Elena Luzhkova: daughter of hereditary patriots. Biography, condition of Elena Baturina according to Forbes Does Elena Baturina have children
Elena Baturina is one of the richest, most powerful women on the planet. She is a billionaire, previously owned the Inteko empire, and today is a co-founder. Elena Baturina is also the wife of the former mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov.
The achievements of this amazing woman can be listed for a very long time. Today, her main occupation is the international hotel business. Under its "wing" are:
- GK "New Peterhof" in St. Petersburg;
- Quisisana Palace in Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic;
- Morrison Hotel in the center of Ireland.
Biography of Elena Baturina
The rich wife of Yuri Luzhkov was born on March 8 under the sign of Pisces. This year, Baturina celebrated her 55th birthday. She is a native Muscovite, a successful entrepreneur, philanthropist, philanthropist, a true woman, a real business woman, an “iron lady”. A sharp mind, insight, strong will brought her to the first lines in Forbes. Diligence, entrepreneurial talent, leadership qualities helped to achieve success.
Elena Baturina's parents are ordinary people, ordinary workers at Fraser. Dad worked as a workshop foreman, mom worked as a machine operator. As a child, Elena Baturina was often and very ill: according to the recollections of classmates, the main complaints were about the lungs, so she herself never smoked and does not like people who have this bad habit. The main hobbies of Elena Baturina are tennis, horseback riding, rifle shooting, skiing.
Yuri Luzhkov's wife has an older brother, Viktor Baturin. He is also a famous businessman. Together they graduated from the same school, the same university. Elena Baturina did not want to lag behind her brother. Since 1980, while still a student, she decided to go to work at a factory with her parents.
Career of Elena Baturina
The first serious work of Elena Baturina is a design engineer. In 1982 - senior design engineer in the department of the chief technologist.
1982-1989 - Elena Baturina works at the Institute for Economic Problems of Integrated Development of Moscow as a researcher. Transformed scientific activity into chairmanship, was appointed to the position of leading specialist. Soon she decided to open her own business.
Elena Baturina created a joint family cooperative. Her brother Victor became her faithful partner. Together they were engaged in the introduction of modern technologies, the creation and installation of software, and the purchase of high-quality computer equipment.
In 1991, Inteko was established. In the early years, polymer products were made here. In the same year, Elena Baturina became a married woman: Yuri Luzhkov became the chosen one, who a year later received the chair of the mayor of Moscow.
Most likely, due to the fact that she married favorably, and useful contacts appeared, Inteko began to receive orders from the municipal level and began to expand. The Moscow refinery passed into his possession from the prefecture. A large enterprise for the production of polypropylene was built on its territory.
1994 - an enterprise producing plastics was attached to Inteko. Five years later, the plant was at the center of a scandal: it was credited with embezzlement of budget funds. But soon the problems were solved, a year later the plant became an investment and construction corporation. They began to buy up cement plants, invest in Gazprom, Sberbank and other large companies.
2005 - Inteko began to disintegrate. First of all, he left the concrete-panel construction market.
2006 - Viktor Baturin abandoned this company, and soon Elena Baturina herself, but became a co-founder.
2006-2011 - Inteko built modern complexes Dominion, Arco di Sole, Champion Park, ASTRA, New Peterhof, the building of the University. M. V. Lomonosov.
2008 - Inteko was included in the TOP-300 backbone enterprises in Russia.
In 2011, it became known that Inteko was being sold to investors.
Elena Baturina decided to move to London and started developing the hotel business. After some time, with Yuri Luzhkov and the children, she moved to Austria, and in Aurich she bought a house worth 20 million euros. In Vienna, a woman owns a real estate company called Sapho GmbH. In Vienna, the family has a mansion in Dörling. Two years ago, Elena Baturina took over office buildings in Brooklyn.
Personal life of Elena Baturina
Nothing is known about the personal life of Elena Baturina before she became the wife of Yuri Luzhkov. They got married with Yuri Luzhkov in 1991. Before her, Yuri Luzhkov had a family. From his first marriage, the ex-mayor has two sons.
Yuri Luzhkov and Elena Baturina have been married for 25 years. They got married two years ago. The couple has two daughters: Elena, born in 1992. and Olga born in 1994 The girls were educated in London.
