Most Russians associate the surname Matvienko with the former governor of the Northern capital and current head of the Federation Council Valentina Ivanovna. However, her son Sergei is no less famous. In the 90s, he became involved in a criminal case. Later, the young man came to his senses and started promoting his own business, thanks to which he managed to become a billionaire. In addition to financial success, Sergei Matvienko became famous for his affairs with beautiful women. Previously, his wife was the popular singer Zara, and today he is married to former fashion model Yulia Zaitseva.
Family
The future billionaire was born on May 5, 1973 into the family of Valentina Ivanovna and Vladimir Vasilyevich Matvienko. He was born in Leningrad (now St. Petersburg). Sergei's parents are graduates of the Leningrad Chemical-Pharmaceutical Institute. His mother was already an active public figure. Soon after graduating from the institute, she became the head of the department, and 6 years later - the first secretary of the Komsomol district committee. Sergei's father worked as a teacher at the Leningrad Military Medical Academy. It is clear that a child in such a family should have grown up to be a highly educated person. And so it happened. Sergei Matvienko received two higher educations. Valentina Ivanovna’s son has diplomas in popular specialties: “International Economics” and “Finance and Credit”.
Family of Valentina Matvienko
As mentioned at the beginning of the article, Valentina Matvienko’s family was not connected with politics or public life. In addition, until a certain point, the woman herself did not think that she would connect her activities with such a profession. Mom had a little connection to art - she was engaged in sewing costumes for performances.
Valentina's father, Ivan Tyutin, was a front-line soldier, and when the girl went to second grade, he died. This turn of fate put the family's financial situation at a very disadvantage. Therefore, young Valentina wanted to get a diploma as soon as possible in order to earn her own money.
Business
Sergey began his working career in 1992 as a manager at the Augustina investment check fund. After working there for 3 years, the young financier established his own in 1995. This was followed by the founding of the limited liability company Zodchiy. For some time, Sergey Vladimirovich Matvienko was listed as an employee of the banks Inkombank and Lenvneshtorg. In 2003, he was appointed vice president of Bank St. Petersburg. The son of Valentina Matvienko held this post until 2010. In parallel with this, since 2004, Sergei Vladimirovich began acting as vice president of another large financial institution - Vneshtorgbank. After 2 years, he became the founder of the closed joint-stock company VTB Capital. Investment projects and real estate of Vneshtorgbank came under the management of the established company. In 2010, he was appointed to the post of General Director of VTB Development. Among other things, Matvienko owns, which owns 28 subsidiaries and is engaged in activities in the field of cleaning, construction, media market and transportation. In the spring of 2012, Sergei Vladimirovich began overseeing the promising domestic e-sports project Moscow Five.
In 2011, Matvienko entered the list of the richest people in Russia. According to the rating of billionaires compiled by the domestic publication “Finance”, he took 486th place in the list of 500 possible. Experts estimated his assets at almost 5 billion rubles.
A dark spot in the billionaire's past
Today Sergei Matvienko, whose photo is presented in this article, is a successful businessman. High-ranking officials in Russia and abroad take him into account, and the best financiers in the world listen to his opinion. However, in his youth, Valentina Ivanovna’s son had problems with the law, which could not have the best impact on the development of his career. In 1994, young Matvienko became involved in a criminal case involving beating and robbery. Sergei at that time worked at the Augustina Foundation, and his famous mother served as the Russian Ambassador to Malta. For several years, the case materials were hidden from prying eyes, but at the beginning of the 2000s they fell into the hands of journalists and became available to the public. The information leak occurred just during the appointment of Valentina Matvienko as governor of St. Petersburg and could have been the beginning of the end of her political career. The woman was then able to retain her high position, but her son’s illegal act became the topic of many conversations.
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Today, Sergei Matvienko is officially the general director of the development subsidiary of the VTB Group - VTB-Development, which is leading such projects as the Embankment of Europe and the Nevsky Town Hall. But its introduction into city real estate did not stop there.
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As a private investor, Sergei Matvienko is the 100% owner of Imperia CJSC. This company was created in the same 2003, when Valentina Matvienko was elected to the post of governor of St. Petersburg. Sergey is also considered the owner of MST-Holding CJSC, which has a 45% stake in Metrocom OJSC.
Now Empire already has 28 subsidiaries operating in the field of development, transportation, cleaning and the media market. Experts estimate Sergei Matvienko’s business at no less than $1 billion. They also do not rule out that in 2011, before the end of Valentina Matvienko’s gubernatorial term, the number of his public assets may increase.
Today, among the most famous subsidiaries of JSC Imperia, five are reconstructing a building in the Vasileostrovsky district into a hotel and office building and implementing a project for the center of contemporary art “City of Masters” almost opposite the cruiser Aurora.
