The biography of Alexander Mordashov is an example of the triumph of entrepreneurial spirit and unconditional desire to achieve a set goal. The businessman, who pioneered the appearance of Russians on the pages of Forbes magazine, topped the ranking of the richest people in the Russian Federation and, judging by his assets, will not leave this place for a long time. And even though his actions did not always evoke sympathy, one word - billionaire - already deserves respect.
Alexey was born on September 26, 1965. The life of his parents was firmly connected with metallurgy. Father - Alexander, in his youth, moved away from the family tradition of wood carving. After graduating from the Gorky Polytechnic Institute, the newly minted electrical engineer actively joined the team of the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant. Here he met his future wife. Alexei’s mother, Maria, was part of the equipment department. Thus, the city of Cherepovets became A. Mordashov’s homeland.
As a child, Alexey was injured, which had an unpleasant effect on his school years. However, restrictions in physical activity allowed him to devote more time to science and begin to develop organizational skills. A calm, responsible boy, head of the class, already at that time dreamed of becoming an economist manager.
Education
Upon completion of his studies at school, in 1982, Alexey went to Leningrad, where, according to his intended goal, he became a student at the Institute of Engineering and Economics. His thirst for science and desire to be the best are marked by the highest scholarship - Lenin. At the institute, Mordashov shows his leadership abilities. Already from the beginning of his studies, an energetic, at the same time polite and pleasant young man, heads the Komsomol cell and joins the Party.
Alexey Alexandrovich Mordashov
In addition to the source of knowledge, the institute is noted in Mordashov’s Biography as the place where he first became a family man and gained useful connections, in the form of a close acquaintance with Anatoly Chubais, who teaches here.
He graduated from the university with honors in 1988, however, throughout his life, Alexey Mordashov did not miss the opportunity to improve his level of knowledge. In 1997, he completed a management course in the UK, and in 2001 he became a Master of Business Administration, graduating from Northumbria University in Newcastle.
Career and business of Alexey Mordashov
Upon completion of the institute, the young economist easily managed to get a job at an enterprise that was native to his relatives. After working for some time as a senior economist and heading the bureau of economics and labor organization, Mordashov received a high position in the planning department of the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant.
An internship at the Austrian steel company Voestalpine, which Mordashov completed in 1990, allowed the future oligarch to head the economic and financial sector of ChMK.
In 1993, the plant was transformed into an open Joint-Stock Company"Severstal". In partnership with the director of the enterprise (Yu. Lipukhin), Alexey Mordashov creates the Siverstal-invest company, which is actively buying up shares of the former ChMK. Spectacular fraud and unclean (according to some sources) play allowed the future billionaire to take control of the OJSC, remove his partner from his position, and later become the full owner of Severstal.
From 2002 to 2006, the entrepreneur chaired the board of directors of Severstal. In 2007, A. Mordashov began collaborating with the German concern Siemens AG. At the end of their joint work in 2011, three-quarters of the shares of the Russian power engineering company Power Machines ended up in the hands of the businessman.
In 2003, the businessman acquired a stake in Rossiya Bank and began to expand the field of activity of his corporation. The media space, first of Cherepovets, and then of the entire state, comes under his attention. The National Media Group, created in 2008, provided Mordashov with control over TV channels “1”, “5” and “Ren-TV”. The oligarch's assets included shares in the newspapers Sport-Express, Izvestia and METRQ-Petersburg.
Since 2009, Mordashov has been co-chairman of the DNSI (Northern Dimension Business Council).
In 2012, Alexey Alexandrovich became the head of the board of the World Steel Association, and a year later the Non-Profit Partnership “Russian Steel” came under his management. In addition, since 2013 Mordashov has been on the board of such organizations as:
- Committee on Integration, Trade and Customs Policy and Foreign Trade Policy of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs;
- Council on Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship under the Government of the Russian Federation;
- Trade for Growth group B20 and G20;
- Russian-German Chamber of Foreign Trade4
- Russian-German working group on strategy in the field of economics and finance;
- Business Cooperation Council of the Russian Federation and the EU;
- Northern Dimension Business Council.
