Sergei Chemezov: biography, nationality. Family Eldorado of Sergei Chemezov Chemezov Sergei Viktorovich condition is being assessed

"Biography"

Education

In 1975 he graduated with honors from the Irkutsk Institute of National Economy, then from the Higher Courses of the General Staff Academy. Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor, full member of the Academy of Military Sciences.

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"News"

Chemezov announced the transfer of medical helicopters worth ₽40 billion by 2021

By 2021, Rostec will supply 150 helicopters to the air ambulance service (NASA) with a total cost of 40 billion rubles. This was stated by the head of the Rostec state corporation Sergei Chemezov at the flight test complex of the Moscow Helicopter Plant named after M.L. Mile, reports an RBC correspondent.

AvtoVAZ opened sales of the Lada Connect system from the company of Chemezov’s wife

AvtoVAZ has started selling the Lada Connect car remote control system, TASS writes, citing an AvtoVAZ representative.

Having grown up, he lays down “straws”?

The owner and president of a major engineering company complains about the lack of working capital and criticizes the government's credit and financial policies. Is Sergei Nedoroslev preparing the ground for news that the company that produces half of the metalworking machines produced in Russia will have to be saved at state expense?

Serdyukov spoke about the competition between Rostec and Roscosmos

Director of the Rostec aviation cluster Anatoly Serdyukov spoke about the rivalry with Roscosmos in engine building. According to Serdyukov, Rostec is ready to discuss problems and is waiting for counter initiatives from a competitor

Chemezov spoke about plans to create an aircraft concern modeled on Airbus

The Russian aviation industry will be united into one concern within Rostec. However, the state corporation refused to legally merge UAC with Russian Helicopters due to the presence of minority shareholders in both companies.

There is no decree written for the blades

As Kommersant found out, the plan approved by Russian President Vladimir Putin to transfer the United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) to Rostec encountered difficulties. According to Kommersant, the first version of the presidential decree on this included a clause on the creation of a single company based on the UAC and the Rostec holding company “Russian Helicopters”. This was not agreed upon with the private shareholders of UAC and Russian Helicopters, including those from the UAE: when the companies merged, they could demand the redemption of their shares, valued at over 30 billion rubles. The Ministry of Industry and Trade tried to exclude this item from the project by turning to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, but he demanded to “calculate everything again.”

According to Kommersant’s sources, government officials and the presidential administration cannot yet agree on a scheme for the transfer of UAC from the Federal Property Management Agency to Rostec.

"NACIMBIO" WILL SUPPLY FLU VACCINES FOR 3.8 BILLION RUBLES

The National Immunobiological Company (Natsimbio, part of the Rostec Group of Companies) will supply influenza vaccines to federal medical institutions and regions for the 2017-2018 epidemiological season for 3.75 billion rubles. The Ministry of Health carried out two purchases from a single supplier for 31 million doses of vaccine.

At the same time, 9.3 million vaccines worth 1.748 billion rubles are intended for children, another 21.8 million vaccines worth 1.997 billion are intended for adults. Under the terms of the contract, the company must transfer vaccines to the Ministry of Health by August 31, 2018. Most of the doses will be sent for distribution to regional ministries of health and federal medical centers.

The fleet is losing instruments

A bankruptcy claim has been filed for Saratov Radio Instrument Plant JSC

The Saratov region may lose another defense enterprise - the region's arbitration court has received a bankruptcy petition from Saratov Radio Instrument Plant JSC. The total amount of claims of Heat and Power Generation Company LLC is 9.68 million rubles. The Ministry of Industry and Energy hopes that the two economic entities will be able to independently reach a consensus. Experts believe that the authorities should try to help the enterprise, since without this the plant may not be able to cope with its obligations.

The arrest of the architect in absentia turned out to be incorrect

As Kommersant learned, the Moscow City Court overturned the decision to arrest the famous architect and designer Manana Hernandez-Getashvili in absentia. She is accused of two large scams involving designer decoration of mansions in Zhukovka near Moscow, one of which previously belonged to the general director of the Rostec state corporation Sergei Chemezov and his wife Ekaterina Ignatova, and the other to a company associated with the name of the general director of the ONEXIM group Dmitry Razumov. The investigation estimates the damage at millions of euros and dollars. The arrest in absentia was canceled due to procedural violations committed by the investigation and not noticed by the court of first instance.

The Presidium of the Moscow City Court declared illegal the decision to arrest 48-year-old Manana Hernandez-Getashvili in absentia, accused of two major frauds, made in April 2017 by the Tagansky District Court of Moscow. According to Kommersant, the cassation court, which considered the complaint of her lawyer Alexander Vasilyev, found at least two serious violations of the Code of Criminal Procedure of the Russian Federation. The resolution issued by the Moscow City Court, in particular, states that Ms. Hernandez-Getashvili has a lawyer by agreement, who “was not notified of the date, time and place of the court hearing, which was held without his participation.” At the same time, the investigator knew that lawyer Vasiliev had been representing the interests of the accused since April 2016.

Chemezov announced an increase in the export of Kalashnikov weapons due to sanctions

The head of Rostec, Sergei Chemezov, stated at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF-2018) that the Kalashnikov concern has significantly increased its presence in the global small arms market after the imposition of sanctions against Russia, RIA Novosti reports.

The head of Rostec asked the government for 30% of Rosseti

Sergei Chemezov proposed to Dmitry Medvedev a scheme under which Rostec would receive up to 30% in the authorized capital of Rosseti. The Prime Minister instructed to study this proposal

Rostec suggested that Rogozin bankrupt the only manufacturer of infantry fighting vehicles

Sergei Chemezov asked Deputy Prime Minister Rogozin to consider the issue of bankruptcy of the only Russian manufacturer of infantry fighting vehicles - the strategic Kurganmashzavod; then it is planned to merge it with the Rostec enterprise in Tula

Former adviser Sergei Chemezov was suspected of embezzling 10 million rubles.

