Biography
Alisher Usmanov is one of the richest and most influential people in Russia, the Russian billionaire of Uzbek origin, which has more than $ 13.7 billion as of 2020. Businessman and entrepreneur who makes a huge contribution to the development of the Russian economy, culture and sports.In media circles, he is also known as the owner of the publishing house "Kommersant". It is also the main shareholder of the cellular operator MegaFon. Usmanov belongs to the share in the Internet holding Mail RU Group and in Aliexpress Russia. Founding the Charitable Foundation "Art, Science and Sport"
Childhood and youth
Usmanov Alisher Burkhanovich was born on September 9, 1953 in the small town of Uzbekistan, an escort, in a prosecutor's family. According to the nationality of Uzbek, has Russian citizenship. His father was the prosecutor of Tashkent and had a weighty position in society.
The future Russian billionaire was a younger child in the family in which parents have invested all the best. At the same time, despite the well-being and honor of the prosecutor's family, the young alisher was brought up in rigor and was not a spoiled child.
As a child, in Usmanov began to wake up the "Fight" character and a brilliant mind, he could easily be given all objects at school, and therefore parents began to ruin the boy a diplomatic or legal future. In parallel with study, he was engaged in fencing, the enthusiasm whipped him Roman Duma "Three Musketeers". For two years, Alisher Burkhanovich has achieved serious success in sports - he received the title of Sports Master and was included in the USSR national team.
In 1971, at the end of the school he entered the prestigious university MGIMO at the Faculty of International Law. He was friends with all the fellow students, many of whom are now in power. Despite the fact that he belonged to the "cream of elite youth" of that time, the future diplomat was distinguished by sociability, intelligence and communicability.
In 1997, he was already a successful entrepreneur, Usmanov received another education in the Financial Academy under the President of the Russian Federation and became a graduate banker.
Career and business
Career Alisher Usmanova started brilliantly - at the end of the MGIMO, the young specialist was hired to work at the USSR Academy of Sciences, received the post of senior referent of the Central Committee of the Communist Union of Youth of the Uzbek Republic, which should have brought him to the tops of the State Security system.But in 1980, the Biography of Alisher Usmanova merged with the "Black Strip" - the future billionaire with his friend, which is the son of a high-ranking official, arrested as a result of intralic disassembly, directed against his father and became a prelude to the thundering for the entire USSR "cotton case". In 2000, the Supreme Court of Uzbekistan rehabilitated Usmanov and recognized a criminal case against a businessman fabricated.
After some time, in the late 1980s, he moved to Moscow, where his dizzying business career began with polyethylene packages and tobacco.
Since the beginning of the 90s, after the collapse of the USSR, Usmanov enters the bank's banking business - at first he came to the Board of Directors of the "First Independent Bank", among the founders of which were the largest Russian companies, such as Rosneft, MiG, Almazyuvirexport " At this stage, career, the future billionaire ranked robust positions in the Russian business, began to create its own investment companies and soon earned the first billion.
Since 1997, its business Alisher Burkhanovich connects to the country's gas structures and receives a leadership position at Gazprominvestholding, which is a subsidiary of Gazprom. Then he was entrusted with a serious mission to return the assets of the gas state corporation, which were separated by "private pockets", with which he coped. Thanks to Usmanov, Gazprom returned all the lost assets and again ranked the position of the largest state monopoly of Russia.
By 2004, the businessman became a richest man of the world and seized the largest iron ore holding "Metalloinvest", the estimated value of which reaches $ 8 billion. In 2007, the billionaire expanded the scope of activity and became a media magnate. At first, he acquired a 100% stake in the community of the Publishing House "Kommersant", and after a while he introduced into his media active channels "7TV", "Muztv", "Yu", as well as Disney Russia.
After a year, Usmanov invested millions of dollars in the Internet - he became a shareholder of DST Global and Mail.Ru Group, over which he later received full control. One of the first Alisher Burkhanovich saw prospects in Facebook, and quickly brought a share in the company to 8%, subsequently selling their shares almost ten times more expensive.
