The first president of Lukoil. Vagit Yusufovich Alekperov. Curriculum Vitae. Forbes has published a rating of the largest private companies in the Russian Federation

Many Russian citizens would like to know who owns Lukoil, one of the largest private oil companies in our country. The recent international economic forum in St. Petersburg shed light on this mystery. The head and co-owner of the PJSC made a statement. He spoke about who owns Lukoil. Vagit Alekperov previously reported that 50% of the company is owned by foreign investors, he personally owns only 20%, and another 10% of the shares are held by Vice President Leonid Fedun.

How it was

At the summit on technological innovation and changes in the global energy market, President Vladimir Putin confidently stated that companies with foreign investors produce 25% of all Russian oil. He stressed that we do not have a single large company without foreign participation. Even the state-owned Rosneft is a joint stock company. This fragment of Vladimir Putin's speech was published by the media.

After this statement, the President of the Russian Federation directly addressed Vagit Alekperov with a specific question: "Who actually owns Lukoil? How many foreigners do you have?" The head of the oil company named the figure - 50%. V. Alekperov himself owns 20% of the shares. But it was not always so.

Earlier, the largest foreign holder of Lukoil shares was the American company ConocoPhillips. In the spring of 2010, she sold her stake (just about 20%). The information about the buyer was not disclosed. It is only known that the sale process was fully completed at the beginning of 2011.

And now we have to figure out who owns Lukoil at this moment... There are still rumors on the Internet that ConocoPhillips is still a strategic partner of this oil company. Allegedly, she owns a blocking stake, and her representatives are on the board of directors and participate in joint projects. However, it is not.

Successes

The international vertically integrated company is the largest not only in our country, but also in the whole world. It occupies the top positions in terms of hydrocarbon reserves. Now some specifics. The company's oil reserves are the largest in the world. All experts know about it.

PJSC "Lukoil" produces hydrocarbons not only in Russia, but also far beyond its borders. Where exactly? The company owns numerous mining operations in both Western Europe and Eastern Europe. Therefore, it is not easy to determine who actually owns Lukoil.

Sales of products through their retail chains the company operates in more than 20 countries around the world. In any case, in the United States, Lukoil's petrol stations are the first in terms of the number of petrol stations among other manufacturers. The shares of this company are traded not only on Russian, but also on foreign exchanges, and are among the so-called "blue chips" placed on the Russian stock market. Where is the head office of Lukoil located? Address (legal): Moscow, Sretensky Boulevard, house No. 11.

Structure

A company's competitiveness directly depends on efficiency corporate governance... And it is provided by more than one president of PJSC "Lukoil". Development is impossible without a well-established management structure that would determine the relationship of shareholders, executive body and the Board of Directors. Only in this case will investors be sure of the reasonableness of the funds spent by the management. A properly built management structure effectively contributes to the growth of the company's capitalization.

In the PJSC system, a reliable and trusting relationship has been created between the community of shareholders and investors. Therefore, their cooperation is strong, effective and long-lasting. The investment attractiveness of the company is increasing from year to year.

The principles of interaction between shareholders and the firm itself are as transparent as possible. What does it mean? Shareholders of PJSC "Lukoil" can track how general management is carried out, as well as receive up-to-date information on financial transactions.

Who is at the head of the corporate governance system? This is the Board of Directors that exercises leadership in the interests of shareholders and investors. It includes independent directors. This approach helps to form an objective opinion of the Council on any of the issues discussed. These factors also strengthen the confidence of shareholders and investors in PJSC Lukoil.

In each division overall structure there is a director. Each of them was elected to the Council for general meeting shareholders in June 2017. It is they who now determine priority directions activities of the oil company, are engaged in the development of its strategic, mid-term and annual planning, and will also sum up the results of all work. How many directors are on the Board? There are eleven people in total, including three foreigners (two of them are engaged in personnel policy and remuneration, and one in investments).

Persons

The president of the company is Vagit Yusufovich Alekperov, who is an executive member of the Board of Directors and the chairman of the board of the company. A lot is written about this person in the media. It has been a member of the Council since 1993.

Valery Isaakovich Graifer is the Chairman of the Board of Directors. This is not his only position. V. Greifer also chairs the Board of Directors of RITEK JSC. In PJSC "Lukoil" he was elected to the Board of Directors in 1996.

His deputy is Ravil Ulfatovich Maganov, who is an executive member of the council, the investment and strategy committee, and a member of the company's board. He was the first executive vice president of exploration and production. Member of the Board of Directors since 1993.

Blazheev Viktor Vladimirovich is a member of the Board of Directors, Chairman of the Audit Committee and a member of the HR Committee. Concurrently, he works as the rector of the Kutafin Moscow State Law University (MSLA). Member of the Board of Directors since 2009.

