According to Alexey Borisovich, business is an intermediate activity of enterprising people between art and war. His colleagues always noted his hard work, diligence, faith in his partners and ability to achieve his goal, thanks to which he achieved success.
From the moment A. Miller took a responsible post at Gazprom, the following opinions began to be expressed about his merits:
- always a prepared figure
- walks on a line
- knows how to bow
- arrogant
- touchy
- his life and service to the cause are like a shadow.
This man doesn't like noisy companies and for the most part prefers to spend time with a small circle of closest people. Alexey enjoys skiing, plays the guitar well and sings. In his household he takes care of two thoroughbred stallions named Vesely and Fragrant. In 2002, at the Moscow Hippodrome, the horse Vesely took a prize in the races. From that time on, Fragrant also took prizes more than 10 times and came first to the finish line 7 times. By the way, if we talk about Alexey’s sports hobbies, he is an avid Zenit fan, loves to play football himself, and besides, he Vice President of the Football Union of the Russian Federation.
About my family life Alexey Borisovich does not like to talk about things. It is only generally known that he has a wife, Irina, and together they are raising their common son, Mikhail, and a daughter from his first marriage. Alexey spends all his free time with his family.
Biography
Alexey Borisovich was born in Leningrad in 1962 on January 31 into a family of workers at the Aviation Industry Research Institute. Since Alexei’s father, Boris Vasilyevich, passed away early, only his mother was involved in raising his son - Lyudmila Alexandrovna. The origin of the Miller surname goes back to ancestors who came from Germany.
The future economist's school years were spent within the walls of the Leningrad gymnasium school No. 330 in the Nevsky district of the city. After completing his school studies with honors in 1979, Alexey entered the LFEI (Financial and Economic Institute) and graduated in 1984. At that time, a movement of reformist economists was active in Leningrad, the leader of which was A. Chubais; Alexey Miller was active among them.
After graduating from the institute, Alexey entered the position of engineer-economist at the Lenproekt Research Institute and soon received the junior scientific title of graduate student, thus setting himself on the path to improving his acquired knowledge. As his skills improved, he received the rank of junior in 1990 research fellow Lenproekt and begins to work in the Economic Reform Committee in the Executive Committee of the Leningrad City Council. Here Alexey Borisovich holds the post deputy chairman of the mayor's office and becomes executive external affairs officer. By the way, at one time this position was held by V. Putin . Since the beginning of Putin's presidency, Miller has served Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation.
Subsequently, under the leadership of the President of the Russian Federation, Miller developed investment zones in St. Petersburg, in particular in Pulkovo, where, with his participation, branches of enterprises were built " Coca Cola" And " Gillette" Brewery production facilities were built in the Parnassus area Baltika" During his investment activities, Miller attracted Russian business capital of foreign banks Dresden Bank and Lyon Credit.
In 1996, A. Miller’s investment activities gave way to him taking up the post general director Petersburg seaport. After which, until 2000, he served as general director of the Baltic Pipeline System.
Since 2000, Alexander Borisovich has become a state political figure - Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation.
Miller's career rise to Gazprom
A.B. Miller in 2001 was appointed by President V. Putin to the position of deputy chairman of the board of directors at Gazprom. Sometimes you can hear that this appointment in the holding is dictated by the president’s desire to take full control over the gas empire. Today Miller justifies the president’s intentions and significantly strengthens the state role in Gazprom.
Alexey Borisovich also manages: Gazpromneft, Gazfond, SOGAZ, Gazprombank, and since 2012, Russian Hippodromes.
Alexey Miller today
Today A. Miller is the owner of 0.00096% of the shares of PJSC Gazprom, which, under his leadership, sponsors matches football club"". Miller was repeatedly re-elected to the position of director of Gazprom, and in 2011 he again held this post for a five-year term. On May 31, 2016, he was again unanimously elected for a 5-year term as manager of the holding.
