What is the Luzhkov family doing now. "Thirty meters, but in Soho." Tatler spoke about the modest life of Luzhkov's daughter and Baturina How many children Luzhkov and Baturina have
Luzhkov Yuri Mikhailovich - bright political figure Russian Federation, who ruled Moscow for 18 years, doctor of chemical sciences, writer, with recently farmer.
Yuri Mikhailovich was born in Moscow (date of birth - September 21, 1936), but early childhood, as well as seven school years he spent in Konotop - in the house of his grandmother.
By the time of his birth, the situation in the family was disastrous. Trying to survive, the parents were forced to work hard: the father worked at the capital's oil depot, the mother got a job as a laborer at the plant. Therefore, it was decided to entrust the child to the paternal grandmother.
In 1953, Yuri Luzhkov, a graduate of a seven-year comprehensive school, returned to his parents in Moscow, where he completed his studies at the 529th school (current school No. 1259) and entered the Institute. Gubkin. Studying was not easy, especially since at the same time I had to earn a living. During the institute, the future doctor of chemical sciences managed to work as a janitor and loader at the railway station.
At the same time, his outstanding organizational skills showed up - on the student's account, holding public events, continuous Komsomol work. On the initial stage working biography on the Komsomol line, Luzhkov ends up in Kazakhstan - he works as part of a student detachment, mastering the virgin lands.
Career and politics
Immediately after receiving a diploma, Yury Mikhailovich Luzhkov becomes a junior researcher Research Institute of Plastics, where he is promoted to the head of the group and the deputy head of the laboratory. Later career evolved on the rise.
In 1964, Luzhkov assumed the position of head of the department for improving the management of the State Committee for Chemistry, seven years later he became the head of the automated control system of the Ministry of Chemistry. industry of the USSR, and then director of the department "Khimavtomatika" OKBA. A promotion to the position of director of NPO Khimavtomatika soon followed.
From the mid-80s, Luzhkov was again transferred to serve in the Ministry, this time to a senior position in the department of the Ministry of Chemical Industry. A year later, Yuri Mikhailovich settled in the Moscow City Executive Committee, where he first became deputy head, and then received the position of acting chairman. In 1991, Luzhkov became the prime minister of the Moscow government, essentially performing the function of the mayor.
In addition to work, all these years, Yuri Mikhailovich pays attention social activities. In 1968 he joined the ranks of the CPSU, in 1975 he became a deputy of the Babushkinsky district, and from 1987 to 1990 he served as a deputy of the Supreme Council.
The ex-mayor of Moscow still pays attention to political events in Russia and the world, he expresses his thoughts on Twitter. Quotes of the former mayor of the capital are popular in social network, but Luzhkov does not have an official website.
Awards
- Luzhkov's activities in many positions were awarded honorary awards:
- medal "Defender of Freedom of Russia" for defending the White House;
- the Order of Honor for the restoration of architectural monuments of the capital;
- Order "For Military Merit" - for work for the benefit of the defense capability of Russia;
- order to them. - for invaluable services to the Chechen Republic;
- Its archives contain many departmental and public awards, as well as foreign insignia: from Armenia and Belarus, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia, Germany and Lebanon.
By the way, the first hotel of Baturina was the Grand Tirolia Hotel, built in 2009 in the Austrian Kitzbühel and worth about 40 million euros. It is in Kitzbühel that the headquarters of Elena Nikolaevna is located. In total, by the end of 2015, she intends to own 14 hotels on the continent.
The Grand Tirolia Hotel hosts the traditional Laureus Awards once every 12 months. She is often referred to as the "Oscars" of international sports journalism.
