Shabtai Kalmanovich

Shabtai Genrichowitsch Kalmanowitsch (Hebrew שבתאי קלמנוביץ; lit Šabtajus Kalmanovičius; . Russo Шабтай Генрихович Калманович; born December 18, 1947 in Kaunas, Lithuania, † November 2, 2009 in Moscow, Russia) was a Russian businessman, patron of sports, CEO of the Women's Basketball teams of Spartak Moscow.

Life

Kalmanowitsch studied at the Polytechnic Institute of Kaunas. At the University of Jerusalem, he graduated in engineering and began his career as a producer and entrepreneur. He organized a concert tour of Galina and Valery Panov. At the invitation of Kalmanovičius came Boney M, Baccarat, Michael Jackson, Tom Jones, Liza Minnelli and Jose Carreras, inter alia, to Israel. Kalmanowitsch was one of the most colorful figures of the new Russian entrepreneurs early days and a friend of the underworld godfather " Japontschik " Vyacheslav Ivankov -.

1971 emigrated to Israel Kalmanowitsch and worked as a government consultant for the integration of Jews from the Soviet Union. In 1988, he was convicted in Israel for spying for the Soviet secret service KGB to several years in prison.

Kalmanowitsch was married three times; most recently in 2005 with the basketball player Anna Arkhipova.

Awards

• Gediminas Ordinas ( for services to the Lithuanian basketball on decision of the Lithuanian President Algirdas Brazauskas ), 1996.