The oligarch, who entered the history of the domestic elite as an honest and respected businessman, was repeatedly named in the media as a prudent and authoritative intellectual with an aggressive form of doing business while ignoring the interests and opinions of other parties, and was also declared a European business leader, the most influential and outstanding entrepreneur of the year .
His fortune in 2015 was estimated by Forbes magazine at $14.6 billion. Thus, he ranked 68th in the world ranking of the richest people and second among Russian businessmen after Roman Abramovich.
Childhood and family of Mikhail Fridman
One of the richest and most powerful people in Russia was born in the Ukrainian city of Lvov on April 21, 1964 in a Jewish family. His relatives worked at a defense enterprise, were members of the CPSU, his father was awarded the State Prize in the field of electronics. 
Since childhood, Misha has been surrounded by love and care from his mother, grandmother and other relatives. He did not attend kindergarten, he was an excellent student at school. The boy studied music in the piano class and then organized a school vocal and instrumental ensemble, a type of musical creativity that was popular in those years.
Upon graduation in 1981, the young man entered the country's leading university - the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, but he was not accepted. According to one version - he did not pass the competition, according to another - the fateful “fifth column”, that is, nationality, became the reason for the failure. Allegedly because of her, he, being an excellent student, also did not receive a gold medal at school and subsequently failed when entering graduate school.
Mikhail's second attempt to become a student was crowned with success - he entered the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys. The choice of the educational institution was determined, as it were, by its location in the very center of Moscow, as well as the presence of a good House of Culture in it, where pop stars such as Yuri Vizbor and Vladimir Vysotsky performed with concerts.
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Mikhail's student life was eventful. In addition to studying professional subjects, he was engaged in the resale of theater tickets, carpets, imported goods, and also created a youth nightclub operating in the institute hostel under the auspices of the Komsomol organization, organized discos, performances by artists. During that period, he met Pyotr Aven, who moved in the same circles, being the head of the Moscow State University music club.
The beginning of the career of Mikhail Fridman
The young engineer began his dizzying ascent to the top of the business Olympus almost immediately after graduating from the university in 1986. By distribution, he ended up in the city of Elektrostal near Moscow, at the metallurgical plant of the same name, where he worked in a design bureau.At the same time, he organized a cooperative for washing windows, then - for the delivery of products, created, together with his cousin Dmitry, who graduated from the same institute a year earlier, firms that traded in computer equipment.
In 1988, together with German Khan and Alexei Kuzmichev and with the assistance of Academician Alfimov, whose name allegedly served as the basis for the formation of the name of the current financial and investment empire, Friedman set about creating it.
The Alfa-Photo cooperative for the sale of copiers and the Soviet-Swiss joint venture Alfa-Eco for the export of petroleum products and metallurgy products were the very first at the birth of Alfa Group.
Among the consortium's many areas of activity - gas and oil processing, art and food trade, insurance, telecommunications services, advanced technologies, investments - Alfa-Bank is considered the cornerstone, the first in the country among private banks, which the businessman has headed since his inception. institutions in December 1990. Subsequently, he owned a 37% stake in a financial and credit institution (Khan owned 23%, Kuzmichev - 18%, bank president Petr Aven - 14%).
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In 1995, the oligarch was a member of the ORT collective leadership body, in 2002 he headed the Conference of the Leaders of Jewish Organizations of the Russian Federation, he always supported Jewish initiatives in the country and abroad in every possible way.
In 2005, Alfa Group bought X5 Corporation for a billion dollars. It includes the Perekrestok and Karusel supermarket chains and Pyaterochka discount stores.
In 2008, the tycoon gave his senior position in the bank to his deputy, a ratings manager from Prague, Petr Schmide. In 2009, Mikhail Maratovich headed oil company TNK-BP.
Personal life of Mikhail Fridman
The oligarch is divorced. With Olga, his ex-wife, they studied on the same course at MISiS. The girl then came from Irkutsk to study. Olga is fond of interior design, in 2000 she graduated from the relevant courses. 
Married to her, they had two daughters, Larisa and Ekaterina. They were born and live with their mother in Paris, and in the summer they usually go on vacation to St. Tropez.
The girls attend a school taught in English. They communicate with friends and acquaintances, of course, in French, and with their parents in Russian. That is, the daughters of an oligarch develop mental flexibility from childhood.
