Childhood
Kogan Vladimir Igorevich was born on April 27, 1963 in the city of Leningrad. His parents were busy people, they worked as engineers at a secret factory in the city. For this reason, there was very little time left for the child. Vladimir’s grandmother, Stella Efimovna, took on the responsibility for upbringing. She was an educated woman who was able to instill in the boy a love of learning and mathematics. She taught him everything on her own; the child did not attend kindergarten.
Vladimir entered a general education school, but already here his abilities in mathematics and analytical mind were evident. After the eighth grade, the parents decide to transfer their son to a physics and mathematics lyceum, which was famous for its good preparation.
Youth years
After receiving secondary education, the young man enters a polytechnic university, but does not complete his studies. He is expelled from the first year for self-will. According to the official version, he refused to spend the summer in a construction team and preferred to spend his free time relaxing with friends in the Pamirs, which at that time was famous as a meeting place for peculiar youth. The higher education institution did not tolerate such behavior and expelled the student.
After expulsion from the university, Vladimir Kogan ends up in the army. Here he serves for the required two years. After the debt to the Motherland has been paid, the young man decides to continue his studies again. He takes exams at the University of Civil Engineering, from where he graduates with a diploma in automotive engineering. Already during this period, his leadership qualities and ability to successfully engage in business began to manifest themselves.
Kogan, Vladimir Igorevich
Vladimir Igorevich Kogan was born on April 27, 1963 in Leningrad.
After receiving secondary education, he entered the Polytechnic University, but did not finish his studies - he was expelled from the first year.[5]
In 1983-1985 he served in the Soviet Army.
In 1989, having graduated from the Leningrad Civil Engineering Institute with a degree in auto mechanic engineering, he began working at the motor depot of the State Committee for Tourism of Leningrad.
In the early 1990s, he created and headed several trade organizations. According to media reports, at the same time, Kogan was close to an informal circle of Leningrad economists, which included Anatoly Chubais, Alexey Kudrin, Ilya Yuzhanov and others.
From 1990 to 1992 - Deputy Director of the Invest Association of Enterprises and Societies.
From 1992 to 1998 - General Director of the Petrovsky Trade House JV.
In 1994, Kogan’s Invert-Brock became shareholders of the Industrial and Construction Bank of St. Petersburg, and in March of the same year, Kogan was elected deputy chairman of the bank’s board. In April 1996, Kogan became chairman of the bank's supervisory board.
Since October 1996 - member of the Russian Government Council on banking issues. From 2001 to 2006 - member of the bureau of the board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (in 2006 he voluntarily left the bureau).
In the fall of 1997, he headed the established CJSC Banking House of St. Petersburg. The places of vice-presidents in the organization were occupied by the wife of the Chairman of the Accounts Chamber Sergei Stepashin, Tamara Stepashina, and the former candidate for governor of St. Petersburg, the former head of the Frunzensky District Department of Internal Affairs of St. Petersburg, Anna Markova.
In September 2004, Kogan sold 75% of the shares of Promstroybank to Vneshtorgbank, going to work for the Federal Agency for Construction and Housing and Communal Services (Rosstroy). Since October 2005 - Director of the federal enterprise "North-Western Directorate of the State Construction Committee of Russia - Directorate of the complex of protective structures of St. Petersburg from floods"[6]. On December 30, 2004, he was appointed deputy head of Rosstroi. In July 2008, he was appointed head of the department of the Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation[7]. In 2010, together with partners Krymsky Yu. G. and Iskhakov A. Z. acquired a 100% stake in the Afipsky Refinery. On November 10, 2011, a Decree was signed awarding Kogan the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree.[8] From July to August 2012, he served as head of the Federal Agency for Construction and Housing and Communal Services with the rank of Deputy Minister of Regional Development.
In 2020, he acquired a controlling stake in Uralsib Bank[3].
Illness and death
In the spring of 2020, he suffered a stroke.[9]
He died on June 19, 2020 in a private clinic located in the Danilovsky district of Moscow. It is reported that he has been in intensive care in an unconscious state for the past month and a half.[10]
Labor activity
Despite his early successes in business, Vladimir’s grandmother insisted that the young man first gain work experience by working in a government agency. Therefore, the activities of the future famous businessman began trivially - with work in his specialty at a local automobile depot. It was the beginning of the 90s, when everyone had the opportunity to change their life. Vladimir Kogan, whose biography began rather modestly, decided to take advantage of it. At the same time, he opens his own store called “Magic”. It was one of the few privately owned stores in the entire city.
