Alexey Aleksandrovich Mordashov criminal past. The rapid rise of Alexei Mordashov: the history of the creation of a business. And what motivated your ex-wife more - resentment, revenge

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

Vladimir and Natalia Potanin

They have been married for 30 years, but shortly before the celebration of the pearl wedding, Vladimir Potanin announced his intention to divorce his wife. The couple failed to resolve the issue peacefully. Natalya found it insulting her husband's intention to deprive her and her three children of material support. The marriage was annulled in 2014, but litigation over the division of property continued for several more years. Natalya initiated a whole investigation, the purpose 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 recorded in a variety of companies that have nothing to do with Vladimir Potanin.

After the divorce, Natalya Potanina got 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 an attempt to get part of the spouse's savings ended in failure: in 2017, the court refused to satisfy Natalya Potanina's multimillion-dollar lawsuits due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.

Dmitry and Elena Rybolovlev

The billionaire and owner of the Monaco football club has been married to his wife Elena for over 20 years. And in 2008, the wife of the oligarch filed for divorce, the reason for which was, according to her, the pathological infidelity of her husband. The division of property turned out to be loud and not too beautiful. Former spouses were not shy in expressions 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, the value of which was more than half a billion dollars. Dmitry appealed the court decision and as a result, Elena received two properties in Switzerland and 604 million dollars in possession.

Alexey and Elena Mordashov

At the time of his divorce from his first wife, Alexei Mordashov was the chairman of the board of directors of OAO Severstal and offered his wife Elena a very generous compensation at that time: alimony for his 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 a crisis broke out, and the amount of payments for his 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 lawsuit, hoping to get half of the fortune of Alexei Mordashov. Not only did she fail to win the trial, she still owed the state duty 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 for himself and his loved ones a comfortable existence. 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 London mansion with her husband, but lost the most precious thing: her son and daughter. The court decided that the children would be better off with their father.

Daniil Khachaturov and Ulyana Sergeenko

The former chairman of the Rosgosstrakh group of companies was not in vain one of the twenty richest people in Russia. He has already divorced twice, but his ex-wives both times actually remained only with child support. If during the first divorce, Anna's wife agreed to take alimony in one amount and immediately, then the alimony for their common daughter with Ulyana Sergeenko amounted, as required by law, to 25 percent of her father's salary. As a result, deductions amount to about 100 thousand rubles a month. This amount, of course, is not comparable with the income of Dmitry Khachaturov, but according to the terms of the marriage contract, everyone remained in their own interests after the divorce.

Nikolai and Angelica Agurbash

The divorce of the famous singer and the "sausage king" was loud and ugly. The couple publicly sorted out the relationship, proved their own infallibility and exposed the previously beloved person in a very impartial light. Nikolai and Angelica Agurbash lived together for 11 years and from the outside their marriage seemed perfect. However, over time, feelings evaporated somewhere, but mutual grievances began to accumulate. Everyone began to believe that he did good in marriage and what kind of return he received after that. After breaking up with her husband, Angelica Agurbash, in fact, was left with nothing. According to the marriage contract, the property during the divorce went to the one to whom it was issued. Now she receives alimony in the amount of about 250 thousand rubles a 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 once married in the United States, and according to American laws, Ekaterina and her daughter could claim half of the state of the head of the family. The wife was not going to give in to her unfaithful husband, who, without any hesitation, had affairs on the side. Ekaterina Doronina received $10 million as compensation.

Once these couples were called the strongest and set as an example. They lived together for many years, shared joys and sorrows in half, raised children and, perhaps, hoped to be close until the last days. But there came a moment 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 OAO Severstal, General Director of ZAO Severgroup.

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Biography

Member of the Komsomol from 1979 to 1991. In 1988, Alexei 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, at that time a teacher at this institute.

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

In 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 OAO 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, Alexei Mordashov created a subsidiary of Severstal-Invest (24% of which was owned by Severstal, and 76% by Mordashov personally) and then bought up Severstal shares. Having thus obtained control over the enterprise, Mordashov became the director and owner of OAO Severstal.

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 Alexei Mordashov on long-term strategic cooperation in the development of Power Machines. Siemens AG received an equity stake in the company. In 2011 cooperation with Siemens was completed. On December 27, 2011, 25% passed 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.

Status scores

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 assessments of the state:

Ex-wife case

In 2001, the ex-wife of Alexei Mordashov, Elena, published an open “Letter to all women”, in which she told how Mordashov left her and infringed on the material rights of her and their common son. During a divorce in 1996, an apartment in Cherepovets, a VAZ-2109 car and a small amount of money went to the wife and child. 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 was just over 10,000 rubles).