Many people talk about Friedman as a hardworking and talented entrepreneur, inclined towards charity, who achieved everything on his own, with his own work, thanks to his mind, and not to theft. He finances the foundation for helping children "Line of Life"
One of the most famous businessmen in the Russian Federation remains a non-public person, lives in isolation. Today he is an Israeli citizen, lives in London, loves fast driving, movies, music, chess, collects samurai swords. His parents at the beginning of the new century moved from Lviv to Cologne.
In 2001, Mikhail bought a house in the elite suburb of the French capital of Neuilly, previously owned by the ex-wife of Alain Delon, model and artist Mireille Dark. Next to the oligarch's estate are the mansions of the legendary actors Jean-Paul Belmondo and Sophie Marceau.
In order to realize himself as part of the Jewish people, in 2012 Friedman, as part of a group of 12 Russian businessmen, made a three-day pilgrimage through the Israeli Arava desert to the holy city of Jerusalem. They spent the night in tents and covered almost 20 kilometers every day.
Mikhail Fridman today
In 2012, Alfa Group increased its stake in the telecommunications company VimpelCom, which provides services under the Beeline brand, to 48 percent through the sale of MegaFon shares.In the homeland of the financial tycoon, in Lviv, Alfa-Bank (since 2011) has been organizing the annual jazz festival Alfa Jazz Fest. In 2015, for 5 days in the city, recognized as the cultural capital of Ukraine, more than a hundred performers from ten countries performed, including the legendary American composer and pianist Herbie Hancock, guitarist and vocalist George Benson, and Japanese pianist Hiromi.
As of the end of 2015, Alfa-Bank served 14 million individuals and 194 thousand legal entities. Number of branches and branches financial institution, opened in Russia and abroad, including subsidiaries in the USA, the Netherlands, England, Cyprus, reached 775.
The original of this material© RBC Real Estate, 09/15/2016, Mikhail Fridman was allowed to reconstruct an old mansion in London, Photo: letterone.com, The Daily Mail, Illustrations: SHH
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Russian entrepreneur Mikhail Fridman received official permission from the British authorities to partially rebuild the Victorian mansion Athlone House in the London district of Hampstead, according to the British newspaper Daily Mail. The businessman will spend £80 million (7 billion rubles at the current exchange rate of the Central Bank) on the reconstruction of the house built in 1855, designed by the architectural studio Spence Harris Hogan (SHH), the publication claims. The old mansion will be equipped with six bedrooms, an office, a gym, a yoga room, an underground pool, a cigar room and a wine cellar, the publication says. On the estate will also build cottages for staff and several tennis courts, writes the Daily Mail.
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Together with the mansion, Mikhail Fridman acquired 2 hectares of the adjacent territory, which, according to the original project of the 19th century, were supposed to imitate the gardens of Versailles, writes the Daily Mail. “After all the work has been completed, a new walking path, a house at the entrance, a pond and a fruit terrace will appear on the territory. All original architectural solutions and elements will be restored: in particular, the [destroyed] tower will be returned to the house, inspector Alex Bushell, who is responsible for planning decisions for Hampstead, is quoted as saying. “We have waited a long time for someone to restore this house - and finally we did.”
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While preparing the renovation project, Friedman and the SHH architects consulted with local residents to make sure they would not object to the project, according to the Daily Mail. “I was looking for a home for my family. I liked that this building combines historical heritage with great views. This place embodies the true British essence, - said Mikhail Fridman in an interview with Ham & High in June 2016. “I know that previous plans for the renovation of this building were rejected, so I made it clear from the very beginning that I wanted to restore Athlone House to its former glory.”
Friedman added that the London mansion will be his main residence: according to the businessman, he spends half of his time in London. “Of course, my family will spend more time in this house. My son goes to school in the UK; we all like living in London, ”Ham & High quotes Friedman.
[TK Dozhd, 09/15/2016, "$105 million for restoration. How Friedman revives the Victorian estate": Moreover, the British Daily Mail reports that the billionaire will invest in the restoration of the mansion even more than he pays for its purchase. Namely, about 105 million dollars.
The home will be refurbished by architecture firm Spence Harris Hogan, who have confirmed to the BBC that they will handle the project. [...]
Earlier in an interview with the Hampstead area newspaper Ham and High, Friedman said he was interested in the building because it was built as a family home for a wealthy industrialist who lived in London.
