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Pavel Polyakov

CEO
"I am convinced that people are the main inspiration and value in any business. Our guests are the personification of our team and vice versa. If you do everything for people, it will come back to you like a boomerang."
He started working as a busboy at the age of 17, at 21 he got his first experience as a manager, worked in senior positions in well-known companies. Pavel joined Lucky Group team in 2020, was in the position of head manager of EVA, KOJI, Maya projects and headed the company as an executive director in 2022.

Dmitry Volkov

COO
Dmitry started his career in restaurant industry in 2010 from a waiter's assistant position in the restaurant chain "Coffemania", where he worked for 8,5 years, having gained extensive management experience in staff training and management. Dmitry has opened the Greek restaurant Eva, Russian cuisine restaurant Niki. Then he worked as a territorial manager of Niki, Eleven, All Day. The main thing in work is the team, where everyone shares the same life values, loves their work, loves people and enjoys what they do.

Maxim Gorelik

Chef Bartender

Has been in the industry for 10 years. He started his career in Krasnoyarsk (2011-2012), then worked in bars in St. Petersburg (2013) with the future founders of the Imbibe bar. In 2014 he moved to Moscow and worked at one of the first Speak Easy in Russia - Jack Rose, then joined the team of Bruce Lee Bar (former Belka Bar), where six months later he became a bar manager at the age of 22. In 2016, he had experience in bar consulting, and at the beginning of 2017 he joined the team of opening the Cevicheria restaurant. In mid-2017, he received an offer to open a new project Margarita Bistro as a bar manager. A year later, he opened Lucky Izakaya Bar, afterwards - Eva and Loro, thereafter he became the chief bartender of the new restaurant group Lucky Group.

Since 2017 he is also part of the Bacardi - Martini family. Since September 2017, he was the trade ambassador of Bacardi - Martini in Moscow. Since January 1, 2022, he has been the Patron tequila brand ambassador in Russia and Eastern Europe.

Included in the Top 10 Russian bar managers according to Barproof 2017-2018 and the Top 3 Russian bar managers according to Barproof 2019-2021.

Now he is a speaker at various restaurant and bar venues in Russia, such as the Roman Toroschin Training Center, Gastreet Show, Moscow Food Academy.

The ideologist of the educational bar community at Lucky Group - Lucky Bar Skills.

Bakhtiyar Shamsiev

Chef
He started his career in 2008 at the Vanil restaurant, after he worked at Bolshoi and Probka on Tsvetnoy. In 2019, he became part of the Lucky Group team, and since the opening of the Eva restaurant he went from the sous-chef to the chef. He believes that the main thing in his work is to see guests who return to the restaurant again and again.

Sergey Filatov

Chef
His career began in the city of Samara where Sergey graduated as a cook at a culinary college and worked in local projects.
Then he decided to develop in the restaurant industry and moved to Moscow. His first job was the “Stories” project, then he got a position as a chef at the “Grand Cru by Adrian Quetglas” restaurant, sous chef at the “No. 13” restaurant and “Le pigeon”.

Vasily Kaufman

General Manager
Vasily studied in the Czech Republic and began his journey in the restaurant industry at the age of 18, starting as a waiter and bartender. At the age of 25 he launched a small chain of coffee shops in Dolgoprudny, after which he decided to shift his focus to restaurant management. He has been working at Lucky Group since 2022. He started as a manager at Eleven, later became a senior manager at Niki, joined the Saray team, and took part in launching Osteria Osso. Since July 2025, Vasily has been the General Manager of Eva Khamovniki.
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