Biography
On August 22, 2020, the Russian oppositionist Alexei Navalny, with a suspicion of poisoning by an unknown substance, was taken to the German clinic "Sharite". All shipping costs took over the entrepreneur Boris Zimin. Later, the son of the creator of Bilain, Dmitry Zimin, was surprised by the caused by a hitch around the payment of the carriage and said that people began to offer him the money he, in turn, would advise him to send to good goals.Childhood and youth
In November 1968, in the capital of the USSR, Maya and Dmitry Ziminy born the only heir to Boris. The boy was named after the grandfather in the father's line - the mechanic engineer arrested for the anti-Soviet agitation and the died in the camp under Novosibirsk in 1935.
The family biography says that Grandmother Berthkitsky worked by a typist, a cousin was shot in 1938, and the Praemovka Pravican Ancestors were also a participant in the Anglo-Board War, head of the Okabristov Party, and the Moscow City Head.
From the side of the winter there were entrepreneurs, the owners of weaving factory near Orekhovo-Zuyevo, the designer of the Moscow water pipeline and the founder of the "private opera".
"My upbringing is a large extent around our family. Books. Kitchen freestyle, enemy voices, samizdat, Galich and Vysotsky. Mountain and water skiing, construction of boats and ski lifts, archaeological expeditions, and most importantly - people: techi and humanities, students and engineers, "said the son of the creator of Bilain in an interview.And he added that he did not remember at all so that adults in childhood would scold or punished in childhood - in the family simply was not the place of insults and bite.
In the conscious age, there were motorcycles (as well as cars and helicopters) among its passionate hobbies), which, of course, caused some parental excitement. Later, the rally was added to them - in 2006, the Master of Sport won the Cup of Russia, the next year she won two victories at the stages of the same competition and took the 6th place at the Native Country Championship.
As for higher education, the young man got it in the metropolitan HSE. From 1987 to 1989, he served in the Armed Forces of the USSR, mostly in Kazakhstan, in the steppes of Sary-Ozka, with the Genghis of Aitmatov in the novel "and the longest day lasts" ("Bulen Films").
Demobilized, the young man in the 1990s lit up in professional auto racing "Formula East" in Pärnu, and later acquired RPM-Driving Art racing command.
Personal life
"I would never have thought that I would have seven children. I first became a father in 24 years, and in the seventh time - in 45 years. My oldest son is 27, and younger daughter is almost 5 years old. I can not call myself a good father, but over time I became more tolerant to the world, including my children, "a businessman admitted in an interview in 2018-2019.Personal life The entrepreneur does not hide, but also does not expose to the head. It is known that his first five children call Leonid, Margarita, Dina, Dmitry and Miroslava, and family photos, he regularly publishes in Facebook and can speculate with journalists about the rules of raising heirs. The main one refers, for example, your own example in everything.Together with the beloved wife Yulia Prokhorova, the graduate of MSU named after Mikhail Lomonosov, a man loves to travel and has already managed to visit Kenya, Ethiopia, Zanzibar, in Alaska and in other corners of the globe. To the study of the world, the spouses are trying to attach sons and daughters.
Science and social activities
Speaking about the beginning of a professional biography, Moskvich said that he did not consider the right thing when the head of the family transmits the offspring business management only on the grounds that they are the closest relatives. First of all, you need to prove the latter that it is consistent as a manager.
In his case, it happened - at first he was engaged in small businesses, then more larger. And when Dmitry Borisovich broke up with VimpelCom and needed help, the heir decided to leave his own business.
In 2002, the businessman headed the investment management company BMT Management Ltd. Since 2004, he chaired the Board of Trustees of the Foundation of Non-Profit Programs "Dynasty" supporting fundamental science. In 2005, he participated in the international charitable motorcycle of "Rally White Nights" (Vladivostok - St. Petersburg), whose goal was to collect funds for helping children, cultural and environmental projects in Russia.
In 2015, the "dynasty" was introduced into the NGO register, recognized as a foreign agent and eliminated. At the same time, the existence of the Zimin-Jr. Ziminen called the "Wednesday" ceased. After that, a number of the media reported that his father went into forced emigration, allegedly, even with her son, although Boris had already lived in the United States for several years.
However, the activities of the family organization did not go to the fly, but continued in the International Non-Profit Zimin Foundation, created in 2016 and the trust trust finanted by Trust.
Boris Zimin now
After in August 2020 Alexei Navalny, whose condition was first rated as stable, delivered to Germany, the words of gratitude to the businessman and philanthropus Boris Zimin and Zimin Foundation sent Leonid Volkov. The FBK project manager expressed extreme appreciation for the payment of the flight with resuscitation equipment and waiting for an airplane in Omsk.