Alexey Alexandrovich Mordashov criminal past. The meteoric rise of Alexey Mordashov: the story of creating a business. What motivated your ex-wife more - resentment, revenge

They were happy together and perhaps hoped to spend a lifetime together. However, under the influence of circumstances or due to the intervention of other people, these marriages fell apart. And difficult divorce proceedings began, during which once close people quarreled, accused and offended each other. However, the most protracted battles took place over the division of a fortune amounting to more than one million dollars. How did the most high-profile divorces of famous businessmen and politicians end?

Vladimir and Natalya Potanin

They lived in marriage for 30 years, but shortly before the celebration of the pearl wedding, Vladimir Potanin announced to his wife his intention to divorce. The spouses failed to resolve the issue peacefully. Natalia found her husband’s intention to deprive her and her three children of financial support offensive. The marriage was dissolved in 2014, but litigation over the division of property continued for several more years. Natalya initiated an entire investigation, the goal of which was to find her husband’s billions. By the time of the divorce, it turned out that all the property of the rich spouse was registered in a variety of companies that had nothing to do with Vladimir Potanin.

After the divorce, Natalya Potanina received two houses, one of which is located on Rublyovka, three land plots and monetary compensation in the amount of 375 million rubles for half an apartment in the center of Moscow. But long-term litigation in attempts to get part of her husband’s savings ended in failure: in 2017, the court refused to satisfy Natalya Potanina’s multimillion-dollar claims due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.

Dmitry and Elena Rybolovlev

The billionaire and owner of the Monaco football club was married to his wife Elena for more than 20 years. And in 2008, the oligarch’s wife filed for divorce, the reason for which, according to her, was her husband’s pathological infidelity. The division of property turned out to be loud and not very beautiful. The former spouses did not mince words and accused each other of almost all mortal sins. As a result, the divorce took place only in 2014.

The decision of the Geneva court stated that Dmitry Rybolovlev was obliged to transfer to his wife about 4.5 billion dollars, Swiss real estate, as well as other property valued at more than half a billion dollars. Dmitry appealed the court's decision and as a result, Elena received ownership of two real estate properties in Switzerland and $604 million.

Alexey and Elena Mordashov

At the time of his divorce from his first wife, Alexey Mordashov was the chairman of the board of directors of Severstal OJSC and offered his wife Elena very generous compensation at that time: alimony for her son in the amount of almost $ 1,500 per month (paid in rubles), a three-room apartment in Cherepovets and car VAZ-2109. True, two years later the crisis broke out, and the amount of payments for my son, due to a change in the exchange rate, turned into $320. In 2001, Elena decided to claim her rights to her husband’s property and started a legal battle, hoping to get half of Alexei Mordashov’s fortune. Not only did she fail to win the trial, but she also owed state fees to the state and her own lawyers.

Vladimir and Olga Slutsker

Former senator of Chuvashia and businessman Vladimir Slutsker divorced his wife, the owner of a chain of fitness clubs, in 2009. The process was loud and painful. For the most part, the spouses did not share property at all: each of them could well provide a comfortable existence for themselves and their loved ones. The subject of the dispute was the children of businessmen, Misha and Anna. As a result of the divorce, Olga Slutsker completely retained her own business, received half of her and her husband’s London mansion, but lost what was most precious to her: her son and daughter. The court decided that the children would be better off with their father.

Daniil Khachaturov and Ulyana Sergeenko

It was not for nothing that the former chairman of the Rosgosstrakh group of companies was one of the twenty richest people in Russia. He has already been divorced twice, but both times his ex-wives were left with only child support. If during the first divorce, Anna’s wife agreed to take alimony in one amount and at once, then alimony for their daughter together with Ulyana Sergeenko amounted, as required by law, to 25 percent of the father’s salary. As a result, deductions amount to about 100 thousand rubles per month. This amount, of course, is not comparable to the income of Dmitry Khachaturov, but according to the terms of the marriage contract, everyone remained in their own interests after the divorce.