Daughter Elena lives in Slovakia, owns a company for the manufacture of cosmetics and perfumery Alener.
Elena Baturina has not communicated with her brother since 2007. He even sued her because of the illegal dismissal from the post of vice president and the assignment of a stake in Inteko.
In April of this year, Elena Baturina signed a deal for 45 million euros on the sale of Grand Tirolia Group. This complex turned out to be unprofitable, it was bought by an Australian.
At the moment, Elena Baturina earns money on an international hotel chain and a development center in New York. Thus, PE (net profit) from Morrison a year earlier amounted to 1.5 million euros. According to Forbes, in 2018 Elena Baturina's net worth is $1.2 billion. In the TOP of the richest women in Russia, she is in first place, the richest entrepreneurs in Russia - in 79th.
Tells a family friend, billionaire Yuri Gekht
- says a family friend, billionaire Yuri Gekht
Why aren't criminal cases initiated against LUZHKOV? - Vladimir Putin was asked at one of the recent press conferences.
It's too early. And why do you think that there is nothing according to Luzhkov? - the president answered slyly ...
The trial of the ex-mayor of Moscow and his slyly@oops spouse is eagerly awaited by millions of people. And among them, of course, Yuri GEKHT - a friend of youth and a former accomplice of Yuri Mikhailovich, and now - his implacable enemy. Once Hecht was a member of the Supreme Economic Council under the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation and a major bourgeois. And now he is a simple Israeli pensioner and, in fact, a criminal wanted by Interpol.
On the eve of the anniversary of Elena Nikolaevna (March 8, she will hit "fifty kopecks"), Yuri Gekht in the Promised Land was visited by the special correspondent of Express Newspaper.
I have always stood up Luzhkov, - assures Yuri Georgievich. - Even in 1993, when angry deputies wanted to remove him from the post of mayor. After all, the capital then writhed in mud and poverty! At a meeting of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet, I managed to recapture Luzhkov. In fact, he is a strong business executive. In everything that happened to him then, the hardened boor is to blame Elena Baturina. Previous wife - Marina Bashilova, daughter of the first deputy minister of the chemical industry of the USSR, - Luzhkova created. And this matron made Yura the founder of corruption in Russia! For example, I was personally present when Luzhkov bought land in Sochi for a pittance...
According to Hechta Having come to power, Luzhkov made him his close associate. Out of gratitude for an old friend, he had to grit his teeth and endure communication with his eccentric wife.
Betrayal
I not only entered the house, but also personally arranged for Baturina in the best Moscow maternity hospital named after Grauerman! - remembers Hecht. - Due to the already young age, she was terribly afraid of the first birth. A week later, I gave Elena a watch for $ 300 - then it was a decent amount - as a present for a newborn. Baturina never tried on such elegant little things: she wore watches like a child. In those years, there were no imported goods in stores, and I often traveled abroad. Baturina girls dressed and shod. I also kept in touch with Luzhkov's children from a previous marriage. And Elena did not let them on the threshold. The younger Alexander could still come to work with his dad, but the elder Mikhail was afraid. Elena arranged this for her husband! Misha was very upset by his father's betrayal. Started drinking. Of course, Luzhkov did not like this. (By the way, my son worked in the gas industry, and as soon as Luzhkov was removed, he was also asked.)
It was Hecht, according to him, who persuaded Luzhkov to start competitive investment in the capital's real estate.
Luzhkov, having become mayor, did not know what to do, Gecht assures. - There is no money, devastation, but the city needs to be rebuilt. In June 1992, at the height of Gaidar's devouring reform, I proposed to him the idea of private investment in construction. Yura doubted: “Who will go? Such a risk!" I say: "I!" And he was the first to take part in the competition for investing in the construction of two prestigious buildings in the capital.