At the same time, the entrepreneur is engaged in financing a well-known underground club with a radical liberal orientation. Members of this organization were such famous personalities as the Chubais brothers, A. Kudrin, P. Aven and others. According to the generally accepted version, club members spent all their free time thinking about plans to improve the lives of their compatriots in their homeland.
Subsequently, many of the members of this club will become Kogan’s assistants in business. Time-tested people have always been in demand.
The second brainchild of the aspiring businessman was an organization opened in 1992 that deals with supplying banks with office equipment (JV Petrovsky Trade House).
Banking activities
The banking sector was of great interest to the businessman. Kogan's company also served a bank called Promstroibank. Two years later, Vladimir Kogan becomes its shareholder and joins the Board of Directors. The businessman becomes the official deputy chairman of the bank, but in fact the permanent manager. This situation suited Vladimir Igorevich very much, since he did not like excessive attention to his person, and power was already concentrated in his hands.
The bank's activities developed successfully, and in 1994 Kogan became chairman of the institution. Then the banker's career developed rapidly. Soon he becomes the head of the Vita association, which included Promstroibank, Vitabank, as well as organizations involved in the food industry.
A year later, Vladimir Kogan (whose photo is presented in this article) becomes the head of such a large association as the St. Petersburg Banking House.
The main brainchild of a businessman and banking figure almost fell victim to the 1998 default, but the talent of its leader allowed it to stay afloat.
Vladimir Kogan, who has strong business acumen, was a member of the Council of Heads of several other large banks.
What was businessman Vladimir Kogan up to when he added his healthy BFA bank to the ailing Uralsib?
The dollar multimillionaire of the St. Petersburg spill, Vladimir Kogan, opened a new original page in the history of Uralsib Bank. This organization has already been noted for its unusual practices. It is known that the previous owner of the bank almost ruined him due to his passion for esotericism. The new owner was the once most influential St. Petersburg banker, who undertook to personally sanitize Uralsib, which is also a unique case. And now a healthy one is suddenly added to the sick bank. However, there is an explanation for this, which makes one admire Kogan’s business talent.
Subject: Banks and the financial crisis
Bad good bank
Businessman and owner of a fortune of more than half a billion dollars Vladimir Kogan
decided to merge BFA Bank with Uralsib Bank. Sources told Kommersant about this, and those around the banker confirmed the information. Kogan owns both credit institutions. He got Uralsib last year, after the Central Bank decided that it could no longer delay and the time had come to take the asset from the previous owner and improve it. BFA belongs to several shareholders; the largest stake is owned by the son of businessman Efim Kogan. It would seem like nothing, just an ordinary asset restructuring. But one thing is important here. Uralsib is undergoing rehabilitation; in a financial sense, it is a sick company. And a healthy one is added to it. The case is unprecedented.
However, the rehabilitation itself is also unique. In 2015, Uralsib could have gone bankrupt, but the license was not revoked. Apparently, the regulator considered that burying a bank with assets of 325 billion rubles would be more expensive for itself. The rehabilitation, however, was also not cheap; the rescue required 81 billion rubles, which Kogan received on credit from the Deposit Insurance Agency. The amount is gigantic. Although not a record. For example, the reorganization of the Bank of Moscow cost the state 400 billion rubles. The uniqueness was different. Usually, another bank is trusted to restore the bank to health. And here, for the first time in history, the reorganization was entrusted to an individual, that is, Vladimir Kogan personally. True, this face is such a face that other faces are far from it.
Great and mighty
In the 1990s, Vladimir Kogan was considered the most influential St. Petersburg banker, and his nickname was “The Great”. His Promstroibank grew by leaps and bounds, and one of the clients, as Forbes wrote, was the head of the mayor's committee for external relations and the future president of the country. Russian media attributed Kogan's friendship with Vladimir Putin. He himself, remaining a non-public person, remained silent. But recently, in response to a question whether he is a friend of the president, he said: “I would be happy if Vladimir Vladimirovich thought so.” However, the businessman already had enough career happiness in his life.
In the mid-2000s, Vladimir Kogan sold Promstroibank to VTB and followed the path of a Russian official. He worked at Rosstroi, and then moved to the Ministry of Regional Development. He made an attempt to return to big business in 2013. Then there were persistent rumors on the market that Kogan would buy Suleiman Kerimov’s stake in Uralkali. This was one of the most high-profile stories in Russian business with the detective arrest of the top manager of Uralkali in Belarus and the change of shareholder of the fertilizer manufacturer. As a result, Vladimir Kogan never bought shares in the potash company; Mikhail Prokhorov
and
Dmitry Mazepin
.
