Childhood
Alexey Miller (see photo below) was born in Leningrad in 1962. The boy grew up in the Nevsky district of the city. Alexey’s parents worked at the Radio Electronics Research Institute under the Ministry of Aviation Industry. Later the enterprise was transformed into NPO Leninets. The boy’s father died early from cancer, so Alyosha’s mother was involved in raising him.
At school, Alexey studied excellently, but did not receive a gold medal. This was due to the fact that in the year of its completion the regional quota for medalists was exhausted. The boy was also a member of the Komsomol committee. Miller was not remembered by his classmates for anything special. He wasn’t friends with anyone, but he didn’t let anyone offend him either. His former classmates were very surprised when they learned that the inconspicuous and quiet Alexey Miller headed the most successful Russian corporation.
Alexey Miller: biography, seed and nationality
Alexey Borisovich Miller is Chairman of the Board and Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of PJSC Gazprom. Alexey Miller is also the chairman of the board of directors of NPF Gazfond, Gazprombank and insurance. Alexey Miller is one of the highest paid Russian managers. Candidate of Economic Sciences. Miller has a number of state awards, including the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (2006) for his contribution to the development of the Russian gas complex and the Order of Alexander Nevsky (2014).
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Alexey Miller is a member of the board of trustees of the International Global Energy Prize and the government commission on the production of the mineral resource base of the Russian Federation and fuel and energy complex issues.
Childhood and education of Alexey Miller
Alexey Borisovich Miller was born on January 31, 1962 in Leningrad.
Alexey Miller comes from a family of Russified Germans.
Father - Boris Vasilyevich Miller (1935−1986) - assembler.
Mother - Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Miller (1936−2009) - engineer.
Parents worked at the Radio Electronics Research Institute of the USSR Ministry of Aviation Industry.
Alexey Miller graduated from school-gymnasium No. 330 in the Nevsky district of Leningrad. Young Miller studied successfully. After school, he immediately entered the Leningrad Financial and Economic Institute. ON THE. Voznesensky . In 1984, having received his diploma, Alexey Miller began working as an engineer-economist at LenNIIproekt.
From the biography of Alexey Miller on Wikipedia, you can find out that in the 80s, the future head of Gazprom was part of the circle of Leningrad economists-reformers, whose informal leader was Anatoly Chubais . In particular, in 1987, Alexey Miller was a member of the Sintez club at the Leningrad Youth Palace along with such famous people as Mikhail Dmitriev , Andrei Illarionov , Mikhail Manevich , Andrei Lankov , Andrei Prokofiev and others.
The beginning of the career of Alexey Miller
While working at LenNIIproekt, Alexey Miller continued his education by studying in graduate school. In 1989, Alexey Borisovich Miller defended his Ph.D. thesis and took the position of junior researcher at LenNIIproekt.
In addition, the biography of Alexey Miller notes his activities in the Committee on Economic Reform of the Executive Committee of the Leningrad City Council.
In 1991, a significant acquaintance took place for Alexei Borisovich’s future career. The biography of Alexey Miller on the Find Out Everything website reports that in 1991 he began working in the Committee for External Relations of the St. Petersburg City Hall, where Vladimir Putin . Miller’s biography on the Gazprom website states that Alexey Borisovich began his career in the mayor’s office as head of the market conditions department of the Foreign Economic Relations Department of the External Relations Committee of the St. Petersburg Mayor’s Office.
Alexey Borisovich Miller successfully served on the Committee for five years and managed to establish contacts with the largest Western banks. Miller's biography in Lentapedia notes that he was involved in the development of the first investment zones in the city, in particular Pulkovo and Parnas, brought the first foreign banks to the city, such as Dresden Bank and Lyon Credit, hotel business, was chairman of the board of directors of the Europe Hotel.
Alexey Miller then became head of the foreign economic relations department, working under the direct supervision of Vladimir Putin (who at that time served as head of the mayor's office's external relations committee).
The perestroika period gave Miller the opportunity to climb the career ladder. Alexey Miller was invited to senior positions in the largest Russian companies.
In 1996, after Anatoly Sobchak’s defeat in the elections, a new place of work appeared in the biography of the future head of Gazprom - OJSC Sea Port of St. Petersburg. Until 1999, Alexey Miller was the director of development and investment of this company.
Since 1999, Miller took the position of General Director at OJSC Baltic Pipeline System.
When Vladimir Putin was elected president of Russia in 2000, Alexey Miller moved to Moscow. He was appointed to the post of Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation. Alexey Borisovich worked in this position for only a year, since in 2001 Miller took over as chairman of the board of Gazprom.
In the photo: Moscow, May 30. Deputy Minister of Energy Alexey Miller became the new chairman of the board of OJSC Gazprom (Photo: Vladimir Rodionov and Sergey Velichkin)
Alexey Miller's career at Gazprom
Alexey Miller, with the help of Vladimir Putin, carried out reforms at Gazprom, as reported in his biography on Wikipedia, the result of this activity was that by the beginning of 2004, the Russian Federation owned 38.7% of Gazprom shares and had a majority on the Board of Directors.
By 2004, the formation of the updated Gazprom management apparatus came to an end. In 2006, Miller's employment contract was extended for another five years.
On December 9, 2005, the State Duma adopted amendments to the law “On Gas Supply in the Russian Federation”, according to which the share of shares owned by state-owned companies cannot be lower than 50% plus one share, and restrictions are also established for foreign citizens and companies.
In the photo: Governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko and head of Gazprom Alexey Miller during the signing ceremony of the cooperation agreement for 2006 (Photo: Grigory Sysoev / TASS)
Gazprom's Wikipedia page states that in 2007, the company was included for the first time in the annual list of the hundred most respected firms and companies in the world according to the weekly Barron's. In May 2008, Gazprom became the third largest company in the world by capitalization.
In May 2008, the company had a maximum price and Alexey Miller noted that in 7-8 years its capitalization should grow from $365.1 billion to one trillion. But in the fall of the same year it collapsed to 77.1 billion, says Wikipedia.
