Nikolai Sarkisov his career began in 1985. From his youth, he confidently stood on my feet and knew what it wants from life. Then he found work at the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations in the USSR. It was a pretty demanding job, thanks to which Sarkisov received the right connections and gain experience in working with the state apparatus.

In 1989, Sarkisov worked as an economist in the companies "Avicenna", "Constant" and "Sametko. And in 1995 he was appointed director of the department of banking insurance company RESO-Garantia.
Company RESO-Garantia is one of the leading Russian insurance companies. It was established in 1991. She is now the largest insurance broker, as the field of insurance of large companies, and in the retail insurance. The company has licensed more than a hundred different types of insurance.

The main type of insurance is automobile insurance. Company actively sells such as insurance and CASCO OSAGO. Also popular among the population enjoys health insurance, property insurance and real estate.
The company RESO-Garantia employs about 18 thousand insurance agents, making it one of the largest Russian insurance networks. The whole territory of Russia is located approximately 800 offices, where insurance can be issued. In recent years the number of customers reached 3.6 million customers a year.

Company RESO-Garantia "" owns several subsidiaries. The list of these companies include: "OSZH RESO-Garantia", "Unity of PE" and "AMK Finance. Activities of these companies is life insurance, reinsurance and asset management group of companies, RESO-Garantia.

Nikolai Sarkisov very human development. He enjoys politics, actively involved in various political congresses and conventions. Also he likes to travel. He speaks excellent English, Spanish and French.
In 2008, the capital of Nikolai Sarkisov estimated at 1,5 billion dollars. He is among the richest Russians.

Since 1994, Pisarev Kirill has been the President, First Mortgage Company, and subsequently - and the president of all PIK Group, established in 1994.

Now PIK Group - one of the leaders of the capital's property market. The group includes a number of companies active in investment and construction area: JSC "First Mortgage Company", "PIK-Region", JSC "Zhilstroyekspluatatsiya, DSK-2", JSC "OPTBank" Ltd. "PIK-Development", OOO PIK Technology ", JSC" PIC profile ", JSC" PIC-Design ", JSC" PIC-Invest, JSC "Design and Architecture Workshop" PIC ", JSC" PIC Design ", JSC" 160 DSK ", JSC" 160 DSC-Moscow ", OAO" Kombinat 100 ZBV ", OAO" Kombinat 480 ZBV ", OAO" Hromtsovsky Quarry ", OAO" Petrozavodsk Timber Plant, "Zabudova", LLC "Sychevskii industrial-technological complex, Ltd. "Ruza combine non-metallic materials", OOO "PSC" Basis. "

The company specializes in building houses standard series (KOPE, KOPE-M-"Sail") and on individual projects with the functions of general contractor and technical customer building, as well as being built houses from glued beams. It offers a full range of services for repair and decoration of apartments and premises. It has its own production of precast concrete structures, as well as ventilated facades, windows, balcony doors, glazing elements loggias and balconies made of aluminum and PVC profile. Performs operation and management of residential buildings and the surroundings. Since 1998, under the leadership of Cyril Pisarev company is actively involved in various programs of mortgage lending. In 2002, PIK Group launched the first program of its own bond issue. In addition, PIK Group has invested funds in housing construction in the Moscow region.

Among the most interesting events of the past year, Kirill V. describes the extensive and interesting project - a new residential district Novokurkino, north of Moscow. The project involves building an integrated neighborhoods Number 6, 7 and 8 the town of Khimki, near the shopping complex IKEA. In addition to housing in the area will be developed infrastructure, planned construction of children's and adult clinics, high schools, 2 primary schools, libraries, clubs, open stadiums, swimming pools, is public service, underground and ground parking. It is planned that one of the main streets will resemble the shape of his face the New Arbat. Also soon to be built in residential neighborhoods Novoperedelkino in the neighborhood "Central" City Dolgoprudnyy.

The felicitous began in 2004 and for regional programs: GK PIC came from investment and construction projects in the city of Rostov-on-Don and Rostov region., Which provides funding for the construction of 55 thousand square. m before the end of this year, and in 2005 - 140 thousand square kilometers. m.

The scope of the Group of Companies also includes the operation and management of constructed houses and adjacent territories, promotional activities, the implementation of air.

Kirill V. married and has four children.

In 1975 he graduated from the Orenburg Higher Military Aviation School for Pilots them. NA Polbin. In 1987 - Correspondence Institute of Soviet Trade, specializing in labor economics.

He served as an instructor pilot in the Air Force. Last rank - Major.

In 1982 he was dismissed from the army for anti-Soviet activities.

Since 1987 he worked as the head section of building trust "Mosinzhstroy", in 1989-1991 he was director of affiliate car rental and taxi services in a private company, Rozek car.

In August 1991, Sergei Petrov founded and headed the car rental companies Rolf Co., which in 1998 became a dealer of Mitsubishi in Russia.

The group of companies "Rolf" - one of the largest distributors of Mitsubishi group in the world and the largest retailer by revenue vehicles in Russia.