Friedman said: "I feel like it's destiny, because as a businessman, and many years later, I'm just as attracted to this same property and land."
The house was designed for the British MP Edward Brooke, who made a fortune in the production of aniline dyes. During the years of the two world wars, the mansion was used by the military as a rehabilitation center for those on the mend, and then it housed patients who underwent surgery from the British health care system NHS. [...]
As a representative of the architectural studio Spence Harris Hogan told the BBC, the project prepared for Friedman does not cause discontent among local residents. And since the reconstruction project has been approved, now, according to the studio, the Russian will be able to buy the house from the previous owners. - Inset K.ru]
Mikhail Fridman is the only representative of the "seven bankers" who has managed to maintain his bank since the early 1990s - which has been the largest private bank in Russia for many years. Of all the bankers who helped Boris Yeltsin win the 1996 elections, three more became billionaires: Fridman's partner in Alfa Group, and Bidzina Ivanishvili (No. 365 on the global Forbes list). Potanin and Ivanishvili, unlike Boris Berezovsky, Mikhail Khodorkovsky, Vladimir Gusinsky, Alexander Smolensky and Vladimir Vinogradov, managed to keep the business, but not the banks - their Onexim Bank and Russian Credit collapsed during the 1998 crisis.
Fridman was born in Lvov in a family of engineers and studied at the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys (MISiS). After graduating from the institute, he went to work in the city of Elektrostal near Moscow, but very soon received a Moscow residence permit. In 1988, together with his institute friends, he organized the Kurier cooperatives, which delivered food and washed windows, and Alfa-Photo, where he invited Mikhail Alfimov, academician of the Institute of Chemical Physics, as a scientific supervisor. In honor of the academician, the cooperative was named Alpha. In July of the same year, Friedman's personal earnings amounted to 10,000 rubles. A year later, friends founded the Soviet-Swiss joint venture Alfa-Eco, on the basis of which the Alfa Group was created. Initially, the company had six founders: Fridman himself, Oleg Kiselev (at that time a teacher at MISiS), German Khan, Mikhail Bezelyansky, Andrey Shelukhin and Alexei Kuzmichev. Later they were joined by Petr Aven and Andrey Kosogov. Kiselev withdrew from the founders back in 1992, and Shelukhin and Bezelyansky in 2000.
In 1991, Fridman, in parallel with Alfa-Eco, registered Alfa-Bank, which in 1997, together with Access / Renova Leonard Blavatnik (No. ". In 2003, British BP and TNK shareholders merged their Russian assets and created a joint company, TNK-BP. The purchase of other assets of Alfa, in particular VimpelCom, was carried out by the Alfa-Eco group, later renamed A1. Later, a special company, Altimo, was created for the telecommunications assets.
After selling his stake (25% stake) in TNK-BP in 2013 for $14 billion, Fridman and his partners set up an investment company in Luxembourg, LetterOne, which invested the proceeds from the sale outside of Russia. The main assets of LetterOne are the German oil and gas company DEA, which is soon to be merged with Wintershall from the BASF group, the English chain of health food stores Holland & Barrett, VEON (former Vympelcom, 56.2%) and the Turkish telecommunications company Turkcell (13.22%). In Russia, Alfa Group retains Alfa Bank, AlfaStrakhovanie insurance company, X5 Retail Group (47.9%) and A1.
Friedman has Israeli citizenship. He visits the Promised Land for Jewish holidays, and lives mainly in London, since 2015 he has been a resident of the UK. So far, he lives in a rented apartment: bought in 2016 for 65 million pounds, the mansion Athlone House will have to be restored and rebuilt for a long time.
First business As a student, he sold scarce theater tickets, created the Strawberry Glade club in the MISiS hostel in Belyaevo, arranged meetings, concerts and discos. In 1988, together with friends from MISiS, he organized the Courier cooperative, which was engaged in the delivery of products to the population. He earned his first big money cleaning windows.
Capital The main owner of the LetterOne Holdings group (German oil and gas company DEA, VEON - 56.2%, Turkcell - 13.22%) and the assets of the Alfa Group consortium (Alfa Bank - 90.1%, "", - 47.9%).
Number Alfa Group received $14 billion in March 2013 from the sale of its stake in TNK-BP to Rosneft.
