Alexey was born on September 26, 1965 in the city of Cherepovets, Vologda Region.

In 1988 he graduated with honors.

Since 1988, he began working as a senior shop economist, head of the bureau of economics and labor organization of mechanical repair shop No. 1, and deputy head of the planning department at the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant.

In 1989, he completed a six-month internship at the Austrian steel company VoestAlpine.

1992: Director of Finance of ChMK

In 1992, he took the position of director of finance and economics at the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant.

1993: Privatization of ChMK - creation of Severstal

In 1993, at the stage of privatization, he created a subsidiary company, Severstal-invest. 76% of its shares belonged to Mordashov personally, and 24% to OJSC Severstal, into which the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant was transformed. Subsequently, Mordashov bought shares in Severstal and gained control over the enterprise.

1996: General director of Severstal

In 1996, he began working as General Director of Severstal.

2000: Member of the Presidium of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs

Since 2000, he has been one of the members of the Russian-German working group on strategic issues in the field of economics and finance. Member of the presidium and bureau of the board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), head of the trade policy committee. He heads the section “Metallurgy, steel industry, construction and building materials” of the round table of industrialists of the Russian Federation and the EU, and is a member of the public council for reforming enterprises under the government of the Russian Federation.

In 2001, he headed the RSPP working group on Russia’s accession to the WTO and reform of customs policy. By that time, he controlled the main media of Cherepovets and the Vologda region:

• radio station "Transmit"
• TV channels:
  • "TV-7",
  • "Provinces",
• cable television studio "Scat",
• newspapers:
  • "Speech",
  • "Courier".

In 2001, he received an MBA from Northumbria University Business School (Newcastle, UK).

In 2004, he was elected to the board of directors of the New York East-West Institute.

Joined the Council on Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship under the Government of the Russian Federation.

Member of the expert council on public-private partnerships and investments under the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.

Takes part in the boards of trustees:

• Spaso-Preobrazhensky Valaam Monastery,
• Russian Chess Federation

Since 2006, he has been a member of the Russia-EU Business Cooperation Council. Member of the International Advisory Council of the Atlantic Council.

2006: Unsuccessful deal to exchange assets for a stake in Arcelor

In 2006, he returned to the position of General Director of OJSC Severstal.

In May 2006, Mordashov agreed to exchange 87.5% of his shares in Severstal for 38.5% of Arcelor shares, the second largest metallurgical company in the world. However, the merger fell through: the board of directors of Arcelor made a unanimous decision in favor of a deal with another large metallurgical group - Mittal Steel, led by Indian steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal. At that time, many observers considered this decision to be politically biased, that is, intended to deliberately create obstacles for the exit of a large Russian business onto the world stage. However, one of the main failures brought Mordashov wide fame.

2011: Net worth $18.5 billion

Takes second place in the ranking of the Russian-language version of Forbes "Russia's Richest Businessmen - 2011". Alexey Mordashov's fortune is estimated at $18.5 billion.

2017: Net worth $17.5 billion

As of 2014, Alexey Mordashov ranked 12th in the ranking of the richest businessmen in Russia.

As of 2016, he is the richest person in Russia according to Bloomberg.

2020: Creation of an ecosystem “in the spirit of Amazon” from its assets

Severstal owner Alexey Mordashov plans to continue investing in the consumer sector and create an ecosystem from his assets similar to the one Amazon has. The businessman spoke about this in an interview with Bloomberg, excerpts from which were published on January 20, 2020.

Than one of the heroes of the Russian era of primitive accumulation of capital. He forces all his managers to get an MBA abroad. In the late 1990s, his company was the largest in Eastern Europe client McKinsey, which he used not only for consultations, but also as personnel reserve. The general director of Severstal Group did not participate in any privatization scandals, did not get involved in politics, and until recently lived not in Moscow, but in his native Cherepovets. Even when in 2001 his competitors were collecting incriminating evidence on him, they only unearthed a sad story from his personal life - his abandoned first wife with a teenage son receiving meager alimony.

“We didn’t capture anything, didn’t run into anyone, didn’t use government bodies or corruption, says Alexey Mordashov in an interview with Forbes. “Everything we purchased, we bought for money.”

And only one story from Mordashov’s past still remained a secret behind seven seals. About how, in fact, he gained control over Severstal, only a few laconic statements by Mordashov himself were published.

Forbes managed to ask its second main participant, the hitherto silent ex-CEO Cherepovetsky, about this story metallurgical plant Yuri Lipukhin. From his stories it becomes clear that Mordashov bought the shares of the plant, although for money, but not for his own. And he deftly brushed his partner and, by the way, godfather Lipukhin to the side.

The history of the privatization of Severstal is the story of two generations of managers, Soviet and post-Soviet, the younger one winning and the older one losing. A kind of remake of King Lear.

“Father will not pull all the skeletons out of the closet,” Lipukhin’s son Viktor warned us, before giving the coordinates of the former general director of Severstal. “He has both a love and a hate relationship with the company.” Indeed, Yuri Lipukhin today speaks about the enterprise to which he devoted most of his life with pain and pride, and about Mordashov - either with respect or with bitter resentment. “I entrusted the privatization of the plant to Alexey, and it was my mistake,” Lipukhin says sadly in an interview with Forbes. - Because at one point he became a completely different person. He turned out to be not a master of his word.”

