Leonid Fedun, owner of FC Spartak and Vice President of OAO LUKOIL

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Fedun Leonid Arnoldovich is a famous Russian businessman. Owner of FC Spartak and vice president of OAO LUKOIL. In this article, we will describe a short biography of an entrepreneur.

Childhood

Leonid Fedun (the photo of the businessman is presented in the article) was born in Kyiv in 1956. The boy's father Arnold Antonovich worked as a military doctor. Leonid's childhood passed in the city of Leninsk (modern Baikonur). His father was sent there to serve. Soon Arnold Antonovich headed the department of the hospital at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. Where the Fedun family lived, there was a system of checkpoints (checkpoints). In an atmosphere of strict secrecy, Leonid's father learned not to talk about work outside the service. He didn’t even tell his son about anything, but from childhood he taught the boy to strict discipline, as it should be in any military family. In the future, this helped Fedun a lot in building a career at LUKOIL. Clear execution of orders, devotion to the interests of the company, pedantry were embedded in his character. As a child, Leonid often watched rocket launches. His path to power and financial heights was just as swift.

Study and work

In terms of profession, Leonid Fedun decidedfollow in his father's footsteps by making a military career. In 1977, the young man graduated from the M. I. Nedelina (Rostov-on-Don). And then he entered the postgraduate course at the Dzerzhinsky Academy.

After defending his Ph. D. thesis in philosophy, Leonid taught political science and political economy for several years. Fedun was also interested in history. In addition to versatile knowledge, the young man had excellent oratory skills. Leonid Fedun was always at work, speaking in auditoriums to trade union activists, workers, schoolchildren and students.

In 1987, the future businessman was sent to Kogalym (a village of oil workers). There Fedun was supposed to read several lectures to local workers. On one of them, Leonid met Vagit Alekperov, who headed Kogalymneftegaz at that time. He offered the exemplary speaker a job at his company.

Life before Spartak

Leonid Fedun had excellent analytical skills. They were very useful to him in his new workplace. Leonid could objectively and correctly assess almost any situation, ranging from problems in the personnel department of a particular enterprise to difficulties in mutual settlements between oil companies throughout the country.

In 1990, Vagit Alekperov became Deputy Minister of the Gas and Oil Industry of the USSR. Leonid Arnoldovich went with him to Moscow. In 1991, the LUKOIL concern was founded. Then this company was still formally subordinate to the Ministry of Gas and Oil. ATAt the same time, the hero of this article opened his own company. Fedun's "Neftkonsult" began to serve the new interests of the industry. But Leonid Arnoldovich was ambitious and wanted to develop further. At the first opportunity, the young leader entered the Higher School of Entrepreneurship and Privatization. There he deeply studied such a direction as "Securities". 1994 - the time when Leonid Fedun became vice president of LUKOIL. The businessman's wife is currently a co-owner of the company, and the board of directors is headed by Valery Graifer.

Buying a club

In 2003, Leonid Fedun acquired FC Spartak. A controlling stake was sold to him by Andrey Chervichenko (former president of the club). In the most titled team of the Russian Federation, Fedun invested not only personal funds. The businessman attracted major sponsors to this. And it brought results. A year later, the club's budget reached $40 million. The funds received brought Spartak out of a deep crisis. Not only the issues of financial support for coaches and athletes were resolved, but also the prerequisites were created for the formation of an effective football structure on the basis of the club.

According to the results of 2005, FC Spartak took the second place in the rating in the Russian Championship. Thus, the team won the right to qualify for the Champions League. In 2006, the construction of the Otkritie-Arena stadium began in Tushino. The sports complex had 45,000 seats. The opening match took place in early September 2014. The hero of this article still owns FC Spartak.

Private lifeand family

Leonid Fedun, whose biography is presented above, is married. The entrepreneur's wife's name is Marina. Together with her husband, she manages the LUKOIL company. Son Anton heads the London Ampersand Hotel. Daughter Ekaterina lives in the capital of England and works at the Bacchus PR agency. She is married to Yukhan Geraskin (manager of FC Spartak).

Capital

Fedun's personal fortune is $7.1 billion. In 2011, he took 23rd place in the Forbes ranking of the 200 richest entrepreneurs in the Russian Federation. Leonid Arnoldovich spoke critically about this list. The first time a businessman got into it in 2004. Even then, Fedun told a Vedomosti correspondent that not all shares of companies are his property. Often, securities belong to completely different people, and the businessman himself only nominally disposes of them.