Yuri Gekht proudly calls himself a "hereditary wallet" - since 1740, his ancestors were engaged in the production of paper. He was lucky in perestroika:
The Ministry of Forestry and Pulp and Paper Industry decided to unite the most backward enterprises in the industry that did not feed themselves. And I was appointed general director of Sokolniki. It also included the Serpukhov paper mill. In 1987, I rented it, and in 1989 the association was privatized. The Ministry allowed me, as a director, to receive 49 percent of the shares, the rest remained with the team. But then privatization according to Chubais began, and all and sundry right on the streets began to buy shares from the workers. By decision of the general meeting, people did not sell to strangers, but entrusted me to buy out the remaining shares. Since then, I often heard a whisper behind my back: "The first Soviet billionaire is coming." But I couldn’t even touch this money, I never used dividends - I directed everything to the development of production. Now the enterprise has been destroyed, more than a thousand people have been laid off. Only one paper mill in Vladimir is working, and the Raiders have captured the Serpukhov Combine ...
Sperm
Luzhkov was afraid of his wife like fire, - says Yuri Georgievich. - Pulled me home every Saturday. Somehow we sit with them Tsereteli. It's almost midnight and he won't let us go. We understand that another scandal is brewing. Elena comes out in a hastily wrapped dressing gown and says: “It's time to sleep!” Yuri doesn't respond. Then she comes up, takes off her slippers and gives him a ka-a-ak on his bald head!
And at a reception at the Queen in 2004 in London, what did you get up to? Just came to power Tony Blair. Everyone gathered, we sit - we are waiting for Baturina. Yuri is running around, nervous. Finally, Elena enters the hotel with a racket. Luzhkov: "Lena, the queen is waiting for us!" - "Nothing, wait." Seven minutes later, Yuri in red spots jumps out into the hall: “Let's go without her!”
In the US, in a shopping center, Elena suddenly screamed at Luzhkov so loudly that the entire delegation burned with shame. And in Munich, she went to a horse farm. There she was presented with the sperm of one of the best stallions. In the hotel, she immediately hid the priceless flask, but when she began to collect things for departure, she could not find it. City Hall employee Vladimir Lebedev offered to check her suitcase, but she became furious and gave the young man several slaps in the face. In Moscow, after customs inspection, we decided to see if everything was in place, and found a flask with sperm in her suitcase!
boorish
Hecht had a serious conflict with Baturina in 2004 in the office of the first deputy mayor Vladimir Resin who supervised the construction.
There I found out: Lena wanted three old residential buildings near the Arbatskaya metro station, which belonged to me. (now owned by Telman Ismailov.) I wanted to build a hotel on this land. I evicted 240 families, personally talked to each tenant - not a single complaint was received against me. He invested $23 million in the facility. But after the default, he could not start construction in any way. I understood: there is a formal reason to find fault, Lena will not back down. I agreed to sign an agreement on the transfer of objects, but only on the condition of payment of compensation: “Lena, return what you spent!” But she told Resin: "Let his friend Luzhkov compensate him." I could not stand it and hit the table with my fist: “Yes, you are just a village boor!” Luzhkov first tried to help me out. But Baturina stood her ground. As a result, she brought contracts for the purchase of all objects, and the amount of compensation - 50 thousand rubles! Realizing that I would not sign, he and Resin offered me three dilapidated buildings on the Arbat: garbage dumps bought up by Caucasians that needed to be resettled. Even 150 million dollars would not be enough for me! I came to Resin and said: “Am I going to resettle all of Moscow at my own expense?” He said that I would not sign the contract until it states that the eviction is carried out at the expense of Moscow. But Luzhkov betrayed me and did not sign me.
setup
In 2004, Hecht had severe kidney problems, and he decided to receive medical treatment in Israel.
And shortly before leaving, three people close to Luzhkov warned that an attempt was being made on my life, - says Yuri Georgievich. - The first to summon the vice-mayor Joseph Ordzhonikidze- He oversaw the hotel and gambling business. Talked about some nonsense. I told him: “Did you call me for this?” Suddenly he gets up from his chair and whispers: “Yura, leave immediately, I beg you!”
Events were not long in coming. First, Hecht had an accident: a truck blocked the way for his car. Hecht and the driver miraculously survived:
Soon I was accused of kidnapping a man, a certain Vladimir Baryshnikov-Kuparenko, which was supposed to deliver German equipment to my factory, but deceived: the equipment did not arrive on time. I punched this Baryshnikov in the face and threatened to terminate the contract and recover the amount paid to him and the damages. This scoundrel saw on my desk the Kompromat.RU magazine, in the creation of which I participated. The latest issue described in detail how Baturina received land plots for construction without a competition and how budget funds were transferred through Mosbusinessbank and the Bank of Moscow to finance her undertakings. Baryshnikov decided to use my conflict with Baturina and went to see her with this magazine. Elena immediately bought the entire circulation, and they developed a scheme to eliminate me from the market.