“The Great” waited in the wings for another two years until he became the owner of Uralsib. He received the package of Nikolai Tsvetkov
, who managed to bring the once thriving business to a pre-bankruptcy state.
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Banker in nirvana
The story of the sale of Uralsib was also quite loud. Throughout 2015, the banking market excitedly discussed the problems of this organization and built theories about who would ultimately get it. Alfa-Bank of Mikhail Fridman
and SMP Bank of the Rotenberg brothers.
However, the most important candidate for purchase was the Moscow Credit Bank of Roman Avdeev
. The media wrote that the businessman would get 75% of Uralsib for just a ruble. True, you will have to invest tens of billions of rubles in a bank that has lost its capital. Otherwise, Uralsib and its investors would face severe financial death. But in the end, the negotiations broke down, since Nikolai Tsvetkov refused to part with his assets for a symbolic price.
What Tsvetkov, who eventually parted with the bank anyway, was thinking about in recent years is unknown. One can only guess what he thought about love. About love for the whole world. And also about harmony. More about the purity of your own karma. As journalists found out, the bank owner’s passion for esoteric practices could have contributed significantly to Uralsib’s problems. At lunchtime, top managers gathered in one of the office rooms and looked for harmony. At some point, one of the employees could say that his heart was not beating correctly. Nikolai Tsvetkov perceived this as a sign that not everything was in order at the bank, and managers began to look for the heart of the bank. They say they paid good bonuses for this. For several years the banker was in constant euphoria. And when I came out of nirvana, I discovered that the bank had lost almost 30 billion rubles. And even yoga didn’t help him. Nowadays, although Tsvetkov remains a minority owner of Uralsib, this is more of a pension.
Excellence in Financial Business
When Vladimir Kogan took Tsvetkov’s place at Uralsib, the Russian media, naturally, again showed interest in the businessman. However, this surge quickly passed. The bank is being sanitized, but that’s fine. But the news about BFA Bank joining the credit organization is worthy of a separate remark. The fact is that Uralsib, as a bank in the process of reorganization, has the right to some concessions. That is, the regulator does not ask it as strictly as from other banks. The rules of the Central Bank are described in complex and not understandable terms. But, in essence, they boil down to ensuring that banks have enough of their own funds to pay off all depositors if something happens. And there should also be as few bad loans as possible, that is, loans that clients with a high degree of probability may not repay. Failure to comply with these rules often leads to reorganization or bankruptcy.
It is known that BFA is not doing well with bad debts. Now let's watch our hands. Vladimir Kogan is joining this bank to the ailing Uralsib and it turns out that he will now also have the right to a soft attitude from the Central Bank. This may not be true, but this is exactly what analysts told reporters. To make it clearer, let's give a simple example. Let’s say there’s a test coming up in math class at school. At this moment, the student, let it be Vasya, became seriously ill. And instead of the scary test, he goes home. But at this moment a student stands up, let it be Petya, and says: “You know, I am Vasya’s closest friend, we are one whole, I cannot leave him in such a difficult moment and I am going home with him.” And the teacher replies: “Well, of course, since you have such a close relationship with Vasya, then go in peace. And say hi to dad." If everything is so, then Vladimir Igorevich’s wonderful business trick deserves a solid five.
Public sphere
Kogan’s success in the banking industry only increased, but suddenly in 2004 he decided to give up everything and sell most of his shares in Promstroybank. Instead, the successful banker becomes deputy head of the Federal Agency for Construction and Housing and Communal Services.
In his new position, Kogan was entrusted with managing the construction of a major Russian project - the “Putin Dam”. The event required large financial expenditures and careful preparation. The structure was built near Kronstadt and included eleven dams that were supposed to save the city from floods. Despite the scale of construction, it was soon stopped due to lack of financial investment.
A few years later, a new civil servant joins the council of heads of Mosmetrostroy, and two years later he becomes deputy head of the Ministry of Regional Development.
The bet is greater than the banker Kogan
The owner of Uralsib Bank, Vladimir Kogan, has been in a coma for a month and a half. The powerful financier was let down by mountaineering. The business is so complex that there are four applicants to take it up. But the heir is also tempered by his father.
