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An excellent student and winner of school Olympiads, Oleg Deripaska wanted to devote himself to science and entered the physics department of Moscow State University. His studies had to be interrupted when the young man was sent to serve on the border with China - he later called the army a test of survival. This experience helped him in the 90s, when he had to survive in the aluminum wars. In 1993, Deripaska met the brothers Lev and Mikhail Cherny, who represented the interests of the Trans World Group in Russia, which controlled the largest Russian metallurgical plants. With the help of the Blacks, Deripaska headed the Sayanogorsk aluminum plant, which marked the beginning of his business empire. In 2000, he merged assets with and created the aluminum giant, which seven years later absorbed its only competitor SUAL, and made Deripaska, with a fortune of $28.6 billion, the richest businessman in Russia and “number 9” in the Forbes global ranking. At the same time, Deripaska wanted to merge Rusal with MMC "" and create global company, producing aluminum, nickel and platinum, but failed: the cards were confused by the crisis, huge debts and a corporate war with the head of Norilsk Nickel.
Rusal still forms the basis of the businessman’s fortune. The aluminum producer, together with Deripaska's energy companies, is part of the En+ Group holding, valued at $8 billion during an IPO on the London Stock Exchange in November 2017. About 6% of En+ Group then belonged to Polina Deripaska, the wife of a businessman and daughter of Valentin Yumashev, son-in-law of Boris Yeltsin. Through the Basic Element holding, Oleg Deripaska also owns the GAZ group, the insurance company Ingosstrakh, the Austrian construction company Strabag, the Basel Aero group (manages airports in Krasnodar region) and the Kuban agricultural holding.
In the early 1990s became the financial director of Military Investment and Trading Company LLP, which was engaged in trading on the commodity exchange.
Sanctions In April 2018, the sanctions division of the US Treasury Department (OFAC) imposed sanctions against Deripaska and his key companies. In December, the businessman managed to negotiate the lifting of sanctions with En+, UC Rusal and Eurosibenergo. OFAC's main condition was to reduce Deripaska's stake in En+ from almost 70% to 44.95%. Deripaska transferred the bulk of the shares, about 14.4% VTB Bank, another 3.42% - to minor children Peter and Mary.
Capital En+ Holding (combines assets in the electric power industry and a stake in UC Rusal). Deripaska also controls the GAZ Group (automobiles), Ingosstrakh (finance), Basel Aero (airports in the Krasnodar region) and the Kuban agricultural holding (agriculture).
Deal In November 2017, En+ held the largest Russian IPO in the last five years in London, selling depositary receipts for $1.5 billion. The holding was valued at $8 billion.
Conflict In February 2018, UC Rusal challenged Supreme Court London sale of Roman Abramovich's Crispian Investments (No. 11) 4% of MMC Norilsk Nickel to the structures of Vladimir Potanin (No. 6). Then the parties came to an amicable agreement, agreeing to buy back Norilsk Nickel shares from Abramovich in proportion to their current shares in MMC.
Deal In May 2016, Eurosibenergo bought 40% of Irkutskenergo from the state holding Inter RAO for 70 billion rubles.
Charity Under the terms of the deal with OFAC, 3.22% of En+ shares were transferred charitable foundation Deripaska’s “Volnoe Delo”, which over the past 10 years has allocated 4.5 billion rubles to finance projects in the field of education and culture.
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The US Treasury will declassify the grounds for sanctions against Deripaska
The US Treasury will declassify materials that served as the basis for imposing sanctions against Deripaska. The businessman is challenging the restrictions in court. Earlier, the Ministry of Finance disclosed that it referred to media materials. The billionaire sued three publications in the Krasnodar TerritoryFamily
Deripaska's parents were from Kuban. He grew up without his father, who died when Oleg was only a year old.
In 2001, Deripaska married Polina Yumasheva, daughters Valentina Yumasheva. (This former journalist was one of the most influential figures in Russian politics in the late 1990s. Having started his career by writing Yeltsin's memoirs, he became friends with youngest daughter President Yeltsin Tatiana Dyachenko(later became her husband).
He has two children - Peter (2001) and Maria (2003).
Biography
From four to nine years old he lived with his mother’s parents, then with his father’s parents in the Zhelezny and Oktyabrsky farmsteads of the Ust-Labinsk region Krasnodar region, went to a village school.
At the age of 11, Deripaska moved to his mother in Ust-Labinsk.
In 1985, Deripaska graduated from Ust-Labinsk secondary school No. 2.
In 1985 he entered the Faculty of Physics Moscow state university (Moscow State University) them. M. V. Lomonosov, to the department of quantum statistics and field theory.
According to fellow students, Deripaska was a very active young man, one of those guys who, even at university, sensed that they didn’t have to wait to receive a diploma, but start making money right now.
Oleg Deripaska began to actively engage in speculation. There are still rumors about the deal, when Deripaska sold tens of tons of sugar to some government organization and ended up with a fabulous win.
From March 1986 to March 1988 took place conscript service in parts Missile Forces strategic purpose(Strategic Missile Forces) in the Transbaikal Military District. He graduated from service as a senior sergeant.
In 1993, Deripaska graduated from the physics department of Moscow State University with honors.