Nikolay and Angelica Agurbash

The divorce of the famous singer and the “sausage king” was loud and ugly. The couple publicly sorted things out, proved their own infallibility and presented their previously loved one in a very unflattering light. Nikolai and Angelica Agurbash lived together for 11 years and from the outside their marriage seemed ideal. However, over time, the feelings evaporated somewhere, but mutual grievances began to accumulate. Everyone began to consider what good they did in marriage and what kind of return they received after that. After breaking up with her husband, Angelica Agurbash was essentially left with nothing. According to the marriage contract, property during a divorce went to the person to whom it was registered. Now she receives alimony in the amount of approximately 250 thousand rubles per month for her son Anastas.

Vladislav and Ekaterina Doronin

The marriage of the co-owner of the Capital Group company lasted 21 years, and the divorce cost the businessman a very tidy sum. Vladislav and Ekaterina Doronin were married in the USA at one time, and according to American laws, Ekaterina and her daughter could lay claim to half the fortune of the head of the family. The wife was not going to give in to her unfaithful husband, who, without any hesitation, started affairs on the side. Ekaterina Doronina received $10 million as compensation.

Once upon a time, these couples were called the strongest and set as an example. They lived together for many years, shared joys and sorrows, raised children and, perhaps, hoped to be close until their last days. But a moment came when the family suddenly ceased to exist, and two once close people suddenly became strangers.

Russian entrepreneur and manager, Chairman of the Board of Directors, General Director (since 2006) of OJSC Severstal, General Director of CJSC Severgroup.

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Biography

Member of the Komsomol from 1979 to 1991. In 1988, Alexey Mordashov graduated with honors from the Leningrad Engineering and Economic Institute. Tolyatti. Member of the CPSU. There, at the Leningrad Engineering and Economic Institute, he met Anatoly Chubais, then a teacher at this institute.

After graduating from the institute in 1988, Alexey Mordashov began working at the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant - senior economist, head of the bureau of economics and labor organization of mechanical repair shop No. 1, deputy head of the plant's planning department. In 1989, Mordashov was sent for a six-month internship at the Austrian steel company VoestAlpine.

During the initial period of privatization in Russia in 1992, Mordashov 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. At the age of 27, Alexey 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 Tyne.

On October 5, 2007, Siemens AG signed an agreement with Alexey 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 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.

In 2011, he took part in the work of the Bilderberg Club.

Condition ratings

The Russian magazine “Finance” in 2010 estimated Mordashov’s fortune at $10 billion (ninth place in Russia). At the same time, the American economic magazine Forbes on March 10, 2010 estimated it at $9.9 billion (70th place in the world). According to the same magazine, as of March 2011, the businessman’s fortune was already $18.5 billion.

Forbes magazine's previous wealth estimates:

Case filed by ex-wife

In 2001, Alexei Mordashov’s ex-wife, Elena, published an open “Letter to all women,” in which she described how Mordashov left her and infringed on the material rights of her and their common son. 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 was paid by the entrepreneur in the amount of 106 times the minimum wage (in 2003 this amounted to just over 10,000 rubles).

Since 2002, Elena Mordashova tried in court to obtain the right to a share in A. Mordashov’s property. In March 2003, in order to secure the claim of the oligarch's ex-wife, the 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 the shares of Severstal OJSC and Severstal Invest CJSC ", JSC "Severstal Garant". 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 collected 213 million 790 thousand rubles of state duty on the claim from Elena Mordashova. 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 E. Mordashova’s claim, recognizing the previously signed agreements as legal.

Awards

• 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 class (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
• Order of the Russian Orthodox Church of the Holy Blessed Prince Daniel of Moscow, III degree (2003)
• Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (2009)
• Winner of the national business reputation award “Darin” of the Russian Academy of Business and Entrepreneurship in 2002.