"Emigrant" Luzhkov
Yuri Mikhailovich himself, meeting with journalists, regularly complains that some kind of reclusive emigrant has been made out of him: they say, he does not appear either in Moscow or even in Russia. How he supports himself and his family is unknown. In fact, the recent head of the capital lives, works and, in principle, does not deal with any political activities in three at once - in England, where his daughters study, in Austria, where the Luzhkov-Baturina family has the main one, and in Russia. And not only in Moscow, but also in Kaliningrad region.There, the former mayor and his wife, who once headed the country's equestrian federation, created a real livestock complex on the basis of a German stud farm that collapsed in the 90s and breed sports horses. And they also grow Romanov sheep, famous for their selective wool. In the Great Patriotic War, very warm and durable soldier's short fur coats were sewn from this wool.
That is, the wife of Yuri Mikhailovich only invests in her husband's still far from profitable project. But Luzhkov himself not only organizes and controls a very complex agricultural process on five thousand hectares and with the participation of a hundred people, but also takes an active part in it - at the helm of a German combine. And he is very proud to have been included as a foreign member in the Union of English Sheep Breeders.
Daughters: from Moscow State University to UCL
In Russia, Elena and Olga Luzhkov studied at the most prestigious gymnasiums and language schools in the capital. So, after the disgrace of their father, they clearly did not have problems with a quick transfer from Moscow State University to UCL, University College London, and later with admission to the university.Elena Luzhkova, in parallel with her studies, began and own business. In the Slovak capital of Bratislava, she created a company called Alener, which deals with perfumes and cosmetics.
However, according to Luzhkov Sr., he does not intend to control the life and study of his daughters. As well as understanding the sad fact that his wife is often forced to visit and even live in London, and not next to it.
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 USA in mall Elena suddenly shouted at Luzhkov to the whole hall so that we, the whole delegation, burned out of 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 got mad and gave young man a few slaps. 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 to my factory german equipment, 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. AT fresh issue described in detail how Baturina received land for construction without a tender and how through "Mosbusinessbank" and "Bank of Moscow" were transferred budget resources to finance her ventures. 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 Hecht, the operation was supervised by former boss 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 supposedly locked him up for 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 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 successful operation after a 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.
In 1989, a former factory worker, junior researcher Elena Baturina began a long and difficult journey to the top of the business. In 1991, the Inteko company appeared, which is engaged in the production of household items made of plastic. In 2002, the main activity is supplemented by the construction of buildings on the basis of house-building plant No. 3, which is gradually supplemented by cement plants and its own bank. Since 2011, the entrepreneur has been moving her business abroad, where she continues her development activities. In 2016, she was noted in Forbes as the richest woman in Russia with a fortune of $ 1.1 billion.
It is believed that big business is a tough sphere. competition and harsh natural selection, lot of men. Sometimes ladies manifest themselves in it no worse than the strong half of humanity.
The history of the creation of the business of Elena Baturina - a prime example how a woman, a mother of two daughters, a caring wife, managed to take on the heavy burden of business, make it profitable and achieve unconditional success.
Elena Nikolaevna Baturina- businesswoman, founder of the Inteko corporation, the only female billionaire in Russia, whose fortune, according to Forbes versions, in 2016 was estimated at $ 1.1 billion, the wife of the former mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov. Her story is striking in that she managed to achieve success in completely “non-female” industries - industrial production and construction.
“It's good that I'm a woman. A woman will always find something to do.
The results of Baturina's work on stock market: it has always effectively formed and rebuilt its investment portfolio, supplementing it with the assets of "blue chips" - Sberbank of Russia, Gazprom, etc.
A separate page in the biography of Elena Baturina is the numerous lawsuits she won (the total amount of compensation is estimated at 1-3 million rubles), mainly related to challenging the false information disseminated by the media.
“It seems to me that the poor, who cannot earn money, steal and take. I don't consider myself one of those."
Being the daughter of ordinary workers, forced to go to the factory immediately after graduation, Elena Baturina managed to overcome the abyss and top the list of the richest women in Russia.
In 1989, she began her business journey as part of a cooperative created together with her brother Victor. Two years later, her main brainchild appeared - the Inteko company, which became not only a key milestone in Baturina's business, but also a part of the history of Russia. After all, it was she who created a number of large construction projects in Moscow: the Shuvalovsky and Grand Park residential quarters, the Volzhsky microdistrict, the Fusion complex and the educational building of Moscow State University.