Prior to 2004, Sergei Petrov was president and CEO, Rolf, in 2004, took over as chairman of the board, up to December 2007 was engaged in long-term development strategy of the company.

December 2, 2007 Sergei Petrov was elected to the State Duma of the fifth convocation of the federal list of candidates nominated by a political party "Fair Russia: Motherland / Pensioners / Life". A member of the faction "Fair Russia: Motherland / Pensioners / Life", a member of the State Duma Committee on Budget and Taxes.

Condition Petrova at the beginning of 2008, according to the journal The Forbes, has reached $ 1,7 billion

Marital status: Married with two sons.

He is fond of mountain skiing and cycling.

Mamut Alexander was born January 29, 1960 in Moscow into a family of lawyers. In 1982 he graduated from the Faculty of Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Press wrote about Mamut as a man quite closed, so information about his biography has been published little. It is known that prior to 1993 he was head of law firm "ALM" (named for the initials of the owner). In 1990, Mamut has created a law firm "ALM-Consulting and was one of the founders of the Bank Business and Cooperation" (March 1991 - Bank "Imperial"). In 1993, Mamut was appointed chairman of KB "Company Project Financing" (KOPF).

In the second half of 1990 Mamut appeared in the press as a "special trustee" Boris Berezovsky - a businessman close to the encirclement of President of Russia Boris Yeltsin. In 1998, Mamut was mentioned in the press as a member of the Board of Directors Sobinbank. In the same year he became an advisor on economic issues in the presidential administration of Russia, and in 1999 - was appointed an external adviser of the presidential administration of Russia.

According to the newspaper "version", in 1999, Mamut was the founder of a number of companies - OOO "Pour", JSC "Olla", JSC "Old Building Technology, ZAO Sibtrest" LLC "Slavonian" and CJSC "Klayft. In August Mamut, the same year was elected chairman of the Supervisory Board of MDM Bank (Moscow Business World "). A little later, Mamut appeared in the media as a co-owner of" The Seventh Continent ", and the network mentioned among the major customers of MDM Bank.

In July 2000, Mamut joined the board of directors of the insurance company RESO-Garantia. In the same year, Mamut was elected to the board at exhibition industry Entrepreneurs (RSPP).

In February 2001, Mamut joined the Business Council under the Cabinet of Ministers Kasyanov. In the same year a working group under the leadership of RSPP Bureau Mamut submitted abstracts banking reform in Russia, which has not been implemented.

In May 2002, Mamut has become co-owner of the investment company Troika Dialog (according to some sources, the deal amounted to about $ 60 million). In the summer of that year Mamut headed the board of directors of the company. Already in December 2003 there was an information that three shareholders, "Troika", including the Mamut, negotiating the sale of their shares in the company of another group of shareholders led by Ruben Vardanyan.

In 2005, "Vedomosti" called Mamut owner one of the shareholders of Ingosstrakh (according izdnaniya, in July, the share of Mamut in Ingosstrakh was almost 40 per cent). In October of that year, the businessman left his post as chairman of the Board of Directors of Troika Dialog, and first came to the Board of Directors of Ingosstrakh. In 2007, Mamut sold his Enron shares the company Ingosstrakh joint venture of the Italian financial group Generali Group and the Czech financial group PPF Investments.

In 2005, Mamut was first mentioned as a co-owner of online bookstores "Bookberry" (about 36 per cent of shares).

In December 2005, it became known about the acquisition of shares Mamut carrier Corbina Telecom "(ZAO Cortec). In May 2007, after completion of the transaction to sell a controlling stake (51 percent) Corbina, Russia's telecommunications company, Golden Telecom , Mamut became chairman of the board of Corbina. As of April 2008 Mamut owned all shares of Cyprus company Inure Enterprises, which owns 49 percent stake in Corbina Telecom.

In September 2006 Mamut mentioned in publications devoted to the activities of the holding "Multinational Logistics Partnership (according to some sources" close to him the structure, owned approximately 30 percent of shares).

In November 2006 Mamut has become the owner of the publishing group "A foreign", which consists of Boredom "and" Hummingbird ", as well as a book distributor," Libre ". It was reported that they, together with the already belonged Mamut publishing Swallowtail "will be merged into the group" Atticus Publishing "and that the financier confirmed that the head of its board of directors.

In December 2006, shareholders of UK-based Oriel Resources Plc approved the reverse takeover transaction with entities under its control Mamut and co-owner of EAST Alexander Nesis, resulting in businesses, according to experts, after the completion of the transaction may become the owners of 63.3 per cent stake.

In May 2007, Mamut and independent producer, co-founder of TV company "View" Alexander Lyubimov, filed a joint production company "Mirumir" and declared their intention to shoot films "at the intersection of art-house and commercial cinema."

In July 2007, Mamut was mentioned in the media as a co-owner operating in the Novosibirsk and Tomsk regions and in the Altai region network Holiday Classic. It was also reported to merge the network with a network of Kemerovo "bark" and the forthcoming acquisition of eight supermarkets Novokusnetskaya Network Leader (estimated turnover of the combined company in 2007 was up more than 600 million dollars).

