal life

The biography of Sergei Netievsky from “Ural Dumplings” contains very little publicly available information about his personal life. For a long time there were rumors about his affair with his colleague on the comedy show Yulia Mikhalkova, but they did not come true.

Netievsky and Mikhalkova

Actually a successful showman Sergei Netievsky personal life He tries to hide his own, unlike most other stars of modern show business. It is worth noting that he is excellent at keeping his family a secret, because the existence of a family as such became known only from the lips of the artist himself.

It turns out that the man has a beloved wife, Natalya, who bore him three wonderful children. The eldest sons Timofey and Ivan were born in 2002 and 2005, respectively, and daughter Maria, the youngest representative of the family, was born in 2007. On the pages of some magazines it has been suggested that the artist’s wife sits at home and only takes care of the children. In fact, this is only speculation by representatives of the press, and the general public does not know exactly how Natalya Netievskaya and the children of the couple live.

At one time, photographs of Sergei Netievsky and his wife were leaked onto the Internet, and they can still be found on the World Wide Web. From that moment on, the head of the family began to hide his personal life even more carefully, trying not to make it public, so today we can only expect that Sergei himself or his relatives will lift the veil of this secret.

Relationship with Ural dumplings

Since Sergei was one of the founders of the group and was its director for a long time, his disappearance from the stage in 2015 could not go unnoticed. From the very first performances without his participation, viewers began to wonder where Netievsky from “Ural Dumplings” was. There have been many conjectures on this score, and representatives yellow press they wrote that the artist put his well-being above the success of the team and simply abandoned his colleagues to their fate.

A little later, the culprit of the gossip himself made a public statement and answered the question of why Netievsky left Ural Dumplings. As it turned out, the showman himself did not know about his resignation, since the team submitted a petition for the director’s resignation to the court without notifying the plaintiff. Colleagues accused Sergei of fraud with the team’s earnings, low wages and the insufficient amount of time he devotes to “Ural dumplings”. During the trial, Sergei Isaev was unanimously appointed as the director of the group, and performances continued as usual.

Where is Sergei today

During 2016, the court more than once accepted counterclaims from team members, then from the defendant, trying to somehow understand the current situation and endure correct solution. For a long time, the former director fought for the restoration of his rights and, judging by latest news, Sergei Netievsky won the trial against the team. He was fully restored to his rights as a director.

Obviously, the trial had a negative impact on the director’s relationship with the team, so Sergei decided to leave of his own free will and leave the trademark to the team. Unfortunately, for some reason this was not enough for the team, and in February 2017 a new trial began against former director. This time he was accused of illegally using a trademark, which he gave away at will. Sergey did not tolerate this attitude and filed a counterclaim, in which he asked the court to recover moral damages from the team for the costs of conducting the trial in the amount of more than 700 thousand rubles.

As one would expect, this time the court again sided with the defendant, but decided to satisfy the counterclaim only partially. As a result, instead of suing the former director for 400 million rubles, his not very friendly colleagues must pay him 300 thousand rubles themselves.

After a lengthy trial, the successful showman continues to live with his family in Moscow on permanent basis. The man’s family, as far as is known, lives with him and supports him in all his endeavors.

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"The guys didn't do anything"

Interview with ex-director of Ural Dumplings Sergei Netievsky about the scandal in the team

Sergey Netievsky

On next week The Moscow Arbitration Court will hold the first hearing on the claims of the company of ex-director of Ural Dumplings Sergei Netievsky against former colleagues in the amount of more than 100 million rubles. This time, the “dumplings” share the right to use the archives of recordings of their performances on STS.

Litigation between former friends has been going on for more than a year and a half. At first, the participants of the “dumplings” tried to dismiss Sergei Netievsky from the post of director of the team, accusing him of withdrawing funds and unwillingness to engage in general creativity. Then the friends began to sue over the combined trademark “Ural dumplings”.

In an interview with the site, Sergei Netievsky explained why a conflict arose in the team, who was threatening him with criminal cases, and whether a reunification of the Ural Dumplings was possible.

