Yuri Luzhkov: biography, family and interesting facts. Biography, net worth of Elena Baturina according to Forbes Baturina Construction Company

Head of JSC "Inteko"

Wife of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov. A major entrepreneur, owner of the investment and construction corporation "Inteko", which occupies a leading position in the market for the production of polymers and plastic products, monolithic housing construction, and commercial real estate. In February 2007, she transferred 99 percent of Inteko shares to the closed mutual investment fund Continental. Deputy head of the working group of the national project "Affordable Housing", member of the board of directors of the Russian Land Bank. Until 2005, she was the chairman of the Russian Equestrian Federation. According to Forbes magazine in 2008, she is the richest woman in Russia, with a personal fortune of $4.2 billion.

Elena Nikolaevna Baturina was born on March 8, 1963. According to other sources, in 1991 she was 25 years old, that is, she was born in 1966. After school (since 1980), Baturina worked for a year and a half at the Moscow Frezer plant, where her parents worked, as a design technician.

In 1982, Baturina graduated from the Moscow Institute of Management named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze (now a university). According to some reports, Baturina studied at the evening department of the institute.

In 1982-1989, she was a research fellow at the Institute of Economic Problems of the Integrated Development of the National Economy of Moscow, the chief specialist of the Moscow City Executive Committee commission on cooperatives and individual labor activity. There is information that Baturina started her business with a cooperative that developed software.

In 1991, the company (cooperative) "Inteko" was registered, which began to produce polymer products. Baturina headed it together with her brother Victor, and later she was mentioned in the press as the president of Inteko, and her brother as the general director, vice president, and first vice president of the company. According to other data published in 2007, Baturina became the president and main owner of the Inteko company in 1989.

In 1991, Baturina married the future mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov (this was his second marriage), who in the past was one of the leaders of the Plastics Research Institute and the head of the department of science and technology of the Ministry chemical industry USSR.

In 1992, Luzhkov became mayor of the capital. Subsequently, Baturina denied the connection between her marriage to Luzhkov and the beginning of her own career, although they practically coincided in time. A number of media outlets wrote that Luzhkov never specified how Inteko received lucrative municipal orders. Thus, it is known that in the early 1990s, the Inteko cooperative won a tender and received an order for the production of almost one hundred thousand plastic chairs for the capital's stadiums. Baturina herself, in a conversation with reporters, mentioned that 80 thousand plastic seats for the Luzhniki stadium were manufactured by her company. In 1999, Baturina, in an interview with Moskovsky Komsomolets, indicated that the stadium was reconstructed using the funds that the joint-stock company received from leasing space and through loans. “I don’t see anything reprehensible in the fact that the Luzhniki management decided to buy plastic chairs from me, rather than pay one and a half times more to the Germans,” she noted.

A few years later, Inteko's business in the production of plastic products was supplemented by its own raw materials production on the basis of the Moscow Oil Refinery (MNPZ), which was under the control of the capital's government. A polypropylene production plant was built on the territory of the Moscow Refinery, and almost all of the polymer produced by the Moscow Refinery belonged to Baturina’s company. The demand for polypropylene products has always been high, and in the absence of competition from other manufacturers, Inteko, according to data published by the Company magazine, managed to occupy almost a third of the Russian market for plastic products.

On February 3, 1997, Novaya Gazeta reported that part of the funds allocated by the Moscow government for the construction of the Prince Rurik brewery was transferred to JSC Inteko. The company filed a lawsuit, considering that the article discredited its business reputation. On April 4, 1997, the court ordered the newspaper to publish a refutation.

In the late 1990s, the President of Kalmykia, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, put forward the idea of ​​​​building a Chess City (City Chess) to host international chess tournaments. One of the main general contractors for the construction of the city was Inteko. As a result, the company turned out to be one of the defendants in an investigation concerning the misuse of budget funds during the construction of the City of Chess. The republic, according to media reports, owes Moscow entrepreneurs a significant amount of money. At the end of 1998, co-owner of Inteko Baturin, at the suggestion of Ilyumzhinov, headed the government of Kalmykia. A few months later, under an agreement between the Ministry of State Property of Kalmykia and Inteko-Chess CJSC (a “daughter” of Inteko), the Moscow company became the owner of 38 percent of Kalmneft shares belonging to the republic (according to some sources, this happened without the knowledge of the other shareholders of the oil company) . According to one version, in this way Baturin provided guarantees for the return of funds invested in the construction of City Chess. Soon, dissatisfied minority shareholders of Kalmneft filed a claim with the arbitration court against Inteko-Chess CJSC and the Ministry of State Property of Kalmykia to declare the transaction invalid. The transfer of shares was canceled, and already in February 1999, Baturin left the post of Prime Minister of the Republic of Kalmykia. In 2004, Baturina, in an interview with Izvestia, stated that many constituent entities of the federation owed her “numerous amounts of money,” including Kalmykia.