In summer 2006, Mamut and entrepreneur Andrew Paulson created the company "Soup" (SUP) and became its shareholders receiving 90 percent of the shares. In October the same year the "soup" and Six Apart (the owner of the American blogging service LiveJournal) announced a strategic partnership, resulting in a "soup" has the right to develop Learn all countries using the Cyrillic alphabet. In December 2007, "Soup" became the owner of LiveJournal (undisclosed amount).

In May 2008, "Atticus Publishing, teamed up with publishing house" Alphabet ", resulting in a group Mamut has become Russia's only holding company that owns the publishing company and printing complex.

In June 2008 the "soup" and the publishing house Kommersant agreed to expand their partnership and shared web assets, resulting in "Kommersant" has received up to 50 percent of "soup" and the opportunity to appoint two members of the board of the company, and the "soup" was owns 100 percent of the Internet-edition "Gazeta.Ru.

In September 2008 it became known that the investment company ANN, controlled by Mamut, acquired in Yevgeny Chichvarkin and Timur Artemiev 100 percent stake in Euroset - Russia's largest seller of cellular phones. Already in October 2008, the structure Mamut sold 49.9 percent of Euroset Vimpelcom.

In March 2008, the first time, Forbes included Mamut in the list of richest people in the world. It took him 962 in place with a fortune of 1.2 billion U.S. dollars. Representatives of the business community noted that Mamut, a financier in the first place: he prefers to invest in a variety of industries and not trying to create any significant structure.

Mamut, a widower, has three children: a son Nicholas and his wife's two sons from his first marriage - Leonid and Dmitry. The press mentioned hobby Mamut cars and football.

In 1977, Alexander joined the faculty of economics MGIMO, where he studied in depth the global monetary and financial system, paying particular attention to issues of international debt obligations.

In 1982, after studying at MGIMO, Lebedev Aleksandr received distribution in the Institute of Economics of the world socialist system, where he began to write a thesis on "Debt problems and challenges of globalization". But soon he was invited to go to work in the Foreign Intelligence Service, where Alexander Lebedev and served until 1992, by, inter alia, the prevention of capital flight.

Transferred to the reserve as a lieutenant colonel, Lebedev Aleksandr, decided to engage in financial business and created their first child - Russian Investment and Finance Company (RIFK). In 1995 RIFK purchased dwarf and problem-National Reserve Bank (NRB). For 2 years he became one of the largest financial institutions in the country. Bulgaria, together with Alfa-bank - the only of the 10 leading private banks in the country, surviving the crisis of August 1998. Today the National Reserve Bank is a bank of thirty leaders of Russia, is one of the most stable and reliable Russian banks, enjoying the confidence of domestic and foreign investors.

NRB is the core of its established base of National Reserve Corporation (NRK). NRC - one of the first in Russia, large financial-industrial groups, not focused on profit from the exploitation of natural resources, and to finance high-tech industries and enterprises of the social sector. In its investment policy of the corporation shall, in the first place, to support the industries whose development is beneficial not only to the national economy, but also in the social sphere. Among the priorities - implementation of investment projects in the aviation industry and in the field of air transportation, energy, agriculture, telecommunications, construction, mortgages and utilities.

Today the NRC has the second largest shareholder after the state airline Aeroflot (about 28%), leasing company Ilyushin Finance. "(26%), owns significant stakes in Gazprom and other leaders of Russia's market. Along with the bank, the holding includes the National Housing Corporation - the leading company in the industry of individual low-rise housing, and the National Land Company, which occupies a leading position in the production of potatoes. Minn NRK airline Red Wings is the largest customer and the operator of a new national civil aircraft - the Tu-204, manufactured by Ulyanovsk plant Aviastar-SP. Created and formed subsidiaries in the energy, telecommunications and urban electric, chemical and textile industries, urban construction and tourism business.

NSC is actively developing business not only in Russia but also abroad. Among its assets - "Energobank" and "European Insurance Alliance in Ukraine, airline Blue Wings in Germany, the aircraft leasing company Alpstream in Switzerland. In Crimea, built and operates the largest resort and recreational complex.

In 2003, Lebedev Aleksandr took part in the election of the mayor of Moscow and in elections to the State Duma. The first test of strength in the elections of the Chief Executive of the capital has been quite successful - A. Lebedev scored about 13% of the vote.

Following the parliamentary elections Lebedev was elected to the State Duma. In this field he became one of the most active legislators have made to Parliament dozens of bills aimed at increasing transparency and accountability bodies, formation of an affordable housing market and the development of Russia's aircraft industry, reforming the judicial system and law enforcement agencies (in terms of elimination of the indictment gradient, reducing the administrative and financial pressure on Russia's courts and law enforcement agencies at all levels, improving the Institute for Cooperation with the investigation, etc.), reduced the privileges of officials at different levels (legislative prohibition spetssignalov, spetsnomerov and spetstalony on cars, etc.), tightening of liability for the sale of tobacco and alcoholic beverages to minors. Lebedev is the author of the bill on the withdrawal of gambling outside of Russian cities.