“Everyone knew the working conditions”

— In 2011, the company LLC “ Creative association“Ural Dumplings”, the shareholders of which were equally all 10 members of the team: actors and authors. Why did you personally create two more companies in 2012: Fest Hand Media LLC and Idea Fix Media company?

— These are production companies created together with partners - the VBD-group company, whose representatives were directly involved in the production and promotion of the Ural Dumplings show. The Idea Fix Media company supplied creative products on television. And Fest Hand Media is one of the shareholders of Ideas Fix Media (according to SPARK, 50% of the Ideas Fix Media company belongs to Fest Hand Media, another 50% belongs to VBD GROUP JSC..

— You're talking about a show that was sold STS TV channel? Which of the three companies entered into a cooperation agreement with STS?

— Yes, I’m talking about the television project of the Ural Dumplings team, which was regularly broadcast on STS. Since 2009, all agreements with the channel have been concluded by the VBD Group company, and since 2012 - by Idea Fix Media.

— If the creation of the show’s content was done by the artists and authors of “Ural Dumplings”, and the employees of “Idea Fix Media” were involved in the filming, organization, promotion and sale of the finished show on “STS”, then who do you think belongs to in this case? rights to archives of these recordings with the right to further use?

— The first 27 concerts belong to VBD GROUP JSC. And since 2012, when Idea Fix Media began producing the show, all rights to the archives began to belong to it.

— The current director of Ural Pelmeni Production LLC, Evgeniy Orlov, in his interviews in the media claims that you “received income from selling shows to TV channels, hiding it from the team for three years (from 2012 to 2015.”) Allegedly, you told the team that they work for fees, and the guys believed this version, and at that time you were pocketing the money. Explain on what terms the cooperation with STS was carried out. How was the income of the artists and the production company formed?

— Evgeniy Orlov has a substitution of concepts in the issue of remuneration. It was as if everything that the production company and I as a producer earned had to be shared with the team. Producing work is different from the actors and authors, the enormous labor involved in producing a show. It doesn’t happen by itself! The guys didn't do anything as producers.

“Ural Dumplings” again filed a lawsuit against its ex-director Sergei Netievsky

The team performed the functions of actors and screenwriters, so the production company entered into contracts with them, as with actors and authors. And they received a fee for each episode of our show. By the way, these agreements were concluded with him by Evgeny Orlov, who was then the general director of Idea Fix Media and worked by proxy. The guys knew about all the conditions of their work. How could I mislead them for so many years? They knew about the production company and that I was working as a producer to create the show. Of course, Idea Fix Media, as a production company, also received its income for its work. This is the media business!

By the way, after we launched the show on STS, the actors began to receive a separate percentage from each showing of the show from Idea Fix Media. Previously, they did not have these conditions. This is my plus as a producer - I achieved this for the team.

“Orlov withdrew money from the company in favor of third parties”

— Currently, the Moscow Arbitration Court is considering several claims from your company “Fest Hand Media” against its subsidiary “Idea Fix Media”. You are trying in court to challenge the loan agreements that Evgeniy Orlov entered into as the general director of the Idea Fix Media company. What was the reason for filing these lawsuits? Have you begun to suspect your former colleague of something?

— The shareholders and founders of Idea Fix Media conducted an audit and found out that Orlov was withdrawing money from the company in favor of third parties precisely through loans. And he did not coordinate all these transactions with the founders. We believe that Orlov acted illegally. And the court will look into this. Actually, that’s why Orlov was fired from the company, because he began to act opaquely.

— What damage did Idea Fix Media receive from these uncoordinated loans, according to the audit?

— We filed claims with the Moscow Arbitration Court for a total amount of over 100 million rubles. I'm afraid I'll be wrong, it seems to be 107 million rubles. These are loans in favor of legal and individuals.

— But if Orlov is now fired, then from whom in your own subsidiary do you want to demand compensation for losses?

— We are suing Idea Fix Media as one of the shareholders, and, as far as I know, the second shareholders of the company (VBT Group JSC) are joining this lawsuit. They have already stated this in court. The lawsuit was not filed against Orlov personally , and based on the results of his activities at Idea Fix Media, let the court decide who will pay. Probably, it will be the companies to which he gave loans.