In the fall of 1999, Baturina ran for State Duma deputy in the 14th Kalmyk single-mandate electoral district. Baturina’s opponent in the elections was one of the leaders of the Agrarian Party of Russia and the Fatherland - All Russia (OVR) movement, Gennady Kulik. The Kalmyk branch of the OVR approached Baturina with a request to run in the elections from Kalmykia, which, according to the Profile magazine, came as a complete surprise to Ilyumzhinov. The publication indicated that, according to unofficial information, after some time a meeting took place in Moscow between Ilyumzhinov, Kulik and the head of the Russian government, Yevgeny Primakov, who was asked to convince Luzhkov to dissuade his wife from running in Kalmykia. But Primakov’s intervention did not help - Luzhkov refused. Returning to Elista, Ilyumzhinov made a statement over the phone to Profile: “I respect and appreciate Elena Baturina and wish her good luck in the elections. If she wins, the economy of the republic will win first of all.” At a rally in Elista, organized by activists of the OVR movement, Baturina made a speech, promising that if she wins, Kalmykia will heal no worse than Moscow.

Earlier, in July 1999, Luzhkov’s wife found herself at the center of a scandal involving the illegal export of capital abroad. According to employees of the FSB Directorate of the Vladimir Region, her companies Inteko and Bistroplast (the head of which, according to Kommersant, was Baturin) collaborated with structures that were involved in capital laundering. According to media reports, these structures transferred $230 million abroad. Luzhkov immediately stated that Boris Berezovsky was behind this case, as well as “the administration of the President of the Russian Federation and general system, which is united by the political goal of maintaining power for as long as possible." Baturina herself sent an official protest to the FSB and the Prosecutor General's Office. In the fall of 1999, she met with FSB Director Nikolai Patrushev, who promised to apologize to her if the illegality of the seizure of documents by employees of the Vladimir FSB Directorate was confirmed. Inteko. In addition, an audit conducted by the reputable firm Ernst & Young confirmed that Inteko did not transfer funds to Vladimir banks suspected by security officers of financial fraud. Baturina herself stated in this regard: “The case is developing in this way. that it is the FSB that needs to think about its own security and how to get out of the current situation. But I have nothing to be afraid of.” The wife of the capital’s mayor denied that one of the motives for her participation in the parliamentary elections could have been the desire to protect herself from persecution by the FSB.

However, Baturina lost the election. A week before voting day, December 12, 1999, ORT TV presenter Sergei Dorenko told viewers that Baturina owns an apartment in New York. In response to this, she sued the journalist, demanding a refutation and the recovery of 400 thousand dollars from Dorenko and 100 thousand dollars from the ORT television channel. The trial, which lasted nine months, was adversarial, and in October 2000 the Ostankino District Court granted Baturina's claim. He ordered ORT to refute, and be sure to do so on Sunday in the Vremya program, the report that she has an apartment in New York. The court assessed the moral damage and moral suffering of the plaintiff at 10 thousand rubles.

According to Inteko vice-president Oleg Soloshchansky, the company entered the construction business in the mid-1990s, creating the Intekostroy company and taking part in a development project in Kalmykia. However, in fact, the transformation of Inteko into a large investment and construction corporation began only in 2001, when the company bought a controlling stake in the leading house-building enterprise in Moscow, OJSC House-Building Plant No. 3 (the main manufacturer of panel houses of the P-3M series). Thus, Inteko managed to take control of about a quarter of the capital's panel housing construction market. A year later, a monolithic construction division appeared within Inteko. At the same time, the company began implementing large-scale projects: residential complexes "Grand Park", "Shuvalovsky", "Kutuzovsky" and "Krasnogorye". In mid-2002, the company acquired the cement plants OJSC Podgorensky Cementnik and OJSC Oskolcement, and later ZAO Belgorod Cement, Kramatorsk Cement Plant, Ulyanovskcement and the leader of the North-West region, Pikalevsky Cement. Thanks to this, Inteko has become the largest supplier of cement in the country.

In 2003, it became known about the bond project of Inteko CJSC. At the same time, it became clear for the first time that Baturina owns 99 percent of the company’s shares, and 1 percent of the shares belongs to her brother (previously, in 1999, Baturina reported that her older brother owned half of the company’s shares). Inteko estimated its share in the capital's panel housing construction market at 20 percent, while, according to media reports, the company built up to a third of standard houses under municipal housing construction programs on city orders. Some time later, Inteko announced the creation of its own real estate structure, Magistrat, and launched its first advertising campaign. In February 2004, Baturina’s company placed a debut bond issue worth 1.2 billion rubles. The media indicated that investors were skeptical about Inteko's desire to borrow funds at an interest rate of no higher than 13 percent per annum, so less than a quarter of the issue was sold at the auction. The rest, according to experts from the NIKoil company, which conducted the placement, was sold by the underwriter through negotiated deals. In turn, independent analysts suggested that the rest of the Inteko loan (more than 900 million rubles at par) was bought by NIKoil itself.

