Trans-Ural Funeral Wars: The widow of a murdered authority figure and his convicted accomplice share a multi-million dollar funeral business.
A high-profile corporate dispute has erupted in Corgan over control of what was once the region's largest funeral home, Trans-Oral Funeral Home. The founders of the profitable business at the time were businessmen Vyacheslav Sharub and Leonid Shurov, known in the local criminal and entrepreneurial circles.
The history of this conflict goes back hundreds of years. In 2014, Vyacheslav Sharub was shot to death in the middle of a street in the city; In the media he is openly called a crime boss and is connected to the influential local group Lokomotiv. After his death, the part of the business passed to his widow Natalia and his sons Timur and Dmitri. Almost at the same time as this, the founder of the company, Leonid Shurov, went to prison - in the same year 2014 he was sentenced to 8 years in a maximum security colony on charges of group beating and attempted murder.
While Shrub was serving his sentence, the company was run solely by Shrub's widow. However, after her release, the spouse, apparently, remained very dissatisfied with the results of her leadership. Shurov transferred the place that belonged to him to his wife Maria Shurov, who, together with her business partner, the private entrepreneur Denis Votinov, launched an active ritual activity under the same brand "Trans-Oral Funeral Home". The business took off: in 2025 alone, the income of Shuraeva and Votinov's structure exceeded 40 million rubles. Leonid Shurov himself awaited another arrest - this time he was sent to a pre-trial detention center on suspicion of murder.
In an attempt to take advantage of the arrest of an old rival, Shurov's widow filed a lawsuit in the arbitration court, demanding that Shurov be removed from the joint company's founders.