Mamut Alexander Leonidovich: biography, personal life (photo)

2024 Author: Howard Calhoun | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 10:16

Currently, there is no need for the personal participation of representatives of the business elite in power structures. At the same time, they are in no hurry to completely withdraw from "state affairs", using this leverage to lobby their own interests. Power and business in Russia have been inextricably linked for more than a decade. A vivid confirmation of this is the Russian businessman Mamut Alexander Leonidovich, who could easily enter the corridors of the Kremlin of the Yeltsin era. He was called the gray cardinal of domestic business. Today he is considered the largest patron of the arts, despite the fact that his personality is shrouded in veils of secrets, secrets and intrigues.

Almost every Russian has heard about the scale of the financial condition of this mysterious oligarch, but few people know what specific amount of money the millionaire Mamut Alexander Leonidovich is turning over. Today, he has already proved that capital can and should be invested not only in plants and factories, but also in the sphere of culture.

The businessman's entourage notices that he is endowed with such a rare and valuablequality, like modesty, which is why he does not like to talk about his achievements in business to the press. Let's try to lift the veil of this mystery.

Biography

Mamut Alexander Leonidovich was born on January 29, 1960 in the Russian capital. His parents were experienced lawyers: his mother, Tsitsily Lyudvigovna, took an active part in the famous Uzbek cotton business, and his father, Leonid Solomonovich, successfully defended his doctoral dissertation.

Childhood

Little Alexander was lucky: he was sent to a special school with an English bias.

However, since childhood, he showed his character, so teachers often gave trouble, and not all sciences were easy for him. However, he overcomes difficulties and decides to become a lawyer after school.

Students and early entrepreneurial careers

In 1977, he applied to the law faculty of Moscow State University, passed the entrance exams and gnawed at the granite of science for five years.

After graduating from high school, until 1990, Mamut Alexander Leonidovich worked in one of the legal consultation offices in the metropolitan metropolis.

Having acquired invaluable experience in legal practice, he decides to open his own company with the unpretentious name "ALM-Consulting". Soon, on an equal footing with businessman Andrei Gloriozov, he establishes a banking structure. At first it was known as "Business and Cooperation", and then its name was changed to JSCB "Imperial". His clients included such oil giants asGazprom and Lukoil.

It was from this time that Alexander Leonidovich Mamut, whose photo was not yet published in the media in the early 90s, began to gradually influence the state of affairs in the country. In 1993, he headed the Design Bureau "Company for Project Finance". A year later, he becomes a member of the Committee on Entrepreneurship and Industrial Policy under the Russian government.

The businessman himself believes that businessman Andrei Melnichenko helped him to earn solid money, who invited him to work at MDM Bank. It was with his filing that Alexander Leonidovich began to succeed, and after a few years he turned into a large and influential businessman.

Power structures are getting closer and closer

It was in the early 90s that Mamut began to enter Yeltsin's inner circle, and he was accompanied by such famous figures as Valentin Yumashev, Roman Abramovich, Tatiana Dyachenko. Subsequently, they began to say that he was a confidant of Boris Berezovsky.

Having the opportunity to influence the policy of the state, in the mid-90s, he wanted to help settle the debt obligations that India had to Russia. However, VEB and the Ministry of Finance did not allow him to realize what he had planned.

In 1998, the businessman becomes a member of the Presidential Administration, while overseeing the economic development of the country. After some time, he is a member of the executive body of Sobinbank OJSC.

From 1999 to 2001, he chaired the Supervisory Board of MDM Bank.

In 2000, he became a member of the executive body of the RESO-Garantia insurance company.

At the same time, together with Roman Abramovich and Oleg Deribaska, he decides to create a Foundation for the Promotion of National Science, and this is only the beginning of his business in the field of patronage.

In 2001, he presented a project to modernize the banking system to Russian industrialists and entrepreneurs, a few years later he organized the merger of Atticus Publishing with the Azbuka publishing house. As a result, a structure with printing equipment appeared - this made it possible to engage in publishing more efficiently. Now he heads the company Rambler & Go.

Private life

It should be noted that Mamut Alexander Leonidovich, whose personal life is notable for the fact that he married a woman (Nadezhda Lyamina), who was married to the grandson of the Soviet General Secretary, was not a womanizer in his youth. He went to school together with his first wife. He beat off Nadezhda Lyamina from the grandson of Brezhnev himself and soon married her. However, a tragedy soon struck: Alexander's wife died of pneumonia. She left behind three children (two of them adopted), whom he is currently raising. After some time, he became interested in the young model Alena Akhmadulina, whom the businessman simply spoiled with luxurious gifts: what is worth only one pompous boutique in the center of the metropolitan metropolis. Here onwhat grand gestures Alexander Mamut is ready to make for the sake of love. "The second wife of a famous businessman!" - they said surrounded by the oligarch, referring to Alena Akhmadulina. However, later the businessman's feelings for the girl cooled, and he lost all interest in her. Here he is, Mamut Alexander Leonidovich. He officially does not have a wife today.

How rich is an oligarch

According to authoritative publications, which include the magazine "Finance", his financial well-being is steadily growing. According to the results of the year before last, he consistently occupied the fortieth position in the list of the richest entrepreneurs in Russia. Then experts calculated that he owns 2.1 billion dollars.