In 1997, he studied management courses in England (in the late 90s he graduated from the MBA program at Newcastle Business School (NBS) at Northumbria University (UNN, UK).

From 1988 to 1989 - senior economist at the mechanical repair shop No. 1 of the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant (ChMK).

In 1989-1991 - Head of the Bureau of Economics and Labor Organization RMC-1 of the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant.

In 1991-1992 - Deputy Head of the Planning Department of ChMK.

In 1992-1993 - Deputy Director for Finance and Economics of ChMK.

Since 1993 - Financial Director of ChMK (Currently ChMK has been renamed into JSC Severstal). At the same time, Chairman of the Board of Directors of JSC Severstal-invest. He was one of the authors of the program for the privatization of the plant and the transition to active marketing practices in the metal trade. The Severstal-invest company was engaged in the sale of rolled metal, cars and weapons, breeding, processing and sale of fish, real estate and security and detective activities.

Since March 1996 - Chairman of the Board of Severstal-Holding LLC (Cherepovets). Since March 1996 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of CJSC Severstal-invest (Cherepovets).

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Since November 1997 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of Metcombank (Cherepovets). He was a member of the Board of the Metallinvest Bank.

In October 1998, he signed a letter to US Vice President A. Gore and Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation E. Primakov from four heads of the largest Russian metallurgical plants against the application of anti-dumping measures against them. Since April 1999 - member of the Council of Issuers under the Federal Securities Commission (FCSM). On June 14, 2000, he signed a letter of guarantee from 17 large Russian entrepreneurs with a request to change the punishment for the arrested V. Gusinsky. Since June 2000 - member of the Board of Directors of Izhora Pipe Plant CJSC, a joint venture of Izhora Plants OJSC and Severstal OJSC. In October 2000, he was elected a member of the bureau of the board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP). Since June 2001 - coordinator of the RSPP Working Group. From April 2001 to April 2003 - member of the Supervisory Board of OJSC JSCB Industrial Construction Bank (PSB). In July 2001, reports appeared in the press about the likely appointment of Mordashov to the post of chairman of the Russian government. On July 12, 2001, he denied these reports and said that he would try to refuse if such an offer was made to him. According to Mordashov, he considers himself an entrepreneur, not a politician. (Strana.ru, July 13, 2001)

For 2000, he declared his income as $80 million (Mordashov himself subsequently denied this amount), which his ex-wife took advantage of and sued for alimony and division of joint property (his wife paid $650 a month for his son).

In August 2001, the ex-wife appealed to the Nikulinsky Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office of Moscow with a demand to force her ex-husband to give 25% of his income to raise his son from his first marriage. In his opinion, Mordashov’s unpaid alimony amounted to more than half a billion dollars. To secure the claim, the prosecutor's office secured the seizure of 32.5% of Severstal shares. Severstal assumed that competitors of the metallurgical holding - the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Combine and Sibal - were behind this lawsuit. (Company, August 27, 2001)

On September 5, 2001, Mordashov openly stated for the first time that Sibal wanted to “sink” his business. In addition, Mordashov made it clear that his competitor was also behind the “family-themed” scandal. (Vremya Novostei, September 6, 2001)

Since June 2002 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of OJSC Severstal.

Since 2002 - General Director of ZAO Severstal Group.

Since August 2002 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of SSM-Tyazhmash LLC, a subsidiary of Severstal Group OJSC.

On October 29, 2002, a meeting of the Nikulinsky District Court of Moscow took place, which heard the case on the claim of Elena Mordashova. All of her claims were rejected.

Since December 2002, he has been a judicial arbitrator at the Ethics Commission of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, created to resolve corporate disputes.

In May 2003, he was included in the Entrepreneurship Council under the Government of the Russian Federation.