Already in his final years at university, Oleg Deripaska became the financial director of a certain LLP "Military Finance and Investment Company", then worked in the securities department State Bank of the USSR.
The key for Oleg Deripaska was acquaintance with brothers Cherny- Lev and Mikhail. Literally every Russian media outlet wrote about their connections with crime.
At that time, the Cherny brothers, owners of the company Trans World Group, belonged to the most delicious production of ferrous and non-ferrous metallurgy in Russia. If it were not for tolling (that was the name of the scheme used by TWG), then in 1994 the export revenue of aluminum smelters would have exceeded $3.3 billion. In reality, it amounted to at most 40% of this amount - all profits ended up in TWG offshores.
Acquaintance Mikhail Cherny and Oleg Deripaska took place in 1993. According to Cherny, he was impressed by the assertiveness of the young businessman. Cherny decided to help Deripaska become CEO Sayanogorsk aluminum smelter(SaAZ). Deripaska, as a partner of Cherny and TWG, began purchasing shares from workers and other shareholders of SaAZ.
In 1994, 26-year-old Deripaska became director of SaAZ.
In 1996, Deripaska graduated Academy National economy them. Plekhanov.
In the summer of 1996, Deripaska signed a protocol on the creation of TN FIG ("Transnational Financial and Industrial Group") "Siberian Aluminum".
In 1997, he initiated the creation of the first vertically integrated industrial company in the post-Soviet space - the Siberian Aluminum group (in 2001 renamed the company "Basic Element"), the core of which was the Sayanogorsk aluminum smelter. Subsequently, it united a number of leading enterprises of the Russian aluminum complex, producing a variety of products from aluminum and its alloys.
In 1997, Deripaska severed all relations with Trans-World. In order to attract resources for further development and modernization of the plant in April-May 1998, an additional issue of shares of the plant was carried out. All shares of the additional issue were purchased "Aluminproduct" and its associated companies. After the victory of "Aluminproduct" at commercial competition Following the sale of part of the state stake in the plant in September 1998, the company's share in SaAZ increased to 76%.
In 1998 he founded "Free Deal"- a fund that has become a very large Russian private charitable organization. According to the charter of this foundation, it is financed by Deripaska’s personal funds and during its existence it has conducted more than four hundred charitable programs. Volnoye Delo's assets include support for the Mariinsky and Bolshoi theaters, the Hermitage, universities in Moscow and St. Petersburg, monasteries and educational centers in several dozen Russian regions.
At the end of 1999, Deripaska began to create his own media holding - LLC "Mediaresursholding". He also contributed to the creation of a daily newspaper "News Time".
In May 2001, Deripaska participated in negotiations on the creation of a television company "Siberia TV".
On May 22, 2002, the first issue of shares was registered CJSC "Sixth Channel". The founders of the company were formed by a team of journalists Evgenia Kiseleva OOO "TV-6" and 12 private investors, including Oleg Deripaska. According to Deripaska himself, in the media his " I’m interested in two points - product advertising and a guaranteed opportunity to express my point of view".
In 2000, Oleg Deripaska was appointed CEO of the company "Russian aluminum" (RUSAL), which included aluminum and alumina plants of the companies "Siberian Aluminum" and "Sibneft".
By the end of 2001, he registered a new investment company called "Basic element". Currently, this company occupies a leading position in the Russian market in capital management.
Among the assets of the Basic Element group: En+ Group, Russian Machines - a machine-building holding, which includes GAZ Group- one of the largest automakers in Russia; "Ingosstrakh"- the oldest in the country Insurance Company, one of the leaders in the insurance market; Glavstroy- a construction holding that unites leading companies in the Russian construction market, development and enterprises producing building materials; Bank "Soyuz"; airport holding "Basel Aero"; agro-industrial company "AgroHolding Kuban".
In 2007, as a result of the merger of the aluminum and alumina assets of the RUSAL Company, which ranked third in the world in aluminum production, the SUAL Group, one of the ten leading global aluminum producers, and the alumina assets of the Swiss company Glencore, the United Company was created "Russian aluminum"- the world's largest producer of aluminum and alumina. Deripaska is a member of the Board of Directors and CEO of RUSAL.
In 2008, RUSAL acquired a blocking stake MMC "Norilsk Nickel".
In June 2012, Basic Element, Sberbank of Russia and Changi Airports International created a joint venture to manage airports in southern Russia "Basel Aero", which included airports in Sochi, Krasnodar, Gelendzhik and Anapa.
In 2013, the structures of "Basic Element" completed construction Olympic venues in Sochi. The group's total investments in these projects exceeded 45 billion rubles. Among them: the port of Sochi Imereti at the mouth of the Mzymta River; reconstruction and modernization of Sochi International Airport; Imeretinsky resort area in the Adler district of Sochi, including the construction of the Olympic village, the construction of hotels, and the creation of a tourist area.
In 2014, Oleg Deripaska received the order "For services to the Fatherland" from the hands of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin.
In November 2014, Deripaska left the post of general director of RusAl and took over the post of president of the company (such a position did not exist previously). The position of CEO of RUSAL is now occupied by Vladislav Soloviev. Previously, he held the position of Deputy General Director.
In 2014 he was awarded Order of Alexander Nevsky.
In 2014, Oleg Deripaska was awarded the title of laureate of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation "Patron of the Year of Culture".
