- December 1, 2019
- Finance and Business
- Evgenia Yushkova
Currently, Igor Sechin is a prominent figure in the socio-political sphere of life in Russia. In terms of his influence, he is close to the president. His opinion can be decisive at the highest level. Moreover, he has neither economic nor financial education. Igor Sechin is a linguist by profession. Relatives predicted a career as a translator for him. But he took a different path.
Biography of Igor Sechin: childhood and youth
Sechin was born into an average St. Petersburg family. Parents worked at a factory, the family was of average income. The question often arises about the nationality of Igor Sechin. The biography of this person is too different from the biography of other successful and famous personalities. Many people talk about his Jewish roots, but there is no exact evidence. Whether Sechin’s nationality influenced his biography or not does not matter. Results, achievements and success are important.
On September 7, 1960, twins appeared in the Sechin family - Igor and Irina. The kids grew up as ordinary children and did not show any special talents. They received secondary education at a school with in-depth study of the French language. The twins studied well and did well in all subjects. The situation did not change even after my father left the family. Having divorced, the parents made a wise decision to maintain good relations between themselves so as not to cause their children mental suffering. Foreign languages were easy for teenagers. They often spoke French at home. Igor’s love for languages determined his admission to a specific university.
Student years
The future economist chose to study at the Zhdanov Union University. His dream was to graduate from the Faculty of Philology and qualify as a translator. Almost immediately, student Sechin became the best in the Portuguese group. His success in learning languages was noted by teachers who recommended him for work abroad. Fifth-year student Igor Sechin flew to Mozambique.
The events of 1982 in this country were associated with a civil war. The young translator helped Soviet soldiers and officers conduct peacekeeping activities and establish connections with the leaders of the warring parties. Returning two years later from an African business trip and graduating from university, Igor received a diploma in philology with the right to teach foreign languages.
Carier start
Returning from Africa (1986), Igor Ivanovich Sechin began his career in a specialized foreign trade association called Technoexport. The company was subordinate to the State Committee for Foreign Economic Relations. Her responsibilities included the supply of equipment (industrial and not only) produced in the USSR to other socialist countries. Then for a short time he worked at Leningrad University, in the foreign department responsible for the internship of Soviet students and teachers abroad.
In 1988, Sechin began working in the executive committee of the Leningrad City Council, where there was an urgent need for a Portuguese-speaking specialist to work with Rio de Janeiro.
Military service
It was not possible to work in this capacity. Almost immediately he was drafted into the armed forces. A barracks, drill training, and a full course for a young fighter on the soil of Turkmenistan awaited him. The soldier, fluent in foreign languages, was noticed by the military authorities, and again the road led him abroad, to the African continent torn by military conflicts. Over the next four years, Sechin worked as a translator in Angola.
Service in the armed forces taught the young man self-discipline and composure. 4 years spent in military conflicts shaped his character into diplomacy and the ability to find a compromise.
The beginning of your career
A new page in Sechin’s biography has opened in his homeland. He begins work in the Technoexport association, which worked in the direction of foreign trade. The main areas of its activity were the supply of strategic and industrial equipment, heavy equipment, components, spare parts and weapons to the countries of the socialist community. He often traveled abroad, which only a few people in the Soviet Union could afford.
At the same time, Igor Sechin got a job at Leningrad State University. He was involved in international relations and student exchange, internships abroad, and taught languages. Established contacts with colleagues from Latin America.
The young specialist was making great progress. Despite Sechin’s age, his biography is becoming of interest to the governing structures of the city on the Neva. He was offered to fill the newly opened vacancy of a Portuguese translator in the executive committee of the Leningrad City Council. He agrees without hesitation. Further life will prove that this was a very right step.
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Quotes
For 2020, Rosneft will pay about 3.6 trillion rubles. in the form of taxes to the country's budget system - this is slightly lower than the level of 2020 (more than 4 trillion rubles), but Rosneft remained the largest taxpayer in Russia. February 11, 2020
They concluded the OPEC+ agreement - everyone should have been scared, but no one was scared. December 26, 2020
Rosneft has a great interest in strengthening full-scale cooperation with Turkmenistan. December 25, 2020
The true value of Rosneft is much higher. We proceed from the fact that objectively it amounts to $130 billion
To answer your question, what to do next, we need to work together, of course. February 18, 2020
Ask Trump (when asked what oil countries under sanctions should do - editor's note)
There is no euphoria from the fact that Russian gas should be delivered to Boston today... This is not Russian gas, Russian gas was sold
The main factor behind the current decline in oil prices is the decision of the US Federal Reserve to increase the base interest rate. December 28, 2020
The OPEC+ agreement covers a limited number of oil market participants, in particular, the United States does not participate in the agreement. December 28, 2020
The OPEC+ deal could become a threat to the Russian oil industry
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Biography
Igor Ivanovich Sechin was born on September 7, 1960 in Leningrad.
