Yuri Valentinovich Kovalchuk

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Yuri Walentinowitsch Kowaltschuk ( Russian Юрий Валентинович Ковальчук ; born July 25, 1951 in Leningrad , USSR ) is a Russian physicist , financial businessman, media mogul and billionaire. From 2005 to 2012 he was chairman of the board of directors of Saint Petersburg- based Rossija bank and has been chairman of the bank's shareholders' council since June 2012.

Life

Yuri Kovalchuk was born in 1951 as the son of the historian Valentin Kovalchuk in what was then Leningrad. He studied physics at the Leningrad State University until his graduation in 1974. From 1977 he worked as a scientist at the Joffe Physics-Technical Institute in Leningrad. In 1985, after successfully defending his dissertation, he was awarded the degree of Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences. From 1988 to 1991 he then held the position of deputy director of the Physikalisch-Technische Institut Joffe. During the upheaval at the beginning of the 1990s, Kovalchuk was involved in various projects in Saint Petersburg, as the city has been called again since 1991, and also worked on behalf of Anatoly Sobchak , the mayor at the time. Kovalchuk's friendship with Vladimir Putin also stems from this period . On November 11, 1996, he and seven other people founded the dacha community "See" (Озеро) in the village of Solowjewka on the east bank of a lake on the Karelian Isthmus north of Saint Petersburg. The other founding members of this community today are such prominent figures as Vladimir Smirnov , Nikolai Shamalov , Vladimir Yakunin , Viktor Myachin , Andrei Fursenko , his brother Sergei Fursenko and, last but not least, Vladimir Putin himself.

In 2000, Kovalchuk was one of the founders of the "Center for Strategic Research 'Northwest'" foundation and has held a leading position there ever since.

In December 2000, Kovalchuk was awarded the Order of Friendship .

From 2005 to 2012 Yuri Kovalchuk was chairman of the board of directors of Bank Rossija , of which he is the largest single shareholder with over 37% shares, ahead of Nikolai Shamalov with 9.6 percent. Yuri Kovalchuk has been Chairman of the Bank's Shareholders' Council since 2012. Bank Rossija has owned the Sogaz insurance group since 2004 , which in turn has owned more than 75% of the shares in the closed joint stock company "Lider" (Russian: ЗАО «Лидер», Д. У. / English: CJSC Leader, DU) since 2006 . "Lider" manages more than 80 percent of the shares in the GAZFOND Group, the main shareholder of Gazprombank , in trust . As a result, Bank Rossija indirectly controls both Gazprombank and the Gazprom Media group. These entanglements determine the great influence of Kovalchuk as the main shareholder of Bank Rossija. The Gazprom Media Group includes the government-affiliated newspaper Izvestia , the television stations NTW and TNT and the radio station Echo Moskwy (66 percent share). The National Media Group (NMG), founded at the beginning of 2008, also belongs to the Rossija Group, and Alina Kabaeva has been the Chairman of the Board of Directors since September 2014 , after this function had previously been exercised by his nephew Kirill Kovalchuk, who then took over the chairmanship of management. The NMG includes the private television broadcaster Ren-TV, which used to be critical of the government (stake of 68 percent), the broadcaster " Petersburg-Fünfter Kanal " and a 25% minority stake in Erste Kanal .

Miscellaneous

In the May 2008 issue of Russian Forbes magazine , Kovalchuk appeared for the first time in the list of the 100 richest people in Russia, his fortune is estimated at $ 1.9 billion. Yuri Kovalchuk has been Honorary Consul of the Kingdom of Thailand in Saint Petersburg since 1996 .

Kovalchuk has been on the US Treasury Department's sanctions list since March 2014 . In July 2014, the EU banned the two main shareholders of the Rossija Bank, Yuri Kovalchuk and Nikolai Shamalov , with entry bans and account blocks.

Familiar

Yuri Kovalchuk is married. His son Boris (born 1978) was in a leading position on the part of the government from 2006 to 2008 and was responsible for the implementation of the national projects . The physicist Mikhail Kovalchuk is Yuri Kovalchuk's older brother. He has been the director of the Kurchatov Institute since 2005 . His son Kirill Kowaltschuk (born 1968) has been the chairman of the management of the national media group NMG since September 2014 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ковальчук Юрий Валентинович , csr-nw.ru (Russian)
  2. ↑ Ковальчук Юрий ( Memento of the original from May 19, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Russian)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rb.ru
  3. ↑ Ковальчук Юрий Валентинович (Russian)
  4. ↑ How the 1980s Explains Vladimir Putin , theatlantic.com, February 14, 2013
  5. ↑ Соловьевка , kray32.ru, (Russian)
  6. ↑ a b 15 лет самому мутному «Озеру» в мире! , novayagazeta.ru, November 11, 2011 (Russian)
  7. ↑ a b Sanctions against Russian banks: Attack on Putin's financial center , spiegel.de, March 21, 2014
  8. ↑ a b Center for Strategic Research “North-West” ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / eng.csr-nw.ru
  9. ↑ УКАЗ Президента РФ от 12/31/2000 N 2115 "О НАГРАЖДЕНИИ ГОСУДАРСТВЕННЫМИ НАГРАДАМИ РОССИЙСКОЙ ФЕДЕРАЦИИ". Ukas of the President of the Russian Federation dated December 31, 2000 N 2115 “On receiving the state awards of the Russian Federation”. (No longer available online.) Graph.document.kremlin.ru, December 31, 2000, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; Retrieved October 28, 2016 (Russian).
  10. ↑ Акционеры - shareholders of the bank , abr.ru
  11. ↑ Bank's Shareholders , gazprombank.ru
  12. ↑ Кабаева ушла к Ковальчукам , gazeta.ru, September 15, 2014
  13. ↑ a b Management , nm-g.ru
  14. ↑ a b Kremlin-linked tycoon eyes Russia media firm-report reuters.com, April 23, 2008
  15. ↑ Treasury Sanctions Russian Officials, Members Of The Russian Leadership's Inner Circle, And An Entity For Involvement In The Situation In Ukraine , treasury.gov, March 20, 2014
  16. ↑ EU imposes sanctions on Putin's confidants rp-online.de, July 30, 2014

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personal data
SURNAME Kovalchuk, Yuri Valentinovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ковальчук, Юрий Валентинович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian physicist, financial businessman, media mogul and billionaire
DATE OF BIRTH July 25, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Leningrad , USSR