Severstal is the owner. Alexey Mordashov
17 June 2017, 21:04Why are we all talking about the Whisperer and the Giraffe... We also have other people in big business.
Alexey Mordashov was born in Cherepovets in 1965. His father graduated from the Gorky Polytechnic Institute with a degree in electrical engineering and worked at the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant.
Parents were not zealous in raising Alyosha. They didn't have time for that, and the boy wasn't causing any concern. Calm, independent child. At school, Mordashov was correct; his classmates unanimously elected him class leader. The class teacher used Lesha as an example so often that at some point he was nicknamed Template.
Komsomol member and future member of the CPSU Alexey Mordashov graduated with honors from the Leningrad Engineering and Economics Institute, where he met Anatoly Chubais, who taught there. After the first year, I came to his department as an assistant. Obviously, this was the first success of the future “steel king”.
At that time, Alexey actively attended the “circle of young economists”, which was headed by Chubais. This circle included people such as Alexey Kudrin, Pyotr Mostovoy, Vladimir Kogan, whose names would soon become known throughout Russia. At the same time, Mordashov did not get lost against their background. Chubais even persuaded him to go to graduate school and stay in Leningrad, but Alexey always believed that it was better to be the first guy in the village than the second in the city, and returned home.
There he got a job as a senior economist at a metallurgical plant. The young specialist immediately attracted the attention of management, who sent him for an internship at the Austrian steel company VoestAlpine. But there Mordashov quarreled with the son of the USSR Minister of Ferrous Metallurgy Serafim Kolpakov. Things came to a fight. Kolpakov demanded that the general director of the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant, Yuri Lipukhin, immediately fire the insolent man from the plant. But he defended his employee.
Mordashov was very lucky - Lipukhin’s wife liked him. And when the time came to corporatize ChMK, it was she who persuaded her husband to trust the 27-year-old financial director. As a result, Yuri Lipukhin was left without a position and without a plant.
In 1996, Mordashov became the general director of the plant management company Severstal, and Lipukhin took the post of chairman of the board of directors. The management accumulated 43% of shares in the Severstal-Invest company bought from employees, and later transferred them to another structure - Severstal-Garant.
At first, according to Lipukhin, the partners agreed on equal shares in this company.
“After he became a director, he and his friends went to some islands and hung out for a week. And when he returned, he came and said: equally is not quite normal for me, give you 49%, and give me 51%,” Lipukhin later said. - I didn't care. I said: come on, I agree."
When net income rose from $111 million to $453 million in 2000, there was disagreement over what to do with the money. “In the spring of 1999, Mordashov arbitrarily, without my knowledge, bought out 17% of the shares that belonged to Severstal-Invest,” said Lipukhin. “I approached him and said: Alyosha, you can’t act like that.” His answer was extremely short: this is not written anywhere.” Mordashov denies the existence of any gentlemanly agreements.
Yuri Lipukhin was his godfather when Alexey decided to convert. In 2011, the veteran died of a heart attack in Canada; his son Victor is taking care of his affairs. Mordashov headed JSC Severstal, which served as the basis for the creation of the diversified holding company Severstal Group. Industrial assets gradually came into his ownership - shares of the St. Petersburg, Tuapse and Vostochny ports, coal mines, railway cars, Kolomna Diesel Locomotive Plant, UAZ...
In general, Mordashov burst into the ranks of the newest oligarchs at great speed, displacing such bison as Abramovich and Potanin. Thanks to his stranglehold on the Vologda region, he earned the nickname Iron Boy. And Mordashov himself says about himself this way: “Tanks are not afraid of dirt.”
A separate conversation is Mordashov’s personal life. In 2001, Elena, the ex-wife of a billionaire, published in one of the newspapers “ Open letter to all women."
Here are the quotes. “Many years ago I married a student Alyosha Mordashov. Our son was born and life was very difficult for us. The child was seriously ill, everything fell on my shoulders - home, family, caring for my husband. During the day I looked after my son, and in the evenings I worked as a cleaner... I earned money for our apartment.”
And five years later, Alexey Mordashov became a millionaire and the owner of factories, newspapers, and ships. And he left. Then he divided the property, as befits a rich husband: for his wife - a squalid apartment, an old "nine". For himself - everything he owns... There could be no talk of justice.