In 2017, Miller was awarded a state award, the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, first degree. But this is only one of a number of previous multiple orders, diplomas, awards and insignia.
According to information in the online newspaper Fontanka.ru, the head of the largest Russian energy company approved S. Slepakov’s work about oil; The single's videos are now shown on many TV channels across the country.
According to the publication English edition Harvard Business Review, A. Miller has been ranked first in the list of the best top managers on the planet since 2010; in one year he earned 25 million dollars.
If you want to achieve success in life in your affairs, follow the advice of Alexey Miller: our whole life is a mirror of the behavior of each of us, and our plans will definitely come true.
In 1984 he graduated from the Leningrad Financial and Economic Institute named after N.A. Voznesensky. In 1989 he completed his postgraduate studies at the same university.
Miller and I are the same age - he is also from 1962. By the way, it's the year of the Tiger. Moreover, we grew up in the same area, at the Zanevskaya outpost in St. Petersburg. You could say on the neighboring streets. It turns out that I even went to arrange for my son to go to the school where he studied - No. 330 with in-depth study of mathematics. The director then spoke with pride about her graduates. I missed the name Miller...
This is a former factory outskirts on the left bank of the Neva south of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra. There are factory pipes and fences all around. The streets are named after revolutionary figures: Elizarov, Babushkin, Krupskaya. There are still monuments to Soviet-era propaganda in the courtyards. By the way, another now famous St. Petersburg resident, Boris Gryzlov, also spent his adolescence here (he studied in 327th). Neighboring residents praise school No. 330. A good place, although not elite. But, besides Miller, the coach of our figure skaters, Tamara Moskvina, also studied here.
My parents were ordinary people. Miller also did not come from an aristocrat: his father was an assembly mechanic, his mother an engineer. Both worked at the same enterprise - NPO Leninets, which still develops on-board equipment for aircraft. Alyosha's father died early from cancer, but his mother is still alive. He was the only child in the family.
Alexey Borisovich's classmate Alla told me this episode... Lesha Miller never skipped classes. One day the class gathered for an excursion to Pushkin. The head teacher said: “Take thermoses with you. But just in case, take your notebooks: the excursion may be canceled and then you will study.” Everyone came to school with only thermoses. Only two excellent students - Miller and Kibitkin - brought notebooks, as was said. When they announced that the excursion would be cancelled, everyone fled out of town, but Kibitkin and Miller stayed behind. It seems that even in short pants he knew what he wanted...
I was a hooligan and would definitely have run away with everyone else, but I didn’t have a far-reaching goal then. And he had it. More than once Alexey Miller had to choose “between a thermos and a notebook,” and in the end, the “notebook” most often won. Because it was service. Probably even with a capital letter: Serving one’s career.
He didn't make it into history
Before leaving, a journalist I knew called me from St. Petersburg and knows everything about everyone.
Are you going to pick up Miller? I do not advise. You won't dig up anything. Look!
Why is this? - I got angry.
Because he's no good. The mouse is gray. And no one will tell you about him. Everyone is afraid. You yourself know whose creature it is.
About the “mouse” was right on point. Neither teachers nor classmates remembered Alexey Miller as anything special. “Alyosha was a diligent student” - this is the main refrain in stories about school years heads of Gazprom. The school has almost no photographs of him: they found only two general photographs of tenth-graders from the class of 1978/79. In one of them, Miller stands in the back row with a concentrated face. And so it is in everything. Stealth was perhaps its main feature.
He was not eager to participate in class activities. Even the position of secretary of the Komsomol committee, which he was offered, he voluntarily gave up to a classmate, and he himself remained in a supporting role. This trait - the desire to be in power and at the same time in the shadows - will be noted by many later.
“A modest and shy boy,” classmates recall, “he didn’t stick his head out anywhere. At school he had no enemies, but no close friends either. Why? Complex issue... Alyosha did not arouse hatred or antipathy in anyone. And generally speaking - strong feelings.