The biography of the triumphant hero is widely known. Mordashov was born and raised in Cherepovets. His mother worked at a metallurgical plant, and his father was one of its builders. In the early 1980s, he entered the Leningrad Institute of Engineering and Economics, where, by the way, he met Anatoly Chubais. In 1988, having returned to Cherepovets, he came to his native plant as a senior shop economist. Energetic young man management quickly noticed. Mordashov was sent for a six-month internship at the Austrian steel company Voest Alpine.

Becoming

Returning from an internship in 1990, Mordashov met with the general director of the plant. Lipukhin liked the promising economist because of his cheerfulness and enterprise. “He had great proposals for restructuring. I saw that a person thinks well and approaches business creatively,” says Lipukhin. - It was easier for the younger generation to build new economic relations. This required theoretical preparation and the absence of complexes that were typical for us.”

True, Mordashov’s promising career was almost interrupted at the very beginning. The son of the Minister of Ferrous Metallurgy Serafim Kolpakov, Sergei, interned in Austria with him. “Alexey did something inappropriate, quarreled with him over trifles,” says Lipukhin.

Mordashov recalls this story with a laugh: “Well, yes, it happened. He wanted to relax, and I wanted to study. And he complained to his father." The consequences, however, could be very serious for the future owner of Severstal. “The minister demanded that I remove it immediately,” says Lipukhin. - But I stood up for Alexei and slowly defended him. Then Alexey had a lot of such clashes. He is a hot-tempered, conflicted person.”

Lipukhin attributed these qualities to the youth of his subordinate, and in 1992 he appointed 27-year-old Mordashov as director of finance and economics.

The era of traders

The plant was going through difficult times at that time. After the collapse of the USSR, Severstal lost its domestic sales market. The reorientation to export - and now the company exports about 40% of its products - began under Lipukhin.

“Traders appeared - including emigrants from Russia, all smart and energetic, who came to us and said: give us 10,000 tons of metal, we will buy it from you and sell it in China or Malaysia,” says Mordashov. - We did not know the world market and did not receive normal prices. There was a period when they bought steel from us for $200 per ton, and sold it for $300 or $350.”

The traders got so rich skimming the cream off the metallurgical enterprises that they soon began to establish complete control over the cash cows. The most predatory was the Trans-World Group, which took over most of the Russian aluminum and steel industries. TWG also took note of Severstal.

According to one of the plant's managers, first Vladimir Lisin, at that time one of the top managers of Trans-World, and now the main owner of the Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant, came to Cherepovets. Lisin allegedly arrived to discuss a certain project related to Moscow real estate, but Cherepovsk residents believe that his mission was more of an intelligence mission. Because after him, TWG chief Mikhail Chernoy himself came to the plant with proposals to organize trade financing and offshore schemes for the plant. Lipukhin refused Cherny, but he did not give up immediately. On behalf of TWG, Cherepovets was later visited, with new proposals, by young Iskander Makhmudov and Oleg Deripaska. However, they also received a turnaround. TWG did not wage a tough fight for the plant - it had to act on too many fronts.

“There were many objects for which there was a struggle, and we simply were not given due attention,” says Mordashov. - And we lived very locally, we didn’t go anywhere. People often called me, including representatives of large groups, and invited me, for example, to dinner in Moscow, but I simply did not answer the calls.”

Buying up shares

Traders, including Trans-World, offered Severstal managers assistance in privatizing the enterprise. Having abandoned it, the Cherepovets team, however, applied TWG methods: they used trading structures to establish control over the plant. Mordashov easily convinced Lipukhin that the shares of the plant should be taken for himself - in order to prevent outsiders from entering the enterprise.

Privatization began in 1993. Controlling stake 51% were to be distributed among employees through closed subscription, and 29% were to be put up for check auction. So the Lipukhin team had to urgently buy vouchers with all available money.

This is how they made money. The Severstal-Invest company was created to purchase shares. According to the law, enterprises in which state companies had more than 25%. Therefore, the plant itself had only 24% in Severstal-Invest. The remaining 76% was owned personally by Mordashov. Lipukhin proposed creating a core of shareholders from members of the board of directors and other “most respected people at the plant,” but Mordashov dissuaded him. Yes, Lipukhin did not particularly insist. “Back then, few people understood privatization; they were afraid to get involved with it,” recalls Mordashov.

The plant sold metal to Severstal-Invest at low prices. The trading company used the huge margin from its resale to purchase vouchers, and at the same time shares from workers. “I practically traded with myself,” says Lipukhin. - I could set any prices, you know? I, of course, saw that this was pure... that this was fictitious work, not entirely correct commerce. However, I controlled the actions of this company, provided it with goods and loans, protected it from all regulatory organizations, from the tax inspectorate, ministries, and currency control.”

According to Lipukhin, Severstal-Invest not only received metal at reduced prices, but also took out large loans from the plant. The money accumulated quickly. And as a result of the check auction, Severstal managers managed to get almost the entire block of shares put up for auction. Competitors again underestimated the Cherepovets privatizers.

“Our competitors apparently decided that we were a weak team that accidentally got caught up in something at the plant, and they thought: well, let her sit there for now, we’ll deal with her later,” Mordashov recalls, not without gloating.

