First Model Printing House

History

2025: The ex-head of VDNKh and co-owner of the Fomin Clinic bought out the assets of the First Exemplary Printing House in Moscow

In the period from 2024 to November 2025, JSC First Exemplary Printing House sold most of its capital assets. In particular, the building and site on Sushchevsky Val Street were transferred to the Dopomin Development company. According to the SPARK system, the beneficiary of this company is Marianna Borisycheva, a shareholder of the Clinic Fomina medical network. In November 2025, the property complex on Pyatnitskaya was acquired by the Favorit company under the leadership of the former general director of VDNVladimir Pogrebenko.

According to RBC, in December 2024, a land plot of 4.5 hectares was sold on Zheleznodorozhnaya Street in Odintsovo. The new owner was the NPO "Chemical Reagent Plant." Another deal took place in January 2024: 1.3 hectares on Moskovskaya Street in Dmitrov were transferred to the Cooperative company. The printing house retains a plot in the village of Gorki, Dmitrovsky district, with an area of ​ ​ 9.7 hectares and a complex in Chekhov.

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According to Konstantin Lun, production director of the Alpin publishing group, the printing house is the largest independent printing company that is not part of publishing holdings. Its share in the total production of the industry is estimated at at least 20%. At the same time, the main production facilities are located in Chekhov, Ulyanovsk and Vyatka, and Moscow facilities have not been used for a long time, Lun notes.

A source on the printing house market confirmed that the production branches - Ulyanovsk Printing House, Chekhov Printing Yard and Vyatka Printing House - are functioning stably and ensuring the fulfillment of orders. According to the Russian Book Chamber for the first three quarters of 2025, these enterprises are among the top 20 largest printing complexes in the country. The Ulyanovsk Press House took sixth place in the ranking, releasing 4.7 thousand titles of books with a total circulation of 18.2 million copies.^[1]

2023: Former co-owner of the TSUM building Denis Izbrecht bought the First Exemplary Printing House

On July 10, 2023, it became known that the Federal Agency for State Property Management (Rosimushchestvo) sold one of the oldest printing enterprises in Russia - the First Exemplary Printing House. The buyer was businessman Denis Izbrecht, a former co-owner of the TSUM building, and the deal amounted to 4.93 billion rubles.

According to the Vedomosti newspaper, Izbrecht became the winner of the auction organized by the Federal Property Management Agency for the sale of 100% of the shares of First Exemplary Printing House JSC. The starting price was 2.99 billion rubles, but during the auction the amount increased by more than one and a half times. Under the terms of the contract, the new owner of the enterprise will have to fulfill a number of requirements for maintaining the printing profile of the company within five years from the date of transfer of ownership of the asset to it. In addition, Izbrecht will have to invest 1.5 billion rubles in the production of printing products.

"The first exemplary printing house" was bought by Denis Izbrecht

The First Exemplary Printing House, founded in 1876, owns approximately 330 thousand square meters of production, warehouse and administrative space in the Moscow Region, St. Petersburg, Tula, Ulyanovsk, Kirov and Chekhov. In addition, the company owns 44 thousand square meters of offices in Moscow, in buildings on Pyatnitskaya Street and on Sushchevsky Val. The new owner intends to improve these facilities and carry out repair work. Part of the space will then be rented out. No new construction is planned under the project.

According to the Russian Book Chamber (RCP), in 2022 the total circulation of non-periodic publications of the Moscow "First Model Printing House" and three branches of the society - in Ulyanovsk, Kirov, Chekhov - amounted to almost 77.8 million copies. Data on the circulation of another branch of the company - Nizhpoligraph - are not available in the statistics of the RCP.^[2]

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