Biography
Leonid Mikhelson is the leader among richest businessmen of Russia, which in 2016 and in 2017 ranked first among the richest people of the country. The state of the businessman is estimated at $ 18.4 billion, which allows Michelson to take the 60th position in the top of the richest people in the world. The billionaire came to such financial success and purposefulness at the expense of non-fiestworking and purposefulness, since he began his career from the position of Proba in the enterprise for the construction of the pipeline, he had reached the head of the second largest gas company in Russia "NOVATEK".
Mikhelson Leonid Viktorovich was born on August 11, 1955 in Kaspiysk, located in Dagestan. Leonid's father, Viktor Zelmanovich, worked as the builder of the oil pipeline, and after the birth of the son, he became the director of Kuibyshevrub Region, the mother of the future oligarch, Praskovya Fedorovna, also worked in the construction sector. After the birth of the son, the Michelson family immediately moved to Novokuibyshevsk, where the childhood and youth of the future oligarch passed.
In school years, Leonid Michelson paid a lot of attention to education and differed high gravity among peers. Since childhood, his father has acquainted his son to oil and gas business, so he regularly took with him on the oilfield.
In 1972, the oil and gas magnate graduated from school and entered the Kuibyshev Construction Institute, which graduated with a diploma engineer diploma. In the role of a young specialist, Leonid Viktorovich went to master Siberia, where he worked as a foreler on the construction of the largest gas pipeline "Urengoy-Chelyabinsk".
After five years of work, the career path of Michelson began to reach the first heights. At first, the future oligarch received an increase in the post of the head of the line on KuibyshevrubOrodstroy, and soon became the chief engineer of a similar enterprise in Ryazan.
Business
The turning point in Leonid Michelson's career was 1987, when the father of a businessman died. Then Leonid Michelson headed KuibyshevrubOdroystroy and had his own independent biography of a businessman. The father took care of this appointment in advance, which caused considerable discontent among the working class of Trust. But the new head of the enterprise proved its own professionalism in the occupied place, therefore soon became the most influential and respected specialist in the oil and gas sphere, with whom colleagues were considered from all over Russia.
In 1991, after the collapse of the USSR, KuibyshevrubOrivstroy became the first Russian privatized enterprise, which was renamed to Nova SNP. In the same period, under the leadership of Michelson, the People's Enterprise received a large-scale development in the Tyumen region, where the largest gas field of the East Tarcosalinsky region took the largest gas field.
In 1994, Nova began to control OJSC Novatininvest, headed by Micelson. This company has already been engaged in the construction of oil pipelines, but the extraction of hydrocarbons. After a couple of years, this enterprise was transformed into a new large company - NOVATEK, which today became the largest gas company of the Russian Federation after Gazprom.
In the late 1990s, Leonid Michelson replenished his assets with the only Russian plant for the production of insulating materials for pipe fluorescence pipelines. In 2005, a Purovsky condensate processing plant acquired, which allowed NOVATEKA to independently export gas through its own terminal in the White Sea. This made the "NOVATEK" the only non-state company at the oil and gas market of the Russian Federation.
In addition to oil and gas, Leonid Mikhelson is interested in the banking sphere. In 2000, a businessman established control over the Togliatti Bank Svyazbuesbank, which in 2008 renamed the First Joint Bank. Leonid Mikhelson also became the owner of the Foundation for the Regional Non-Profit Project "Dar". In 2011, the oil and gas magnate became the chairman of the Board of Directors of the largest Petrochemical Holding of Sibur in Russia.
Like most Russian billionaires, Leonid Michelson is engaged in charity. Leonid Viktorovich became the founder of the Foundation of Contemporary Art "Victoria - the Art of being modern." This foundation received its own name in honor of the daughter of the oligarch Victoria. The main idea of the Fund is the integration of Russian art into a global art context.