“We have repeatedly called on the team to negotiate”

— Also in the Moscow Arbitration Court there are claims from Fest Hand Media against Ural Pelmeni Production LLC. You demand that your company be given back the right to dispose of archival recordings of the Ural Dumplings’ performances at STS. How did it happen that this right, previously owned by Idea Fix Media, was transferred to Ural Pelmeni Production?

- Evgeny Orlov, taking advantage of his position, brought licensing rights for all concerts from Idea Fix Media in favor of the Ural Dumplings Production company, where he later became the general director. He also did not coordinate this action with the shareholders of Idea Fix Media. You see, the actors, the writers, and the production company that produced the show have the rights to record these concerts. The procedure for using these rights must be negotiated. And we repeatedly called on the team for these negotiations when disputes began between us. But Orlov decided to act in his own way.

— Sergey, none of your companies are in any way connected with Ural Dumplings. Why do you need the rights to recordings of their concerts? You just don't want to miss out on the potential profits you could make from selling those archives on TV again?

- We want legality! Audiovisual works must belong to those who produced them. How can people who did nothing as producers for the show claim, let alone take, the fruits of someone else’s labor? It's not fair. And, yes, of course, this is a business issue.

— It turns out that Evgeny Orlov carried out all the illegal actions, according to you, while being your subordinate. In fact, all the machinations you are talking about were carried out under your nose. How could you not notice this?

- I don’t go with him all the time! He acted by proxy. Evgeny Orlov was responsible for this. The founders look at the reports once a year. Yes, we gave the company some recommendations and were involved in its strategic development. And he was in charge of operational activities.

— Is there some kind of personal conflict between you and Evgeny Orlov? He used to work for you, then, as you claim, he committed these frauds, and now he works for his opponents.

— When Orlov worked as a manager at Idea Fix Media, he also received his own income. At some point in time, Orlov began to claim bonuses (profit from production income, which did not depend on him. The shareholders deprived him of part of the bonuses, to which he was terribly offended and told me: “I’ll arrange it for you.” I think that’s why he arranged such a revolution between us.

“It would be great to write everything down like in a marriage contract”

— Let’s go back to that period of “Ural Dumplings”, when you were still the director. Why did your company only have a charter, but no corporate agreements or written partnership agreements between the actor-shareholders? After all, then none of the artists would be able to be guided by their idea of ​​justice. Potential steps for each of you would be discussed in advance.

— “Ural Dumplings” had minimal activity at that time. We did not burden ourselves with additional documentation. But it would probably be great if we concluded them and spelled out everything, as in a good marriage contract. But when people start joint activities, they do not always think about how they will need to part.

— But, by the way, this is precisely why the conflict with your dismissal from Ural Dumplings occurred in 2016. The artists could not fire you legally, since for this, according to the charter, your consent was also needed. And if you were going to leave the team anyway, why did you prove in court the illegality of your dismissal? Is this a matter of principle?

“I was fired illegally without even notifying me of the meeting.” I had to return to the post of director of Ural Dumplings in order to accept the combined trademark “Ural Dumplings” from the Fest Hand Media company. The situation is this: the text of the trademark (the name of the team. It was invented by the team, it graphic image— design team of “Fest Hand Media”. As a producer, it was simply convenient for me that these trademarks be combined into a production company, that is, into Fest Hand Media. When there was a breakdown in the team, Fest Hand Media decided to give the guys a trademark so that they could use it. But the guys themselves just didn’t want to take him. That is, they used it, but they wanted to get it only through the courts. Therefore, I had to prove that I was fired illegally, return to the position of director at the Ural Dumplings Creative Association LLC and accept the trademark. After that I left.

Official group of “Ural dumplings” on the social network “VKontakte”

That is, instead of resolving everything peacefully, the guys sued me, as if I had once illegally appropriated a text trademark. But that's not true. When I was a producer, I combined a text trademark with a graphic one for the team. And when our relationship ended, I did not prevent the guys from continuing to use it. I gave away the trademark for only 2 rubles. But they are still trying to take away the trademark, which they already own, through the court! The decision has entered into legal force and there is no subject of dispute. They have a sign. All the courts are just for the sake of hype in the media, for the sake of putting pressure on me so that I withdraw my claims from the arbitration court. It is obvious.

