Evtushenkov Vladimir Petrovich- successful entrepreneur of the Russian Federation. The businessman has been included in the rankings of the richest Russian people for many years. Yevtushenkov also holds the honorary position of Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Russian investment company AFK Sistema, and also owns its shares.
Evtushenkov Vladimir Petrovich
Biography of Vladimir Yevtushenkov
A future millionaire is born appeared on the twenty-fifth of September 1948. He and his family lived in the small village of Kamenshchina, Smolensk region. The head of the family was a director at a local dairy factory, and his mother worked there as a simple milkmaid.
According to his parents, little Volodya was an obedient and curious child. From an early age, he became interested in chemistry and dreamed of building a career as a scientist. Mom and dad often watched their child conduct experiments at home. Relatives welcomed their son's interest, although sometimes he received punishment for unsuccessful experiments.
At school he was the favorite of all the teachers. He studied well and was best at chemistry. He tried very hard to get good grades, because he needed this to enter the Mikhail Vasilyevich Lomonosov Moscow State University at the Faculty of Chemistry.
Unfortunately, due to strong emotions, the young man failed the entrance exams. He was drafted into the army. After the service, Vladimir again decides to apply to a higher institution, but to a different institute. In 1968 he was enrolled as a student at the Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology named after Dmitry Ivanovich Mendeleev. Five years later, Yevtushenkov received a diploma as a process engineer.
He received his first work experience at the Dzerzhinsky plant named after Yakov Mikhailovich Sverdlov. From 1973 to 1975 he worked in various positions, from a simple worker to a site manager. In 1975, Vladimir moved to work in the capital as a shop manager at the Karacharovsky plastics plant. For excellent performance of work in 1981, he was promoted to deputy director of the enterprise, and soon became chief engineer.
Career and business of Yevtushenkov
Our hero managed to combine work with study. Yevtushenkov was used to achieving his goals, so he decided to enroll at Moscow State University again, only this time at the Faculty of Economics. In the 80s, he received a diploma in economics and even wrote a scientific paper on his specialty.
In 1982, the economist began to build his career at the Polimerbyt research and production association, where he worked as first deputy general director. It was during those years that Vladimir met. The new friend greatly influenced the future career of the young specialist.
At the end of the 80s, the first secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union accepted Yevtushenkov as deputy chairman of the Moscow City Executive Committee. He was later promoted to head of the Technical Department. It is worth noting that in the same year, Vladimir’s future wife got a job as a secretary.
In the 90s, Luzhkov Yuri Mikhailovich received the position of vice-mayor and chairman of the government of the capital, and Yuri appointed his comrade chairman of the Moscow Committee on Technology and Science. At the same time, Vladimir Petrovich decides to go into business. On the basis of the Moscow Committee, he created the closed joint-stock company "MKNT".
AFK Sistema
In 1993, a businessman and his like-minded people created the analytical financial company Sistema. The company was engaged in real estate reconstruction, construction and finance. Also in the 90s, Vladimir Petrovich privatized the Moscow city telephone network, now he owns 55% of the shares of the television system. At the same time, the businessman acquired controlling stakes in the newspapers Metro, Kultura, Smena, Rossiya, the radio stations Govorit Moskva and Public Russian Radio, and also bought out the PremierVideoFilm company.
Chairman of the Board of Directors of AFK Sistema Vladimir Evtushenkov
In 1994, Vladimir’s company bought out shares of the public joint stock company VimpelCom. During 1994 and 1995, the analytical financial company Sistema united ninety-eight enterprises. In 1997, the entrepreneur became an honorary member of the board of directors of the TV-Center company, since the financing of this company passed through the analytical financial company Sistema. Vladimir Petrovich even planned to buy out the TV channel, but Luzhkov prevented him.
Founder of AFK Sistema Vladimir Evtushenkov
Bashneft
On September 24, 2014, Vladimir Petrovich Yevtushenkov was accused of illegally acquiring a controlling stake in Bashneft, and his financial company was brought a civil lawsuit to claim ownership of the Russian state for all shares of the public joint stock company ANK Bashneft owned by the Corporation.
Rosneft and AFK Sistema - settlement agreement
Subsequently, the next two years were very difficult for the entrepreneur; he had to return the company’s shares, which amounted to one hundred billion rubles. All shares given away went to Rosneft. Yevtushenkov was put under house arrest for a whole year, and he did not have access to business. Because of this incident, the businessman lost half of his fortune.
Businessman's fortune
Almost all of the oligarch's assets are concentrated in the company AFK Sistema, which owns controlling stakes in such brands as the telecommunications company MTS, the network of clinics and medical centers Medsi, the oil and gas company RussNeft, the travel company Intourist and a children's store clothes "Children's World". In 2014, Forbes magazine published information about the entrepreneur’s income. He took fifteenth place in the ranking of the two hundred richest businessmen in the Russian Federation, his income amounted to nine billion US dollars. Already in 2018, Vladimir Petrovich’s profit amounted to two thousand million US dollars, and he took forty-ninth place in the ranking.