According to Hekht, the operation was supervised by the former head of the Moscow police, Colonel-General Vladimir Pronin.
Baryshnikov staged his kidnapping, - Yuri Georgievich explains, - allegedly carried out on my order. He imitated an escape from my office, where the abductors allegedly locked him up on Saturday and Sunday, and he went into the toilet, climbed out through the window and arrived by taxi to the reception of the mayor of Moscow, and then turned to law enforcement agencies with a statement. On the basis of this nonsense, the athletes were arrested, with whom I was seen in a restaurant in the evening after the competition - I supervised sports in Serpukhov. They were made the perpetrators of this pseudo-abduction. They gave me eight years. I did my best to get them out. They were released two years later for a huge bribe.
After a successful kidney transplant, Yuri Georgievich found hope of returning to Russia.
I'm not hiding, says the exile. - I correspond with Interpol, and everyone is “looking for” me. I was denied a Russian pension, a Russian international passport, despite a court confirmation that I am a Russian citizen. Through Telman Ismailov, Baturina took all my property. Since then, I have not communicated with Luzhkov - it is useless: he, in fact, became her hostage. But I must return to Russia to prove my innocence. The only thing I ask the President Putin and premiere Medvedev- give me the opportunity to personally participate in the investigation of a criminal case.
The wife of the ex-mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov, entrepreneur and former owner of the Inteko holding, Elena Baturina is one of the most influential business women in Russia. In the list of the richest compatriots Forbes for 2008, she took first place. The Inteko holding, which belonged to her, controlled a fifth of the capital's construction market, and was a leader in the production of polymers and plastic products.
Elena Baturina was born in the capital in 1963. The future entrepreneur received a higher education at the Moscow Institute of Management, worked as a researcher. In 1991, together with his brother Baturin, he took his first steps in business. They jointly open the Inteko cooperative and begin to promote the production of polymer products. A few years later, after marrying the future mayor Yuri Luzhkov, the family business turned into a real holding company. The production of full-cycle polymers occupied about 30% of the Russian market of plastic products.
The beginning of the 2000s was a new milestone in the history of Inteko. It has evolved from a cooperative into an investment and construction corporation. The family business was able to hold about 25% of the Moscow panel housing market. A year later, Inteko Corporation entered the monolithic construction market. In 2002, the activities of Inteko expanded through the production of cement. In 2003, the management of Inteko officially announced its intention to issue a bonded loan.
This was followed by property conflicts of the Baturins, condemnation in society and higher circles, which laid the first brick in the emergence of "distrust" towards Yuri Luzhkov and his subsequent dismissal from the post of mayor. Meanwhile, his wife continued to conduct business and achieved considerable success in this. According to Forbes in 2006, the business woman owned a fortune of $ 2.3 billion. This number has grown slightly over the year. At the same time, Baturina was the only woman on the list of the richest Russians. 2008 brought Elena Baturina an increase in wealth to $ 4.2 billion. There are also a number of large transactions with blocks of shares, the amount of which, for obvious reasons, was not disclosed.
Elena Baturina leads a sporty lifestyle. Among her interests are tennis, horseback riding, shooting, trips to ski resorts.
According to unconfirmed information, in 2008 the wife of the ex-mayor acquired the luxurious Witanhurst mansion in London with an area of 3,700 square meters, second only to Buckingham Palace in size. The deal amounted to $100 million. The former owner of the estate was the English developer Marcus Cooper. The deal turned out to be very profitable for him, as he initially invested $ 72 million in the purchase of real estate.
Despite repeated denials of the validity of the transaction by Ms. Baturina herself and the appearance of information that the luxurious mansion does not belong to her, but to the owner of the PhosArgo holding, ex-senator Andrei Guryev, this was not officially reported anywhere. Moreover, Guryev's representative gave clear indications that Witanhurst is not directly owned by Guryev. Considering Baturina's interest in this object, which realtors spoke about, and Luzhkov's difficult relationship with the Russian political elite, it can be assumed that the deal was carried out secretly, with all the necessary precautions, so as not to arouse suspicion and noise in the press. Like it or not, it is impossible to say for sure. However, the presence of financial schemes in the case of the purchase of Witanhurst suggests certain thoughts.