In 1984, he graduated from Leningrad State University with a degree in philologist-novelist, teacher of Portuguese and French.
After graduating from university, he worked as a military translator in Mozambique and Angola.
In 1988 - 1991 — instructor, leading instructor, specialist of the Department of Foreign Economic Relations of the Executive Committee of the Leningrad City Council.
In 1991 - 1996 — chief specialist, assistant manager, chief of the Deputy Mayor’s Office, chief of the First Deputy Mayor’s Office - Chairman of the Committee for External Relations of the St. Petersburg City Hall (Vladimir Putin).
In 1996 1997 — Deputy Head of the Department for Work with Property Abroad, Directorate for Foreign Economic Relations, Administration of the President of the Russian Federation.
In 1997 - 1998 - Head of the General Department of the Main Control Directorate of the President of the Russian Federation.
In 1998 - 1998 - Head of the Office of the First Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation.
From August to November 1999 - Head of the Secretariat of the Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation (Vladimir Putin).
Since November 1999 - First Deputy Head of the Government of the Russian Federation.
Since January 2000, Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation.
In June 2000, he was again appointed Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation.
In March 2004, during the reorganization of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, he was appointed Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation, maintaining his previous position. According to the distribution of responsibilities in the Administration of the Russian Federation, I. Sechin provided organizational, information, analytical and documentation support for the activities of the President of the Russian Federation on general issues; management of the activities of the Office, the Office of Information and Documentation Support of the President of the Russian Federation and the Office of the President of the Russian Federation for working with citizens' appeals.
In November 2003, I. Sechin’s daughter Inga married Dmitry Ustinov (son of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Vladimir Ustinov).
In 2004, he was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of OJSC NK Rosneft.
On May 12, 2008, I. Sechin was appointed Deputy Prime Minister of the Government of the Russian Federation.
In May 2012, he was appointed President of Rosneft.
In June 2012, Sechin became the executive secretary and de facto head of the Commission under the President of the Russian Federation on the strategy for the development of the fuel and energy complex and environmental safety.
In 2013, Igor Sechin topped the ranking of the most valuable senior managers in Russia according to Forbes magazine.
In July 2014, he joined the board of directors of Pirelli.
Meeting Vladimir Putin
Igor’s job responsibilities in this position included establishing contacts and concluding partnership agreements with foreign companies. His destinations were Rio de Janeiro, Barcelona, Milan. He traveled a lot outside the USSR, met colleagues, communicated with high-ranking people, established himself, and gained authority.
It was then that the figure of the future president of Russia, at that time assistant for international relations, appeared in Sechin’s biography. Later, when the mayor of St. Petersburg, Anatoly Sobchak, invited Vladimir Putin to his team, he, in turn, brought with him a young, capable translator, Igor Sechin. In the administration of St. Petersburg, he first worked as a chief specialist, then as an assistant manager, and finally headed the office of the first vice-mayor. Here Igor gained invaluable leadership experience. His career was rapidly taking off.
Personal life of Igor Sechin
The first wife is Marina Sechina. Today he is the head of the energy holding company “Sustainable Development”. A possible reason for the couple's divorce is the husband's constant absence from home - Sechin spent all his time at work. However, despite this, according to the Kommersant newspaper, the former spouses managed to maintain good business relations with each other. From this marriage, Igor has two children: son Ivan and daughter Inga, who married the son of the Presidential Plenipotentiary Envoy in the Southern Federal District Dmitry Ustinov. In 2005, Igor Sechin had a grandson.
Igor Sechin made his career thanks, in part, to Vladimir Putin
In 2012, Sechin married for the second time - this time to his employee, a young secretary. The details of this marriage are unknown.
Moscow. Kremlin. Putin
In the mid-90s. V.V. Putin decided to resign and moved to the capital. He took the chair of deputy head of President Yeltsin's Administrative Department. Sechin followed. A job awaited him in the Department of Foreign Economic Relations. At the same time, I sat down to write my dissertation. He defended his PhD thesis on the topic “Economic assessment of investment projects for the transit of oil and petroleum products” in 1998.
A year later, Vladimir Putin became acting president of the Russian Federation. He entrusted his assistant with the post of head of the government secretariat, in fact, this is the position of adviser and assistant to the first person of the state. Here Sechin worked until 2008.