Yevtushenkov's marital status
Little is known about the entrepreneur’s personal life. Evtushenkov Vladimir Petrovich carefully hides information about his family. He does not communicate with journalists on this topic. The businessman’s dossier contains all the information, except information about his relatives. However, it is known that Vladimir has been happily married for many years to his beautiful wife, whose name is Natasha.
The millionaire met his future wife while working at the Polimerbyt enterprise. The lovers got married a short time later. The press disseminated information that Natalya is the sister of Luzhkov’s wife, although this is not known for certain. Natalya gave the happy father two beautiful children - a boy and a girl. The children decided to continue their father's work. Today they occupy high positions at Vladimir Petrovich’s enterprise. In his youth, Yevtushenkov became interested in tennis.
Yevtushenkov today
The incident, which occurred in 2014, did not prevent Yevtushenkov from continuing his business. At the moment, the entrepreneur is developing his company. He plans to expand the network of Medsi clinics across regions and open brand stores "Child's world" in India and Armenia. Vladimir is confident that such actions will bring the company a lot of money and the brand worldwide fame. Our hero also became seriously interested in the agricultural and forestry business.
In the spring of 2017, the program “At Working Noon” was released on television for the role of the main character, who was invited to play Yevtushenkov. Presenter Nailya Asker-zadeh interviewed the oligarch. In the interview, Vladimir talked about his life and also shared his plans for the future.
Oligarch Evtushenkov Vladimir
Vladimir Petrovich proved by his own example that even ordinary low-income people from villages can achieve certain heights. The hero of our article set a goal for himself and slowly but rapidly walked towards it. Evtushenkov Vladimir Petrovich achieved tremendous success in business and became one of the richest businessmen in the Russian Federation. The famous entrepreneur is the honorary Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Development Fund of the State Russian Museum “Friends of the Russian Museum”, and he is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Sistema Charitable Foundation.
In 1973 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology named after D.I. Mendeleev. In 1980 he graduated from Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov.
Fixed Assets
AFK "Sistema"(64%), owning brand packages MTS, "Children's World", "Intourist", clinic networks "Medsi". In 2005, Yevtushenkov held an IPO of AFK Sistema in London. There are no other examples of Russian diversified holdings being placed on the stock exchange. Yevtushenkov and own shares of 49% "Russneft".
Biography
Vladimir Yevtushenkov was born on September 25, 1948. in the village of Kaminshchina Smolensk region. In 1973 graduated Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology them. D.I. Mendeleev, in 1980 - Faculty of Economics Moscow State University. Worked at the Karacharovsky plastics plant and NPO Polimerbyt, in 1988. went to work at Moscow City Executive Committee.
In 1990 appointed Yevtushenkov chairman of the Moscow City Committee on Science and Technology. In 1993 together with his partners, he created the joint-stock financial corporation Sistema, which included enterprises established by the capital committee.
In 1996 The formation of the Sistema telecommunications division began: AFK, together with OJSC MGTS, established the TS Center on a parity basis. MGTS transferred the majority of its subsidiaries to AFK for trust management, in particular, Moscow Cellular Communications JSC, Interregional Transit Telecom JSC, Mobile TeleSystems JSC, etc. 1997-1999. Yevtushenkov is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of OJSC TV-Center.
In June 2000 ADRs of MTS were placed on the New York Stock Exchange. In 2001 MTS acquired 100% of the shares of the St. Petersburg mobile operator Telecom-XXI, thereby breaking the monopoly of the Telecominvest holding. In March 2003 Yevtushenkov's holding acquired a 10% stake in the German company Deutsche Telekom, which owned a large stake in MTS. In 2006 AFK acquired a cable television operator "United Cable Networks"(OKS), becoming the second largest cable TV operator in Russia.
In January 2005 Yevtushenkov was appointed president of JSFC Sistema in 2006. left this position and became chairman of the board of directors.
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Member of the Government Commission on Science and Innovation Policy, the Council on Science and High Technologies under the President of the Russian Federation, the Council on Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship under the Government of the Russian Federation and the National Council on Corporate Governance.
In 2004 became chairman of the board of trustees Development Fund of the State Russian Museum(Russian Museum) "Friends of the Russian Museum". In September 2009 appointed honorary consul of Luxembourg in Russia.
Married to Natalia Evtushenkova, who heads the department IBRD. Raises two children. Son Felix is the first vice-president of JSFC Sistema, chairman of the board of directors OJSC "Bashneft". In April 2014 It became known that Felix Yevtushenkov will manage the IT assets of AFK Sistema. Daughter Tatyana, at the age of 26, was “invited to MTS OJSC to the position of vice president for investments and securities,” currently advisor to the president OJSC "Sberbank of Russia".
On September 16, 2014, Vladimir Yevtushenkov was charged with legalization (laundering) of funds(the fourth part of Article 174 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Yevtushenko was placed under house arrest.
On December 17, 2014, he was released from house arrest under an obligation to appear before an investigator.