At the beginning of 2010, head Alexey Miller took third place in the ranking of the most effective top managers in the world according to Harvard Business Review.
The work of Alexey Borisovich Miller has been repeatedly recognized as successful at the state level. In February 2020, news reported that Miller's contract had been extended for another 5 years.
In the photo: Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chairman of the Board of Gazprom PJSC Alexey Miller (from left to right), who received the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 1st degree, at the ceremony of presenting state awards of the Russian Federation in the Kremlin (Photo: Mikhail Metzel/TASS)
In January 2020, Gazprom asked the Russian government to allow the company to sell its own gas on the St. Petersburg Commodity and Raw Materials Exchange (SPbMTSE) without any restrictions. As reported in the news, Alexey Miller sent this letter to Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev .
Relations between Gazprom and Naftogaz
A special place in the activities of Alexey Miller as the head of Gazprom was occupied by relations with the Ukrainian Naftogaz. The “gas wars” between Russia and Ukraine continued for years, and the situation became especially difficult after Euromaidan, when Kyiv stopped paying for gas. Then Vladimir Putin said that Gazprom would “supply gas only in those volumes that will be paid by the Ukrainian side a month in advance. What they pay is what they get.”
On June 2, 2014, Alexey Miller reported that the price of blue fuel for Ukraine could drop below $385.5 per thousand cubic meters as a result of a discount from Gazprom.
On June 16, due to regular non-payments by Naftogaz of Ukraine, Gazprom introduced a prepayment regime for gas supplies for Ukraine. In addition, Gazprom filed a claim with the Stockholm Arbitration Court against the Ukrainian government for a total amount of about $4.5 billion. Dmitry Medvedev, commenting on the news that Russia will supply gas to Ukraine only after advance payment and repayment of all debts, wrote: “The freebie is over.”
In July, Alexey Miller reported that Ukraine’s total debt for fuel supplied by Gazprom reached $5.29 billion. A total of 11.5 billion cubic meters of gas remain unpaid, which is comparable to the volume of annual Russian gas supplies to Poland.
“Ukraine’s reluctance in principle to pay for Russian gas is becoming chronic and once again shows that the transfer to prepayment provided for by the terms of the contract was the only right decision,” Miller emphasized.
On October 31, 2014, gas negotiations in the Russia-Ukraine-EU format ended in Brussels. A tripartite agreement was signed, which fixed the plan for gas supplies during the winter period. The first part was signed by the Chairman of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso , Vice-President of the European Commission Günter Oettinger , Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak and the head of the Ministry of Energy of Ukraine Yuriy Prodan , the second document was signed by the heads of Naftogaz.
“We, citizens of Europe, can say that gas supplies are secure this winter, we have achieved a breakthrough. Everyone benefited from this, especially EU citizens. The transit function of Ukraine will continue to be implemented. Countries such as the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Hungary will receive sufficient volumes of gas,” said Günter Oettinger.
In the photo: Belgium. Brussels. October 31. Chairman of the Board of OJSC Gazprom Alexey Miller, Chairman of the Board of NJSC Naftogaz Andrey Kobelev (from left to right in the foreground) sign an agreement on the supply of Russian gas to Ukraine. In the background, from left to right: Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak, European Energy Commissioner Günther Oettinger, European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and European Commission Vice-President for Energy Union Maros Šefčović (Photo: AR/TASS)
The European Commissioner for Energy also confirmed the points reached earlier, in particular, the $100 discount from the Russian Federation and Ukraine’s obligations to pay $3.1 billion of its debt. At the same time, until March 2020, as reported in the news, Ukraine could buy gas on an advance payment basis at a price of $385 per thousand cubic meters. meters of gas or lower, according to the calculation formula. It was noted that the key issue of the negotiations on October 30 was financial guarantees from the European Commission for payment by Kiev for Russian gas supplies.
In April 2020, Gazprom and Naftogaz signed an agreement on gas supplies in the second quarter of 2020.
In 2020, Gazprom filed a lawsuit against Naftogaz, demanding to recover from the company a fee for the shortfall of contract gas volumes in 2012-2013, which it had to pay according to the take-or-pay rule (“take or pay” - annual payment minimum amount of fuel). Naftogaz, in turn, demanded a review of pricing, which it considered non-market. In 2012, Square received a discount of one hundred dollars per thousand cubic meters of gas in exchange for basing the Black Sea Fleet in Crimea. But in 2014, after Crimea became part of the Russian Federation, the discount was canceled and the price rose to $485 per thousand cubic meters. Naftogaz refused to pay this price and also went to arbitration.
In the fall of 2020, Russia again provided Ukraine with a discount on gas. As the Deputy Head of the European Commission (EC) for Energy Union Affairs Maros Sefcovic , the “winter package” of documents, in addition to the trilateral protocol, included an additional contract between Gazprom and Naftogaz.
On November 18, 2020, the European Commission gave the green light to three gas pipelines from Southeast to Central Europe, which Gazprom can use to supply the Balkans with Turkish Stream gas. These projects allowed Gazprom to solve the problem of delivering gas to European consumers, while abandoning the transit of gas through Ukraine.
Thus, Russia was going to protect itself from a gas crisis similar to the crisis in 2009, when Ukraine stole gas. The head of Gazprom, Alexey Miller, made it clear that the Russian concern will not build “strings” in the EU to continue the Turkish Stream, and the Europeans themselves need to take care of this.
At the beginning of June 2020, Gazprom received an official letter from Naftogaz with a request to resume supplies of Russian fuel. Kyiv was offered a price of $177 per thousand cubic meters, but Naftogaz considered it too high. Gazprom then issued a preliminary invoice to Kyiv for gas.
On May 31, 2020, the Stockholm Arbitration Court issued an interim decision in the dispute between Gazprom and Naftogaz regarding the contract for gas supplies to Ukraine.