On July 8, 2003, the Vedomosti newspaper published an article “The Elena Baturina Complex,” which, in particular, stated that the Moscow bureaucracy “makes a pleasant exception” for the business of the mayor’s wife. Baturina, considering that she was accused of using marital status to gain benefits in entrepreneurial activity, filed a lawsuit, and on January 21, 2004, the Golovinsky District Court ordered the publication to publish a refutation.

In 2003, the Inteko-agro company, a subsidiary of Inteko, bought Belgorod region more than a dozen farms were on the verge of bankruptcy. In an interview with Izvestia, Baturina said about her Belgorod business: “In Belgorod, we are building a large plastic processing plant - and the governor there ordered us to take over a livestock complex and bring it out of the red. We have to buy bulls and raise them for sale.” The governor of the Belgorod region, Evgeny Savchenko, initially supported Baturina. However, in 2005, regional authorities accused the agricultural holding of purchasing land using “gray” schemes and reduced prices for the purpose of their further speculative resale. It later turned out that the activities of Inteko-agro interfered with the development of the Yakovlevsky mine, which belonged to Metal-Group LLC, a company controlled by the Russian Ambassador to Ukraine Viktor Chernomyrdin and his son Vitaly (Baturina refused to hand over the land to the regional authorities for construction railway to the mine under construction). On October 9, in Belgorod, the executive director of Inteko-Agro LLC, Alexander Annenkov, was attacked, and the next day, Inteko lawyer Dmitry Steinberg was killed in Moscow. Baturina appealed to President Vladimir Putin with a request to dismiss the governor of the Belgorod region. After this, Savchenko, speaking on regional television, said that some “uninvited guests would like to change the government in the region,” and “their black PR specialists stop at nothing, even blood.” State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein and Deputy Rosprirodnadzor Oleg Mitvol openly spoke out in defense of the interests of Inteko-agro. However, on federal level No one publicly stood up for the Baturins. In the same month, elections to the regional Duma were held in Belgorod: United Russia, led by Governor Savchenko, won the party list vote. The LDPR, supported by the Inteko company, did not receive even seven percent of the votes.

In 2004, the press named among Inteko's largest projects its participation in the construction of residential microdistricts on Khodynskoye Field, in the area of ​​Moscow State University and Tekstilshchiki. Total cost construction projects were estimated at $550 million. At the same time, the media noted that the cost of housing in the capital since Baturina’s purchase of the DSK-3 construction company has increased 2.4 times. In the same year, the online publication Izvestia.ru published information that Baturina allegedly acquired 110 hectares of land along Novorizhskoe highway beyond the Moscow Ring Road for the construction of an elite microdistrict, for the sake of rising prices for apartments in which the Moscow authorities accelerated the construction of Krasnopresnensky Prospekt - it was supposed to connect the highway with the city center, which would make it possible to cover the path from Krasnogorsk to the Kremlin in half an hour - without traffic jams and traffic lights.

On February 15, 2004, as a result of a partial collapse of the roof of the Transvaal Park water park building in the Yasenevo district of Moscow, 28 visitors to the entertainment complex were killed and more than 100 were injured. In March 2004, Kommersant, in the article “Oil workers surfaced in the water park: change of owners of Transvaal-Park” park "was financed by the relatives of the Moscow mayor" reported that at the time of the disaster the water park business was completely controlled by the Terra-Oil company, and the deal to purchase shares from the previous owners of Transvaal Park, the company "European Technologies and Service", was financed by two presidents of the company "Inteko" - Baturina and her brother. The publication concluded that de jure Inteko was not part of the founders of the companies managing Transvaal Park, but its shareholders in February 2004 were the largest creditors of Terra Oil. In March 2005, the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow partially satisfied Baturina’s claim for the protection of honor and dignity against the Kommersant Publishing House and its journalists Rinat Gizatulin and Andrey Mukhin. The court found the information published in the newspaper to be untrue and discrediting the honor and dignity of Baturina. At the same time, the court recovered 10 thousand rubles from each defendant in favor of Baturina as compensation for moral damage. In addition, the Tverskoy Court of Moscow satisfied another claim by Baturina, brought against the newspaper Kommersant over the publication of the article “The Mayor with Complexes” (dated January 29, 2004). This article reported that Baturina decided “the fate of Moscow vice-mayor Valery Shantsev” (after the election of the capital’s mayor, Luzhkov reorganized the mayor’s office, relegating Shantsev, who had previously overseen the capital’s economy, to a less significant post). This information was also found by the court to be untrue and subject to refutation.

