Vladimir Mikhailovich Lopukhin
Vladimir Mikhailovich Lopuchin (Russian: Влади́мир Миха́йлович Лопухи́н; born May 23, 1952 in Moscow , USSR ; † May 26, 2020 in Moscow) was a Russian economist and politician and from 1991 to 1992 Minister of Fuel and Energy of the Russian Federation .
biography
Lopukhin was the son of Mikhail Lopukhin, a high-ranking KGB officer who was expelled from the United States for espionage. One of the ancestors is said to have been Yevdokia Lopuchina , the first wife of Tsar Peter the Great in the 18th century .
He graduated from the Faculty of Economics of Lomonosov University in Moscow in 1975 . He then worked at the Academy of Sciences of the USSR at the Institute for World Economy and International Relations (1975–1977), at the All-Russian Research Institute for Systems Research (1977–1983) and at the Institute for Economic Forecasting (1983–1991).
When the USSR dissolved at the end of 1991 , he assumed an important position at the side of Boris Yeltsin . From November 1991 to June 1992 he was Yeltsin's Minister for Fuel and Energy of the Russian Federation, succeeding Anatoly Dyakov. Viktor Chernomyrdin succeeded him in office.
Lopukhin assumed responsibility for the large area of the oil and gas sector, an important part of Russia's economy. He was instrumental in initiating the establishment of private oil companies instead of state-owned companies and thus the emergence of large private Russian oil companies, including Lukoil . The monopolized maintenance of the Russian natural gas industry by the state-controlled company Gazprom , which is 50.002 percent owned by the Russian Federation, was and remained significant .
In autumn 1992 he was appointed advisor to the Russian Prime Minister Yegor Gaidar , who held this post until 1994.
From 1992 to 1996 he was also a senior advisor at Lazar Bank. Since 1996 he has been the founder and president of IK Wangward . At the same time he was a member of the Board of Directors of RTM-Group AG in 2007/08. He was also one of the founders of a number of companies in Russia.
Lopuchin died in 2020 as a result of a COVID-19 disease.
swell
- Andrew Higgins: Vladimir Lopukhin, who held a key position in the fall of the USSR, dies at the age of 68 . In: The New York Times, June 4, 2020.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andrew Higgins, Vladimir Lopukhin, Who Held Key Post When USSR Fell, Dies at 68 , New York Times, June 4, 2020.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Lopukhin, Vladimir Mikhailovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lopukhin, Vladimir; Лопухин, Владимир Михайлович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian politician and minister |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 23, 1952 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Moscow |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 26, 2020 |
| Place of death | Moscow |