He has changed a lot since then. He was like a doll: blonde curls, thin himself. Soft and dreamy. He let me copy on the test if they asked.”
The Russian German, apparently, realized too early: he would not be able to break into the “people” except by becoming very smart and completely invisible. And also - never open your soul to anyone: often the closest friends overnight become the most cruel enemies.
And in his description they wrote: “The young man is capable, serious, deep, diligent... real man, principled and noble...” I spoke with the teacher who was said to be writing the character reference. She shrugged: “The handwriting is mine. I don’t remember what I wrote..."
With this paper and an impeccable certificate, in 1979, Miller entered the Leningrad Financial and Economic Institute (locally known as finek) on his first attempt. There he ended up at the planning department National economy. “The guy from the working-class settlement” became the favorite student of Professor Igor Blekhtsin, a famous St. Petersburg economist and international master of sports in chess.
Finek became a convenient stepping stone for him to climb towards his dream. In 1984, the diploma, as usual, was “excellent”, not a single “good” mark. And again - he kept his head down. The student Miller was remembered at his alma mater as follows: “neat,” “calligraphic handwriting.” Of the human characteristics, there is only one: “he was a fan of Zenit”...
"Chubais' Nest Chick"
In the late 80s, Chubais noticed a capable graduate of Finek. The two Borisovichs, Anatoly and Alexei, were connected by the “Club of Young Economists” (later the “Filter” Club), based in the Leningrad Youth Palace.
The circle was founded by economist Boris Levin, and the ideological inspirer was the future “privatizer of Russia.” The core consisted of graduates of FINEK, the Faculty of Economics of Leningrad State University and the Institute of Engineering and Economics (where Chubais then taught). That’s what they called them: “Chubais’ chicks.” Many now well-known figures flew out of the “nest”: Putin’s current adviser Andrei Illarionov, former deputy chairman of the State Property Committee Dmitry Vasiliev, St. Petersburg vice-governor Mikhail Manevich (shot in August 1997), Alexey Miller and others.
According to the recollections of the “young reformers,” Miller spoke little and listened more. When several members of the club began creating the first centers of NTTM (scientific and technical creativity of youth), he did not go into small business and was not on the list of the first entrepreneurs of St. Petersburg. The same thing happened again when the “chicks” (including Manevich) went to the elections of deputies of the Leningrad City Council.
Miller, as you might guess, remained on the sidelines with his “notebooks.”
While already in the Leningrad City Executive Committee, Chubais formed a committee on economic reform(KER). The “chicks” flew there. Miller came to the department headed by Manevich. And the committee was headed by Alexei Kudrin. After Sobchak was elected mayor, the CER was liquidated. There were plenty of other places in Smolny where one could get a good job. But Miller got the best thing - in the Committee on External Relations (FRC). Since 1991, he has grown rapidly: head of department, deputy chairman of the committee, head of the foreign economic cooperation department. And most importantly, from the beginning of his work at KVS, Miller’s boss and patron became a person psychologically close to him - Vladimir Putin. If Chubais fed Miller and allowed him to fledge, then Putin put him on the wing. They worked side by side for five years.
Foreign Economic Intelligence Department
Their characters coincided in many ways: Putin, in a sense, was a “strengthened” version of Miller’s personality. As they say former employees PIC, the committee was tough business style. Officials and their secretaries, nervous, appeared in the morning for 15-20 minutes ahead of schedule and stayed in their offices until late.
Relaxing on weekends was not encouraged. Putin set the tone. Emotions were not accepted: no one cared what was in your heart. The “owner” never got irritated; he conducted planning meetings in a quiet, metallic voice.
“German order” spilled out from Putin’s office through the corridors. Women in the FAC could not, for example, afford to show up for duty in a skirt that reached above their knees.