He said: “And you couldn’t think. If you even try to encroach on anything of mine, I will deprive you of everything left, I will take your son away from you. You don’t want Ilya to suffer without you, do you?” I had no doubt then that one day I could “wake up” next to my own head...
During the divorce in 1996, the wife and child received an apartment in Cherepovets, a VAZ-2109 car and a small amount of money. Alimony for the maintenance of their common child Ilya (born in 1985) was paid by the entrepreneur in the amount of 106 times the minimum wage (in 2003 the minimum wage was 600 rubles). That is 63,600 rubles.
Elena tried in court to obtain the right to a share in the property ex-husband, but achieved nothing.
Mordashov’s new wife was also Elena, with whom he had a real office romance. She worked as an accountant at Severstal. They bumped into each other in the corridors and on the stairs, swam together in the pool on adjacent paths, and in June 1997 they got married.
“In September 1999, our son Kirill was born. Alexey was with me during childbirth, holding my hand. The next morning he gave me pearl earrings and a necklace,” Mordashov’s second wife later said. - A few days before 2001, I presented Alexey with, as he himself says, the best New Year's gift in his life - his son Nikita... Alexey simply adores kids. He is a very gentle dad."
Now Mordashov has a third wife, Marina. They have two daughters and a son.
The eldest, Masha, studies at the Wunderpark school near Moscow, which was opened by her mother, five-year-old Anastasia is being raised at home with three-year-old Daniil. A month of education in 1st grade at Wunderpark Primary School costs 132,500 rubles.
The hot temper of Alexei Mordashov makes itself felt from time to time. So, one day he caused a scandal to the employees of the business terminal of Vnukovo-3 airport. The oligarch was indignant that one of his “girlfriends,” who accompanied him on the flight, had a torn buckle on her lady’s backpack. Because of this, the “steel king” scolded the airport staff, demanding to pay “a few bucks” for the damage.
Alexey Mordashov owns the yacht Lady M (65 m). She is not on the list of the most expensive yachts in the world, but nevertheless her owner has something to be proud of. He owns the most expensive aluminum yacht, PalmerJohnson, built in the USA. On Lady M luxurious conditions for 12 guests in 6 cabins. There is also a seven-meter swimming pool and a helipad on board. At maximum speed At 28 knots (about 50 km/h), the boat is capable of crossing the Atlantic Ocean in 8 days. The bow of the yacht is decorated with a metal figure of a one and a half meter powerful jaguar.
Alexey Alexandrovich Mordashov. Born on September 26, 1965 in Cherepovets, Vologda region. Russian entrepreneur, billionaire. Owner of a controlling stake (77%) in PJSC Severstal, General Director of CJSC Severgroup, Chairman of the Board of Directors of PJSC Power Machines, member of the Board of Directors of Nord Gold N.V., Chairman of the Board of Directors of CJSC Sveza.
By nationality - Russian.
Father - Alexander Mordashov, a graduate of the Gorky Polytechnic Institute, an engineer, worked at the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant.
Mother - Maria Fedorovna, also worked at the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant.
Alexey Mordashov’s ancestors were engaged in the production of wooden toys; their works are exhibited at the Museum of Folk Toys in Sergiev Posad.
He studied well at school, and was especially good at exact sciences. At school he had the nickname “Template”.
In 1988 he graduated with honors from the Leningrad Engineering and Economic Institute named after. Palmiro Tolyatti with a degree in mechanical engineering and economics. It was there that he met, who was a teacher at this institute at that time.
Fluent in English and German.
Member of the CPSU.
After graduating from the institute, he worked at the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant. He was a senior economist, head of the bureau of economics and labor organization of mechanical repair shop No. 1, and deputy head of the plant's planning department.
In 1989, he was sent for a six-month internship at the Austrian steel company VoestAlpin.
During the initial period of privatization in Russia, in 1992, he became director of economics and finance at the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant, which was soon transformed into OJSC Severstal. The general director of the Cherepovets plant, Yuri Lipukhin, instructed Mordashov to carry out the privatization of the plant. 27-year-old Mordashov created a subsidiary company, Severstal-invest (24% of the shares belonged to Severstal, and 76% to Mordashov personally) and then bought up shares of Severstal. Having thus gained control over the enterprise, Mordashov became the director and owner of Severstal OJSC.