In addition, the Foundation is engaged in educational and educational activities and conducts events whose goal is to acquaint those wishing with contemporary art. The official website of the Foundation shows more than a dozen institutions with which the Foundation has been cooperating in this matter.
In 2015, Arthyd placed Leonid Michelson in the sixth place in the list of personalities that have the strongest influence on Russian art.
Personal life
Leonid Michelson's personal life has little officially confirmed facts, as the billionaire does not like to put their own life at the bottom. It is known that at the beginning of his own career path, the businessman married his childhood friend Lyudmila, lives with his wife for more than 25 years.
In 1992, Mikhilson's spouses were born the only daughter Victoria, which is called the richest heir to Russia. The girl leads a secular lifestyle, participates in all sorts of fashion shares and the Rauta of the metropolitan elite. Leonid Viktorovich's daughter also participates in the development of the Father's Food Fund of Contemporary Art: The girl is headed by the Samara Branch of the gallery, and also founded his own charity foundation for children.
Free from business time Leonid Mikhelson loves to devote family and sport. Businessman is fond of volleyball. Leonid Michelson expressed this passion, becoming a sponsor of the Nova's volleyball club on his own small homeland - in Novokuibyshevsk. The businessman is also actively engaged in the development of infrastructure in his hometown: thanks to the billionaire School number 8, which he at one time graduated, entered the top 100 of the best educational institutions in Russia.
In addition, Leonid Mikhelson consists in the Board of Trustees of HSE and provides annual material support in a significant amount of the highest school of the economy, as well as the Lyceum of HSE. A businessman is in the Board of Trustees and Foreign Cultural Organizations. Leonid Michelson is a trustee of the Tate Gallery in London and a new museum in New York.
Leonid Mikhelson now
In 2016, Leonid Mikhelson hit the lists of Forbes magazine as the richest Russian. On March 1, 2016, the businessman first led this rating for the first time, although more than once already got into the list itself in other positions.
In 2017, Leonid Viktorovich did not give way to positions and again headed the ranking of the Russian part of the list of the richest people of Forbes magazine. The list included 200 Russian businessmen from Russia, and the total state of these people amounted to $ 450 billion. Also, according to experts of the journal, the total number of dollar millionaires in Russia increased from 77 to 96 people compared to last year.
The businessman's income such, especially confirmed by the official rating, attracted a new wave of attention as presses and Internet users to Leonid Viktorovich. In-successors were seen under the financial state of Leonid Michelson secret conspiracies. The businessman in the reproach was also put on the nationality, since most of the Internet users, relying on the surname, believes a Jewish businessman, and informal relations with the ruling top.
Part of the articles in the media that Michelson headed the rating, even came out with the title that the list of richest people in Russia begins with Putin's friend. Other sources argue that Leonid Michelson cannot be attributed to the number of president's close friends. Cyril Shamalova calls Kirill Shamalov's main binding link between Michelson and Putin. This business partner Leonid Viktorovich and the second largest shareholder of Sibur, whom the Western media even call the husband of Putin's younger daughter.
State assessment
Leonid Michelson's state in 2016 was estimated at $ 14.4 billion, which allowed Leonid Viktorovich to become a rich businessman of Russia. Compared to the previous year, the billionaire financial assets rose $ 3 billion and raised a businessman to a leading position in the ranking of the richest Russians. Among the world oligarchs, Leonid Viktorovich occupies the 60th place.
In 2017, the businessman became richer for another $ 4 billion. This year, experts estimated the state of Leonid Michelson at $ 18.4 billion. For 2017, a businessman owns shares in 24.8% at NOVATEK and 43.2% in Sibur "
Also, a businessman belongs to 510 hectares under Sestroretsky, of which 370 hectares of a worn territory. On these lands, Michelson plans to build real estate.
I don't know anything about the foreign assets of the businessman, both of the personal, kind of houses or villas and the workers, including the shares in the holdings or other investments. But there are also no accurate statements that the foreign ownership of the businessman does not exist.