How the Alekperov vagit rose. Who owns Lukoil? Russian oil company PJSC Lukoil President of Lukoil Vagit Alekperov

Where does the main oil tycoon of Russia, who ranks fourth in the ranking of the richest people in Russia according to Forbes magazine, live? Let's see together what the house of Vagit Alekperov, the president of Lukoil, looks like in the photo.

Childhood in Baku

Vagit Alikperov never faced a choice of life path. The boy was born on September 1, 1950 near Baku, the oil capital of the Soviet Union, where the main profession of local residents is oil worker.

Vagit grew up in very modest conditions, in a private house in the village of Stepan Razin. His father, oil worker Yusuf Alekperov, died when the boy was three years old. Mother, Tatyana Bocharova, was left alone with five children, of whom Vagit was the youngest.

Despite the difficult living conditions, none of the children allowed themselves to study poorly or behave badly. The future oil tycoon successfully graduated from school and entered the Azerbaijan Institute of Oil and Chemistry in the evening department, from which he received a diploma in 1974.

In 1972, Vagit Alekperov began working as an oil and gas production operator at the Kaspmorneft production association.

The working conditions were difficult; they had to work on oil platforms at sea, where fires and explosions often occurred. During one of the accidents, Vagit was thrown so far into the sea that he was saved only thanks to his excellent swimming ability.

Career in Siberia, moving to Moscow

A native Baku native would have lived his whole life in his hometown, but in the early 1980s Alekperov received a party order to work in Western Siberia: they began to build an oil field there.

In Siberia, Vagit Yusufovich worked for the companies Surgutneft and Fedorovskneft, and later became the general director of Kogalymneftegaz.

At the end of the Soviet Union, in 1990, a talented and diligent young man made his biggest leap in his career: he was appointed deputy minister of the oil industry. To work in the ministry, Alekperov moved to the capital.

According to rumors, Vagit Alekperov was removed from the management of Kogalymneftegaz because he paid workers in money (instead of issuing goods through barter) and began building brick houses for people instead of wooden barracks.

In April 1993, with the participation of Alekperov, the Lukoil concern was created, which he still leads today. Initially, Vagit Yusupovich had few shares, but later he increased their number.

Mansion in Barvikha

In the 1990s, businessman Vagit Alekperov began to own real estate that was not similar to Soviet apartments. It is known that the oligarch built a house for himself on Rublevskoye Highway, in Barvikha.

The billionaire's closest neighbors: the disgraced President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych and businessman Alexander Zhukov, the father of Daria Zhukova, the ex-wife of Roman Abramovich.

Currently, the billionaire lives in a large house with his wife Larisa Alekperova, with whom he has been with for about 40 years.

The couple's only son, Yusup, is already an adult, he lives separately and also works in the oil industry, continuing the work of his father and grandfather.

House in Denmark

The head of Lukoil also has a two-story cottage with two bedrooms with a living area of ​​130 square meters in the city of Kronborg in Denmark, 80 kilometers from Copenhagen.

On the territory there is a garage for two cars and a small garden. The cost of the house was 700 thousand dollars. The modest dimensions of the housing are explained by the fact that no other houses are being built in Kronborg; this is not customary here.

Kronborg is one of the historical centers of the Danish kingdom; Elsinore Castle is located here, where Prince Hamlet lived. Alekperov’s neighbors here are unremarkable: Danish pensioners and married couples from Sweden.

Vagit Yusufovich Alekperov(Azerb. Vahid Yusif oğlu Ələkbərov; genus. September 1, 1950, Baku) - Russian entrepreneur and manager. General Director of the Kogalymneftegaz production association (1987-1990), Deputy (1990-1991) and First Deputy Minister of the Oil and Gas Industry of the USSR (1991-1992), President of the Langepasuraikogalymneft oil concern (1992-1993), President and co-owner of the largest oil company Russia "LUKOIL" (since 1993). Owner of 36.8% shares of the Spartak football club (Moscow). Doctor of Economic Sciences .

Biography

From 1972 to 1974, Vagit Alekperov worked as an oil and gas production operator at the Kaspmorneft production association. In 1974 he graduated with a degree in Mining Engineer in Technology and Integrated Mechanization of Oil and Gas Field Development. In the period from 1974 to 1979, he worked as a senior process engineer of the district engineering and technological service No. 2, shift supervisor, oil and gas production foreman, senior engineer, deputy head of the oil field of the NGDU named after A. Serebrovsky of the Kaspmorneft Production Association.