On February 28, 2020, the Stockholm Arbitration Court announced a decision on the transit claim of Naftogaz against Gazprom. It was ruled in favor of the Ukrainian company and obligated the Russian gas giant to pay Naftogaz $2.56 billion.
At the same time, Naftogaz demanded even more - $17 billion. Gazprom does not agree with the decision of the Stockholm Arbitration Court, accusing it of violating Swedish law governing the contract with Naftogaz. Gazprom promised to protect its rights “by all means” that do not contradict the law.
After this, the management of Gazprom announced that it had returned the advance payment for March to Naftogaz and would not resume gas supplies. As a result, the Ukrainian authorities temporarily limited gas consumption in the country, but a day later President Petro Poroshenko announced the start of fuel supplies from Poland, Slovakia and Hungary. As it turned out, this option turned out to be four times more expensive than the Russian proposal.
Commercial director of Naftogaz Yuriy Vitrenko said that Gazprom had underpaid his company by about $20 billion since 2009 due to the fact that tariffs for fuel transit were underestimated.
Income of Alexey Miller
Alexey Miller is a regular participant in Forbes ratings, which list the incomes of the highest paid top managers in Russia. In 2013, with annual income of $25 million, Miller ranked third. In 2020, Alexey Borisovich for the first time became the highest paid top manager in Russia with an income of $27 million.
In the photo: Deputy Chairman of OAO Gazprom Vitaly Markelov, Chairman of the Board of OAO Gazprom Alexey Miller (from left to right) and Chairman of the Board of Directors of OAO Gazprom Viktor Zubkov (right) before the general annual meeting of shareholders of OAO Gazprom (Photo: Sergey Fadeichev/TASS)
At the end of 2020, Miller also topped the Forbes ranking of the most valuable executives of Russian companies with an income of $17.7 million.
According to Forbes, Alexey Miller owns 0.000958% of Gazprom shares. Package price: $488,198 (as of October 20, 2016).
On April 6, it became known that the United States had imposed sanctions against Russian businessmen and officials. The US Treasury blacklisted 15 companies of 38 businessmen, including Oleg Deripaska, Sergei Fursenko, Alexey Miller, Konstantin Kosachev, Mikhail Fradkov, Kirill Shamalov and some others.
This restrictive list implies the freezing of assets, seizure of real estate and possible bank accounts of individuals and legal entities in the United States, as well as a ban on entry into the country.
Personal life and hobbies of Alexey Miller
In the biography of Alexey Miller on the Find Out Everything website, it is reported that the billionaire is married, his wife Irina is not a public person. The Millers have a son.
On May 18, 2010, Alexey Miller was elected vice-president of the Russian Football Union.
Alexey Miller can often be seen at the matches of FC Zenit, whose general sponsor is Gazprom PJSC; it is known that he is a football fan.
In the photo: Chairman of the Board of OJSC Gazprom Alexey Borisovich Miller, and Sergei Fursenko, President of the Zenit football club (Photo: Vyacheslav Evdokimov / TASS)
Alexey Miller visited the locker room of St. Petersburg “Zenith” after the match of the ninth round of the Russian championship, in which the “blue-white-blue” were unable to beat Perm “Amkar”, the news reported. The functionary was extremely dissatisfied with the result of the match and decided to personally talk with the players.
Alexey Miller is fond of horse riding. He owns the purebred stallions Vesely and Fragrant. In the second quarter of 2012, Miller took the post of Chairman of the Board of Directors of OJSC Russian Hippodromes.
Forbes wrote that Alexey Miller registered on Odnoklassniki after an acquaintance with whom he studied at the institute reproached that the head of Gazprom communicates little with classmates on the Internet.
In 2020, during the international gas forum in St. Petersburg, Alexey Borisovich said that as a teenager he was a fan of Deep Purple. According to him, he dreamed of attending a concert and now, whenever possible, he attends performances of the legendary rock band.
Source: svpressa
Education
In 1979, he easily passed the entrance exams to the University of Finance and Economics. The young man studied just as well as at school. Alexey specialized in the Department of National Economy. Professor Igor Blekhtsin became his mentor. He tried to instill in Miller a love of chess, but the young man loved football more.
At the institute, Alexey did not stand out in anything special, except for his studies. The young man had smooth relationships with his classmates. He did not attend student parties and did not have whirlwind romances with fellow students. Miller's only hobby was football. He passionately supported Zenit and did not miss a single game of his favorite club. Alexey was simply happy when his favorite team became the USSR champion in 1984. Now it is thanks to his support that Zenit is the wealthiest club in Russia.
Childhood and youth of Alexey Miller
Alexey became the first and only child of Boris Vasilyevich and Lyudmila Alexandrovna, a family of so-called Russian Germans, whom fate threw to the outskirts of Leningrad. The biography of the future general director of Gazprom started on January 31, 1962. The father and mother of the newborn worked at the Leninets NGO. The head of the family held the position of mechanic-assembler. Mother was an engineer.
From an early age, the parents took care of the child’s education, sending him to study at the Leningrad specialized gymnasium No. 330. During his school years, Miller established himself as a diligent and neat student who did not cause any complaints from parents and teachers. Even then, it was noted that Alexey almost never asked for help, completing the task assigned to him on his own.
Education
After school, which he completed with excellent marks, Alexey passed the entrance exams to the Leningrad Institute of Finance and Economics. Here, too, the young man was ranked among the exemplary students, which is confirmed by his head of the department, professor-economist Igor Blekhtsin.
After graduating from FINEK, in 1984 the young economist got a job at LenNIIProekt. In parallel with his main work, he sat down to write a dissertation, after defending which in 1989 he became a candidate of economic sciences.
Interview with the KGB
The institute where Alexey Miller studied was supervised by KGB officers. The modest young man attracted their attention. But, unfortunately, the young man did not pass the first interview. The formal reason was health. In fact, Miller was refused due to the presence of repressed German relatives on his father’s side. Alexey was very upset, since he hardly remembered his father, and all he had left from his relatives was his last name. But the KGB was irreconcilable and did not change its own decision.
