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Biography of Sergei Chemezov

Sergei Viktorovich Chemezov is the permanent head of one of the largest manufacturers of weapons and equipment in the world - the Rostec state holding, which unites more than 700 enterprises. Member of the Bureau of the Supreme Council of the party in power "United Russia", Colonel General, close associate of Vladimir Putin, one of the top 10 most influential figures in the Russian Federation (according to the Economic News Agency).

In the photo: Sergey Chemezov

He heads the board of directors of many leading domestic companies, including the main supplier of titanium VSMPO-AVISMA, Auto, AvtoVAZ, the main exporter of military products Rosoboronexport, and is also a member of the management bodies and supervisory boards of a number of organizations (the commercial bank International Financial Club", "Norilsk Nickel", PJSC "Aeroflot-Russian Airlines", "Roscosmos", VKO Almaz-Antey, etc.).

According to Forbes, the income of the Chemezov family in 2020 exceeded 1 billion rubles.

Biography

Chemezov Sergey Viktorovich

, born August 20, 1952, Cheremkhovo, Cheremkhovo district, Irkutsk region. General Director of the Rostec Corporation.

Relatives.

Wife - Ekaterina Ignatova, an engineer-economist by training, co-founder and owner of 70% of the company for the development and production of automatic transmissions LLC "Kate", is also the main owner (together with the managing director of Troika Dialog Gor Nakhapetyan) of the Etazh restaurant chain (19 establishments in Moscow).

Sergei Chemezov has four children.

The eldest son Stanislav (born 1973), as of May 2009, worked at Itera, owns 30% and has business interests related to large pharmaceutical supplies financed from the state budget. He is a member of the board of directors and is listed as the chairman of the board of directors of the Interbusinessgroup holding. The latter company owns, through structural companies, the commercial organizations Insurance Company Independent Insurance Group LLC, Oboroncement CJSC, and Oboroncement-Energo LLC. "Independent Insurance Group" insures the business of the largest enterprises of the Russian Technologies State Corporation. Since 2003, together with Vladimir Artyakov’s son Dmitry, he has owned the Meridian hotel complex in Gelendzhik.

Stanislav Chemezov is a partner of previously convicted St. Petersburg resident Viktor Petrik in Russian Industrial Nanotechnologies CJSC. Petrik and Sergei Chemezov have known each other closely since the 1990s. According to the press, at that time they had joint business interests related to imports and exports across the Russian-Finnish border. As of May 2009, Chemezov’s middle son was a student at a medical institute.

As of May 2009, the middle son was a medical student.

Stepdaughter Anastasia Ignatova graduated from MGIMO, works at the department of political theory and is the author of the monograph “State Policy in the Field of High Technologies,” written under the general editorship of Professor Sergei Chemezov. Candidate of Political Sciences. In 2011, as a graduate student, she became a full partner (50%) of entrepreneur Mikhail Prokhorov in a diagnostic and treatment project; three years later the project was liquidated. At the same time, she established her own LLC “Clinic Rosmed”, which was located in the premises of the clinic “and was liquidated almost simultaneously with the Creative Medical Center.” In both cases, the general director was Tatyana Shakhova, who was nominated in 2014 to the board of directors of Rostec’s subsidiary RT-Medicine. In 2016, Anastasia Ignatova, together with famous actresses, starred for the 2017 calendar of the tire company Pirelli, which has a joint venture with Rostec, Pirelli Tire Russia. In January 2020, she established a company for the production of pharmaceutical substances.

The youngest son goes to the Lyceum of the National Research University Higher School of Economics.

Awards.

Orders:

Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 1st class (2017)

Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree (2012)

Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree (August 20, 2007) - for services in the development of military-technical cooperation with foreign countries

Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (2005)

Order of Honor (January 14, 2002)

Order of Friendship (2009)

Order of the Legion of Honor (France, March 2010) - for contribution to the development of Russian-French cooperation in the field of high-tech production

Order of the Holy Blessed Grand Duke Dimitri Donskoy

Order of the Holy Blessed Prince Daniel of Moscow, 1st degree

Order of St. Seraphim of Sarov, II degree

Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh, 1st degree (July 18, 2014) - in consideration of the assistance provided to the Trinity-Sergius Lavra

Medals:

Jubilee medal “300 years of the Russian Navy”

Medal "In memory of the 850th anniversary of Moscow"

Medal "In memory of the 300th anniversary of St. Petersburg"