The main owner of Uralsib Bank, Vladimir Kogan, has serious health problems. On Friday, June 1, Vedomosti reported that the financier suffered a stroke a month ago and is being monitored by doctors today. The publication cites an encouraging forecast from a bank representative that the boss can return to work within a few months.
According to updated information from 47news, the situation is much more serious. Vladimir Kogan has been in a coma since April 15, his condition is supported by artificial support devices. This is how he met April 27 - on this day he turned 55 years old.
As interlocutors in the banking industry told our publication, the problems began during his next mountaineering expedition. The businessman, together with his family, conquered one of the world’s heights. Most likely, this provoked the pressure.
It is clear that in the house of a hanged man they do not talk about rope, but Kogan’s chances of recovery are said to be illusory. The entrepreneur will no longer be able to personally control the situation at Uralsib. At the same time, the business structure created by Vladimir Kogan can really be called an empire, the main features of which, as is known, are considered to be sole power based on a close circle, high loyalty of subjects, active expansion and, of course, the connections of the owner. Anyone not from the banking sector who does not know that Vladimir Kogan knows how to make friends - this is what brought him success.
According to 47news, negotiations on the future of Uralsib with the Central Bank are being conducted by Evgeny Kogan , the eldest 29-year-old son of Vladimir Igorevich. However, the weight of Uralsib Bank is such that only a few can help it. Interlocutors of 47news in the banking coordinate system name four structures that, theoretically, are ready to take over Kogan’s bank: Mikhail Fridman’s Alfa Group, Yuri Kovalchuk’s Rossiya Bank, Alexander Savelyev’s St. Petersburg Bank, as well as the state-owned Rosselkhozbank "
According to Interfax-CEA, at the end of the first quarter of 2020, Uralsib, with assets of 476 billion rubles, took 18th place in the ranking of domestic banks. And in the May financial rating of Banks.Ru, Uralsib is in 22nd place with an indicator of 526 billion rubles. Vladimir Kogan owns 81.82% of Uralsib, and another 11.35% still belongs to the bank’s former main shareholder, healthy eating enthusiast Nikolai Tsvetkov. Uralsib is headed by Konstantin Bobrov, who first encountered Kogan as a student at St. Petersburg State University in the mid-90s.
Vladimir Kogan came directly to Uralsib in November 2015, when the bank’s reorganization began. Then everyone was surprised that a private investor was chosen as the savior of the bank. Kogan received 81 billion rubles until 2025 for the financial rehabilitation of the credit institution. Money was given, among other things, under the name.
This, of course, was not an entry, but a return of the entrepreneur to the banking market. Vladimir Kogan stood at the foundation of the banking world of St. Petersburg. In 1994, his computer sales company became a shareholder of Industrial Construction Bank (PSB). Kogan, together with his friend David Traktovenko, began to move the bank to kings. The consequence of this was the emergence of the financial and industrial holding company “Banking House “St. Petersburg”. In 2004, Promstroybank was sold to VTB. However, after this sale, PSB remained BFA-Bank, a serious bank by St. Petersburg standards. In 2016, BFA decided to merge with Uralsib, which was being sanitized by Kogan.
After the sale of Promstroybank, Kogan went into public service. He goes to work at Gosstroy under the Ministry of Regional Development of the Russian Federation, heading the Directorate of the complex of protective structures (KPS) of St. Petersburg from floods. Having completed the most ambitious Soviet-Russian long-term construction project in August 2011, having officially put the dam into operation, at the end of 2012 Kogan left Gosstroy. It was said that he could not find a common language with the new head of the Ministry of Regional Development Igor Slyunyaev , who today is known as the Vice-Governor of St. Petersburg Igor Albin .
Kogan returned to business from the construction of the gas station in the status of a person capable of solving any problem. Still, construction of the dam began back in 1979, when Volodya Kogan, a 16-year-old student at Leningrad Physics and Mathematics School No. 239, had a year left before receiving his certificate. And in three years, the future proof of the Punacare hypothesis, Grigory Perelman, will graduate from the 239th. The complex of protective structures in St. Petersburg also became a kind of super task for Kogan, which he had to cope with, first of all, himself - to prove that I could do it here at the federal level.
But if the mathematician Perelman is absolutely indifferent to money and prefers seclusion in the Kupchinskaya panel with rare forays with a string bag to the neighboring “Pyaterochka”, then the mathematician Kogan, on the contrary, loves it and, most importantly, knows how to earn a lot. Score on the scoreboard. In the Forbes list of “Top 200 richest businessmen in Russia - 2018”, private investor Vladimir Kogan is in 91st place with $1.1 billion.