Since 2002, Elena Mordashova tried in court to obtain the right to a share in the property of A. Mordashov. In March 2003, in order to secure the claim of the ex-wife of the oligarch, the Magistrate of St. Petersburg Borodashkina imposed a ban on any transactions with Mordashov's shares, and on April 24, by a court decision, shares of Severstal OJSC, Severstal Invest CJSC were assigned to his ex-wife. ”, CJSC Severstal Garant. The media reported that after that, high-ranking civil servants began to seek the reversal of this decision. Judge Borodashkina was then stripped of her powers for "violating the rules of jurisdiction."

On May 15, 2003, the justice of the peace of the city of Cherepovets collected 213,790,000 rubles of state duty in a lawsuit against Elena Mordashova. Due to her lack of such funds, on May 29, a decision was made to seize an 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 denied E. Mordashova's claim, recognizing the agreements signed earlier as legal.

Awards

• Order of Honor (July 11, 2011) - for a great contribution to the development of the metallurgical industry, labor achievements and many years of conscientious work
• Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" I degree (September 10, 1999) - for services to the state, high achievements in production activities and a 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 Prince Daniel of Moscow III degree (2003)
• Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (2009)
• Laureate of the national business reputation award "Darin" of the Russian Academy of Business and Entrepreneurship in 2002.

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

From 1988 to 1989, he was a 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 the ChMK.

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

Since 1993, he has been the financial director of ChMK (now ChMK has been renamed AO Severstal). Simultaneously 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 an active marketing practice in the metal trade. The company "Severstal-invest" was engaged in the sale of rolled metal, vehicles and weapons, breeding, processing and selling fish, real estate and security and detective activities.

Since March 1996 - Chairman of the Board of OOO "Severstal-Holding" (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 Metkombank (Cherepovets). He was a member of the Council of Metallinvest Bank.

In October 1998, he signed a letter to the US Vice President A. Gore and the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation E. Primakov, four leaders of the largest Russian metallurgical plants against the application of anti-dumping measures to them. Since April 1999, he has been a member of the Council of Issuers under the Federal Securities Commission (FCSM). On June 14, 2000, he signed a letter of guarantee from 17 major Russian entrepreneurs with a request to change the measure of restraint for the arrested V. Gusinsky. Since June 2000, he has been a member of the Board of Directors of ZAO Izhora Pipe Plant, a joint venture of OAO Izhorskiye Zavody and OAO Severstal. 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 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 he received such an offer. 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 later denied this amount), which his ex-wife took advantage of and sued for alimony and the division of jointly acquired property (he paid his wife $ 650 per month for his son).

In August 2001, the ex-wife applied to the Nikulinsky inter-district prosecutor's office in 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 lawsuit, the prosecutor's office secured a 32.5% stake in Severstal. Severstal assumed that the metallurgical holding's competitors, the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Combine and Sibal, were behind this lawsuit. (Company, August 27, 2001)

September 5, 2001 Mordashov for the first time openly stated that "Sibal" wants to "drown" his business. In addition, Mordashov made it clear that his competitor is also behind the "family theme" scandal. (Vremya Novostei, September 6, 2001)

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

Since 2002 - General Director of CJSC "Severstal-Group".

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

On October 29, 2002, a session of the Nikulinskiy District Court of Moscow took place, in which the case on the claim of Elena Mordashova was heard. All of her claims were dismissed.

Since December 2002, he has been a judicial arbitrator at the ethics commission of the RSPP, established to resolve corporate disputes.

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

In December 2003, Rossiya Bank announced that it would place an additional issue of shares worth 30 million rubles. at face value in favor of Aleksey Mordashov's Severstal Group at a price 20 times higher than the face value. Thus, the holding had to pay 600 million rubles. for 9% of the bank's shares with equity capital of 616 million rubles. Rossiya CEO Viktor Myachin explained the high cost of the stake by the fact that when determining the transaction price, "the entry of an outside investor" into the bank's capital and the dynamics of its development were taken into account (assets and capital tripled over the year). Experts consider such an assessment of a minority stake to be completely inadequate.

At the end of June 2005, Aleksey Mordashov's Severstal Group bought out almost a 70% stake in REN TV from RAO UES, in turn, the German media concern RTL Group acquired another 30% stake, which belonged to the family of the founder and CEO of the channel Irena Lesnevskaya . In October, Severstal sold half of its shares in REN TV to Surgutneftegaz.

Changes in the ownership structure also led to administrative changes: instead of Lesnevskaya, Alexander Ordzhonikidze became the new general director. On November 23, A. Ordzhonikidze ordered that two stories be removed from the air of Olga Romanova's program "24 Hours" - 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 in a car) and about the construction of a new chapel on Manezhnaya Square designed by Zurab Tsereteli. December 5, 2005 Romanova filed a letter of resignation from the channel.