Gossip
The media have repeatedly called Yevtushenkov "mayor's banker" Luzhkov. In the parliamentary elections of 1999. AFK actively supported the party of Yuri Luzhkov "Fatherland", however, this was not enough for the movement to enter the State Duma, after which relations with the capital’s authorities deteriorated.
Yevtushenkov met Yuri Luzhkov in the late 1980s. Journalists claim that Yevtushenkov and Luzhkov are married to sisters. According to other sources, their wives are not relatives.
The most attractive Moscow property was simply transferred to AFK in virtually uncompetitive bidding. Thus, Intourist was headed by a member of the board of directors of Sistema. Anatoly Yarochkin, MGTS gave away a quarter of the stake. AFK Sistema has more than once found itself at the center of a scandal in connection with checks on the legality of the privatization of MGTS. Yevtushenkov receives significant income from sublease of Moscow real estate.
According to rumors, Vladimir Yevtushenkov repeatedly met with the leader of the Solntsevskaya organized crime group Sergei Mikhailov("Mihasem"). In 1997 between Yevtushenkov and Vladimir Gusinsky(owner of the Most group), a “gasoline war” began around the Moscow Auto Service Production Plant, which AFK wanted to acquire, but which owed money to Most. Attempts by the Central Fuel Company of Moscow, controlled by Yevtushenkov, to acquire MPKA were unsuccessful: Gusinsky won the case in court, and by order of Luzhkov, the Moscow Oil Company was created in the capital, to which all shares of the Central Fuel Company were transferred. The mayor of Moscow personally received control over the multinational corporation.
In 2002 the capital's authorities decided to build a museum-reserve on the territory "Tsaritsyno" a holiday village for the poor, the construction was to be undertaken by a subsidiary of AFK Sistema, the Mosdachtrest company. Under public pressure, the capital's authorities canceled the development.
In 2005, a conflict began between AFK Sistema and the telecommunications company ASVT over shares in the MTS company. Sources in ASVT claimed that 10 years ago the general director of the company Anastasia Ositis after several assassination attempts, they were forced to “donate” 19% of MTS shares to Sistema. The media considered the process to be pressure on AFK in anticipation of the upcoming privatization "Svyazinvest".
In July 2012 authorities Uzbekistan assets of a local subsidiary of MTS were seized. After this, Russian authorities seized apartments in Moscow Gulnara Karimova, daughter of the President of Uzbekistan. The media saw Yevtushenkov’s revenge in the case.
Main owner of AFK Sistema
Major shareholder of AFK Sistema, chairman of the board of directors of the corporation. Member of the board of directors of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs since 2000, head of the union’s industrial policy committee since 2001. Member of the Board of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation since 2002. Member of the Government Commission on Science and Innovation Policy, the Council on Science and High Technologies under the President of the Russian Federation, the Council on Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship under the Government of the Russian Federation and the National Council on Corporate Governance. Doctor of Economic Sciences. Since 2004 - Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the State Russian Museum Development Fund. According to Forbes magazine, in 2008 the businessman's fortune was $10 billion.
Vladimir Petrovich Yevtushenkov was born on September 25, 1948 in the village of Kaminshchina, Smolensk region. In 1973, he graduated from the Moscow Mendeleev Institute of Chemical Technology, receiving a diploma as a process engineer, and got a job at the Sverdlov plant of the USSR Ministry of Mechanical Engineering (in the city of Dzerzhinsk, Gorky Region). In 1975, Yevtushenkov moved to Moscow and began working at the Karacharovsky plastics plant: first as a workshop manager, and then as deputy director and chief engineer. In 1980, he graduated from the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University, and in 1982 he became the chief engineer of the NPO Polimerbyt. While working, Yevtushenkov prepared a dissertation and defended it in 1986, receiving the academic degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences. Around this time, he met Yuri Luzhkov, who at that time held the position of head of the department for science and technology of the USSR Ministry of Chemical Industry. Yevtushenkov's further career was closely connected with that of Luzhkov.
In 1987, thanks to the assistance of Luzhkov, who became the first deputy chairman of the Moscow City Executive Committee, Yevtushenkov was appointed head of the technical department of the committee. In 1990, when Luzhkov was elected chairman of the Moscow City Executive Committee, Yevtushenkov became chairman of the Moscow City Committee on Science and Technology. In 1991, he was elected chairman of the board of directors of CJSC Moscow Committee for Science and Technology (MKNT) and held this post until 1993, and also created his own company, JSC Region. Then Region, together with the Americans, established the Ordynka joint venture, which was engaged in the reconstruction of buildings in the center of the capital. And in July 1993, Yevtushenkov officially registered AFK Sistema, an enterprise focused on the market of finance, telecommunications, construction and reconstruction of real estate in the Moscow region, as well as providing services for food processing and their sale, he also headed the board of directors of the corporation. According to a number of media reports, the corporation was created with budget funds, although Yevtushenkov himself always denied this.
