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Lev Iossifowitsch Weinberg ( Russian Лев Иосифович Вайнберг , also listed as Lev Weinberg ; born May 6, 1944 in Kuibyshev , USSR, † February 22, 2010 in Moscow ) was a Russian scientist and an official of several organizations.

overview

He was vice president of the Russian Federation of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs; Scientist and lecturer at the Moscow State Aviation Institute ; Russian managing director of the first joint venture with foreign capital in the Soviet Union; Chairman of the Board of the Association of Joint Ventures of the Russian Federation and various other international associations and organizations; Founder and President of the International Consortium “Solev”.

biography

His father Iossif was a chief technologist in an armaments factory, his mother Ewgenia was a history teacher. It was not until 1947 that the Weinbergs family returned to Moscow from the evacuation. Lew began his professional life as a seaman on a steamer, he worked as a locksmith and plumber and carried out other activities in an armaments factory. In 1963 he began his studies at the Faculty of Aircraft Engines of the Moscow State Aviation Institute (MAI). In order to earn money, he also taught mathematics in the 10th grade of a school and also worked at the Department of Mathematics at the MAI. After graduating from college in 1967, Lew Weinberg stayed at the same institute and worked as a mechanical engineer. At that time he dealt with plasma diagnostics and later with computer methods for the automation of experiments. For this development work, Weinberg was awarded the State Prize of the Council of Ministers of the USSR in 1988.

During the time of his scientific employment in the MAI, Lev studied parallel at the mechanical-mathematical faculty of Moscow's Lomonossow University (MGU), which he left in 1977 as a mathematician. Weinberg studied decision theory , modeling theory and the psychology of scientific work at MGU . These departments formed the basis of his theoretical dissertation and shaped his future practical work. After completing his doctorate, Weinberg worked at the MAI computer center until 1987. In 1987 the Ministry for Foreign Economic Relations commissioned Weinberg to set up a joint venture. He created the Soviet-French-Italian company Interquadro (1987–1990 - managing director), the first community computer company in the USSR, which dealt with the development, evaluation and sale of hardware and software, as well as the implementation of large IT projects. For these purposes, the JV Interquadro managed to bring together over a hundred leading mathematicians in the country.

At the same time at Inter Quadro a training center for children and adults founded by citizens of the Soviet Union to mediate the first computer skills. Interquadro employees were the first to write national textbooks for education in computer science in the USSR. At that time there were a total of 21 Interquadro branches in various regions of the USSR, which organized the regional work. Together with Mikhail Komissar, Lew Weinberg founded the Interfax company at Interquadro . Currently (2012) is one of the largest information agencies in Russia today. In the first two years alone, Interquadro's sales rose to $ 60 million.

JV Interquadro was a joint venture between the government institutions of the USSR (Ministry of Higher and Middle School Education and MAI) and foreign partner companies. After a legal basis for private companies was established in 1990 in what was then the USSR, Weinberg continued his successful career as a private businessman. Since 1990 he has founded around 20 private companies as sole shareholder and co-owner or managing director, which later merged into the international group Solev .

Functions

• 1968–1987 - Scientific and lecturer work at MAI (plasma diagnostics, computer experimentation)
• 1987–1990 - General Director of the USSR's first (Soviet-French-Italian) joint venture Interquadro
• 1990–1994 - consultant for IBM (USA) in Russia
• Since 1990 owner and president of IC Solev
• 1992–1999 member and chairman of the board of the Russian Bank for Reconstruction and Development (then agent of the World Bank), one of the founders and then for almost six years a member of the board of directors of Inkombank and president of the board of directors of Technobank and two other Russian banks.
• 1991–1993 - Vice-President of the International Fund for Promotion of Privatization and Foreign Investments
• Since 1992 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Zentrinvest joint stock company (reconstruction of the center of Moscow)
• Since 1993 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Rosvtordragmet corporation (processing of precious metal scrap)
• Since 1996 - President of the Gold and Precious Metals Division of the Moscow Stock Exchange
• Board member of the Sirena-3 International Technological Corporation
• Vice President of the joint stock company Kosmoflot

Public activity

• In 1998 Lev Weinberg organized the first Russian entrepreneurial structure - the Association of Joint Enterprises, International Associations and Organizations and became its President; since 1998 - president of the board of directors of this association
• 1990–1991 - Vice President of the Scientific and Technical Association of the USSR, which in 1992 was transformed into the Russian Union of Industrialists and Enterprises
• 1991 - Member of the State Council of the USSR for Economic Reform
• 1991 - Deputy President of the Council of Entrepreneurs under the President of the USSR
• 1991 Lew Weinberg in the fight against the State Committee for the State of Emergency during the attempted August coup in Moscow actively participated
• Since 1991 - Vice President of the Russian Association of Industrialists and Enterprises
• 1992 - Member of the Council of Companies under the President of the Russian Federation
• Since 1992 - Presidential Member of the Foreign and Defense Policy Council, Member of the Foreign Economic Policy Council at the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations of Russia, Member of the Entrepreneurial Council at the Moscow City Council, Deputy President of the Mind Ecofund at the Ministry of Ecology and participant of many other public associations and clubs ( VIP Club , Vienna Council , etc.)
• Since 1993 - member of the Coordination Council of the Round Table of Russian Enterprises
• Since 1993 - 2003 - active member of the tripartite commission for social partnership (government - trade unions - entrepreneurs)
• Since 1993 - member of editorial boards of many newspapers and magazines
• Since 2005 - Member of the Board of Trustees of the Moscow Central Business Club Sobranie (MZGC Sobranie )

Awards

• 1988 - Prize of the Council of Ministers of the USSR
• 1997 - Medal for the 850th anniversary of Moscow
• 1998 - Order of Friendship

Web links

• Short biography on the occasion of his death (Russian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Helmut Steiner: Russia, where to ?: Russia from the perspective of Russian sociologists. Verlag Trafo, 1999, ISBN 3896262157, page 224
2. ^ The Economist , Volume 335, Issues 7908-7912, Economist Newspaper Limited, 1995, page 408
3. ↑ interfax.com