After the deputy's powers in 2007, Alexander Lebedev, is back in business. He devotes considerable time to social activities, being the president of the National Investment Council, International Institute for Global Development and Center for Integration of the Institute of Economics Academy of Sciences. As a shareholder, "Novaya Gazeta" Lebedev has supported the publication, which became a symbol of independent journalism in Russia. Together with the staff of the newspaper and the Society "Memorial", he began the project construction Museum and memorial to the victims of the gulag on the draft Ernst Unknown. In autumn 2008, along with former Soviet President Gorbachev Gorbachev, he initiated the establishment of the Independent Democratic Party of Russia and became one of the founders of a public anti-crisis initiatives designed to accumulate the intellectual capacity of civil society to overcome the economic crisis.

Simultaneously, Lebedev Aleksandr, has been active in charitable activity, as president of Charity Provident Fund (DBP) and the founder of an international fund them. Raisa Gorbachev. At its funding has been built in Russia's largest Children's Cancer Hospital in St. Petersburg, financed by the treatment of children in Rossiyskom Cancer Research Center. Blokhin, the procurement of medical equipment and training Russian doctors in the world's leading hospitals.

Alexander Lebedev cooperates with the Russian Orthodox Church and supported by its pastoral and missionary activity. Charity reserve fund helps Holy Trinity Monastery, Sretensky Stauropological Monastery, Holy Trinity Seraphim-Diveevo monastery, funded the restoration of the Savior Yakovlevskogo and the Assumption Cathedral in Rostov the Great. The money in the settlement NSC Malorechenskoye near Alushta was elevated 65-meter temple beacon St. Nicholas of Myra, has become one of the sights of the Crimea.

With the support of Alexander Lebedev has been restored Theater and Museum, AP Chekhov in Yalta, it helps Theater Workshop of Peter Fomenko, MAT behalf AP Chekhov, the Center Galina Vishnevskaya Opera. Charity reserve fund, together with the magazine "New World" presents a writer Prize. Yury Kazakov. The fund would be established in Voronezh, a monument to Osip Mandelstam. DBP implements international projects aimed at supporting and spread the Russian language and culture outside of Russia. In this framework, in the outskirts of Paris was opened Russia's cultural center Château des Forgets, which will become part of a network of "Russian houses in Europe."

The money in Switzerland, Bulgaria restored the monument to Alexander Suvorov, in London, the monument "Dun" - mark the memory of Soviet citizens who died during the Second World War.

For an active community and charitable activities, Alexander Lebedev, was awarded a medal "For Service to the Motherland» II degree, Order of St. Innocent of Moscow Russian Orthodox Church, the Order of St. Prince Vladimir's Ukrainian Orthodox Church Moscow Patriarchate and the Medal of UNESCO "Dialogue of Cultures".

Lebedev - doctor of economic sciences, the topic of his thesis - "Financial globalization in the context of the problems of global, regional and national (Russia) development."

After graduating from eighth grade enrolled in the Mining College. For the first time went into the mine in 1968 on the production practice. After graduating from college he served in the army. After the Army, graduated from the Irkutsk Polytechnical Institute, specializing in electrification and automation of mining operations.

Doctor of Technical Sciences, the author of over 20 publications on the problems of coal mine restructuring and organization of production. Honored Worker of Fuel and Energy Ministry of Russia. Honored miner in Russia.

Married, two children (daughter, son), lives in Mezhdurechensk (Kemerovo region).
FORMATION OF BUSINESS
After graduation in 1978, was assigned to the mine Raspadskaya (Mezhdurechensk, Kemerovo region) underground fitter. For several years he was elevated to deputy chief engineer for the production of the mine Raspadskaya. In 1991 the company was privatized. Kozova elected chairman of the board of shareholders, then he became CEO of the company. In 1993 he was chairman of the board Raspadskaya was Alexander Vagin. However Kozova they realize the long-term program of modernization of production.

In the late 1990's. in the shareholders Raspadskaya appeared EvrazHolding, which for several years has brought its share up to 19%. In 2000, at Kozova the idea to unite with Yuzhkuzbassugol and Sibuglemet, creating Russia's largest company and the world with a potential production of 50 million tons of coking coal per year. But the shareholders of the companies could not agree. Eventually Kozova Vagin and in 2004 created a EvrazHolding joint venture Corber Enterprises Ltd on an equal footing, which was transferred to about 90% of the shares of Raspadskaya. In 2006, Raspadskaya an IPO on Russian exchanges.

In June 2007, Evraz Group and Raspadskaya agreed to merge Raspadskaya "and" daughters "of" Eurasia "- Yuzhkuzbassugol, Kozova was appointed CEO Yuzhkuzbassugol. However close the deal failed. In March 2008, Evraz obvyavil Kozova resignation from the post of Director General Yuzhkuzbassugol. According to one version, the deal fell due to the fact that the parties did not agree to the valuation of assets.