The public and the media were interested in the biography of Igor Ivanovich Sechin. But this man, known at the highest level, never made his private life public.
Igor Sechin's work in the Kremlin
In 1996, Sechin followed Vladimir Putin to Moscow, where he was invited as deputy manager of the affairs of the President of the Russian Federation.
In 1998, Igor Sechin defended his dissertation at the Mining Institute of St. Petersburg and received the degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences. It is noteworthy that Sechin chose the direction of hydrocarbons for the topic of his qualifying work.
In 1999, Igor received the position of Deputy Head of the Administration of the President of Russia. He was appointed on the same day that Putin was elected acting president of the Russian Federation. He remained in this post until 2008.
Igor Sechin: Sorry for the bad manners, this is wishful thinking. In addition, in 2004 he was recommended to the directors of Rosneft, one of the largest oil companies in the Russian Federation. In the same year, Igor Sechin was appointed assistant to the President of the Russian Federation.
"Rosneft"
In 2004, several influential politicians advised the head of Rosneft to introduce Igor Sechin to the company’s board of directors. At that time it was not the most successful oil company. Over 6 years of work, he was able to raise its authority and make it the most powerful oil company in the country.
Since 2012, Rosneft has occupied the main place in Sechin’s biography. Having headed the company, Igor Sechin, with his characteristic energy, began developing the fuel and energy sector. In the fall of the same year, a contract for the supply of oil was signed in Venezuela. At the same time, Rosneft had 40% of the joint shares. It was a big leap up.
A month later, Sechin’s company bought 100% of the shares of TNK-BP from the British. The amount specified in the agreement was 61 billion US dollars. President Putin saw this as a good sign for the Russian oil market.
The following year, 2013, Sechin presented his brainchild at a conference in the States. Top managers of the largest fuel and energy associations in the world have gathered in America. At this high level, Rosneft looked very presentable.
Work at Rosneft, Igor Sechin today
Igor Sechin was appointed to the post of president in 2012.
Since then, he has been active in management activities - in order to get far ahead of his Russian competitors, Sechin plans to acquire half of the British Petroleum stake in TNK-BP. However, experts believe that this move is an attempt to strengthen control over the country’s fuel and energy complex and nationalize the oil sector. In October 2012, a big deal took place - Rosneft acquired 100% of THK-BP shares for a total amount of more than $60 billion. This allowed the corporation to become the first in the world in terms of proven hydrocarbon reserves.
In 2013, Igor Sechin became the leader in the list of the most expensive top managers in Russia according to Forbes magazine. Over the past year, his income was about $50 million.
Biography of Sechin: family
One of the most influential and successful people in the world prefers not to talk about his personal life. Nevertheless, his novels have always been the property of ubiquitous journalists.
It is known that Sechin had two official marriages. He met his first wife Marina while still a student. During their life together, two children were born - son Ivan and daughter Inga. In the mid-2000s. the couple divorced. The reason for the divorce remained a mystery to the general public. The ex-spouses did not discuss this topic.
Today Marina Vladimirovna Sechina is the head of a large holding company, the owner of shares in several serious companies, and one of the richest businesswomen in the country. The couple managed to maintain good relations with each other; their business interests are often intertwined.
The Sechin children received higher education and live and work in Russia. Son Ivan is a successful businessman, a graduate of the Higher School of Business at Moscow State University, and works for Rosneft. Daughter Inga Ustinova and her husband are engaged in business in various industries and are raising a son.
The second wife of the head of Rosneft was a young employee of the presidential office, the spectacular blonde Olga Rozhkova. They got married in 2012. Friends and colleagues of the businessman and politician observed the passionate love between the spouses and the harmony of relationships. The head of the family generously gave gifts to his chosen one. The entire capital's elite discussed the surprises that Igor Ivanovich arranged for his beloved. How much is the yacht given to Olga on her birthday! A unique ship worth 150 million US dollars with a swimming pool and a helipad has become simply the height of love and the standard of generosity.
The model marriage lasted only 5 years. Igor Sechin again became a free and very eligible bachelor.
Personal life
The personal life of Igor Sechin has always been hidden from society. It is known that the oilman met his first wife Marina Vladimirovna in his youth in his native St. Petersburg, and the young people entered into an official marriage there. At the time of his transition to work in the Kremlin, Sechin already had two children: daughter Inga, born in 1982, and son Ivan, born in 1989.