First job
After graduating from university, Alexey Miller got a job in one of its planning departments - LenNIIproekt. Then Blekhtsin gave him a recommendation, and the young man went on to graduate school, defending his Ph.D. thesis. As at school and university, Alexey did not stand out among his colleagues. He remained the same quiet and modest person. True, as a junior researcher he joined the “Club of Young Economists”. At that time, it was headed by the still unknown Anatoly Chubais. But Miller practically did not perform there. For the most part, he listened. Among the speakers were Pyotr Aven, Mikhail Manevich, Yegor Gaidar, Sergei Ignatiev, Mikhail Dmitriev and Andrei Illarionov. Subsequently, all the club's lecturers reached considerable heights.
Career of Alexey Miller
Having received his Ph.D. degree, Alexey Borisovich continued to work at LenNIIProekt as a junior researcher. At the same time, he began to become involved in the political life of the country, participating in the development of economic reforms under the executive committee of the Leningrad City Council.
From 1991 to 1996, the economist worked in the mayor's office of the Northern capital. During this period, he changed a lot of positions. Miller oversaw the work of external relations, replaced the head of the department, and then was appointed deputy chairman of the committee, whose post was by that time occupied by Vladimir Putin.
Alexey Borisovich took an active part in the development of investment zones in the Northern capital. Thanks to the official, Gillette and Coca-Cola appeared in the Pulkovo and Parnassus districts.
Under Miller, foreign banks began to operate in St. Petersburg, such as Dresden Bank and Lyon Credit. At the same time, the activity of the hotel business has increased. Alexey Borisovich took the chairman's chair on the board of the famous Hotel Europe.
In 1996, the biography of Alexei Miller underwent serious changes. Sobchak's resignation from the post of mayor of St. Petersburg was accompanied by the collapse of his team, as a result of which Vladimir Putin left his position. Miller followed his example.
Economic Reform Committee
In 1990, perestroika began, which led the country to collapse. All participants and lecturers of the Young Economists Club had the opportunity to put their ideas into practice. Some of them went into business, and some into politics. Chubais took the latter path. Anatoly Borisovich was elected to the Leningrad City Council and became deputy chairman of the executive committee. The chairman was Anatoly Sobchak. He trusted Chubais and allowed him to deal with all economic issues. Within the Leningrad City Executive Committee, Anatoly Borisovich organized an economic reform committee and appointed Alexei Kudrin as its head. And he, in turn, invited Mikhail Manevich and Alexey Miller to work.
Alexey Miller's favorites - who makes billions from the gas state corporation
Alexey Miller The gasification of all of Russia promised by the authorities many years ago did not happen, and still does not. 27% to shareholders, including the state , has become a source of inexhaustible income for close contractors and lobbyists in government agencies.
Curly connections
Today, the market price of Gazprom's assets is 21.1 billion euros , which puts it in seventh place in Moody's rating. This state corporation is the richest in Russia, a country that is only two-thirds ( 68.6% ), writes Sobesednik.
At the same time, Gazprom makes good money for those who are personally acquainted with its head, Alexey Miller . One of these lucky ones is figure skater and ex-State Duma deputy Anton Sikharulidze , who is also a major government contractor, primarily for Gazprom. As the publication found out, in the spring of 2020, the state corporation held a tender for construction and installation work at the Yamburgskoye field worth more than 9 billion rubles . Although its results were not published in the public domain, journalists found out that the contract went to GazEnergoService LLC, of which Sikharulidze is listed as a co-owner. According to Sobesednik, this little-known company spent more than 50 billion rubles in transactions with Gazprom structures.
It is worth noting that the main co-owner of GazEnergoService LLC is businessman Evgeny Pershin , whose share in the company is 85% . At the same time, he transferred part of his share, and therefore income, from time to time to various top managers of Gazprom.
According to the publication, the businessman lives in the very center of Moscow, a few steps from the Central Department Store. His apartment in the Petrov Dom residential complex costs about half a billion rubles and is registered to his wife, one of the capital’s main fashionistas, Anna Brostrem . “A lady recently went out in clothes from Dolce & Gabbana: a coat made of the most delicate broadtail and sable costs more than a million rubles , numerous dresses cost hundreds of thousands each,” writes “Interlocutor,” noting that all this is thanks to her husband, since Brostrem does not have his own business .
In addition to Sikharulidze, a long-standing acquaintance with Miller from school brought good dividends to another figure skating master, Tamara Moskvina . The charity provided by Gazprom allowed her to open the Generation M figure skating club in St. Petersburg.
Unstoppable growth
The fact that Gazprom works more in the interests of its contractors than in the interests of the state was loudly stated in June 2020 in a report by Sberbank CIB analysts led by Alex Fak . Soon, of course, he was fired, but the situation did not change. In addition to Sikharulidze and Pershin, the “kings” of gas contracts remain companies affiliated with businessmen close to the Kremlin: Gennady Timchenko , and Kovalchuk families .
The welfare of the top management of the state corporation is also growing. Thus, in 2018, 16 high-ranking managers of Gazprom earned a total of 2.551 billion rubles , i.e., an average of 160 million rubles . At the same time, the state received 73 billion rubles , or 497 rubles for each citizen of Russia.
And although the Ministry of Finance is constantly trying to ensure that Gazprom gives half of its net profit , Alexey Miller’s lobbyists always negotiate with the government, and the share of these contributions to the state budget remains at 27% .
Gas lobby
Miller's sustainability and the fabulous profits of his close contractors would have been impossible without promoting their interests at the legislative level. This, in particular, is facilitated by the head of the State Duma Committee on Energy, United Russia member Pavel Zavalny , who worked all his life in the gas corporation. He still owns an elite apartment in the Gazprom House residential complex. In addition, he heads the Russian Billiard Sports Federation, whose general partner is Gazprom.