In 2007 Kozova became co-owner of Etalonbank. " His interests in the board of directors is the son Artyom.
CURRENT STATUS OF BUSINESS
Together with Alexander Vagin owns nearly half the shares of Raspadskaya, 20,6% of ordinary shares Etalonbank. "
PARTNERS
Alexander Vagin
CHRONOLOGY
1978 - 1982. mine Raspadskaya
underground electromechanic
1982 - 1991 gg. mine Raspadskaya
underground mine foreman, deputy chief of the underground station,
Head of the underground station, the head of mining operations,
chief engineer for the production
1991 - 1993 gg. AO Raspadskaya
Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Since 1991 JSC "Raspadskaya
Chairman of the Board of Shareholders
1993 - June 2003. ZAO Raspadskaya
CEO
From June 2003. ZAO Raspadskaya Coal Company
CEO
From June 2003. Raspadskaya
Member of the Board of Directors
June 2007 - March 2008 ZAO UK Yuzhkuzbassugol
CEO

In their construction-based holding company with Russia's typically called "Stroygazkonsalting" employs 27 000 people. According to this index of business Manasira comparable to the largest companies in the Moscow construction complex. In January, when because of the crisis in Russia had lost their jobs 150 000 people, the company hired 2,600 new workers and continues to employ drivers, bulldozer, excavator, welders and fitters. They will have to work in extreme conditions: hot, a native of Jordan made his huge fortune in the construction of gas pipelines, roads and houses in the permafrost zone. Orders for the construction of commodity companies bring his company more than $ 2 billion a year. The largest customers - "Gazprom".

At Zapolyarnoye gas field near the New Urengoy warmly by local standards - minus 32 degrees, the wind whistles over the tundra. Zapolyarnoye - is owned by Gazprom, hundreds of square miles of tundra, lined a flat grid of roads closed to outsiders and a loop, that is leading from the wellhead to gas processing plants and pipelines. It produces natural gas at $ 30 billion per year - a fifth of the entire gas production of Russia's energy monopoly. Zapoljarnoe put into operation in 2001, but this does not mean that builders should not be here. Gasovik, having mastered easily mined deposits, get to the deeper, develop new wells. Deposit grows, is spreading far and wide.

One of the many companies of the group "Stroygazkonsalting" built here on the installation of an integrated gas processing. It is similar to standing in the middle of the tundra small plant: housing, interlocking tubes, giant sparkling tank. Gas from several wells will be dry, clean, cooling and pumping into the pipeline. At the construction site of 30 cranes (anyone seen such a scale in Moscow?), The work is 24 hours a day under floodlights - the polar night. Results for "Stroygazkonsaltinga" such constructions ten.

Before you erect a building or road in the permafrost, it is necessary to make a "dumping" - covering the land heat-proof film, and on top of a layer of sand, that summer, when the permafrost thaw, the roads and buildings do not subside, and not destroyed. Three huge bulldozers raked sand, shovels and load it into dump trucks lined up a sequence of brand-new Mercedes. Tridtsatigradusny frost, and drivers in their cabs - in T-shirts.

Galina and Sergey, a young married couple, working on projects "Stroygazkonsaltinga" for four years. He - the driver that most of the Mercedes, it - cook in the camps. They met here. "We bought in Arkhangelsk in the mortgage apartment - we will still work," - says Galina, filed in New Urengoy to work with Ukraine. Wages are between 50 and 000 to 100 000 rubles for the watch. Watch - 45 days, then the same house. Galina says that for 45 days in Archangel manages to miss on a rotational Township (250 cabins on wheels, each with four or eight seats). Change - 12 hours, one hour break for lunch, alcohol is prohibited. Inscribed to work enough. In the office "Stroygazkonsaltinga" in the gas capital of Russia Novy Urengoy "waiting room" (a huge room with endless rows of shops and refreshments) is always crowded: people come here from all over the country.

They come not only in New Urengoy. Trucks and heavy equipment with the logo "CFS" go to construction sites in different time zones of Russia - from St. Petersburg to Magadan. Last year, sales of unstructured holding company consisting of dozens of companies, was $ 2-2,8 billion Such estimates give Manasira colleagues on the construction market, he himself in an interview with Forbes said that the lower limit of that range "close to the truth." The largest portion of the proceeds (approximately 40%) gives the construction of trunk pipelines, such as the site of the Nord Stream Gryazovets - Vyborg, a third - equipping gas fields, 20% - construction of roads, such as federal highway "Kolyma".

At home, in Jordan, have also Manasira industrial empire - factories for the production of concrete structures, factories for the production of olive oil and petrol. Emirates Internet portal Arabian Business last year, praised the state of a businessman in a $ 1.6 billion, placing him 45 th place in the list of the richest Arab world. However, the 43-year-old Manasir long carries in his pocket a passport and Russia to Jordan, by his own admission, rides only during the May holidays. It is firmly established in Moscow: "Stroygazkonsalting" partially owns, partially removes half of the 34-storey skyscraper Tower 2000 on the banks of the Moskva River near the Kutuzovsky Avenue. The eldest daughter, Helen Manasira at the Faculty of Journalism and was withdrawn in the reality series "journalism", where, according to the trailer, "embodies the luxury and wealth" and has a psychological problem: call a psychologist to cure the syndrome of hatred for the waiters. Six years ago my father gave her dvenadtsatiletie Porsche. Total Manasira have three daughters and four son - the heir of the empire his father had arrived a quarter century ago in the USSR without a penny in my pocket.

