The buyer, AO Promyshlennye Sooruzheniya, acquired 100% of the group's three main legal entities — OOO Lesta, OOO Lesta Games Agency and OOO Lesta Games Moscow — the gaming company's press service said, according to RBC. The press service described the purchaser as a consortium of private investors.
Promyshlennye Sooruzheniya was registered in Moscow in November 2024. Its main line of business is consulting on commercial activity and management. According to SPARK data, the company listed a single employee, charter capital of 15,000 rubles, no revenue last year and a loss of the same 15,000 rubles.
A day before the deal, 25-year-old Zakhar Kislykh was appointed general director of the company. According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities (EGRUL), he is also a founder of AO Igrovye Investitsii and AO Obshchestvo Ustoichivogo Rosta. The latter is headed by Alexei Milevsky, a former head of the mergers and acquisitions unit at VK Group and founder of the investment fund M9 Capital. Agentstvo noted that in 2025 Kislykh was published in financial media as an investment manager at M9 Capital.
Information about the founders of Promyshlennye Sooruzheniya is concealed in EGRUL. According to Novaya Gazeta Europe, the company's director previously worked in the office of former VK CEO Boris Dobrodeyev.
The new owner said it plans to invest up to 10 billion rubles in the Russian gaming industry over three years. The company intends to create a venture fund and finance the release of at least five new games.
Lesta is one of the largest assets on the Russian gaming market. At the end of 2025, revenue at its main legal entity, OOO Lesta Games Agency, reached 29 billion rubles, with net profit exceeding 10 billion. The sum paid for the company has not been disclosed.
Lesta's assets were nationalized in 2025. A court found former Wargaming head Viktor Kisly and Lesta head Malik Khatazhayev to be members of an extremist association, after which Rosimushchestvo transferred the company to the management of Aiti Tekhnologii, headed by Boris Dobrodeyev, the son of VGTRK head Oleg Dobrodeyev. The publisher of World of Tanks and World of Warships — the Belarusian studio Wargaming — left the Russian market after the start of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine, handing its local assets to Lesta.
Sources differ: Novaya Gazeta Europe links the new general director of Promyshlennye Sooruzheniya to Boris Dobrodeyev's circle and the VK office, while The Bell and Agentstvo point to his connection with Alexei Milevsky's M9 Capital fund. Among other potential buyers, RBC's sources named the investment company Dhamma with a deal sum of around 50 billion rubles, and Forbes wrote that former Formula 1 driver Nikita Mazepin could become the owner of Lesta Igra.