The ALMAR team consists of well-known specialists in the diamond mining industry who have discovered a number of diamond deposits and participated in the creation of diamond mining enterprises in the Yakut Arctic, and the export sales branch of ALROSA PJSC.
Yuri Okoemov
Chief executive officer
Has worked in the diamond sector since 1992. Had been a member of the management of diamond mining company ALROSA -the largest one in Russia (Head of unitary sales agency, vice-president, deputy CEO, member of board of directors) from 2000 to 2019. In ALROSA he was responsible for organizing the sorting, valuation and commercialization of diamonds. Bases of modern sales policy of the organization, that helped it gain the successful competitiveness on the international market, were developed and applied under his management in the diamond mining company ALROSA.
Deputy general director – Chief geologist
Sergey Grakhanov
Honored Geologist of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), discoverer of deposits of the USSR (placer of the Ebelakh River), discoverer of deposits of the Russian Federation (placer of the Bol River. Kuonamka), Doctor of Geological and Mineralogical Sciences. More than 40 years of experience in the field of geology, prospecting and exploration of placer diamond deposits.
He was engaged in the search for indigenous and placer diamond deposits, industrial exploitation of placers, exploration of placers Ebelyah, Yraas-Yuryah, Gusiny, Upper Billah, Holomolooh, Istok and others. He supervised the search and revision work on placers of the Pendulum, Bolshaya Kuonapka, Bills, Talakhtaakh, Motorchuna, Molodo. As a result of these works, the placer of the Mayat River was involved in industrial development, the industrial diamond content of the Talakhtaakh and Bolshaya Kuonapka rivers was established, the first kimberlite pipes Grenada and Nadezhda were found in the Ebelyakh field. Conducted an expert assessment of placer diamond deposits in the Republic of South Africa and Sierra Leone.
He has 85 printed works, 5 monographs and textbooks, 23 production reports in the field of exploration, prospecting and forecasting of indigenous and placer diamond deposits. Expert of Russia on subsoil use.
Director for commerce, Chairman of the Board of the segment “St. Petersburg Juniors” of the St. Petersburg Stock Exchange
Andrey Novikov
In the field of project management and foreign economic activity for more than 20 years. As a director, he created a sales branch of ALROSA in Vladivostok, was responsible for the creation of an export-oriented diamond cluster in the Far East. Worked as a project director for Russia of one of the world’s oldest diamond dealers Diamond Trading NV (Belgium) and Chinese trader Delta Tau Diamond (Shanghai).
For more than 10 years he worked in the international consulting agency SCG advising Russian Railways, Sberbank, Gazprombank, ALROSA, RosEvro, JCB, Akzo Nobel, Citroen, Nissan, Dongfeng, Haier, 1st Chinese Construction Group and other Russian and foreign companies in the field of management, production and sales.
Chief concentrator
Andrey Zudikhin
Discoverer of deposits of the Russian Federation (placer of the Bol river. Kuonamka).
He has been in the diamond mining industry for 20 years. He worked his way up from the worker of the concentrating factory at the Molodo deposit to the deputy chief concentrator of JSC Nizhne-Lenskoye. He directly supervised the processing plants during geological exploration and industrial development of placer diamond deposits: Billah, Talakhty, Khara-Mas, Daldyn, Tiglikit and Bolshaya Kuonamka in the north of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).