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Alexander Udodov () is a Russian entrepreneur, developer, manager.

Biography
Alexander Udodov was born on June 10, 1969 in the city of Kizilyurt of the Dagestan Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, USSR.

In 1989-1991 he served in the Soviet army.

In 2001, he graduated from the Kiev University of Law of the National Academy of Sciences with a degree in “Jurisprudence”.

Business
In 2010-2014 – Vice-President of Itera Group (head of the group – billionaire Igor Makarov), where he was engaged in investment projects in the field of real estate.

Since 2015 – Member of the Board of Eurasian Pipeline Consortium LLC, majority owner of a number of real estate and food production enterprises.

Mushroom rainbow
In 2015, together with businessman Oleg Logvinov, he founded the company for the production of cultivated mushrooms Mushroom Rainbow. In July 2017, a large import-substituting project for the greenhouse production of mushrooms “Mushroom Rainbow” in the Kursk region was opened. The main shareholder of the company was Alexander Udodov. With the commissioning of the second stage of the complex in May 2018, the company became the largest producer of champignons in Russia with a capacity of 8 thousand tons per year. The Governor of the Kursk region Alexander Mikhailov highly appreciated the contribution of the Mushroom Rainbow to the development of the economy of the region. On September 26, 2019, the third stage of the agricultural complex was opened, which will allow to annually produce up to 17 thousand tons of fresh mushrooms and occupy 20% of the Russian market in this segment. By the end of 2020, the company built and installed equipment of the fourth production stage, which will increase production volumes to 30,000 tons per year. The total investment in production for three years amounted to about 10 billion rubles.

Aforra Group
Owns the Aforra Group, which provides a full range of services in the field of development. Until 2019, Alexander Udodov owned a large portfolio of commercial real estate, which included a large luxury shopping center "Gimenei", as well as shopping center "U River", shopping center "Dubki" in Odintsovo, shopping center "Atlas" in Obninsk, Kaluga region. In 2015, he bought from the retail network “Children’s World” the shopping and office building “Yakimanka Children’s Gallery”, which was rebuilt into a luxury shopping gallery “Yakimanka 26”. In 2019, Udodov sold Moscow shopping galleries Gimenei and Yakimanka 26, as well as Atlas shopping center in Obninsk.

VG Cargo
In 2004, Udodov acquired a majority stake in the German ground handling company VG Cargo GmBh. The company is based at Frankfurt-Hahn Airport. In October 2022, the businessman left the shareholders of VG Cargo GmbH.

Baths
In 2016, on the initiative of Alexander Udodov, the Ministry of Resorts, Tourism and Olympic Heritage of the Krasnodar Territory and the administration of the Belorechensky district, a project for the construction of a modern balneological resort on the basis of the Solnechny boarding house in the Krasnodar Territory was launched. At the end of August 2019, balneological sa