Investigators from the Investigative Committee detained Sergei Chemezov, ex-adviser to the head of the Rostec corporation, on suspicion of embezzlement of funds from the National Immunobiological Company. The house of the detainee was searched

Chemezov announced details of the contract for the supply of S-400 to Turkey

The CEO of Rostec said that under the terms of the contract with Russia, Turkey will receive four divisions of the S-400 Triumph anti-aircraft missile system.

Rostec explained the receipt of an apartment by Chemezov’s son

Rostec told how the son of the head of the corporation, Alexander Chemezov, got an “apartment from the state” in a prestigious building in the center of Moscow

The press service of Rostec commented on the publication of the Dozhd TV channel, which stated that the full namesake of the son of the head of the corporation Sergei Chemezov - Alexander Sergeevich Chemezov - received an apartment in the center of Moscow from the state.

“The specified housing was received from the state by Sergei Chemezov. After the divorce, Sergei Viktorovich left the apartment to the family, re-registering it to his son. It’s a pity that the situation has become a reason for speculation and rumors,” a company representative told RBC.

Chemezov spoke about the cost of the deal with Turkey for the supply of S-400

The amount of the contract for the supply of S-400 to Ankara exceeded $2 billion, Chemezov said. This coincides with assessments given by sources from the Russian and Turkish sides in the spring and summer

Transparency declared Chemezov's conflict of interests in Nacimbio transactions

Transparency International Russia saw signs of a conflict of interest of Rostec head Sergei Chemezov in transactions between the pharmaceutical holding Nacimbio and Marathon Group. The companies deny these suspicions

The head of Rostec announced the need for bankruptcy of Tractor Plants

The head of Rostec, Sergei Chemezov, considers the financial recovery of the Tractor Plants concern (KTZ) impossible. In his opinion, the company needs to go bankrupt, TASS reports.

Chemezov announced 200 criminal cases initiated at the request of Rostec

“Some assets were under the control of criminal groups or were illegally alienated,” said the head of Rostec, speaking in the Federation Council

Rostec will increase the production of import-substituting products in the Tver region

On August 2, Governor of the Tver Region Igor Rudenya and General Director of the Rostec State Corporation Sergei Chemezov visited one of the largest machine-building enterprises in the Tver Region - the Savelovsky Machine Tool Plant.

Rosoboronexport announced an increase in interest in weapons from the Russian Federation after the operation in Syria

On September 6, the head of the Rostec state corporation, Sergei Chemezov, said at the Army-2016 forum that Russia exported weapons and military equipment worth more than $7 billion in eight months of 2016.

“Over the past two years, we have maintained the volumes of military products exported, and in 2015 we even exceeded them in some respects. In the first eight months of 2016, the volume of supplies of military products to foreign customers amounted to more than $7 billion, which is an excellent indicator,” said the head of Rostec.

“Rosoboronexport’s order portfolio today amounts to more than $46 billion,” he added.

The head of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation, Alexander Fomin, told Interfax on September 6 that Russia plans to supply weapons and military equipment worth $14 billion abroad this year. “14 billion (dollars),” he said, answering a question on the export of weapons and military equipment based on the results of 2016.

“Approximately the same numbers for the next year, years,” he noted.

Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Yevgeny Lukyanov told Interfax in April about the increase in demand for Russian weapons against the backdrop of the operation in Syria. “The world has seen that our weapons systems, combat aircraft and helicopters, and other military equipment adequately ensure success. I can imagine that such a roadshow will make many people think about the need to purchase Russian-made weapons,” Lukyanov said then.

The head of Rostec Sergei Chemezov came to the races in Kazan

Director of the Rostec Corporation Sergei Chemezov arrived in the capital of Tatarstan to celebrate Republic Day, visiting the horse races dedicated to this day.

The head of Rostec was seen at the celebration near the Tatspirtprom stand, where he carefully examined the company’s products. It should be noted that Chemezov was accompanied by the Minister of Agriculture of the Republic of Tatarstan Marat Akhmetov and the head of Tatspirtprom Irek Minnakhmetov.

Let us remind you that today Tatarstan celebrates Republic Day. Earlier, the head of the Republic of Tatarstan, Rustam Minnikhanov, congratulated the Tatarstan people on this day.

Chemezov's technological breakthrough?

The state order of the drug market is under the control of friends of Sergei Chemezov

The desire of the head of Rostec, Sergei Chemezov, to transfer to himself the financial flows directed by the Ministry of Health for the purchase of medicines has been well known for a long time. One can recall, for example, how relatives and friends of the head of the holding, related to the PharmEco holding, carried out adventures with the purchase of vaccines, using billions of state rubles after competitions, the competitiveness of which was questioned.

Now the Chemezov clan has made a serious bid to completely oust competitors from this fairly profitable (like all government contracts, which Chemezov is an expert in) business. At the same time, the capacities at Rostec’s disposal are clearly not enough to fulfill the assigned tasks.

"Morshanskhimmash"

The Tambov Ministry of Internal Affairs opened a criminal case against the management of Morshanskhimmash LLC, which squandered 58 of the 60 million rubles allocated for the project. Independent experts say that behind everything is the former head of the UAC, whom Mikhail Slyusar kept with him (lobbied by the head of Rostec Sergei Chemezov and the head of the Ministry of Industry Denis Manturov).

The United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) allocated 60 million rubles for the development of fuel tanks for the new Il-78M-90 refueling aircraft, which were successfully stolen. After which the investigative department of the Morshansky Ministry of Internal Affairs became interested in the case.