In 2015, Mordashov left the post of general director of the Severstal management company and was elected head of the board of the public joint stock company of the same name.
Possession of billions of dollars and influence on industry inevitably lead to connections in political circles. Communication with major Russian financiers provided Mordashov with access to V. Putin. The government is very loyal to the billionaire, since the lion's share of government orders for metallurgy goes through his enterprises.
State of Alexey Mordashov
As the owner of Severstal and Power Machines, the No. 1 Russian oligarch is among the owners of Nord Gold, an international gold mining company. The businessman owns a significant stake in the Sveza woodworking holding and in the TUI Group tourism concern. In addition, Mordashov is the owner of shares in Rossiya Bank, National Media Company, T2RTK holding, Tele2, Rouge Industries, Lucchini and others.
Since 2004, when Alexey Mordashov’s photo first appeared on the pages of Forbes, the billionaire has been a regular participant in this magazine’s ranking. His successes and failures in business can be judged from the following information (year – net worth $ billion/place among the richest Russians/position in the world):
- 2004 – 3,5/-/135.
- 2005 – 4,8/-/107.
- 2006 – 7,6/-/164.
- 2007 – 11,2/9/54.
- 2008 – 22/2/18.
- 2009 – 4,3/7/122.
- 2010 – 9,9/8/70.
- 2011 – 18,5/2/29.
- 2012 – 15,3/3/45.
- 2013 – 12,8/11/73.
- 2014 – 10,5/12/111.
- 2015 – 13/5/89.
- 2016 – 10,9/6/93.
- 2017 – 17,5/2/61.
- 2018 – 19,9/1/34.
The March 2018 sanctions that the United States imposed on the immediate circle of the President of the Russian Federation did not bypass Mordashov. Its loss amounted to about 987 million US dollars.
As the richest man in Russia, Alexey Alexandrovich has his own quirks. He owns a sixty-five-meter luxury yacht Lady M. The vessel is equipped with the latest technology, can accommodate 12 guests and can accommodate a helicopter.
Another attraction owned by the oligarch is the former dacha of B. Yeltsin. Shuyskaya Chupa was acquired in 2011 for 291 million rubles.
The private life of Alexey Mordashov
The personal life of a businessman is replete with variety. Alexey Alexandrovich met his first wife in his biography while studying at the institute in his 2nd year. Elena, who studied there in her 5th year, soon became his wife. In 1985, Alexei Mordashov’s first son, Ilya, was born. Career growth had a bad impact on the young family and in 1996 the couple separated. This was followed by several high-profile cases related to the payment of alimony by the oligarch.
Alexey Alexandrovich was not left alone and soon married a second time. His life partner was Elena, who worked together with the entrepreneur. This marriage brought Mordashov two sons. The eldest, Kirill, was born in 1999, and a year later Nikita was added to the family.
Elena - wife According to Forbes in 2015, Alexey Mordashov was again involved in a love affair, after which the oligarch had more children, however, at that time there was no confirmation of this fact from the businessman himself. According to media reports (again, unconfirmed data), Alexei Mordashov now has 6 children from different marriages.
IN free time The richest man in the Russian Federation devotes himself to painting and poetry. Having forgotten about his childhood traumas, he enjoys winter sports and, of course, spends his free time at sea on his own yacht.
The billionaire is no stranger to trusteeship and philanthropy. Under his care are:
- Big theater;
- State Russian Museum;
- State Tretyakov Gallery;
- Spaso-Preobrazhensky Valaam Monastery.
Mordashov’s activities are highly appreciated by the government and public organizations Russian Federation. The oligarch is the holder of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, I and II degrees. He also has foreign awards to his credit, which recognize not only the businessman’s financial success, but also his charity.
Alexey Mordashov today
Having become the richest man in Russia, today Alexey Mordashov takes an active part in economic life countries. According to an index published by Bloomberg in 2018, Russia could exist for two weeks with the oligarch’s money.