Since 2000 - one of the members of the Joint Russian-German Intergovernmental working group on strategic cooperation in the field of economics and finance. In 2001 he received an MBA from Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tye.
On October 5, 2007, Siemens AG signed an agreement with Mordashov on long-term strategic cooperation in the development of the Power Machines company. Siemens AG received an equity stake in the company. In 2011, cooperation with Siemens AG was completed. On December 27, 2011, 25% came back under the control of the Cypriot management company Highstat Limited, which now owns 75% of the shares of Power Machines.
Since 2009, he has been working as co-chairman of the Northern Dimension Business Council (NDBC), which is engaged in developing interaction between government representatives, business and civil society in Northern Europe. The second co-chairman from the European side is Tapio Kuula, President and CEO of Fortum Corporation (Finland).
In 2011, he took part in the work of the Bilderberg Club.
Actively participates in work World Association steel manufacturers. In 2001, Severstal was the first Russian steel producer to become a member of the Association. Member of the Council for Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship under the Government of the Russian Federation.
In October 2012, he became the first Russian in history to be elected chairman of the Association’s Board of Directors; a year later, as part of the rotation procedure adopted at Worldsteel, he transferred the chairmanship to the head of the Korean steel company POSCO. Mordashov at the same time became one of two deputy chairmen of the Board of Directors.
In October 2014, the Worldsteel conference was held for the first time in Russia - the largest industry event, which annually brings together the heads of all the world's leading metallurgical companies, industry experts and consultants. In October 2015, Alexey Mordashov was re-elected to the executive committee of the World Steel Association.
Mordashov is the president of the Non-Profit Partnership "Russian Steel" - a national industry association of steel producers.
He is a member of the Bureau of the Board, head of the Trade Policy and WTO Committee of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. In 2013, the year of Russia's presidency of the G20 (Group of Twenty), Mordashov worked in the international group "Trade as a factor of growth" B20 (Business Twenty) as a co-chairman on the Russian side.
He is one of the most recognizable and quoted Russian businessmen, both in Russia and abroad. In 2014, Alexey Mordashov was recognized as the best speaker in the global steel industry.
Alexey Mordashov owns 26% of the German travel company TUI Group.
State of Alexey Mordashov
In 2003, according to Forbes, Alexey Mordashov's fortune was estimated at $1.2 billion. In 2004 - $3.5 billion, 2005 - $4.8 billion, in 2006 - $7.6 billion, 2007 - $11.2 billion, 2008 - $22.1 billion, 2009 - $4.3 billion, 2010 - $9.9 billion, 2011 - $18.5 billion, 2012 - $15.3 billion , 2013 - $12.8 billion, 2014 - $10.5 billion, 2015 - $13 billion, 2016 - $10.9 billion, 2017 - $17.5 billion, 2018 - $18, 7 billion, 2019 - $20.5 billion.
If in 2003 Alexey Mordashov ranked 348th in the world in terms of wealth, in 2008 - 18th, 2009 - 122nd, in 2017 - 51st, in 2018 - 34th -e.
Among the richest people in Russia is Alexey Mordashov, according to Forbes version, was 2nd in 2008, 5th in 2016, 2nd in 2016 and 2017, 4th in 2018.
At the same time, Bloomberg in 2017 called him the richest Russian with a fortune of $17.3 billion.
Personal life of Alexey Mordashov:
Was married three times. Has six children.
First wife- Elena Mordashova (nee Mityukova). We met when we were students at the Leningrad Engineering and Economics Institute. We got married while still studying. Later they returned to Cherepovets together.
The couple had a son, Ilya, in 1985.
Divorced due to Mordashov's infidelities in 1996. Elena Mityukova recalled: “First comes power, then money, and after them - permissiveness. Once there was a celebration at the plant, we came together, but the whole evening Alyosha frolicked in front of my eyes with a young dancer. It was terribly offensive. And then he stopped taking it altogether. me with you."
During the scandalous divorce, Mordashov left his first wife a three-room apartment and a car, and paid child support.
Later, Elena tried to sue Mordashov for a certain amount of money, but lost. Since 2002, Elena tried in court to obtain the right to a share in the property of Alexei Mordashov. In March 2003, in order to secure a claim ex-wife oligarch, St. Petersburg magistrate Borodashkina imposed a ban on any transactions with Mordashov’s shares, and on April 24, a court decision assigned to his ex-wife the ownership of shares in Severstal OJSC, Severstal Invest CJSC, and Severstal Garant CJSC. Media reported that high-ranking government officials then began to seek a reversal of the decision. Judge Borodashkina was subsequently deprived of her powers for “violation of the rules of jurisdiction.”