At the same time, he acquired a 30% stake in the London Football Club "Arsenal", which the current leadership of which even resorted to the services of a private detective to expose the billionaire and prevent his entry into the co-owners of the football club. But their efforts were not crowned with success, as it was not possible to prove that Usmanov had a dishonest path, failed.
In 2012, Usmanov received a controlling stake (50% and one share) of the company of the Russian operator of the MEGONFON
In 2015, Usmanov stated that she was ready to continue to invest in the development of Russian sports, and announced a new 100 million investment project to expand the Euro-spoken organization Virtus.Pro, which is the first in Russia by a professional computer sports club.
In October 2016, USM Holding representatives reported that Alisher Usmanov had ceased to be a tax resident of Russia. In 2015, he was outside the Russian Federation over 183 days. Thus, the billionaire spent in Russia less stipulated by the tax law. Next year, Usmanov returned to the tax resident of Russia. For 2016, the tax payments of Alisher Burkhanovich to the budget of the Russian Federation amounted to more than $ 400 million.
In 2018, the USM Holding was created by Usman declared a reorganization. By the end of the year, the billionaire companies were re-registered in Russia. For the repatriation of assets, Russian Forbes announced an entrepreneur to a businessman of the year.
According to his wife, the main clinic, in other words, the hobby of her husband is football, in which he is free of charges billions of rubles.
Charity
In addition to its business, the billionaire pays attention to public activities and the development of sports in Russia. In 2007, Usmanov for $ 72 million bought the collection of Rostropovich's paintings by his wife Galina Vishnevskaya and donated it to the St. Petersburg Konstantinovsky Palace, replenishing the state "piggy bank" of cultural values. In the same year, I bought the collection of Soviet cartoons from Americans, lost after the collapse of the USSR "Soyuzmultfilm", and then transferred the exclusive rights to them to the Russian State Bank "Bibigon".
Since 2008, Usmanov's charity acquired the official direction - the billionaire founded the Foundation "Art, Science and Sport", whose expenses for the first year of work amounted to about $ 126 million. In 2013, Alisher Burkhanovich was recognized as the leader of the rating of Russian patients, for which he was awarded with honorary state awards for Active public and charitable activities.
The major destination of the charity activities of Usmanova is medicine - its fund is actively helping people with vision issues. In 2017, the first in Russia in Russia was held in Russia for the Vision of Cybernetic Implants, restored vision to a completely blind person. For this operation, the Fund received gratitude to the President of Russia. Alisher Burkhanovich also allocates money for the development of typhlocomation - accessible to disabled victims of the form of watching movies and theatrical productions.
Other charity initiatives Usmanova:
- The return of the Nobel medal to the DNA DNA Watson DNA discovery, which was forced to sell it at the auction because of the need to finance his research;
- The construction of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Moscow a monument to the former foreign minister and the chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation Evgeny Primakov;
- Financing the filming of the biographical films "Sin" (about the life and creativity of Michelangelo Buonarotti) and "Lev Yashin. Goalkeeper of my dream "(about the legendary Soviet goalkeeper).
In addition to charity, Usmanov pays separate attention to the development of Russian sports at the global level. In 2008, he became president of the International Fencing Federation. In 2009, the billionaire entered the Council under the President of the Russian Federation for the development of sports and physical education in the country.
He became a patronage and an active organizer of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in Sochi in 2014, which allowed him to enter the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for the Support of Russian Olympic Champions.
Personal life
Alisher Usmanova's personal life is also successful, like a career. He was lucky to meet the only love of all his life in his youth - Gymnast Irina Wiener, with whom he hand in hand held all life tests and earned a multi-billion dollar wealth.There are no joint children with a couple, together they raised the Son from the first marriage of Irina - Anton. And Alisher Burkhanovich has 6 nephews. Among the nearest relatives of Usmanov was called the nephew of Babur Usmanov. In 2008, he married the niece of the President of Uzbekistan. But in 2013, the tragedy happened to Babur - he fell into a car accident, which was crashed to death.
Ghania Usmanov's niece got married to Vaja Uzakova's tennis player. Their wedding took place at the end of 2017. And the triumph was truly turned out to be royal. Often wedding children from influential families are in a closed format, but this time no one has hidden from the public, and the photo, and the video immediately appeared in "Instagram".