“Only preparatory work has been completed under the contract: the technological process and technical conditions have been agreed upon, and travel expenses have been spent for this,” noted Nadezhda Istomina, a representative of the regional prosecutor’s office.

Chemezov spoke about Bo Andersson’s “big mistake”

Instead of cooperating with Russian suppliers of components, Bo Andersson, as head of AvtoVAZ, preferred to take “the easiest path,” says Sergei Chemezov. According to him, it was a “big mistake”

The decision of the head of AvtoVAZ, Bo Andersson, not to intensify cooperation with Russian component suppliers led the automaker to losses, said the head of the Rostec corporation, Sergei Chemezov, in an interview with the TASS agency.

According to Chemezov, Andersson, as head of Russia’s largest automaker, “took the easiest path” - he entered into agreements for the supply of components with suppliers of the Renault and Nissan automakers. The head of Rostec called this a “big mistake.”

“Andersson believes that Russian suppliers have poor product quality, but I always told him that we need to work with them and force them to work, help them attract the same foreign partners to create joint production facilities in Russia,” Chemezov said.

According to Chemezov, the head of AvtoVAZ did not listen to his advice, which led the automaker to a loss, a significant portion of which was caused by the purchase of components. Andersson “has done quite a lot to bring the company to the deplorable situation in which it finds itself today,” the head of Rostec concluded.

Bloomberg found Chinese investors among Rosneft's partners in Siberia

Rosneft's partner Skyland Petroleum Group, which together with it and BP will develop the East Siberian field, is financed by investors from China, Bloomberg found out

Rosneft allowed the suspension of work in Abkhazia due to the position of the authorities

Rosneft is ready to suspend its projects in Abkhazia due to the position of the authorities who initiated a review of oil production agreements. The company warned that it would ask for “fair compensation” for the invested funds.

The US expanded sanctions against Russia

The US Treasury has expanded its sanctions list against a number of companies and individuals. The American Embassy explained this step by the need to stop cases of evasion of existing sanctions.

Rosneft halved payments to BP in the second quarter due to oil prices

Due to falling oil prices, Rosneft halved payments to BP. In the second quarter, its British shareholder received $510 million in pre-tax profit, BP provides such data in the report

Russian defense enterprises have $2 billion stuck in Western banks

Russian defense enterprises lost $2 billion last year. Western banks, frightened by sanctions, are delaying the transfer of money, says a Rostec representative

Due to the sanctions of Western banks, Rostec has $1.5 billion stuck in its accounts

In 2014, Rosoboronexport (part of Rostec) supplied $13.2 billion worth of military products abroad, according to the state corporation’s annual report for 2014. 48.7% of total exports were products manufactured directly by Rostec enterprises. However, not all export proceeds reach the supplier on time.

The amount of funds received in 2014 to pay for Russian supplies of military products (MP) decreased by 18% compared to 2013 - to $6.9 billion, the report says. According to the state corporation, this happened due to the suspension of payments by Western banks.

Chemezov asked Putin for a monopoly on the supply of HIV drugs

As RBC learned, Rostec CEO Sergei Chemezov asked Vladimir Putin to make the corporation’s subsidiary the only supplier of drugs for the treatment of HIV, tuberculosis and hepatitis within the framework of government procurement

Rostec decided to develop one of the world's largest gold deposits

Rostec will develop one of the world's largest gold deposits - Sukhoi Log. The state corporation estimates the project at 96 billion rubles. An auction for the field may be held in early 2016

AvtoVAZ's largest supplier has stopped production

The AvtoVAZagregat plant announced a production stop. The manufacturer announced that it will remain idle until the end of July, and then all its employees will be sent on vacation

The second wife of Sergei Chemezov, Ekaterina Ignatova, regularly appears on the lists of the richest “halves” of government top managers. So, in 2015, she took 28th place in the Forbes magazine ranking with a net worth of $50 million. It is this figure that most interests many - both journalists and other curious people. When in 2004 the head of Rostec, an ally and closest friend of the country’s president since the days of the GDR, remarried (he had 2 sons from his first marriage), then everyone was surprised by the age of Sergei Chemezov’s wife, Ekaterina Ignatova. Yes, the bride was much younger than her lover (only 5 years older than her husband’s son). But we think that today unequal marriages are not so uncommon.

The future businesswoman was born in Moscow in the fall of 1968. She was a very smart and pretty girl, she first went to kindergarten, then did well at school, and had a special love for foreign languages. And it seemed to everyone that after finishing 10th grade, Ekaterina Ignatova would certainly enter one of the capital’s language universities. But that didn't happen. In 1989, the girl entered the Institute of Railway Transport Engineers, which in 1993 was renamed MGUPS (Moscow State Transport University). This is the name indicated on her diploma.

Personal life: period of youth

What did you do Ignatova Ekaterina Sergeevna before going to college? After all, she graduated from school in 1985, and began studying only 4 years later, after receiving a certificate. While still a very young girl, she met a handsome guy, Mikhail, fell in love with him and agreed to live with him in a civil marriage. In 1987, the couple had a daughter, who was named Anastasia, but the surname was recorded in the birth certificate not of the father, but of the mother - Ignatova. After some time, the young father decided that he was in a hurry to start a family, and disappeared from the lives of Elena and Nastya. So raising the baby fell on the shoulders of the young mother; it’s good that her mother began to help her with this. When the girl was 2 years old, her grandmother persuaded Ekaterina Ignatova to go further to study, so that in the future she could support both herself and her daughter. How did the good woman know then, what gift fate had in store for her daughter and granddaughter? That after 30 years they will not only be very rich, but also famous.