Over time, Severstal-Invest bought almost all the shares from labor collective. “Things were very difficult back then; they often didn’t pay wages, and people willingly sold their shares,” recalls Lipukhin. Without mentioning that part of the money that went to Severstal-Invest due to the plant’s low selling prices could have been used to pay the same salaries.

Usurper or heir?

Lipukhin says that he did not seek to become the owner of the plant. “I did not set out to become the owner of the plant, although this would not have been a problem.” Wasn't he concerned about the fact that he was giving control over the shares to Mordashov? Lipukhin says that he absolutely trusted his subordinate: “Alexey was completely different at that time. He understood that everything depended on me, and he had one answer to everything: as you say, so it will be.” The 60-year-old director was ready to give up his position to this talented and obedient manager: “I’ve already worked my butt off. It was time to look for a replacement."

In 1996, Mordashov became the general director of Severstal, and Lipukhin took the post of chairman of the board of directors. It was then that he finally took care of the formal ownership of shares. Those 43% of Severstal shares, which by that time had been accumulated by Severstal-Invest, were transferred to another structure - Severstal-Garant, 51% owned by Mordashov, 49% by Lipukhin.

At first, according to Lipukhin, they agreed on equal shares: “When I decided to leave, I told him - give me your proposals on how to divide these shares. He says: equally. I say: okay, I agree. After he became a director, he and his friends went to some islands, walked 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%. I didn't care. I said: come on, I agree."

Thanks to Lipukhin's compliance, there was no quarrel between the partners. When Mordashov was baptized in 1997, Lipukhin became his godfather. But even then the ex-director understood: the charter of Severstal-Garant did not give him any opportunity to influence the management of Severstal shares. “Alexey received the plant on a silver platter,” Lipukhin says bitterly. “I simply gave the plant to him and faded into the background.”

Didn't share

The conflict between the two privatizers emerged after the 1998 default. With the devaluation of the ruble, the plant's business went uphill sharply - after all, its costs were calculated in rubles, and its revenue was mainly in foreign currency. Net profit grew from $111 million in 1997 to $453 million in 2000. Where to put this profit - because of this, the partners quarreled.

“I had a strategy - to develop the plant, restore production, improve the environment,” says Lipukhin. - But Alexey considered it a lost cause. The development of the plant was curtailed, and God knows what began.”

Mordashov took the path of creating a diversified holding company, later named Severstal Group, and began buying up industrial assets: shares of the St. Petersburg, Tuapse and Vostochny ports, coal mines, as well as railway cars, the Kolomna Diesel Locomotive Plant, the UAZ plant. Mordashov explains the desire to diversify the business by the need to smooth out the cyclical nature of the steel business.

It was at this time that Mordashov put an end to the principle of collegial management of the plant’s shares. “In the spring of 1999, he arbitrarily, without my knowledge, bought out 17% of the shares that belonged to Severstal-Invest,” says Lipukhin. “I approached him and said: Alyosha, you can’t act like that.” His answer was extremely short: this is not written anywhere.”

This is why Lipukhin is still offended by his successor and accuses him of breaking his word. Mordashov denies the existence of any gentlemanly agreements with Lipukhin. He believes that he acted extremely honestly towards the ex-director. “His fate differs from the fate of other old directors in that as a result of privatization he was not expelled from the plant,” says Mordashov. - On the contrary, Lipukhin became one of the largest shareholders of the company. I didn’t take everything for myself, although legally I could have done so.”

By diversifying his business, Mordashov became involved in fierce competition for the first time in his career. The Zavolzhsky Motor Plant, a supplier of engines to GAZ, became the subject of his conflict with the owner of GAZ, Oleg Deripaska. Mordashov fought with the head of Evrazholding Alexander Abramov for Kuzbassugol. Another of his rivals - for supremacy in the metallurgical market - was Iskander Makhmudov. Severstal believes that it was he who financed his ex-wife’s litigation with Mordashov. Those around Makhmudov do not comment on this.

One way or another, these litigations forced Mordashov to think about protecting his property. And at the beginning of 2001, he asked Lipukhin to give him his 49% of Severstal-Garant. The ex-director claims that he received six times less for this package than he could have earned on the market. Mordashov does not name the price of the transaction, after which he became almost the sole owner of Severstal, but he flatly denies that he bought the shares at such a discount.

After divorce

Lipukhin still monitors the state of affairs at the plant, where he worked for 42 years, 15 of them as director. “Blast furnace number four is down, the coke-chemical production is in serious condition, the long-rolling shop produces a third of what it can produce,” he complains. “Today the plant produces 3 million tons of rolled steel less than in 1990, although the country is experiencing an acute shortage of metal - metal prices in Russia are almost the highest in the world.”

And yet Mordashov, having expanded his industrial empire, now largely follows the advice of his predecessor: he again realized that main business Severstal is, after all, a metallurgy company. To gain access to the American market, Mordashov several months ago defeated U.S. Steel in the fight for the bankrupt Rouge Industries, one of the largest US steel companies founded in the 1920s by Henry Ford.

“The American market is the most demanding in terms of quality,” Mordashov explains about the purchase of Rouge for $285 million. “Working with such a consumer is very important in order to raise the standards of our products.”