Policy
During the election campaign in State Duma second convocation in 1995, Deripaska provided financial support(LDPR), as well as nominated to the State Duma in Khakassia Alexey Lebed.
In 1996, according to media reports, Deripaska contributed to the election of Lebed as head of Khakassia. After the inauguration, Governor Lebed recruited representatives of SAZ to work in the government of the republic and began to listen to his opinion general director.
According to some reports, trying to dislodge influence in Krasnoyarsk region MMC-Norilsk Nickel, RUSAL not only supported the elections, but also acted as the main sponsor of the election campaign in 2015 - in the regions of the region.
In addition to contributing to the general pot of the party, significant sums of aluminum workers are donated locally - to support the party in power in the territories where RUSAL is present, for example, in Achinsk. "United Russia"has received a resource and is conducting an expensive PR campaign for its candidates for the Achinsk City Council: for financial support for Rusalovsky Ilay Akhmetov the retention of the post of mayor is guaranteed, as well as 5-year loyalty to the Achinsk Alumina Refinery on the part of United Russia deputies. At the regional level, the election situation is managed by the first deputy governor Sergey Ponomarenko. In Achinsk, a political strategist is responsible for the Rusal-United Russia campaign Victor Poturemsky.
Sources claim that the election activity of RUSAL in 2014 and 2015 is not necessary measure, which Oleg Deripaska went to in order to preserve existing political positions in the region. Strengthening RUSAL in the Krasnoyarsk Territory is a new strategic plan financial and industrial group. RUSAL will compete for seats in the regional parliament in the 2016 elections.
Income
In 2013, Deripaska's fortune was estimated at $8.5 billion, he took 16th place in the list of 200 richest businessmen Russia and 131 in the world (according to Forbes magazine).
With a personal fortune of $6.2 billion, in 2015 he took 17th place in the list of the 200 richest businessmen in Russia. In the world ranking of billionaires (according to Forbes magazine) at the end of 2014, he occupied 230th place, maintaining this position as of April 16, 2015.
Scandals (rumors)
The press wrote that in 1994, Deripaska spent the night at SaAZ not only because he was studying documents. It was dangerous to go out into the city - I had my eye on the plant Vladimir Tatarenkov(better known by the nickname Tatar), who saw a completely different person in the director’s chair.
In 1995, Tatar almost killed Deripaska. The car in which the director of SaAZ together with Bosov And Lisin I was driving from Sayanogorsk to Achinsk for a meeting of shareholders of an alumina refinery; grenade launchers were waiting on the road. The future participants of the “Golden Hundred” were saved by a miracle: at the last moment Bykov found out about the ambush (as Bosov tells it from his words) and allegedly ordered everything to be cancelled. The Tatar was forced to submit.
In addition to Tatarin, Deripaska was harassed by local authorities. Veniamin Striga, the head of a local television channel and at one time the representative of the President of the Russian Federation in Khakassia, was forced to go abroad. “They tried to kidnap and kill my client,” said Striga’s lawyer Yuri Orekhov. “The Deripaska group will not give a chance to a civilized court,” Striga said in an interview with Forbes.
It was Striga who launched the story into wide circulation about how Deripaska, in the first days of his directorship, walked around the SaAZ workshops in training pants with his knees stretched out and identified points of sale of alcohol. Attacks from Striga greatly irritated Deripaska, recalls one of the Rusal employees.
In 2003, Striga, who had moved to Moscow, published another incriminating article about the aluminum magnate on his website, after which the Khakass police opened a criminal case against the author. The Khakass riot police unit, which came to the capital to arrest Striga, left with nothing: Deripaska’s personal enemy had left the country by that time.
In the late 1990s, there were rumors that Deripaska had fully or partially bought the network "Gazeta.Ru"- one of the sites created once by the Effective Policy Foundation Gleb Pavlovsky, as well as a newspaper "Stringer", previously owned Alexander Korzhakov. Among the publications allegedly controlled by Deripaska, they also named the newspaper "Abroad".
According to a former Rusal employee, in 2001 Vladimir Putin visited Deripaska's farmstead in a picturesque corner of Khakassia, on the waterfalls, a few kilometers from Sayanogorsk (Dyachenko and Yumashev had been there several times before Putin). Since then, Deripaska has visited Putin in the Kremlin several times. One can only guess about the content of their conversations, but the fact remains that Deripaska quickly accepted the new rules of the game.
The scandal with Deripaska occurred in early 2001, when he decided to create timber industry holding. For this, Deripaska needed the archives of the Arkhangelsk Pulp and Paper Mill and a number of other enterprises. By 2003, he already owned the Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill, the Selenga Pulp and Paper Mill, the Arkhangelsk Timber Mill No. 2, the Omsk Cardboard Factory, the Luzsky Wood Processing Plant and several enterprises in Karelia.
Owners Arkhangelsk Pulp and Paper Mill refused to sell shares to Deripaska. Then he used one of the raider techniques - lawsuits from minority shareholders. Key shareholder Vladimir Krupchak tried to find support in the fight against Deripaska from Vladimir Kogan, St. Petersburg banker and friend of Vladimir Putin.