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

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

In February 2004, as part of the placement of Eurobonds, OAO Severstal announced that Mordashov controlled 82.75% of Severstal's shares.

Since June 2004 - Member of the Board of Directors of JSB Rossiya (St. Petersburg).

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

Maintains partnership relations with the 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 NRC "Expert Institute" (Director - Evgeny Yasin) at 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.

He was awarded the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" I and II degrees.

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 the first marriage - Ilya, two - from the second: Kirill (born 1999) and Nikita (born 2000).

He is fond of poetry, painting, active winter sports.

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

Last year's example of AFK Sistema showed that the arrival of the company's main owner and well-known businessman as CEO contributes to the success of an IPO. On the eve of the placement of Sistema's shares, its board of directors dismissed the president and appointed the main owner of the company, Vladimir Yevtushenkov, who left the presidency a decade ago, to this post. The owner must bear personal responsibility to investors - this is how Yevtushenkov explained this step. As a result, AFK Sistema and its owner bailed out $1.56 billion for their shares, and this year Yevtushenkov once again ceded the chair of the head of the company to a hired manager. Earlier, 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 as president of the company only six months after his company held an IPO.

Although Mordashov will not have time to become the official CEO of Severstal before the share offering, this decision will certainly be indicated in the memorandum for investors and should please them, according to a top manager of the metallurgical group, which is also preparing for a public offering of shares. After all, a wide range of investors do not know anything 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 - to carry out the operational management of the steel plant in Cherepovets. But who, instead of Mordashov, will head the board of directors of Severstal, Vedomosti failed to find out. Most likely, one of the independent directors, whom Severstal is now looking for, believes one of Mordashov's acquaintances. ("Vedomosti", 21.09.2006)

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 board of directors, whose chairman 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 which block of shares went to IK Abros. But if we take into account that L. Sovershayeva 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 deal, 35% of Ren TV's shares 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 Alexei Germanovich, a representative of Severstal. Most likely, the Severstal company retained a small stake in Ren TV, since it also owns an 18% stake in the TRK Petersburg. In addition, Severstal owns a 7% stake in Bank Rossiya, which, in turn, manages the accounts of the metallurgical company.

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

Aleksey Mordashov’s biography Alexey Aleksandrovich Mordashov is the head of the domestic mining and steel giant Severstal, the owner of the Power Machines machine-building enterprise, co-owner of the international gold mining company Nord Gold, the main beneficiary of the leader in the woodworking market, SVEZA holding. Alexey Alexandrovich Mordashov

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

Childhood and family of Alexei Mordashov

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

His father was one of the builders of this largest steel plant in the world and later an electrical engineer. Mother worked in the equipment supply department. Alexei Mordashov in childhood Most of his father's relatives, including his two siblings, lived in the Trans-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, exhibits wooden horses by the billionaire's ancestors.

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

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

He was one of the leaders of the informal circle and introduced his active student into the company of innovative economists, who got 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 the university in 1988, the young specialist returned to his native city and began his career at the plant, to which his relatives devoted their entire lives.

The future oligarch began as a senior economist, successfully moving up the career ladder. Alexei 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 plant.

Shortly after his return from abroad, he was appointed director of Severstal for economics and finance. Moreover, the candidacy of a promising young manager was then defended by the 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 to the protege of the head of the plant was an unsightly fight between Alexei and the son of an official, who at the same time trained with him in an Austrian company. However, the 60-year-old head of the plant saw his possible successor in the conscientious, independent, enterprising, respectful Mordashov. He instructed him to organize the privatization of the plant.

To this end, Alexey created Siverstal-invest, most of whose shares belonged to him personally.

Gradually, he bought ChMK's securities for the general 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 his full owner.

Alexey Mordashov, General Director of OAO 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 has ceased to be as modest, polite and gentle as in the past, has become cynical and hard.

In 2001, as evidence of his extensive knowledge and practical experience, he received an MBA (Master of Business Administration) degree from the Newcastle British Business School of the University of Northumbria, and since 2003 he has also become its honorary doctorate. A similar title was awarded to him by his native university - St. Petersburg State University of Economics.

Under his control were the main mass media of Cherepovets, and the corporation acquired assets in a variety of areas (mining, automotive, insurance).

Moreover, not only domestic companies, but also foreign ones, in particular, the American manufacturer Rouge Industries, the Italian Lucchini. Since 2002, the businessman has been 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 - in the Business Cooperation Council of the Russian Federation and the EU, as well as in many other authoritative organizations.