Someone will say that the main owner of Severstal - now Mordashov and related companies have 83% of the shares - dealt harshly with the man who at one time raised him and entrusted him with control over the plant. But against the background of the bloody showdowns of those years, the history of Severstal looks like an exception. There was no shooting or legal squabbles at the Cherepovets plant. Lipukhin turned out to be too decent a person, and Mordashov, as a Western-style manager, showed himself not so bad.

Mordashov Alexey Alexandrovich was born on September 26, 1965 in Cherepovets, Vologda Region, into a working-class family, Russian. In 1988 he graduated with honors from the Leningrad Engineering and Economic Institute. While studying, I met Anatoly Chubais.

From 1988 to 1989 - senior economist at the mechanical repair shop No. 1 of the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant (ChMK).

In 1989-1991 - Head of the Bureau of Economics and Labor Organization RMC-1 of the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant.

In 1991-1992 - Deputy Head of the Planning Department of ChMK.

In 1992-1993 - Deputy Director for Finance and Economics of ChMK.

Since 1993 - Financial Director of ChMK (Currently ChMK has been renamed into JSC Severstal). At the same time, Chairman of the Board of Directors of JSC Severstal-invest. He was one of the authors of the program for the privatization of the plant and the transition to active marketing practices in the metal trade. The Severstal-invest company was engaged in the sale of rolled metal, cars and weapons, breeding, processing and sale of fish, real estate and security and detective activities.

Since March 1996 - Chairman of the Board of Severstal-Holding LLC (Cherepovets), Chairman of the Board of Directors of Severstal-Invest CJSC (Cherepovets).

Since November 1997 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of Metcombank (Cherepovets). He was a member of the Council of Metallinvest Bank. At the same time, he studied management courses in England (in the late 90s he graduated from the MBA program at Newcastle Business School (NBS) at Northumbria University (UNN, UK).

Since June 2000 - member of the Board of Directors of CJSC Izhora Pipe Plant, joint venture OJSC Izhora Plants and OJSC Severstal. In October 2000, he was elected a member of the bureau of the board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP).

Since June 2001 - coordinator of the RSPP Working Group.

From April 2001 to April 2003 - member of the Supervisory Board of OJSC JSCB Industrial Construction Bank (PSB).

Since June 2002 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of OJSC Severstal.

Since 2002 - General Director of ZAO Severstal Group.

Since August 2002 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of SSM-Tyazhmash LLC, a subsidiary of Severstal Group OJSC.

Since December 2002, he has been a judicial arbitrator at the Ethics Commission of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, created to resolve corporate disputes.

In May 2003, he was included in the Entrepreneurship Council under the Government of the Russian Federation.

In December 2003, he became President Putin's confidant at presidential elections March 14, 2004.

In 2003, Forbes magazine included Mordashov in the list of the 500 richest people in the world (348th place, net worth: $1.2 billion).

In February 2004, as part of the placement of Eurobonds, Severstal OJSC reported that Mordashov controlled 82.75% of Severstal shares.

Since June 2004 - member of the board of directors of AB Rossiya (St. Petersburg).

In February 2006, Finance magazine estimated Mordashov's wealth at $6.0 billion (tenth place in Russia).

Member of the Board of Trustees of the Research Center “Expert Institute” under the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP).

Member of the Expert Council on Innovation created by the Ministry of Industry and Science of the Russian Federation.

Awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 1st and 2nd degree.

Laureate All-Russian competition entrepreneurs "Career-96". In December 2000, he was named entrepreneur of the year by the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs.

Speaks English and German.

Mordashov is in his second marriage. Three sons - one from his first marriage, two from his second.

He is interested in poetry, painting, and active winter sports.

Source: http://www.anticompromat.org/

Dossier:

Until 2001, there were no compromising materials regarding Mordashov on the pages of the media. The only ugly stories include divorce from his wife and unworthy alimony for his son. The only thing they talked about was that Mordashov was allegedly offered the position of chairman of the Russian government in July 2001. In response to this, Mordashov stated that even if he was offered, he would be forced to refuse.

In 2004, the media published materials exposing Mordashov in the dishonest acquisition of Severstal. The source of information was the ex-general director of the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant, Yuri Lipukhin, who promoted Mordashov up the career ladder. When Mordashov was already the director of Severstal, the plant was subjected to an attempted raider takeover. Trans-World Group, which was backed by famous businessmen Vladimir Lisin, Mikhail Chernoy, Oleg Deripaska tried to persuade Mordashov to sell the plant, but the latter was able to resist them. After these events, Mordashov convinced Lipukhin that the shares of the plant should be privatized in order to prevent outsiders from entering the enterprise. For this purpose, the Severstal-Ivest company was created, to which the plant sold metal at low prices, and Mordashov used millions of margins from its resale to purchase vouchers and shares from workers. So he became the owner of 51 percent of Severstal shares, and Lipukhin - 49%.

