CEO of Russian Company Providing Materials for Shaheds Found Dead
In the Moscow region, the CEO of Umatex Group, the only Russian carbon fiber producer and a key supplier of raw materials for the production of Shahed/Geran drones, was found shot to death.
The death of the Russian top manager was reported by the Russian channel Astra.
The body of the CEO of a Russian company, Alexander Tyunin, was found on the side of the road near a village near Moscow, along with a gun and a suicide note.
"I did it myself, I'm tired of fighting depression for 5 years, it's getting worse, I have no strength," Tyunin's note reads.
The ' To Be ' project notes that this is the 35th mysterious death of top Russian officials and company executives since 2022. In this list, unexpected suicide is one of the common causes of death. In July 2025, Vice President of Transneft Andrei Badalov died after falling from a sixteenth-floor window on Rublyovskoye Motorway in Moscow.
Also in July, the former governor of the Kursk region, Roman Starovoyt , who was accused of the failure of the defense during the Ukrainian offensive operation, shot himself in his own car.
Umatex and the Production of 'Shaheds'
JSC Khimpromengineering, better known under the Umatex Group brand, is the only carbon fiber manufacturer in Russia. Its Alabuga-Volokno division in the Alabuga economic zone supplies materials for the production of drones.
Carbon fiber is a key element in the production of fuselages for long-range drones, providing high strength at extremely low weight.
In an exclusive study of Russian documentation , "Military" found and described in detail the technological process for manufacturing the bodies of Russian copies of the Shahed-136, where RC200 carbon fiber is a key component.
The Alabuga-Volokno raw material production plant, subordinate to Umatex, is located opposite the main production site, where fuselages are glued and finished drones are assembled.
Not far from the enterprise ( here ) is also another key plant, Tatneft-Alabuga-Steklovolokno, which produces fiberglass fabrics, which are also used in the composite fuselages of the Shaheds.
According to open data, Umatex enterprises produce about 95% of carbon fiber production in Russia, ensuring the production of 1,400-2,000 tons of fiber each year. However, with the scaling up of attack drone production, this figure could have increased significantly in recent years.
Sources: MILITARNYI; Pravda Ukraine
