Alexander Tyunin, the director of the company Khimpromengineering, has been found dead in Moscow Oblast. Early reports suggest he took his own life.

Sources: TASS, a Kremlin-aligned Russian news agency, citing operational services; Militarnyi, a Ukrainian military news outlet ; project Byt Ili

Details: Russian state-aligned media outlets report that Tyunin’s body was discovered on a road near his car close to a forest. A hunting rifle and a death note were found nearby. The note reportedly explained that he had struggled with long-term depression.

A death note reportedly written by Alexander Tyunin

Photo: open sources

Militarnyi reports that the Khimpromengineering company, also known under the brand Umatex Group, is the only producer of carbon fibre in Russia and a key supplier of materials for the production of Shahed/Geran attack drones. 

The company provides materials used in the fuselage of long-range drones, including copies of Shahed-136/Geran-2. Carbon fibre offers high strength at minimal weight, a crucial element in the design of these unmanned aerial vehicles.

Open sources indicate that Umatex Group companies account for about 95% of carbon fibre production in Russia.

It is noted that this marks the thirty-fifth mysterious death of a Russian senior official or company director since 2022.

Background:In July 2025, Vice President of Transneft Andrei Badalov died after falling from a sixteenth-floor window on Rublyovskoye Motorway in Moscow.

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