Western Siberia

At the end of the 1970s, Alekperov was assigned to Western Siberia according to party orders. He worked in senior positions in divisions of the Surgutneftegaz production association: in 1979-1980 he was a senior engineer, deputy head and head of the oil and gas production department of the Fedorovskneft oil and gas production department, in 1980-1981 he held the position of head of the central engineering and technological service oil and gas production department "Kholmogorneft", and in 1981-1983 he was chief engineer and deputy head of the oil and gas production department "Lyantorneft".

In 1983-1985, in the village of Kogalym, Alekperov headed the oil and gas production department of the Povkhneft production association Bashneft. In 1985, he was appointed first deputy general director of Bashneft Production Association for Western Siberia.

In 1987-1990 (according to other sources - in 1987-1989) Alekperov was the general director of the Kogalymneftegaz PA. According to the Kommersant newspaper, having headed this production association, Alekperov almost immediately established connections with all the major leaders of the Siberian branches of oil companies, including the head of Langepasneftegaz Yuri Shafranik, with whom he later founded Lukoil.

The media wrote that during the period of leadership of the Kogalymneftegaz PA, Alekperov, being by that time a member of the CPSU, came into conflict with the Tyumen regional party committee. The Profile magazine explained that Alekperov, contrary to the instructions of the party leadership, ordered the construction of housing in Kogalym for oil workers to begin not with wooden barracks, but with brick houses. Alekperov was severely reprimanded for his arbitrariness.

The press claimed that Kogalym remained in the center of attention of Alekperov for a long time. It was noted that thanks to his efforts, the standard of living in Kogalym was considered perhaps the highest in the USSR. The head of Kogalymneftegaz managed to ensure that management employees were paid for the oil supplied not by barter (which was a very common occurrence in the second half of the 1980s), but by money. In addition, Alekperov in different years was elected as a deputy of the Surgut district, Kogalym city Councils of People's Deputies, a member of the Kogalym city bureau and a member of the Khanty-Mansiysk district committees of the CPSU.

Transfer to Moscow

In 1990 (according to other sources, in 1989) Alekperov was appointed Deputy Minister of the Oil and Gas Industry of the USSR. After this appointment, many joked that Alekperov was transferred to the ministry for the successful construction of communism in a single Siberian city. Perhaps such jokes were also made because journalists, neither then nor later, were unable to find anyone who contributed to Alekperov’s transfer to Moscow.

Alekperov turned out to be the youngest deputy minister of the USSR (he was not yet forty years old), and besides, the time for taking office was very successful - Western oil companies had just begun to look for partners in Russia. In 1990, when British Petroleum organized a visit of a group of Soviet oil workers to the UK, Alekperov was tasked with selecting the composition of the delegation. He appointed himself as its leader and, according to BP employee Rondo Fehlberg, who worked with the delegation, carefully questioned the managers about how oil companies were created in the West. According to The New York Times, it was after returning from this trip that Alekperov took up the problem of creating a vertically integrated oil company, that is, one that would simultaneously engage in exploration, production, refining and sales of oil (within the Soviet system these functions were separated) . Alekperov realized that it was important not just to privatize the industry, but to do it in such a way that financially sustainable enterprises could be created.

At that time, the head of the ministry was Leonid Filimonov, who previously headed the Nizhnevartovskneftegaz company. It was alleged that it was in collaboration with him that Alekperov developed a scheme for the so-called vertical integration of oil companies (VIOC). It also formed the basis of his doctoral dissertation, which Alekperov defended in the summer of 1999. The essence of the concept was to unite into a single holding the entire chain of enterprises involved in oil production, its refining and sale of the final product.

In 1991, Alekperov became the first deputy minister of the oil and gas industry of the USSR. Already in 1992, he left the ministry and headed the Langepasuraikogalymneft oil concern, which united the largest fields in the USSR Langepas, Urai and Kogalym, as well as several oil refineries. The concern itself was created by a resolution of the Council of Ministers of the RSFSR, adopted in November 1991. Like other enterprises created on the basis of Soviet industry, the concern became the property of the Russian state.

Lukoil

On April 5, 1993, based on the decree of Russian President Boris Yeltsin on the privatization of oil industry enterprises, the state concern was transformed into a joint-stock company, which received the name “Oil Company Lukoil” - after the first letters of the three fields it owned.