It is impossible not to single out one more person. This is Igor Sergeevich Ivanov. He is a member of the Board of Directors, Chairman of the Investment and Strategy Committee, and sits on the Audit Committee. In addition, I. Ivanov chairs the RIAC. Has been on the Board of Directors since 2009. The company management considers him a valuable employee.

Roger Mannigs - member of the British-Russian chamber of commerce... He is on the Board of Directors, chairs the HR committee. He is also an independent member of the Board of Directors of Sistema JSFC - the largest public diversified financial company Russia and the CIS, engaged in telecommunications, insurance, finance, media business, retail, oil industry, radio electronics, mechanical engineering. It is not yet full list... R. Mannigs has been on the Board of Directors of PJSC Lukoil since 2015.

We present one more foreign specialist - American Toby Trister Gati. She joined the Board of Directors a year later than Mannigs. Now the woman is on the investment and strategy committee, along the way being the president of TTG Global LLC. And before that she was the US Undersecretary of State for Research and Intelligence, and also an adviser to Bill Clinton (when he was president) on Russian affairs.

Toby Trister Gati is not going to leave politics altogether. But for now, she is satisfied with the position of senior adviser to the most profitable lobby group in the world - Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP. She adores Brzezinski. Probably, in order to form an opinion on the composition of the Lukoil management, this information must be taken into account, since the business policy of our country directly depends on the outlook of its participants.

Human Resources Committee

Richard Matske has been on the Lukoil Board of Directors for the second time: first from 2002 to 2009, then in 2011 he was re-elected. The committee deals with personnel and remuneration. He also serves on the Advisory Board of Directors of the American-Russian Chamber of Commerce. That's not all. Richard Matzke also sits on the third Board of Directors at PHI, Inc. (Project Harmony Inc.), and on the Board of Directors of the well-known Chinese oil exploration, production and refining company PetroChina Company Limited.

Audit and development strategies

Ivan Pictet is a successful Swiss banker. He has been on the Lukoil Board of Directors since 2012. Works on the audit committee. In addition, he chairs the Boards of Directors of Symbiotics companies, as well as PSA International SA. In addition, Ivan Pictet is president of two foundations - Fondation pour Geneve and Fondation Pictet pour le development. He is a member of the AEA European Advisory Board. We talked about foreigners.

Two more members of the Board of Directors are Russians. This is a member of the Investment and Strategy Committee and also serving as Vice President strategic development company since 2013. And the second person is Lyubov Nikolaevna Khoba. In addition to being a member of the board of directors, he is the chief accountant of PJSC Lukoil and its vice president.

About committees

In August 2003, committees were established under the Board of Directors. Each of them had their own goals and objectives. Igor Sergeevich Ivanov - Chairman of the Investment and Strategy Committee. Together with him work Toby Trister Gati, Ravil Ulfatovich Maganov and Leonid Arnoldovich Fedun. The Audit Committee is chaired by Viktor Blazheev. And his colleagues are Igor Sergeevich Ivanov and Ivan Pikte. The Human Resources and Compensation Committee is chaired by Roger Manning. Viktor Vladimirovich Blazheev and Richard Matske resolve issues with him.

The actions of the company's management are coordinated by the corporate secretary of PJSC "Lukoil" - Natalya Igorevna Podolskaya. She is also responsible for communication and interaction between the Board of Directors, shareholders and executive management. Under the supervision of the secretary, compliance is guaranteed officials and the management of the company of all procedural requirements to ensure the implementation of the interests and rights of each shareholder. The corporate secretary is appointed directly by Vagit Yusufovich Alekperov.

Single share

In 1995, the structure of the joint-stock company was joined whole line others: Research Institute "Rostovneftekhimproekt", "Volgogradnefteproduktavtomatika" and six more oil companies from Nizhnevolzhsk, Perm, Kaliningrad, Astrakhan. This was both good and difficult for Lukoil: five divisions of the company had their own shares, which independently traded on stock market... Plus the shares of the main holding. Market players preferred some securities, others did not. And the processing plants, unlike the mining ones, did not involve traders in the business. Therefore, they had almost no deals.

When one company has so many different securities, it becomes very difficult to interact with investors and find them. The move to a single share was a good idea. At that time, not a single Russian oil company had yet dared to undertake such transformations. Lukoil became the first. Therefore, this process was difficult and slow. The entire transition took two years.

Blue chips

The term "blue chip" came to stock markets from casino enthusiasts. Where did this name come from? The fact is that chips of this particular color in the game are more expensive than others. Now this expression is used for securities or shares of the most reliable, liquid and large companies... These firms boast stable earnings and dividend ratios. When a single Lukoil share appeared on the stock market, it immediately received the highest interest from investors.