Telecommunications soon became Sistema's main area of interest. Back in 1994, the main division of AFK, Sistema-Telecom, acquired a controlling stake in VimpelCom OJSC (BeeLine trademark). Then, having created a joint venture with MGTS OJSC, she received shares of MGTS subsidiaries for trust management: Moscow Cellular Communications JSC, Interregional Transit Telecom JSC, Mobile Telesystems JSC, Infocom LLP, VAST LLP , STC "Komset", JSC "Moscow Telecommunications Corporation", JSC "FOCL", JSC "Moscow Teleport", JSC "Expo-Telecom", JSC Kombellga", JSC "RoSprint", LLP "Russian Overlay Systems" (RON), JSC "Radiopage". At the same time, the joint venture received the function of profit manager, and maintenance of the equipment of the "subsidiaries" remained the responsibility of the state-owned MGTS. Sistema used a similar scheme to seize the scientific and technical complex of the city of Zelenograd, and then extended its influence to all areas of the city farms
As a result, after just a few years, the corporation united about a hundred enterprises - on the terms of managing stakes, and in seventy of these enterprises AFK had controlling stakes. In total, Sistema has identified nine independent business areas: telecommunications, microelectronics and computer science, oil and petroleum products, tourism, real estate and construction, trade, finance, food industry and regional development. All subholdings were 100 percent subsidiaries of Sistema, but each had its own management and its own development plans - so that they could act autonomously.
In October 1997, the name of Yevtushenkov and AFK Sistema were mentioned in the press in connection with the so-called gasoline war in Moscow - interruptions in the sale of gasoline in the capital, associated, according to a number of media outlets, with the confrontation between the Central Fuel Commission (CTC) and a number of enterprises selling gasoline. It was alleged that Yevtushenkov was a very important figure in this struggle, speaking on the side of the TsTK, which was allegedly controlled by him. However, CTK's attempts to redistribute the capital's gasoline market and acquire the property of a number of its enterprises failed. Then, by order of Luzhkov, the Moscow Oil Company was created, to which all shares of the TsTK were transferred. The mayor of Moscow personally received control over the MNC.
In 1997, Sistema began absorbing media assets with the aim of creating its own media division - the subconcern Sistema Mass Media (SMM). Very quickly, Sistema Mass Media managed to acquire controlling stakes in the daily newspapers Rossiya, Metro, Smena, as well as the weekly Literaturnaya Gazeta and Kultura. In addition to the above-mentioned publications, the publishing house "Metropolis" "Mass Media Systems" included the magazine "Voyage and Rest". The Radio Center concern became a division of the SMM, uniting the radio stations Moscow Speaks and Public Russian Radio. Sistema Mass Media also acquired People's Cinema CJSC, which is responsible for creating a network of modern cinemas and the distributor of video cassettes PremierVideoFilm. The process of forming the SMM was completed in 1998.
Since 1997, Yevtushenkov was chairman of the board of directors of the TV-Center television company, which belonged to the Moscow government and the Moscow City Duma. The TV Center channel was supposed to become the main information resource of the Fatherland movement, created in November 1998 and headed by the mayor of Moscow. The media claimed that the head of AFK Sistema, who owned 33 percent of the channel's shares, actively but unsuccessfully fought for the management of TV Center. In June 1999, Yevtushenkov left the board of directors of TV Center, and the stake in the TV channel that belonged to Yevtushenkov was transferred to the ownership of the Moscow government. Yevtushenkov “through difficult negotiations” retained only 10 percent of the company’s shares.
At the height of the parliamentary election campaign, Yevtushenkov was included in the election headquarters of the Fatherland - All Russia (OVR) bloc (this bloc was created by combining the all-Russian political public organization Fatherland, founded by Luzhkov and financed by Sistema, and the All Russia bloc of regional leaders "). It was argued that it was Yevtushenkov who exerted influence in the matter of choosing an ally for Fatherland: if Luzhkov himself considered the leader of the Duma faction of the NDR, Alexander Shokhin, as a potential ally, then Yevtushenkov was strongly against it and allegedly even tried to organize a campaign against Shokhin in the media. However, Yevtushenkov soon left the OVR headquarters. Many media outlets noted that Fatherland's funding was indeed insufficient, so in June 1999, Luzhkov began an active search for other sources of funding. However, Fatherland never got another sponsor.
Representatives of the OVR bloc did not enter parliament. The media reported that after this, relations between the mayor of Moscow and Yevtushenkov deteriorated somewhat: the mayor openly accused the head of the AFK of failing to provide Fatherland with the necessary funding and removed him from participation in the election campaign. However, the press noted that this did not affect Yevtushenkov’s business, and Yevtushenkov did not leave the party created by Luzhkov.
In June 2000, ADRs of the new “mobile favorite” of AFK Sistema, MTS, were placed on the New York Stock Exchange. And in April 2001, it became known about MTS's intention to buy 100 percent of the shares of the St. Petersburg mobile operator Telecom-XXI, as a result of which MTS became the first Moscow cellular operator to break the monopoly of the Telecominvest telecommunications holding in St. Petersburg. By that time, Sistema was a large holding company, which included up to 200 companies. At the same time, Yevtushenkov for the first time announced his readiness to sell part of the assets of AFK. In the same year, Yevtushenkov was included in the bureau of the board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), and in 2001 he headed the Committee on Industrial Policy of the RSPP. He retained both of these positions by September 2008.