Now Alexey Alexandrovich is concerned about removing his Power Machines from American sanctions. According to the latest data, this option is possible by providing government guarantees and severing relations with Siemens AG.
Mordashov Alexey Alexandrovich(born September 26, 1965, Cherepovets, Vologda region, RSFSR, USSR) - Russian entrepreneur and manager, chairman of the board of directors, general director (from 2006 to 2014) of PJSC "", general director of CJSC Severgroup, chairman of the board of directors of OJSC " ", Member of the Board of Directors of Nord Gold N.V. and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sveza CJSC. Major owner of Severstal (77.1% shares).
In 1988, Alexey Mordashov graduated from the Leningrad Engineering and Economic Institute named after. Togliatti with a degree in engineering-economist in mechanical engineering. I met , who was a teacher at this institute at that time. Was a member of the CPSU.
Since 1988, Alexey Mordashov began working at the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant: senior economist, head of the bureau of economics and labor organization of mechanical repair shop No. 1, deputy head of the plant's planning department. In 1989, Mordashov was sent for a six-month internship at the Austrian steel company VoestAlpine.
Since 1992, Alexey Mordashov became director of economics and finance at the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant, which was soon transformed into OJSC Severstal. The general director of the Cherepovets plant, Yuri Lipukhin, instructed Mordashov to carry out the privatization of the plant. At the age of 27, Alexey Mordashov created a subsidiary company, Severstal-invest (24% of the shares belonged to Severstal, and 76% to Mordashov personally) and then bought up shares of Severstal. Having thus gained control over the enterprise, Mordashov became the director and owner of Severstal OJSC.
Since 2011, he has been a member of Forbes magazine's "200 Richest Russian Businessmen" rating. In 2018, it took 2nd place with a capital of $18.7 billion. Owns shares of the bank "", which has been under US sanctions since 2014, "" and Tele2. Alexey Mordashov also owns 26% of the German travel company. Fluent in English and German.
He was married twice and has six children.
In 1996, he divorced his first wife Elena, leaving her only an apartment in Cherepovets, old car and minimum alimony for my son Ilya (born in 1985). Since 2002, Elena Mordashova tried in court to obtain the right to a share in the property of Alexei Mordashov. As a result, the courts imposed a huge fine on her and seized the apartment in Moscow in which she lived with her son.
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Alexey Alexandrovich Mordashov. Born on September 26, 1965 in Cherepovets, Vologda region. Russian entrepreneur, billionaire. Owner of a controlling stake (77%) in PJSC Severstal, General Director of CJSC Severgroup, Chairman of the Board of Directors of PJSC Power Machines, member of the Board of Directors of Nord Gold N.V., Chairman of the Board of Directors of CJSC Sveza.
By nationality - Russian.
Father - Alexander Mordashov, a graduate of the Gorky Polytechnic Institute, an engineer, worked at the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant.
Mother - Maria Fedorovna, also worked at the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant.
Alexey Mordashov’s ancestors were engaged in the production of wooden toys; their works are exhibited at the Museum of Folk Toys in Sergiev Posad.
He studied well at school, and was especially good at exact sciences. At school he had the nickname “Template”.
In 1988 he graduated with honors from the Leningrad Engineering and Economic Institute named after. Palmiro Tolyatti with a degree in mechanical engineering and economics. It was there that he met, who was a teacher at this institute at that time.
Fluent in English and German.
Member of the CPSU.
After graduating from the institute, he worked at the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant. He was a senior economist, head of the bureau of economics and labor organization of mechanical repair shop No. 1, and deputy head of the plant's planning department.
In 1989, he was sent for a six-month internship at the Austrian steel company VoestAlpin.