But after Kogan ended up with 20% of the shares of the Arkhangelsk Central Clinical Hospital, Kogan began to act in the interests of Deripaska. Subsequently, Oleg Deripaska used administrative and power resources in the fight against the intractable Krupchak. The latter was first recalled from the State Duma, and after Deripaska initiated the initiation of a criminal case against Krupchak under Art. 160 part 3 (theft on an especially large scale).
Scandalous in 2001 famous journalist Paul Khlebnikov published an article about an informal agreement between Oleg Deripaska and Vladimir Putin. According to Klebnikov, Putin promised Deripaska to turn a blind eye to his criminal past in exchange for a promise not to participate in politics and to invest money in the needs of the state. Klebnikov suggested that Putin was going to turn a blind eye to several years of “bloody chaos” in the aluminum sector. Khlebnikov wrote that “while the smoke from the next shot was clearing, dozens of ordinary performers, bankers, businessmen, mafia bosses managed to go to the next world.” In 2004, Paul Klebnikov was killed.
In February 2002, a number of negative materials appeared in the media in which the name of Oleg Deripaska was mentioned in connection with the organization of the raider takeover Bratsk LPK. Representatives of Basic Element filed a lawsuit for the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation.
In 2003, foreign media published information accusing Deripaska of having connections with criminal organizations. In particular, they said that Oleg Deripaska's company RUSAL is actually in the sphere of influence of Mikhail Cherny. The latter was accused by Western services of committing crimes, drug trafficking and money laundering. Journalists claimed that in 1996, when the name of Mikhail Chernoy was tarnished by many crimes, Chernoy introduced Deripaska into the business, who, in fact, became his protégé. In 1992, Deripaska and Chernoy registered the Aluminproduct company in Moscow, which bought shares in an aluminum production plant in Sayansk. Deripaska became the head of the plant.
In March 2006, the New Region newspaper published a transcript of a conversation in which the voices allegedly belonged to Oleg Deripaska and the ex-Prime Minister. From the dialogue it becomes clear that Kasyanov is asking Deripaska for money for his election campaign to the State Duma, for the creation of a united opposition. At the same time, Kasyanov refers to the support of his interests in the West, but at the same time to the lack of investment immediately before the elections. Deripaska promises to give money, provided that it is channeled through Western banks.
Another scandal involving Deripaska's name broke out in the United States over his contacts with a presidential candidate, senator from Arizona. John McCain. In the United States, Deripaska was suspected of having connections with organized crime in Russia, which is why he was even denied an American visa. Deripaska met with McCain in 2006 in Switzerland during an international economic forum in Davos. He offered to assist McCain in the planned business transaction.
In 2007, an article was published on the Favorites website with the history of the beginning of Oleg Deripaska’s career. It said that Deripaska, thanks to the support of Mikhail Cherny, was making plans to take over shares of the Krasnoyarsk Aluminum Plant, but the shareholders did not agree to sell the shares. In 1995, three high-profile murders were committed - the deputy director of the plant Vadim Yafyasova, President of Bank "Ugoria" Oleg Kantor and the head of AIOC Felix Lvov.
As a result, KAZ became controlled by Deripaska. Publications in the foreign press are associated with these same events, when several trading companies working with Novokuznetsk aluminum smelter(NkAZ), filed a lawsuit in a New York court against Oleg Deripaska and Mikhail Cherny demanding compensation of $2.7 billion. Deripaska and Cherny were accused of a raider takeover of NkAZ, which involved extortion, bribes, and harassment of the head of the NkAZ management company MIKOM Mikhail Zhivilo and the murder of his colleague Felix Lvov.
In 2009, Deripaska found himself at the center of a scandal surrounding a single-industry town. Pikalevo. After the Baselcement-Pikalevo enterprise owned by him for a long time could not agree on the supply of raw materials and actually stopped its work, the residents of Pikalevo blocked the federal highway Vologda-Novaya Ladoga. Prime Minister Vladimir Putin was forced to resolve the issue. He publicly forced Oleg Deripaska to sign a contract with the CEO of the holding "PhosAgro" Maxim Volkov, after which the situation was resolved.
In the fall of 2009, Spanish law enforcement agencies raised suspicions of money laundering against Oleg Deripaska. According to the Spanish police, in 2001–2004, Deripaska “drove” four million euros through the Spanish accounts of the Russian mafia. However, no official charges were brought against the businessman, and the high-profile investigation ended in nothing for lack of evidence.
In January 2010, the Vedomosti newspaper published material in which journalists accused Putin of violating Russia’s obligations as one of the signatories of the Convention on world heritage UNESCO, for the sake of the interests of Oleg Deripaska. The Baikal Pulp and Paper Mill, owned by Deripaska, was allowed to discharge wastewater V Lake Baikal. To achieve this, Vladimir Putin instructed to change the list of activities prohibited in the central ecological zone Baikal natural area. In this regard, the plant now has the right to produce bleached cellulose, which Lately increased in price by 40%, but when released it produces a huge amount of environmentally harmful chemicals.
This is not the first such unlawful decision by Putin in the interests of Derepaska. In the same way, with the personal participation of Vladimir Putin, another enterprise of Oleg Deripaska, the Pikalevsky Alumina Refinery, was allowed to produce harmful emissions into the atmosphere. Deripaska's interests are supported by the Russian government in all areas of the oligarch's business.