In March 2002, Yevtushenkov became one of 12 investors in LLC TV-6, formed by Evgeny Kiselev and journalists from the former TV-6, a television channel liquidated by the court at the suit of the minority shareholder of ZAO MNVK TV-6, the LUKoil company. As a result of the union of investors and a team of journalists, the Sixth Channel CJSC was born, which became part of the non-profit partnership Media Society, created by the President of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs Arkady Volsky and the head of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry Evgeny Primakov. The partnership won a federal competition for broadcasting on the frequency previously occupied by TV-6. On June 1, 2002, the new CJSC began broadcasting on the “sixth button”. The television channel, called TVS, was taken off the air by order of the Ministry of Press of the Russian Federation on June 22, 2003 - since the Moscow Arbitration Court declared the decision of the Supreme Arbitration Court of the Russian Federation to liquidate MNVK illegal.
In May 2002, Yevtushenkov was elected a member of the board of the Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry and appointed curator of a group of RSPP members that developed the concept of industrial policy in Russia. This concept, which entrepreneurs wanted to submit for consideration by the President of Russia, included provisions that the state should support not specific industries, but specific holdings and generally treat these associations more favorably.
The fact that Yevtushenkov is a billionaire became known in July 2002, after AFK Sistema announced the names of the owners of its shares. The corporation became the third Russian association to take such a step (at the beginning of 2002, this was done by NK YUKOS and OJSC Wimm-Bill-Dann). The management of AFK decided to do this so that Sistema would become more transparent - which would make it easier for it to cooperate with foreign companies. According to information released by AFK, more than three quarters (75.96 percent) of the corporation's shares by that time belonged to its founder and chairman of the board of directors. Based on these data, it was concluded that Yevtushenkov’s personal fortune reached approximately one and a half billion dollars.
At the beginning of 2003, Yevtushenkov became co-chairman of the Russian-Arab Business Council, and in July of the same year, Russian media reported that Russian companies were breaking into one of the most closed, but rich and promising national markets - Saudi Arabia - and would participate in a tender for construction of a railway from Riyadh to Mecca. In March 2003, the holding headed by Yevtushenkov acquired 10 percent of the shares of the German company Deutsche Telekom, which controls 40.1 percent of the shares in the capital of the Russian cellular company MTS.
Since the beginning of 2004, business has become actively involved in various social projects. In March 2004, Yevtushenkov was elected chairman of the Board of Trustees of the State Russian Museum (SRM) development fund "Friends of the Russian Museum". In June, the head of AFK Sistema was included in the Council on Competitiveness and Entrepreneurship.
On January 24, 2005, Yevtushenkov was appointed president of Sistema JSFC, and on January 24, 2006, he left this post and became chairman of the board of directors of Sistema.
In November 2005, the largest Russian companies announced the creation of a fund to support athletes in international competitions. The fund was established by AFK Sistema, EvrazHolding, Sibneft, Alfa Group, Surgutneftegaz, LUKOIL, TNK-BP, Russian Aluminum, St. Petersburg Banking House, Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant and Group "Interros".
In February 2006, Sistema acquired the cable television operator United Cable Networks (UCS). The transaction amount, according to the Kommersant newspaper, was $100 million, making this purchase the largest in the history of Russian cable television. According to Kommersant, OKS has controlling stakes in 18 cable television operators and about 400 thousand subscribers. In particular, OKS broadcasts to such large cities as Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Voronezh and Rostov-on-Don. After the completion of the transaction, AFK Sistema became the second largest cable television operator in Russia, second only to structures owned by Nafta-Moscow. The company's cable operators, Mostelecom and National Cable Networks, then served about 4.8 million subscribers. In August it became known that Sistema Mass Media sold its 59.4 percent stake in OAO Gazeta Metro to a group of private investors. The company declined to name the composition of the group of investors and the amount of the transaction. And in September, Sistema bought the Perm Motors enterprise from Vneshtorgbank, an enterprise that produces engines for long-haul passenger aircraft Il-96-300, medium-haul passenger and cargo Tu-204 and Tu-214.
In December 2006, AFK Sistema became the owner of a blocking stake in the largest management company on the Russian fixed-line communications market - OJSC Svyazinvest (75 percent minus one share belongs to the state represented by Rosimushchestvo). It was reported that the stake was acquired by her for $1.3 billion and will be registered in the name of Comstar-UTS. After the publication of information about the deal, analysts suggested that Yevtushenkov bought a blocking stake “with an eye to gaining control over the holding or at least increasing the share in the future.”
In February 2007, it became known that the company headed by Yevtushenkov had entered into a major deal, selling its stake in the insurance company ROSNO to the German concern Allianz. The transaction amount was $750 million.