The state got the opportunity profitable sale shares owned by him. And Lukoil registered with the SEC an application for the issue of first-level receipts for deposits, which were to be sold in the US on the stock market. Bank of New York agreed to act as a depositary.

Long way

In 1996, the depositary notes of the company entered the Berlin listings and were created at the same time. joint ventures"LUKARCO", LUKAgip N.V (Italy). Lukoil has begun to form its own tanker fleet, designed to operate in the Arctic Ocean. By 1999, it was fully operational. Russian specialists have been waiting for this for a long time.

In 1997, there was a huge chagrin of two billion tons of Iraqi oil and a very expensive contract torn apart by the Kuwaiti conflict. That's not all. In 1998, there was a crisis with a rapid drop in oil prices around the world. The company's budget has been revised. Everything that was marginal has stopped. But shares in domestic and foreign markets still fell, and more than 5 times.

Nevertheless, the company continued acquisitions. On the advice of Dresdner Kleinwort Benson and AB IBG NIKoil, financiers, the KomiTEK company was bought, then immediately one hundred percent of Nobel-Oil shares, then 50% of KomiArcticOil shares (by agreement with British Gas North Sea Holdings Limited) and so on - up to the present moment. Unless it can be added that in 2004 Lukoil-USA managed to buy out 779 Lukoil gas stations from ConocoPhilips, which were located in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Rather, before the acquisition, all gas stations belonged to the Mobil brand, but were quickly transferred under a new trademark.

So who owns Lukoil?

Many Russians want to know this. However, the President of PJSC "Lukoil" has always answered this question evasively. Alekperov said that there is no single shareholder controlling all the processes. And he is not ready to discuss the package belonging to the managers. This continued for a long time, until the beginning of 2017.

Now Vagit Yusufovich Alekperov admitted that the main "strength" of the company is management. Although such a goal was not announced, it was already possible to collect a controlling stake.

Vagit Alekperov is a well-known businessman, head of Kogalymneftegaz, president of Langepasuraikogalymneft, president and co-owner of PJSC LUKOIL, served as deputy and first deputy minister of the oil and gas industry in the USSR. As of April 18, 2019, his fortune is estimated at $ 20.7 billion.

Childhood

Born on September 1, 1950 in the Azerbaijan SSR, in the suburbs of Baku. Father, Yusuf Kerbalayevich, went through the war, and in peacetime he worked in the oil fields. Mother, Tatyana Fedorovna Bocharova, was raising five children: three daughters and two sons.

In 1953, a disaster struck - his father died: the war greatly undermined his health. The family had a hard time. Exhausted, the mother took on any job. My son helped as best he could: in the Caspian Sea, he set up lines, into which a lot of fish fell. But the future oligarch did not forget about school either, he was distinguished by diligence and perseverance. Even then, the boy chose what he would do: he firmly decided to become an oil worker.

Education and scientific activity

After school, the future billionaire entered the evening department of the Azerbaijan Institute of Oil and Chemistry named after M. Azizbekov and in 1974 received a diploma as a mining engineer in technology and complex mechanization of the development of oil and gas fields.

Later, as the head of OJSC Lukoil, he wrote a dissertation on the topic “Formation of conditions and ensuring sustainable development of vertically integrated oil companies” based on the example of the enterprise he headed, and in 1998 received a doctorate in economics. In the same year, two of his books were published.

In 2014 he received the title of Honorary Professor of Volgograd State University.

Labor activity

In 1972, while still a student, he got a job as a driller in the production association "Kasmorneft". Two years later, he was appointed senior engineer-technologist of the regional engineering and technological service No. 2. Then he worked in the A. Serebrovsky NGDU of the production association “Kasmorneft”. First, he was an operator (later a shift supervisor), an oil and gas production foreman, a senior engineer and, finally, a deputy head of an oil field.

In 1979, according to party distribution, Vagit Yusufovich went to Siberia, to the Surgutneftegaz Production Association. At first he was appointed a senior engineer of oil field No. 2 of NGDU Fedorovskneft, and a little later he was promoted to the head of the oil field.

In 1980, he was appointed head of the central engineering and technological service of NGDU Kholmogorneft.

A year later, he was appointed chief engineer and deputy head of the Lyantorneft department. He worked there until 1983.

Then his career took a new turn - in Kogalym. For two years he was the head of the Povkhneft oil and gas production department. At the same time, he had a conflict with the party leadership: despite the order, he began to build not wooden barges for oil workers, but brick houses. But he was not fired - he limited himself to a reprimand. And the inhabitants of the city gave him the nickname Alec the First.

In 1985, the "king" became the first deputy general director of PA "Bashneft" for Western Siberia of the Ministry of Oil Industry of the USSR, and in 1987 - general director of PA "Kogalymneftegaz" Glavtyumenneftegaz.