Sechin's children were educated at higher educational institutions in Moscow: Inga graduated from the St. Petersburg State Mining Institute, and Ivan graduated from the Higher School of Business at Moscow State University. Lomonosov.
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Due to constant work, the marriage of Igor and Marina Sechin broke up. However, the divorce did not affect the warm relationship with the ex-wife, who, after the divorce, took possession of 51% of the shares and 49% of OHL Rus Private Limited.
It is known that in 2012, the head of Rosneft again tied the knot with a young employee of the apparatus, Olga Rozhkova. She became the mother of the youngest daughter of an oilman, Varvara. In his second marriage, Igor Ivanovich became noticeably younger and changed in appearance (with a height of 175 cm, his weight decreased significantly), which was noted by colleagues and friends.
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Since 2013, information about the yacht St. has entered the news feeds of Russian media. Princess Olga, whose cost, according to experts, was close to $180 billion.
According to Novaya Gazeta, Igor Sechin became the owner of the unique vessel. The head of Rosneft presented the yacht to his young wife Olga Sechina. Proof of this was the photo of the girl in the interiors of the sea vessel, which Olga posted on her Instagram and Facebook pages.
Igor Ivanovich’s second marriage broke up in the summer of 2020. Olga preferred the young Italian racing driver Francesco Provenzano to her husband. After the separation of the spouses, daughter Varya remained with her mother.
Sechin's annual income
Most of the information about this person's life is closed to the public. This also applied to his financial successes. But in 2015, the head of Rosneft revealed his income. Sechin's salary is 20 million rubles per month. This includes salary, allowances and additional payments. At the same time, rent of housing, business trips, all household expenses, costs of treatment and education of children under 23 years of age are paid by the state for people of his level.
Today he holds the position of executive director of PJSC NK Rosneft and appears on the pages of Forbes magazine as one of the most expensive managers. His annual income, according to various sources, is 40-50 million US dollars.
Vedomosti, 2014
On June 26, 2014, Igor Sechin filed a lawsuit in the Ostankino Court of Moscow for the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation. The defendants were the deputy editor-in-chief of the Vedomosti newspaper, Kirill Kharatyan, and the publisher, Business News Media CJSC.
The reason Sechin went to court was that on June 16, 2014, Vedomosti published Kharatyan’s column “Person of the Week: Igor Sechin” (published on the site under the heading “What is dangerous about Igor Sechin”), which stated that the President of Rosneft allegedly makes decisions for government bodies, manages company dividends, etc.
The head of Rosneft demanded that the newspaper be obliged to refute a number of fragments of the publication and remove them from the publication’s website. The lawsuit noted that they “may create a false impression among society that the plaintiff, being the president of Rosneft, carries out his activities in violation of current legislation.” In turn, the defendants insisted that the publication was only the private opinion of the journalist.
On August 26, the court upheld the claim of the head of Rosneft, recognizing the journalist’s statements as “discrediting the honor and dignity of Sechin, as well as not belonging to the category of opinion” and obliging Vedomosti to publish a refutation. The publication filed an appeal, but on November 14 it was rejected by the Moscow City Court. On November 25, 2014, Vedomosti published a refutation of the information from Kharatyan’s column, accompanied by a commentary from the journalist himself.
Igor Sechin in the media
Sechin's biography is very interesting for journalists. Despite his high position, Igor Ivanovich remains closed to comments. On the one hand, his name often appears in the press in connection with various kinds of scandals. What is the cost of the trial for giving a bribe that Ulyukaev extorted from him! On the other hand, information about such stories appears literally bit by bit, without details or direct speech from the main person involved.
A number of publications call Igor Sechin the “gray eminence” in the Russian Government, hinting at his ability to influence the domestic and foreign policy of the state. Sechin himself communicates little with the media, does not blog or broadcast on the Internet, and tries not to advertise his life. Nevertheless, he remains one of the richest top managers in the world economy, and in terms of influence he is ranked second after Vladimir Putin.
At Rosneft
Sechin was a member of the board of founders of the oil company. In 2004, he headed it. Worked there for 6 years. During this time, a small oil organization turned into the largest in the country, and all thanks to the assets of Yukos. In 2011, Dmitry Medvedev issued an order to remove ministers from the Board of Directors of state-owned enterprises. Igor Ivanovich had to leave the company.
A year later, when V. Putin again became the President of the country, Sechin returned to his place. He became one of the updated founders of Rosneft. In 2012, under the leadership of Sechin, a profitable agreement was concluded with a British company, which brought fame and profit to the company.
According to world-famous magazines, Igor Sechin has become the most influential manager in Russia