The future billionaire was born in a poor family. His father, an officer in the army of the Kingdom of Jordan, had 12 children, and Ziyad was not a senior, you have had to fight my own way in life. Young people from Middle Eastern countries, opposing "the Zionist Israel," then willingly accepted to study in the Soviet Union. In mid-1980's a young Jordanian arrived in Baku to go to Azerbaijan Oil and Chemistry. Azizbekov. After the Institute, he worked briefly in Moscow, a specialist in foreign economic activity in the union of cooperators "Koopsoyuz and soon, like many, tried his hand in the business for sale all in a row - wood, metal, fertilizers ... In 1994, he bought a house-building plant in Tyumen.
In the early 1990's Manasir met with Viktor Polyanichko, a top Soviet functionary who made a brilliant career: at age 35 he was first secretary of the Orenburg Regional Party Committee, then headed by the propaganda department of the CPSU Central Committee, was transported to Azerbaijan for the post of second secretary of the powerful Republican Central Committee participated in the conflict in Nagorno-Karabakh. In Orenburg Polyanichko was well acquainted with the future head of Gazprom and chairman of the Government of Russia, Viktor Chernomyrdin, and in 1993 became vice-premier, but was soon thrown into the Caucasus to reconcile the warring Ossetians and Ingush, was killed in a terrorist attack. Was it an accident the first major construction contracts, which received the Manasir, was the building of houses in the Orenburg region, which many linked and have Polyanichko and have Chernomyrdin, as well as dormitories for "Tyumenburgaza, a subsidiary of Gazprom? Introducing Polyanichko has nothing to do with it, says Manasir: "We then were small and inconspicuous, not what to ask." One way or another, but in 1995 the owner of a 20 per cent stake in Stroygazkonsaltinge became the son of Victor Polyanichko Peter (another minority partner was and still is a graduate of the Moscow Civil Engineering Institute, a professional builder Alexei Likhachev). Peter Polyanichko refused to talk with Forbes, the widow of Victor Polyanichko Lydia Yakovlevna so outlined the role of her late husband in the formation of "Stroygazkonsaltinga": "Viktor helped all the talented people who are doing something good for Russia, and Ziad very talented." After the death of head of family Polyanichko not lost contact with the gas monopoly: Gazprom until 2007, officially was among the founders of "The Future of the fatherland. VP Polyanichko ", headed by a widow. And the first president of Azerbaijan Ayaz Mutalibov told in an interview that settle in Moscow after the flight from Baku in 1993 helped him exactly Lydia Polyanichko, introduced him with Viktor Chernomyrdin. Be that as it may, in mid-1990 "Stroygazkonsalting" received first orders from Gazprom. In the future, they flow only increased.
In 2001, the team of surrogates Chernomyrdin headed by Rem Vyakhirev, ousted from the leadership of Gazprom, and at the helm of the national gas monopoly, faced with new people close to the new president, Vladimir Putin, came from the St. Petersburg mayor's office and other administrative structures of the northern capital. And it is this year with "Stroygazkonsaltinga" there is another co-owner. Olga Grigorieva, "the daughter of a friend" as they called her Manasir involved in cases far removed from the preparation of gas fields: she lives in St. Petersburg, and heads of homeowners one of the luxury homes on the prestigious Avenue Kamenoos. "Friend" - the then deputy director of the FSB of Russia and head of the St. Petersburg FSB, General Alexander Grigoriev. In general Manasir met, he said, "at the bottom of the birth of a friend.

"Make friends, began to communicate ..." - he says, but refuses to pursue the matter.

In the semi-official biography of Vladimir Putin's "First Person" is a picture: a sunny day, young Volodya sitting on logs around some of the shed, along with a friend. This friend, who later became a witness at the wedding of Putin, called Alexander Grigoriev. Friends served together in the organs in the 1970's, and when Putin worked in the St. Petersburg mayor's office, Grigoriev continued to work in the local KGB office. In late 1990, he took one of the highest levels in the hierarchy of the FSB - the Deputy Director and Head of Department for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region. In 2001 the president appointed him head of Rosrezerva.

Last year, the all-powerful bureaucrat suddenly died. "Grigoriev was non-public, but a very influential man - explains the vice-president of the Center for Political Technologies, Aleksei Makarkin. - It's not in the position, the fact that he had access to a higher authority. " "Putin has a lot of obligations to associates, - said editor in chief of industry news agency RusEnergy Yuri claws. - The very existence of such a minority stake [in the Stroygazkonsaltinge "] says that the company is vested shares of administrative resources and tenders, in which it will participate, will be productive.