In 1990-1991, he was the youngest deputy minister of the oil and gas industry in the Soviet Union.

Since 1991, he was president of the Langepas-Urai-Kogalymneft concern (in 1993 it was reorganized into NK LUKOIL JSC).

From 1993 to the present time - President of LUKOIL.

In 1995 he was elected chairman of the board of directors of the joint-stock bank Imperial. In 1998, he took over as chairman of the supervisory and board of trustees financial institutions.

Also in 1995, he was included in the board of the Ministry of Fuel and Energy.

In 1996, he became a member of the directors of the Volga-Kama Oil Company, where he was listed until 2002.

In 1996, Boris Yeltsin made him his proxy for Tyumen and the region in the presidential elections.

In 1998 Alec Perviy headed the board of directors of the Petrokommerts bank, and was its head until 2000.

In 1999, he was a member of the Economic Council under the Government of the Russian Federation.

Since 2001, he was the chairman of the LUKOIL Scientific and Technical Center NK Association and for five years, up to 2006, he chaired Ritek OJSC.

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In 2013, together with the second major shareholder Leonid Fedun, he sold Petrokommerts to Otkritie holding and became its shareholder.

Since 2000 - Chairman of the Supervisory Board of LUKOIL INTERNATIONAL GmbH.

He is the initiator of the creation of the Union of Oil Exporters (SONEK) of Russia.

Member of the board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, as well as the Skolkovo Foundation (since 2010).

Full member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences, member of the government commission on the fuel and energy complex and reproduction of the mineral resource base (since 2005).

Latest news

On April 10, 2018, RIA Novosti reported that in connection with the new US sanctions, the losses of Russian billionaires in the day after their introduction exceeded $ 15 billion (based on the Bloomberg Billionaires Index (BBI) rating).

Thus, the co-owner of LUKOIL lost $ 1.37 billion.

Charity

In 2005, the Russian Olympians Support Fund was established, where his firm was one of the founders.

In 2007, he established a fund for regional social programs Our Future, which encourages competitive entrepreneurship.

The tycoon enters the list of Forbes magazine every year. It is consistently among the ten richest Russians. So, in 2011, he was in eighth place in the ranking with a fortune of $ 13.9 billion, in 2012 and 2013 he was ranked fifth with marks of $ 13.5 and 14.8 billion. In 2014 he was seventh, in 2015 - sixth, in 2016 he was ninth ($ 13.6 / $ 12.2 / $ 8.9 billion, respectively).

On March 20, 2017, Forbes released its traditional rating, in which the head of LUKOIL moved up three positions and again became sixth in Russia (while his fortune increased by more than five billion and amounted to $ 14.5 billion).

Awards

The most famous oilman of the country has many awards in the piggy bank: both from Russia and from other states.

Among them are the orders:

Badge of Honor (1986);
Friendship (1995);
Glory (2000, Azerbaijan) - for merits in the development of economic relations between Azerbaijan and the Russian Federation;
"For services to the Fatherland" IV degree (2005), III (2010) and II (2014);
"Madara Horseman" I st. (2006, Bulgaria);
Dostyk II Art. (Kazakhstan, 2010);
St. Sergius of Radonezh (all degrees), as well as the holy noble prince Daniel of Moscow II and III Art. (Russian Orthodox Church).

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In addition, he has a medal "For the exploration of mineral resources and the development of the oil and gas complex of Western Siberia."

He was twice a laureate of the government prize, a laureate of the national award of business reputation "Darin".

Hobbies

The billionaire spends his free time calmly and quietly - in the circle of loved ones. Loves to travel. Prefers rest in Crimea.

Loves sports, is fond of tennis: both large and table tennis. Sponsors football club"Spartacus".

He considers his idol Enrico Mattei, the founder of the Italian oil holding ENI. “He was a person, he turned a state-owned enterprise into a company that still supplies Italy with hydrocarbons,” the Russian tycoon says of him.

Family status

I met my wife, Larisa Viktorovna, back in Soviet times.

Son Yusuf was born in 1990. He followed in his father's footsteps: he entered the Russian State University of Oil and Gas. Gubkin, in 2012 he defended his diploma and is now working in the same industry.