During the initial period of privatization in Russia, in 1992, he became director of economics and finance at the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant, which was soon transformed into OJSC Severstal. The general director of the Cherepovets plant, Yuri Lipukhin, instructed Mordashov to carry out the privatization of the plant. 27-year-old Mordashov created a subsidiary company, Severstal-invest (24% of the shares belonged to Severstal, and 76% to Mordashov personally) and then bought up shares of Severstal. Having thus gained control over the enterprise, Mordashov became the director and owner of Severstal OJSC.
Since 2000 - one of the members of the Joint Russian-German intergovernmental working group on strategic cooperation in the field of economics and finance. In 2001 he received an MBA from Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tye.
On October 5, 2007, Siemens AG signed an agreement with Mordashov on long-term strategic cooperation in the development of the Power Machines company. Siemens AG received an equity stake in the company. In 2011, cooperation with Siemens AG was completed. On December 27, 2011, 25% came back under the control of the Cypriot management company Highstat Limited, which now owns 75% of the shares of Power Machines.
Since 2009, he has been working as co-chairman of the Northern Dimension Business Council (NDBC), which is engaged in developing interaction between government representatives, business and civil society in the territory Northern Europe. The second co-chairman from the European side is Tapio Kuula, President and CEO of Fortum Corporation (Finland).
In 2011, he took part in the work of the Bilderberg Club.
Actively participates in the work of the World Steel Association. In 2001, Severstal was the first Russian steel producer to become a member of the Association. Member of the Council for Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship under the Government of the Russian Federation.
In October 2012, he became the first Russian in history to be elected chairman of the Association’s Board of Directors; a year later, as part of the rotation procedure adopted at Worldsteel, he transferred the chairmanship to the head of the Korean steel company POSCO. Mordashov at the same time became one of two deputy chairmen of the Board of Directors.
In October 2014, the Worldsteel conference was held in Russia for the first time - the largest industry event, which annually brings together the heads of all leading metallurgical companies world, industry experts and consultants. In October 2015, Alexey Mordashov was re-elected to the executive committee of the World Steel Association.
Mordashov is the president of the Non-Profit Partnership "Russian Steel" - a national industry association of steel producers.
He is a member of the Bureau of the Board, head of the Trade Policy and WTO Committee of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. In 2013, the year of Russia’s presidency of the G20 (“Group of Twenty”), Mordashov worked in international group“Trade as a factor of growth” B20 (“Business Twenty”) as co-chairman from the Russian side.
He is one of the most recognizable and quoted Russian businessmen, both in Russia and abroad. In 2014, Alexey Mordashov was recognized as the best speaker in the global steel industry.
Alexey Mordashov owns 26% of the German travel company TUI Group.
State of Alexey Mordashov
In 2003, according to Forbes, Alexey Mordashov's fortune was estimated at $1.2 billion. In 2004 - $3.5 billion, 2005 - $4.8 billion, in 2006 - $7.6 billion, 2007 - $11.2 billion, 2008 - $22.1 billion, 2009 - $4.3 billion, 2010 - $9.9 billion, 2011 - $18.5 billion, 2012 - $15.3 billion , 2013 - $12.8 billion, 2014 - $10.5 billion, 2015 - $13 billion, 2016 - $10.9 billion, 2017 - $17.5 billion, 2018 - $18, 7 billion, 2019 - $20.5 billion.
If in 2003 Alexey Mordashov ranked 348th in the world in terms of wealth, in 2008 - 18th, 2009 - 122nd, in 2017 - 51st, in 2018 - 34th -e.
Among the richest people in Russia, Alexey Mordashov, according to Forbes, was 2nd in 2008, 5th in 2016, 2nd in 2016 and 2017, 4th in 2018.
At the same time, Bloomberg in 2017 called him the richest Russian with a fortune of $17.3 billion.
Personal life of Alexey Mordashov:
Was married three times. Has six children.
First wife- Elena Mordashova (nee Mityukova). We met when we were students at the Leningrad Engineering and Economics Institute. We got married while still studying. Later they returned to Cherepovets together.
The couple had a son, Ilya, in 1985.
