Biography
Vyacheslav Kantor was born in the capital then another Soviet Union in Moscow in September 1953. The father of the future businessman worked in the field of trade and for some time was even the director of the Moscow Sokolniki department store. So we can safely say that Vyacheslav's entrepreneurial veil was inherited.
Despite this, Vyacheslav Kantor first leaned into science. After graduating from school, he entered the Moscow Aviation Institute. Ordzhonikidze, from which in 1976 came out with a diploma engineer-system engineering. But he did not stop at this: he defended his thesis on the topic of spacecraft management and several years dedicated to research in the walls of scientific laboratories. The road to Business Vyacheslav Kantor practically coincided with the restructuring and start of a market economy in Russia.
Business
Vyacheslav Kantor began his way in the late 1980s when he headed the company Intelmas, which was still still a science business - the introduction of computer networks at enterprises, sales and installation of computers, as well as monitoring industrial enterprises, including Environmental. It is the environmental monitoring in 1993 he led the Kantor to the Novgorod plant for the production of mineral fertilizers "Nitrogen". Seeing the prospects, but the launch of the State Enterprise, Vyacheslav Kantor decided to take the case in his hands - at first for the Novgorod region a check auction he acquired 31.36% of the plant's shares.
"Nitrogen" has become the foundation of the future Acron Agrochimical Holding - the main business-brain of Kantor. Through a similar privatization process in 1994, he joined Akron's assets Smolensk enterprise "Dorogobuzh", as well as in state property. In 2005, the holding entered the international level with the joining assets of the Chinese enterprise "Hongi-Acron".
Developing his business, Vyacheslav Kantor made a bet on the maximum independence and independence of a large holding. Akron has its own transport and logistics network, representative offices in different countries and subsidiaries for the extraction of necessary minerals. The latter allowed the cater of the winner to get out of most "monopoly wars", raging between suppliers of raw materials and recycling.
In 2005, Akron's subsidiary of CJSC North-Western Phosphorus Company (SPC) appeared to develop the apatite-nephelin ore deposit in the Murmansk region. In 2008, Acron wins the auction for the development of another field - the Talitsky section of the Verkhnekamsky field of potash-magnesium salts.
Vyacheslav Kantor himself left direct management of the holding and holds the post of Chairman of the Coordination Council of Akron, maintaining a significant part of the holding shares.
In parallel with the business Vyacheslav Kantor with his head plunged into expert and social work, including in the economic sphere. In 1996, 2000, Kantor served as an adviser on the economic issues of the President of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of Egor Stroyev. And in 2000, on the initiative of Kantor, the National Corporate Reform Institute (NICR) was founded in Russia, whose experts work on the analysis and improvement of the investment climate in the country.
Personal life
Vyacheslav Kantor is married to Anna Cantor, you have to the father of four sons and daughters. He disseminate about his personal life, she does not like, chooses the family from the annoying attention of the press. The son of Vyacheslav Kantor Vladimir has been working at Akron for several years and is already held by Vice President. In one of the interviews, Vyacheslav Kantor admitted that he himself highly appreciates the management abilities of the Son and taught him business for 20 years. Speaking about the independence of children, Kantor emphasizes that she adheres to the principles of the Talmud: there is nothing more harmful than gold parents, for children.
Vyacheslav Kantor is a passionate lover of horses and riding. It is possible that this is one of the reasons why Akron in 2000 acquired the Moscow equestrian plant No. 1.
In addition, Vyacheslav Kantor for many years is fond of art and collected his own impressive collection of artists-avant-gardeists of Jewish origin. This collection has become the main museum of art avant-garda (Magma) cantor in 2001.
Art historians recognize that the Magma collection is the largest private collection of the Russian avant-garde of the XX century. Among the artists represented - Mark Chagal, Mark Rotko, Haim Sutin and others. Vyacheslav Kantor is also the owner of the famous "abduction of Europe" Valentina Serov.
Social activity
In Europe and the world, Vyacheslav Kantor is most famous as Vyacheslav Moshe Kantor, a major public figure, defending the interests of tolerance and fighting anti-Semitism. Support for the Jewish community in Russia Vyacheslav Kantor was engaged over the years. In 2002, he participated in the opening of the synagogue in Veliky Novgorod, where he met delegates from the European Jewish Congress and took an invitation to enter the Board of Trustees of the Organization as a specialist in cultural programs.
In 2005, Vyacheslav Kantor headed the Russian Jewish Congress, and already two years later, in 2007, he was elected president of the European Jewish Congress. At the same time, he became the first Russian, headed by Eck. Since then, the Kantor remains a permanent head of the Congress - his president was re-elected three times with the indisputable majority of votes.
If you list all public organizations that heads or founded Vyacheslav Kantor, this will take a separate article. The International Luxembourg Forum on the Prevention of Nuclear Catastrophe, the European Jewish Foundation, the European Council for Tolerance and Reconciliation and many others. The total line is traced - the promotion of the ideas of tolerance, mutual understanding, elimination of xenophobia, extremism, terrorism, international security. By public work, Vyacheslav Kantor is suitable with the same thoroughness and scope as to business. According to the own recognition of the Cantor, the social activity today takes it even more.
One of the main problems that Vyacheslav Kantor pays attention to the attention of historical memory of the events of the Holocaust and the restoration of historical justice regarding World War II and the interpretation of its facts. Cantor is an irreconcilable opponent of political and public figures who play in populist glances and allow themselves the intentional distortion of historical events. In particular, Vyacheslav Kantor always has a sharp criticism attempts to negate the Holocaust, the heroization of Nazism and fascism both in Europe and in the former countries of the USSR.
Vyacheslav Kantor - Chapter and Founder of the World Forum Foundation for Holocaust Forum, which in many years has been conducting internationally eponymous forums in commemorative places related to one or another events of the Second World War.
State
According to Forbes, for 2017, the state of Vyacheslav Kantor is $ 3.1 billion, which puts it on the 35th place in the list of richest businessmen of Russia.