For example, Rusal received from VEB anti-crisis loan of $4.5 billion - in connection with this, it was necessary to issue a special permit to exceed the limits for one borrower. Loan repurchased Sberbank and will be extended until 2013. In addition, VEB is also buying shares of Rusal at the IPO.
Place of Birth. Education. Born in Dzerzhinsk, Nizhny Novgorod region (Russia). In 1993 he graduated from the Faculty of Physics of M. Lomonosov Moscow State University. In 1996 - Russian Economic Academy named after G. Plekhanov.
Career. After graduating from university, Oleg Deripaska organized a small metal trading business, almost all of the profits from which were used to purchase shares in the Sayanogorsk aluminum smelter (Republic of Khakassia), according to the entrepreneur’s biography posted on the Basic Element website. According to other sources, even in his final years at the university, he became the financial director of the Military Financial and Investment Company LLP.
In 1994, 26-year-old Oleg Deripaska became the general director of the Sayanogorsk aluminum smelter. Under his leadership, the third largest electrolysis plant in Russia became the best in the industry in terms of such indicators as profitability, technological level, product quality, and environmental safety.
In 1997, he initiated the creation of the first vertically integrated industrial company in the post-Soviet space - the Siberian Aluminum Group (renamed Basic Element in 2001), the core of which was the Sayanogorsk Aluminum Plant. Subsequently, the company united a number of leading enterprises of the Russian aluminum complex, producing a variety of products from aluminum and its alloys - from rolled products and semi-finished products to complex architectural structures, components for the aerospace, automotive and shipbuilding industries. Three years after its formation, the Siberian Aluminum Group entered the top ten global manufacturers of aluminum products.
In 2000, Oleg Deripaska became the general director of the Russian Aluminum company (RUSAL), which included aluminum and alumina plants of the Siberian Aluminum and Sibneft companies. In 2007, the aluminum and alumina assets of RUSAL, which ranked third in the world in aluminum production, merged with the SUAL Group, one of the world's top ten aluminum producers, and the alumina assets of the Swiss company Glencore. As a result, the United Company "Russian Aluminum", in which Deripaska headed the supervisory board, became the world's largest producer of aluminum and alumina.
The United Company RUSAL is the second largest aluminum producer in the world. Its share in the world production of primary aluminum is 7%, the share of alumina is also 7% of the world production. On March 15, 2018, the post of president of Rusal was replaced by the general director of the company, Vladislav Solovyov, instead of Deripaska, who also became the general director of En+ Group. Oleg Deripaska is the main shareholder of En+ Group.En+ Group is an industrial group that unites companies operating in the energy sector, non-ferrous metallurgy and mining industry, as well as strategically related industries.
The basic element of an oligarch. The main diamond in the billionaire's crown is the diversified investment company with assets in Russia and abroad, Basic Element, in which he serves as chairman of the supervisory board. The company's main assets are concentrated in six sectors - energy, resources, construction, engineering, financial services, and aviation. In 2006, the consolidated revenue of the group's enterprises amounted to more than $18 billion. The market value of assets, according to data published on the company's website, is estimated at more than $23 billion. The total number of employees is about 300 thousand people.
The portfolio of Basic Element, along with Russian Aluminum, includes the GAZ Group (the second largest automaker in Russia), Ingosstrakh (the oldest and largest insurance company in the Russian Federation), Eurosibenergo (manages the assets of the two largest energy producers in Siberia ), "Glavmosstroy" (the largest construction holding in Moscow and the Moscow region), Bank "Soyuz" (among the 30 largest Russian banks by assets) etc.
Interests in Ukraine. OK "Russian Aluminum" is a co-owner of OJSC "Nikolaev Alumina Refinery" (NGZ). Control is exercised through the subsidiary company Aluminum of Ukraine, which in 2000 acquired a 30% stake in OJSC NGZ. Since that moment, Russian Aluminum, according to the company’s management, has invested more than $180 million in the development of the Nikolaev enterprise.
At the end of 2007, the Russian Basic Element, the Ukrainian group Development Construction Holding and the Austrian concern Strabag SE created the diversified construction holding Strabag Ukraine. Specialization new structure will be the construction of infrastructure facilities (especially in light of Ukraine’s preparation for Euro 2012).
State. If recently the ratings of the richest Russians were headed by the governor of Chukotka and the owner of the London football club Chelsea, then in 2008 Oleg Deripaska took over the championship. Thus, according to the Russian and American versions of Forbes magazine, at the end of 2007, the fortune of the co-owner of Russian Aluminum reached almost $28.6 billion, exceeding the previous year’s figure by $12 billion. At the same time, a representative of the billionaire’s office called the estimate seriously inflated. Roman Abramovich, according to the Forbes rating, gave out $24.3 billion.
According to the publication, the richest Ukrainian has $7.3 billion (127th place in the world ranking). Thus, Oleg Deripaska turned out to be almost four times richer than the Donetsk businessman. His fortune also exceeded the total assets of the top ten richest Ukrainians, who together managed to scrape together barely $22 billion.
As of January 2018 Deripaska was in the rating according to the magazine Forbes is in 247th place with a fortune of $7.1 billion.