Divorced due to Mordashov's infidelities in 1996. Elena Mityukova recalled: “First comes power, then money, and after them - permissiveness. Once there was a celebration at the plant, we came together, but the whole evening Alyosha frolicked in front of my eyes with a young dancer. It was terribly offensive. And then he stopped taking it altogether. me with you."
During the scandalous divorce, Mordashov left his first wife a three-room apartment and a car, and paid child support.
Later, Elena tried to sue Mordashov for a certain amount of money, but lost. Since 2002, Elena tried in court to obtain the right to a share in the property of Alexei Mordashov. In March 2003, in order to secure a claim ex-wife oligarch, St. Petersburg magistrate Borodashkina imposed a ban on any transactions with Mordashov’s shares, and on April 24, a court decision assigned to his ex-wife the ownership of shares in Severstal OJSC, Severstal Invest CJSC, and Severstal Garant CJSC. Media reported that high-ranking government officials then began to seek a reversal of the decision. Judge Borodashkina was subsequently deprived of her powers for “violation of the rules of jurisdiction.”
On May 15, 2003, the magistrate of the city of Cherepovets recovered from Elena Mordashova 213 million 790 thousand rubles in state duty on the claim. Due to her lack of such funds, on May 29, a decision was made to seize the apartment in Moscow in which Elena Mordashova and her son lived before moving to St. Petersburg in January of this year. As a result, the courts rejected Elena Mordashova’s claim, recognizing the previously signed agreements as legal.
Elena Mityukova - the first wife of Alexei Mordashov
Second wife- Elena Mordashova (namesake of the first wife), worked as an accountant at Mordashov’s company. The office romance ended in marriage.
In 1999, the couple had a son, Kirill, and a year later, a son, Nikita.
The second marriage lasted about 10 years. They divorced calmly, without scandals, having signed a settlement agreement providing Elena and her sons with a comfortable existence. Mordashov later transferred 65% of the shares of the gold mining company Nordgold to his second family, worth about $1.5 billion.
Third wife- Marina, according to some sources, is a former fashion model.
In the third marriage, three children were born - Maria (born in 2009), Anastasia (born in 2011), Daniil (born in 2014).
Alexey Mordashov gave Marina a private primary school Wunderpark and built a 64-meter sports yacht called “Lady M” costing about $60 million.
Awards of Alexey Mordashov:
Order of Alexander Nevsky (May 25, 2015) - for his great contribution to the socio-economic development of the Russian Federation, achieved labor success, active social activities and many years of conscientious work;
- Order of Honor (July 11, 2011) - for his great contribution to the development of the metallurgical industry, achieved labor successes and many years of conscientious work;
- Medal of the Order “For Merit to the Fatherland”, 1st degree (September 10, 1999) - for services to the state, high achievements in production activities and a great contribution to strengthening friendship and cooperation between peoples;
- Medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree (May 2, 1996) - for services to the state and many years of conscientious work;
- Insignia “For Good Deeds” (June 11, 2016) - for great contribution to charitable and social activities;
- Russian Order Orthodox Church Holy Blessed Prince Daniel of Moscow, III degree (2003);
- Commander of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (2009, Italy);
- Cross of Recognition, III degree (2013, Latvia) - for contribution to the development of the country’s economy;
- Winner of the national business reputation award “Darin” Russian Academy business and entrepreneurship in 2002;
- Russian Government Prize in the field of science and technology;
- Certificate of honor from the Ministry of Economy;
- Certificate of Honor from the Governor of the Vologda Region;
- Awarded the title “Honorary Citizen of the City of Cherepovets.”
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This is how this tragedy began, which was compared to the death of the Kursk submarine. The people from the mine were not rescued. Moreover, they lost five rescuers. The accident was called the most difficult in the history of the industry. Due to the high concentration of methane in the mine, local explosions continued to occur.
They want to restore the flagship mine in six months. No one is embarrassed that hundreds of people have died there since 1961. And the miners themselves want the mine to be restored. How else can they survive in Vorkuta?