The KVS was the only structure of the mayor's office where documents were never lost. Business cards of representatives of foreign companies were always pinned to the folders with reports. One of the committee employees still says with genuine fear what a scandal would have erupted if even one business card had been lost on the way to the VVP desk.
There were, however, grounds for such strictness. The PIC was faced with the task of arranging commercial negotiations with business guests from abroad. If possible, without information leakage. The very phrase “foreign economic relations” evoked irony among the old-timers of Smolny. In the early 90s, Sobchak still had almost no such connections. On the sidelines they said: “the department of foreign economic intelligence, which knows everything about everyone...”
For every person who appeared on
on the horizon of the “client” they compiled a comprehensive dossier down to what the guest prefers - tea or coffee. Miller became a virtuoso in preparing such certificates. “They don’t work like that anymore!” - sigh in the current PIC. Miller was able to stay in such a “slippery” position only thanks to iron discipline, secrecy, devotion and super-work capacity (“worked 16 hours a day”). Hence the personal support of the boss who sympathized with him.
There are other assessments: “The secretaries did not see him point-blank. This was a person in second, if not third, roles.” There were even rumors that Miller was collaborating freelance with the “authorities” at that time... Unlike at school, during the period of Miller’s work at the KVS, Alexey Borisovich began to have ill-wishers.
And here’s another opinion expressed in a private conversation by a columnist for one of the city newspapers: “St. Petersburg journalists had no problems with him. When Putin was absent from the committee, we called Lesha, and he always answered questions (see: “he let me copy on the test.” - Author). But he knew how to keep at a distance... Unlike, say, Manevich, he is of the “Putin school.” Putin himself was already closed to communication. The local press made its way to Vladimir Vladimirovich only on major holidays. You could talk to him, but no useful information you won't get it. Even if the conversation did not take place over the phone, but over a glass of wine at a presentation.” Like in the St. Petersburg media
accepted Miller’s “ascent”? For many, this was a revelation, since he had never been a public politician.
The other two deputies of the GDP loved country exhibitions and buffets, which Sobchak adored so much, but Miller did not travel - he holed up at the FAC. He was an exemplary performer, like Kudrin.
Friend of the Manevich family
As people close to Miller say, during his work at KVS he maintained a friendship with Mikhail Manevich. They had a lot in common: they were the same age, graduates of the same university, and Mikhail’s future second wife, Marina, worked as Miller’s secretary-assistant.
Miller and Mikhail Manevich remained friends until the killer’s fatal shots, but after becoming the head of Gazprom, Miller stopped calling the Manevichs. Even when I came to St. Petersburg...
“It’s a pity,” Manevich’s father sighs. “For me, Alexey is also a memory of my son.” Marina adds: “We haven’t communicated for five years. Since the day of my husband’s death...”
Mikhail was perhaps the only person outside the narrow family circle, from whom Miller did not hide his feelings. But what were these feelings?
They say that Mikhail and Alexey at one time were so “focused” on the economy that when they met at home they discussed exclusively work or argued on economic topics.
The households of both even tried to impose a taboo on these topics.
The murder of Manevich shocked Miller - also because the bullets of that “order,” to use a metaphor, flew a centimeter from the temple of each of “Chubais’ chicks.” Since August 1997, he has become doubly careful. As it turned out, it was not in vain.
What does Miller have to do with it?
Almost nothing to do with it. “Almost” means that Alexey Borisovich did his job: he brought together St. Petersburg and foreign companies, did not sign strategic documents and did not make sensitive decisions. His name has never surfaced in connection with a criminal case or a high-profile scandal.
Nevertheless, many important and secret papers in the KVS passed through the hands of Alexei Borisovich. Due to his duty, he was aware of the not very pleasant secrets of the St. Petersburg administration. However, he managed not to show up anywhere.
Miller tiptoed to the pinnacle of power - behind Putin's back. They said about him: “Lesha is not capable of stealing. Unless not for yourself...”
And they didn’t particularly “attack” him.