Sanctions. April 62018 included in the list of sanctionsUSAincluding 17 government members and 7 businessmen from Russia. The stock price of Deripaska's companies fell sharply (the Russian ruble also fell).Deripaska announced that one of his main companies, Rusal, may default.In just a few days, the billionaire lost about 20% of his fortune - $1.6 billion.
Views and assessments.“There is nothing better than RUSAL in our country... There are several good companies in the world, but they also have their own problems,” says O. Deripaska.
Social activity. Oleg Deripaska - Vice President Russian Union industrialists and entrepreneurs, Chairman of the Board of the Russian National Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce, member of the Council on Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship under the Government of the Russian Federation. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Assistance Fund national science, State Academic Bolshoi Theater, business schools of Moscow and St. Petersburg State Universities.
By order of the President of the Russian Federation, he was appointed as the representative of Russia in the Business Advisory Council of the Asia-Pacific Forum economic cooperation"Since 2007 - Chairman of the Russian part of this Council.
Regalia. Awarded the Order of Friendship. Based on the results of 1999, 2006 and 2007. newspaper "Vedomosti", published by "The Wall Street Journal" and " Financial Times", declared "Entrepreneur of the Year".
Family. The billionaire is married. His wife Polina is the daughter of Valentin Yumashev, ex-head of the Russian Presidential Administration, and the stepdaughter of Tatyana Dyachenko, daughter of the first Russian president. The couple has two children.
The biography of Oleg Deripaska is a series of unusual reincarnations. A mathematician and physicist by vocation easily masters the intricacies of world business, an orphan becomes a benefactor for many disadvantaged people, a boy from an inconspicuous Soviet family without cronyism becomes famous person and a billionaire.
The photo of the oligarch on the pages of the prestigious Forbes magazine was three times accompanied by number 1 in the ranking of the two hundred richest Russians. The influence of the "Basic Element" he created extends to almost all major industries. The number of employees and workers of enterprises controlled by the businessman reaches 200 thousand people.
The first years of the oligarch’s life cannot be called rosy. The future aluminum king was born on January 2, 1968. His homeland was Dzerzhinsk, located near a large regional center- the city of Gorky, which subsequently returned its old name - Nizhny Novgorod. A year later, the family’s joy was overshadowed by tragic events. The sudden death of Oleg's father left him an orphan.
In order to provide her son with everything necessary, in 1975 the boy’s mother, Valentina Petrovna, was forced to place the child in the care of her parents. For four years, the boy was under the supervision of his grandparents, who ran a small farm in the Krasnodar region. This period in Deripaska’s biography was not wasted. Participating in agricultural work, he early years developed discipline and hard work. The boy received his first knowledge at a local rural school.
Oleg Vladimirovich Deripaska
The next stage for Oleg was Ust-Labinsk school No. 2, where he continued his studies from 1979 to 1985. In this institution, Deripaska was known as an exemplary student. The well-read boy easily mastered subjects, among which he especially stood out in mathematics and physics. His level of knowledge allowed him to participate and win competitions and solve problems for high school students.
In an effort to make life easier for his mother, who had to constantly work to support her family, Oleg began working at the age of 11, performing the duties of an electrician’s assistant at one of the local enterprises. Confidently comprehending science. Oleg Deripaska was not a “crammer” and did not alienate himself from the interests of his peers. He was involved in many sports and although he often showed promise, none of them brought him to the rank of professional.
OLEG DERIPASKA'S GRADUATE SCHOOL CERTIFICATE INCLUDED ONLY ONE FOUR IN LITERATURE, WHICH DID NOT ALLOW HIM TO REACH THE GOLD MEDAL.
Education
Successful completion of school and a decent set of knowledge opened the way for the young man to a prestigious university. In 1985, Deripaska became a student at Moscow State University, where he was enrolled in the physics department. In 1986, in connection with the call for military service, Oleg has to interrupt his course at the university. It takes two years to protect the peaceful skies of the USSR (Deripaska served in the Strategic Missile Forces in Transbaikalia).
Now the oligarch often claims that the army was a third university for him. Here he honed his leadership traits and, according to some sources, tried his hand at business for the first time. After demobilization, Deripaska continued his studies at the same university and successfully graduated in 1993. After 3 years, one more thing is added to Oleg’s knowledge bank higher education, received at the Russian Economic Academy named after. Plekhanov.
Career and business of Oleg Deripaska
The collapse of the USSR and the “turbulent” 90s made their own adjustments to the fate of the newly minted physicist. The ability to quickly respond to the current situation and the concept that a scientist cannot get a decent salary lead Deripaska into the world of entrepreneurship. In 1990, he created the Military Investment and Trade Company (later Aluminproduct). The organization specializes in metal supplies and is listed as a broker on the main commodity exchanges of Russia.
In profitable trading, preference is given to foreign representatives, and the target of the planned campaign is the Sayanogorsk aluminum smelter. Having received a majority stake in this enterprise, Deripaska entered into a partnership with the brothers Ruben and Cherny, representing TWG. In 1994, the young businessman took the post of general director of the enterprise.
After 3 years, Oleg Vladimirovich got rid of the influence of Trans World Group and by 1998 his Aluminproduct owned more than three-quarters of the shares of the aluminum smelter. At the same time, the Siberian Aluminum industrial group was formed. The merger of this organization with Sibneft in 2000 ensures the creation of Rusal, which is headed by Oleg Deripaska.