It is interesting that Zavalny also has shares in the state corporation he lobbies, thanks to which he has an annual total income of 150 million rubles . “It’s not easy for the deputy in his position: he clearly has a conflict of interest. After all, it is in the interests of the state to receive as much money as possible into the budget from the gas giant, and in the interests of the top management and private shareholders of the company to save on taxes and dividends,” Fr.
Famous surnames
The board of directors of Gazprom is headed by ex-Prime Minister Viktor Zubkov 30 million rubles a year for his work However, even such a considerable salary would not have helped his daughter Yulia Zubkova purchase a mansion with an area of 567 square meters. m in the Barvikha village of Rechnoye, journalists are sure. According to them, the cottages adjacent to Zubkovsky are sold at a price of more than a billion rubles . True, here you need to take into account that Yulia in the past was the wife of ex-Minister of Defense Anatoly Serdyukov .
But the most “lobbyist” name in Gazprom belongs to Miller’s deputy, a doctor by profession, Mikhail Putin , who is appointed to oversee the economic and logistical support of the state corporation. Not without the participation of their supply manager, Gazprom decided to pay 376 million rubles for the purchase of new premium Mercedes-Benz cars.
“Some of Gazprom’s purchases raise suspicions. Thus, the company recently placed an order worth 1.2 billion rubles for workwear. One men's suit for protection against acid solutions made of overcoat cloth is valued at 2 thousand 775 rubles . According to the open price list, it costs 23% cheaper: 2 thousand 130 rubles ,” the publication found out.
If you have information about corruption violations by top managers of state corporations, write to the PASMI section “Report corruption.”
Leadership position
In 1991, the reform committee was liquidated. This happened due to the fact that Sobchak became mayor and began reformatting the apparatus of the Leningrad City Executive Committee. And there was no place for this committee in the new structure. Anatoly Chubais continued to advise Sobchak on economic issues. Therefore, it was not difficult for him to organize a new Committee for the management of the free enterprise zone in Leningrad. It was headed by Kudrin, already familiar to us. Alexey Miller, whose personal life is described below, also expressed a desire to work there, since he oversaw a project to organize a free economic zone in Leningrad. But Anatoly Chubais had other plans for him. He sent Alexey Borisovich to the Committee on Foreign Economic Relations (KBC) organized at the mayor's office. Moreover, the future head of Gazprom immediately took the position of head of the market conditions department.
Ideal Performer
Alexey Borisovich quickly worked well with Vladimir Vladimirovich. After all, he, like Putin, did not like to be the center of attention. The future head of Gazprom, Alexey Miller, diligently went about his business, was aware of all important matters and never talked too much. In a word, he “kept his head down.” Alexey Borisovich helped St. Petersburg and foreign companies find each other. At the same time, Miller did not sign important documents and did not make sensitive decisions. His name has never surfaced in connection with high-profile scandals or criminal cases. Alexey Borisovich tried to be like his boss in everything. For example, he, like Vladimir Vladimirovich, did not attend noisy buffets and public events, which Mayor Sobchak loved to attend.
Gazprom
The news of the appointment of Alexey Miller to the position of Chairman of the Board of Gazprom was a shocking surprise for the entire management of the company. From that moment on, a new era of returning the company under state control began at OAO Gazprom. Alexey Borisovich, as an experienced economist, was tasked with reviving the concern through reforms and returning the company’s assets lost by the ex-head of Gazprom, Rem Vyakherev.
Alexey Miller - Chairman of the Board of Gazprom
The world investor market received the news of the change in Gazprom's leadership with enthusiasm in connection with the upcoming reforms, which happened instantly. In just a few months, Alexey Miller renewed the old team of the concern with “his” people from the past, and also carried out a number of strategic reforms to revive the corporation. The new Gazprom team includes the head of the board of directors, Mikhail Sereda, the head of Mezhregiongaz, Kirill Seleznev, the chief accountant, Elena Vasilyeva, and the head of the financial and economic department of the concern, Andrey Kruglov.
After the “cleansing of veterans” at Gazprom, Alexey Miller began his main responsibilities - the return of the company’s lost assets. In this matter, Miller achieved tremendous success: for a nominal fee he returned large blocks of shares from Itera, restored lost control over SIBUR, Zapsibgazprom, Vostokgazprom, Northgas. But the most important achievement of Alexey Miller was the return of shares of Gazprom itself, thanks to which the 51% stake in the Russian Federation was restored, of which about 11% were held by the concern’s subsidiaries.
Alexey Miller as head of Gazprom
During Miller's tenure, Gazprom became the world's global energy business leader. The gas giant acquired large assets in the oil and energy sectors, strengthened its position in exports, created good economic ties with Italian and German corporations, began implementing projects to diversify supplies, and signed strategic agreements for gas supplies to Asia-Pacific countries. At the same time, Miller managed to eliminate actual competition from Gazprom in the gas sector.
In 2011, the successful head of Gazprom, Alexey Miller, was re-elected chairman of the concern's board for the next five years. During the years of his reign, he was repeatedly awarded prestigious state awards, which included medals “For Services to the Fatherland” in the development of the gas complex of the Russian Federation.
Job responsibilities
In the committee, Alexey Miller, whose nationality is of interest to many because of his, say, not quite Russian surname, was responsible for the Pulkovo economic zones, where Coca-Cola was located. He also supervised Parnassus and Baltika. During his time at KVS, Alexey Borisovich was remembered for bringing such foreign banks as Lyon Credit and Dresdener Bank to St. Petersburg. And on behalf of Vladimir Vladimirovich, he attracted foreign investment to the Northern capital. All issues were resolved by Miller quickly and competently. A. Miller represented the interests of the city in joint ventures and oversaw the hotel business - he was on the board of directors of the Europe Hotel.