House of Elena Baturina in Gorki-2
Also, Elena Baturina is the owner of the estate in the elite suburban village "Gorki-2" in the Odintsovo district. The cost of real estate here starts from 50 million rubles. With the center of the capital "Gorki-2" share 14 km of Rublevo-Uspenskoe highway.
Despite the proximity of the city, the village pleases its residents with clean air. Residents spend time surrounded by century-old pines and can take a walk along the picturesque banks of the Moskva River. Luxury and solitude are the main aspects due to which a special atmosphere develops here.
The cottage settlement "Gorki-2" with a total area of 120 hectares is under supervision and protection, ennobled, equipped with centralized communications. There are educational institutions, shops, medical facilities and other infrastructure facilities.
Elena Nikolaevna Baturina was born on March 8, 1963 in Moscow. Today, the Russian woman billionaire is 55 years old. She graduated from the State University of Management in her time, and is best known to the public as the wife of former Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov and the former president of the construction business giant ZAO Inteko (the company is currently sold).
Baturina Elena is not just a Russian entrepreneur, she is also a philanthropist and a generous philanthropist. Her husband sincerely considers his wife a talented manager and businessman, and appreciates her infinitely.
In 2011, after the sale of Inteko, Baturina relocated her assets abroad. Today she is the owner of a chain of hotels not only in our country, but also in Ireland, Austria and the Czech Republic. Elena has a renewable energy project in Italy and Greece, as well as a manufacturing company specializing in membrane construction in Germany - her projects can be seen in the photo. In her youth, Elena Baturina wisely reasoned that a lot of money was in construction and real estate, and hit the mark. Baturina owns some development projects both in Europe and in the USA. Elena actively invests in funds related to development activities in the field of residential and commercial real estate, in particular in America and the UK.
Titles
For 2017, in the ranking of world billionaires according to Forbes, Elena Baturina, who owns a fortune of $ 1 billion, retained the title of the wealthiest woman in Russia, the only Russian billionaire in the world. And Elena has retained this title for twelve years in a row.
In 2018, the total fortune of Elena Baturina, who retained the title of the richest lady in Russia, is $ 1.2 billion. In the general list of the international glossy publication, she takes 79th place.
Made herself
Also according to Forbes, Baturina is the only independent entrepreneur of her kind who built her business in the construction industry, she is ranked 55th in the world's list of female self-made billionaires. There are 227 women on this list, and more than 75% percent of them are heirs of the state from their family members. And Elena did not have the start-up capital inherited from her mom and dad.
Baturina has made a name for herself investing in real estate. She actively invests in alternative energy in European countries and continues to invest in real estate.
In addition, Elena Baturina is the owner of a huge collection of expensive retro cars, numbering fifty copies. The woman also collects antique porcelain of domestic production.
Facts, scandals
Being married to Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, Elena Baturina created the Inteko company, which was mainly engaged in development and construction.
Elena is the founder of the BE OPEN charity foundation, whose activities are aimed at supporting young talents: scientists, designers, writers and architects.
In 2004, Baturina became a participant in the scandal associated with the tragedy on February 15 - then, during the collapse of the roof of the Transvaal water park building in Moscow's Yasenevo, 28 visitors died, more than 100 people were injured (according to the official version). In March 2004, the Kommersant publication reported that the Baturins were lending to the Terra-Oil company, which controlled the activities of the ill-fated water park. A year later, in March 2005, the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow partially satisfied Baturina's claim for the protection of honor and dignity, recognizing the information published by the newspaper as false.
Another scandal took place in 2006. There was information that the publishing house Axel Springer Russia destroyed the entire circulation of the December Forbes, doing this in order not to print an article about Baturina and her business. The American Forbes demanded that Axel Springer release the issue in its original layout. This is what was done. Two months later, in February 2007, Inteko filed two lawsuits in the amount of 106,500 rubles each against the hostile publishing house and against the editor-in-chief personally. The company lost its first lawsuit in the autumn of 2007, and earlier, in the spring of 2007, the lawsuit against the editor-in-chief was satisfied. In early 2008, after changing the subject of Inteco's claim, the case against Axel Springer Russia was won by the entrepreneur.