The personality of Elena Baturina is surrounded by numerous scandalous rumors. But one thing is for sure: this woman has succeeded in business, and she continues to implement successful projects.
“I know that if I allowed myself to do any illegal actions during more than 20 years of doing business, I would have bitten myself. And I am glad that my conscience is clear, as this allows me to look everyone in the eye quite openly today.
In 2010, for the first time, the entrepreneur was included in the Forbes magazine rating with a fortune of $ 2.9 billion, and in 2011 she took 77th place in the list of successful Russian businessmen.
In 2012, Elena completely ceases her business activities in Russia and develops a development business in Europe. In 2013, she falls into the 12th line of the most wealthy people Great Britain, where she moved in order to be close to her daughters.
In 2017, her net worth, according to Forbes, was $1 billion, down $100 million from the previous year. This allowed her to take the 90th line of the authoritative rating.
Until now, she continues to be richest woman Russia. Throughout the period entrepreneurial activity Baturina is a well-known philanthropist and philanthropist who donated about $300 million to charitable purposes. In 2012, she created charitable foundation"BE OPEN".
How did it happen that a girl from a working-class family became the creator of the Inteko business empire? How did she manage to move from the production of plastic basins and glasses to the creation of large-scale construction projects, to maintain her fortune and reputation even after leaving Russia? The secrets of the success of the Russian businesswoman are in the history of the creation of her life's work.
Girl from a family of workers
On the eve of the International women's day- On March 8, 1963, a daughter, Elena, was born in a family of workers at the Moscow Fraser plant. She became the second child and the long-awaited girl. In childhood, the baby was distinguished by poor health. None of the relatives could have imagined that the fragile Lenochka would turn out to be a strict, assertive, purposeful and in some places extremely tough entrepreneur.
The family did not live well, because Elena had to enter the factory at the age of 17. After working the day shift, the girl hurried to evening classes at the institute. This challenging schedule laid the foundations for a strong character.
After graduation, she was invited to work at a research institute. In an effort to build a career, Baturina agreed.
Reference: Elena's activities at the Institute economic problems Moscow was successful: she quickly became a researcher, later - head of the secretariat. Later, she was called to the commission of the Moscow City Executive Committee for the position of chief specialist, where she first met her future husband, Yuri Luzhkov.
Source: Forbes
However, the same work public institutions seemed to Elena Baturina boring and out of touch with reality. There was only one solution - to go into business.
The first steps and the birth of Inteko
In 1989, a cooperative for the sale and installation of software in the name of Elena Baturina. The co-founder was her older brother Victor. However, the lack of sufficient start-up capital and knowledge of how to start a business did not allow the business to gain momentum.
But Elena was not going to give up. In 1991, she created Inteko LLP, which became known as a manufacturer of plastic products - dishes, household items, chairs, etc. The decision turned out to be successful, since this was a relatively new field of activity for Russia.
“Russia is not Europe, where all niches have long been occupied. 18 years ago, in our nascent market, there was practically an empty field, it was only necessary to choose the right direction in which to move. We decided to go into production."
In 1994, the company, using mainly borrowed capital (according to rough estimates - 6 million rubles), acquired a plastics processing plant. Thanks to the victory in 1998 in a tender for the supply of 80,000 plastic seats for the Luzhniki stadium, the company managed to repay the loan.
Elena Baturina's company managed not only to survive the 1998 default, but even to reorganize into a CJSC and gain a significant foothold in the Russian market. In the early 2000s, it accounted for:
- 1/4 of the output of all plastic products in the country;
- 15-20% of the plastics market.
Moreover, since 1999, Inteko has begun to follow a diversification strategy: along with plastic products, it is moving to the production of modern finishing materials (for panel and monolithic construction), practicing architectural design and real estate business.
