Biography
In the Ukrainian commercial real estate market, Vagif Aliyev - the figure defining. The developer put his hand to the creation of the largest shopping and entertainment complexes and business centers of Kiev and is now included in the twenty of the richest people of the country. At the same time, the millionaire prefers to hold onto the side of journalists and secular life, and therefore gained a reputation for a person silent and closed.Childhood and youth
According to Aliyev, Azerbaijani, but was born in Turkmenistan. His childhood years passed here, and then business talent manifested itself: the child earned the first money still as a schoolboy. At first he was engaged in delivery of beer, and then began to buy tickets to the movies and resell them with an extra charge. Profit Vagif attributed mothers, and sometimes spent on friends, generously inviting the whole class on the film.
Ambition of a young entrepreneur grew up with age. He began to trade the carbonated water and in the mid-1980s already owned the network from hundreds of kiosks scattered through Native Ashgabat. This allowed the guy to feed the family and save the assets.
Despite the fact that the further career of the businessman turned out to be related to the construction, special education in this area of Aliyev did not receive. Probably, he does not have higher education at all, and life has become "his universities". In an interview, the man said that he did not know foreign languages.
Personal life
For many years Aliyev lives in Ukraine and admits that she has long become a house. Here is the wife, children and grandchildren, here he himself took place as a businessman. Both daughters married Ukrainians and remained in Kiev, although, taking into account the state of the father, they could choose anywhere in the world. By the way, if not daughter, about the personal life of Vagif and there was no reason to speak. However, the eldest chose a public and often falls into focus of attention of journalists.Natella Krapivina is known in Ukraine as a director, clipmerecer, the creator of the show "Eagle and Rusk" and producer Svetlana Loboda. Women are associated not only by professional relationships, but also strong friendship, which is so much alarming public that it is often possible to hear conversations about the love relationship between the singer and producer. Provocative articles and photos periodically appear on the network. However, both call these assumptions are not different as slander.
Business
Having learned to earn money back in his youth, Vagif continued to follow the fact. He sold Parfümer, until he met Igor Bakai, engaged in gas supplies from Turkmenistan to Ukraine. This meeting has become a sign in the biography, as it opened a way to a large business for the future developer.
The game of a large man decided to start in Ukraine, where he moved in the early 1990s. Aliyev took up barter operations as part of the Republic of Corporation, exchanging Turkmen gas to the running goods - from a galosque to computers. Cases went well, and the company's turnover for the year amounted to $ 500 million.
Serious redoned on the gas market of Ukraine in the mid-1990s forced Vagif and his partner Igor Nikonov to leave the country and move to the United States. Business in America did not work out, but they managed to gain ideas about new promising areas. In 1998, returned to Kiev, the developer begins to promote construction projects. United with like-minded people by Vladimir Karapivina and Igor Nikonov to Kan, in the early 2000s, Aliyev, in the capital of Ukraine, the first Kiev shopping center of the premium segment called "Mandarin Plaza".
Following it, the Parus Business Center, the entertainment complex Arena Entertainment and Lavina Mall - the largest commercial object of real estate in Ukraine, the area of 170 thousand square meters. M. Ambitions of the developer do not fade away: A man admits that for 25 years they missed the best land plots of Kiev and is preparing to embody the construction super vessel from shopping giants - Blockbuster Mall, Hippodrome Mall and Ocean Mall, compared to which the area of previous projects seem to the sea.
Aliyev does not stop scandals associated with its large-scale buildings. The entrepreneur is often accused of spoiling the historical appearance of the city, creates transport collaps and does not comply with the safety standards in construction. But the dog barks - the caravan goes, and Aliyev continues his business, pretending to become the largest owner of trade real estate in the country.
A businessman is not afraid that the area of giant objects will remain unfilled, since he has experience in attracting major tenants to shopping centers. Vagif argues that at one time he led to Ukraine brands of various segments - from the mass market in the face of H & M to the suite in the form of Chanel, Tiffany and Dolce & Gabbana. Real estate rental brings a male solid income, "Forbes" assesses its condition of $ 285 million.
Vagif Aliyev is now
Aliyev continues to store Kiev with office and trading titans, ranking the 18th position in the ranking of the richest people of Ukraine. The man plans to commission the Ocean Mall shopping center, adjacent to Ocean Plaza, and does not hide intentions to acquire the latter in order to combine both centers into a single complex.