Since 2008, Elena Baturina has been the owner of a luxurious mansion in the Austrian Kochau, then she moved to a larger estate of three thousand square meters in the same area in Aurach near Kitzbühel. She didn't sell that house.
In 2018, Elena reached retirement age, and despite the fact that she lives in Europe as a Russian citizen, she can retire.
Biography
The personal life of Elena Baturina has always been of interest to the public, many shook their heads with skepticism - they say that the mayor's wife simply cannot fail to be successful, and her relatives, most likely from the Rockefeller clan, do not get tired of helping. However, little Lena had no rich relatives. The first Russian lady billionaire was born on International Women's Day, March 8, 1963, in an ordinary Moscow family, where mom and dad worked at a factory. Seven years earlier, her brother Victor had been born. Lena went to the same school as her brother, and in his footsteps she went to enter the same university as Viktor - to the evening department of the University of Management - SUM. In their youth, Elena Baturina and her brother were very friendly.
From 1980 to 1982 the future billionaire worked at the largest enterprise of cutting tools Fraser, her parents had previously worked there. She worked at the Moscow Institute of Economic Problems of the Development of the National Economy, at the Union of Cooperators, and was also present on the commission of the Moscow City Executive Committee responsible for cooperative activities. In 1986, Elena Nikolaevna Baturina received a diploma of higher education, and since 1989 she began her career as an entrepreneur.
Business
They started the business with their brother together. The very first project of a talented girl was a cooperative on shares with her brother. Their company developed software, introducing computer equipment into various fields of activity. Elena Baturina was very tenacious, grasping and energetic - whoever you ask - in her youth. Photos of the business woman and her brother gradually began to appear in the chronicles of successful business projects, she gradually gained popularity and increased her capital.
In 1991, Victor and Elena created a company called Inteko, its activities included the production of polymer products. The company was owned by her sister for 99%, and her brother Victor - for the remaining 1%. Interestingly, the production of plastics was deployed on the basis of the Moscow Oil Refining Plant, which was controlled by the capital's government. As a result of its extensive activities, Inteko has become the owner of one third of the plastic products market.
But the production of plastic chairs, basins and buckets accounted for only 10% of the group concern's turnover, which was recently valued at $525 million. Operations with commercial real estate, investments in shares of state factories and factories, construction brought the organization the remaining 90% of income. Inteko bought shares in Gazprom and Sberbank, Oskolcement and Atakaycement.
Elena Nikolaevna Baturina was actively involved in financial support, in particular, companies operating in the field of education and sports, culture and art. She has repeatedly acted as a sponsor of international golf tournaments, the largest equestrian competitions.
With an investment of $900 million annually, insurance against political turmoil in the form of three reliable pillars - land, debt and connections - Inteco has reached incredible proportions. Elena Baturina wisely used the services of friendly construction companies associated with Inteko when it was necessary to purchase something or implement an investment project.
Of particular interest to the owner of a successful company was the area associated with the provision of affordable housing. She helped Russian families in various cities of Russia with the purchase of apartments, and in 2006 Baturina received the position of deputy head of the interdepartmental group within the framework of the national program for the construction of affordable housing.
It was 2009, the company "Inteko" put an end to the construction of a multifunctional complex in Astana called "Moscow-Park". It includes a four-star hotel, business and shopping and entertainment centers, office space, a panoramic elevator, cafes and restaurants. Literally a few months later, in 2010, Elena Nikolaevna opens the New Peterhof complex in St. Petersburg - a chain of hotels.
Support for Russian artists
Since 2007, Elena Baturina has supported the tradition of our artists performing abroad. In 2008, with the participation and assistance of Baturina, concert performances of Russian dance groups took place in Austria, concerts of classical music and folk songs were organized, and everything was timed to coincide with Orthodox Christmas.
Benefactor, hotelier
For those who suffered from the fires, Elena Nikolaevna Baturina helped with the construction of a preschool educational institution in the Tula region. In 2011, she donated porcelain from the Imperial Factory from her personal collection to the Tsaritsyno Museum, and in the same year the legendary Inteco was sold. Elena developed active real estate activities around the world, in 2012 it became known about the opening of the Quisisana Palace hotel in Karlovy Vary, in 2013 the Morrison Hotel in Dublin began operation, and in 2016 the entrepreneur acquired several office buildings in Brooklyn, New York's prestigious area, next to the sports arena "Barclays Center".