On May 15, 2003, the magistrate of the city of Cherepovets recovered from Elena Mordashova 213 million 790 thousand rubles in state duty on the claim. Due to her lack of such funds, on May 29, a decision was made to seize the apartment in Moscow in which Elena Mordashova and her son lived before moving to St. Petersburg in January of this year. As a result, the courts rejected Elena Mordashova’s claim, recognizing the previously signed agreements as legal.
Elena Mityukova - the first wife of Alexei Mordashov
Second wife- Elena Mordashova (namesake of the first wife), worked as an accountant at Mordashov’s company. The office romance ended in marriage.
In 1999, the couple had a son, Kirill, and a year later, a son, Nikita.
The second marriage lasted about 10 years. They divorced calmly, without scandals, having signed a settlement agreement providing Elena and her sons with a comfortable existence. Mordashov later transferred 65% of the shares of the gold mining company Nordgold to his second family, worth about $1.5 billion.
Third wife- Marina, according to some sources, is a former fashion model.
In the third marriage, three children were born - Maria (born in 2009), Anastasia (born in 2011), Daniil (born in 2014).
Alexey Mordashov gave Marina a private primary school Wunderpark and built a 64-meter sports yacht called “Lady M” costing about $60 million.
Awards of Alexey Mordashov:
Order of Alexander Nevsky (May 25, 2015) - for great contribution to socio-economic development Russian Federation, achieved labor successes, active social activities and many years of conscientious work;
- Order of Honor (July 11, 2011) - for his great contribution to the development of the metallurgical industry, achieved labor successes and many years of conscientious work;
- Medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 1st degree (September 10, 1999) - for services to the state, high achievements in production activities and great contribution to strengthening friendship and cooperation between peoples;
- Medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree (May 2, 1996) - for services to the state and many years of conscientious work;
- Insignia “For Good Deeds” (June 11, 2016) - for great contribution to charitable and social activities;
- Russian Order Orthodox Church Holy Blessed Prince Daniel of Moscow, III degree (2003);
- Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (2009, Italy);
- Cross of Recognition, III degree (2013, Latvia) - for contribution to the development of the country’s economy;
- Winner of the national business reputation award “Darin” Russian Academy business and entrepreneurship in 2002;
- Russian Government Prize in the field of science and technology;
- Certificate of honor from the Ministry of Economy;
- Certificate of Honor from the Governor of the Vologda Region;
- Awarded the title “Honorary Citizen of the City of Cherepovets.”
Shopping center "June" on Godovikova street Cherepovets was built in 2010 by Moscow JSC Regions-Finance. As previously reported, June’s “anchor” federal chain Lenta, now owned by Alexei Mordashov, owes the owners of the center more than 700 million rubles for renting retail space.
The owners of the shopping center filed a claim in the amount of 747.2 million rubles against Lenta in November 2019. The justification was a rent debt of about 250 million rubles, and another half a billion was a penalty.
Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and Leningrad region accepted this case for proceedings on January 13, 2020 and scheduled a meeting for February, however, as Cherepovetskaya Istina learned, on January 20, the owners of the June shopping center abandoned their claims and entered into a settlement agreement. It is still unknown on what terms the two companies managed to agree, but the lawsuit has already been withdrawn from the court.
Ksenia Vereshchagina
For reference:
The founder of the June shopping center in Cherepovets is directly JSC Regions-Finance, which in turn is part of JSC GC Regions. The REGIONS group owns and manages the network of shopping and entertainment centers "JUNE" in three cities of Russia, the network of shopping centers "Sibirsky Gorodok" and, according to INFOLine Developers Russia TOP-100, ranks fifth among the largest real estate owners in Russia. By the way, through one of the founders, she also owns the Ferris wheel at VDNKh.
Mordashov Alexey Alexandrovich- Russian entrepreneur and manager, billionaire. Owner (77%), Chairman of the Board of Directors, General Director (from 2006 to 2014 PJSC Severstal (until December 1, 2014 - OJSC Severstal), General Director of CJSC Severgroup, Chairman of the Board of Directors of PJSC Power Machines ", member of the Board of Directors of Nord Gold N.V. and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sveza CJSC.