Only once, “St. Petersburg Zhirinovsky”, ex-LDPR deputy Vyacheslav Marychev, burst into the reception room and threw a crumpled piece of paper with huge red letters “Deputy Request” on the table. "What is this?" - the secretary asked in bewilderment. “What is this?!” - Marychev exploded. - Don’t you see? And he slammed his fist on the table. At that moment Miller entered the room. “Don't yell at the girl! - he said quietly in Putin’s style. “There are no deaf people here!” "What's your last name?" - Marychev did not let up. The secretary said her last name, which did not sound Slavic at all. "And yours?" - “Miller.” "Synagogue!" - Marychev barked and, grabbing the “request”, ran out of the reception area.
From pro to cog
The hyper-cautious Alexey Borisovich not only ran from floor to floor with pieces of paper and solved his career problems. He also helped Peter get loans. According to some analysts, a number of large Western companies - Coca-Cola, Wrigley, Gillette and others - have taken root on the banks of the Neva, in no small part thanks to Miller. Together with Putin, he brought large Western banks such as Dresdener Bank and Lyon Credit to the city and generally played a key role in attracting foreign investment. He handled all the questions competently. Skeptics, however, reduce Putin’s favorite to a cog in the machine of nomenklatura office work. “All things,” they say, “were personally driven by Sobchak and his advisers. Miller was not assigned serious topics due to lack of experience.” “Arrogant, touchy, complex. Unpleasant to communicate with. Having become a big boss, he could force the Western delegation to wait 30-40 minutes in his reception room. At the same time, the manager is zero... The key color in the description is gray. I walked along the wall.” But the truth is that Miller was at the forefront of creating the first investment zones in the Pulkovo Heights area. He also represented the interests of the city in joint ventures and supervised hotel business- Member of the board of directors of the Hotel Europe.
He also had a hard time here. What was going on with St. Petersburg real estate then can be understood at least by the example of the legendary “apartment” scandal (the Renaissance company case). City Hall officials were then suspected of receiving luxury apartments in exchange for preferential loans and lucrative contracts. “The temptation was great...” The situation was no better with the transfer of buildings to foreign firms in historical center cities. Local operatives remember how this difficult process went. They say that premises on Nevsky were sold to the same Lyon Credit for almost a dollar per meter. Serious “showdowns” also took place around the five-star Sheraton Nevsky Palace hotel: “Tambovites” and “Kazans” fought for control over it.
Before the call
And then the government in St. Petersburg changed. Together with Sobchak, who lost the election, Putin also left the mayor’s office. Miller stayed only a month longer. The place of the chairman of the KVS was taken by a person from another team, the former head of the department of the regional committee of the CPSU Gennady Tkachev, and Putin left for Moscow.
It was a setback. Step aside. Losing momentum. Another would have fallen into depression, but Miller took the changes philosophically and began to wait. Perhaps, on the platform of the Moscow station, the former boss whispered to him a few encouraging phrases? In any case, Miller’s job was not so bad: he became deputy general director of the Sea Trade Port for three years. They say that at this time he did not forget to visit Putin in Moscow. He was often seen leaving Vladimir Vladimirovich’s office: first in the department of affairs, and then in the White House. One must think that he didn’t just go there like that. And Putin did not forget about his subordinate. Having become prime minister, he found Miller the position of general director of the Baltic Pipeline System (BPS). This was already “something”.
Miller’s colleagues on the “pipe” still dared to characterize their leader. The picture appeared familiar: Miller tried to reproduce in a new place the order to which he was accustomed at the mayor’s office. Distinctive feature“Putin’s chick” was toughness with his subordinates. He could, for example, kick the gray-haired department head (with whom he had previously consulted) out of a conference call: “You weren’t invited. Come out!” He did not tolerate changes in his work schedule or in his office. In Putin's style, he forced the deputies to retrain reports. He was aspirated about any information that needed to be submitted “to the top.” He was careful even in small things. But he always paid employees fairly under contracts, did not forget about salary indexation, and helped with housing.