Development of the construction industry
Elena Baturina did not stop there. Until the early 2000s, she kept an eye on the construction industry. However, the lack of impressive free capital and concerns about high risks interfered.
A chance helped her to infiltrate the industry. In 2001, the lawyer of the widow of the director of the Moscow House-Building Plant No. 3 came to the entrepreneur. Frightened by the threats of competitors, the woman offered Inteko to buy a block of shares from her (52%). Elena realized that this was a chance, and agreed to the deal.
Between 2002 and 2005 the new enterprise erected on average up to 500 thousand square meters of housing per year.
Interesting fact: During the heyday of the construction business, Baturina's daughters, Elena (2002) and Olga (2004), are born.
Baturina realized that the further expansion and diversification of Inteko could bring her serious results. And, without neglecting the possibility of using borrowed capital, she continued her journey in the ocean of business.
“To succeed, a woman needs to be head and shoulders above her partners and competitors”
In subsequent years, the Inteko group of companies is continually replenished with new members:
- 2002 - spin-off of the construction company Strategi LLC, which specializes in the construction of monolithic buildings, as part of Inteko;
- 2003 - acquisition of two cement plants;
- 2004 - purchase of shares in four enterprises for the production of building materials;
- 2005 - purchase of assets of the Russian Land Bank (RZB), mainly for the purpose of securing financial transactions for the core business.
The active growth of Baturina's business allowed her to engage in the construction of elite buildings and standard buildings. The design bureau, which functioned as part of Inteko from the first years of its activity, created sketches of apartments with an improved layout and worked out the design of facades in detail.
The economies of scale and a balanced approach to business are the main criteria for Baturina's victories in public and private tenders.
There is an opinion that many orders went to her thanks to high position her spouse. However, it is worth paying attention to the fact that all the tasks assigned to Inteko were carried out with high quality and on time. Here we were already talking about the personal qualities of an entrepreneur, and not about an influential husband.
“It's all about the genes - a person is either a natural leader or not. I have always been a leader"
In 2005, Elena Baturina decides to concentrate her efforts on the construction of monolithic housing and commercial real estate: this direction brought Inteko the most profit. As a result, she sells DMK No. 3 and that's it. cement plants and most The proceeds are invested in the core business.
At the same time, the original direction of Inteko's functioning was not forgotten: the corporation provided most of the bistros in Moscow and the Moscow region with plastic utensils.
She used the remaining amount to purchase securities of Russia's largest corporations (mainly shares of Sberbank and Gazprom). This step was regarded by many analysts as very far-sighted: it was he who helped Inteko to stay afloat in 2008-2009, when the entrepreneur sold part of high-yield shares and covered burning bank loans.
“I don’t think that I have made a dizzying career, because all my life I dreamed of being an analyst. Someone to sit gray cardinal and write analytical materials.
Elena Baturina and her daughter arrived at the clinic, in the intensive care unit of which doctors are fighting for the life of the former mayor of the capital, Yuri Luzhkov. A council was convened to determine the methods of treatment for the ex-mayor.
The best doctors of one of the capital's clinics hold advice on the state of health of Yuri Luzhkov. Specialists were convened for a consultation as soon as the former mayor was taken to the hospital.
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20 minutes later, Luzhkov's wife Elena Baturina and their common daughter arrived at the clinic. They are waiting for the decision of doctors who are trying to do everything possible to stabilize the condition of Yuri Mikhailovich, reports Life.ru.
Recall that the hospitalization of Luzhkov became known on the afternoon of December 23. It was reported that the former mayor was taken to the hospital in serious condition.
According to preliminary data, the former mayor of Moscow lost consciousness when he was in the library of Moscow State University. He took a powerful drug, after which he suddenly lost consciousness.
Doctors suspect that Luzhkov's blood pressure dropped sharply. It is possible that this was caused by extensive internal hemorrhage. Sources in the medical community reported that the ex-mayor had experienced clinical death.
As the site wrote, Luzhkov's hospitalization was caught on video. The published footage shows him being wheeled into the hospital building.