In 2001, the group owned by the businessman was renamed “Basic Element”, where he holds the post of CEO. Deripaska’s active work allows the “Russian Aluminum” he created to control a third of everything mined by 2007. world of lung metal After acquiring a controlling stake in Norilsk Nickel, the company becomes the world leader in this segment and maintains the first position until 2015.
In 2007, Deripaska’s organization expanded through the formation of the Basel Aero company, which manages the largest airports in the Russian Federation. The creation of the En+ holding provides Basic Element with a share in the Russian energy sector, Ingosstrakh gives the opportunity to work in financial sector, the Kuban holding allows you to control agriculture, and the GAZ group provides significant profits in the automotive industry. In addition, the businessman’s empire extends to the construction and engineering industries.
Possessing such assets and having significant influence on the country's economy, Oleg Deripaska could not stay away from political activities. Since 2007, he, as a representative Russian Federation, is a member of the Business Council of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Forum.
Oleg Deripaska's net worth
The main assets of one of the richest Russians are concentrated in the financial and industrial group Basic Element. The dynamics of Oleg Deripaska’s enrichment are reflected in the data provided by Forbes magazine (years - $, billion / place in the Russian Federation / world ranking):
- 2007 – 13,3/6/-;
- 2008 – 28/1/9;
- 2009 – 3,5/10;
- 2010 – 10,7/5/164;
- 2011 – 16,8/6/40;
- 2012 – 8,8/14/-;
- 2013 – 8,5/16/131;
- 2014 – 6,2/20/230;
- 2015 – 6,2/17/230;
- 2016 – 2,1/41/315;
- 2017 – 5,1/23/315;
- 2018 – 6,7/19/-.
The April 2018 sanctions imposed by the United States on Russian companies, as well as the “aluminum war”, hit the businessman’s wallet hard. Rusal alone lost about $1.8 billion during these events. According to latest information, as of June 2018, Oleg Deripaska’s fortune decreased to $3.5 billion.
As a talented mathematician, Deripaska calculated in advance the danger threatening his property. In anticipation of the sanctions, the businessman transferred Terra Services (an English real estate company) in favor of his mother. She and the oligarch's cousin got houses and a complex in France, the cost of which is measured in hundreds of millions of dollars.
According to unconfirmed reports, the billionaire remains the owner of the luxurious villa Walkirie, located on the island of Sardinia and valued at $2.5 million, as well as a mansion in the US capital worth $15 million.
The oligarch owns a luxury yacht made of aluminum alloy. The seventy-two-meter Quenn K is capable of carrying 18 guests over a distance of 5 thousand miles. The price of the vessel is €80 million.
Until recently, Oleg Deripaska was considered the owner of three private jets, but American sanctions in 2018 forced the businessman to put them up for sale.
Private life of Oleg Deripaska
In the biography of a billionaire, personal life is inextricably linked with business and the people around him. In 2001, the oligarch started a family. His choice fell on Polina Yumasheva. The wedding of her father with the daughter of Boris Yeltsin allowed Oleg Vladimirovich to become related to the former president of Russia.
The family raised two children. The son, born in 2001, was named Peter. Now he is studying science in the UK. Daughter Masha, who turned 15 in 2018, is also receiving an English education. Photos and videos of the girl can be seen on social networks, where she, together with Boris Yeltsin’s granddaughter, is relaxing on her father’s yacht.
The oligarch's main hobby is collecting objects. Japanese art. He is a passionate fan of Japanese culture and cuisine.
Polina Yumasheva Oleg Deripaska is active social life and participates in an international program to prevent global warming. The billionaire is the founder of the Volnoye Delo foundation. The organization is engaged in charity and patronage. It has more than five hundred implemented programs, including support for culture, health care, development of science, protection environment etc. Oleg Deripaska spent more than 10 billion rubles on charity.
For his activities, the oligarch was awarded high state, departmental and public awards.
Oleg Deripaska today
Now Oleg Vladimirovich has to wage an active struggle in order to preserve his assets and enterprises. The results of the confrontation between Deripaska and the United States Ministry of Finance can seriously affect not only the entrepreneur’s capital, but also all Russian citizens, since the fate of the En+ Group, which is directly related to electricity prices for the average consumer, is at stake.
Sanctions forced the billionaire to resign as head of Rusal. Having lost the American markets, the oligarch's enterprise is reoriented to the East. An example of this is the recent jump in the aluminum giant's quotes on the Hong Kong stock exchange.
In addition, Deripaska intends to get rid of his shares in Russian Machines.
Oleg Deripaska is an entrepreneur and philanthropist, the founder of the Basic Element industrial group and the Volnoe Delo foundation, Russia’s largest organization in the field of charity, social projects and volunteering.
Early childhood
Deripaska was born in 1968 in the Nizhny Novgorod region, but at the age of four he moved to Kuban, where his grandparents lived. He grew up in the small town of Ust-Labinsk, is still very attached to his small homeland and has supported it since the founding of his business. Basic Element companies have invested more than 50 billion rubles in the development of Kuban, the Volnoe Delo Foundation is engaged in the comprehensive development of the region, in particular, it is building a lyceum for gifted children in Ust-Labinsk.