On January 29, 2005, journalist Yulia Latynina, speaking on radio Ekho Moskvy, stated that Baturina is a co-owner of the Transvaal Park that collapsed on February 14, 2004, and the Inteko company received $200 million for the construction of the Moscow State University library, which was declared as a gift. On February 28, 2005, Baturina sent a request to the editor-in-chief of the radio station, Alexei Venediktov, to refute this information, which was subsequently done.

In 2005, Inteko sold all its cement enterprises to Filaret Galchev's Eurocement for $800 million, and after some time Baturina sold DSK-3 to the PIK Group of Companies. After the sale of the plant, Inteko left the panel housing construction market. According to a number of media reports, Inteko claimed that the sale of DSK-3 and cement plants was part of a strategy to consolidate resources for the development of monolithic housing construction and the creation of a pool of commercial real estate. Within 5-6 years the company promised to build more than 1 million square meters office space and create a large national hotel chain covering the territory from Central Europe to the Asia-Pacific region. However, market participants expressed doubts about Inteko's intentions to become one of the largest players in the commercial real estate market in Moscow and the regions.

In the spring of 2006, Inteko returned to the cement market, purchasing the Verkhnebakansky cement plant from the SU-155 group in Krasnodar region. In December 2006, the vice president of the Inteko company, Vladimir Guz, told Vedomosti that Inteko had acquired another cement plant in the Krasnodar region - Atakaycement, located near Novorossiysk. Experts estimated the purchase of a small enterprise with a capacity of 600,000 tons per year at $40-90 million. Guz did not name the sellers of the enterprise or the amount of the transaction, but the publication, citing market participants and a source in the administration of the Krasnodar region, named the president of the Samara “Wings of the Soviets” Alexander Baranovsky as the main former owner of Atakaycement. “Inteko’s plans include creating, on the basis of two factories, the largest cement production association in Russia with a total capacity of over 5 million tons of cement per year,” Guz said. In addition, Inteko, according to him, plans to build several more factories in Russia. Vedomosti drew readers' attention to the fact that Baturina is the deputy head of the working group of the national project "Affordable Housing". She, according to the newspaper, has repeatedly noted that shortages and high prices for cement are holding back the implementation of the project. UBS analyst Alexey Morozov noted: " good time for investments in cement... Those who start construction will be the first to gain market share and reduce the payback period of their investments."

In July 2006, Baturina was elected to the board of directors of OJSC AKB Russian Land Bank.

On December 1, 2006, information was published that the Axel Springer Russia Publishing House refused to print an article about Baturina and her business, destroying the entire circulation of the December issue of the Russian magazine Forbes. The management of the publishing house explained this step by saying that the publication “did not comply with the principles of journalistic ethics.” One of the employees of the publishing house told Vedomosti that on the eve of the publication of the magazine, Ilya Parnyshkov, Inteko's vice president for foreign economic relations, came to the Forbes editorial office with a copy of the statement of claim. The newspaper indicated that Inteko representatives threatened the publisher with lawsuits to protect business reputation. In turn, the American Forbes demanded that Axel Springer release the current issue in the form in which it was printed. As a result, the December issue of Russian Forbes was published in its original form, and cost 20 percent more than before the scandal began.

At the beginning of February 2007, Vedomosti, citing the lawyer of the editor-in-chief Maxim Kashulinsky and the editors of the Russian Forbes Alexander Dobrovinsky, reported lawsuits the Inteko company to the magazine and its editor-in-chief. The claims were filed in different courts: against Kashulinsky “On the dissemination of untrue information discrediting a business reputation” - in the Chertanovsky Court of Moscow, and “On the refutation of untrue information discrediting a business reputation and the recovery of intangible losses caused as a result of the dissemination of data information" to the editors of the Russian version of Forbes magazine - to the Moscow Arbitration Court. As Inteko press secretary Gennady Terebkov told Vedomosti, the amount of each claim amounted to 106 thousand 500 rubles (1 ruble for each copy of the December issue of Forbes magazine).

On March 21, 2007, the Chertanovsky Court of Moscow satisfied the claim of Inteko against Kashulinsky, collecting 109 thousand 165 rubles from the editor-in-chief of the Russian version of Forbes magazine, and not 106 thousand 500 rubles, since the legal costs of Baturina’s company were estimated at 2 thousand 665 rubles. Kashulinsky's lawyer said he intends to appeal this decision in court. On May 15, 2007, the Moscow City Court refused to consider Kashulinsky’s request to declare the decision of the Chertanovsky Court illegal.