Kronstadt Sails LLC should build a complex with business, retail and residential facilities on Kotlin Island, where the joint Naval Academy will also be located (an agreement on its construction was signed in 2008 between the Russian Ministry of Defense, the governor of St. Petersburg and VTB Bank). CJSC Versiya intends to build a hotel and health complex in the village of Solnechnoye. And finally, the fifth. Its subsidiaries: 49% - Stremberg CJSC, 18% - Interferrum-metal CJSC and 10% - Kinoomsk LLC.
is building a sports and entertainment complex “Peter Land” near the park of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg.
in 2011, revenue increased by 25% St. Petersburg real estate market
Case Details
How did it happen that an educated, wealthy guy from a decent family became involved in crime? According to the protocol, Sergei Matvienko and his friend Evgeniy Murin (the son of a famous professor at the State University of St. Petersburg) severely beat their friend A. Rozhkov, and then tried to take away valuables from him to pay off a debt that he did not return to them. A criminal case was opened against the guys after committing a crime. They faced 4 to 10 years in prison.
Sergei Matvienko was arrested on the day the crime was committed, but three days later he was released home, having taken a written undertaking not to leave. The guy partially admitted his guilt. Murin was taken into custody after Matvienko was released from the pre-trial detention center. However, not a single one of Rozhkov’s offenders received the punishment they deserved. In 1994, the case was hushed up, apparently not without the intervention of the boys’ high-ranking parents. Soon after this, Matvienko plunged headlong into his own business, taking up the establishment, and his accomplice Murin went to re-educate into the army.
Granddaughter Arina was born as a gift for Matvienko’s anniversary
SAINT PETERSBURG, April 10. The son of the governor of St. Petersburg, Sergei Matvienko, and his wife Yulia gave their daughter the name Arina. Sergei Matvienko reported this in an interview with the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper.
In addition, Sergei admitted that his four-day-old daughter is similar to her grandmother in “external features.” He hopes that she will become as energetic a leader as her grandmother. And Valentina Matvienko herself promised that she would be directly involved in raising the baby.
Matvienko admitted that it was no coincidence that Arina was born on the eve of Valentina Ivanovna’s anniversary. “To be honest, Yulia and I have everything figured out,” he said.
Let us recall that the only son of Valentina Ivanovna Sergei Matvienko and his wife Yulia Zaitseva had a daughter on April 6. And the governor recently celebrated her 60th birthday.
Valentina Matvienko (nee Tyutina) was born on April 7, 1949 in the city of Shepetovka, Khmelnitsky region, Ukrainian SSR. In 1967 she moved to Leningrad. In 1972 she graduated from the Leningrad Chemical-Pharmaceutical Institute, in 1985 from the Academy of Social Sciences under the CPSU Central Committee, in 1991 from advanced training courses for senior diplomatic officials at the Diplomatic Academy of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Since 1972, Matvienko has been involved in Komsomol and party work. She climbed the career ladder from the head of a department of the Petrograd district committee to the first secretary of the Leningrad regional committee of the Komsomol. From 1984 to 1986 she worked as first secretary of the Krasnogvardeisky district committee of the CPSU. From 1986 to 1989 she worked as deputy chairman of the executive committee of the Leningrad City Council of People's Deputies on issues of culture and education. From 1989 to 1992 she was a people's deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR. From 1989 to 1991, she served as chairman of the Supreme Court Committee on Women's Affairs, Family Protection, Motherhood and Childhood.
From 1991 to 1994 she worked as Ambassador of the USSR and the Russian Federation to the Republic of Malta. From 1994 to 1995, she served as Ambassador at Large for the Group of Ambassadors at Large. From 1995 to 1997, she was director of the Russian Foreign Ministry's department for relations with the constituent entities of the Federation, parliament and socio-political organizations and a member of the ministry's board. From 1997 to 1998 she worked as the Russian Ambassador to Greece. On September 24, 1998, she was appointed Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, overseeing a block of social issues in the government of Evgenia Primakova. She was deputy prime minister in the governments of Sergei Stepashin (since May 1999) and Vladimir Putin (since August 1999). Retained her post in the government of Mikhail Kasyanov (since May 2000).
In March 2003, Putin appointed Matvienko as the Presidential Plenipotentiary Representative in the Northwestern Federal District. After the appointment of the Governor of St. Petersburg, Vladimir Yakovlev, as Deputy Prime Minister, Matvienko took part in the gubernatorial elections held on October 5, 2003, and won and holds the position of head of the city to this day.