Medal "In memory of the 1000th anniversary of Kazan"

Anniversary medal "60 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Jubilee medal "70 years of the Armed Forces of the USSR"

Medal "For Distinction in Military Service" (FSB) 1st and 2nd class

Medal "For Impeccable Service" III degree

Medal "For Strengthening the Military Commonwealth"

Medal "For Loyalty to Duty"

Medal “For the Liberation of Crimea and Sevastopol” (March 17, 2014) - for personal contribution to the return of Crimea to Russia

Other awards:

Certificate of honor from the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (November 2020) - for active participation as an expert of the State Duma on lawmaking issues

Laureate of the Government of the Russian Federation Prize in the field of science and technology for 2004

Laureate of the National Award “Person of the Year 2004” in the category “Defense-Industrial Complex”

Laureate of the honorary badge of the International Forum “World Experience and the Russian Economy” “Leader of the Russian Economy-2004”

Laureate of the AVN Prize named after A.V. Suvorov

Honorary citizen of the city of Irkutsk (April 21, 2011) - for outstanding services in the field of socio-economic and cultural development of the city of Irkutsk

Education

In 1975 he graduated with honors from the Irkutsk Institute of National Economy, then the Higher Courses of the Academy of the General Staff. Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor, full member of the Academy of Military Sciences.

Labor activity

He worked as an engineer, researcher, and deputy head of a laboratory at the Irkutsk Research Institute of Rare and Non-Ferrous Metals.

Since 1980, he worked at the Luch experimental-industrial association; from 1983 to 1988, he headed the representative office of the Luch association in the GDR, where he met Vladimir Putin. It was reported that Chemezov and Putin worked in the Dresden KGB station, lived in the same house and became friends.

From 1988 to 1996 - Deputy General Director of the foreign trade association Sovintersport.

In 1996-1999, he worked as head of the foreign economic relations department of the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation (under the leadership of V. Putin), and later as head of the foreign economic relations department of the Administration of the President of Russia.

From September 1999 to November 2000 - General Director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "State Company Promexport".

Since August 2000, he has been a member of the Commission under the President of the Russian Federation on military-technical cooperation of the Russian Federation with foreign states.

From November 2000 to April 2004 - First Deputy General Director, in 2004-2007 - General Director of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise Rosoboronexport.

By decree of the President of the Russian Federation of November 26, 2007, he was relieved of his position and appointed general director of the State Corporation "Russian Technologies", which at the end of 2012 was renamed Rostec.

On December 2, 2006, at the VII Congress of the All-Russian political party “United Russia”, Sergei Chemezov was elected to the Bureau of the Supreme Council of the party. At the VIII Congress, held on May 26, 2012, the head of Rostec was re-elected to the Bureau of the Supreme Council of United Russia. He is the coordinator of the United Russia project “IT Breakthrough”, which has been implemented since December 2010 with the aim of identifying and supporting extraordinary projects of young innovators in the field of IT technologies.

Member of the Board of Directors:

JSC "United Aircraft Corporation" since 2006.

JSC Aeroflot - Russian Airlines since 2011.

OJSC AvtoVAZ - Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors since June 2014, before that - Chairman of Alliance Rostec Auto BV

JSC JSCB International Financial Club.

Chairman of the Boards of Directors:

OJSC VSMPO-AVISMA Corporation since 2006.

OJSC KAMAZ.

JSC Rosoboronexport since 2011, in August 2013 he was re-elected to this position for the third time.

OJSC Uralkali since March 2014.

He is also a member of the Supervisory Board of the state-owned United Rocket and Space Corporation.

Social activity:

Head of the Department of Military-Technical Cooperation of the Research and Training Center for Defense Problems of the Academy of Military Sciences.

Head of the Department of International Military-Technical Cooperation and High Technologies of the MGIMO (U) Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation.

Chairman of the All-Russian public organization "Union of Mechanical Engineers of Russia" since April 2007.

President of the All-Russian industry association of employers “Union of Mechanical Engineers of Russia” since April 2007.

Chairman of the supervisory board of the interregional public organization “Military Sports Union of M. T. Kalashnikov” since April 2010.

Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Foundation for the Support and Development of Physical Culture and Sports of the Russian Federation (Sport Foundation) since 2005.

Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Russian Cycling Federation since 2007.

Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Russian Economic Academy named after G. V. Plekhanov.