The litigation with the publishing house turned out to be protracted. On May 21, 2007, at the request of the defendant to conduct a linguistic examination of the published materials, the Moscow Arbitration Court suspended the proceedings on the claim of Inteko CJSC. In September 2007, he nevertheless recognized the validity of the company’s claims against the publishing house, but already in November 2007, the Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal overturned this decision.

Then, in December 2007, representatives of Inteko decided to change the subject of the claim, claiming damage to Inteko's business reputation. The company demanded that not only Axel Springer Russia, but also the authors of the material, Mikhail Kozyrev and Maria Abakumova, be held jointly and severally liable, as well as recover a total of 106 thousand 500 rubles from journalists and the publishing house. In January 2008, the same Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal considered the claim according to the rules of first instance. He decided to satisfy Baturina’s claim, obliging the magazine to publish a refutation of the article that became the reason for the trial, and to collect 106 thousand 500 rubles from the defendants (35 thousand 500 thousand rubles each) for damage to the business reputation of Inteko. Commenting on the court's decision, lawyer Dobrovinsky announced his intention to appeal this decision Court of Cassation, . However, already in April 2008, the publishing house submitted a written petition to the Federal Arbitration Court of the Moscow District to abandon the cassation appeal against the decision of the arbitration court of appeal on the claim of Inteko CJSC.

In 2006, Victor Baturin sold his share in the company to his sister and finally left the business, receiving “compensation” in the form of 50 percent of the shares of Inteko-agro, as well as the entire Sochi business of the company. According to other sources, at the beginning of January 2006, Baturin retained his 1 percent stake in Inteko. In January 2006, the Inteko press service, citing Baturina, reported that her brother “is no longer the vice president of the company and is not authorized to make any statements.” According to a number of media outlets, his dismissal was a consequence of events in the Belgorod region. According to experts, the owners of Inteko did not agree on the further development of the business. Baturin himself claimed in January that he left Inteko voluntarily. In March 2006, the Inteko corporation officially announced that back in February, Baturina’s brother had left the company. On March 17, the shareholders of Inteko (that is, Baturina herself) at an extraordinary meeting decided to buy out the block of shares that belonged to him from Viktor Baturin.

However, on January 18, 2007, media reports appeared that back in December 2006, Baturina’s brother Viktor filed a lawsuit against Inteko CJSC in the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow. According to him, he was fired from the company illegally. Baturin demanded that he be reinstated and paid 6 billion rubles as compensation for unused vacation for 15 years of work for the company. Observers have suggested that this is a “fictitious claim”, but in fact Viktor Baturin is claiming a quarter of the Inteko shares, which, according to him, he was deprived of illegally. According to some reports, the cost of this package at that time could be up to one billion dollars. On February 12, 2007, the Tverskoy Court of Moscow rejected Baturin’s claim to reinstate him in the Inteko company. He also refused to pay the compensation demanded by Baturin.

On February 14, 2007, Elena Baturina, in turn, filed four lawsuits against her brother and his companies. The first lawsuit challenged Viktor Baturin’s right to own management company"Ivan Kalita", to whose jurisdiction he once promised to transfer all his assets. The head of Inteko demanded that the company be returned to itself. Three more claims motivated by “failure to fulfill obligations under contracts” contained property claims against Baturin’s companies - Inteko-Agro-Service (for 48 million rubles) and Inteko-Agro (for 265 million rubles). Baturin did not comment on the first lawsuit, but called the amounts of claims against his companies “insignificant” and stated that these claims were “filed as a distraction.” Baturin also said that he had begun preparing new claims against his sister, including a claim regarding the 25 percent of Inteko shares, which, in his opinion, continues to belong to him. However, already on February 18, 2007, Inteko press secretary Terebkov stated that “the parties renounce mutual property and other claims.”

On February 19, 2007, it became known that Baturina transferred 99 percent of Inteko shares to the closed mutual investment fund (ZUIF) Continental, managed by the company of the same name. The media reported that the fund's value net assets(82.8 billion rubles) became a leader in the Russian market. Advisor to the President of Inteko, Alexey Chalenko, noted that “this was done as part of the company’s strategy.” Continental Management Company, according to RBC, declined to comment. Analysts did not come to a consensus on why Baturina took such a step. The following assumptions were made: the transfer of Inteko's assets to a closed mutual fund could insure the company against possible hostile takeovers and could also provide it with additional tax benefits, and may give Baturina the opportunity to quietly change the structure of property ownership. In 2007, in an interview with Vedomosti, Baturina confirmed that the Continental mutual fund belongs to her 100 percent. She called the structuring of Inteko through mutual funds “simply a method of packaging assets” (“How money is in a bag, and not in a wallet - that’s the whole difference”).

On January 15, 2008, the Russian Land Bank named Baturina, who owned more than 20 percent of its shares, as the main buyer of the bank’s additional issue of shares worth 1 billion rubles. It was reported that after the repurchase of shares, Baturina’s share in the bank would exceed 90 percent. Analysts also suggested that it would buy out the remaining shares of the bank's other shareholders.

