Andrey Melnichenko

Andrei Melnichenko Igorewitsch (Russian: Андрей Игоревич Мельниченко; born March 8, 1972 in Gomel ) is a Russian billionaire entrepreneur. According to Forbes in March 2007, his personal fortune amounted to 4.6 billion U.S. dollars; after the Russian financial magazine he took with assets of $ 5.9 billion on the list of richest Russians the 18th Place an.

Biography

Melnichenko was born on 8 March 1972 in the city of Gomel. His father was a respected physicist and scientist. After the victory in the Russian Physics Olympiad he studied at the physico- mathematical boarding school of the prestigious Moscow State University in Moscow. He graduated from studying physics.

Since then, he was an entrepreneur, among other things in the wild early years of the new Russia with the establishment of a chain of value - exchange bureaus. He has earned claims to his first start-up capital in the amount of $ 50,000.

In March 1993 he founded the MDM Bank, together with Sergei Popov. The MDM Bank managed the accounts of Roman Abramovich and other business people who at that time had good contacts with the Russian government. Once in 2000, failed in his attempt to win the Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy as a customer to Melnichenko did together with the metal dealer Sergei Popov and built on an industrial empire that today includes chemical plants, coal mines, steel mills and 6% of Russia's electricity monopoly. Today the MDM Group is one of Russia's leading financial and industrial companies.

He is the owner of various industrial holdings - and Others EuroChem and SUEK, Russia's largest coal producer. In addition he held sometimes 15% of the German K S. His participation in the MDM - Bank, he has now been sold to Sergei Popov.

Melnichenko is a Russian citizen and lives in Moscow. Since 2005 he has been with the Beogradjanka Aleksandra Melnichenko (born Nikolic ) married. She worked as a model and was a member of the Yugoslavian pop group models.

Andrei Melnichenko has launched its new 119 meter long mega yacht A, previously called Sigma or SF project 99, get shipped in 2008. The ship's name, A is the first letter of his wife Alexandra.

Investments

Companies in which Andrei Melnichenko is involved, include:

  • SUEK ( Сибирская угольная энергетическая компания - СУЭК; . German Siberian Coal and Energy Company, Eng Siberian Coal Energy Company ) - " Wostsibisugal " ( Востсибуголь, German East Siberia - coal) and coal companies in the region, the Trans-Baikal and Krasnoyarsk
  • Eurochem ( ЕвроХим ): Mining companies in the Murmansk Oblast - City Kowdor ( Ковдор, Ковдорский ГОК ), phosphorite ( Фосфорит ) Newinownski Asot (nitrogen, Невинномысский азот ) Lifosa (Lithuania )
  • Rinakeo ( Ринако ), a holding company with large equity stakes in the companies: Taganrog Metallurgical Works AG ( ОАО Таганрогский металлургический завод )
  • Kuznetsk Ferroalloys AG ( ОАО Кузнецкие ферросплавы )
  • Volgograd Tractor Factory AG ( ОАО Волгоградский тракторный завод )
  • Volgograd Motor AG ( ОАО Волгоградский моторный завод )
  • Publisher "century of information " ( ОАО Издательский дом " Век информации ").
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