Loss of position
In 1996, Anatoly Sobchak lost the elections and left office. Putin and his team were also forced to leave the mayor's office. Vladimir Vladimirovich left for Moscow, where he took the position of deputy manager of the affairs of the head of the Russian Federation. And Miller remained in St. Petersburg, becoming deputy director of Sea Port OJSC. At the same time, he did not lose contact with his former boss. When Putin headed the government of the Russian Federation in 1999, Alexey Borisovich became director of the Baltic Pipeline System OJSC.
Fast-paced career
In the early 90s, perhaps the most important acquaintance in his life happened in the life of Alexei Miller. At that time, the young specialist was just starting to work at the mayor’s office of St. Petersburg. His responsibilities included working with external relations, and Miller’s boss at the time was Vladimir Putin himself. He carried out his activities for five years, as a result of which the Committee on External Relations acquired contacts with serious Western banks.
After a rapid career in the Committee and good results, Alexey became a desired employee in many large companies in the Russian Federation, and they wanted him for leadership positions. From 1996 to 1999, he worked at, and then assumed the position of general director of OJSC Baltic Pipeline System.
In the early 2000s, Vladimir Putin occupied the main place in the Kremlin, and Miller decided to follow his friend to Moscow. There he receives the post of Deputy Minister of Russian Energy, but remains in office for only a year and becomes chairman of Gazprom. The new leadership, replacing Rem Vyakhirev, promises significant reforms, which happened almost immediately. The previously partially free Gazprom was completely transferred to the authorities and the process of returning assets that Vyakhirev lost during his leadership began.
A year after starting work at Gazprom, instead of his previous position, Alexey is appointed to the post of deputy chairman of the Board of Directors. During this period, the organization underwent significant personnel changes. Many people from Vyakhirev’s circle were fired. The vacant positions were filled by people with whom Miller had previously worked and people from the Kremlin.
Due to numerous reshuffles, it became popular that they would end with Alexei’s resignation, but he only just secured his position as manager, and in 2006 his contract was extended until 2011. A year earlier, the authoritative Harvard Business Review magazine assessed Miller's abilities and awarded him third place in the list of the most professional top managers in the whole world. In 2013, he was noted by Forbes magazine, according to the editors of which Alexey again took bronze in the ranking of the world's most successful managers, whose annual income is about $25 million. In the Russian Forbes list, despite all the problems of Gazprom, Miller still ranks 1st.
Frame cleaning
For the management of the gas company, such a decision by the President of the Russian Federation came as a complete surprise. The corporation's management learned this news only an hour before the next meeting of the board of directors. On it, Alexey Borisovich was presented as the head of the company. In his speech, Miller mentioned that he would adhere to the “continuity” of Gazprom’s policy. But top managers suspected that Vyakhirev’s staff would soon be purged. The start of A. Miller’s work, it is worth noting, was rather sluggish, although the market took the news of the change of management enthusiastically - investors decided that it was time for reforms. True, they themselves did not begin immediately.
As a result, Gazprom Chairman Alexey Miller not only replaced most of the personnel, but also turned the corporation’s treasury into an inexhaustible financial source for the Kremlin’s needs. Putin was pleased with the results of his work. The main merit of Alexey Borisovich is that he was able to return the controlling stake to the state and returned all the assets that were lost under R.I. Vyakhirev.
Miller also decided to refocus the corporation on business globalization. Under him, Gazprom acquired assets in the oil sector and electric power industry, increased the share of gas in imports to 40% (supplies to Europe), and also established contacts with the Italian ENI and the German BASF and E.On.
Miller Alexey Borisovich
Family
Alexey was born and raised in a family of “Russian Germans”. Mother - Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Miller (1936-2009), father - Boris Vasilyevich Miller (1933-1986). Parents worked at the Radio Electronics Research Institute of the USSR Ministry of Aviation Industry, which was later transformed into the Leninets Research and Production Association. His mother worked as an engineer, his father as a fitter.
Married. He and his wife Irina are raising a son, Mikhail.
Biography
Alexey Miller was born on January 31, 1962 in Leningrad.
He studied at school-gymnasium No. 330 in the Nevsky district of Leningrad. In 1984 he graduated from the Leningrad Financial and Economic Institute named after. N. A. Voznesensky.
In the 1980s, he was part of the circle of Leningrad economists-reformers, whose informal leader was Anatoly Chubais ; was a member of the "Synthesis" club at the Leningrad Youth Palace, which included young Leningrad economists and social scientists, including: Dmitry Vasiliev, Mikhail Dmitriev, Andrei Illarionov, Boris Lvin, Mikhail Manevich, Andrei Lankov, Andrei Prokofiev, Dmitry Travin and others.
In 1984-1986 - engineer-economist at LenNIIproekt.
In 1987-1990 he studied at the graduate school of the LFEI named after. N.A. Voznesensky.
In 1990 - junior researcher at LenNIIproekt.
In 1991, a fateful acquaintance took place for Alexei Borisovich. This year he began his work in the Committee for External Relations of the St. Petersburg City Hall, where the position of his chief was held by the current President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin . Miller worked under Putin's leadership for five years. During this time, we managed to establish contacts with the largest Western banks.
The change of power in St. Petersburg forced Alexey Miller to change his place of work. Having extensive connections, Miller became a desirable candidate for senior positions in major Russian companies. He was invited to work at, and there he worked for three years.
Since 1999, Miller took the position of General Director at OJSC Baltic Pipeline System .
According to the results of the elections in Russia in 2000, Vladimir Putin became president. Following him, his former subordinate Alexey Miller moved to the capital. He was appointed to the post of Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, but remained in office for only a year (2000-2001).
Since 2001, he has become Chairman of the Management Board of OJSC Gazprom , and since 2002 - Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of OJSC Gazprom. The dismissal of Rem Vyakhirev , who had worked as chairman of Gazprom for almost ten years, meant rapid changes in the company.
With the arrival of Miller, Gazprom becomes completely controlled by the state, and work begins to return assets lost during Vyakhirev’s rule.
