Alisher Usmanov is one of the most successful Russian entrepreneurs of modern times.According to the magazine Forbes, in 2013 he became the richest businessmen in the country.The general public, he became well known a few years ago, when helped to return to "Gazprom" even bred in the nineties assets.
Early Biography Alisher Usmanov
future businessman born in September 1953 in the small town of the Uzbek Republic.He - the eldest son in the family, where in addition he had another child.The main hobby childhood Alisher was fencing.Being just fourteen years old, he was a member of the junior team of the Uzbek republic in this sport.And soon he received the title of Master of Sports and entered the Team Union.In 1971-1976 he studied at the prestigious university of the country - Moscow State Institute, specialty "International law".After graduation, the young man entered the Academy of Sciences, and it becomes a junior researcher.
Biography Alisher Usmanov: difficult years
It would seem that such a successful start to start a career in the public system should lead a guy to brilliant results.However, there is a successful biography Alisher Usmanov for a while changing its orientation.In 1980, a young man was arrested on charges of theft, fraud and extortion.Future oligarch received eight years in prison.However, in 1986 he was released on parole from prison.Later, the businessman said that it was the political repression, and in 2000 the Supreme Court of the Uzbek republic, he was acquitted and rehabilitated.
Biography Alisher Usmanov: a way to billions
Coming out of prison, 33-year-old decides to go into business.In the same year he founded the tourism company that is engaged in providing an exotic hunting for wealthy foreigners in the Pamir Mountains.Later Usmanov moved to Russia.Here, for almost all the nineties, he has been Deputy Director of "Intercross" that produces telecommunication equipment.At the same time it establishes its own company.In 1993, a businessman sits on the board of directors of the "First Russian independent bank", becoming a very serious figure in Russian business.In 1997, Alisher Usmanov associates operate with gas structures of the country, occupying the post of deputy head of the company "Gazprominvestholding."In this position he remained until 2000, after which he became a director.
In parallel with this activity businessman holds the position of one of the directors of the company "Arkhangelsk diamonds."And at the beginning of the two thousandth becomes advisor to the board of "Gazprom".The successful Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov, whose biography describes the ups and downs, from the middle of the two thousandth begins to buy media.So, in 2006 it was acquired 100% of the shares of the publishing house "Kommersant".And in the same year he became a co-owner of TV channels "Muz-TV" and "7 TV."A year later, the oligarch acquires the shares of the London football club "Arsenal" and became one of its co-owners.According to journalists Forbes, he is now the richest man in Russia.