Event By mid-2019, the merger of two German companies, DEA and Wintershall, should be completed. As a result, the largest independent oil and gas company in Europe will be created. L1 will receive a 33% stake in Wintershall DEA, BASF (owner of Wintershall) - 67%.
Deals In 2017, LetterOne acquired the British health food chain Holland & Barrett for £1.77 billion, and Pamplona Capital Management (which invests LetterOne's funds) acquired the American healthcare company Parexel for $5 billion.
Venture In February 2016, LetterOne invested $200 million in the Uber taxi service.
Plans L1 plans to fully buy out the second largest retail chain in Spain, DIA. So far, L1 owns 29% of the retailer's shares.
Brands"Beeline", "Pyaterochka", "Crossroads", "Borjomi".
Charity Alfa-Bank finances the Life Line charity foundation, which helps children with serious illnesses. Friedman is a co-founder charitable foundation Genesis Philanthropy Group, which develops and strengthens Jewish identity among Russian-speaking Jews around the world. Genesis sponsored the creation of a new film (trilogy) by Leonid Parfenov "Russian Jews".
Hobby He is fond of cinema, music, chess. Fan of extreme travel on off-road vehicles. In 2015 he traveled to Iran. Most of the billionaire's constant companions, including members of the Forbes list, were afraid to keep him company at that time.
Mr. Friedman is a member of the Supervisory Board of VEON Ltd. (until 03/30/2017 the name of the Company is VimpelCom Ltd.), member of the Supervisory Board of X5 Retail Group N. V.
In December 2009, the Vedomosti business newspaper named Mikhail Fridman "Businessman of the Year 2009". Thus, journalists noted the success of Alfa-Bank during the financial and economic crisis.
In June 2007, Mikhail Fridman and Alfa-Bank President Petr Aven were awarded for "Creating a Successful Russian Brand" and awarded the title of Full Member of the International Brand Academy for their outstanding contribution to the development of society. The Academy noted that the Alfa-Bank brand is one of the oldest national trademarks. Alfa-Bank was the only bank awarded the Best Russian Brands award.
In September 2006, Mikhail Fridman was recognized as "Businessman of the Year - 2006" according to the results of the annual national award "GQ Man of the Year", organized by GQ magazine. This award is considered prestigious and one of the most objective in the world, since the winners are chosen exclusively by the vote of the magazine's readers.
In November 2004, Mikhail Fridman won the Darin award in the Grand Prix nomination of the Russian Academy of Business and Entrepreneurship for outstanding personal contribution to the development of domestic business and entrepreneurship.
In August 2004, Fortune magazine included Mikhail Fridman in the list of the 25 most influential businessmen in Europe.
According to the Institute economic strategies, compiled in June 2004, Mikhail Fridman and the Alfa Group consortium took 1st place in the ratings of "100 Most Strategic Managers" and "100 Most Strategic Companies" with the highest AAA rating status and a maximum overall level of strategicity of 88.0.
In April 2004 the newspaper Financial Times(20.04.2004) named Mikhail Fridman one of the 25 business leaders of the new Europe. The Financial Times credited Mikhail Fridman with the 2003 deal for the sale of TNK shares to BP and noted its "creativity".
In December 2003, according to the Vedomosti newspaper, Mikhail Fridman received the title of "Entrepreneur of the Year". Key Factors that determined the award of the title were two successful transactions in 2003 - the creation of a united company TNK-BP and the acquisition of a blocking stake in OJSC Megafon by Alfa Group.
In July 2003, Mikhail Fridman was included in the list of 25 most prominent managers, entrepreneurs, innovators and financiers in Europe compiled by Business Week magazine (07.07.2003). According to Business Week, the deal between TNK and BP was the reason for the high appraisal of Mikhail Fridman's performance in 2003.
In May 2003, Mikhail Fridman received the American Academy of Achievement's Golden Dish award in Washington (USA). This award is given to well-known politicians, business, economic, cultural and art figures from different countries, who have become an example for the youth of the whole world.
In June 2002, Mikhail Fridman topped the list of leaders of cross-industry groups in the ranking of the 1000 most professional managers Russia (Association of Managers, Kommersant Publishing House).
In December 2001, Mikhail Fridman topped the rating of 1000 most professional managers in Russia (Association of Managers, Kommersant Publishing House). Also, according to the newspaper "Vedomosti", Mikhail Fridman was recognized as the entrepreneur of 2001 for the most effective business management.