In 1998, a conflict arose between the two owners - Mordashov decided to diversify the business and began to buy up industrial assets: shares of the St. Petersburg, Tuapse and Vostochny ports, coal mines, Kolomna Diesel Locomotive Plant, UAZ plant. Lipukhin was against such business diversification. At the beginning of 2001, Mordashov bought 49% of Severstal-Garant from Lipukhin at a large discount, for which Lipukhin is still offended by Mordashov. The latter had enemies during this period - the Zavolzhsky Motor Plant became the subject of his conflict with the owner of GAZ, Oleg Deripaska. Mordashov fought with the head of Evrazholding Alexander Abramov for Kuzbassugol, and shared the metallurgical market with Iskander Makhmudov.

In his youth, while studying in Austria, Mordashov had a conflict with the son of the Minister of Ferrous Metallurgy Seraphim Kolpakov, Sergei. The minister demanded that Yuri Lipukhin fire Mordashov, but Lipukhin then defended the young promising employee.

Source: Forbes from 04/10/2004

Mordashov’s first wife, Elena, began making statements in 2001 that Alexey Mordashov did not help his son from his first marriage enough, did not allow her, his first wife, to arrange her personal life and contributed to her dismissal from work. For 2000, Mordashov declared his income as $80 million (Mordashov himself subsequently denied this amount), which his ex-wife took advantage of and sued for alimony and division of joint property (his wife paid $650 a month for his son). Mordashova demanded a share in her husband’s business and launched a huge information war. The businessman himself believed that the competitors of the metallurgical holding - the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Combine and Sibal, in particular their owner Iskander Makhmudov, who was at that time Mordashov’s main rival in the metallurgical market, were behind this lawsuit. In August 2001, the ex-wife appealed to the Nikulinsky Interdistrict Prosecutor's Office of Moscow with a demand to force her ex-husband to give 25% of his income to raise his son from his first marriage. In his opinion, Mordashov’s unpaid alimony amounted to more than half a billion dollars. To secure the claim, the prosecutor's office secured the seizure of 32.5% of Severstal shares. Claims ex-wife Elena Mordashova's claim on a quarter of her husband's income was found by a Moscow court to be unfounded and the seizure of the property was lifted. And then the Cherepovets court sided with Mordashov and decided that he did not owe his ex-wife 40% of the shares of Severstal (Elena Mordashova stated such demands in her statement of claim). As a result, Elena Mordashova lost both trials.

Source: “Moskovsky Komsomolets” from 08/20/2001, “Vedomosti” from 10/30/2002

In the 2004 presidential elections, Alexey Mordashov was a confidant of Vladimir Putin. The support of the head of state subsequently helped Mordashov to create, on the basis of the Cherepovets plant, the largest steel company in Russia, which has the largest assets abroad.

In February 2005, Alexey Mordashov caused a scandal at Vnukovo-3 airport. He got off the plane with two girls who had accompanied him on the trip. One of his companions suddenly discovered that she had lost the buckle from her purse. Mordashov suddenly began to behave inappropriately: for about half an hour he loudly shouted at airport employees and demanded that they give him a thousand dollars for the lost buckle.

Source: “Life” from 02/09/2005

Alexey Mordashov tried to merge his business with the metallurgical group Arcelor, which had suffered a takeover attempt, but the company’s owners refused Mordashov’s offer and the group began to be owned by the “invaders” - Mittal Steel.

Source: Investments No. 3 (334) 02/01–02/07/2010

In September 2006, Alexey Mordashov again decided to take the post of CEO of Severstal, and therefore carried out management reform at the enterprise. General Director Anatoly Kruchinin, a hired manager, was removed from his post by Mordashov. Later, he was appointed general director of the Severstal Russian Steel division (in April 2008, Severstal management divided it into three divisions: Severstal Russian Steel, Severstal Resources, Severstal International). The arrival of Mordashov, the main owner, to the position of director, according to his own plan, was supposed to contribute to the success of the IPO - Kruchinin was an unknown person in business, while Mordashov, after trying to become the largest owner of Arcelor, gained worldwide fame. A few months later, Mordashov held an IPO in London, which observers considered not very successful.

Source: Vedomosti from September 21, 2006

In the absence of more interesting metallurgical assets to purchase Mordashov in once again trying to diversify business into related areas. The businessman’s new object of interest is the main Russian manufacturer of equipment for the electric power industry, Power Machines. Severstal structures then requested permission for the transaction from the Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS). Shares in Power Machines are Mordashov’s personal investment, not associated with the mining and metallurgical company Severstal. Mordashov’s competitors in the fight for shares in Power Machines were Viktor Vekselberg and Oleg Deripaska.

/ Mikhail Voskresensky

Owner of Severstal Alexey Mordashov walked around Leonid Mikhelson. His fortune is estimated at $16.8 billion. He managed to beat his competitor not due to an increase in the value of assets, but due to a reduction in Mikhelson’s fortune.

Mordashov is the majority shareholder of the steel company Severstal. For 19 years, he served as CEO of the company, but left it in 2015. The businessman also owns a stake in TUI Group, the world's largest travel company, 98.37% of the gold mining company Nord Gold and 100% of Power Machines.

Dossier

Alexey Alexandrovich Mordashov was born on September 26, 1965 in the city of Cherepovets, Vologda Region.

In 1988 he graduated with honors from the Leningrad Engineering and Economic Institute named after. Tolyatti.

In 1997, he studied management courses in England, and in the late 1990s he graduated from the MBA program at Newcastle Business School (NBS) at Northumbria University (UNN, UK).