In December 2003, Bank Rossiya announced that it would place an additional issue of shares for 30 million rubles. at par in favor of Severstal Group of Alexey Mordashov at a price 20 times higher than par. Thus, the holding had to pay 600 million rubles. for 9% of the bank’s shares with equity capital of 616 million rubles. The high cost of the package was explained by the general director of Rossiya, Viktor Myachin, by the fact that when determining the price of the transaction, the “entry of a third-party investor” into the bank’s capital and the dynamics of its development were taken into account (over the year, assets and capital tripled). Experts consider this assessment of the minority stake to be completely inadequate

At the end of June 2005, Alexey Mordashov's holding company Severstal Group bought almost a 70% stake in REN TV from RAO UES, in turn, the German media concern RTL Group acquired the other 30% of shares that belonged to the family of the founder and general director of the TV channel, Irena Lesnevskaya . In October, Severstal sold half of its shares in REN TV to Surgutneftegaz.

Changes in the ownership structure also entailed administrative changes: instead of Lesnevskaya, Alexander Ordzhonikidze became the new general director. On November 23, A. Ordzhonikidze ordered two stories to be removed from the air of Olga Romanova’s “24 Hours” program - about the termination of the criminal case against the son of Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov (in May, the minister’s son killed an elderly woman with a car) and about the construction of a new chapel on Manezhnaya Square designed by Zurab Tsereteli. On December 5, 2005, Romanova submitted her resignation from the channel.

In 2003, Forbes magazine included Mordashov in the list of the 500 richest people in the world (348th place, net worth: $1.2 billion).

In December 2003, he became President Putin's confidant in the presidential elections on March 14, 2004.

In February 2004, as part of the placement of Eurobonds, Severstal OJSC reported that Mordashov controlled 82.75% of Severstal shares.

Since June 2004 - member of the board of directors of AB Rossiya (St. Petersburg).

In February 2006, Finance magazine estimated Mordashov's wealth at $6.0 billion (tenth place in Russia).

Maintains a partnership with St. Petersburg banker Vladimir Kogan. At the beginning of 2001, he sold a stake in Metcombank to V. Kogan.

He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Scientific Research Center "Expert Institute" (director - Evgeny Yasin) under the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP).

Member of the Expert Council on Innovation created by the Ministry of Industry and Science of the Russian Federation.

Awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 1st and 2nd degree.

Laureate of the All-Russian competition of entrepreneurs "Career-96". In December 2000, he was named entrepreneur of the year by the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.

Speaks English and German.

Second wife Elena. Three sons (one from his first marriage - Ilya, two from his second: Kirill (born 1999) and Nikita (born 2000).

He is interested in poetry, painting, and active winter sports.

September 2006 - the owner of Severstal, Alexey Mordashov, is again going to become the general director of the company by the end of the year. He left this post back in 2002, but is now returning to raise the popularity of Severstal shares in the eyes of foreign investors. The stock exchange placement of at least 10% of Severstal shares will take place at the end of October 2006. Now the company is managed by Severstal Group CJSC (CEO Anatoly Kruchinin), but the contract with it will be terminated ahead of schedule. This is needed to improve the corporate management of Severstal, a company representative explained, and if shareholders vote for this decision on October 27, then from December 16, management of Severstal will officially transfer to the general director. But, as Vedomosti learned, we are not talking about Anatoly Kruchinin, who performs these duties on behalf of Severstal Group CJSC. The result of the management reform will be the return of Alexey Mordashov to the post of general director of the company

Last year's example of AFK Sistema showed that the appointment of its main owner and also a well-known businessman to the position of general director of a company contributes to the success of the IPO. On the eve of the placement of Sistema shares, its board of directors dismissed the president and appointed the main owner of the company, Vladimir Yevtushenkov, who left the post of president a decade ago, to this position. The owner must bear personal responsibility to investors - this is how Yevtushenkov explained this step. As a result, AFK Sistema and its owner received $1.56 billion for their shares, and Yevtushenkov this year again ceded the position of head of the company to a hired manager. Previously, Mechel also resorted to such a trick: before the IPO of shares in New York, its co-owner Vladimir Iorikh became the general director of the Mechel group. And the co-owner of Evraz, Alexander Abramov, resigned from the post of president of the company only six months after his company held an IPO.