Having become president, Putin called him to the Ministry of Energy as deputy minister. Miller “collected his notebooks” and flew to another “nest.”
Alexey Miller
Chairman of the Board of Gazprom
Arrival date 2001
5.25 trillion rubles is Gazprom’s revenue
Rem Vyakhirev, resigned after Vladimir Putin became President of Russia and the positions of the recently all-powerful Vyakhirev began to weaken
First position Board of Directors of Gazprom
In 1991, he became the head of the department of the committee for external relations of the St. Petersburg mayor's office, the chairman of the committee at that time was Vladimir Putin
Kirill Seleznev
Member of the Board, Head of the Department of Marketing, Gas and Liquid Hydrocarbons Processing, General Director of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz
Arrival date 2002
Cash flows that depend on it Domestic gas sales (794.4 billion rubles) and operation of the concern’s electric power assets (375.6 billion rubles), sales of oil and petroleum products (290 billion rubles)
Who held the position before him Nikolai Gornovsky, the former general director of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz, was accused of withdrawing a large asset from the company
Whom did you know before taking office? Seleznev and Miller worked in the Seaport of St. Petersburg and in the Baltic Pipeline System (BPS)
Elena Karpel
Head of the Department of Economic Expertise and Pricing, Gazprom
Arrival date 1994
Cash flows that depend on it 81.5 billion rubles is the purchase of pipes for Gazprom in 2013
Karpel has held this position since the founding of OAO Gazprom.
Who did you know before joining the concern? Karpel is perhaps the only one of the Vyakhirev personnel who not only stayed at Gazprom under the new boss, but also managed to become a member of his team. However, in 2014 she was not re-elected to the board of directors
Andrey Kruglov
Deputy Chairman of the Board, Head of Financial and Economic Department
Arrival date 2002
Who held the position before him Boris Yurlov, who was considered a protege of Igor Sechin, left the monopoly, he became deputy head of the Atomic Energy Agency
First position Member of the Board, Head of Corporate Finance Department
Whom did you know before taking office? Kruglov and Miller worked at the St. Petersburg mayor's office. According to Kruglov’s acquaintances, his wife is the sister of Alexei Miller’s wife. When Alexey Miller was hospitalized in 2007, it was Kruglov who remained as a replacement.
Vitaly Markelov
Member of the board of directors of Gazprom, deputy chairman of the board of the concern
Arrival date 1997
Cash flows that depend on it 1.1 trillion rubles is Gazprom’s investment program without expenses for oil and gas condensate production and energy production
Anatoly Ananenkov, one of the central figures on the board of Gazprom, was dismissed at the end of 2011 upon reaching retirement age
Whom did you know before taking office? Mikhail Sereda worked at Vostokgazprom with Markelov, who helped Markelov join the board of Gazprom.
Mikhail Sereda
Deputy Chairman of the Board, Chief of Staff of the Board of Gazprom
Arrival date 2001
First position Chief of Staff of the Gazprom Board of Directors
Whom did you know before taking office? In 1999-2000, he was Miller’s deputy for finance at BTS.
Who held this position before him Gennady Veselkov, a veteran of oil and gas construction, who went to head the council of Gazprom veterans
Elena Vasilyeva
Arrival date 2001
Who held this position before her Irina Bogatyreva, former chief accountant of Gazprom from Rem Vyakhirev’s team
First position Deputy Chairman of the Board, Chief Accountant of Gazprom
Who did you know before taking office? Vasilyeva was the chief accountant of BTS, and previously the deputy chief accountant of the Sea Port of St. Petersburg. In both positions, she overlapped with Miller, who also worked in these companies
Alexander Dyukov
Chairman of the Board, General Director of Gazprom Neft
Arrival date 2006
Cash flows that depend on it 1.3 trillion rubles is the revenue of Gazprom Neft
Who held this position before him Alexander Ryazanov, deputy chairman of the board. Miller did not renew his contract in 2006
First position And. O. President of Gazprom Neft
Whom did you know before taking office? In 1999, Dyukov headed the Seaport of St. Petersburg, and Miller, at that time director of development and investment, was subordinate to him
Date of Birth. 01/31/1962
Origin. Alexey Miller was born in the city on the Neva, when it still bore the old name Leningrad. His parents worked at a closed military plant. So Alexey has been able to keep military secrets since childhood. In addition, he grew up to be an obedient and efficient person. These two qualities probably determined his fate.