School
Deripaska graduated with honors from Ust-Labinsk Secondary School No. 2 (in 2008, the Volnoe Delo Foundation completely restored it and equipped it with new educational equipment). He was interested in literature, but he put exact sciences- physics and mathematics. At the age of 11, having moved from the farm to the regional center, in parallel with his studies, he began to work part-time at the Ust-Labinsk plant as an electrician’s assistant.
"What did I do? There is such a thing - “regulation of electric motors.” After work, each electric motor needs to be disassembled, washed, cleaned. I was never bored there. Firstly, my mother worked at this plant. Secondly, I was interested "how the plant works, how it all works"
Institute and army
After graduating from school, Deripaska entered the physics department of Moscow State University. In 1986, he was drafted into the army, and he spent two years near Chita in strategic missile units. Then he returned to his studies and graduated with honors from the physics department with honors. Theoretical physics remains in his area of close interest today - the Volnoe Delo Foundation cooperates with the Physics Department of Moscow State University, funding basic research and providing grant support to talented students and scientists.
"I wanted to work in my specialty - theoretical physics. But in the early 90s it was already clear that we would not be allowed to do anything seriously. Academic science began to quickly disappear, there was no funding. Once I was sitting in the reading room in the main building Moscow State University, then looked out the window, handed in my books and realized that I would never come back here again. Of course, I defended my diploma, it was not difficult. There was nothing to live on, I had to go to work "
Business: beginning
While still studying, Deripaska, together with his classmates at Moscow State University, founded the Military Investment and Trading Company, which supplied metals abroad. In 1994, when he was 26 years old, he acquired a controlling stake in the Sayanogorsk aluminum smelter and, heading the plant, began its development. Over the course of several years, the plant became the best in the industry in terms of product quality, manufacturability, profitability, industrial and environmental safety.
In 1997, Deripaska founded the Siberian Aluminum company, which three years later merged with the assets of Millhouse Capital to form RUSAL - today one of the world's largest aluminum companies.
"I always wanted a powerful aluminum industry to appear in Russia. There was only one solution - the consolidation of disparate enterprises. This is how RUSAL was born. Gradually it became clear that we had to build a diversified holding company with our own raw materials and energy base. We began to acquire coal mines and bauxite mines and alumina refineries, energy companies"
Business: development
In 2000, Deripaska bought controlling stakes in Gorkovsky automobile plant and Pavlovsk Bus Plant. In 2001, the diversified industrial company “Basic Element” was formed, which gathered under its leadership and over the next decades continued to combine the entrepreneur’s assets in energy, mechanical engineering, aviation, construction, agriculture and other industries.
In March 2007, RUSAL merged with the Russian SUAL and the alumina assets of the Swiss Glencore, becoming one of the largest aluminum companies in the world. In 2010, RUSAL entered new stage development by listing shares on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and NYSE Euronext in Paris.
Olympic construction
“Basic Element” took part in the preparation of Sochi for the 2014 Winter Olympics - it reconstructed the Sochi International Airport, built the main Olympic village in the Imereti Valley and the Imeretinsky port. Construction costs amounted to 45 billion rubles. Five years after the games, these facilities remain among the most modern in Sochi. On the eve of the Olympics, on the initiative of Deripaska, the first private shelter for stray dogs, Povodog, was also built in Sochi, which during its work rescued more than 750 dogs from the streets and placed them in new families. Some even moved abroad - “Povodog” many times helped organize the transportation of animals to new owners in the USA and European countries.
Charity
Oleg Deripaska has been financing charitable programs since 1998. In 2008 for further implementation These programs created the “Volnoe Delo” social innovation support fund. The Foundation supports domestic education and science, promotes the preservation of the cultural and historical heritage of Russia. With the support of the fund, more than 500 projects were implemented in 50 Russian regions, its beneficiaries were about 90,000 students, 4,000 teachers, 8,000 university and technical school students, 4,000 scientists, as well as more than 1,200 educational, scientific, cultural, healthcare and sports institutions .
Fighting the Ebola virus
In 2014-2016 West Africa Ebola fever has struck. The outbreak has claimed 11,310 lives, the highest number yet deaths for the entire existence of the virus. At Deripaska’s initiative, RUSAL became the first foreign company to join the fight against the epidemic. In 50 days, RUSAL specialists built a Scientific Clinical and Diagnostic Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology in the province of Kindia. Investments in the construction of the center amounted to $10 million, the cost of the overall set of measures to combat the virus was $20 million. More than 4,500 residents of Kindia received free medical care provided by doctors from Russia. Thanks to the efforts of RUSAL, the epidemic was completely stopped, and the risks of spreading the virus were minimized.
Today
Deripaska lives in Moscow, but spends a lot of time traveling around the regions. He often visits Ust-Labinsk, where he has a house. Deripaska has two children - Peter (2001) and Maria (2003), both study in Russia. Deripaska loves animals, enjoys horse riding and breeds dogs. Five dogs live in his Moscow house, and seven in Ust-Labinsk. On his initiative, the Volnoye Delo Foundation has already opened five shelters for homeless animals and plans to build new ones.
In 2018, Deripaska left leadership positions at En+ Group and RUSAL and focuses on charitable and social activities. Key areas of his current work include: integrated development Russian regions, supporting science, education, culture and sports, combating climate change, as well as creating a culture of humane treatment of animals.