Although Mordashov will not have time to become the official general director of Severstal before the placement of shares, this decision will most likely be indicated in the memorandum for investors and should please them, says the top manager of the metallurgical group, which is also preparing for a public offering of shares. After all, a wide circle of investors know nothing about Kruchinin, but Mordashov, especially after trying to become the largest owner of Arcelor, is a world celebrity; the management of Severstal is unlikely to change in essence, says Uralsib analyst Kirill Chuiko: Mordashov, as before, will determine the development strategy, and Kruchinin - carry out operational management of the iron and steel plant in Cherepovets. But who instead of Mordashov will head the board of directors of Severstal, Vedomosti was unable to find out. Most likely, it will be one of the independent directors whom Severstal is currently searching for, believes one of Mordashov’s acquaintances. ("Vedomosti", 09/21/2006)

On December 18, 2006, the shareholders of Media-Holding Ren TV LLC (this structure includes the TV channel and television company of the same name) approved a new composition of the board of directors, the chairman of which on the same day was elected Lyubov Sovershaeva, who represents the interests of the new shareholder of this company - LLC " IK Abros".

It is still unknown what exactly the stake in IK Abros went to. But if we take into account that L. Sovershaeva headed the board of directors of Media-Holding Ren TV LLC, we are talking not only about a large stake, but most likely about a controlling one. ...before this transaction, 35% of the shares of Ren TV were owned by Severstal and Surgutneftegaz, and 30% of the shares were owned by the German media company RTL Group. Until December 18, 2006, the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Ren TV was Alexey Germanovich, a representative of Severstal. Most likely, the Severstal company still has a small stake in Ren TV, since it also owns 18% of the shares of the Petersburg shopping and entertainment complex. In addition, Severstal owns a 7% stake in Rossiya Bank, which, in turn, manages the accounts of the metallurgical company.

Name: Aleksei Mordashov Birthday: September 26, 1965 (51 years old) Place of birth: Cherepovets, Vologda region. Weight: 94 kg Height: 182 cm Zodiac sign: Libra Eastern horoscope: Snake Occupation: entrepreneur

Biography of Alexey Mordashov Alexey Alexandrovich Mordashov is the head of the domestic mining and steel giant Severstal, the owner of the mechanical engineering enterprise Power Machines, co-owner of the international gold mining company Nord Gold, the main beneficiary of the leader in the woodworking market, the SVEZA holding. Alexey Alexandrovich Mordashov

His assets include various shares or shares of a number of companies, including Europe's largest tourism concern TUI, Rossiya Bank, National Media Group, T2RTK Holding and others.

Childhood and family of Alexey Mordashov

The future owner of Severstal was born on September 26, 1965 in Cherepovets into a family of metallurgical plant workers.

His father was one of the builders of this largest steel production plant in the world, and later an electrical engineer. Mother worked in the equipment supply department. Alexey Mordashov in childhood Most of his father’s relatives, including his two siblings, lived in the Volga region and were engaged in the national craft of their ancestors - making dishes, toys, and souvenirs from wood. The museum of folk crafts, located in Sergiev Posad, displays wooden bunks made by the billionaire’s ancestors.

Alyosha was a calm, independent and obedient child, and at school he was a responsible and diligent student. Since the sixth grade, he dreamed of becoming an economist-manager. Young Alexey Mordashov

Having received secondary education, in 1982 the young man entered the Leningrad Engineering and Economic Institute, where his teacher, among others, was Anatoly Chubais.

He was one of the leaders of an informal circle and introduced his active student into the company of innovative economists, who became acquainted with the works of Yegor Gaidar with interest.

The young man showed great abilities, was an excellent student, received not just an increased, but the largest Lenin scholarship. In addition, he was a Komsomol leader, a member of the CPSU, energetic, polite, intelligent and pleasant to talk to.