Adulthood: beginning of working life

In 1994, Ekaterina Ignatova, after graduating from university, got a job, not in her specialty, but in the profession she had dreamed of since childhood. She became an employee of the interpreting department of MSLU (Moscow State University) linguistic university). After some time, she managed to get a job as a translator in the Administration of the President of the country.

Ignatova's husband

It was here, at the Office, that Ekaterina Ignatova met her future husband. He was married and had two adult sons (the eldest is only 5 years younger than Katya). She raised her daughter. There, however, sympathy flared up between them, and in order to be closer to the girl, Sergei invited Ekaterina to work in his company "Promexport", which was engaged in the sale of weapons, then she moved to " Rosoboronexport”, which also belonged to a businessman. In 2004, Sergei divorced his wife Lyudmila and married Ekaterina. Before formalizing the relationship, Ekaterina gave birth to Chemezov’s son.

Business

In subsequent years, Ekaterina Ignatova (see photo in the article) began to actively develop her business. And by 2013, according to official data, her income began to exceed her husband’s income by 13 times. She is involved in both pharmaceutical and banking activities. Has many beauty objects. 13% of the shares of the International Financial Club bank belong to her. Chemezov is also a shareholder of this bank. From 2010-2012 a young businesswoman became interested in the restaurant business. She owned a controlling stake in Risont-Holding, a company that manages the Etazh restaurant chain. One of the best beauty salons in the capital, Next, also belongs to the wife of the owner of the Rostec company.

Income

In 2009, Ekaterina was declared unemployed because she resigned as head of the Kate company (70% of shares), which was engaged in the production of auto parts and components. This did not affect her income. However, the most successful year for her, from a financial point of view, was 2011. Then her annual income was “only” 60 million rubles, and in 2014 it exceeded 2 billion. When asked by journalists about the reason for the increase in income, Ekaterina proudly replied that this was due to the competent management of deposits.

About the company “Kate”

This was the most successful of her projects. She launched it in 2004, the same year she became the wife of Sergei Chemezov. The plant was engaged in the production of automatic transmissions for cars; after 5 years, AvtoVAZ entered into a contract with Kate. But after the controlling stake in AvtoVAZ was transferred from Rostec to the Japanese company Renault-Nissan in 2012, they refused the services of Ignatova’s company and began purchasing automatic gearboxes from a well-known Japanese company. Then Ekaterina decided to build a branch of the Kate plant in Kaliningrad, but this project remained on paper. And by 2014, the company’s debt amounted to more than half a billion rubles. I had to close.

The best deal

Chemezov's wife Ekaterina Ignatova very soon proved to everyone that she is a born businessman. In 2006, through the Troika Dialog company, she acquired a little more than five percent of the shares of the Itera company, which was engaged in oil and gas production. For more than 6 years, no one suspected that she was a shareholder. By 2011, the young woman had only 1.1 percent left, She sold the rest at a great profit. According to some information, the package she sold (we are talking about 4%) brought the woman 70,000,000 dollars, according to another source, this figure could be two billion USD. Presumably, for the remaining 1.1 two years later, thanks to R. Vadanyan, the head of Troika Dialog, she was able to earn approximately the same amount ($2 billion).

Bank investments

In 2010, Ekaterina Ignatova became a co-owner of the International Finacial Club bank, but experts believe that this was an unprofitable investment for her, since this enterprise did not bring her any income. However, Ignatova said she was pleased and expected to make a profit in the future. The owner of the bank was Mikhail Prokhorov.

Restaurant investments

This has already been discussed above. In 2010, Ignatova made another major investment - she completely acquired Rizont Holding, which included 19 restaurants of the Etazh brand, the Ye club, the Picasso DJ bar, the Del Capo pizzeria, and the Aquapark bar. , Confectionery-cafe“Eclair” and restaurant “Troy”. The previous owners were Russian businessmen of Armenian origin Andranik Sargasyan (director of Troika Dialog), Gor Nakhapetyan (Vice President of the Business School“Skolkovo”) and Anushavan Arzumanyan. Two years later, Ekaterina realized that the business was not bringing her profit (experts said it was due to improper management), and she resold the shares to one of the previous owners - A. Sargsyan (he previously owned 50%). However, according to a statement from its representative, the business was not unprofitable either.

Medical investments

With Mikhail Prokhorov E. Ignatova were partners not only in banking, but also in medicine. Together they decided to found a clinic. For Chemezov’s wife, this was a new type of business, while Prokhorov had had the Israeli medical center Ramat Aviv since 2003, and in 2008 he opened a representative office in Russia, calling it a diagnostic and treatment center. Creative medical center" The location for the founding of the new enterprise was chosen very well - the territory of the Federal State Budgetary Institution "Polyclinic with Hospital" of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation.

Daughter of Ekaterina Ignatova

After 3 years, Prokhorov’s 23-year-old daughter became his business partner Ignatova Anastasia, at that time a graduate student at MGIMO. Her mother helped her acquire 50% of the shares. However, the business was not very profitable - only 62 million rubles in 3 years, and the loss amounted to 58 million. The company was liquidated in 2014. But the young businesswoman Anastasia Ignatova liked the medical business, and she herself founded her own clinic “Rosmed”.

Real Estate Investments

In 2015, Ekaterina Ignatova began resale of the Techno Loft business park. It was opened on the territory of a plant for the production of car upholstery and cardboard packaging. This plant was absorbed by the Magma company back in 2007, and was declared bankrupt in 2013. As a result, 1.3 hectares of land with 13 buildings were put up for sale. The buyer turned out to be the Territory Progress company. There is no exact information about the owners, since it is registered in turn at several offshore companies in the British Isles of Virginia. It was precisely from her that in 2015 this territory was bought by the company “R. D.S. Management”, owned by Ignatova since 2005. She became the owner of 99% of the shares, and a month later Ignatova resold R. D.S. Management” by a certain Ilyina, who owned only 1% of “Techno Loft”. What the transaction amount was is not indicated anywhere.