In the same year, Alekperov was elected both president and chairman of the board of Lukoil. By 2002, Alekperov owned 10.4% of the company's shares.

In 1995, Alekperov was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bank Imperial. In the same year, he was included in the board of the Ministry of Fuel and Energy.

In April 1996, Alekperov became Yeltsin's confidant for the Tyumen region in the presidential elections, receiving the right to go on vacation for the entire duration of the election campaign and conduct election campaigning.

On January 28, 1997, Alekperov became a member of the government commission on CIS issues (and remained in this position until February 2, 1998).

In 2000, Alekperov resigned from his post as head of the board of directors of Lukoil, but retained the position of president of the company. As noted on the official website of Lukoil, over the years of work under the leadership of Alekperov, the joint-stock company has made a significant step forward towards transformation into an effective global energy company. Thus, the company’s capitalization over five years grew from 10 to 60 billion dollars, and the return on invested capital increased from 16 to 23 percent. At the same time, sales revenue increased by 315 percent, net profit by 206 percent.

In May 2008, Alekperov acquired 11.13 million shares (1.3 percent) of Lukoil, thereby increasing his stake to 20.4 percent and becoming the company's largest shareholder. The transaction amount was 24.57 billion rubles.

In 2011, Vagit Alekperov was re-elected to the post of president of Lukoil, and in 2016 he was re-elected again for another five-year term.

As of 2019, Alekperov owns 26% of the shares of Lukoil, according to Forbes.

Other assets

The head of Lukoil developed a large business in Belarus. He owns one of the largest private oil traders engaged in the supply of oil, its refining and export, the largest private network of gas stations, as well as a joint venture for the production of motor additives at Naftan in Novopolotsk.

In January 2019, information appeared that Vagit Alekperov is the actual owner of the Spartak football club (Moscow) his share in the club’s shares is 36.7%, while the “official” owner of Spartak Leonid Fedun has only 32. 7% shares.

Status and position in the Forbes ranking

According to Forbes magazine, Alekperov's personal fortune in 1996 was $3.7 billion. For the first time, Alekperov’s salary was officially announced in 2002 in connection with the upcoming placement of ADS for the state stake in the company. At that time, according to the five-year contract, the salary of the president of Lukoil was $1.5 million per year plus an annual bonus of $3.336 million (150% of the salary).

In 2015, he ranked 6th on the Forbes list with a fortune of $12.2 billion.

In 2016, the volume of assets decreased to $8.9 billion, which placed the entrepreneur on the 9th line of the Forbes rating in Russia and 124 in the world.

In 2017, Alekperov again entered the Forbes hundred, taking 74th place in the world and 6th in Russia with a capital of $14.5 billion

Social activity

In October 2000, Alekperov was included in the board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), an all-Russian public organization representing the interests of business circles. According to the charter of the RSPP, every three years the bureau of its board is renewed by a third, and in 2003 Alekperov received the opportunity to become a member of the bureau. In 2006, the president of Lukoil was again included in the board and bureau of the board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. In June 2006, he headed the created RSPP Committee on Energy Security, Energy Efficiency and Development of Fuel and Energy Sectors.

In May 2005, Alekperov was awarded the Woodrow Wilson Award for his achievements in the development of corporate citizenship (it is awarded to leaders in government and business who strive to improve the quality of life, both in their own country and abroad).

Currently, Vagit Alekperov conducts extensive public and charitable activities. His main brainchild in this area - the Foundation for Regional Social Programs “Our Future” - was founded in 2007 and since then has been actively promoting and supporting social entrepreneurship in Russia. Vagit Alekperov has also been on the board of the Skolkovo Foundation since 2010 and is the founder of a number of other charitable organizations.

In October 2015, a public private museum of the International Numismatic Club, founded by Vagit Alekperov, was opened in the restored Zinoviev-Yusupov mansion on Bolshoy Afanasyevsky Lane. The museum displays Alekperov's personal numismatic collection, as well as coins from other private collections and state collections.

Vagit Alekperov has repeatedly publicly stated and confirmed that, according to his will, his stake in Lukoil (more than 20% of the company’s shares) will be transferred to a specially created charitable foundation.

Scientific activity

Already as the head of Lukoil, Vagit Alekperov defended his dissertation on the topic “Creating conditions and ensuring sustainable development of vertically integrated oil companies” using the example of the enterprise he headed, and in 1998 received a Doctor of Economics degree. Two of his books were published that same year.