In October 2008, against the backdrop of a global liquidity crisis in financial markets, Yevtushenkov asked Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to consider the possibility of the state buying out a blocking stake in Svyazinvest for $1.9 billion. According to analysts, the deal could be beneficial both to the state, by increasing the number of “options for reorganizing the holding” available to it, and to Sistema, by giving it “the money it now needs.” , . In turn, the Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications in November of the same year agreed with the possibility of consolidating 100 percent of the shares in the hands of the state, however, noting that “the issue of the cost of the package and the redemption mechanism requires detailed study.”
In November 2008, AFK Sistema signed a package of agreements according to which it received enterprises of the Bashkir fuel and energy complex (four oil refineries, Bashneft and Bashneftekhim) for three years under operational management. reporting this, Vedomosti cited the opinion that in this way the owner of the enterprises of the Bashkir fuel and energy complex could change “without nationalization and reprivatization of companies,” which the Kremlin so wanted to avoid [
In 1973 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology. D.I. Mendeleev, in 1980, Faculty of Economics, Moscow State University. Doctor of Economic Sciences.
1973-1975 - foreman, senior foreman, section head of the plant named after. Ya. M. Sverdlova of the USSR Minmash, Dzerzhinsk, Gorky region.
From 1975 to 1982 he was deputy director and chief engineer of the Karacharovo plastics plant.
1982-1987 chief engineer, and then first deputy general director of NPO Polimerbyt.
From 1987 to 1990 he worked in various positions in the Moscow City Executive Committee.
1990: Moscow Committee on Science and Technology
In 1990, Vladimir Yevtushenkov headed one of the government structures of the capital - the Moscow Committee on Science and Technology (MCST). He then created a commercial organization with the same name. As ill-wishers said, while some entrepreneurs privatized various enterprises, Yevtushenkov privatized the entire structure of the capital’s authorities.
1993: Creation of AFK "Systems"
Subsequently, MKNT became the prototype for AFK Sistema, a company that Yevtushenkov organized together with his partners.
Until 1995, Yevtushenkov served as president of the corporation, and from January 1994 to January 2005 he was chairman of the board of directors.
The business of this structure has long been associated with the government of the capital. AFK Sistema received a number of microelectronic factories in Zelenograd, various development projects, land for development in Serebryany Bor, the Detsky Mir department store, etc. AFK Sistema also provided media support for the political ambitions of the head of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov: Yevtushenkov was the chairman of the board of directors of the TV Center channels created by the capital authorities, in addition, the corporation created the daily newspaper Rossiya and the radio station Moscow Speaks.
This gave rise to speculation about the special relationship between Vladimir Yevtushenkov and Yuri Luzhkov. There were even rumors that they were married to sisters (Yevtushenkov denied this). There is a version that, in an effort to strengthen his ties with Luzhkov, Vladimir Yevtushenkov introduced him to his wife’s sister in 1991. And at the end of the same year, Yuri Luzhkov, whose first wife died of cancer in 1989, married Elena Baturina. This version has been repeatedly refuted by the press services of the Moscow City Hall and AFK Sistema. But then it appeared again and again in the materials of serious publications that wrote about the business projects of the Moscow government and the activities of AFK Sistema.
The wife of Moscow ex-mayor Luzhkov, Elena Baturina, really has a younger sister. Her name, like Vladimir Yevtushenkov’s wife, is Natalya Nikolaevna. But the mere fact of matching first and last names is not proof of family ties.
Tired of rumors, Yevtushenkov said that he forbade his subordinates to discuss investment projects with the capital's authorities. However, after Luzhkov’s resignation from the post of mayor of the capital, Yevtushenkov publicly offered him a job to create a chemical industry division within AFK Sistema (the offer was rejected).
Naturally, there were suspicions that Luzhkov himself had a stake in Sistema. When Forbes magazine created the first rating of Russian billionaires in 2004, Yevtushenkov’s fortune was noticeably underestimated. Only a year later, when AFK Sistema held an IPO and disclosed the composition of its shareholders (showing, among other things, the fact that Yevtushenkov had a controlling stake in the corporation), Forbes dismissed all suspicions.
1995: Controlling stake in MGTS, shares in VimpelCom and MTS
In 1995, the trust on trust “MKNT and Co” became the winner of the competition held by the Moscow Property Committee for the rights to own a blocking stake in the Moscow City Telephone Network (MGTS). Luzhkov at that time managed to achieve for Moscow the right to independently conduct privatization processes.
AFK Sistema also received a share in the mobile operator MTS. By that time, AFK Sistema was already the largest shareholder of another mobile operator, VimpelCom. In the mid-1990s, VimpelCom was even ahead of MTS in terms of the size of its subscriber base. However, Sistema was more of a passive investor in the operator: de facto, the company was at the mercy of its CEO Dmitry Zimin.
Actually, Zimin came up with the idea of creating VimpelCom. The base for the future operator was provided by the defense corporation MAK Vympel. Its leaders, in particular Nikolai Mikhailov, gained control over VimpelCom. Then the “equipment companies” had a desire to sell VimpelCom to the American corporation Millicom Cellular. Zimin opposed these plans and found Yevtushenkov, who “persuaded” the defense industry to sell VimpelCom to him.