The beginning of the career of Alexei Mordashov After graduating from university in 1988, the young specialist returned to his hometown and began working at the plant, to which his family had dedicated their entire lives.

The future oligarch began as a senior economist, successfully moving up the career ladder. Alexey Mordashov quickly climbed the career ladder. In 1990, he managed to get an internship in Austria, which took place in the city of Linz at the Voestalpine steel mill.

Soon after returning from abroad, he was appointed director of Severstal for economics and finance. Moreover, the candidacy of the promising young manager was then defended by General Director Yuri Lipukhin, despite the fact that the head of the relevant ministry Serafim Kolpakov was categorically against such a decision.

The reason for his hostility towards the protégé of the head of the plant was Alexei’s unsightly fight with the son of an official, who at the same time was interning at an Austrian company with him. However, the 60-year-old head of the plant saw Mordashov, a conscientious, independent, enterprising man who showed respect for him, as his possible successor. He instructed him to organize the privatization of the plant.

For this purpose, Alexey created Siverstal-invest, most of the shares of which belonged to him personally.

Gradually, he bought up ChMK’s securities for common money, retaining a controlling stake (51 percent), and transferred the assets to the newly established Severstal-Garant structure.

As a result, his partner lost the opportunity to influence the development strategy of the enterprise, and Mordashov, having later bought out 49% of his mentor’s shares, became its full owner.

Alexey Mordashov - General Director of OJSC Severstal Many players in the metallurgy market showed interest in the plant in order to survive, as the billionaire himself admitted, his moral qualities have changed - he ceased to be as modest, polite and gentle as in previous years, became cynical and tough.

In 2001, as evidence of his wealth of knowledge and practical experience, he received an MBA (Master of Business Administration) from the British Newcastle Business School of Northumbria University, and also became an honorary doctor in 2003. He was awarded a similar title by his native university, St. Petersburg State University of Economics.

The main mass media of Cherepovets came under his control, and the corporation acquired assets in a variety of areas (mining industry, automotive industry, insurance).

Moreover, not only domestic companies, but also foreign ones, in particular, the American manufacturer Rouge Industries, the Italian Lucchini. Since 2002, the businessman was a member of the Russian-German Intergovernmental Group on Economics and Finance. Since 2004 - in the leadership of the American Institute of East and West. Since 2006 - to the Business Cooperation Council of the Russian Federation and the EU, as well as to many other authoritative organizations.

Personal life of Alexey Mordashov

The owner of Severstal got married for the first time at the age of 19, when he was a 2nd year student at the institute. His chosen one was his 3-year senior, 5th-year student Elena, originally from Irkutsk. Such an early wedding was associated with the “interesting” position of the bride. Alexei Mordashov's first wife Elena Novitskaya

The news of the unexpected marriage of her only son was a real blow to his mother. But, despite this, after the appearance of Ilya’s grandson in 1985, she developed a good relationship with her daughter-in-law.

However, in 1996, the family broke up, according to his wife, due to Alexei’s rapid career growth, a lot of money, the permissiveness that accompanied their appearance and his infidelities.

During the divorce, he left his ex-wife and son an apartment in his hometown, a Nine car, alimony of 1 thousand dollars a month and 6 thousand dollars a year for health improvement.

Later in 2002, the woman tried through the court to obtain a share in the capital of her ex-husband, but to no avail. The court recognized the agreement originally signed between them as legal.

Alexey Mordashov's second wife Elena with children After winning the trial, Mordashov, on his personal initiative, allegedly increased monthly payments to his former family.

However, according to rumors, son Ilya did not want to be Mordashov, but took his mother’s maiden name - Novitskaya.

The oligarch’s second wife was his work colleague Elena, born in 1971, a graduate of the Leningrad Institute of Textile Industry, an economist and an accounting employee at ChMK.

Despite the fact that at the time they met, the financial director of the plant was still married, she could not resist the young, handsome and successful leader and fell in love.