Today, Usmanova's wife is the head coach of the Russian team of rhythmic gymnastics and the founder of the International Academy of Sports Irina Wiener, located in Novogorsk. In the same place, in the environmental zone of the River Skhodny, the Usmanov family elevated the unique residential complex "Olympic Village Novogorsk".
In 2019, Alisher Usmanov built for his wife the building of the center of rhythmic gymnastics. A new sports facility is located near the stadium "Luzhniki". In the center of Irina Winner trains the Russian rhythmic gymnastics team, and various competitions are held.
State assessment
The state of Alisher Usmanova for 2020 is $ 13.6 billion. Today it takes 9 line in the rating of Forbes "200 richest businessmen of Russia 2018". At the same time, the billionaire himself considers himself a simple person and calls money to the usual functioning mechanism, which makes it possible to achieve goals set in front of them.
Not far from billionaire and human "weaknesses" - like the rest of the representatives of this circle, he has a yacht. The ship Dilbar, named after his mother, is considered the most spacious private yacht in the world. The total area of its inner premises is 3800 square meters, and the length of 156 meters. Its costs did not disclose it, but approximately it cost Usmanov at $ 600 million. His previous yacht, "she" (previously she was called Dilbar), had a length of 110 meters and The cost of $ 200 million - its billionaire sold. Alsher Burkhanovich also has its own Airbus A340 aircraft.
In an interview with Usmanov, shared his secret to success. According to a businessman, this is a correct and accurate business strategy. He tries to avoid fights and quarrels in work, which allows him to go to the winner in many risky deals.
For a long time there were rumors about the heirs of Capital Usmanova. In 2019, in a conversation with the reporter of Financial Times, Alisher Burkhanovich shared how he intends to solve the issue of the continuity of its savings: "Fifty percent of the family, fifty-managers who deserve it."
Alisher Usmanov now
In March 2017, Alexey Navalny and his fund against corruption published a film investigation into the corruption schemes and Usmanov. Navalny filed an application to the Investigation Committee demanding to make a criminal case about a bribe. In turn, Alisher Burkhanovich filed a lawsuit on the protection of honor and dignity against Navalny and FBK.
Also, the businessman recorded a video message dedicated to his judicial claim to Navalny. The case ended with the fact that the court fully satisfied the lawsuit of Alisher Burkhanovich, and Alexei Navalny ordered to remove the film from YouTube, as well as delete the site where the investigation was placed.
In July 2018, it became known that Usmanov was going to sell their package (30%) in the London Football Club "Arsenal". Alisher Burkhanovich did not once tried to become the main owner of the club. He wanted to redeem the share of the American entrepreneur Stan Kronke, but every time he received a categorical refusal. And since it cannot increase its securities package to the level of control, he decided to sell his share.
Financial analysts assumed that the buyer of his share package would have to lay out more than $ 650 million. As a result, on August 7, 2018, he acquired the owner of the controlling stake in Arsenal Stan Kronke. The Russian agreed to sell his part for $ 713 million. Now the Kronka will actually become the private owner of Arsenal.
Usmanov, in turn, after a short period of time after the sale of the London asset, invested 600 million rubles in another Arsenal, a football club from Tula.
In 2019, at the height of the Doping Scandal, the Rights of the President of the International Federation of Fencing and the Former Member of the USSR national team, Alisher Usmanov defended the athletes of the Russian national team. In a letter addressed to the WADA president and the head of the International Olympic Committee, the entrepreneur spoke in favor of serious sanctions in proven violations of the anti-doping rules, but called on to free from restrictions from colleagues on the national team, in no involvement. He also called on to give Russian atlves the opportunity to perform under the national flag.
In 2020, in an interview with the British Financial Times, Alisher Usmanov said that he was wrong to call the oligarch, because he never participated in privatization, nor in mortgage auctions - all his assets bought billionaire already in the secondary market.
In March 2020, during the Coronavirus Pandemic, the Mail RU Group, the main share in which is owned by the USM Holding, has allocated 1 billion rubles to support Russian small and medium businesses