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Meet Zara
In 2004, Sergei Matvienko became the hero of gossip columns. The businessman’s personal life began to be discussed in the media in connection with his marriage to the young singer Zarifa Mgoyan, better known by her stage name Zara. Sergei saw a girl at one of the fashion shows, and he immediately liked her exotic beauty. Brought up in strict Eastern traditions, Zara did not reciprocate Matvienko’s feelings for a long time. In order to win her favor, the man began to beautifully look after her. He attended all her performances and gave her gorgeous bouquets of flowers. But Zara was in no hurry to let him into her life. Then the businessman decided to go all-in and proposed to the singer. The girl answered him with consent. Zara’s parents liked their daughter’s fiancé, and they gave the young couple their blessing. After Valentina Matvienko approved her son’s choice, preparations for the wedding began.
Family life and divorce
The wedding of the singer and businessman became a real social event. However, the spouses turned out to be very different in cultural upbringing and could not get along together. In addition, the banker’s young wife was interested in the career of a pop star, and not in the birth of an heir. Sergei's friends believed that, having married an influential and rich man, Zara was counting on his financial support. However, Matvienko was in no hurry to invest money in promoting his wife, and soon after the wedding, serious conflicts began between the newlyweds. Her high-ranking mother-in-law was not delighted with Zara’s ambitions either.
A year and a half after the wedding, the couple separated. The divorce of Zara and Sergei Matvienko cost the latter 500 thousand dollars. This is exactly the amount the young singer demanded from her husband as a payoff. She invested the money she received in her own promotion. Soon after the divorce, Valentina Matvienko’s ex-daughter-in-law met official Sergei Ivanov and married him in 2008. Zara's second marriage turned out to be more successful than the first. Today the couple are raising two sons and look quite happy.
Personal life of Valentina Matvienko
Although Valentina Matvienko’s personal life is full of stability, along with her political career, many are interested in how it turned out. Everything here is extremely simple and transparent - when she was studying at the chemical institute, she met Vladimir Matvienko. After a while, the young people got married.
Since then, both spouses have lived in a happy marriage. And if any disagreements arise, they try to resolve everything as quickly as possible. In 1973, the couple had a son, which we will talk about below.
Wedding with Yulia Zaitseva
Zara’s first husband, Sergei Matvienko, did not waste any time after the divorce. Photos of his new fiancee were kept secret for a long time and appeared in the media shortly before the wedding. The banker’s second wife was a student of the Faculty of Philology and fashion model Yulia Zaitseva. She is much younger than her chosen one: by the time she met her future husband, she was a little over 20 years old. The spectacular blonde captivated Sergei with her beauty and intelligence. Having fallen in love with the girl, Matvienko soon proposed to her.
The young people got married in St. Petersburg on the last day of November 2008. At the time of the wedding, Julia was already four months pregnant. She was dressed in a chic snow-white dress that successfully hid her rounded tummy. Only close relatives of the newlyweds were invited to the holiday, and immediately after its end the happy newlyweds went on a romantic trip to Italy for 7 days. Returning to Russia, Sergei went about his work, and his wife began to prepare to defend her PhD thesis in economics.
Birth of a daughter
Late in the evening of April 6, 2009, in an elite Swiss clinic, Yulia Matvienko, Sergei’s wife, gave birth to his daughter Arina. The birth of the baby on this very day became a real gift for her grandmother-politician, because on April 7, Valentina Ivanovna was preparing to celebrate her sixtieth birthday. The governor of St. Petersburg had long dreamed that her only son would give her a grandson or granddaughter, and finally, her wish came true. Valentina Matvienko was one of the first to congratulate her son and daughter-in-law on the birth of an heiress. In addition to her, many celebrities expressed their good wishes to the young family. But Sergei Vladimirovich Matvienko did not receive congratulations from his ex-wife. Zara, who had recently gotten married for the second time, ignored the joyful event in the life of her first husband.
Details of the family life of Sergei and Yulia Matvienko are not advertised today. The businessman’s second wife turned out to be a non-public person, so seeing her at fashionable events is almost impossible. The young woman is of little interest in social life. She is involved in raising her daughter and home, which her influential banker husband really likes.
Matvienko Valentina Ivanovna: biography, family, personal life, nationality
Famous Russian politician born in 1949. Her mother sewed costumes for performances, and her father was a front-line soldier and died when Valentina Matvienko entered second grade. After graduating from school, the girl entered a medical university, where she met her future husband Vladimir, who can be seen in the photo of the girl’s youth.
Valentina Matvienko's political career began in the Communist Party, where she was at first an ordinary member. Thanks to her activity and business qualities, the girl received the position of secretary of the regional committee. In 2008, Valentina Matvienko was elected head of the Federation Council. She continues to work there to this day.
Interesting details about the businessman
The biography of Sergei Matvienko contains many interesting facts from his life. For example, the famous businessman celebrated his 35th birthday in the luxurious Yusupov Palace, one of the main attractions of the Northern capital. The banker then spent about 60 thousand euros on his birthday celebration.