Personal life of Alexei Mordashov

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

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

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

During the divorce, he left his ex-wife and son an apartment in his hometown, a Nine car, alimony of $1,000 a month, and $6,000 a year for recovery.

Later in 2002, the woman tried through the courts to obtain a share in the capital of the ex-spouse, but to no avail. The court upheld the agreement originally signed between them.

The second wife of Alexei Mordashov, Elena, with children After winning the trial, Mordashov, on his own initiative, allegedly increased the monthly payments to the former family.

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

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

Despite the fact that at the time of their acquaintance 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: in 1999 - Cyril, in 2000 - Nikita.

Work for Alexei Mordashov in the first place

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

In 2011, the oligarch received an invitation to the Bilderberg Club, which brings together the 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 the world 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 for the accession of the Russian Federation to the World Trade Organization and the 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 the American Forbes, the owner of Severstal in 2016 took 93rd position. According to experts of the publication, his fortune for 2015 decreased by $2.1 billion and amounted to $10.9 billion. In 2014, he received 960 million in dividends from Severstal alone.

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

CEO of one of the largest metallurgical enterprises in Russia. A media tycoon who controls the media in the Vologda Oblast. One of the richest people in Russia.

Childhood and youth

Alexey Aleksandrovich Mordashov was born on September 26, 1965 in the city of Cherepovets, Vologda Region. Nationality Russian. The family of the future oligarch has a century-long history of workers of the “Fedoseevsky woodworkers-toys” from the Volga region. The works of the Mordashev family are exhibited at the Museum of Folk Toys in Sergiev Posad.

Alexei's father, Alexander Mordashov, the only one of the three brothers in the family, did not continue the family business. After graduating from the Gorky Polytechnic Institute, my father worked as an electrical engineer at the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant. In the same place, in the equipment department, Alexei's mother, Maria Fedorovna, worked.

He studied well at school, loved the exact sciences. According to former teachers, diligent and diligent. 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 for the knowledge he gained about economic mechanisms.

The scientific career of the young graduate was not attractive, he did not go to graduate school. Since Mordashov did not have 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 the connections and good name of his parents allowed him to take the place of a senior economist in the labor organization department.

In 1988, Mordashov left the plant for three months for an internship in Austria. The director of ChMK, Yuri Lipukhin, noticed a savvy economist. In 1992, Alexey Mordashov became the financial director of the plant. 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 to deal with a new unfamiliar phenomenon. The young economist set to work with zeal. He busied himself with buying vouchers and shares from factory workers. Yes, he succeeded so much that in the end the management of the plant "was left with a nose."

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

The former director Lipukhin considers Aleksey Mordashov, despite the "virtuoso trick" of the former subordinate, a good owner of the plant. Severstal is one of the leaders in the iron and steel industry.

As General Director of Severstal, Mordashov set about reforming the plant. Brought in new professionals. I got rid of the ballast of unprofitable enterprises that are on the balance sheet of Severstal. Reduced the number of employees from 50 to 37 thousand people. The obsolete did not begin to be restored - closed. Launched modern technological lines. Followed the demand of the world market. Raised the share of exports.

In December 2004, Severstal bought Ford's steel plant Rouge Industries lnc. The Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant, the Izhora Pipe Plant in St. Petersburg, Karelsky Okatysh, and the Olenegorsk Mining and Processing Plant were acquired.

Personal life

The first time Alexey Mordashov married in the second year of 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, the son Ilya was born. The young family lived hard, the child was sick. Alexei worked part-time at the department and wrote term papers for students.

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

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, believing 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 of 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 canceled. Alexei Mordashov was ordered to pay child support in the amount of 10,600 rubles a month to his son.

Elena Mordashova received a lawsuit to recover a court fee 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 the process on which the lives of thousands of people depend.”

Ilya did not come into contact with his father for many years. I took my mother's maiden name.

The Iron King entered into a second marriage in June 1997 with an economist at the Chelyabinsk Combine, also, coincidentally, Elena. Born in 1971, graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Textile Industry. In a marriage with Mordashov, children Cyril (1999) and Nikita (2000) were born.

Alexey Mordashov now

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

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

Alexei Mordashov is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Bolshoi Theater and leads a public life. Supports sports, does charity work. In June 2016, the President of Russia awarded Alexei Mordashov with the distinction "For Benevolence", noting his contribution to charity. The document is presented on the official website of legal information.

State

A billionaire from the Vologda Oblast is a tight-fisted. He does not own a yacht, he flies on a Severstal Yak-40 aircraft, wears cheap watches by the standards of the rich, and drives a serial 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.

Acts as CEO and Founder:

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