He is a member of the Bureau and the Board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (Employers), oversees the issue of judicial reform. He is a member of the National Council for Corporate Governance - an advisory body that brings together the heads of the largest Russian companies and federal authorities. Member of the International Advisory Council on Foreign Relations (USA).
Born in Lvov (Ukraine) in 1964. Graduated from the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys in 1986.
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Biography
Parents worked as engineers at the plant, and my father was even awarded a state award for developing identification systems for military aviation. After school, Mikhail decided to follow in the footsteps of his parents - he went to Moscow to enter the Physics and Technology Institute.
He passed the exams with flying colors, but did not pass the competition, after a failure he returned to Lvov, worked as a laboratory assistant at the Institute of Physics and Mechanics and was preparing for the second attempt - before the army he had a year left. But a year later, history repeated itself. Then Fridman easily entered the Institute of Steel and Alloys at the Faculty of Nonferrous and Rare Earth Metals. At the institute, he studied at the Faculty of Semiconductor Materials and
instruments together with his cousin Dmitry Lvovich Fridman. In his 3rd year, Mikhail Fridman organized an informal youth club "Strawberry Glade" - a prototype of modern nightclubs. At the institute, he was one of the leaders of the student
"Theater Mafia", students involved in the resale of tickets to the Bolshoi Theater.
In 1986-1988. works as a design engineer at the Elektrostal plant in the city of Elektrostal, Moscow Region.
In 1988 Fridman, together with his institute friends, organized the Courier cooperative, which specialized in window cleaning.
Since 1988 Mikhail Fridman is a private entrepreneur, the founder of the Alfa-foto company, which was engaged in a very versatile activity: it sold computers, copiers, and even exotic handmade oriental carpets.
Since 1989 - took over as director of the Alfa-Eco joint venture, 80% of whose capital is owned by the Courier cooperative and 20% by the Swiss company ADP Trading
According to media reports, a significant contribution to the replenishment of capital was the participation of Alfa-Eco in operations to convert rubles into dollars.
In the early 90s. Alfa-Eco was involved in the sensational "Fischer case" of $140 billion. As a result of the investigation of this case by law enforcement agencies, many transactions had to be curtailed.
In 1990 - creates "Alfa Capital".
Since 1991 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of Alfa-Bank.
From 1995 to 1998 - Member of the Board of Directors of ZAO Public Russian Television (ORT).
Since 1996 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Alfa Group consortium.
Since January 1996 - Founder and Vice-President of the Russian Jewish Congress (RJC), head of the RJC Culture Committee.
Since 1996, he has been a member of the Board of Directors of OAO SIDANCO Oil Company.
Since October 1996 - Member of the Banking Council under the Government of the Russian Federation.
In 1998 after the merger of Alfa-Bank and Alfa-Capital, he became Chairman of the Board of Directors of Alfa-Bank.
Since 1998 - Member of the Board of Directors of CJSC Trading House Perekrestok.
In February 2001 included in the Council for Entrepreneurship under the Government of the Russian Federation.
Since 2001 — Member of the Bureau of the Board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs
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Summer 2001 Mikhail Fridman was included in the list of the richest people on the planet compiled by Forbes magazine. The magazine estimates that Friedman is worth $1.3 billion.
At the end of 2002 the same magazine estimated Mikhail Fridman's fortune at $4.3 billion. was $ 1.8 billion. According to the magazine EuroBusiness (Great Britain), the fortune of Mikhail Fridman (2002) reached 2.5 billion euros.
Mikhail Fridman owns approximately 70% of the total assets of Alfa Group.
For 2001-2002 Alfa Group acquired new assets: Alfa-Eco bought a 37.5% stake in the Volgograd Krasny Oktyabr plant; insurance company Alfa-Garantiya received a license for 37 types of insurance activities; "Alfa-Capital" buys the insurance company "Ostra-Kyiv"; Alfa-Bank receives permission from the Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine to acquire a controlling stake in Kyivinvestbank; Alfa-Eco, one of the largest alcohol producers in Russia, bought a 50% stake in the trading house P.A. Smirnov and Descendants in Moscow.