Biography
Mordashov Alexey Alexandrovich, born on September 26, 1965, native of Cherepovets, Vologda Region.
Relatives. Mother: Mordashova Maria Fedorovna, born on June 8, 1936, pensioner. She worked at the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant from its founding.
Wife (former): Mordashova (maiden name Novitskaya) Elena Grigorievna, born December 6, 1962, got married while students. IN last years didn't actually live together. Elena Mordashova initiated a high-profile divorce process, which, however, she lost.
Wife: Elena Vladimirovna Mordashova, born September 20, 1971, economist by training. I met Mordashov when I worked in the accounting department of Severstal.
Son: Ilya Alekseevich Mordashov, born January 15, 1986, currently permanently resides in Moscow. Maintains an occasional relationship with his father.
Awards. Order of Alexander Nevsky. Order of Honor. Medal of the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland”, 1st class. Medal of the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland”, II degree. Insignia "For good deeds". Order of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Holy Blessed Prince Daniel of Moscow, III degree. Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic. Cross of Recognition, III degree. Winner of the national business reputation award “Darin” of the Russian Academy of Business and Entrepreneurship in 2002. Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology. Certificate of honor from the Ministry of Economy. Certificate of honor from the Governor of the Vologda region. Awarded the title “Honorary Citizen of the City of Cherepovets.”
State. As of 2014, Alexey Mordashov ranks 12th in the ranking richest businessmen Russia. As of 2016, he was recognized as the richest man in Russia according to Bloomberg. In the 2017 Forbes ranking, it took second place in Russia and 51 in the world with a capital of $17.5 billion. In July 2017, he took second place in the ranking of the richest businessmen in Russia. In 2018, according to the Forbes ranking of “200 richest businessmen in Russia,” Mordashov also took second position with a fortune of $18.7 billion.
Hobbies. He is interested in poetry, painting, and enjoys active winter sports.
Education
- In 1988, he graduated with honors from the Faculty of Civil Engineering of the Leningrad Engineering and Economic Institute named after P. Togliatti.
- In 2001, he received an MBA degree from Northumbria University Business School (Newcastle, UK).
Labor activity
- After graduating from university, he worked at the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant, where he successively held the positions of senior economist, head of the bureau of economics and labor organization of mechanical repair shop No. 1 and deputy head of the plant's planning department. He completed a six-month internship in Austria.
- In 1992, A. A. Mordashov became director of economics and finance at the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant, which was soon transformed into Severstal OJSC.
- In the same year, during the privatization of the plant, he created a subsidiary company, Severstal-invest (24% of the shares belonged to Severstal, and 76% to him personally), then buying up shares of Severstal. Having thus gained control over the enterprise, he became the general director and owner of Severstal OJSC.
- Currently he is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of OJSC Severstal, General Director of CJSC Severgroup, Chairman of the Board of Directors of OJSC Power Machines, member of the Board of Directors of Nord Gold N.V. and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sveza CJSC.
- He also owns a 26% stake in the German travel company TUI Group.
Connections/Partners
But Mordashov was not going to give up. At that time, another election campaign in Ukraine turned into an “Orange Revolution”. Alexey Alexandrovich supported the presidential candidate Victor Yushchenko, who outlined one of his first steps to review the privatization of Krivorozhstal. True, when reprivatization began in 2005, Severstal refused to participate.
But the Ukrainian fiasco did not really upset Alexey Alexandrovich, who had already firmly established himself richest people world according to Forbes, and in Russia he was considered one of the richest people. Moreover, even without Ukraine on the world market, Mordashov was doing well. Thus, he acquired a metallurgical concern in the USA, as well as a 70% stake in the Italian steel manufacturer Lucchini.
But Alexey Alexandrovich was able to truly reach a high international level in 2006, when Severstal planned to merge with the largest steel corporation Arcelor. This opportunity arose due to the threat of Arcelor being taken over by the world leader in the industry, the metallurgical group Mittal Steel. But the corporation's shareholders did not want to get involved with a little-known Russian oligarch and chose Mittal Steel. In Russia at that time this was perceived as deterrence Russian business on the world market.