Member of the Board of Trustees of the A. M. Gorchakov Public Diplomacy Support Fund.

Head of the board of trustees of the New House charity foundation since May 2020.

President of the Regional Public Organization “Irkutsk Community “Baikal”.

Childhood and family

The future key member of the Kremlin team was born on August 20, 1952 in the Angara town of Cheremkhovo.
His father Victor was a flour miller at the mill from the age of 15. Valeria, Victor's wife, was also a native of Cheremkhovo. Later, two more daughters were born into their family. In 1961, the family moved to Irkutsk, settling in the working-class suburb of Marat in connection with the appointment of their father to the position of chief technologist of the local mill. Valeria got a job as a laboratory assistant at the same company. By the early 70s, the mill was transformed into a full-fledged flour mill, and Victor became its director.

Sergey Viktorovich Chemezov

The area where Seryozha grew up was disadvantaged, and the boy regularly had to defend his honor in fights. He became interested in boxing and was a prize-winner of the Russian championship. At the insistence of his mother, who played the piano, he studied accordion at a music school for 6 years. He helped his father - unloaded barges with grain, carried sacks of flour.

Childhood and youth of Sergei Chemezov

The childhood and youth periods of Sergei Chemezov’s biography are full of blank spots. In particular, almost nothing is known about his parents and immediate relatives. Nationality is not mentioned anywhere.

Gaps in Chemezov’s biography are associated with his work in the defense sector, and some sources suggest that the head of Rostec was a KGB officer.

Sergei became the first-born in a working-class family living in the city of Cheremkhovo, part of the Irkutsk region. The boy was born on August 20, 1952. Later he had two sisters. The place of work of Serezha’s father and mother was a local flour mill.

When the Chemezovs’ son turned 9 years old, the family moved to Irkutsk. To an area that did not have a favorable crime situation. Nevertheless, Sergei did not experience any special problems with his peers, since he was actively involved in boxing. After the father of the younger Chemezov became the director of a flour mill, the young man worked part-time at the enterprise as a loader and watchman.

Education

In 1970, Sergei Viktorovich successfully passed the exams at the Irkutsk Institute of National Economy and five years later he graduated, becoming the owner of a honors diploma. The next university for the young man was the Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the USSR. In 2005, after defending his dissertation at the Ural State Economic University, Chemezov became a candidate of economic sciences, and was later awarded a doctorate.

Today, Sergei Chemezov is a professor and active member of the Academy of Military Sciences.

Education

Having received a certificate, the young man entered the Irkutsk Polytechnic Institute, but a year later he was expelled for poor academic performance - he missed many classes due to boxing competitions.
After that, he became a student at the local Institute of National Economy, and in 1975 received a honors diploma in economics. Later, he studied at the Higher Courses at the Military Academy of the General Staff of the RF Armed Forces and defended his candidate and doctoral dissertations. Both defenses took place behind closed doors. Presumably, both were devoted to the activities of the Russian military-industrial complex.

Labor activity

After graduating from university, the young engineer got a job at the local secret research institute of rare and non-ferrous metals. According to some sources, it was then that he accepted the KGB’s offer of cooperation. Five years later, Sergei Chemezov moved to Podolsk near Moscow, where he worked at NPO Luch, which specialized in the development of products for the nuclear industry and the defense complex.

Young Sergei Chemezov and Vladimir Putin in the GDR

In 1983, he was sent (via the KGB) to head the Luch representative office in the GDR. He spent the first six months in Berlin, then moved to the capital of Saxony - Dresden. There he met Vladimir Putin. They were part of the same reconnaissance group, lived next door, and were family friends.

Sergey Chemezov

Returning to Moscow in 1988, Sergei took the position of deputy general director of Sovintersport, which had exclusive rights to “sell” athletes and coaches. He exercised control from the KGB of this profitable business, where millions of dollars were circulating, and maintained relations with Putin, who oversaw similar issues at Smolny.

Political career

After the collapse of the Union, things deteriorated sharply for the once influential organization. Then, on the recommendation of Putin, who in 1996 (after the defeat of Anatoly Sobchak in the gubernatorial elections) took the post of head of the affairs of the President of the Russian Federation, Chemezov received the post of head of the department of foreign economic relations, subsequently - the Directorate of the Administration of the Head of State.

Sergei Chemezov and Vladimir Putin are old friends

In 1999, the successful leader, who was already called a possible candidate for the post of prime minister, headed the special intermediary company for arms trade Promexport, and a year later became a member of the Presidential Commission on Military-Technical Cooperation with other countries.