In July 2008, Kommersant wrote about Inteko's participation in several development projects in Morocco through an affiliated company Kudla Group. With reference to the words of the representative of the Department of Tourism of the Tetouan region of the Kingdom of Morocco, Mustafa Agunjabe, the publication reported that the company will invest more than 325 million euros in the construction of resort real estate in the country.

In December of the same year, ZAO Inteko Baturina won a lawsuit against the newspaper Gazeta for the protection of business reputation. The Federal Arbitration Court of the Moscow District ordered Gazeta to refute information about the conspiracy of the Moscow authorities with three leading development companies - Mirax Service (a subsidiary of Mirax Group), Inteko and the PIK group of companies - with the aim of dividing the capital's housing and communal services market. The court did not find the guilt of State Duma deputy Galina Khovanskaya, on the basis of whose words the journalists made such a conclusion (Khovanskaya herself insisted that her words were quoted inaccurately in the article).

Baturina is the richest woman in Russia. According to Forbes magazine published in 2004, her personal wealth was $1.1 billion. Forbes experts estimated the turnover of the Inteko group at $525 million. At the same time, they admitted that it was not possible to accurately assess Baturina’s assets, since, firstly, Inteko is a very closed company; secondly, it participated in almost all major capital projects as a co-investor, contractor or subcontractor. According to the same Forbes, published in 2006, Baturina’s fortune was already estimated at $2.3 billion. In August 2005, Inteko announced the purchase of shares in Gazprom and Sberbank. The company did not disclose exactly which stakes belong to Inteko (as of the first quarter of 2008, the share of Baturina - her mutual fund Continental - in Sberbank was 0.38 percent). In 2006, information was published that Baturina and businessman Suleiman Kerimov owned more than 4.6 percent of Gazprom shares between them (the right to vote with their shares, according to Vedomosti, they transferred to the Chairman of the Board of Gazprom, Alexey Miller) . In February 2007, media reports appeared that at the end of 2006, Baturina acquired shares in the Rosneft company, although this fact was not reflected in Inteko’s reporting for the last quarter of the year.

On April 19, 2007, the Russian version of Forbes magazine published a ranking of the richest citizens of Russia. As in 2006, Baturina became the only woman on the list: her fortune was estimated at $3.1 billion (in 2006 it was 2.4 billion). In the spring of 2008, she was number 253 on the list of the richest inhabitants of the planet: Baturina’s fortune, as reported by the American Forbes, at the time of compiling the rating, was estimated at $4.2 billion.

Baturina plays tennis and is a good skier. Drives a car and has a third rank in small-caliber rifle shooting. Baturina is also seriously involved in horse riding. The media wrote that she was once addicted to this activity by the famous ophthalmologist and businessman Svyatoslav Fedorov. In one of her interviews, Baturina recalled: “It so happened that I somehow immediately got into the saddle and rode off. Then they began to give horses to the mayor, and the animals had to be taken care of somehow. Since 1999, Baturina has been mentioned in the media as the chairman of the Equestrian Federation sports in Russia. During her 1999 election campaign for the State Duma elections from Kalmykia, Baturina reminded at almost every meeting with residents of the republic that “a horse is more important for a Kalmyk than chess. In January 2005, Baturina was removed from the post of president of the Equestrian Federation.” Sports of the Russian Federation. The deputy who took her place. State Duma Gennady Seleznev argued that the interests of Russian athletes were poorly taken into account by the previous leadership of the federation. Although many competitions were held, including high level, for example, the Moscow Mayor's Cup, which was one of the stages of the World Cup with big prize money, but, according to Seleznev, the organizers themselves chose those who were supposed to take part in them. The best athletes were invited from abroad, their arrival and accommodation in Russia were paid for by the organizing committee. The Russians invited by the organizing committee, whose number was limited, could not compete with the first numbers of the Old World. As a result, all the prize money was taken away by foreign guests. The Building Business publication noted that when Baturina was not re-elected as head of the federation, she was “purely offended as a human being,” but noted that she still wouldn’t give up her horses and would now take care of the affairs of the Moscow federation.

According to a number of media reports, even Baturina’s enemies noted that she invested a lot of money in equestrian sports. The media indicated that she has sincere feelings for horses. “Ordinary horse owners,” according to them, said that Baturina keeps disabled horses in her personal stable and provides them with a decent existence. However, according to Building Business, horses for Baturina are not only a hobby, but also a business. Several years ago, Inteko bought the dilapidated buildings of cowsheds in Kaliningrad region, to revive the Weedern stud farm, founded in the 18th century, where until the 1920s the Imperial Association of Private Horse Breeders was based - a partner of the largest Trakehner stud farm in East Prussia. In the fall of 2005, the reconstruction of the factory buildings was completed (“with the preservation of historical facades”) and the first stage of Weedern was put into operation, and work began on the reproduction of Trakehner and Hanoverian horse breeds. It is expected that this enterprise will become a source of considerable income: the second phase of the project includes the construction of hotels, a restaurant, the creation of a bypass road and the improvement of nearby areas. All this should attract tourists.