Mordashov’s love for the media business gradually reached a new level. In July 2005, Severstal Group acquired a 70% stake in the REN-TV television channel from RAO UES. Perhaps this was done in order to make amends for supporting Yushchenko to the Russian authorities. After all, REN-TV remained the last federal opposition channel, and Alexey Alexandrovich was ready to “reformat” it in the right direction.
Meanwhile, Mordashov’s hot temper made itself felt from time to time. For example, Alexey Alexandrovich caused a scandal to the employees of the business terminal of the Vnukovo-3 airport, which he used for his flights along with Yuri Luzhkov and Anatoly Chubais. The oligarch was indignant that one of his “girlfriends”, who accompanied him on the flight, had a torn buckle on her lady’s backpack. Because of this buckle, the “steel king” scolded the airport staff, demanding to pay “a few bucks” for the damage.
In 2008, Mordashev, as a businessman, reached his peak. According to Forbes, his fortune was estimated at $21.2 billion, and he was ranked eighteenth in the ranking of the richest people in the world. However, the global financial crisis that began at that time soon somewhat spoiled these indicators and already in 2009 Russian oligarch took only 122nd place in the same ranking, with $4.3 billion.
In 2014, the name Lipukhin unexpectedly surfaced. Moreover, it was not the ex-director of Severstal Yuri Lipukhin, who died of a heart attack in Canada in 2011, just two months short of his seventy-fifth birthday, but his son Victor, who permanently resides overseas. The Department of Justice and the US Internal Revenue Service accused Lipukhin Jr. of concealing assets worth between $4 million and $7.5 million. The US Department of Justice claimed that Viktor Lipukhin was the president of Severstal's American subsidiary, Severstal Inc. Severstal denied this information. Therefore, it is difficult to say whether Mordashov really sheltered Lipukhin’s son in his corporation, and then disowned him in time, or whether Viktor Yuryevich actually had nothing to do with Severstal, but was assigned to it “out of old memory.”
Currently, Alexey Alexandrovich is not involved in the operational management of the corporation, having transferred the post of General Director to his deputy Vadim Larin, remaining only the chairman of the board of directors. But at the same time he owns 79.2 percent of Severstal shares.
Alexey Alexandrovich Mordashov is a talented manager who is not afraid to make non-standard decisions. His tenacity came in handy in the conditions of the emerging market economy and helped him enter the cohort of masters of the new Russia. It was through the efforts of Mordashov that Severstal turned into one of the world's largest steel and mining companies. However, at the same time, Alexey Alexandrovich literally “went over the heads” of the people closest to him. Thus, Yuri Lipukhin, who became for Mordashov not only a “godfather” in managerial activities, but also an actual godfather at baptism, he simply dropped out of business, taking sole possession of the corporation. He also acted rudely with his family, who supported him in difficult times, and whom he abandoned as soon as his business took off. Of course, in the fight against other oligarchs, such unscrupulousness only helped the “steel king,” but it is unlikely that his conscience can be calm.
Net worth: $18.4 billion
Alexey Nikolsky/press service of the President of the Russian Federation/TASS
The richest man in Russia does not reveal the identity of his wife Lyudmila. It is known that the couple have a daughter, Victoria, a 25-year-old graduate of New York University, where she studied art history. The billionaire and shareholder of Russia's largest gas production company Novatek adores his princess. 15 years ago, Mikhelson founded the Victoria charity foundation, in whose work the girl is directly involved. But the relationship with his legal wife raises questions among gossipers. According to rumors, Mikhelson has not lived with his wife for a long time and the businessman has a second family - an unofficial wife named Olga, who gave birth to a son about 10 years ago.
Alexey Mordashov, 51 years old
Net worth: $17.5 billion
Owns the online grocery store Utkonos and a stake in the tour operator TUI. Mordashov, who is also the chairman of the board of directors of PJSC Severstal, has been divorced from his first wife for more than 20 years, and their separation is associated with a loud scandal. Alexey and Elena Mordashov got married while still students due to the bride’s pregnancy. In 1985, their son Ilya was born, for whose maintenance during the divorce in 1996 Mordashov undertook to pay about 60 thousand rubles monthly. The ex-wife also received an apartment in Cherepovets and a VAZ 2109 car. But in 2002, Elena Mordashova decided that something was going wrong, and in addition to the “nine”, she tried to sue her ex-husband for a share in his assets. The court rejected the woman, after which the billionaire’s first-born took his mother’s maiden name - Novitskaya.