While studying at the Leningrad Engineering and Economic Institute named after. Togliatti Alexey Mordashov met with Anatoly Chubais who taught at this institute. After the first year, Mordashov came to Chubais as an assistant at the department.

My labor activity Mordashov began in 1988 at the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant, alternately holding the positions of senior economist, head of the bureau of economics and labor organization of the mechanical repair shop, and deputy head of the planning department.

In 1992, he was appointed director of economics and finance at the Cherepovets Metallurgical Plant, which was reorganized into OJSC Severstal in 1993, and in December 1996 he became general director of Severstal.

From 2002 to 2006, Mordashov was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Severstal.

Since 2002 - General Director of JSC Severstal Group, since December 2006 - General Director of PJSC Severstal, since December 2014 - General Director of JSC Severstal Management - the management company of PJSC Severstal.

Since June 2013, Alexey Mordashov has been the President of the Non-Profit Partnership "Russian Steel", since October 2013 - Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of the World Steel Association.

On May 26, 2015, Mordashov resigned from his post as CEO of Severstal Management Company. At the same time, he was elected to the post of Chairman of the Board of Directors of PJSC Severstal.

Billionaires don't want to give back ex-wives no money, no children

Until recently, the most popular books in Russia were entertainment and educational manuals called “How to Marry an Oligarch.” Now they are collecting dust on the shelves. All the oligarchs have already been dismantled. In this regard, other brochures have become relevant - “How to properly divorce an oligarch.” According to statistics, every second Rublev wife goes through this. Express Newspaper compiled a list of the ten most interesting cases.

THE VERY FIRST

After the divorce, Elena MORDASHOVA devoted her life to extorting alimony from her ex-husband.

A sophomore at the Leningrad Civil Engineering Institute, an excellent student and a Lenin scholarship holder, got married Alyosha Mordashov in fifth year Lena Mityukova, as they say, on the fly.

Family, a child and unloading cars at night did not prevent him from successfully completing his studies and being sent to his native Cherepovets. The constant lack of money forced me to work hard for three people. The bosses appreciated this, and climbing the career ladder seemed to happen naturally. First - senior economist, then - director of economics and finance at Severstal. By the age of 28 - deputy general, with all the privileges due, like secretaries, whose lipstick on her husband's collar was an eyesore for Elena.

On June 1, 1996, they divorced. Alexey decided to leave the child to Mityukova, and so that he could grow up in prosperity, he gave his ex-wife a three-room apartment and a “nine”. In addition, alimony is $1000 monthly plus another $6 thousand a year for treatment and rest. The money was fantastic at that time.

In 2002, Elena Mordashova learned that her ex-husband was an oligarch and was handling not thousands, but billions of dollars. Lawyers helped her draw up a claim, according to which she demanded to pay alimony not by agreement, but by law - 25 percent of real income. But the court rejected Mordashova’s claim, recognizing the previously signed agreements as legal. However, the owner of Severstal still increased the alimony to $100 thousand per month.

THE MOST GENEROUS

Roman ABRAMOVICH left his wife much more than he could have.

WITH Irina Malandina Abramovich met on board an airplane where a spectacular blue-eyed blonde worked as a flight attendant. Irina noticed him among the first class passengers and hinted at the opportunity to have a good time after the flight. Roman agreed and a few months later announced to his first wife Olga Lysova about divorce. After three years of marriage, she was unable to give birth to a child and seemed to be waiting for her husband to leave. But Irina will more than make this dream come true, having given birth to Roman Arkadyevich five children over 15 years of marriage: Arkady, Ilya, Anna, Sonya and Arina.

Like his first wife, who organized a toy production business with Abramovich, Malandina quickly became involved in making money. Irina began to bring fashionable items from Europe to Moscow, which were in huge short supply in the early 90s. They were copied at Roman's small factory and sold. In 2003, the Abramovich family moved to London. Roman's income during this period was already in the billions.

Irina quickly gained a reputation as one of the most stylish inhabitants of Britain. And I didn’t think about any Dashakh Zhukov! The pretty young lady destroyed an exemplary marriage in less than a year. The divorce was predicted to be loud and scandalous - $18 billion was at stake!

But it turned out that formally Abramovich has practically nothing. All property - houses, castles and yachts in the UK and France, as well as shares of enterprises - are registered offshore and registered in the names of children. They will be able to use their fortune only after reaching adulthood.

But it’s not Abramovich’s nature to waste time on trifles - the list of property transferred to his wife is impressive:

Five-storey mansion in London's Belgravia - $20 million.

Fining Hill estate in the British county of West Sussex - $33.6 million.

Mansion in Saint-Tropez on the Cote d'Azur in France - $18 million.

Chateau de la Croix, located on Cape Antibes in France - $30 million.

Villa on Rublyovka - $16 million.

Yacht “Pelorus” - $150 million.

THE LOUDEST

Instead of children, Viktor BATURIN generously offered Yana RUDKOVSKAYA the rights to Dima BILAN.