- You know, from the outside this story looks absurd, really.

- But that's how it is. Word by word.

— Over the last week, quite a lot of material has appeared in the media that you left your wife with three children and accumulated a child support debt of about 1.5 million rubles. This is true?

— These are dirty fake articles, not supported by facts. Yes, my wife and I separated a long time ago, and all our property issues have been resolved. But as soon as we (the company "Fest Hand Media" filed two large lawsuits for the illegal actions of Evgeny Orlov, these dirty articles below the belt immediately appear in the media. Why do you think this is being done? Moreover, Orlov's representatives , they threaten me with criminal cases. Obviously this is pressure so that I refuse to go to court!

— One way or another, the story of your relationship with Ural Dumplings is over. What are Fest Hand Media doing now?

— Life at “Ural dumplings” did not end. We are doing other projects.

Sergei Netievsky handed over a controversial trademark to Ural dumplings for two rubles

- Which for example? Are you currently producing any show that is comparable in income to “Ural Dumplings”?

- This is still a trade secret. I wouldn't like to say. There are projects that we are working on.

— A trade secret is a specific number. That's not what this is about.

— So far, “Fest Hand Media” does not have such big project, like “Ural dumplings”, but there are others that we are developing. After all, the show “Ural Dumplings” became successful and profitable only three years later.

— Do you think your reunion with your former colleagues and friends is still possible?

— We all talked and communicated for a year and a half. As you can see, nothing has worked out yet. I very much doubt that a reunion is possible when there are “weapons sellers” next to the guys. I am ready to negotiate to leave disputes in the past and for everyone to move on in their own direction. This is the most the right way out. There is no need to cling to the past.

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History of conflict between participants the humorous show “Ural Dumplings” with their former director Sergei Netievsky was previously known to the public mainly from the words of Netievsky himself. Your version of the development of events and the causes of the conflict. And we asked a lawyer who represents the interests of the former director of the show in court to express his point of view. Managing partner of the Yusta Aura law firm, Evgeniy Dedkov, explains in an author’s column on the website portal that “Pelmeni” could have prevented the conflict many years ago if they had complied with all the formalities on time.

The situation that happened with “Ural dumplings”, unfortunately, is repeated very often. Many creative teams step on the same rake, simply because all agreements between the participants are conceptual in nature: everyone understands their role in their own way; agreements are not written down on paper.

What Ural Dumplings initially did was not a business, and therefore the nature of the organization and all relationships between participants was informal. The same thing happens, for example, with musical groups. Legal status " musical group" does not exist. The group is a creative team, an association within the framework of common activities. The guys just get together and do something. On initial stage It is unknown whether the musicians will remain playing in the garage or start earning money, so the relationship between them is not formalized legally.

From this point of view, the important moment is when the first money appears in the project when it comes to monetization. This is the transition of the team from simple pastime to commercial activity. And this stage is many creative groups miss and make mistakes.

The moment money appears in a project is a fundamental factor that makes changes and influences organizational relations. Because the question immediately arises: who is the formal leader? At this stage, the ideas of participants in formations that were initially informal in nature may diverge.

An example is the Ekaterinburg group Do-up, which at a certain stage broke up. There was part of the team with Alexander Bogomolov, who was the founder, musician, song creator, etc. And there was the second part of the group - Vadim Shakurov, who was a PR manager and was involved in financial matters. Both considered themselves leaders of the project, and each had reasons for this. Everyone had their own truth, but there were no clear agreements. When the group broke up, Shakurov lured the vocalist to himself and used his resources as the group's contact representative to switch over to himself cash flows.

Every time everything happens the same way; it is important for creative teams not to miss the moment of transition to commercial activity and to clearly build relationships between project participants. From an organizational point of view this means that the relationship needs to be formalized by creating a joint business company, most often this is a society with limited liability.