Vagit Alekperov is also a full member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.

Awards

• Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II degree () - for his great contribution to the socio-economic development of Russia .
• Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree (June 10, 2010) - for his great contribution to the development of the oil and gas complex and many years of conscientious work .
• Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (September 1, 2005) - for his great contribution to the development of the fuel and energy complex .
• Order of Friendship (September 1, 1995) - for services to the state and great contribution to the development of the fuel and energy complex .
• Order "Badge of Honor" ().
• Medal "For Services to the Stavropol Territory" (Stavropol Territory).
• Medal "For the development of subsoil and the development of the oil and gas complex of Western Siberia."
• Order of Glory (Azerbaijan, August 29, 2000) - for great services in the development of economic relations between Azerbaijan and Russia .
• Order of Honor (Azerbaijan, August 30, 2010) - for services in the development of mutual relations between the Republic of Azerbaijan and the Russian Federation .
• Order "Dostyk" II degree (Kazakhstan,).
• Order "Dostyk" 1st degree (Kazakhstan, September 6, 2019)
• Order of Friendship of Peoples (Belarus, September 1, 2010) - for significant contribution to the development of Belarusian-Russian trade and economic cooperation and assistance to integration processes .
• Order "Dustlik" (Uzbekistan, August 29, 2018) - for his great contribution to the development of the oil and gas complex and increasing the efficiency of use of hydrocarbon resources of Uzbekistan, introducing advanced, innovative technologies for the extraction and deep processing of raw materials into the industry, increasing the export potential of our country, implementing major strategic projects and assistance in training highly qualified personnel for the republic
• Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (Italy,).
• Commander of the Order of the Crown (Belgium,).
• Order of the Madara Horseman, 1st degree (Bulgaria,).
• Gratitude from the President of the Russian Federation (October 24, 2017) - for services to the development of entrepreneurship, active social activities and many years of conscientious work .
• Twice laureate of the Government of the Russian Federation Prize.
• Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh I, II and III degrees (ROC).
• Order of the Holy Blessed Prince Daniel of Moscow, II and III degrees (ROC).
• Winner of the national business reputation award “Darin” of the Russian Academy of Business and Entrepreneurship in 2001.
• Title "Honorary Professor of Volgograd State University" in 2014.

Personal life

Vagit Alekperov is married, his wife is Larisa Viktorovna Alekperova. In 1990, his son Yusuf was born, who graduated from the Russian State University of Oil and Gas in 2012. Gubkin with a degree in development and operation of oil fields.

In his free time he prefers to communicate with friends, travel, play tennis; prefers to relax in Crimea. He is a fan of the Spartak football club.

Criticism

In the spring of 2016, the media actively discussed information about the purchase of vineyards in Crimea by Vagit Alekperov, shortly after the annexation of the peninsula to Russia. The Elias company, allegedly affiliated with the billionaire, bought 36 hectares of former Massandra vineyards. At the same time, several times more than its market value were paid for the plot, which, according to the terms of sale, was intended exclusively for growing grapes. In this regard, fears were expressed that the new owner might start developing these lands and destroy the vineyards.

Alekperov received the greatest criticism in connection with the likely deal from the Ukrainian media, while Russian legal scholars pointed to the high risk of sanctions against the entrepreneur from the European Union and the United States if the information about the purchase is confirmed.

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Russian entrepreneur. President and co-owner of one of the largest Russian oil companies, Lukoil. Full member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences. Doctor of Economic Sciences. Member of the Board of the Skolkovo Foundation. Owner of 36.8% shares of the Moscow football club Spartak. In 2019, Forbes magazine estimated his fortune at $20.7 billion, which allowed him to take third place in the ranking of the richest businessmen in Russia.

Vagit Alekperov was born on September 1, 1950 in the village of Stepan Razin, Azerbaijan. The boy was the fifth child in the family. His father, Yusuf Kerbalaevich, a native of Baku, worked as a simple mechanic in the oil fields, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War. Mother, Tatyana Fedorovna Bocharova, took care of the children. His father died in 1953, when Vagit was only three years old, then his mother had to raise her children alone.

To feed her children, Tatyana changed jobs one after another. After some time, life began to improve. Older sister Zuleikha began working at a local oil well. The second sister, Nelya, after graduating from music school, began giving private violin lessons.