After its creation (through the merger of Promexport and Rosvooruzhenie), Chemezov was appointed first deputy general director, and in 2004 became general director of this exporting enterprise. He proved himself to be a fairly effective entrepreneur - income from sales of military equipment grew steadily. Rosoboronexport has become a powerful structure. A number of leading manufacturers came under the control of the company, including AvtoVAZ, VSMPO-Avisma, and its representatives served on the boards of directors of most defense enterprises.

Head of Russian Technologies Sergei Chemezov

According to unofficial data, in 2005 Putin allegedly offered his old comrade the position of director of the FSB, but Sergei Viktorovich refused. But soon he headed the Union of Mechanical Engineers of the Russian Federation and entered the bureau of the supreme council of the “party in power.” At one time, along with Dmitry Medvedev and Sergei Ivanov, he was considered as a possible successor to the country's leader. But Chemezov assured that he had no political ambitions and did not aspire to go to power. Secrets of success from the head of Rostec Chemezov lobbied for the idea of establishing Russian Technologies on the basis of Rosoboronexport. In 2007, Putin personally submitted a bill to create this structure to the State Duma. In the same year, Chemezov was appointed general director of the state corporation Rostekhnologii, renamed Rostec in 2012. Since 2010, he has been the coordinator of the United Russia project "IT Breakthrough", implemented to promote innovative developments in the field of advanced technologies.

Through the efforts of the director, by 2020, more than seven hundred organizations were included in Rostec (including the holdings Russian Helicopters, Ruselectronics, High-Precision Complexes, Splav, SIBER, Kalashnikov Group of Companies, the National Immunological Company, Kaliningrad Amber Factory), and the consolidated profit of the state corporation reached 99 billion rubles.

Career

In 1980, Chemezov moved to Moscow, where he continued his career at the Luch experimental industrial association. In the capital, he studied at the Higher Courses of the General Staff Academy. In 1983, he was appointed representative of the Luch association in the GDR. Sergei was responsible for overseeing issues related to the export of mined uranium ore to the USSR. He headed this representative office for five years and returned to his homeland in 1988.

While working in the GDR, he met and became close friends with Vladimir Putin. Information appeared in the media that they were both Dresden KGB residents. Chemezov and Putin were the same age, both were married in their first marriage at that time, lived in the same house and became family friends far from their native country.

Sergei Chemezov and Vladimir Putin in their youth

After Germany, their paths diverged for some time in different directions: Putin returned to Leningrad, where he worked in the mayor’s office under Sobchak, Chemezov in Moscow received the position of deputy general director of the foreign trade association Sovintersport. This organization was created by the State Sports Committee for the sale of Soviet athletes abroad, and Sergei Viktorovich was appointed to the position to maintain control from the KGB. He worked at Sovintersport until 1996, when the organization’s affairs began to decline sharply.

By this time, Putin had already moved to Moscow from St. Petersburg and did not leave his comrade in the cramped office. Vladimir Vladimirovich worked as Deputy Administrator of the President of Russia. He also assigned Chemezov here to the position of head of the foreign economic relations department.

In 1999, Putin became the successor of Russian President Yeltsin. And a month later Chemezov found himself in a new position. He headed the state-owned company that trades in Russian weapons and military equipment. Over time, he completely reorganized the entire arms export system. In 2000, Russian President Putin signed a decree merging the two and Promexport into Rosoboronexport.

Despite the fact that Chemezov entered the arms business without proper experience, he turned out to be a successful entrepreneur. Income from arms exports grew steadily. Rosoboronexport was actively involved in sponsorship activities - it financed hockey teams, cycling, and the volleyball team.

A lot of PR projects made it possible to think that Chemezov was going to build a political career. At one time he was even considered a possible successor to Putin, along with Dmitry Medvedev and Sergei Ivanov. However, Sergei Viktorovich stated that he has no political ambitions and is not going to go to power.

In 2007, he headed the state corporation Rostekhnologii, created on the basis of Rosoboronexport, which united several hundred large industrial and defense enterprises in Russia. In 2012, the corporation was renamed Rostec.

Chemezov achieved all the goals he set for himself in life: he headed the country's largest arms exporter, then became a monopolist in this area, and now has his own state corporation. Sergei Viktorovich is one of Putin’s “old friends,” but this is not the only reason for his well-being. In recent years, due to the economic crisis and other problems, the President of Russia’s staff has undergone a good purge, as a result of which many have fallen out. Chemezov is still in his place, he is an old and effective comrade.

