On August 23, 2014 the LEAD Consulting team took part in the historic cars’ rally «Autostrada-2014» in Kaluga. The 1965 GAZ-21 «Volga» took off the start piloted by the LEAD Consulting partner Alexander Linnikov and navigated by Sergei and Diana Linnikov. Starting number 13 turned out to be more than lucky – the family crew of the LEAD Consulting founding partner won the team competition as a part of the Gorkyclassic racing team and was awarded the special Family Relic prize.
The classic Soviet cars’ rally GUM – Gorkyclassic – 2014 took place on July 26, 2014 in the center of Moscow. The rally dedicated to the anniversary of Russia’s main department store – the legendary GUM – was actively supported by the LEAD Consulting Law Firm. In accordance with the good tradition developed in the recent several years the LEAD Consulting was represented by the classic cars from the collection of the Linnikov family and their friends. It is important to note that in 2014 the event featured not only the GAZ classic cars but also other legendary Soviet automobile brands – VAZ (LADA), RAF, ZAZ, and MZMA/AZLK (Moskvitch).
On June 30, 2014 in the City of Perm the annual assemblies of shareholders of OJSC «Permdorstroy» and OJSC «Permavtodor» unanimously elected LEAD Consulting partner Alexander Linnikov to the Boards of Directors of both companies as an independent Director.
On June 10, 2014 the Civic Chamber of the Russian Federation hosted the grand opening of the classic models of the GAZ cars of the 1950’s -1970’s of rare historic photographs of testing new GAZ models in Crimea.