At an early age, at the insistence of his sister, Vagit began trying to master the violin. However, the soul of the future businessman reached completely different heights. From an early age, the boy tried to be useful to his family in some way. Following in the footsteps of his father, in 1969 Alekperov decided to enter the Azerbaijan Institute of Oil and Chemistry with a degree in “Mining Engineer in Technology and Integrated Mechanization of Oil and Gas Field Development.”

In 1972, the young man began working as an oil worker in the large Azerbaijani company Kaspmorneft. At first he combined work with study, and in 1974, having received a university diploma, he got a full-time job. Since 1974, for five years, Alekperov worked first as a senior process engineer of the district engineering and technological service No. 2, then as a shift manager, oil and gas production foreman, senior engineer, and rose to the rank of deputy head of the oil field of the Oil and Gas Production Department named after Alexander Serebrovsky Production Association "Kaspmorneft"

Alekperov went to Western Siberia in 1979, where he was engaged in the search and production of oil. According to party regulations, he worked for five years in high positions in the companies Bashneft and Surgutneftegaz. In 1984, Vagit was nominated by his superiors to the post of general director of the Kogalymneftegaz association.

In the early nineties, Vagit Yusufovich began working in senior positions in the Ministry of Oil and Gas Industry of the Soviet Union. From 1990 to 1991, he was Deputy Minister of the Oil and Gas Industry of the USSR. In 1991, he was appointed First Deputy Minister of the Oil and Gas Industry of the USSR.

In 1992, Vagit Alekperov was elected president of the Lukoil oil concern. A year later, he took the position of president of the open joint-stock company Lukoil.

Three years later, in parallel with his main work, he became Chairman of the Board of Directors of Bank Imperial. In 1995, he was included in the board of the Ministry of Fuel and Energy.

Vagit Alekperov defended his dissertation on the topic “Creating conditions and ensuring sustainable development of vertically integrated oil companies” using the example of the enterprise he headed and in 1998 received the degree of Doctor of Economic Sciences.

In 2007, Vagit Yusufovich became the founder of the Foundation for Regional Social Programs “Our Future”. In 2010, he joined the Board of the Skolkovo Foundation.

Alekperov always strives to spend all his free time with his family. They often travel together. Their family’s favorite vacation spot is the Crimea peninsula. He is also interested in numismatics. The existence of the collection was confirmed in October 2015; its exact composition is unknown, but, according to some sources, it is one of the three largest private collections in Russia.

The private Alekperov Numismatics Museum displays more than seven hundred coins, which is about a quarter of the entire collection. It mainly consists of gold coins, from antiquity to Tsarist Russia, a small number of silver coins, as well as three platinum coins.

Head of LUKOIL Vagit Alekperov January 28, 2020, at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, he spoke about the company’s results for the year and current activities, including a new development strategy, as well as investments in Russian projects.

Awards of Vagit Alekperov

Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree (2014) - for great contribution to the socio-economic development of Russia
Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree (2010) - for his great contribution to the development of the oil and gas complex and many years of conscientious work
Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (2005)
Order of Friendship (1995)
Order of the Badge of Honor (1986)
Medal "For the development of subsoil resources and the development of the oil and gas complex of Western Siberia"
Order of Glory (2000, Azerbaijan) - for services in the development of economic relations between Azerbaijan and the Russian Federation
Order of the Madara Horseman, 1st degree (2006, Bulgaria)
Order of Dostyk, 2nd degree (Kazakhstan, 2010)
Twice laureate of the Government of the Russian Federation Prize
Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh I, II and III degrees (ROC)
Order of the Holy Blessed Prince Daniel of Moscow, II and III degrees (ROC)
Winner of the national business reputation award “Darin” of the Russian Academy of Business and Entrepreneurship in 2001.
Title "Honorary Professor of Volgograd State University" in 2014
Order "Dustlik" (Uzbekistan, 2018)

Vagit Alekperov is a famous entrepreneur, head of Kogalymneftegaz, president of Langepasuraikogalymneft, president and co-owner of PJSC LUKOIL, served as deputy and first deputy minister of the oil and gas industry in the USSR. As of February 6, 2020, his fortune is estimated at $25 billion (2nd place among the richest Russians).

Childhood

Born on September 1, 1950 in the Azerbaijan SSR, in the suburbs of Baku. Father, Yusuf Kerbalaevich, went through the war, and in peacetime he worked in the oil fields. Mother, Tatyana Fedorovna Bocharova, was raising five children: three daughters and two sons.