From her marriage to Luzhkov, Baturina has two daughters: Alena was born in 1992, Olga - in March 1994. The media also mentioned Baturina’s sister, Natalya Nikolaevna Evtushenkova, head of the IBRD Office and wife of the chairman of the board of directors and the main shareholder of AFK Sistema, Vladimir Evtushenkov.

Did Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov help his wife grow her billion-dollar fortune? What will happen to the Inteko company owned by Baturina after Luzhkov’s scandalous resignation? Who was Elena Baturina’s grandfather and why was her uncle imprisoned? How did the future billionaire meet Yuri Luzhkov and what did they do together in the basement of the White House? This and much more is in the book of Mikhail Kozyrev, the same journalist whose scandalous article became the beginning of the “war” between Baturina and Forbes magazine. Trade in computers and used military equipment. The release of consumer goods and the invention of a disposable plastic glass for vodka. Development of the Khodynka field and lands of Moscow State University. Gambling on stocks and violent “showdowns” within the Baturin family. The author year after year analyzes the events and phenomena that made Elena Baturina the richest female entrepreneur in Russia. For a wide range of readers.

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Baturina's youth. Meeting Luzhkov

Who is Elena Baturina? Where did you come from and in what environment did you grow up?

In her interviews, Baturina does not like to be frank on these topics (as indeed, in general, she does not like to be frank). But Elena Baturina has an older brother, Victor. Four years ago, in 2006, his sister kicked him out of business. Freed from the “routine”, Viktor Baturin wrote a book. Or rather, he co-wrote it. The co-authors were the leader of the LDPR Vladimir Zhirinovsky and his fellow party member Sergei Abeltsev. A piece called “Chantera pas!” describes world history and the history of Russia, reducing it to the interaction of two social groups - efficient and hard-working people, on the one hand, and their antipodes, the so-called “shatrapa”, on the other.

I will not undertake to comment on the content of this “work”, I will only say that it is, to put it mildly, controversial. But I was interested in the numerous “lyrical digressions” about the past and present of the Baturin family, with which Victor Baturin equipped his historiosophical narrative. The book reached me in one of the pre-printed versions. I contacted Viktor Baturin and asked if it was possible to use the information contained in the book. He muttered something like “you can use it, there are no secrets there.” I don’t know what about “secrets”, but something about the Baturin family becomes clear from the book.

So let's start from the beginning. If you believe Viktor Baturin, then his (and Elena Baturina’s) paternal grandfather was born in the village of Katino, Ryazan province, into a peasant family. Yegor Baturin and his wife Elena had nine children. The eldest son, born in 1915, became one of the first Komsomol members, and then communists in the village. He participated in dispossession, organized a local collective farm, and fought against religion. Once, according to family legend, Baturin the activist even broke into his parents’ hut and began chopping up icons. The mother responded by throwing a pot of hot cabbage soup on her son. He, severely scalded, turned around and left the hut, furiously slamming the door. As often happened with “activists,” in 1939 Elena Baturina’s uncle was arrested. He was tried, declared an “enemy of the people” and sent to 15 years in camps in the north of the Komi Republic.

Nikolai, the youngest of the brothers and the future father of Elena Baturina, was then 12 years old. In the village they began to look askance at the family of the “enemy of the people.” The Baturins, fearing further persecution, moved to Moscow. There, Elena Baturina’s grandfather got a job on the railroad.

In 1944, Baturina’s father was drafted into the army. But the war was already coming to an end, he did not go to the front, but was sent to restore coal enterprises Tula region. Nikolai Baturin was demobilized from the “military miners” in 1951. He got a job at the Moscow Frezer plant. He got married, graduated from a machine tool technical school, and became a foreman in the pipe equipment section. Things were going well. In 1963, the Baturins, who had previously huddled in a communal room, were given an entire two-room apartment on Sormovskaya Street. Elena Baturina grew up in it.

In total, Nikolai Baturin and his wife had three children - two sons and a daughter. However, the eldest son, Gennady, died in early age from pneumonia. Elena, youngest child, grew up with her middle son Victor. Victor was six years older. There was no income in the family. For example, when Vitya went to first grade, his mother could not get a white festive shirt. I had to sew it myself - from my daughter’s diapers.

In her interviews, Elena Baturina remembers every time that the family lived rather poorly. She herself, as the youngest, had to sleep in the same room with her parents.