"For commodity companies sharing contracts - a special theme - said lawyer Alex Bulk, minority shareholder of Gazprom, regularly advocates the interests of small shareholders of state concern. - Construction sites in the "north" - the same trains of money from which the money unload a shovel. Nothing is impossible to control, all very close. Gazprom shows: we have investment program, we have spent on equipping the field so many billions of dollars. And how to test them? "

But to win the tender - half the battle. The resulting budget should be learned: to build gas pipelines and build up deposits, and power "Stroygazkonsaltinga" in the beginning of the decade were calculated on the construction of residential and industrial buildings. This problem was solved enterprising Jordanians, agreeing with Michael Yakibchuk, comes from the Ukraine who worked in the 1990's in the West Siberian Building Trust "Urengoygazstroy" and created on the basis of the Komsomol stroyotryada private company "Urengoypromgrazhdanstroy. During the 1998 crisis Yakibchuk nearly bankrupt ( "They said to people: the work is, no money, if you can, be patient," - recalls in an interview with Michael Forbes) and began looking for a companion. Nothing happened until then, until in 2001 it did not agree to take under my wing Manasir. Having decided to unite with "Stroygazkonsaltingom, Michael Yakibchuk received 10% of the total business, his brother Ivan now oversees the company to place in the New Urengoy.

The main contractors "Gazprom" in the early decades of the company were somehow associated with the monopoly or its management. Zapolyarnoye, the largest deposit of Gazprom, settled its subsidiary "Gazpromstroyinzhiniring" and gas pipeline "Blue Stream pipeline under the Black Sea to Turkey, built Stroytransgaz - a company controlled by Gazprom managers and the relatives of his long-time chief Rem Vyakhirev. These companies concentrate financial flows, while the actual construction were attracted by their subcontractors - "Arktikneftegazstroy", "Lengazspecstroy" and others, formed on the basis of the former units of the Soviet Ministry of Oil and Gas construction.

Ziad Manasir and Michael Yakibchuk decided to crush the enemy's mass. They began to buy and take on lease a new imported equipment, which in the North is working longer Russia (four years instead of one and a half or two). "From 2000 to 2007 the first we bought equipment for $ 1.5 billion", - said Ziad Manasir. In the park the company is now 7000 dump trucks, excavators, cranes, pipe-laying and other technical means. Stroytransgaz, for comparison, has 2,500 units, "Gazpromstroyinzhiniring" and even less. In the past year "Stroygazkonsalting" bought nine automatic welding systems CRC-Evans and Serimer. Each cost $ 15-30 million, but weld pipe in several tens of times faster than workers with hand-held welders. "This company is increasing capacity by leaps and bounds", - says admiringly, deputy chairman of the construction of fields, Gazprom Yamburg Oleg Pozdeev.

Result? Build a gas pipeline from the most promising new field of "Gazprom" Bovanenkovo (budget for its development of state monopoly keeps secret) instead of "Gazpromstroyinzhiniringa" will be the company Ziyad Manasira. The share of revenue earned by the orders from Gazprom Stroytransgaz, over the past three years has fallen from 70% to 14%. A "Stroygazkonsalting" Now masters, on their own data, 12% of construction budgets of Gazprom. In "Gazpromstroyinzhiniringe" reallocation of budgets in favor of rival refused to comment, but in Stroytransgaz push towards diversification of the portfolio: the company is now working hard for other companies, said its representative Sergei Samoilenko.

Over the past two years, "Stroygazkonsalting acquired nine relatives Gazprom construction companies with combined revenue of about half a billion dollars a year (according to the system SPARK). All bought at competitions and tenders ", - says Ziad Manasir, although arrangements for: on many lots, his company was the sole bidder. The first thing that happens to companies who had fallen into the empire of Jordanian businessman - they drastically reduce costs.

Six months ago in the New Urengoy scandal erupted: Mayor Ivan Kostogrizu had to dissuade him from suicide of his wife working one of Gazprom's construction company, which soon after buying the company "Stroygazkonsaltingom" cut the salaries of 100 000 rubles per month to 35 000 rubles. The company "Urengoygazavtodor", when it belonged to Gazprom, employed 1600 people, after moving it to "Stroygazkonsaltingu" number of staff declined to 600 workers. Ivan Yakibchuk argues that bought the last time the company easily could reduce fuel consumption by half. Computer information system group Stroygazkonsalting "at any moment to show how much fuel consumption is now a business, how many people live in each trailer each shift camp ... Businessmen are proud of the architecture in the company's management system, and specifically its overwhelming superiority over the "enemy" in the technique they consider key to their success, and mehanovooruzhennost (and not the administrative resource) - the cause of the explosive growth of the company.

Now the share of orders Gazprom accounts for 65% of the turnover of the holding "Stroygazkonsalting. Does this situation is a danger now that during the fall of world energy prices, oil and gas producers will be limited opportunities to spend money? "We annually participate in a hundred different tenders, and winning them 12-15" - justifies his confidence in the future Manasir. Indeed, in recent years, he is actively seeking new areas of application of forces and capital - and not always the best option. He invested $ 700 million in the construction of a skyscraper "Mirax Plaza" in Moscow, but the skyscraper is not completed, the property market in a deep coma. Manasir going to participate in a few billionths of woodworking projects on shares of companies, close to the bank "Russia", but changed his mind.