Russia is perhaps the only country where piecework rather than hourly wages is used in underground coal mining. As a result, we have human greed multiplied by human stupidity.
CHUBAIS' DISCIPLE
Alexey Mordashov was born in Cherepovets in 1965. His father graduated from the Gorky Polytechnic Institute with a degree in electrical engineering and worked at the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant.
Parents were not zealous in raising Alyosha. They didn't have time for that, and the boy wasn't causing any concern. Calm, independent child. At school, Mordashov was correct; his classmates unanimously elected him class leader. The class teacher used Lesha as an example so often that at some point he was nicknamed Template.
Komsomol member and future member of the CPSU Alexey Mordashov graduated with honors from the Leningrad Engineering and Economics Institute, where he met Anatoly Chubais, who taught there. After the first year, I came to his department as an assistant. Obviously, this was the first success of the future “steel king”.
At that time, Alexey actively attended the “circle of young economists”, which was headed by Chubais. This circle included people such as Alexey Kudrin, Pyotr Mostovoy, Vladimir Kogan, whose names would soon become known throughout Russia. At the same time, Mordashov did not get lost against their background. Chubais even persuaded him to go to graduate school and stay in Leningrad, but Alexey always believed that it was better to be the first guy in the village than the second in the city, and returned home.
GODFATHER
There he got a job as a senior economist at a metallurgical plant. The young specialist immediately attracted the attention of management, who sent him for an internship at the Austrian steel company VoestAlpine. But there Mordashov quarreled with the son of the USSR Minister of Ferrous Metallurgy Serafim Kolpakov. Things came to a fight. Kolpakov demanded from general director Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant Yuri Lipukhin immediately fire the insolent person from the plant. But he defended his employee.
Mordashov was very lucky - Lipukhin’s wife liked him. And when the time came to corporatize ChMK, it was she who persuaded her husband to trust the 27-year-old financial director. As a result, Yuri Lipukhin was left without a position and without a plant.
In 1996, Mordashov became the general director of the plant management company Severstal, and Lipukhin took the post of chairman of the board of directors. The management accumulated 43% of shares in the Severstal-Invest company bought from employees, and later transferred them to another structure - Severstal-Garant.
At first, according to Lipukhin, the partners agreed on equal shares in this company.
“After he became a director, he and his friends went to some islands and hung out for a week. And when he returned, he came and said: equally is not quite normal for me, give you 49%, and give me 51%,” Lipukhin later said. - I didn't care. I said: come on, I agree."
When net income rose from $111 million to $453 million in 2000, there was disagreement over what to do with the money. “In the spring of 1999, Mordashov arbitrarily, without my knowledge, bought out 17% of the shares that belonged to Severstal-Invest,” said Lipukhin. “I approached him and said: Alyosha, you can’t act like that.” His answer was extremely short: this is not written anywhere.” Mordashov denies the existence of any gentlemanly agreements.
Yuri Lipukhin was his godfather when Alexey decided to convert. In 2011, the veteran died of a heart attack in Canada; his son Victor is taking care of his affairs. Mordashov headed JSC Severstal, which served as the basis for the creation of the diversified holding company Severstal Group. Industrial assets gradually came into his ownership - shares of the St. Petersburg, Tuapse and Vostochny ports, coal mines, railway cars, Kolomna Diesel Locomotive Plant, UAZ...
TANKS ARE NOT AFRAID OF DIRT
How did the Cherepovets oligarch end up in Vorkuta?
The expansion of Mordashov's empire is not limited to the borders of the region. At one time, he even tried to buy the Krivorozhstal plant, but failed in Ukraine.
If we talk specifically about Vorkutaugol OJSC, Severstal acquired a state-owned stake at an auction in 2003. Thus, the holding guaranteed itself the required volume of coal supplies. And this is another diamond in the crown. In general, Mordashov burst into the ranks of the newest oligarchs at great speed, displacing such bison as Abramovich and Potanin. Thanks to his stranglehold on the Vologda region, he earned the nickname Iron Boy. And Mordashov himself says about himself this way: “Tanks are not afraid of dirt.”