Education. Alexey received his secondary education at gymnasium No. 330 in St. Petersburg, from which he graduated with honors in 1979. However, the graduate was not awarded a gold medal, since there were too many excellent students that year, and there was simply not enough “gold” for everyone.
Immediately after school, Miller entered the Leningrad Institute of Economics and Finance (LFEI) and five years later became a certified engineer-economist.
In 1989, having defended his dissertation at the LFEI, the future millionaire received the title of Candidate of Economic Sciences.
Career. The professional growth of financier Miller began back in the distant 80s, when he was a regular at the informal club of young economists “Sintez”. Already at that time he was on friendly terms with Anatoly Chubais, Andrei Illarionov, Mikhail Manevich, Alexei Kudrin - representatives of the past and present political elite.
In 1990, Alexey worked on the executive committee of the Leningrad City Council for economic reform. A year later, he moved to work in another Committee - for external relations of the city mayor's office (KVS). His immediate boss until 1996 was Vladimir Putin himself.
From 1996 to 1999, he held the position of Director for Development and Investment of the Sea Port in St. Petersburg.
In the year of appointment as President V.V. Putin (2000) Alexey Miller was appointed Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation. And a year later he sits in the chair of the Chairman of the Management Board of OJSC Gazprom.
The businessman also heads the Boards of Directors of Gazprom subsidiaries: Gazprombank, NPF Gazfond, IC SOGAZ and Gazpromneft (formerly Sibneft).
Hobbies. One of Alexey Miller’s colleagues, who wished to remain anonymous, called him a “careerist.” It is logical to assume that career is Miller’s passion. However, classmates say that when he was Alexey loved to play the guitar, run around the football field or cheer for Zenit.
According to the businessman himself, he still has a love for the guitar and Zenit, and in addition, he is not averse to skiing or biking.
Family. Alexey Miller and his wife Irina are raising their son Mikhail. The family lives in two houses - in St. Petersburg and in Moscow. Alexey does not talk about his personal life, and prefers to spend his free time in a quiet family circle
Phrase. In one of his interviews, Alexey Miller compared business to something between art and war.
What irritates him? Banquets, buffets, noisy companies. Although this may be due to kidney stones.
Advantages. Executive workaholic. Always achieves goals, believes in both himself and his partners.
Flaws. Doesn't like to stick out, always remains as if in the shadows. Hidden.
Valuable advice. Dreaming is good! This is how what was conceived becomes reality.
Awards. At one time, Alexey Miller did not get Golden medal, but by the age of fifty he has many honorary titles, medals, orders. For strengthening friendship and the international cooperation awarded orders from the Republic of Armenia, Kazakhstan, South Ossetia, Vietnam, Italy. He is an honorary citizen of the city of Astrakhan. He has sacred titles and orders from the Russian Orthodox Church. Most recently, in February 2012, he received a certificate of honor from the hands of the President of the Russian Federation for his long, conscientious work in the gas industry.
Childhood, youth and family of Alexey Miller
Now a successful top manager, chairman of the board of the largest Russian energy company, he was born in Leningrad into a family of employees of a closed military enterprise. Miller studied at gymnasium No. 330, with early years demonstrating excellent academic performance. After school, he easily entered the Leningrad Financial and Economic Institute. N.A. Voznesensky, who successfully graduated in 1984 with a degree in economics and engineering.For several years after receiving his diploma, Miller worked in his specialty at LenNIIproekt, however, being a capable student, in 1986 the future Gazprom employee decided to continue his studies in graduate school. In 1989 Miller became a candidate of economic sciences.