For many years of work, he was awarded a large number of prizes, diplomas, medals and orders, and is a full holder of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland.

In 2014, in connection with the Ukrainian crisis, Sergei Viktorovich personally (not Rostec) was included in the toughest list of American sanctions. In terms of business, nothing has changed; partners still come with whom he meets and works. I just stopped going on vacation to Europe, and before that I flew to America only when necessary. But now he takes great pleasure in going to Baikal.

Personal life of Sergei Chemezov

The first wife of the top manager of the state-owned company was Lyubov, a friend of Putin’s ex-wife Lyudmila. From this marriage, Sergei had sons Stanislav (1973) and Alexander (1985).

Stanislav Chemezov, the eldest of the children of Sergei Chemezov

Stanislav is a co-owner of the Medpharmtechnology corporation, a member of the board of directors of AvtoVazenergo, and runs a hotel business (Meridian Group of Companies in Gelendzhik). Alexander is a doctor by profession, focused on the insurance business.

Since 2004, Chemezov has been married for the second time to Ekaterina Ignatova. They met at work in the Presidential Administration. Then she worked under his leadership at Promexport. The businesswoman appeared in the public eye for government contracts. She owns a chain of restaurants in the capital. She is a major shareholder of a Rosneft subsidiary.

Sergei Chemezov and his wife Ekaterina Ignatova

In this marriage, Chemezov had a son, Sergei. As of 2019, he is studying at school; according to media reports, he spends a lot of time in London, Dubai, New York, on a yacht off the Cote d'Azur in France, and enjoys boxing and jet skis. Anastasia Chemezova (1987), Sergei’s stepdaughter, MGIMO graduate, created a company producing pharmaceutical products in 2020, posed for the Pirelli calendar.

Anastasia Ignatova, adopted daughter of Sergei Chemezov

Milan and Barcelona became the family's favorite holiday destinations.

Personal life

Sergei Viktorovich’s first wife is Lyubov Chemezova. While living in the GDR, she became very friendly with the former wife of the President of the Russian Federation, Lyudmila Putina. In this marriage two sons were born - Stanislav in 1973, Alexander in 1985.

Second wife – Ekaterina Sergeevna Ignatova, born in 1968. Graduated from Moscow University of Transport. In 1987, in a civil relationship, she gave birth to a daughter, Anastasia. While working as a translator in the Administration of the President of the Russian Federation, she met Chemezov. Sympathy flared up between them, and Sergei Viktorovich offered Katya a job at. In 2004, he divorced his first wife and married Ekaterina. By this time, they already had a common son, Sergei.

In subsequent years, Ignatova became an active businesswoman. Owns the Etazh restaurant chain in Moscow, beauty salons, and shares in the International Financial Club bank. Now she is on the list of the richest women in Russia.

Sergey Chemezov now

The head of the state corporation continues to solve problems to ensure Russia’s technological advantage. For example, in March 2020, it was announced that the Ruselectronics holding was developing an accelerator designed to increase the performance of standard servers by an order of magnitude, and Shvabe presented an innovative model of Zenitar lenses capable of providing high quality, brightness and clarity of images in low light.

Sergei Chemezov now
It should be noted that the activities of the head of the Group of Companies often caused conflicting assessments, including criticism of the low efficiency of the enterprise. In particular, the development of the S-500 air defense systems was a failure. Their concept was ready back in 2011, but delivery of the first samples to the troops, planned for 2014, was disrupted and postponed to 2020.

Russian Technologies

In 2006, an experienced leader and politician was elected to the Bureau of the Supreme Council of the United Russia party. A year later, a real breakthrough in his career occurs - he becomes the manager of the Russian Technologies corporation, which unites hundreds of medium and large enterprises in Russia. Thanks to Rostec, the name of Sergei Viktorovich became known to a huge number of Russians.

Figure 3. Head of the state corporation Russian Technologies

The goal of this organization was to ensure the technological advantage of the Russian Federation, and with the help of a competent leader in the role of Chemezov, all goals and plans were fully realized. Sergei Viktorovich was confident that he could help the company bring the state’s unprofitable assets to a sufficiently high level of competitiveness. Which is what ultimately happened. Rostec is on par with natural monopolies in all economic indicators.