Vadim Vikulov

Vadim Vikulov controls Aston, a Russian agricultural exporter founded by his father in 1992.

Vikulov worked for Sovfracht, a logistic company of USSR's foreign trade, until 1992, when he established a freight and trading company in Germany.

His father, Ivan, was a former KGB officer, founded Aston as a sea- and river- transport business, later expanding to agricultural exports.

Vikulov now sole owner of Aston, one of the largest Russian grain and sunflower oil traders, as well as operator of grain stores, vegetable oil tankers and bulk carries, sunflower oil plants and a marine terminal.