But in addition to the fact that Yevtushenkov and Zimin became cramped at VimpelCom, this operator also worked in the American dAMPS standard. At the same time, MTS worked in the European GSM standard, which turned out to be more promising. VimpelCom also began the transition to GSM in the late 1990s, as a result of which it lost first place in the capital to MTS. And after its IPO in 2000, MTS was also years ahead of its competitor in expansion into the regions and CIS countries.
But MTS initially had another major shareholder - the communication operator ASVT. It was created on the basis of the MGTS special communications center by Anastasia Ositis, who was then considered the “iron lady” of telecom. Actually, the idea of creating MTS belonged to Ositis. In 1996, ASVT came under pressure, and two attempts were made on Ositis. As a result, ASVT exchanged 19% of MTS shares from AFK Sistema for a share in a certain enterprise “Noel”, from which assets were withdrawn.
Ten years later, ASVT filed a claim against AFK Sistema, demanding compensation for losses in the amount of $1.7 billion from the loss of MTS. Sistema called ASVT’s actions a “raider attack,” but the case ended with ASVT receiving compensation in the amount of $160 million.
2000s: Unsuccessful investments in Svyazinvest
MTS and MGTS have made telecommunications the main source of income for Sistema for a long time. In the mid-2000s, Yevtushenkov wanted to establish control over the Svyazinvest holding: the then Minister of Communications Leonid Reiman actively advocated its privatization.
Sistema even created two joint ventures with the so-called “St. Petersburg group of communications operators” (considered close to Reiman): the long-distance operator MTT and the CDMA cellular operator SkyLink. While the state still did not dare to sell its share, Yevtushenkov, through Comstar-UTS, acquired a 25.1% stake in Svyazinvest from Leonard Blavatnik.
The deal was unsuccessful: Sistema was never able to gain access to the management of Svyazinvest. When in 2009 the state completely abandoned plans to privatize the holding, Yevtushenkov had to negotiate with the team of the then Minister of Communications Igor Shchegolev about leaving the holding. The multi-stage divorce scheme included, among other things, the transfer of Sky Link to Svyazinvest. By that time, Sky Link had acquired a solid pool of GSM and 3G licenses and was a potential competitor to MTS. That is, the terms of the divorce were not the most favorable for the System.
2000s: IPO of several companies in London
In the mid-2000s, Yevtushenkov developed another hobby: IPO on the London Stock Exchange. AFK Sistema itself (volume of placement - $1.35 billion), Comstar - UTS ($1 billion), the high-tech holding Sitronics and the development company Sistema Hals went through this procedure. True, Yevtushenkov later admitted that he underestimated the consequences: after entering the stock exchange, he had to “flaunt his every step.” Yevtushenkov called the listing on the stock exchange “a suitcase without a handle.” As a result, Comstar-OTS was absorbed by MTS, Sitronics was disbanded and de-listed, and Sistema-Hals was given to VTB for free after the 2009 crisis.
Since 2000, Yevtushenkov has been a member of the Bureau of the Board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, and since 2002 - the Board of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation.
Actively participates in various joint projects between the state and business. He is a member of the Government Commission on Scientific and Innovation Policy of the Council on Science and High Technologies under the President of the Russian Federation, as well as the National Council for Corporate Governance.
In 2004, he was elected chairman of the board of trustees of the State Russian Museum Development Fund.
2005: Purchase of Bashneft and rescue of Russneft
In the late 1990s, AFK Sistema acquired several raw materials assets: a small oil company in Komi and a network of gas stations in Moscow. By the mid-2000s, the corporation left this area, but in 2005 it unexpectedly acquired blocking shares in Bashneft enterprises for $500 million. This oil company was then under the close attention of the authorities. Bashneft, whose enterprises are engaged in oil production and refining, was privatized in 2003 by decree of the then President of Bashkortostan Murtaza Rakhimov. The acquirer was the Bashkir Capital company, which belonged to the son of the head of the republic, Ural Rakhimov.
In 2005, Rakhimov Sr. canceled his own decree on the privatization of Bashneft, and the republican prosecutor’s office tried through the court to obtain the return of the company’s shares. This was associated with a conflict between the president of the republic and his son. The matter ended with Ural Rakhimov retaining Bashneft, but undertaking to pay 13 billion rubles to the republic’s budget (the need to pay this amount of funds explained the deal with Sistema).
Then Bashkir Capital was liquidated, and shares of Bashneft enterprises were transferred as donations to a number of charitable foundations. Experts were sure that Ural Rakhimov, who remained the owner of the company, was behind this combination. The Federal Tax Service of the Russian Federation drew attention to what was happening. She tried through the court to obtain the seizure of enterprise shares into state ownership, citing the then-current article of the Civil Code (CC) on transactions contrary to the fundamentals of law and order and morality.
The story ended in 2009, when AFK Sistema bought control of Bashneft for $2 billion (the parties initially agreed on additional payments by the buyer in the amount of $500 million, but then abandoned this). After this, the tax authorities also lost interest in the company, especially since the above-mentioned article of the Civil Code had already been abolished by that time. The head of Bashkortostan, Rustem Khamitov, promised to achieve the transfer of money received from the sale of Bashneft to the republican budget, but this did not happen.