A photo of Elena Baturina in April 2018 appeared in the media in connection with the sale of one of the purchased Austrian hotels and a golf club in the city of Kitzbühel, which for 11 years have not reached the planned profitable indicators. The amount of the transaction did not become a secret and amounted to forty-five million euros.
Over the course of all eleven years, the entrepreneur has invested more than 100 million euros in the hotel business, but this project did not turn out to be profitable, despite the active demand from customers. Well, there are spots in the sun.
Spouse, family
Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov - the former mayor of the capital - is crazy about his wife. Since 1991, they have been together, two daughters were born in marriage. For Luzhkov, this marriage was the second, and Yuri Mikhailovich is 27 years older than his wife. The children of Elena Baturina and the former owner of Moscow today are successful business women, like their mother. Daughter Elena was born in 1992, Olga - two years later. Before Luzhkov left the post of mayor, both girls were students of Moscow State University, Elena studied at the Faculty of World Politics, Olga was more attracted to the economy. Together with their mother in 2011, the girls moved to London, where Baturina Sr. developed her business, and her daughters continued their education at the college at the University.
Photos of Baturina Elena Nikolaevna with her daughters are not often seen on the World Wide Web, however, it is known that the heirs are very successful ladies. The eldest daughter Elena is currently implementing business projects in Slovakia. The company Alener, founded by her, develops a series of cosmetics and various perfumes. As for Olga, she is a bachelor from New York University and also has a master's degree in hotel business. In 2015, she opened the Herbarium Bar in Kitzbühel, Austria. This is an institution where, in addition to alcoholic drinks, herbal drinks are offered.
The personal life of Elena Baturina in 2016 acquired a new meaning and a new breath - Yuri Mikhailovich does not get tired of making fantastic gifts to his wife. The couple had an anniversary - a quarter of a century of living together, and they celebrated this event with a wedding in the church. Truly, such a relationship, carried through for many years and not poisoned by huge money and power, should be sealed before the Lord.
Hobby
Elena Baturina advocates an active lifestyle. She is very fond of equestrian sports, among her hobbies are golf, tennis, skiing. The billionaire has collections of unique photographs and works of art (including the work of the British Francis Bacon, the legendary artist), and Elena is also partial to vintage cars, of which she owns about fifty.
What does Baturina do today
Today, an interesting biography of Elena Baturina does not cease to be replenished with new achievements in the field of development, but the woman continues to engage in help and support with pleasure. The efforts of a business woman are concentrated in the field of hotel business and construction. Love for animals has only intensified over time - together with her husband, Elena manages the Weedern concern, horses of various breeds are bred here. Baturina established a number of charitable organizations called "Noosphere", which provide assistance on a gratuitous basis, in particular, in matters of education, as well as fostering tolerance and tolerance towards people of a different faith. Finally, Elena promotes young talents, contributing to the realization of worthwhile ideas of young people. Her activities have always been connected with helping people, and no one, even the most bilious envious people, will dare to say that Luzhkov's wife Elena Baturina is trying to fill her pockets stronger, forgetting about good deeds.
Baturina Elena Nikolaevna is one of the richest and most influential women on the planet, a billionaire and former owner of the empire of the metropolitan business environment Inteko, who is its co-founder today, as well as the wife of the ex-mayor of the capital. Today she owns a chain hotel business of international scale.
Childhood and youth
A bright and strong personality, a woman with an iron character, a sharp mind and a strong will, Elena Baturina is far from the heiress of wealthy parents. Her success story is based on leadership qualities, hard work and talent as an entrepreneur. She comes from an ordinary Moscow family, where mom and dad were employees of the Fraser plant. My father is a workshop foreman, and my mother worked all her life at the plant's machine tool.
VedomostiThe future business woman was born during the celebration of International Women's Day, her date of birth is March 8, 1963. Elena Baturina does not indicate her nationality anywhere. Her biography is closely connected with her family, she attracts relatives to the business, assuring that she trusts them unlimitedly.