Mordashov’s second wife was a colleague, also Elena, with whom two sons, Kirill and Nikita, were born. A couple of years ago, rumors appeared that, as in his first marriage, the entrepreneur again started an affair and his mistress even became a mother.
Vladimir Lisin, 60 years old
Net worth: $16.1 billion
The Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works met his future wife at school! Vladimir and Lyudmila sat at the same desk, and then became parents of three children. Lisin also heads the supervisory board of the Rumedea media holding, whose assets include the Business FM radio station.
Gennady Timchenko, 64 years old
Net worth: $16 billion
TASS/Vyacheslav Prokofiev
Timchenko is the owner of the Volga Group investment group, specializing in investments in energy, transport and infrastructure assets. Together with his wife Elena, the billionaire went through thick and thin and St. Petersburg communal apartments, raised a son and two daughters and founded the Elena and Gennady Timchenko charitable foundation.
Alisher Usmanov, 63 years old
Net worth: $15.2 billion
TASS/ Valery Sharifulin
Irina Viner, President All-Russian Federation rhythmic gymnastics, she met her future husband (and future billionaire) at the Sports Palace of her native Tashkent, where she practiced gymnastics and he practiced fencing, but the young people began dating later in Moscow, where Usmanov studied at MGIMO, and Wiener worked as a gymnastics coach gymnastics The businessman made the proposal from prison: in 1980, Usmanov was sentenced to 8 years in the so-called “cotton case” (in 2000 Supreme Court Uzbekistan ruled that the sentence was unfair and found Usmanov not guilty). Usmanov sent his bride a scarf, which, according to Uzbek custom, means a marriage proposal. Usmanov, the owner of the largest mining company in the CIS, Metalloinvest, and Viner got married in 1992 (by that time Irina had already been married and given birth to a son, Anton).
Usmanov’s assets also include the Baikal Mining Company, the Kommersant publishing house, shares in Megafon and the Mail.ru Group holding.
Vagit Alekperov, 66 years old
Net worth: $14.5 billion
Ilya Pitalev/TASS
The president of Lukoil met his wife Larisa after graduating from the Azerbaijan Institute of Oil and Chemistry, when he worked as an oil field engineer. Larisa supported her husband as he built a career in the oil-producing villages of Siberia, and shared his triumph when Alekperov was appointed deputy minister of the oil and gas industry of the USSR in 1990. That same year, a son, Yusuf, was born into the family, who followed in his father’s footsteps into the oil business.
Mikhail Fridman, 52 years old
Net worth: $14.4 billion
Friedman divorced his first and only wife Olga, with whom he studied in the same course at the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys, more than 10 years ago. Fridman is a co-owner of Alfa Group, a member of the supervisory board of VimpelCom Ltd and the founder of the LetterOne holding, which invests in foreign oil and gas projects. At the same time, Friedman’s fortune will not be inherited by his children. Mikhail has four children: daughters Laura and Katya, born in marriage, as well as son Sasha and daughter Nika Ozhelsky. All of them, according to Friedman, are capable of independently achieving success in business, and he will donate his earned money to charity: “The worst thing I could do for my children is to give them a large sum. My capital must work for the benefit of society and be used for social purposes.”
Vladimir Potanin, 56 years old
Net worth: $14.3 billion
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The basis of Potanin’s fortune is his shares in Norilsk Nickel. Ex-wife billionaire Natalya lived with him for more than 30 years. The couple have been together since GCSEs and have three children. However, in 2011, Potanin had an illegitimate daughter, Varvara, and the businessman decided to marry the child’s mother, his subordinate named Ekaterina. “The divorce proposal came as a shock to me. I woke up with a complete stranger!” — Natalya Potanina admitted in an interview with GQ. A woman sued her ex-husband for alimony youngest son Vasily (now 17 years old) in the amount of 8.5 million rubles monthly. Potanina also received three plots of land, a house in the village of Vlasyevo in New Moscow and a house in the village of Ubory on Rublyovka, as well as several million rubles. And in early March, Natalya demanded to recover 215 billion rubles from Potanin, compensating her for the shares of KM Invest, which were the joint property of the spouses, which means they should be divided.
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