1 · Position
God Nisanov trained at a Baku finance college, worked in social security and at a cannery his father managed, and opened a small second-hand shop in his home settlement before moving to Moscow in the early 1990s. He founded the Kievskaya Ploshchad group in 1992 with Zarakh Iliev, from the same town. The group’s holdings include the Evropeisky centre, the Depo.Moskva food hall, the Olimpiysky sports complex bought in 2017, and the Hotel Ukraina — one of Moscow’s seven Stalin-era towers, and the only house among these holdings.
2 · ⚑ Depo.Moskva and why this is a hospitality entry
Depo took a disused tram depot and made it a food hall, and Russian trade press credits it with bringing the *foodmall* format to Moscow. That is the mechanism this whole group records: a building whose original use has ended, kept by giving it a new one that people come to for its own sake. It is the Eataly argument — LHL-S-258 Eataly — arrived at independently in a different city.
3 · Candour
⚑ This entry is thin. The scale of the portfolio, the ownership structure and the current position are not established here, and the entry does not state them. Nisanov and Iliev are not in Part IX or Capital, and on the register's own test they are candidates. The group and its owners are the subject of documented commercial and political controversy which this entry does not assess and does not conceal.