In 1953, disaster struck - his father died: the war greatly undermined his health. It wasn't easy for the family. Exhausted, the mother took on any job. The son helped as best he could: in the Caspian Sea he set up lines that caught a lot of fish. But the future oligarch did not forget about school; he was distinguished by his diligence and perseverance. Even then, the boy chose what he would do: he firmly decided to become an oil worker.

Education and scientific activities

After school, the future billionaire entered the evening department of the Azerbaijan Institute of Oil and Chemistry named after M. Azizbekov and in 1974 received a diploma in the specialty “mining engineer in technology and integrated mechanization of the development of oil and gas fields.”

Later, as the head of OJSC Lukoil, he wrote a dissertation on the topic “Creating conditions and ensuring sustainable development of vertically integrated oil companies” using the example of the enterprise he headed and in 1998 received a Doctor of Economics degree. In the same year, two of his books were published.

In 2014, he received the title “Honorary Professor of Volgograd State University.”

Labor activity

In 1972, while still a student, he got a job as a driller at the Kaspmorneft production association. Two years later, he was appointed senior process engineer of the district engineering and technological service No. 2. Then he worked at the NGDU named after A. Serebrovsky of the Kaspmorneft Production Association. First - as an operator (later as a shift supervisor), an oil and gas production foreman, a senior engineer and, finally, a deputy oil field manager.

In 1979, according to party assignment, Vagit Yusufovich went to Siberia, to the Surgutneftegaz Production Association. First, he was appointed senior engineer of oil field No. 2 of NGDU Fedorovskneft, and a little later he was promoted to head of the oil field.

In 1980, he was appointed head of the central engineering and technological service of NGDU Kholmogorneft.

A year later, he was appointed chief engineer and deputy head of the Lyantorneft department. He worked there until 1983.

Then his career took a new turn - in Kogalym. For two years he was the head of NGDU Povkhneft. At the same time, he had a conflict with the party leadership: despite the order, he began to build not wooden barges, but brick houses for oil workers. But he was not fired - they limited themselves to a reprimand. And the city residents gave him the nickname Alec the First.

In 1985, the “king” became the first deputy general director of the Bashneft Production Association for Western Siberia of the USSR Ministry of Oil Industry, and in 1987, the general director of the Kogalymneftegaz Production Association of Glavtyumenneftegaz.

In 1990-1991, he was the youngest Deputy Minister of the Oil and Gas Industry of the Soviet Union.

Since 1991, he was president of the Langepas-Uray-Kogalymneft concern (in 1993 it was transformed into JSC NK LUKOIL).

From 1993 to the present - President of LUKOIL.

In 1995, he was elected chairman of the board of directors of the joint-stock bank Imperial. In 1998, he took the post of chairman of the supervisory and trustee boards of the financial institution.

Also in 1995, he was included in the board of the Ministry of Fuel and Energy.

In 1996, he became a member of the directors of the Volga-Kama Oil Company, where he was listed until 2002.

In 1996, Boris Yeltsin made him his confidant for Tyumen and the region in the presidential elections.

In 1998, Alec the First headed the board of directors of Petrocommerce Bank, and was its head until 2000.

In 1999, he was a member of the Economic Council under the Government of the Russian Federation.

Since 2001, he was the Chairman of the Board of the Scientific and Technical Center of Oil Company LUKOIL and for five years, until 2006, he chaired Ritek OJSC.

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In 2013, together with the second major shareholder Leonid Fedun, he sold Petrocommerce to the Otkritie holding and became its shareholder.

Since 2000 - Chairman of the Supervisory Board of LUKOIL INTERNATIONAL GmbH.

He is the initiator of the creation of the Union of Oil Exporters (SONEC) of Russia.

Member of the board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, as well as the Skolkovo Foundation (since 2010).

Full member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, member of the government commission on issues of the fuel and energy complex and reproduction of the mineral resource base (since 2005).

Last news

On April 10, 2018, the RIA Novosti agency reported that due to new US sanctions, the losses of Russian billionaires per day after their introduction exceeded $15 billion (based on data from the Bloomberg Billionaires Index (BBI) rating).

Thus, the co-owner of LUKOIL lost $1.37 billion.

Charity

In 2005, the Russian Olympians Support Fund was formed, where his company was one of the founders.

In 2007, he established the “Our Future” fund for regional social programs, which encourages entrepreneurship on a competitive basis.