Lobby
In the structures of the Russian government and in large private companies, people from Alfa-Bank and the Alfa Group are working today. In particular, Vladislav Surkov was Deputy Chairman of the Board of Alfa-Bank, and currently holds the post of Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation; Alexander Abramov was the head of department at Alfa, now he is the deputy head of the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation; Andrey Popov in the 1990s worked at Alfa, then was a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation, currently heads the Main Regional Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation; Andrei Rappoport in 1991-1996 was the chairman of the board of Alfa-Bank, then he worked at Yukos, and now he is the first deputy of Anatoly Chubais at RAO UES of Russia.
Gleb Fetisov, delegated from the Voronezh region, works in the Federation Council. Prior to that, he worked for a long time at Alfa-Eco.
In 1998 Oleg Sysuev, who left the Presidential Administration of the Russian Federation, became the first deputy chairman of the board of directors of Alfa-Bank.PartnersMikhail Fridman's main partner is the president of Alfa-Bank, Petr Aven. The main partner of the Alfa group is Renova, controlled by Viktor Vekselberg, chairman of the board of the Tyumen Oil Company and co-owner of SUAL-Holding.
Dmitry Zimin, founder and president of OJSC VimpelCom, in which Alfa structures control 25% plus 1 share, is also a partner and manager of Alfa and its owners.
Competitors
The main competing structure of Alfa Group is the MDM group. In particular, two oligarchic structures fought for a long time for control over Tagmet OJSC. Alfa-Bank fought with MDM-Bank for Conversbank. After the resignation of Alexander Rumyantsev (Minister of Atomic Energy, supporter of MDM) in the spring of 2001. Atomic scientists, with the support of Alfa-Bank, began to fight for the return of control over Converse, but MDM managed to bring its stake in Converse to 85% and emerge victorious.
Area of interest
Telecommunications
Recently, the telecommunications sector has been highlighted among the priorities of Alfa. At the beginning of 2001 in Alfa-Eco, a telecommunications department was created, headed by Stanislav Shekshnia, a specialist in this field. During the year, a controlling stake in OJSC Golden Telecom and a blocking stake in OJSC VimpelCom were purchased.
Alfa-Telecom LLC (a division of Alfa Group) in the summer of 2002. gained control over 32.39% of shares in Kyivstar GSM by purchasing a 50.1% stake in the Ukrainian company Storm, which owned a 32.39% stake in Kyivstar GSM.
Oil and gas
Alfa, together with Renova, controls the Tyumen Oil Company, which is actively expanding in the Russian and foreign markets, both in the production and sale of oil and oil products. In particular, in 2002-2003. TNK has been and is fighting for control over Slavneft. The TNK needs new refineries and gasoline distribution networks. TNK also aims to become a major independent gas producer. TNK, together with Yukos, controls the gas production company Rospan International and is considering plans to increase production and sale of gas, it is especially interested in exporting this fuel.
Financial services.
Alfa-Bank and Alfa-Insurance are among the leaders each in their respective sectors, actively capturing new market niches and regions.
Pipe and metallurgical industry
Versions about the purchase of the Ukrainian company Interpipe by Alpha structures have not yet been confirmed, but since the beginning of 2003. it was headed by the Russian manager Yevgeny Bernshtam, who before his new appointment worked as the first deputy chairman of the board of Alfa-Bank.
Consumer market, retail business, food
Alpha structures since 1994. owns a controlling stake in CJSC Trading House Perekrestok. United Food Company is an agricultural sub-holding of the Alfa Group consortium. The company controls eight sugar refineries in Krasnodar Territory, Orel and Belgorod regions and 10 elevators, which store about 30% of the grain grown in the Krasnodar Territory.
Personal life
According to colleagues, Mikhail Maratovich has a high capacity for work. Any employee can enter Friedman's office - Friedman's business principle: "If a person believes that he must tell me something personally, he should have such an opportunity." He likes to travel, jeep racing is especially revered. In 1997, while crossing the desert in Brazil, Friedman rolled over in his car and severely injured his head. The wife - before marriage, a classmate and a dormitory neighbor (according to other sources, the dormitories at MISiS are separate) - with her two daughters Katya and Laura constantly lives in Paris. According to rumors, Friedman practically does not maintain contacts with his wife. After the scandal with the wife of Alexei Mordashov (Mordashov's wife sued the head of Severstal for the division of property), Mikhail Fridman allegedly urgently increased the maintenance of his family. Parents permanently reside in Germany. Yuli Gusman, Mark Rozovsky, Marat Gelman and Evgenia Albats belong to a narrow circle of personal contacts.
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