Returning to the “Ural dumplings”, it should be noted that they accomplished this point - they created LLC "Creative Association "Ural Dumplings", where, according to the formal distribution of roles, each team member received an equal share. That is, how they are used to interacting informally, such specifics of relations are reflected in the charter of the society.

But the problem with Pelmeni is that the organization was created simply as a formality. As an entity that has a current account where money from concerts or other activities can be received. They committed typical mistake: underestimated the importance of elaborating the provisions of the constituent documents.

Usually, due to insufficient legal literacy, people look on the Internet how much it costs to register an LLC, see a small cost and expect exactly that amount. The society is registered, people are given a charter, but no one really reads it. The charter is the main formalized document that regulates the relations of business partners, and therefore requires the most careful study. In the case of “Ural dumplings”, it included mutually exclusive provisions. It is obvious that the team members did not bother to read the document and understand what was written there. Therefore, they did not make sure that the charter stated how participants should act in certain situations.

All creative teams that plan to engage in commercial activities can be given practical advice: maximum time should be taken to reflect the actual agreements for conducting joint business in constituent documents. The fact is that the current corporate legislation is very flexible, and most of the parameters of the relationship can be changed. This also applies to the distribution of profits between participants. It is not at all necessary that profits be distributed among the participants according to the shares prescribed in the charter. It can be distributed according to other parameters.

Also, corporate legislation provides such an important tool for regulating relations between business partners as corporate agreement. Since the charter cannot reflect the dynamics of development of relations between company participants depending on the occurrence of certain circumstances, this instrument allows you to agree in advance on how the corporate rights of participants will be implemented. For example, they may agree to vote a certain way on general meeting participants of the company, provide for the obligation to sell shares upon the occurrence of certain circumstances, etc. Unlike the charter, the information contained in the corporate agreement is not disclosed anywhere and is confidential. Ural Dumplings did not have such an agreement.

But in most cases, a corporate agreement is not enough to regulate the relations of business partners. First, running a joint business is often not limited to using a single LLC. Secondly, there are things that are not regulated by law. Therefore, instead of verbal agreements, it can also be recommended to conclude written partnership agreement, in which it is possible to simulate various situations and determine which actions of partners will be correct and fair in these situations. For example, to determine the goals of the business, the principles on which entrepreneurs will conduct joint activities, distribute roles and areas of responsibility, determine the principles of profit distribution, and establish what will happen if any goal is achieved.

Unlike a corporate agreement, violating a partnership agreement will not entail legal consequences. But this does not mean that there will be no consequences at all. Thus, in certain situations, the court may recognize a violation of partnership agreements as an abuse of law, and this will be the basis for the recovery of damages caused. And if there is no such agreement, each partner will proceed from his own idea of ​​justice, and this will create fertile ground for conflicts. This is exactly what happened with “Ural dumplings”.

In my opinion, it was the lack of clear agreements that was the main reason for their conflict, because Sergei Netievsky did not commit any illegal actions. Working as director of a joint LLC "Creative Association "Ural Dumplings", he did not violate the rights of his teammates. However, the rest of the team accused Sergei of dishonesty. If the parties to the conflict had entered into a partnership agreement in advance, then it would have been possible to clearly establish whether specific agreements among the team members were violated and whether there was in fact any basis for the accusations made. Since there was no such agreement in this case, the accusations made by teammates against Sergei personally seem incorrect to me.

In general, all the tools necessary to resolve relations between business partners, including creative teams, were invented a long time ago. They are actively used in the West, but in Russia, unfortunately, they often receive little attention.

Members of the creative association “Ural Dumplings” became famous back in the 90s, when they performed in KVN. Following the victory in the 2000 season finale, fame came with money: the Ekaterinburg residents became stars of the STS television channel and began touring with their show throughout 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, respectively.

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

How did it happen that former friends speak to each other only through their representatives in courtrooms?.

On October 21, 2015, information appeared that Sergei Netievsky left his position as director of the show. At first, former Kaveen members did not speak out about the reasons for this decision, which only contributed to the spread of rumors: “the guys expressed no confidence in him,” “financial conflict,” “Netievsky has many projects on the side.”

Later that day CEO of the Ural Dumplings Production company (producing 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.

