Boris Grigoryevich Fyodorov

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Boris Grigoryevich Fyodorov (September 2008)

Boris Grigorjewitsch Fjodorow ( Russian Борис Григорьевич Фёдоров ; born February 13, 1958 in Moscow ; † November 20, 2008 in London ) was a Russian economist , finance minister, politician ( CPSU ) and most recently an entrepreneur.

Career

Fyodorov studied economics at the Moscow Financial Institute and received a doctorate in economics. He has published over 200 scientific papers.

In 1990 he was Minister of Finance of the Russian SFSR . After his resignation, he worked for the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development from 1991 to 1992 . In 1992 he became a director at the World Bank . From 1993 to 1994 he was again Russian Finance Minister, from 1994 to 1998 a member of the Russian Duma . In 1998 he headed the Russian tax authorities for a few months and was Deputy Prime Minister.

In 1994 he founded United Financial Group UFG , an investment bank based in London; he sold it to Deutsche Bank in 2005 and has been a partner in the new UFG Private Equity since 2006. UFG is one of the largest direct investors in Russia. After his death, Mikhail Mishustin , who later became Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, became President of the UFG for two years .

He died at the age of 50 in London, receiving treatment for a stroke he suffered a few weeks earlier. His grave is in the Troyekurovo cemetery in Moscow. According to an obituary in the news magazine DER SPIEGEL , a portrait of the Tsarist economic reformer Pyotr Stolypin - who was murdered at the age of 48 - hung over the desk of his Moscow investment fund office for many years .

Fyodorov was a member of several supervisory boards, including Gazprom , Sberbank and Ingosstrach , one of the largest insurance companies in Russia. He was the author of numerous books, including the English-Russian Explanatory Dictionary of Currency Terms (1992). In 2004 he founded the series “The Historical Library of BG Fedorov”, in which he published over 10 books.

He was married with three children and a granddaughter.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Biography - Boris Fyodorov. In: Who's Who . Retrieved January 16, 2020 .
  2. ^ Deutsche Bank is involved in Russia , handelsblatt.de of September 10, 2008
  3. ↑ Died Boris Fyodorow , DER SPIEGEL 48/2008 (accessed on January 16, 2020)


personal data
SURNAME Fyodorov, Boris Grigoryevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Фёдоров, Борис Григорьевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian economist and politician
DATE OF BIRTH February 13, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH November 20, 2008
Place of death London