WIVES
A separate conversation is Mordashov’s personal life. In 2001, Elena, the ex-wife of a billionaire, published in one of the newspapers “ Open letter to all women."
Here are the quotes. “Many years ago I married a student Alyosha Mordashov. Our son was born and life was very difficult for us. The child was seriously ill, everything fell on my shoulders - home, family, caring for my husband. During the day I looked after my son, and in the evenings I worked as a cleaner... I earned money for our apartment.”
And five years later, Alexey Mordashov became a millionaire and the owner of factories, newspapers, and ships. And he left. Then he divided the property, as befits a rich husband: for his wife - a squalid apartment, an old "nine". For himself - everything he owns... There could be no talk of justice.
He said: “And you couldn’t think. If you even try to encroach on anything of mine, I will deprive you of everything left, I will take your son away from you. You don’t want Ilya to suffer without you, do you?” I had no doubt then that one day I could “wake up” next to my own head...
During the divorce in 1996, the wife and child received an apartment in Cherepovets, a VAZ-2109 car and small amount money. Alimony for the maintenance of their common child Ilya (born in 1985) was paid by the entrepreneur in the amount of 106 times the minimum wage (in 2003 the minimum wage was 600 rubles). That is 63,600 rubles.
Elena tried in court to obtain the right to a share in her ex-husband’s property, but achieved nothing.
Mordashov’s new wife was also Elena, with whom he had a real love affair at work. She worked as an accountant at Severstal. They bumped into each other in the corridors and on the stairs, swam together in the pool on adjacent paths, and in June 1997 they got married.
“In September 1999, our son Kirill was born. Alexey was with me during childbirth, holding my hand. The next morning he gave me pearl earrings and a necklace,” Mordashov’s second wife later said. - A few days before 2001, I gave Alexey, as he himself says, the best New Year's gift in his life - his son Nikita... Alexey simply adores babies. He is a very gentle dad."
Now Forbes reports that Mordashov already has six children. And his new girlfriend’s name is Larisa.
The hot temper of Alexei Mordashov makes itself felt from time to time. So, one day he caused a scandal to the employees of the business terminal of Vnukovo-3 airport, which he used for his flights along with Yuri Luzhkov and Anatoly Chubais. The oligarch was indignant that one of his “girlfriends,” who accompanied him on the flight, had a torn buckle on her lady’s backpack. Because of this " steel king“he scolded the airport staff, demanding that they pay “a few bucks” for the damage.
As a businessman, he reached his peak in 2008, when Forbes estimated his fortune at $21.2 billion, and he ranked 18th in the ranking of the richest people in the world. But the onset of the financial crisis spoiled these indicators so much that a year later Mordashov found himself in 122nd place with $4.3 billion. But that’s okay, you can live. Moreover, now it has risen again - to $13 billion.
In a nutshell, reputation Iron Boy can be described as follows: a talented manager who is not afraid to make non-standard decisions. This tenacity was very useful in the conditions of the wild market that arose in Russia. And if necessary, Mordashov will go over their heads, as he did with his godfather and ex-wife. What can we say about the miners?
Forbes, the main shareholder of Severstal, Alexey Mordashov, became the richest businessman in Russia for the first time. His net worth is $16.8 billion, which is $4 million more than last year's leader. Russian list billionaires - NOVATEK founder Leonid Mikhelson, who took second place. Third place is still occupied by the owner of the Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant, Vladimir Lisin (16.1 billion).
It was Mordashov’s face that appeared on the cover of the very first issue of Forbes magazine, published in Russia in 2004, although at that time he occupied only 9th place in the “golden hundred” of oligarchs. In an interview with the publication, Mordashov then said that he became a “steel magnate” gradually: he himself comes from Cherepovets, and when choosing a profession, he followed in the footsteps of his parents, who worked at the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant.
uznayvse.ruIn early childhood, he was diagnosed with a serious congenital injury, and, by his own admission, he already knew for sure that he would neither be a pilot nor an astronaut. At school, Mordashov, in his own words, was a good boy; his classmates unanimously elected him class leader. The class teacher so often cited Lesha as an example and urged the students to emulate Mordashov that at some point Lesha was jokingly nicknamed Template.