Despite his mother’s high status, Sergei Matvienko did not shy away from the army. For two years he served in the Russian border troops on the border with Finland.
There are a lot of rumors about Sergei Matvienko on the Internet. After his divorce from Zara, false information appeared on one of the websites that he died of a heroin overdose.
Valentina Matvienko's son loves to read. He always takes 5-6 books on business trips. In addition to literature, Sergei Vladimirovich is interested in classical music. His favorite composers are Chopin, Beethoven and Mozart.
How Valentina Matvienko's son took over Petersburg
Chairman of the Federation Council of the Russian Federation Valentina Matvienko with her son. Photo: Alexey Danichev / RIA Novosti Journalists have calculated that in ten years, the son of the former governor of St. Petersburg Valentina Matvienko became the owner of vast plots of land and even architectural monuments that had recently belonged to the authorities of the Northern capital, with a market value of about 8.4 billion rubles. At the same time, the privatization processes that accompanied the transfer of real estate into the hands of businessman Sergei Matvienko cannot be called transparent and legal.
Russiangate published a large-scale investigation into the real estate of the son of Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matvienko, billionaire Sergei Matvienko . If you believe the publication, then at first a relative of an influential official suspiciously easily obtained several large plots of land in St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region for a long-term lease, and then just as easily turned them into the property of his companies without incurring serious financial costs. That is, expensive real estate properties went to a successful businessman and part-time son of the ex-governor of St. Petersburg for almost nothing.
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Sergei Matvienko’s acquisition of expensive assets took place in two stages: first, when his mother was the head of the city, he received all the properties for rent for various investment projects, and a few years later, when Georgy Poltavchenko became the governor of St. Petersburg, he freely privatized the occupied real estate, regardless of its status and purpose. The market value of real estate is estimated at almost 8.4 billion rubles.
Journalists counted nine resolutions of the ex-governor of St. Petersburg, and now the speaker of the Federation Council, Valentina Matvienko, thanks to which private companies received the lease of city property. Most of them involved the creation of hotel complexes. What these governor's orders have in common is that investors chose commercial structures close to Valentina Matvienko's son, Sergei. These investors later became property owners by exercising the right of first refusal and ignoring the express prohibition on the alienation of these assets.
In the village of Solnechnoye near Sestroretsk, Sergei Matvienko received ownership of 14.07 hectares of land near the Gulf of Finland. The land was acquired in parts and was originally intended for the construction of summer cottages and a hotel. The cost of a single plot was 666 million rubles, but Matvienko bought it at a lower price, and the hotel investment project, for which the land was leased to one of the billionaire’s companies, died out and no one remembers about it.
Vollenweider's mansion is the property of Matvienko
“The two-story mansion of the Swiss citizen Vollenweider on Kamenny Island in St. Petersburg was built in 1904 according to the design of Robert-Friedrich Melzer, an architect who worked on orders from the imperial court. Northern Art Nouveau, Neo-Gothic - the mansion has partially preserved interior decoration, including ornamental moldings, marble fireplaces with mirrors, stoves and stained glass. In October 2009, Valentina Matvienko leased the historical mansion to Business Invest LLC. The ex-governor believed that a hotel would appear there too,” writes Russiangate.
The lease agreement for the building and the land underneath it was initially concluded for the period of repair work, but soon the plot under the mansion was divided into two, one of which became the property of Business-Invest. Its market value fluctuates around 700 million rubles, but the amount of the transaction during which the building was transferred to Sergei Matvienko is unknown. The second plot of land is still leased to the LLC until 2020. And the Vollenweider mansion itself quietly passed into private hands in July 2011 - nothing and no one stopped Business Invest LLC from taking over a cultural heritage site worth about 550 million rubles. The official owner of the LLC is a certain Alexander Zaitsev, the full namesake of Sergei Matvienko’s father-in-law.
“Russiangate did not find on the city government website a new investment agreement with entrepreneurs that would explain how the 1,154 sq. m. will be used. meters of the park, as well as what the ex-investor is now obliged to do on the territory of 3895 sq. meters and standing on it alone, having lost its value for officials from Smolny. The transactions have not been published on the website of the Property Fund of St. Petersburg,” the material says. Journalists also note that all conditions of the privatization deal should be checked by the Prosecutor General's Office and the Investigative Committee.
Another hotel
Under the pretext of equipping a hotel, the residential building of V. S. Likhareva at Bolshaya Alleya, 6a went into private hands. Its current owner is Megastroy LLC, owned by Sergei Matvienko. At first, the lease period for the plot under the building was 22 months, then it was extended for 49 years, and the house itself changed owners in March 2008. The ground followed the building's lead in June 2010. The cadastral value of the property complex is about 142 million rubles, and the market value exceeds 600 million rubles. They forgot about the hotel, as in other cases - now the land plot is intended for multi-apartment development.