Residence

By the way, Ignatova was able to gain $30 million from the sale of her unfinished residence near Moscow. They say that the buyer of the house, over which the famous Georgian architect-designer and the owner of the house herself were recently sued, turned out to be a businessman from Kyrgyzstan.

He was Deputy General Director of the foreign trade association Sovintersport.

From 1996 to 1999 - Head of the Foreign Economic Relations Department of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation.

From 1999 to 2000 - General Director of the federal state unitary enterprise Promexport.

Since November 2000 - First Deputy General Director of FSUE Rosoboronexport.

From 2004 to 2007 - General Director of FSUE Rosoboronexport. Member of the Commission on Military-Technical Cooperation of the Russian Federation with Foreign States.

Since 2007 - President of the All-Russian industry association of employers "Union of Mechanical Engineers of Russia".

Since 2007 - Chairman of the All-Russian public organization "Union of Russian Mechanical Engineers". Chairman of the Boards of Directors of OJSC United Industrial Corporation Oboronprom, OJSC VSMPO-Avisma Corporation. Member of the Boards of Directors of OJSC KAMAZ, OJSC Scientific and Production Corporation Irkut, OJSC Air Defense Concern Almaz-Antey, OJSC Aviation holding company "Sukhoi", OJSC "Kazan Optical-Mechanical Plant".

In 2006, at the VII Congress of the All-Russian political party "United Russia", he was unanimously elected to the Bureau of the Supreme Council of the party.

Since 2007 - General Director of the State Corporation for Promoting the Development, Production and Export of High-Tech Industrial Products "Rostechnologii".

In February 2013 - Chairman of the Board of AvtoVAZ.

In March 2013, he joined the Board of Directors of Norilsk Nickel.

Full member of the Academy of Military Sciences, Doctor of Economics. Author of more than sixty publications, including the monographs “Military-technical cooperation of Russia with foreign states: experience of organizational design” (2001), “Strategic management of the defense industry and military-technical cooperation of Russia” (2006), “Military-technical cooperation of Russia in the XXI century: theory, methodology, practice" (2007). Head of the Department of Military-Technical Cooperation of the Research and Training Center for Defense Problems of the Academy of Military Sciences. Since 2005, he has been Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for the Support and Development of Physical Culture and Sports of the Russian Federation (Sport Foundation).

Sergei Viktorovich Chemezov was born in the Irkutsk region. Currently, the politician holds the position of member of the Bureau of the Supreme Council under Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin's United Russia party. He also coordinates the IT breakthrough project from the president’s party. Chemezov is known to the world community as the head of the Russian state corporation Rostec.

Becoming an economist

The biography of Sergei Chemezov began in the small town of Cheremkhovo, where the future politician graduated from high school, but having become a significant figure in the Russian Federation, he chose to hide information about his parents and family, without focusing on their nationality. Entered Baikal State University, majoring in Economics. Wanting to improve the level of knowledge, while still a student Chemezov took a training course at the General Staff Academy, dreaming of becoming an intelligence officer.

Having received a diploma of higher education, the future politician defended his dissertation and received the title of Doctor of Economic Sciences. Then he joined the Academy of Military Sciences.

Sergei Viktorovich was assigned to a higher educational institution at a research institute as a scientist, and then received a promotion to deputy head of the laboratory. At the same time, he worked as an engineer.

Since 1980, Sergei Viktorovich began to build a career in the Luch industrial association. Then he was transferred to Germany, representing the interests of the company from 1983 to 1988.

Life in a new country in the city of Dresden, where USSR citizens were sent under the KGB residency, contributed to the establishment of ties with the Russians. It was then that Chemezov met. A strong friendship began between a KGB intelligence officer and an engineer living in the same house. Returning to the territory of the USSR, Sergei Viktorovich Chemezov, whose biography is of interest to the public, and information about his parents and nationality is not advertised, continued his career in the industrial sector.

Becoming a deputy

From 1988 to 1996, Chemezov served as deputy general director of the Sovintersport corporation, engaged in foreign trade. When friend Putin decided to start a political career, he invited Sergei Viktorovich to Moscow, where he took up the post of head of the department of foreign economic relations. Under the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, Chemezov took the position of head of the Department for Foreign Economic Relations of Russia.

In parallel with this, from the fall of 1999 to November of the next millennium, he acted as general director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise. The large State Company Promexport needed a strong leader to increase economic performance. Having successfully completed the assigned tasks, the politician returned to the Presidential Administration, becoming a member of the Commission on Military-Technical Cooperation with other countries of the world.

Then Sergei Viktorovich Chemezov, whose biography and nationality began to be actively discussed by the public, tried to block access to information about his family and parents. As a public figure, he tried to protect his loved ones from attacks by the media.

From November 2000 to spring 2004, Sergei Viktorovich served as Deputy General Director, helping to stabilize the economic performance of the Rosoboronexport enterprise. For the next 3 years he acted as the general director of an intermediary company for export and import.

Since November 2007, he was removed from office by Putin's decree. Then he is appointed to the post of General Director of the Rostec State Corporation. The company is engaged in promoting industries that develop and produce high-tech products for export.