Born on September 1, 1950 in Baku, Razin settlement (Azerbaijan)
In 1974 he graduated from the Azerbaijan Institute of Oil and Chemistry with a degree in mining engineer on technology and complex mechanization of the development of oil and gas fields.
Doctor of Economic Sciences.
Author of the monograph "Vertically Integrated Oil Companies of Russia: Methodology of Formation and Implementation".
He was awarded the Orders of Friendship of Peoples and the Badge of Honor, and the medal For the Development and Development of the Oil and Gas Complex in Western Siberia.
For his services in the development of economic relations between Azerbaijan and Russia, he was awarded the Order of Glory.
1974-1977 - Senior Process Engineer of the District Engineering and Technological Service No. 2 of the NGDU named after A. Serebrovsky Production Association "Kasmorneft".
1977-1978 - shift supervisor, ibid.
1978 - master of oil and gas production at NGDU.
1978-1979 - Senior Engineer, Deputy Head of the Oil Field of the A. Serebrovsky NGDU.
1979 - Senior Engineer of Oil Field No. 2 NGDU "Fedorovskneft" PO "Surgutneftegas" Glavtyumenneftegaz of the Ministry oil industry USSR, Surgut, Tyumen region.
1979-1980 - Head of Oil Field No. 2 at Fedorovskneft NGDU.
1980-1981 - Head of the Central Engineering and Technological Service of NGDU "Kholmogorneft" PO "Surgutneftegas", pos. Noyabrsk, Purovsky district, Tyumen region.
1981-1983 - Chief Engineer, Deputy Head of NGDU "Lyantorneft" PO "Surgutneftegas", pos. Lyantor Surgut region Tyumen region.
1983-1985 - Head of NGDU Povkhneft PO Surgutneftegaz, pos. Kogalym of the Surgut district of the Tyumen region. 1985-1987 - First Deputy general director PA "Bashneft" in Western Siberia of the Ministry of Oil Industry of the USSR, Kogalym.
1987-1990 - General Director of PO Kogalymneftegaz, Glavtyumenneftegaz, Kogalym.
1990-1991 - Deputy Minister of the Oil and Gas Industry of the USSR.
1991-1992 - First Deputy Minister of the Oil and Gas Industry of the USSR
1992-1993 - President of the LUKOIL Oil Concern.
From 1993 to the present time - President of OAO LUKOIL.

Dossier:
In a narrow circle, Alekperov is called "Don". He even stretches out his hand at a meeting so that he has to fall to her almost in a kiss. Alekperov earned his "every minute" respect because he knows the oil industry "inside and out." He started out as a simple driller and rose to the director of a field. As a professional he was formed in Siberian Kogalym, heading "Kogalymneftegaz", from there the psychology "I can do everything." In the same place, in Kogalym, Alekperov received another nickname from the drillers - Alek the First - for the fact that, contrary to party guidelines, he built normal brick houses for the workers, and not barracks. Another story of those years - Alekperov sat down on a damaged pipe, from which oil was coming, in order to morally support the welders who were afraid of an explosion. Under Alekperov, the standard of living in Kogalym was considered the highest in the USSR - payments for oil came in cash. The builder of the "bright future" was soon transferred to work at the USSR Ministry of Oil and Gas Industry. Alekperov was the youngest first deputy minister in the history of the ministry - it is still not known exactly who favored him for this post. The ministry was headed by Leonid Filimonov (headed Nizhnevartovskneftegaz, then was president of the Eastern Oil Company). In collaboration with him, Alekperov developed a scheme for the vertical integration of oil companies - vertically integrated oil companies. Thus, at the end of 1991, the first international oil concern LUKOIL appeared in Russia, which included Urayneftegaz and Langepasneftegaz. Alekperov met their leaders Alexander Putilov and Yuri Shafranik (the latter later headed the oil and gas ministry and helped the "oil king" Vagit a lot in business), Alekperov met while still in Kogalym. The Volgograd and Perm refineries also became part of LUKOIL. The name of the concern was given according to the first letters of the names of the cities of Langepas, Urai and Kogalym. At the same time, the American Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO) became a major shareholder and strategic partner of LUKOIL. LUKOIL has a reputation as a pro-American company.
(Source: "Aloud about ...", May 2003; "Top secret", November 2002)

Since then, not a single oil project has passed by LUKoil. Development of Timan-Pechora, Arctic or Caspian shelves, Baltic transit, construction of the Baltic pipeline system and the Caspian Pipeline Consortium, the construction of a new oil loading terminal in the north, the development of a tanker fleet and an order for the production of railway tank cars — LUKoil is everywhere. Moreover, the company tried to control directly competing projects. There was only one goal - expansion in all directions under the auspices of state interests. Today LUKoil accounts for 1.3% of global oil reserves and 2.3% of global oil production. If we talk about Russia, LUKoil accounts for 18.6% of all-Russian oil production and 18.1% of all-Russian oil refining.

In 1993, Boris Yeltsin signed a decree on the privatization of oil companies. At the same time, Alekperov voiced the idea that there should not be more than three or four oil companies in the country. He actually took the tidbits of the oil sector for himself.