The couple had two sons: Kirill in 1999, Nikita in 2000.

Work comes first for Alexey Mordashov

In 2015, Forbes reported that the billionaire already had a new life partner, whose name is Larisa. True, Alexey Alexandrovich did not officially confirm this information. He allegedly also gave birth to new heirs - at the time of publication, Alexey had six children. The financial tycoon, as befits a man of his status, is interested in painting, winter sports, and loves poetry. Alexey Mordashov today

In 2011, the oligarch received an invitation to the Bilderberg Club, which brings together recognized and most influential representatives of politics, business, and the media.

Alexey Mordashov about the work of Severstal In 2012, he became the first Russian to join the leadership of The World Steel Association, as evidence of recognition among global representatives of the steel industry. In 2015, at a conference held in Chicago, he was re-elected to the organization's executive committee until October 2016. At the same time, he was elected head of the Russian Steel Consortium, which united the enterprises Severstal, Evraz, Mechel, Novolipetsk, Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works and others, which is part of this World Steel Association.

The billionaire is a member of the leadership of the Committee on Russia's accession to the World Trade Organization and reform of domestic customs policy.

Alexey Mordashov in an interview about sanctions In the global ranking of the richest people in the world published by American Forbes, the owner of Severstal took 93rd position in 2016. According to the publication's experts, his fortune in 2015 decreased by $2.1 billion and amounted to $10.9 billion. In 2014, he received 960 million in Severstal dividends alone.

Alexey Mordashov burst into the closed club of Russian oligarchs like a rocket with incredible speed. Shifted from leading positions and. Mordashov was called the “iron boy,” paying tribute to the stranglehold of the “newest oligarch.”

General Director of one of the largest metallurgical enterprises in Russia. Media tycoon who controls the media in the Vologda region. One of the richest people in Russia.

Childhood and youth

Alexey Alexandrovich Mordashov was born on September 26, 1965 in the city of Cherepovets, Vologda region. Nationality Russian. The family of the future oligarch has a centuries-old history of working as “Fedoseevsky wood-toy makers” from the Volga region. The works of the Mordashev family are exhibited at the Museum of Folk Toys in Sergiev Posad.

Alexey's father, Alexander Mordashov, was the only one of the three brothers in the family who did not continue the family business. After graduating from the Gorky Polytechnic Institute, dad worked as an electrical engineer at the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant. Alexey’s mother, Maria Fedorovna, worked there, in the equipment department.

He studied well at school and loved exact sciences. According to former teachers, he is diligent and assiduous. Mordashov was set as an example to other students, for which the guys nicknamed the boy “Template”. After graduating from school, he successfully entered the Leningrad Engineering and Economic Institute. Graduated with honors. I went to lectures taught at the same institute. He remembers the “young reformer” with gratitude about the knowledge he gained about economic mechanisms.

The scientific career of the young graduate was not attractive; he did not enroll in graduate school. Since Mordashov did not have any acquaintances in the Northern capital for patronage for a good job, after graduating from the institute he returned to his native Cherepovets. He went to work at the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant, where his parents’ connections and good name allowed him to take the position of senior economist in the labor organization department.

In 1988, Mordashov left the plant for an internship in Austria for three months. ChMK director Yuri Lipukhin noticed the savvy economist. In 1992, Alexey Mordashov became the plant's financial director. The appointment caused a negative reaction from the workers, but Lipukhin quickly suppressed discontent with his authority.

Severstal

At this time, privatization began in Russia. Lipukhin entrusted Mordashov with the task of dealing with a new unfamiliar phenomenon. The young economist set to work with zeal. He began buying vouchers and shares from factory workers. He was so successful that in the end the management of the plant was left with nothing.