Navigating Kogan’s assets is not taking apart a bag of groceries. A lot of family and closely related things are intertwined in them. In addition to the open Uralsib, Kogan is close to Neftegazindustriya, whose owners are tied to the Cyprus offshore. The company operates the Afipsky oil refinery in the Krasnodar region, which Kogan promised to bring to the level of the plant in Kirishi in the Leningrad region within five years. In Kuban, Neftegazindustriya also fought with the Summa group of the Magomedov brothers for the state stake in the Novorossiysk commercial sea port.
Vladimir Kogan’s wife Lyudmila heads BFA-Development CJSC, which traces its history back to the same computer company “Petrovsky Trade House”, which became the basis for Promstroybank. Today, the developer has projects in the field of commercial and residential real estate with a total area of about 1.5 million square meters. In particular, BFA-Development is engaged in the redevelopment of the territory on the Sverdlovskaya embankment.
The eldest son, Evgeny Kogan, is not only a member of the board of the Uralsib tank, but also the general director of Termobimet LLC, which produces measuring and navigation instruments. Also, SPARK-Interfax sees Evgeniy Kogan as the head of the “Egeniy Vladimirovich Kogan Peasant Farm “Russia” in the village of Pravdino, Vyborg District, Leningrad Region.
Another son of the financier, Efim Kogan, owned 24.9% in BFA Bank, which became part of Uralsib. And Vladimir’s father, Igor Kogan, was a co-owner of the Osinovaya Roshcha logistics complex in the north of St. Petersburg and, together with David Traktovenko, owned the Baltros developer.
Actually, family is the most important thing for Vladimir Kogan. The sons Evgeniy and Efim are known due to their age and their positions in their father’s structures. But in fact, Vladimir and Lyudmila have four children. There is also a 19-year-old daughter, Yulia , and an 18-year-old son Yakov . Traditions are also visible at the level of education - Evgeniy, Efim and Yakov are graduates of the same school No. 239, which today is already the presidential lyceum. The children are very familiar with the one and a half kilometer route to the lyceum on Kirochnaya Street from the former apartment building in Soldatsky Lane. This is the main address of the Koganov in St. Petersburg. Below it is the apartment of the eldest Kogan, Igor Moiseevich. Here is our oldest and most reliable partner, David Traktovenko.
The warmth of family relationships, according to 47news, is best characterized by an audio recording posted by Yakov Kogan on his VKontakte page in June 2012. The Kogan family congratulates Efim on his 21st birthday with a song. The amateur track, 1 minute 15 seconds long, is called “The Kogan Family - happy birthday Fima.” In cheerful, rhythmic patter, they naturally wish health to the no longer boy Efim: “He is like a sugar packet, he has no salt and no pepper, he has a big heart, be healthy, live 100 years!”
Actually, both 29-year-old Evgeniy and 26-year-old Efim have a very difficult task - after the tragedy in the mountains, they found themselves in the hands of the largest Russian bank being rehabilitated, the basis of which recent successes was the charisma of their father. It was between the name “Uralsib” and the name of Vladimir Kogan that the bank’s clients put an equal sign. With all due respect, they cannot put him between Uralsib and the Kogan family.
On the other hand, it is precisely on the threshold of 30 years that Vladimir Kogan himself begins to actively become involved in business. He has already served in the Soviet army, met his future wife Lyudmila in a construction brigade, received a diploma from the Leningrad Civil Engineering Institute, worked as a mechanic at the Intourist motor depot and observes a circle of young Leningrad economists. But Kogan’s sons, compared to their father, have different starting positions, and they actually have nothing to prove anything globally. Evgeniy already has small children, a strong financial condition, and he learned the science of making money not on earth, but in university classrooms.
By the way, an interesting fact in the biography of the owner of Uralsib, who is in a coma. A graduate of school No. 239, Vladimir Kogan, initially entered the Polytechnic rather than LISS. But already in the first year he gave up teaching and went to the Pamirs. Do high altitude mountaineering.
Still, he managed the main thing - to accustom his son Evgeniy to extreme conditions. The author knows that Vladimir took him with him on harsh hikes, where apart from a tent in the wind there was no civilization.
Alexander Kalinin, 47 news
There are no former businessmen
After another two years, Kogan left the public service and returned to the field of business that was already familiar to him. As stated, the reason for the abrupt departure was disagreements with the head of the Ministry of Regional Development.