Elena was a sickly child, classmates recalled that in childhood she had problems with her lungs, hence the hatred of smoking and her love for sports were already conscious at the time - she plays tennis and horseback riding, manages a rifle, is fond of skiing.
Elena is the second child in the family, her older brother is an entrepreneur. They both graduated from the same school, and in terms of higher education, Elena did not deviate from her brother's path - she was enrolled in the evening department of the Institute of Management named after. Simultaneously with her studies in 1980, Elena went to work at the factory where her parents worked.
Career and business
The start of a businesswoman's career began in her youth, from the position of a design engineer. By the time Elena decided to change her job, in 1982, she was already working as a senior design engineer in the department of the chief technologist. When Elena became a researcher at the Institute for Economic Problems of Integrated Development of Moscow, she was able to transform her scientific activity into chairing the Union of United Cooperatives, and then became a leading specialist there.
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Entrepreneur Elena Baturina
In the Austrian capital of Vienna, Elena Baturina has a real estate company called Sapho GmbH, where the couple also acquired another mansion in the prestigious Döbling district. Elena Baturina retained Russian citizenship, which gives her the right to retire.
In 2016, Baturina became the owner of a number of office buildings in Brooklyn (New York). Together with her husband, they run a concern for breeding thoroughbred horses, and also participate in charity. Since 2012, under the leadership of Baturina, the BE OPEN charity foundation has been operating. This is a youth project that allows young talents to realize their ideas and talents in architecture, fine arts, literature, science and design. The fund is organized in the UK.
Personal life
Before marriage, the personal life of a billionaire woman is unknown. In 1991, Yuri Luzhkov became her husband. For the sake of Elena, he left a family in which he had two sons growing up.
Elena Baturina and Yuri Luzhkov
The couple have been married for more than 25 years and in 2016 they performed the sacrament of the wedding, as evidenced by numerous photos. It is noteworthy that Elena honors family values above all and has repeatedly said that family and children are her most precious wealth. In 2010, there were rumors in the media that Elena was divorcing Luzhkov, but this information turned out to be false.
On December 10, 2-19, Yuri Luzhkov died at the age of 84 in a Munich clinic. According to journalists, the ex-politician went to Germany for a heart operation. Elena and Yuri have two adult daughters, the first Elena was born in 1992, and a couple of years later, the youngest daughter Olga was born. Both girls studied at Moscow State University, but after the resignation of their father, they moved with their parents to Britain. They continued to receive their education already in London, on the basis of the University College.
The younger Olga continued her studies at the University of New York, where she received a bachelor's degree, and later a master's degree in hotel business. The first project of the girl was the opening of the Herbarium bar near the mother's hotel complex, the five-star Grand Tirolia hotel in the mountains of Austria, in Kitzbühel. The place is interesting because, in addition to the standard menu and drinks, herbal infusions and cocktails were served here.
Elena, the eldest daughter of Luzhkov and Baturina, lives and works in Slovakia, where she organized her own company for the production of cosmetics and perfumery Alener. In 2018, Elena Luzhkova became a citizen of Cyprus, where her mother began the construction of a residential complex.
Yuri Luzhkov and Elena Baturina / Evgeny Nachitov, Flickr
Baturina calls her favorite activities equestrian variety, skiing, as well as collecting rare cars. Elena Baturina has her own plane, which she considers her best purchase. Owning enterprises in different parts of the world, a business woman manages to control all of them personally. Elena Baturina owns a collection of exclusive porcelain. In 2011, the entrepreneur donated part of the exhibits to the Tsaritsino Museum-Reserve.
Unfortunately, after a conflict over finances in 2007, Elena stopped communicating with her brother Victor, and relations between relatives were broken. The brother filed a lawsuit against his sister for illegal dismissal from the post of vice president and appropriation of a stake in Inteko owned by Baturin. And in 2011, Elena sold the company. The new owners were Mikail Shishkhanov, who bought out 95% of the securities, and Sberbank Investments.
Elena Baturina now
In April 2018, Elena Baturina made a deal to sell the Grand Tirolia hotel complex, which became a loss-making enterprise for her. The transaction price was € 45 million. The new owner is an Austrian entrepreneur who will involve an international hotel operator in the rebranding of the hotel.