Sergei Viktorovich's political career took off in December 2006, when the United Russia deputy was elected to the Bureau of the Party's Supreme Council. In May 2012, Chemezov was re-elected to his previously held position. Fulfilling the responsibilities assigned to him by his fellow party members, Sergei Viktorovich also became the coordinator of the “IT Breakthrough” project, the goal of which is to support beginning specialists in the field of innovation in the field of computer technology. Other duties of the politician include the restoration of state-owned enterprises, where he is appointed as a member of the board of directors.

In 2014, Sergei Chemezov, whose biography was carefully studied by the West, and information about his nationality and parents was included in a personal file opened by US intelligence, was included in the list of persons subject to sanctions from countries that do not approve of the Russian Federation’s policy in relations with Ukraine and Crimea.

Family values

Engineer Sergei met his first wife during his student years. It was Lyudmila Chemezova who was the friend with whom Lyudmila Shkrebneva came to the cinema, who later became the wife of Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin. The KGB intelligence officer's marriage lasted 30 years, but the engineer soon divorced and found new love.

The second wife of the politician was Ekaterina Ignatova, who owns a leading stake in the Kate LLC automobile plant, which produces parts for cars that are exported to different countries of the world and are used to manufacture cars in the Russian Federation.

Being a full-fledged owner of large enterprises, and actively buying shares from leading companies in the Russian Federation, Ekaterina quickly increased her level of earnings, which became higher than that of her husband.

Son Stanislav Sergeevich, born in 1973, began his career at the Russian gas company Itera. Currently, he is the owner of a 30% stake in the Medpharmtechnology company, which supplies equipment and medicines to the country's leading pharmacies at the expense of the state budget. He also holds positions on the board of directors of major holdings and manages a hotel business chain in the Southern District of the Russian Federation.

The daughter from Ekaterina’s first marriage, known by the initials of Anastasia Ignatova, is a graduate of MGIMO with a degree in political theory, who defended her dissertation and began her scientific career.

For a long time, Chemezov’s stepdaughter tried to show her talents in the field of pharmaceuticals and medicine, but several of her enterprises were closed due to violations in business organization. Currently, Anastasia Ignatova acts as the founder of a company producing pharmaceutical substances.

The head of one of the largest arms manufacturers in the world does not want to be prime minister and misses his beloved Spain.

The current head of the state corporation Rostec Sergey Chemezov has graced our world since August 20, 1952; He was born in the city of Cheremkhovo, Irkutsk region. His appearance is characteristic of those regions - with a distinct admixture of Turkic blood. The school years of the future industrialist were not reflected in any of the biographies of Sergei Viktorovich; enemy voices rightly state that “information about his life path is scanty, the official chronicle is corroded by chronological gaps.”

Valuable frame

We know that at the age of 22, Chemezov graduated with honors from the Irkutsk Institute of National Economy and went to work at the secretive Irkutsk Research Institute of Rare and Non-Ferrous Metals. The salary there was higher than in institutes of, say, ferrous metallurgy, since the research institute was closely connected with the nuclear industry. But the secrecy regime could also cause certain inconveniences. Although in those days they didn’t really think about business trips abroad in Irkutsk - access to a limited piece of pork in a special distribution center was considered a luxury.

Chemezov most likely had this luxury. When exactly the engineer threw in his lot with the KGB, when he completed his first task, how dirty it was - only he himself and the archives of the Federal Security Service know. Sergei Viktorovich was not listed as a personnel special officer who officially controlled the situation at the enterprise; I would like to hope that his initial steps towards service in the secret ranks were not denunciations against his fellow servicemen.

In 1980, valuable personnel moved to Podolsk, near Moscow, to the Luch experimental industrial association. Nuclear materials and experiments with laser installations, apparently, were of little interest to the new employee - he walked up the administrative ladder. Already in 1983, we find Sergei Chemezov in the GDR (hello, secrecy regime), where the 31-year-old specialist headed the local representative office of Lucha. It is clear that without the direct approval of the intelligence services and, moreover, cooperation with them, not a single nuclear scientist could leave the Union, especially for such a long period.

If the young nominee thought that luck had smiled on him, he was not mistaken. Only this luck did not lie in the very fact of a long business trip under the roof of “Luch” in an almost Western country, but in an inconspicuous, taciturn housemate who held the position of director of the Dresden House of Friendship of the USSR - GDR. Chemezov's peers and Putin became friends - and this friendship is already in its 35th year.

How much valuable information the colleagues from “Luch” and the House of Friendship managed to dig up in the GDR is a mystery, but they failed to save the system to which they swore allegiance.

In 1988, for some reason, Chemezov was transferred from Luch to Sovintersport, to the post of deputy general director. Sergei Viktorovich worked in this foreign trade organization right up to 1996, having survived congresses of dumbfounded deputies, the State Emergency Committee, the collapse of the USSR, voucher privatization, loans-for-shares auctions and the first Chechen war. It seemed that he would remain a prosperous half-official, half-businessman with salaries at his place of work and in the FSB...

Everything changed dramatically in 1996.

Following a Dresden friend

Elections took place in the summer. Very loud – presidential ones, where Boris Yeltsin apparently lost Gennady Zyuganov, which both chose to remain silent about. And somewhat less resonant - the gubernatorial ones in St. Petersburg, where the townspeople were mortally tired of the esthete Anatoly Sobchak replaced by his deputy Vladimir Yakovlev(not without the active assistance of Yeltsin’s team). Sobchak’s right-hand man and the de facto head of his campaign headquarters, Vladimir Putin, was left without a job, but not for long - the capable performer was invited to Moscow for the post of deputy presidential manager. Apparently, Yeltsin’s entourage appreciated the talent of their opponent, who almost pulled Sobchak to a new gubernatorial term, despite the powerful opposition of the federal media.