The tycoon is included in the Forbes magazine list every year. Consistently among the ten richest Russians. Thus, in 2011 he was in eighth place in the ranking with a fortune of $13.9 billion, in 2012 and 2013 he was in fifth place with marks of $13.5 and 14.8 billion. In 2014 it was seventh, in 2015 - sixth, in 2016 it was ninth ($13.6 / $12.2 / $8.9 billion, respectively).

On March 20, 2017, Forbes released its traditional ranking, in which the head of LUKOIL rose by three positions and again became sixth in Russia (while his fortune grew by more than five billion and amounted to $14.5 billion).

On February 6, 2020, Forbes Real Time reported that he ranks second among the richest Russians with $25 billion, losing first place to Vladimir Potanin ($25.1 billion).

Awards

The country's most famous oil worker has many awards: both from Russia and from other countries.

Among them are orders:

"Badge of Honor" (1986);
Friendship (1995);
Glory (2000, Azerbaijan) - for services in the development of economic relations between Azerbaijan and the Russian Federation;
“For services to the Fatherland” IV degrees (2005), III (2010) and II (2014);
“Madara Horseman” 1st Art. (2006, Bulgaria);
Dostyk II Art. (Kazakhstan, 2010);
St. Sergius of Radonezh (all degrees), as well as the Holy Blessed Prince Daniel of Moscow II and III centuries. (Russian Orthodox Church).

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In addition, he has a medal “For the development of subsoil and the development of the oil and gas complex of Western Siberia.”

He was twice a government award laureate and a laureate of the Darin national business reputation award.

Hobbies

The billionaire spends his free time calmly and quietly - with loved ones. Loves to travel. Prefers holidays in Crimea.

He loves sports and enjoys tennis: both tennis and table tennis. Sponsors the Spartak football club.

He considers his idol Enrico Mattei, the founder of the Italian oil holding ENI. “He was a personality, he turned a state-owned enterprise into a company that still supplies Italy with hydrocarbons,” the Russian tycoon says about him.

Family status

He met his wife, Larisa Viktorovna, back in Soviet times.

Son Yusuf was born in 1990. He followed in his father’s footsteps: he entered the Russian State University of Oil and Gas named after. Gubkin, defended his diploma in 2012 and now works in the same industry.

The fortune of Russian businessman Vagit Alekperov by March 2009 decreased from $14.3 billion in 2007 to $7.8 billion. In the world ranking of the richest people in the world, compiled by Forbes magazine in March 2009, Alekperov ranks 57th.

On April 5, 1993, the state concern Langepas-Uray-Kogalym-Oil was transformed into the joint-stock company Oil Company LUKoil, of which Alekperov became president.

In 1995 - 1998, Alekperov was chairman of the supervisory board, member of the board of trustees, and chairman of the board of trustees of Imperial Bank.

In 1995 - 2000 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of Petrocommerce Bank.

From 1996 to 2002, he was a member of the board of directors of CJSC Volga-Kama Oil Company.

In 2001 - 2004, he headed the board of the Association of Scientific and Technical Center NK LUKOIL.

From 2001 to 2006, he was Chairman of the Board of Directors of OJSC RITEK.

Since 2000 - Chairman of the Supervisory Board of LUKOIL International GmbH.

Since 2005 - member of the government commission on issues of the fuel and energy complex and reproduction of the mineral resource base.

In April 1996, during the campaign for the presidential elections in the Russian Federation, Alekperov was a confidant of Russian President Boris Yeltsin in the Tyumen region.

In 2000, Alekperov joined the board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP). Subsequently, he was re-elected to the board twice - in 2003 and 2006. In June 2006, Alekperov headed the committee on energy security, energy efficiency and development of fuel and energy sectors created at the RSPP.

Alekperov is a Doctor of Economics, a full member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, the author of a number of books and scientific publications, including the monographs “Vertically Integrated Oil Companies of Russia: Methodology of Formation and Implementation” (1996) and “Russian Oil: A Top Manager’s View” (2001 ).

According to the Forbes magazine ranking published in March 2009, by 2009 Vagit Alekperov became one of three Russians included in the hundred richest people in the world. Alekperov's fortune, according to the magazine, reached $7.8 billion. In the world ranking of the richest people in the world in 2009, he ranks 57th.

Alekperov is married, in 1990 his son Yusuf was born.

The material was prepared based on information from RIA Novosti and open sources