There were also major personnel changes. Being far from the energy sector, Miller needed people for whom this field was not alien. A number of leadership positions went to people with whom the new chairman of the board had already worked; other appointments came from the Kremlin ; some members of Vyakhirev’s team managed to retain their posts.
Despite the fact that experts predicted Miller's imminent resignation, he strengthened his position. By 2004, the formation of a renewed management apparatus was completed. In 2006, Miller's work contract was extended for another five years.
At the beginning of 2010, the head of Gazprom, Alexey Miller, took third place in the ranking of the most effective top managers in the world according to Harvard Business Review .
Experts studied the work of two thousand general directors of companies; the effectiveness of the general directors was measured by the income of shareholders during their tenure. At the same time, income was adjusted taking into account inflation and average indicators for the country and sector of the economy.
On May 18, 2010, Miller was elected vice-president of the Russian Football Union . In the second quarter of 2012, Miller took the post of Chairman of the Board of Directors of OJSC Russian Hippodromes .
In December 2014, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced the closure of the South Stream . Later, the head of Gazprom, Alexey Miller, explained that instead of South Stream, a pipeline would be built through Turkey to the border with Greece, where a gas hub could be created.
In January, Alexey Miller advised European buyers to speed up preparations for changing the gas supply route due to the cessation of supplies through Ukraine.
In October 2020, the annual ranking of the largest energy companies compiled by the American agency Platts was published - Gazprom dropped from 4th to 43rd place.
The highest place in the ranking of Russian companies is now occupied by Rosneft , which dropped from 6th place to 10th. Surgutneftegaz was in 12th place, and LUKOIL was in 13th place. Meanwhile, back in 2008, Miller stated that, thanks to high gas prices, he was going to increase capitalization to $1 trillion in ten years so that the company would become the most valuable in the world.
Alexey Miller has numerous government awards.
The top manager prefers to spend his free time with his family. He is interested in horse racing. Alexey Miller owns thoroughbred stallions - Vesely and Fragrant .
Vesely, imported from the USA, took 3rd place on August 12, 2012 at one of the races at the Central Moscow Hippodrome, receiving a prize of 3,000 rubles. Born at the Donskoy stud farm, Fragrant came first to the finish line seven times during his career and remained in the prizes 12 times.
Income
In 2013, he entered the top 3 Forbes list (3rd place) of the most expensive managers in Russia with an income of $25 million.
Rumors, scandals
Classmates said that Miller was an “inconspicuous guy,” although an excellent student. After graduating from FINEK in 1984 with honors, Alexey Miller got a job as an economist at LenNIIproekt, but the relationship with the team did not work out.
Miller also kept a low profile in the Young Economists Club . According to the recollections of the “young reformers,” Miller listened there more than spoke and was considered perhaps the weakest link in Chubais’ team. But when Chubais needed personnel, Miller was not forgotten.
He was offered a vacancy in the city committee for external relations, which in those years was headed by Vladimir Putin. At first, Miller was the deputy head of the department, then his boss, then Putin’s deputy. Then he was a dim young man, containing a certain mystery and secrecy.
Miller was also invisible at meetings of the North-West Center for Strategic Research Foundation. He, unlike Yakunin or Kovalchuk, did not rant or speak, although it was clear that he was close to this circle.
For Putin, he was, first of all, a working person, reliable, someone you can rely on. Indeed, former colleagues confirm that Miller could work 16 hours a day if necessary.
Despite his marital status, there are persistent rumors in the Moscow gay scene about Miller’s bisexuality.
People who worked with Alexei Miller at Smolny remember: “He always said hello and smiled.” “He’s not a bad official, it’s noticeable that the careerist, although he behaved modestly, was always in the shadows. You know, the one who “sounds bigger than he sounds.” (“Izvestia”, 2001).
One of Miller’s former colleagues at KVS said: “Alexey is very efficient and obedient. He does what he is told to do. There is nothing bad to say about him, but nothing good either. He does not have his own opinion and is very convenient to deal with some other “Media Bridge”. But Miller won’t dare steal from him. Unless it's for yourself." (“Vedomosti”, 2001.)
In 2005, a criminal case was opened regarding the theft of money from Mezhregiongaz , a 100% subsidiary of Gazprom. The essence of the fraud is that smaller companies also produce gas, but it can only be sold to Gazprom, since it has a pipe, Alexey Navalny .
“However, Gazprom people say, for example, to Novatek: “We can only buy half.” The next day, an unknown company, Trustinvestgaz (TIG), comes to Novatek and offers to buy the remaining half at the same price that Gazprom itself charges - 500 rubles per thousand cubic meters. And a day later, Gazprom buys all this gas from TIG for 915 rubles, although two days ago it refused to take 500. After which the gas is given to the end consumer for 1000 rubles, but Gazprom no longer makes 100% of it, but just a little bit "
Navalny does not rule out that in this way “effective managers” from Gazprom, simply moving pieces of paper around the table, earned 1.5 billion rubles. Only on this episode!
“According to the documents, the money was withdrawn to the Baltic states and cashed there,” Navalny explained. – Only through one of dozens of companies 293 million rubles were pumped. But there are other episodes of the case. I think there are at least a thousand similar companies involved in this fraud, in different countries. Imagine how much money!”
However, the head of Gazprom himself has avoided charges of fraud, at least for now.
Construction of gas pipelines
Miller was the initiator of the construction of the North European Gas Pipeline. It was planned to carry it through the Baltic Sea, bypassing the countries providing gas transit to Europe. The construction date was set to 2005. But due to the fact that the authors of the project were unable to prepare a long-term business plan, pipe laying began only in 2010. It was also decided to give the project a new name – “Nord Stream”
In addition, Alexey Borisovich is actively working on laying the South Stream through the Black Sea. A number of contracts on gas supplies to the Asia-Pacific region were signed. Miller also pushed through the decision to abolish state regulation of domestic prices. But criticism of Alexey Borisovich does not subside.