Putin invited his Dresden neighbor Chemezov to the post of head of the foreign economic relations department in the presidential administration. Instead of sports, in which Russia could then only export athletes (and thousands of athletes of various levels took advantage of this), Chemezov got into his hands the foreign economic relations of one of the most influential departments in Russia, which had a virtually unlimited budget.

The next step in Chemezov’s career also surprisingly coincided with the rise of Putin - the Irkutsk security officer is in principle incapable of independent work and initiative. In 1999, when friend Vladimir became prime minister of the country, friend Sergei headed the FSUE Promexport, whose task was to sell unnecessary army assets abroad. Before Serdyukova With Vasilyeva More than ten years remained when the general outline of their work scheme was tested. Promexport acted as a competitor to another major exporter, Rosvooruzhenie. The former sold decommissioned property, the latter sold military products, but who determines the line between an old, necessary helicopter and an old, unnecessary helicopter? A military engineer might try to explain the technical difference to you, but any administrator will answer this question clearly: the difference is determined by a friend of the Prime Minister (I recall a memorable statement Hermann Goering“Who is a Jew here, I decide!”).

As a result of Chemezov’s appointment, Russia found itself in a comical situation: Promexport, controlled by Putin’s people, and still Yeltsin’s Rosvooruzheniye, offered – at least to India and Colombia – the same product at different prices! First, Rosvooruzheniye negotiated a contract for the supply of military equipment, and then Promexport came and offered to supply decommissioned (but the same) military equipment for significantly less money. Of course, the activities of the new Federal State Unitary Enterprise had nothing to do with concern for the welfare of the state - its task was to squeeze out the arms export market in favor of its people.

Disgrace and revenge

This operation ended in success when Putin became president and resolved the first, most pressing issues. The warring organizations merged into a single one - Rosoboronexport. True, here Chemezov received a slap on the nose - he was appointed only first deputy, and his own former deputy, a 33-year-old boy, became the general director of the new super organization Andrey Belyaninov. By a strange coincidence, Belyaninov once served in the Soviet embassy in the GDR. Putin does not abandon his own: in 2016, when Belyaninov, who worked for 10 years as the head of the Customs Service, was found to have property that was completely inadequate for his salary, the president expressed indignation that this story was in the media, and soon offered his disgraced friend a new position.

The reasons for Chemezov’s temporary “disgrace” are still unclear, but he himself immediately put his former deputy in his place, refusing to move from the Promexport office to the Rosoboronexport building. So, they say, the general director went to see his deputy from Gogolevsky Boulevard to Stromynka. Their paths diverged in 2004, after the next presidential election. Chemezov finally headed Rosoboronexport (and in 2007 achieved a monopoly on arms exports), and Belyaninov headed the Federal Defense Procurement Service.

In 2006, the apolitical Chemezov - hardly at his request - was shoved into the Bureau of the Supreme Council of United Russia. His real opinion about the situation in the country and the quality of work of the ruling party was voiced, for example, in September 2007, in the eighth year of continuous growth of all macroeconomic indicators: “ The statements of some responsible persons about the high growth rates of the domestic economy raise serious doubts... We are ahead of the rest only in the extraction and sale of our raw materials" Russian President Vladimir Putin, in particular, spoke about “high rates”.

“If you criticize, suggest!” Just two months later, the last turn in Chemezov’s fate took place: on November 26, 2007, Vladimir Putin appointed his favorite head of Russian Technologies, a corporation that was ordered to unite under its roof literally everything that could still produce something in Russia - with a focus, of course, on the defense industry. In 2009, Russian Technologies united 437 enterprises; in 2017, there were already more than 700. The holding, according to Sergei Chemezov, is one of the ten largest in the world in terms of revenue (but, unfortunately, not in profit).

Secret Russian Technologies

Chemezov’s activities at Russian Technologies give rise to conflicting assessments. They like to remember the promises made at the start of work in this corporation, say: “ from 2008 to 2012, more than 430 Il-96, Tu-204, Sukhoi Superjet, Tu-334, An-148 aircraft will be produced in Russia" 430? No, 64, and not a single Tu-334. But on the other hand, it is unlikely that the Doctor of Economic Sciences from the Irkutsk Institute of National Economy foresaw how powerfully the 2008 crisis, which was already emerging at that time, would sweep across the country. All that Russian Technologies could do was save dying enterprises, taking them under state guardianship, and writing multimillion-dollar bonuses to new managers.

The corporation also failed to produce the S-500 air and space defense systems. The concept of this development was ready at NPO Almaz-Antey under the leadership Igor Ashurbeyli back to 2011, but instead of tests in 2013 and delivery of the first samples to the troops in 2014, we see... We see nothing. Currently Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia Yuri Borisov indicates that the first copy will be ready in 2020.

And so - in many areas that require not only stamping on the assembly line, but also development work. But Russia is still successfully selling abroad the S-300 systems, which were put into service back in 1975: Chemezov, as we remember, is not the first to push old stuff over the hill at low prices.

At the same time, Federal Law No. 270 “On the State Corporation “Russian Technologies”” dated November 23, 2007. Implies, among other things, the absolute uncontrollability and unaccountability of the new organization to anyone other than the President of Russia. Even annual reports were first forbidden to be published, and then allowed, but with the removal of places containing state (which is logical) and commercial (which is strange) secrets. The fact is that annual reports, in principle, do not include elements of trade secrets; the genre does not even suggest this. But in the case of Rostec, everything is secret: we know about the financial success of the corporation almost exclusively from the words of its leaders.

Moreover, the state corporation Rostec is only partly state-owned: according to the law, Rostec and the Russian Federation are not responsible for each other’s obligations. For Rostec, it is important that its property abroad is not seized in claims against Russia (say, in the case of YUKOS shareholders), but the state’s refusal to participate in the affairs of a corporation it owns looks strange. If something happens, all of us will still have to pay off the debts of Chemezov’s department.