Now Vladimir Igorevich is choosing a new direction for himself. He buys several companies, the union of which is called “Oil and Gas Industry”. It was reported that the company plans to begin construction of a port, which will significantly reduce the cost of transporting petroleum products. The new project was supposed to generate considerable income. There was also talk about the possible construction of another similar facility, which would significantly increase the company's income.
At the same time, the businessman is involved in the development of other areas, such as urban planning, the film industry, leasing activities and others.
Companions
Vladimir Kogan planned to create a timber industry complex with huge capital. The project was to be implemented jointly with O. Deripaska. In 2002, the latter officially announced the creation of a similar project.
Another business partner of Vladimir Igorevich is Alexey Mordashov. He is the owner of almost 10 percent of the shares of Promstroybank.
According to media reports, another major associate of the businessman is S. Stepashin, who is the chairman of the Accounts Chamber.
Incredible luck or hard work?
The name of a successful businessman has been repeatedly associated with high-profile trials and scandals. Searches were carried out in the bank's offices, employees were summoned for questioning, and mysterious deaths of employees of close structures occurred. Despite all this fuss, Vladimir Igorevich got away with everything, and not a single one of the alleged episodes was proven.
His inner circle explains the former statesman’s “luck” not so much by a lucky star, but by his ability to make useful friends. Only his acquaintance and friendship with members of the underground club in the city of St. Petersburg gave a lot to the businessman. Some claim his close acquaintance with the President of the Russian Federation, whom the businessman met during the creation of Promstroybank. Kogan himself denies such friendship.
Finance
According to the ranking of the world-famous Forbes magazine, Vladimir Igorevich Kogan is the 17th richest man in Russia. His fortune is estimated at almost one billion dollars.
The billionaire loves a beautiful life and is not used to giving it to himself. He owns a large amount of real estate both in the Russian Federation and abroad. He is the owner of five apartments, two private houses (one of which is located on the resort island of Cyprus), several cars and yachts, as well as a private plane.
Today, the largest objects owned by Kogan are the Banking House St. Petersburg, Neftegazindustriya, and Uralsib.
State
What does Mr. Vladimir Kogan own? Forbes credits him with a net worth of $0.6 billion as of 2016. And in 2020, it was about 0.95 billion, and the businessman was given seventeenth place in the ranking of Russian rich people.
Kogan and his family have five apartments, two mansions (one of them in Cyprus), an airplane, cars and yachts. Vladimir Yuryevich does not hide from anyone that he loves to live beautifully.
Today, his comfortable existence is ensured by the “Banking House “St. Petersburg”, which unites more than two hundred enterprises (insurance companies, polymer plants, poultry farms, banks, currency exchanges, the media and even the St. Petersburg football club “Zenith”), “Neftegazindustriya” , as well as Uralsib. A real empire!
Family of Vladimir Kogan
Vladimir Igorevich has a large family. Many of his close relatives are also successful businessmen (father, cousin and several others). It was to the members of his large family that the businessman transferred all his property at the time when he decided to engage in government activities.
The head of a friendly and strong family is Vladimir Kogan. His wife, Lyudmila Kogan, is two years younger than her husband. The couple met in their distant student years and have been together ever since. Lyudmila Kogan has two higher educations: civil engineer and lawyer. For a long time, the businessman’s wife was the head of a fashion boutique of the Versace brand. It was the businessman’s wife who instilled in him a taste and love for expensive and stylish suits. Currently, Lyudmila Vladimirovna is engaged in the family business.
In marriage, Lyudmila gave birth to four children, boys. Vladimir Kogan, whose sons have now grown up, is introducing his family to business. The couple’s first-born decided to continue his father’s endeavor and currently owns a considerable part of BFA’s assets.
A successful businessman values his free time. He enjoys playing tennis and football.
Vladimir Kogan in public service
Since 2004, the businessman was appointed deputy head of Rostroi, heading its Northwestern Directorate. He took up, in particular, the resuscitation of a grandiose flood protection project near Kronstadt, the construction of which was frozen due to financial problems and protests from environmentalists. The most profitable construction project of that time was later nicknamed “Putin’s dam.” It included the construction of 11 dams, a number of navigation systems, and a section of the ring road.
Vladimir Kogan began construction of the dam. In 2006, the official joined the board of directors of Mosmetrostroy. Two years later, he headed the construction department of the Russian Ministry of Regional Development. In the summer of 2011, the construction of the dam was completed and the official opening took place. In November, Kogan was awarded the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree.