Criticism
The head of Gazprom does not pay any attention to her. Even despite some health problems (due to kidney problems, Alexey Borisovich was forced to give up his favorite beer), he is not going to resign. And who would leave such a highly paid post of their own free will.
However, the attacks on Miller continue unabated. Thus, his project to build a skyscraper for Gazprom on the banks of the Neva was subject to very harsh criticism. If the 396-meter building were erected, it would completely disfigure the entire architectural style of the city. The residents of St. Petersburg achieved the cancellation of construction by expressing a lot of unpleasant things to Alexey Borisovich.
Another area of criticism was Miller's love of luxury. In 2009, photographs of his proposed estate being built on the banks of the Istra Reservoir went viral on the Internet. The wits called it “Millerhof”. The experts modestly kept silent about the cost of construction. Miller himself categorically denies that he has anything to do with the estate. Moreover, critics have no evidence. However, nothing surprising. As a rule, persons of this level are constantly attacked by the yellow press, which attributes to them all kinds of conceivable and unimaginable sins and actions.
Personal life and hobbies
The head of Gazprom, Alexey Borisovich Miller, does not like to talk about his personal life. It is known that for many years he has been officially married. His wife named Irina is a non-public figure. Since the wedding, she has not worked anywhere and has only been doing housework. Irina does not like to attend social events, like Alexey Miller. The couple also have children. More precisely, only one child - son Mikhail. But there is no information about him in open sources.
From a young age, Alexey Borisovich has been interested in football and is a fan of the Zenit club. Miller also enjoys horse riding. The chairman of Gazprom owns two thoroughbred stallions. Alexey Borisovich is also no stranger to parties, but only with family and friends, whom he entertains by playing and singing the guitar.
Over time, Alexey Borisovich’s interest in equestrian sports grew into work. In 2012, Vladimir Putin appointed Miller to the position of head of Russian Hippodromes OJSC. The main task set by the president is the revival of domestic equestrian sport.
Matters of the heart
The personal life of the top manager, like other famous people in Russia, remains in the shadow of his professional activities. It is known for certain that Alexey Miller has been married for many years. His wife Irina prefers housekeeping to various social events. Because of this, she is very rarely seen in public.
Alexey Miller's family has an only child - son Mikhail . The man does not have accounts on social networks; details of his life can be found out exclusively from newspapers and magazines.
The media has repeatedly published information about the relationship between the head of Gazprom and the deputy head of the government apparatus, Marina Entaltseva. Various Russian magazines have repeatedly published photographs of them together. However, this information has not been officially confirmed.
The man spends all his free time with his family. Miller has loved football from a young age and is the most famous fan of FC Zenit. In addition, Alexey Borisovich has another hobby - equestrian sport; he is the owner of several thoroughbred stallions. The head of the gas corporation also likes to spend evenings with his family, performing songs with a guitar.
The man’s passion for horses spilled over into the work sphere. In 2012, the president appointed him head of the Russian Hippodromes joint-stock company. Putin instructed Miller to revive the industry and the country's equestrian sport as a whole.
Income
Quite a lot of people are interested in how much does Alexey Miller earn? In 2013, Forbes ranked him third in its ranking of the most successful and expensive managers in the world. According to the magazine, Alexey Miller's income is a very significant amount with numerous zeros. But there is no official data on this matter. Therefore, we are not able to give a real figure, and, in principle, there is no need for us to count other people’s money. Everyone understands that Gazprom is a rich company, and therefore wages there are an order of magnitude higher than in other industries.
Alexey Miller’s career rise: from St. Petersburg mayor’s office to Gazprom
In 1991, a fateful acquaintance took place for Alexei Borisovich.
This year he began his work in the Committee for External Relations of the St. Petersburg City Hall, where the current President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin held the position of his head. Miller worked on the Committee for five years. During this time, the organization managed to establish contacts with the largest Western banks. Alexey Miller (OJSC Gazprom) in the oncoming lane. A593MR 97 The change of power forced Alexei Miller to leave his home. Having risen high through the ranks of the External Relations Committee, Miller became a sought-after candidate for senior positions in major Russian companies. His new place of work was where Alexey Miller worked for three years. Since 1999, the successful top manager took the place of general director at OJSC Baltic Pipeline System.
According to the results of the elections in Russia in 2000, Vladimir Putin occupied the presidential chair. Following his former boss, his former subordinate Alexey Miller also moved to the capital. He was appointed to the post of Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, but remained in office for only a year.
In 2001, Miller became chairman of the board of Gazprom. The dismissal of Rem Vyakhirev, who served as chairman for almost ten years, promises the largest energy organization rapid reforms, which were not long in coming. From this moment, Gazprom becomes completely controlled by the state, and work begins to return assets lost during Vyakhirev’s rule.
Alexey Miller: crests are messing with Russian gas In 2002, Alexey Miller became Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of OJSC Gazprom. By this time, the organization had undergone major personnel changes. Being far from the energy sector, Miller needed people for whom this field was not alien. A number of leadership positions went to people with whom the new chairman of the board had already worked; other appointments came from the Kremlin; some members of Vyakhirev’s team managed to retain their posts.
However, despite the reforms being carried out, evil tongues foreshadowed Miller's imminent resignation. The beginning of his work was not active enough, and, according to some experts, the personnel changes that began should have ended with the resignation of the new leader. No matter what rumors circulate, and no matter what is whispered about on the sidelines, Alexey Miller has firmly strengthened his position. By 2004, the formation of a renewed management apparatus came to an end. In 2006, Miller's work contract was extended for another five years.
The head of Gazprom Alexey Miller is a fan of Zenit St. Petersburg
No matter how controversial and dubious the start may seem, Alexey Miller achieved good results as chairman of the board. In 2010, the American magazine Harvard Business Review ranked Miller third in the ranking of the world's most effective top managers. In 2013, the chairman of the board of OJSC Gazprom took third place in the Forbes list, and was named one of the most expensive Russian managers.