The then President of Azerbaijan, Heydar Aliyev, hoped that Alekperov would defend the interests of Azerbaijan in Moscow, but everything turned out the other way around. Alekperov defended primarily the interests of Moscow. But, despite the demonstrated loyalty, in the late 90s, Alekperov began a conflict with the authorities. On the one hand, Putin did not want to tolerate overly large and independent monopolies. On the other hand, LUKoil began to interfere with its main competitor, Sibneft, the family company. As a result, a criminal case was initiated against LUKoil for tax evasion in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Viktor Kalyuzhny, an outspoken lobbyist for the interests of LUKoil, resigned from the post of Minister of Fuel and Energy (it is noteworthy that Alekperov did not take him to his company, apparently not too happy with the work of the "tame minister"). And Alekperov himself was "caught" in a dubious connection with the criminal authority Bogomolov, nicknamed Mantis (Tyumen organized criminal group). He was even listed in LUKoil in one of the positions. They preferred not to get involved with Mantis in the underworld, remembering how the famous thief in law “Shakro-Old” (aka Kakachia), who was killed in the vicinity of Berlin, ended his life. It is believed that the “godfathers” who control LUKoil were involved in the murder, since not long before its unexpected death, “Shakro-Stary” had a falling out with one of the leaders of LUKOIL.

The leadership of the Ministry of Internal Affairs was aware of the links between LUKoil's structures and the criminal world that control the gasoline business. In particular, the former Minister of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Kulikov wrote about this in memo in the name of Chernomyrdin, but no decisions were made on this matter.

By the way, back in 1997, LUKoil vice president Vitaly Schmidt died of coronary heart disease, whose death was later interpreted in the press as murder by poisoning. Schmidt was the author of the restructuring of the LUKoil offshore system, which was disadvantageous for Alekperov and therefore was not carried out after Schmidt's death. Schmidt's relatives accused Alekperov, Ralif Safin and other LUKoil leaders in the Top Secret program on the NTV channel.

A couple of years later, Alekperov's first deputy, Sergei Kukura, also suffered. He was kidnapped and then safely returned by unknown persons. At the same time, it turned out that for several years Lukoilovtsy through their network gas stations were engaged in the sale of diluted gasoline. Only state treasury, according to the most conservative estimates of the tax police, damage was inflicted in the amount of 4.5 billion rubles.

In 2000, the FSNP of Russia announced the initiation of a criminal case against Alekperov and the chief accountant of LUKOIL Lyubov Khoba on the fact of “sheltering large funds from taxation”. On the same day, Alekperov met with President Putin in the Kremlin. As a result, he was not charged. In August 2000 arbitration court rejected most of the FSNP's claims against LUKOIL.

Vagit Alekperov is one of the most richest people Russian Federation. His monetary fortune by 2017 was about $ 14.5 billion. At the beginning of his career ladder Alekperov Vagit Yusufovich worked as a simple private in the oil sector and soon rose to the president of the company Lukoil, which is the 2nd largest company in the Russian Federation.

Positions:

President of the Public Joint Stock Company "Lukoil"
Executive member of the Board of Directors of Public Joint Stock Company "Lukoil"
Chairman of the Board of the Public Joint Stock Company "Lukoil"

He was a member of the open joint stock company "Lukoil", since 1993 he has been a member of the board of directors of the public joint stock company "Lukoil".

Biography of Alekperov Vagit Yusufivich

In the village of Stepan Razin, which is located near the Azerbaijani capital Baku, in a family of ordinary workers 1950 (September 1) Vagit Yusufovich Alekperov was born. He was not the only child in the family. His father, Yusuf Kerbalayevich Alekperov, was an Azerbaijani, and his mother, Tatyana Fedorovna Bocharova, was a Russian Cossack. The father of the future businessman worked as a simple mechanic, he was a veteran of the Great Patriotic War. And the entrepreneur's mother was a housewife and was engaged in raising her children.

When little Vagit was three years old, his father died from unhealed wounds received on the battlefield in Velikaya World War II... Tatyana Fyodorovna was left all alone. A heavy load fell on her shoulders. She had to work around the clock to somehow feed her five children. After the death of her husband, Tatiana was offered to hand over the children to Orphanage, but she was categorically against it. She believed that she herself could give them a decent upbringing. In order to somehow help his mother to feed his family, the future businessman began to engage in fishing. In order not to let his mother down, the future businessman studied perfectly well. He was a very calm and diligent child.

Vagit Alekperov and

Ever since childhood, Vagit Yusufovich Alekperov was amazed at the strength and resilience of his mother. She became an ideal for him, an example to follow. Even in his youth, Vagit Alekperov wanted to work with "black gold". To make his childhood dream come true, Vagit began his studies at the Azerbaijan Institute of Oil and Chemistry.