Last enthusiasm - road construction.

After leaving school he entered the Moscow Institute of Forestry Engineering, from which he was drafted into the army. In 1985 he entered the Moscow Mining Institute, specializing in Economics and planning of mining operations. In 1996 he defended his thesis on the formation of regional markets for coal. In January 1999, the Academy of National Economy under the Government of Russia defended his doctoral thesis on "Development of the coal market in Russia."

Married, one daughter Alina and her son Elijah.
Formation of business
After high school Galchev distribution reaches to the Institute of Mining of them. AA Skachinskogo. Deputy Director for Science at work here Krasnyanskiy George, son of influential officials in Moscow. Between them formed a working relationship, and three years later Galchev and Krasnyanskiy create a large trading company "National Industrial Union of sales of coal (" Rosuglesbyt ").

The company strives not only to trade in energy coal, but also to acquire productive assets. Already in 1997, "Rosuglesbyt receives control over the Sakhalin cuts. In May 1999 the company created a joint venture between RAO UES "Rostopenergo" to supply coal to power plants. In the same year Galchev and Krasnyanskiy taken for the debts of Krasnoyarsk Coal Company ( "Krasugol"), control of which in 2000 acquired in partnership with Sergei Generalov. Buyers had an oral agreement with the governor of edge Alexander Lebed to transfer to regional ownership of a blocking stake. But full privatization "Krasuglya" was Russia's main condition for obtaining the next tranche of the World Bank loan for restructuring the coal industry. The conflict ends in February 2002 sale "Krasuglya and other coal assets Galchev and Krasnyanskaya MDM Group, with which they had unsuccessfully fought for" Vostsibugl. SAM Rosuglesbyt also sold MDM Group and renamed SUEK.

New point of application of forces Galchev becomes cement industry. In mid-2002 he, together with Krasnyanskiy intercepts control over the largest industry holding "Stern Cement Plant, where conflict erupted dramatic stock. Sam Galchev also did not find common language with portfolio investors - Russia Partners. The Fund initially became co-owner of the new company Eurocement, bringing together the assets of Stern cement. But in 2003 without the participation of the Fund Galchev and Krasnyanskiy acquire "Nevyansky cementnik and Katav cement. Both plants were in "East Cement Holding, Peter Kellner. In 2004 Galchev and Krasnyanskiy combine their cement assets in the new company Eurocement Group, where Russia Partners has its share. Foundation initiates numerous judicial proceedings in connection with a violation of corporate procedures, but these attempts end in nothing. In 2007, the share of Russia Partners in EUROCEMENT "According to unconfirmed reports purchased the structure, close to Roman Abramovich.

Galchev and Krasnyanskiy for several years been active players in the market of mergers and acquisitions. In late 2004 Eurocement Group buys family-controlled president of the republic, Mustafa Batdyev "Kavkaztsement, where as well as earlier in the Stern Cement conflict situations. In the spring of 2005 for an enormous sum for those times in the $ 900 million acquired cement plants in Inteko and SU-155. They added, and the largest Ukrainian producer of "Baltsa, belonging to the group" Privat "Igor Kolomoisky. Finance the deals Savings Bank, with whom Galchev even in times of "Rosuglesbyta" had a good relationship. In August 2006, Eurocement Group buys in Uzbekistan Akhangarancement, according to unofficial data belonging to Islam Karimov's daughter Gulnara.

The main business Eurocement Group generates good cash flow. On the available funds Galchev and Krasnyanskiy acquire shares of Russian "blue chips", mainly Sberbank. In early 2008, they sold their share to fall to buy 6,5% of the Swiss Holcim, the world's second producer of cement.
CURRENT STATUS
Galchev - co-owner EUROCEMENT Holding AG, comprises 16 cement plants total capacity of 37.5 million tons the company owns several concrete plants and quarries for the extraction of nonmetallic materials.

CONFLICTS
In 2006, the top managers Eurocement Group brokered by Renaissance Capital, portfolio investors have sold nearly 2% of the shares received by them on the stock option program. At RTS started trading shares Eurocement Group, which was not included in the plans and Galchev Krasnyanskaya. In 2007, the major shareholders have their shares in the capital of the Swiss EUROCEMENT Holding AG and, taking advantage of amendments to the Companies Act, held a compulsory acquisition of minority shares. Dissatisfied portfolio investors tried to challenge the low, in their view, the price of redemption and pointed to procedural violations. Their demands were not met.

PARTNERS
George Krasnyanskiy.

CHRONOLOGY
1991-1992. Institute of Mining of them. Skochinskogo
main commercial expert
1992-1993. International Trading House Mining
CEO
From 1993-1996. Trust Rosugol
Head of the organization of the market
1996-2001. ZAO Rosuglesbyt "
Chairman
2002-2004. EUROCEMENT "
Chairman of the Board of Directors
Since 2004, the company Eurocement Group
Chairman of the Board of Directors