In 1990, he continued his work at LenNIIproekt, where he now holds the position of junior researcher. Part of 1990 and early 1991 - Miller works on the Economic Reform Committee of the Lensovet Executive Committee.
Alexey Miller’s career rise: from St. Petersburg mayor’s office to Gazprom
In 1991, a fateful acquaintance took place for Alexei Borisovich. This year he began his work in the Committee for External Relations of the St. Petersburg City Hall, where the current President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin held the position of his head. Miller worked on the Committee for five years. During this time, the organization managed to establish contacts with the largest Western banks.Alexey Miller (OJSC Gazprom) in the oncoming lane. A593MR 97
The change of power forced Alexei Miller to leave his home. Having risen high through the ranks of the External Relations Committee, Miller became a sought-after candidate for senior positions in major Russian companies. His new place of work was the company OJSC Sea Port of St. Petersburg, where Alexey Miller worked for three years.
Since 1999, the successful top manager took the place of general director at OJSC Baltic Pipeline System.
According to the results of the Russian elections in 2000, Vladimir Putin occupied the presidency. Following his former boss, his former subordinate Alexey Miller also moved to the capital. He was appointed to the post of Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, but remained in office for only a year.
In 2001, Miller became chairman of the board of Gazprom. The dismissal of Rem Vyakhirev, who served as chairman for almost ten years, promises the largest energy organization rapid reforms, which were not long in coming. From this moment, Gazprom becomes completely controlled by the state, and work begins to return assets lost during Vyakhirev’s rule.
Alexey Miller: crests are messing with Russian gas
In 2002, Alexey Miller became Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of OJSC Gazprom. By this time, the organization had undergone major personnel changes. Being far from the energy sector, Miller needed people for whom this field was not alien. A number of leadership positions went to people with whom the new chairman of the board had already worked; other appointments came from the Kremlin; some members of Vyakhirev’s team managed to retain their posts.
However, despite the reforms carried out, gossips foreshadowed Miller's imminent resignation. The beginning of his work was not active enough, and, according to some experts, the personnel changes that began should have ended with the resignation of the new leader. No matter what rumors circulate, and no matter what is whispered about on the sidelines, Alexey Miller has firmly strengthened his position. By 2004, the formation of a renewed management apparatus came to an end. In 2006, Miller's work contract was extended for another five years.
No matter how controversial and dubious the start may seem, Alexey Miller achieved good results as chairman of the board. In 2010, the American magazine Harvard Business Review ranked Miller third in the ranking of the world's most effective top managers. In 2013, the chairman of the board of OJSC Gazprom took third place in the Forbes list, and was named one of the most expensive Russian managers.
Personal life of Alexey Miller
Alexey Miller is a busy man, which is why he doesn’t have time to communicate with journalists, so the few interviews with the head of Gazprom are devoted mainly to the work of the company, its prospects and development. Miller prefers not to talk about his personal life, but it is known that he has been married for many years.He and his wife Irina are raising a son. Free time The top manager prefers to spend time with his family. He is no stranger to sports hobbies, such as cycling and skiing. Miller is also passionate about equestrian sports.
He owns several thoroughbred stallions. However, like any business person, Miller’s hobby turned into an active labor activity. In 2012, he assumed the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors of OJSC Russian Hippodromes. According to the presidential decree, Alexey Miller faces the responsible and difficult task of breathing life into domestic equestrian sport and contributing to the revival of the industry.
In 2016, the entrepreneur admitted that as a child he passionately wanted to go to the concert of his beloved Deep Purple. It was impossible then, so now he attends every performance of his youth idols whenever possible.