Head of Lukoil Vagit Alekperov

Alekperov's business

When the future entrepreneur began his studies at the Azerbaijan Institute of Oil and Chemistry (1968), he began to delve into all the subtleties of finding oil deposits... During his studies, the entrepreneur got a job as a simple driller in the company "Kasmorneft"... The first years were the most difficult and dangerous in his life, because the future businessman had to go to sea on unfurnished oil platforms, which are subject to fire and explosion. In one of such exits to the sea, a blast wave of an entrepreneur was thrown into the open sea. Alekperov managed to escape only due to the fact that he knows how to swim remarkably.

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The following years, namely 5 years after graduation from the institute in Azerbaijan, became the most beneficial for a businessman. From a simple position of a process engineer, the young man rose to the rank of shift supervisor, and subsequently to foreman and senior engineer. For a very short period of time, Vagit Yusufovich Alekperov made a remarkable career for himself becoming the deputy chief of the oil field. However, building a career was not easy. In 1974, an explosion occurred at one of the wells of oil deposits, the entrepreneur just at that time was there and almost lost his life.

Alekperov Vagit Yusufovich in his youth

In 1979, Vagit decided to go to Western Siberia. There he looked for places rich in oil. In Siberia, for 5 years, a businessman held a high position in companies Bashneft and Surgutneftegaz... In 1984, Vagit's bosses decided to nominate him for the post of general director of the Kogalymneftegaz association.

holds a working meeting with the President of OJSC "Lukoil" V.Yu. Alekperov

In the 90s, Vagit Alekperov Yusufovich worked in a leading position in the USSR Ministry of Oil and Gas Industry. However, he soon decided to return to his usual business and began to produce hydrocarbons as president of the newly created Lukoil company, in which he still works today.

For his services, Vagit Yusufovich Alekperov was awarded various medals, awards, orders.

In 1986, Vagit was awarded the "Badge of Honor";
In 1995, the entrepreneur was awarded the Order of Friendship;
In 2000, Vagit Yusufovich Alekperov was awarded the Order of Azerbaijan's Glory for playing a huge role in improving economic ties between the Russian Federation and Azerbaijan itself;
In 2005, 2010, 2014. Alekperov was awarded the Orders of Merit to the Fatherland IV, III and II degrees;
Alekperov Vagit Yusufovich received the orders of all degrees of the Reverend Sergei of Radonezh;
The Russian Orthodox Church presented him with the order of the II and III degrees (Holy Blessed Prince Daniel of Moscow).

Personal life

At the beginning of his career, Vagit Yusufovich Alekperov met his wife Larisa Viktorovna. The couple have been together for 40 years. In 1990, their only son was born, whom Vagit named after his father Yusuf.

Yusuf, just like his father, decided to engage in oil production. He entered the Russian State University of Oil and Gas and graduated with excellent marks. After graduating from the Russian State University of Oil and Gas, the young man received a second higher education with a degree in Economics and Management. Yusuf's hobby is collecting expensive cars.

V free time the billionaire devotes to the family. The spouses and son love to travel the world. Also, in his spare time, a businessman loves to play tennis and tennis.

Alekperov Vagit Yusufovich today

To date, the company owned by Vagit Yusufovich Alekperov ranks second in terms of total revenue. She is second only to the open joint stock company Gazprom. LUKOIL filling factories are spread all over the world. They are located in countries such as: Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldova, Bulgaria, USA and many others. Alekperov Vagit Yusufovich also cooperates with Belarusian oil refining companies. The businessman, together with the Naftan company, produces motor additives.

In 2016, according to "Forbs" on the account of Vagit Yusufovich Alekperov, there were $ 8.9 billion. Thanks to this, the businessman ranks ninth in the ranking of the richest people in the world. In just a year, this amount has increased and in 2017 is $ 14.5 billion. This helped Vagit move up the rating and take 6th place. The assets owned by Vagit Yusufovich Alekperov are growing. Based on this, in the next couple of years, the businessman's fortune can greatly increase, which will help him take a higher place in the rating of Russian Forbes.

President of the oil company "LUKoil" Vagit Alekperov

In addition to Lukoil, the businessman owns a museum, which he opened in 2015. It contains collections of ancient coins. The most expensive coin was purchased for $ 410,000 in 2013.

Alekperov Vagit Yusufovich owns 20.4% of the shares of Lukoil, which he transferred in his will to his only son on the condition that Yusuf will not sell or divide this block of shares. Alekperov Vagit Yusufovich said that by the time the will enters into force, the block of shares will not exceed 30%.

In 1974 he graduated from the Azerbaijan Institute of Oil and Chemistry.

Currently, Vagit Alekperov is firmly among the richest people in Azerbaijan and Russia. His personal fortune is estimated at almost $ 15 billion. And looking at such numbers, it is difficult to believe that the future oil tycoon was born in the most ordinary family that could not give him any big money, no sonorous name. Vagit Alekperov is a man who made himself. And looking at the achievements of this person, it is difficult not to admire his steadfastness and determination.