It is obvious that the deal to purchase Bashneft was agreed upon with the authorities: having seen a friendly figure as the new owner of the company, the Kremlin had no more complaints against her. The fact that the deal was agreed was later confirmed by Alexey Kudrin, who at that time held the post of Minister of Finance.
During the same period of time, Yevtushenkov acquired another oil company - Russneft. In this story, AFK Sistema acted as a peacemaker: Russneft was created by Mikhail Gutseriev, who fell into disgrace in 2006 and was forced to flee the country and sell the business. Sistema bought out Russneft in the interests of Gutseriev, and then completely returned the company to him.
In February 2006, he was re-elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of AFK Sistema.
2012: "SG-Trans" and failure in bidding for a stake in the "First Freight Company"
At the Mikron plant, Yevtushenkov received President Vladimir Putin, ex-Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, then Deputy Prime Minister and current head of the Presidential Administration Sergei Ivanov and other officials.
In addition, Yevtushenkov showed Putin the first phone with a GLONASS navigation chip, which was hastily called the “Russian iPhone.”
On June 30, 2012, Yevtushenkov was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of Sistema JSFC.
From the state, Yevtushenkov managed to receive cash injections into the microelectronics industry, financing for the cellular operator MTS India and other support. Among other things, Yevtushenkov managed to repel all the above-mentioned attacks on the legality of the MGTS privatization scheme.
At the same time, Vladimir Yevtushenkov tried “not to go too far.” His corporation decided to enter the freight rail transportation market by forming the SG-Trans company. Among other things, SG-Trans wanted to participate in the auction for the sale of a blocking stake in one of the companies owned by Russian Railways - First Freight Company. But the Sistema structure was not allowed to participate in trading and the shares went to the structures of entrepreneur Vladimir Lisin.
The company appealed this decision in court, which decided to suspend trading as interim measures. True, then Yevtushenkov demanded that his subordinates withdraw the claim. The judge of the Moscow Arbitration Court, Elena Zolotova, who ruled in favor of Sistema, was removed from this case by the court leadership. At that moment, Yevtushenkov clearly realized that he should not fit into this fight.
2014: Criminal case on the privatization of Bashneft
The basis for the termination of the criminal case was the decision of the Moscow Arbitration Court "on the recourse claim of AFK-System against Ural-Invest LLC", which stated that the plaintiff acted in good faith and did not know that the acquired property was the property of the state. In turn, the defendant had no right to alienate this property.
TOTAL: The state received a controlling stake in Bashneft free of charge and is preparing to transfer dividends for 2015 to the budget (according to preliminary data, Bashneft will pay shareholders at least 20 billion rubles); Yevtushenkov lost a significant part of his fortune and his oil company, but remained free; AFK Sistema continues to exist. Ural Rakhimov is abroad.»
Education
In 1967-1973. - student at the Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology. Mendeleev, received a specialty - “technological engineer”.
Career
In 1973-1975. - foreman, senior foreman, section head of the plant named after. Sverdlov of the USSR Ministry of Mechanical Engineering in the city of Dzerzhinsk (Gorky region).
In 1982-1987 - Chief Engineer, First Deputy General Director of NPO Polimerbyt.
In 1987-1988 - Head of the Technical Department of the Moscow City Executive Committee.
In 1988-1989 - Head of the Main Directorate for Science and Technology of the Moscow City Executive Committee.
Since 1993 and currently - Chairman of the Board of Directors of AFK Sistema.
The formation of the Sistema telecommunications division began in the summer of 1996. AFK Sistema, together with OJSC MGTS, established the TS Center on a parity basis. MGTS transferred most of its subsidiaries to the new joint venture in trust: Moscow Cellular Communications JSC; JSC Interregional Transit Telecom; JSC Mobile TeleSystems; Infocom LLP; VAST LLP; STC "Komset"; JSC Moscow Telecommunications Corporation; JSC "VOLS"; JSC "Moscow Teleport"; JSC Expo-Telecom; JSC "Combellga"; JSC "RoSprint"; Russian Superimposed Systems LLP (RON); JSC "Radiopage"
Area of interest
AFK Sistema owns and manages assets in 12 business areas: telecommunications, electronics, insurance, radio engineering, real estate and construction, oil and petroleum products, trade, finance and securities, mass media, tourism, sports, medicine.
Creation of a retail network for the sale of children's goods
AFK Sistema, according to its press service, is considering several options for reorganizing the ownership structure of the Detsky Mir trading house, on the basis of which a nationwide retail network for the sale of children's goods is being created.
By profession - engineer, chemical technologist. Currently head of the IBRD Department. Two children: Tatyana (born 1976) and Felix (born 1978).
Compromising evidence
In 2014, Yevtushenkov was accused of illegally acquiring shares in Bashneft and was under house arrest from September to December. He was released after Sistema returned Bashneft to the state.