Head of the agricultural holding "Inteko-Agro" Victor Baturin and producer Dmitry Bilan Yana Rudkovskaya lived together for six years. It took them so long to understand that their personalities did not match. Victor took the first step towards divorce. Two years ago he didn’t let Yana home. To his sons - 6-year-old Andrei and 5-year-old Nikolai - he explained his action with the desire to protect them from the corrupting influence of their wandering mother. Baturin could not come up with anything better than moving with his children to the estate of the princes Golitsyn in the village of Zubrilovka, Penza region.

The high-profile trial lasted almost a year. Yana tried to take Victor’s children and $150 million. Instead, Baturin offered the rights to Bilan and a share in the business. As a result, Yana received the rights to Bilan, a business worth $21 million in Sochi, and $5 million to start a future family with Evgeni Plushenko. The court ruled that the children should live with their mother.

THE FRESHEST

Dmitry RYBOLOVLEV's wife claims that the oligarch is hiding almost $9 billion from the state.

Until recently, co-owner of Uralkali Dmitry Rybolovlev with a fortune of $3.1 billion, according to Forbes, he occupied 13th place among Russian rich people. A divorce from his wife Elena could set him back a long way. She said that she was “fed up with Dmitry’s tenderness towards other women” and stated that her husband was hiding the company’s assets. And his real fortune is $6 - 12 billion. Elena demands half of this money as compensation for her lost youth with her loving husband. I must say, she didn’t lose that much. Since 1995, she lived with her two daughters in Switzerland and traveled around the world in search of antiques and interesting real estate. In particular, she persuaded Dmitry to buy an estate from a billionaire Donald Trump in Florida for $100 million.

The most expensive real estate in the US is located on the beach Atlantic Ocean on a plot of 2.6 hectares and has a private beach of 145 meters. There are two guest houses on the territory, and in the main mansion there are only 18 bedrooms. The total area of ​​residential premises is more than 3 thousand “squares”. Elena Rybolovleva proposes to transfer this mansion to trust management. In addition, she claims half of the 65.5 percent of Uralkali shares owned by her husband. If she manages to sue half of the business from her husband, then the Rybolovlevs’ divorce will become the most expensive in the world.

Until recently, the family of the co-owner of Fininvest, a member of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation Vladimir Slutsker and creators of a network of fitness centers Olga Slutsker was considered exemplary. Two children, a mutual passion for art, it would seem that what else is needed! But now the senator, in a statement of claim, demands that his wife share with him apartments in Moscow and St. Petersburg, houses and plots in the Moscow region, and shares in the World Class Clubs network of fitness clubs. And also works of art - paintings by Andy Warhol, photographs by Helmut Newton, Damien Hirst’s painting “Saints and Sinners” for $2 million and much more. But most importantly, the senator demands that he leave his children, 6-year-old Anya and 10-year-old Mikhail.

If you believe recent publications on the Internet, here is what Olga Slutsker’s former personal driver, USSR kickboxing champion Alexei Medvedev, says about the reason for the divorce:

I was generally surprised at her husband’s patience. Vladimir flew on vacation with his children to ski in Austria. Literally the next day after his departure, Olga brought her lover to the house and had fun with him in the house and in the bathhouse for two days. All this happened in front of the guards and domestic servants. Everyone was shocked! Naturally, upon arrival, the husband found out everything and immediately filed for divorce.

According to Medvedev, Olga also met with her lover on rented apartment on Vernadsky Avenue and at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel on Tverskaya.

She often met with Suleiman Kerimov, flew to see him in Nice, sailed with him on a yacht, Medvedev allegedly claims. - During the filming of the sports TV show “Big Race”, I often went to the apartment of Dmitry Nagiev in a high-rise building on Kotelnicheskaya embankment. She usually stayed there for 2 - 3 hours and came out very excited every time. And in the car I straightened my hair and tinted my lips.

They had a peculiar relationship with Kerimov. She often talked to him from the car on the phone in front of me. It looked like she was a kind of “madam” for him in providing contacts with female celebrities. From the conversations, one could conclude that Olga was helping Kerimov “get to know” her friends from the social scene. I noticed that often after such successful negotiations, she would call the bank and check that payments had been received into her account.

It is possible, however, that Vladimir Iosifovich Slutsker, who recently adopted, as a follower of Kabbalah, the name Moshe Shlomo, will be limited only to depriving Olga of parental rights.

“I’m not greedy, because I’m a Kabbalist,” a member of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation once said.

THE SMALLEST

The head of Rosgosstrakh got rid of his wife with just alimony, but could have lost more than $100 million.

Wife Anna stopped satisfying the head of Rosgosstrakh Danila Khachaturova in 2004. He did not hide this and bought himself a separate apartment. After a couple of years of being pushed around between his family, where his 14-year-old son Artem grew up, and his single life, Khachaturov filed a lawsuit for divorce. Some ladies of the demimonde believe that the billionaire was pushed to this by his current wife Ulyana Sergienko. The girl came to conquer Moscow from distant Ust-Kamenogorsk and more than succeeded. Khachaturov was in such a hurry to enjoy honeymoon, that he instantly agreed to pay Anna a lump sum alimony in the amount of $2 million for the four years that remained until their son reached adulthood. At the same time, he got his ex-wife to sign a statement stating that there was no property to be divided. How he prevented the division of commercial assets of his enterprises: City Mortgage Bank, Northern Sea Port, Rosgosstrakh, Rhinocenter and others for a total amount, according to Forbes magazine, $2 billion.