Mordashov later graduated from the Leningrad Engineering and Economic Institute; in 1988, the young specialist returned to hometown and began working at the plant, to which his family devoted their whole lives. The future oligarch began as a senior economist, successfully moving up the career ladder. At the age of 27, he was noticed by the director of the plant, Yuri Lipukhin, and in 1993 he was tasked with privatizing the enterprise. Three years later, the Severstal-invest company created by Lipukhin bought out 43% of the plant’s shares, and in the late 1990s Mordashov moved Lipukhin from the post of director of the plant to the position of chairman of the board of directors, and in 1999 bought out 17% of the plant’s shares.
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Despite his Vologda origin, Mordashov is considered a member of the “St. Petersburg team.” He is one of the oligarchs of the North-West who showed up in Moscow after Putin’s inauguration. Alexei Mordashov was brought closer to Vladimir Putin by his friendship with the St. Petersburg oligarch Vladimir Kogan.
As Moskovsky Komsomolets writes, financial market participants speak positively about Mordashov, emphasizing that he “did not rob the country, making money from sad loans-for-shares auctions and other speculation.” As analysts emphasize, it was Mordashov who actively supported Russia’s accession to the WTO and it was his recommendation that President Putin took into account in this matter. Russian metallurgists and Mordashov personally benefited greatly from the devaluation of the ruble, increasing revenue and profitability.
Kommersant.ru 
Director of IC Forum Roman Parshin noted in a conversation with MK that the increase in Mordashov’s wealth is due to the fact that steel prices are rising, but did not rule out the influence of the company’s strong lobbying resource.
The price and demand for steel directly determine the profit of Severstal and the income of Mr. Mordashov. Severstal's revenue in the first half of 2017 increased by 38.1%. At the same time, Severstal’s lobbying resource also works well: most recently, at the end of July, Gazprombank sold Severstal the rights to claim the debt of Metal Group LLC for 12 billion rubles and sold it for half its value. By the way, Metal Group, in turn, holds a license to develop the central part of the Yakovlevsky iron ore deposit - this is a tasty morsel for any metallurgical enterprise, because the ore mined there does not require beneficiation. So to speak, the “golden grail”, or rather, the steel one: 9.6 billion tons of excellent quality ore.
At the end of spring, Alexey Mordashov’s yacht “Lady M” caused a sensation among European journalists. The ship, worth more than $50 million, is moored in several European ports. Thus, in the Spanish city of Malaga it has become a real attraction. Indeed, a 65-meter three-deck ship with a helipad, six double guest cabins and seven double cabins for 14 crew members is developing maximum speed at 28 knots (51 km/h) and is capable of crossing Atlantic Ocean in 8 days.
It is also known about Mordashov that he is interested in poetry, painting, and is fond of active winter sports, in particular, alpine skiing.
Lenta.ru 
The owner of Severstal got married for the first time at the age of 19, when he was still in his 2nd year at the institute. His chosen one was 5th-year student Elena, originally from Irkutsk. Soon they had a son. In 1996, Alexey and Elena divorced. According to the ex-wife, due to the rapid career growth Alexey, big money, which accompanied their emergence of permissiveness and his betrayals. In 2002, a woman tried through the court to obtain a share in her ex-husband’s capital, but to no avail. The court did not satisfy her demands.
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A few years later, the oligarch’s second wife was his work colleague, economist Elena, who worked in the accounting department of the plant. Soon they officially got married. The couple had two sons: in 1999 - Kirill, in 2000 - Nikita.
24smi.org
In 2015, Forbes reported that the billionaire already had a new life partner, whose name is Larisa. He allegedly also gave birth to new heirs. However, this information was not confirmed either by the oligarch himself or by his representatives.