Currently, there is no need for personal participation of representatives of the business elite in the government.However, they are in no hurry to completely eliminate from the "public affairs", using this leverage to lobby for their own interests.Authority and business in Russia is inextricably "linked" together for more than ten years.A vivid confirmation of a Russian businessman Alexander Mamut Leonidovich, who could easily enter the corridors of the Kremlin Yeltsin era.He was called the gray eminence of the domestic business.Today he is considered the largest patron, despite the fact that his identity is shrouded in a veil of secrecy, secrets and intrigue.
Almost every Russian heard about the scale of the financial condition of this mysterious tycoon, but a specific amount of money turn their millionaire Mamut Alexander Leonidovich - is little known.Today, he has already proved that capital can and must invest not only in factories, but also in the sphere of culture.
Setting businessman notices that he is endowed with such a rare and valuable quality as modesty, so he does not like to talk about their achievements in the business press.Let's try to unveil the mystery.
biography
Mamut Alexander Leonidovich was born on January 29, 1960 in the Russian capital.His parents were experienced lawyers mother Tsitsiliya Lyudvigovna actively participated in the famous Uzbek cotton business, and his father - Leonid Solomonovich - successfully defended his doctoral dissertation.
Childhood
Little Alexander was lucky: he was sent to a special school with an English bias.
However, since childhood he showed his character, so teachers often cause trouble, while not all the sciences were given to him with ease.However, he overcomes the difficulty and after school decides to become a lawyer.
Students and early career businessman
In 1977, he applied to law school of Moscow State University, takes the entrance exam and for five years gnaws granite science.
After graduation, until 1990, Mamut Alexander Leonidovich worked in one of the legal advice in the capital city.
acquiring invaluable experience of legal practice, he decides to open his own company with the unpretentious title "ALM Consulting."Soon, on an equal footing with businessman Andrew Gloriozovym he establishes banking structure.First, it is known as "Business and Cooperation", and then changed its name to Bank "Imperial".His clients were such oil giants as "Gazprom" and "Lukoil".
Since that time, Alexander Leonidovich Mamut, a photo which in the early 90s had not yet printed in the media is starting to affect the status of the state of affairs in the country.In 1993, he headed the CB "company project financing."A year later he became a member of the Committee on Enterprise and Industrial Policy of the Russian government.
The businessman believes that earn solid money helped him businessman Andrei Melnichenko, who invited him to work at MDM Bank.It was his submission Alexander Leonidovich start all turns, and after a few years it has become a large and influential businessman.
Authorities closer and closer
It was in the early 90s began to enter into Mamut near Yeltsin's inner circle, and the company he made such famous figures as Valentin Yumashev, Roman Abramovich, Tatyana Dyachenko.Subsequently began to talk, he was a confidant of Boris Berezovsky.
With the ability to influence the policy of the state in the mid-90s, he wanted to help in the settlement of debt obligations that have arisen from India to Russia.However, to realize the planned he was not allowed VEB and Ministry of Finance.
In 1998 the businessman became a member of the Presidential Administration, while overseeing the economic development of the country.After some time, he is a member of the executive body of JSC "Sobinbank."
From 1999 to 2001 he headed the supervisory board of MDM Bank.
In 2000 he became a member of the executive body of the insurance company "RESO-Guarantee".
At the same time he is with Roman Abramovich and Oleg Deribaskoy decides to create a fund to promote national science and this is only the beginning of his works in the field of philanthropy.
In 2001, he presented the Russian industrialists and entrepreneurs to the project of modernization of the banking system, a few years later he organized the merger of the company "Atticus Publishing" publishing house with the printing "ABC".As a result, there was a structure having printing equipment - is it possible to do more quality publishing.He now heads the company Rambler & amp;Go.
Life
important to note that Mamut Alexander Leonidovich, whose personal life is remarkable that he took as his wife a woman (Hope Lyamina), who was married to the grandson of the Soviet General Secretary, in his youth was not a ladies' man.With his first wife, he went to school together.Hope Lyamina he stole the grandson of Leonid Brezhnev and soon married her.Soon, however, tragedy struck: Alexander's wife died of pneumonia.She left behind three children (two of them - adopted), which he now brings.After some time, he became interested in the young model Alyona Akhmadulina that a businessman zabaloval luxury gifts: that there is only one grandiose boutique in the center of the capital city.That's what grand gestures is ready to go for the love of Alexander Mamut."The second wife of a businessman!" - Say, surrounded by an oligarch, referring to Alain Akhmadulina.Subsequently, however, the feelings have cooled businessman to the girl, and he lost all interest in her.Here's a he, Mamut Alexander Leonidovich.Wives officially today he does not have.
how rich tycoon
According to authoritative publications, which include the magazine "Finance", its financial well-being is growing steadily.At the end of the year before he consistently held the fortieth position in the list of the richest businessmen of Russia.Then, experts estimated that it holds $ 2.1 billion.