On the other hand, military products are the basis of Russia’s non-resource exports; the demand for them is consistently high in conditions of very fierce competition, and the merit of the management of Rostekhnologii in this is undoubted. The only question is whether this export is not too expensive for us, given the constant cash injections from the budget into Rostec enterprises - however, this information also passes through secret budget items.

Cavalier under sanctions

At the end of April 2014, Sergei Chemezov was included in the US sanctions list - this was inevitable, given the type of activity of the corporation. At the same time, he himself is exactly the same “Putin hawk” as, for example, Mikhail Khodorkovsky. “I'm not too worried about sanctions. If I regret anything, it’s traveling to Europe, which I really love. I used to spend holidays there with my family. For ten years in a row, we rented a house in Spain, we even thought about buying it out,” he courageously told TASS already in 2017, when loving Europe became completely unfashionable. It is difficult to find aggressive statements in the style of Putin, Lavrov and Rogozin, and one gets the feeling that he (like almost the entire elite) does not believe in the effectiveness of his patron’s entire anti-Western policy.

He also denies plans to make him prime minister after the presidential elections: “Don’t believe it, it’s all gossip.” Indeed, it is one thing to be on the indecisive Council of the “party that is responsible for everything,” and another thing to be constantly visible and actually responsible for everything that happens.

As compensation for the inconvenience, Chemezov was made a full holder of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, the 38th in a row and the last at the time of publication of this material. However, this is a dubious reason for pride: almost half of the list of complete gentlemen is occupied, excuse me, by pop and screen stars ( Leshchenko, Tabakov, Armored, Khazanov...), while Sergei Viktorovich, on the contrary, prefers to remain in the shadows.

Great family man

But this shadow has reasonable limits. It is a credit to the head of Rostec, for example, that he does not hide his family, as many officials and top managers do. On the contrary, if he has to give an interview, he is more willing to talk about his family than about his work. And all these relatives are not silent characters from PR photographs, but public people, their places of work are known, you can see them, you can talk to them and, if you’re lucky, even interview them.

Sergei Chemezov is married for the second time to a businesswoman Ekaterina Ignatova, which, for example, once undertook to manufacture automatic transmissions for AvtoVAZ, received more than 300 million rubles. to launch production, after which no one heard about the project. Also, companies associated with Ignatova collaborated with Rostec, which Chemezov himself does not see anything terrible about.

Eldest son Stanislav, born while his father was studying at the institute, worked with Ignatova at Itera, and appeared in a lot of companies associated with government contracts. In addition, he found himself in bad company - he worked closely with the so-called inventor Victor Petrik, which made all scientists laugh with its “innovative” filters.

The second son Alexander is a doctor by profession, very little is known about him. Besides the fact that, of course, he doesn’t bother with sick people, but with their pockets - he is engaged in the insurance business.

Chemezov's stepdaughter Anastasia Ignatova almost became a top model - she had the honor of appearing in the Pirelli calendar with Nicole Kidman, Wash Thurman, Helen Mirren and other stars. Of course, her stepfather’s money has absolutely nothing to do with it - “my Nastya is just the most beautiful there,” explained Sergei Viktorovich. The girl, as you might guess, in addition to her spectacular (which is debatable) appearance, has business talents, which she implements in the pharmaceutical field (by the way, Rostec has recently been actively interested in this area). Tellingly, she started her business activities on shares with Mikhail Prokhorov and collaborated with him during the period when he competed in the presidential elections with Vladimir Putin.

Chemezov's youngest son, Sergey Sergeevich, is still going to school. I took part in the Russian aquabike championship, and now I'm interested in boxing.

Living beautifully is not forbidden

What is the outcome other than a strong family of gifted businessmen? Over the last five years, 2012–2016, Chemezov, according to declarations, earned more than 620 million rubles; 2016 was a particularly successful year with an income of 212.2 million rubles. For comparison, Sergei Viktorovich’s neighbor in Dresden (and the de facto boss of the head of Rostec) Vladimir Putin earned about 35 million over the same five years and 8.9 million in 2016. A clear illustration of the saying “Don’t have a hundred rubles, but have a hundred friends.”

But Chemezov’s income is nothing compared to the income of his wife Ekaterina Ignatova. In five years, she earned more than 4.3 billion rubles, and half of this amount was in the crisis year of 2014: to whom is war, to whom mother is dear. The property declaration of the spouses would take several pages here; Sergei Viktorovich has 14 vehicles alone, and his wife has 3 more. Several houses and apartments, a lot of land plots and non-residential buildings - well, according to the law, managers of state corporations, unlike officials, can afford a legal, beautiful life. Unfortunately, the Chemezov family objects to the general population knowing about this life - in August 2014, near the village of Akulinino, where the modest houses of the family of the head of Rostec and a number of other top managers of state-owned companies are located, an attack was carried out on a picnic of activists. trying to photograph the luxurious mansions of their comrades who, whatever one may say, live at public expense.

It is difficult to assess both the figure and career of Sergei Chemezov. He is a responsible and modest person, he could become a good engineer or an executive special officer, live with his first and only wife, force his children to study physics so that they would not believe in magic filters... Fate, however, decreed otherwise, and he would simply step aside, as he did , for example, former Minister of Defense Sergey Ivanov, his namesake cannot. He took on too much responsibility. too many interesting things happened at seven hundred Rostec enterprises during his work. The head of the state corporation is shackled by the same chain as the favorite of the 2018 presidential elections and understands perfectly well that neither the key to the lock nor the saw for the links will ever be produced at any of these enterprises.