Anna waved the agreement. But realizing that she could get much more from her husband, she filed a lawsuit against him, where she tried to challenge half of the funds received by Danil Eduardovich from the sale of the City Mortgage Bank - at least $200 million. She also announced that her husband had concealed part of his income, but aside from troubles and hassle, she achieved nothing.

MOST MASCULINE

Former presidential plenipotentiary representative in the Southern Federal District Viktor KAZANTSEV sued his ex-wife for chicken.

Kazantsev filed for divorce from his wife Tamara in early 2006. After a month of single life, he came to the conclusion that his wife had gotten rid of him too easily, and filed a lawsuit against her and her daughter Margarita, demanding 60 percent of the shares of the Kanevskoy meat and poultry plant. In 2003, they were purchased for 58 million rubles and registered in the name of Kazantsev Jr., but, as Kazantsev stated, the share in the enterprise was purchased with money that was loaned to him, and therefore the shares should belong to him. Three weeks later his claim was granted. Chicken soup is now being cooked by a different politician.

MOST SPONTANEOUS

Caught with his granddaughter's governess, Alexei ISAIKIN gave his wife everything except the Volga-Dnepr shares.

Alexey Isaikin fell in love with Lydia at first sight and proposed to her on the second date. Lydia understood that there was no better person in the whole world than this handsome, intelligent and purposeful guy. Young people barely waited until they turned 18 to register their relationship. The happy marriage lasted 36 years. There is not only abundance in the house, but abundance.

The head and co-owner of Volga-Dnepr Airlines, Chairman of the Board of Directors of Aviastar Alexey Isaikin was called the richest man in the Ulyanovsk region. A little more, and he would have been preparing to meet a dignified old age, surrounded by two daughters and grandchildren, but unexpectedly he began life anew.

Why he liked his granddaughter’s governess, his relatives still don’t understand. An ordinary Ulyanovsk girl - every second girl at the pedagogical institute is like that!

In 2004, Isaikin left home with one diplomat. Through lawyers, he offered his wife a divorce and a $3,000 monthly pension. But Lydia demanded half of the airline's shares. According to various estimates, this is several tens of millions of dollars.

The case did not go to trial. Alexey Ivanovich persuaded ex-wife agree to a mansion in London, an apartment in Moscow and a house in Ulyanovsk, plus an amount sufficient for Lydia to continue to be considered the richest grandmother in the Ulyanovsk region.

THE MOST SUSPICIOUS

The divorce of aluminum tycoon Lev CHERNY from his wife Lyudmila took place under the close attention of Interpol.

At the end of 1998, the coordinator of the huge industrial empire "Trans World Group" - a shareholder of all large aluminum plants, Bratsk, Krasnoyarsk, Sayan and others - was a billionaire Lev Chernoy and his brothers, Mikhail and David, came under suspicion from Swiss prosecutors. They were given the fashionable label “Russian mafia” and tried to accuse them of drug trafficking, organizing prostitution, racketeering and buying stolen goods. Lev's wife Lyudmila stated that she did not want to have anything to do with such a person. And right in their London mansion, where she lived under the hood of Interpol on suspicion of preparing an assassination attempt dear husband, wrote a statement for divorce and division of property. At the beginning of 1999, Cherny’s wife estimated his fortune at $3.5 billion. Lyudmila demanded half.

The divorce was accompanied by several more unsuccessful attempts on Cherny’s life and ended in the complete satisfaction of his wife’s claim. Lyudmila received a house in London and $150 million - exactly half of what Interpol managed to recognize as the businessman’s property.

The end of the divorce coincided with the prosecutor's office dropping all charges - both against Lyudmila and the Cherny brothers. It is noteworthy that together with his wife Chernaya he lost his aluminum business.

THE MOST DEVOTED

Mikhail KHODORKOVSKY's first wife sends him parcels.

With Elena Khodorkovsky studied at the Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology. The future spouses felt an irresistible attraction at one of the Komsomol meetings. There they decided to formalize the relationship according to all the rules. Mikhail was the deputy secretary of the Komsomol committee and never allowed himself anything frivolous. In 1985, their son Pavel was born, and in 1990 the family broke up. Khodorkovsky helped his wife open a travel company and still supports his eldest son, Pavel. In gratitude, Elena still bears the name of her ex-husband and sends him parcels and long letters.

THE MOST PROSPECTIVE

After a divorce from billionaire Shalva CHIGIRINSKY, wife Tatiana PANCHENKOVA can only receive his debts.

Divorce proceedings between a famous entrepreneur Shalva Chigirinsky, who just a year ago was on the 58th line of Russian Forbes with a fortune of $2.3 billion, and his wife Tatiana Panchenkova took place back in April of this year. However, the economic crisis still got ahead of Tatyana and did not allow her to profit from more or less decent compensation. Unexpectedly, it turned out that most of the billionaire’s assets were the subject of litigation. The court has already seized the businessman's accounts, real estate, including a mansion in London, a villa in Monaco that previously belonged to the cannibal dictator Bokassa and two Moscow apartments, as well as a collection of antique watches and a personal plane named by Chigirinsky in honor of his wife - "Tatik".