The early years of Vagit Alekperov's life

Vagit Alekperov spent his childhood and youth in sunny Azerbaijan. His father, a native of Baku, worked as a simple locksmith in the oil fields (which during the Soviet era did not mean an exorbitant salary at all), and his mother, a native of Russia, was an ordinary housewife. From the most early years Vagit's childhood was spent in poverty. His father died when the boy was only three years old (affected by the wounds received during the Second World War). After that, hard times fell in the Alekperov family. Vagit's mother did not have a profession, and a pension of 34 rubles was barely enough to support five children (among whom the future businessman was the youngest).

As Alekperov himself recalls, neighbors and friends advised his mother to send the children to an orphanage, but she did not even want to think about such a scenario. In order to feed the children, she changed jobs one after another, and therefore at some point the life of a large family began to improve. The elder sister Vagit Zuleikha began working at a local oil well. Some time later, another sister, Nelya, also began to earn money. After graduating from a music school, she began to give private violin lessons. And therefore, very soon, things in the Alekperovs' house went smoothly.

At an early age, at the insistence of the same sister, Vagit also began to try to master the violin. However, the soul of the future businessman was drawn to completely different heights. As the family of the businessman recall, from an early age he tried to be useful to his family in some way. Having learned to swim, he began to swim far into the Caspian Sea in order to set up a stream there, in which a lot of fish could fill in the evening.

He did not forget his education either. But the usual boyish games usually did not like, answering that he had already outgrown them.

Vagit Alekperov's career in business

In 1969, Vagit Alekperov entered the Azerbaijan Institute of Oil and Chemistry. Here he began to comprehend all the subtleties associated with the search and development of oil and gas fields. And I soon got the opportunity to apply my knowledge in practice.

Vagit Alekperov: Lukoil is not for sale

Following in his father's footsteps, Alekperov began working as an oil worker for the large Azerbaijani company Kasmorneft. At first, he combined work with study, but already in 1974 he got a full-time job.

The next five years turned into one endless way up for Vagit. Starting from the position of an ordinary process engineer, the guy "rose" first to the shift supervisor, and then to the foreman and senior engineer. Ultimately, in a short period of time, several years long, Vagit Alekperov made an excellent career in the company and reached the position of deputy head of the oil field.

However, do not think that the way up is for famous businessman and the manager was light and simple. In 1974, he almost died in an explosion in one of the wells. Due to the imperfection of Soviet technology, life-threatening episodes occurred later. In particular, once, due to a storm, Vagit was locked on an oil platform for several days. However, he survived and became even stronger.

In 1979, Vagit went to Western Siberia, where he began to search for and produce oil. Here, according to the party order, he worked for five years on high positions in the companies Bashneft and Surgutneftegaz. In 1984 Alekperov was nominated by his superiors to the post of general director of the Kogalymneftegaz association.

There was practically nothing in the city of Kogalym then. All hydrocarbon deposits had to be developed almost from scratch. However, this fact did not bother the businessman at all, and very soon the business of the new enterprise went uphill.

Alekperov at Putin's

In the early nineties, Vagit Alekperov began working in senior positions in the USSR Ministry of Oil and Gas Industry. However, he soon returned to his usual business and began to engage in hydrocarbon production as president of the newly created company Lukoil. In this organization, he works to this day.

Vagit Alekperov today

At the moment, Alekperov's company is the second in the Russian Federation in terms of total revenue (second only to OAO Gazprom). Representative offices of the company operate in Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Azerbaijan, as well as in Bulgaria, the USA and many other countries of the world. In addition, Vagit Yusufovich is actively working with Belarusian oil refining companies. Together with the Novopolotsk company Naftan, the entrepreneur is engaged in the production of motor additives.

To date, Vagit Alekperov's personal financial assets are estimated at $ 14.8 billion. In the "Russian" rating of Forbes, the entrepreneur takes a high fifth place. It is quite remarkable that Vagit Yusufovich's assets tend to only grow. Therefore, it will not come as a surprise to anyone if in the coming years he gets to higher positions in this prestigious ranking of billionaires.

For his work in the field of mining, the well-known Azerbaijani entrepreneur was repeatedly nominated for various government awards in Russia, Azerbaijan and Bulgaria.

Personal life of Vagit Alekperov

With his wife Larisa Viktorovna Vagit have been together for many years. In 1990, their first-born son Yusuf was born. Having decided to continue the family dynasty, the entrepreneur's son graduated from the Russian State University of Oil and Gas in 2012 and is currently trying to realize himself in this area.

According to Vagit Alekperov, he always strives to spend all his free time with his family. Together they travel frequently. A favorite vacation spot for their family is the Crimea peninsula.