The scheme was simple: they created the Severstal-invest structure (86% of the shares belonged to Mordashov personally), which bought vouchers and shares of the plant from workers. Severstal-Invest earned money to buy shares by reselling metal to the West. Severstal-invest, in turn, bought the metal for pennies from the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant. To make workers more compliant when selling vouchers, the plant did not pay wages for six months. The result of privatization was Mordashov’s ownership of 83% of the shares of the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant.

Former director Lipukhin considers Alexei Mordashov, despite the “virtuoso trick” of his former subordinate, to be a good owner of the plant. Severstal is one of the leaders in ferrous metallurgy.

As General Director of Severstal, Mordashov began reforming the plant. He brought new specialists. Got rid of the ballast of unprofitable enterprises on the balance sheet of Severstal. Reduced the number of employees from 50 to 37 thousand people. I didn’t restore the obsolete one - I closed it. Launched modern technological lines. I followed the demand of the world market. Increased the share of exports.

In December 2004, Severstal bought the Ford steel plant Rouge Industries lnc., which it saved from bankruptcy and returned the production to a strong place in the industry. The Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant, the Izhora Pipe Plant in St. Petersburg, Karelsky Okatysh, and the Olene-Gorsky Mining and Processing Plant were acquired.

Personal life

Alexey Mordashov got married for the first time in his second year at the institute. The reason for the early marriage was the news of the bride's pregnancy. The wife's name was Lena. She was a 5th year student, a native of Irkutsk. In 1985, son Ilya was born. The young family lived a difficult life, the child was sick. Alexey worked part-time at the department and wrote term papers for students.

The marriage broke up in 1996. The reason was Mordashov’s work and frequent betrayals. After the divorce, the wife and son received a three-room apartment in Cherepovets, a car, monthly alimony in the amount of $1,000 and annual $6,000 for health improvement.

In 2002, Elena sued her ex-husband demanding the division of property and the recovery of alimony from Mordashov in the amount of $20 million, considering that this was reasonable compensation for 10 years of family life. There were rumors in the press that Mordashov's business competitors were behind the lawsuit by the oligarch's ex-wife: Iskander Makhmudov and.

The first court decision seized the shares of Severstal; later, due to the intervention of influential officials, the court decision was overturned. Alexey Mordashov was ordered to pay his son alimony in the amount of 10,600 rubles monthly.

Elena Mordashova received a lawsuit to recover court fees in the amount of 213 million 790 thousand rubles. As a penalty, Elena's apartment in Moscow was seized. After the trial, Mordashov stated:

“I will not allow anyone to interfere with production. Shares are not just pieces of paper, they are an opportunity to influence a process on which the lives of thousands of people depend.”

Ilya had no contact with his father for many years. Took my mother's maiden name.

The “Iron King” entered into his second marriage in June 1997 with an economist at the Chelyabinsk plant, also, coincidentally, Elena. Born in 1971, graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Textile Industry. Married to Mordashov, children were born: Kirill (1999) and Nikita (2000).

Alexey Mordashov now

News appeared in the press that Mordashov has a new wife, whose name is Larisa. According to rumors, he already has six children in total. The oligarch himself does not hide:

“Family has never been the main thing for me. I am the person for whom business comes first.”

Alexey Mordashov is a member of the Bolshoi Theater Board of Trustees and leads a public life. Supports sports and does charity work. In June 2016, the President of Russia awarded Alexey Mordashov the insignia “For Good Deeds,” noting his contribution to charity. The document is presented on the official website of legal information.

State

The billionaire from the Vologda region is tight-fisted. He does not own a yacht, flies on a Severstal Yak-40 plane, wears cheap watches by the standards of rich people, and drives a production car. At the same time, as of 2014, Alexey Mordashov ranks 12th in the ranking of the richest businessmen in Russia.

In 2016, he was named the richest man in Russia by Bloomberg.

Serves as CEO and founder of:

• Joint Stock Company "Severstal Management"
• CJSC Severgroup
• LLC "Algorithm"
• LLC "Capital"
• Regul LLC
• LLC "Holding Mining Company"