- Many rumors appeared, including that the reason for the resignation was a financial conflict. What happened?

Sergei felt cramped in Yekaterinburg. He himself has said more than once in interviews that he has become a Muscovite and that he is much more comfortable in the capital. In other words, Sergei ceased to be a “dumpling in a pan” and became a “fish in water.”

As for rumors about political or financial disputes, we do not even comment on this. We don't want to make excuses to anyone. We are honest with each other. We have no behind-the-scenes games, no kitchen secrets. It's funny for us to read about this in the media.

- Will Netievsky remain on the team?

No one was kicked out, no one was fired. Now Sergey will be working on his projects in Moscow, and we wish him success in this. If Sergei 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 be happy to invite both Sergei Svetlakov and Sergei Netievsky.

- Did you and other team members manage to maintain friendly relations with him?

Certainly. I think that this is such a feature of the Urals - we are kind, reasonable people. Normal, friendly relationships are important to us, because it’s easier to live this way. Main value- this is decency and a kind attitude towards each other, which we will always maintain 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 scientific and entertainment program “Galileo”. It was planned that the program would be broadcast on STS.

In February 2016, the unofficial leader of the Ural Dumplings. “Netievsky went his own way... I won’t wash dirty linen in public. It's too much here a difficult situation. It hasn’t been fully resolved yet, so…” he said.

In the spring, two participants announced their interests outside the show: Vyacheslav Myasnikov collected his good songs into an album, and Yulia Mikhalkova wanted to go to the State Duma and. “I didn’t act naked. I had a photo shoot in an information magazine,” this is how the prima of “Ural Dumplings” responded to the question about filming in Maxim.

As it turned out, many of the team’s legal issues were tied to Netievsky. To distance yourself from past life, Sergey Isaev came up with the idea to update the branding. The winner of the competition for best logo they 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. June 1 at labor relations and the form of their termination began to be examined by the arbitration court.

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 chair: “This process is a way to block and slow down the process that is now underway in the Moscow Arbitration Court. The essence of the matter is that we are challenging the transfer of a trademark from one company, where Netievsky owned 10%, to another, where he owns 100%.”

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

August 10 in a room at the Angelo Hotel. The team went underground for a month and did not speak to journalists.

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

By December, the warring parties seemed to be. This outcome, in theory, suited everyone. Although Netievsky was de jure reinstated in his position, he did not have any real influence on the team, and the participants of the “Ural Dumplings” did not need a formal, but managerial superstructure.

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

In May 2017, Ural Dumplings lost a trademark appeal. Lawyer Evgeniy Dedkov said that the right to the brand was already on the balance sheet of the plaintiff; his client Sergei Netievsky registered the mark for the group when he was in the status of director of Pelmeni. And for some reason comedians still continue to sue.

By the summer, a new lawsuit began between Netievsky and Ural Dumplings. Lyutikov's successor as general director, Evgeny 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 Pelmeni programs.

“In general, there were always hints that something was unclean. He considers his actions lawful. Nine people are wrong, and he is right! He said: “This is a 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 income should also be equal,” Dmitry Sokolov said then.

Sergei Netievsky, commenting on the accusations, expressed regret that his former comrades fell 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 leadership of producers. I did a lot of work as a producer and really made the Ural Dumplings KVN team popular television show! Launching a TV project is different compared to actors and authors, more high level responsibility, risk and, accordingly, this is a different payment,” the producer explained his point of view.

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

A new round of litigation started in the fall. Firstly, the Moscow Arbitration Court held a trial against Dmitry Sokolov, Sergei Kalugin, and Vyacheslav Myasnikov. Sergei Netievsky's company - LLC "Fest Hand Media"- asks to cancel contracts with its subsidiary. The court rejected the claim.

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

And the other day the Sverdlovsk Arbitration Court began considering another application from Ural Dumplings. Lawyers want money that he allegedly appropriated for himself while he held the position of director of the Unitary Enterprise. Netievsky spent these funds through his own individual entrepreneur, although there was no need for this, a representative of Pelmeni said, the plaintiff believes..

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

To be continued.