By the time the children grew up, Nikolai Baturin became seriously ill - something related to the spine. Victor studied at school for eight years, after which, at the insistence of his father, he entered a technical school. He wanted his son to get a profession before joining the army. The family should not have been left without a breadwinner.

It is known about Elena Baturina from her own words that she was often sick at school. Doctors said she had weak lungs, so she never smoked. At school, unlike her brother, she studied until the 10th grade. Baturina did not shine with success. After school, she went to work at the factory where her mother and father worked. However, Elena had no intention of staying on Fraser.

“When I graduated from 10th grade, I simply couldn’t find a place for myself - I was always thinking about where to go. After all, if I made even the slightest mistake, I would never be able to correct anything, I wouldn’t be able to catch up with those who would be five or six years ahead, and I would be trailing behind,” she later said.

Resume? Unlike, say, billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, Elena Baturina does not come from a family that was part of the Soviet elite. But she was not a rootless orphan like Roman Abramovich either. Baturina grew up in an ordinary working-class family. Both Baturina’s father and mother did not have higher education. The morals in the family were simple, I would even say harsh. This can be felt in the interview with Victor and Elena Baturin. I mean their real, not “written” interviews.

“I’m not an intelligent person, I’m a simple guy from a working-class factory family,” Viktor Baturin once said. “My father said: tell a man for three years that he is a pig, he will grunt,” - this is Elena Baturina in an interview in October 2010 with the magazine The New Times.

But here, in my opinion, best quote from the Baturins on this matter. She belongs to Victor: “In our family, kissing and hugging are not accepted. For example, I don’t just call my mother. If she needs it, she will call herself, sit and wait. My sister and I were not accustomed to showing kindred feelings, especially in public.”

In general, the parents were unable to prepare (motivate) their daughter to enter a prestigious university immediately after school - the most common start to a good career during the late USSR. But it seems that they managed to instill stubbornness and perseverance.

The girl, who grew up in the proletarian district of Vykhino, developed the ability to achieve her goal. It was this and, it seems, the business acumen and peasant cunning inherited from the previous generation that made Baturina not just the mayor’s wife, but also the richest woman in Russia.

“Batura translated from Old Church Slavonic means stubborn. So I’m a pretty stubborn person,” Baturina said about herself in one of her interviews.

After school, Baturina’s stubbornness was very necessary. She only managed to get into the evening department of the Sergo Ordzhonikidze Institute of Management. Baturina didn’t manage to get a full-time job. And in order to be able to study in the evening, she, according to Soviet standards, needed to work. And she went to the same Frazer plant where her father and mother worked. This went on for a year and a half. Then Baturina left the factory.

She explained her actions in different ways at different times. “Soon I left the factory because it was unbearable for me to get up early. I’m a night owl by nature, and waking up early is a tragedy for me,” Baturina said in her 2005 interview.

Three years earlier in 2002, Elena Baturina described the same circumstances differently: “It was terribly difficult for me to leave the factory. I was called to the director, and he gave a lecture about how immoral it was to interrupt the dynasty, since everyone worked at this plant: uncles, aunts, brothers, sisters. But I had nowhere to go - since I studied at an economics university, I had to work in my specialty. And I went to the Institute of Economic Problems of Integrated Development of the National Economy of Moscow. I left with a terrible demotion. For a salary of 190 rubles.”

But, be that as it may, the transition to work at the institute played a key role in future fate Elena Baturina. And it’s not just that Baturina managed to get a job in quite “ warm place" The institution where she now worked was the leading one for developing programs for the development of the urban economy: where and what kind of production to locate, how to provide them with labor resources, etc. Well, a lower salary compared to the factory (if, of course, you believe Baturina’s story about that that she was paid 145 rubles immediately after school at the factory) more than compensated for her prospects for the future.

Reasoning in everyday terms: what kind of husband could she find for herself on the factory floor? Another thing is one of the leading research institutions in the capital's urban economy. The opportunity was not long in coming. And Baturina did not miss him.

In 1987, the perestroika initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev reached the institute where Baturina worked. In the spring of that year, the USSR Council of Ministers adopted several resolutions allowing private entrepreneurship in the country. At the same time, by decision of the Moscow City Executive Committee, a special body was created with the long name “Commission on Individual Labor and Cooperative Activities.”

Yuri Luzhkov, at that time deputy chairman of the Moscow City Executive Committee, was appointed chairman of the commission. And to ensure the ongoing activities of the commission, a special working group was created consisting of two employees of the Institute of National Economy, subordinate to the Moscow authorities. One of them was Elena Baturina. In the summer of 1987, Luzhkov and Baturina met.

The future mayor of Moscow was 51 years old. Luzhkov made his career at petrochemical enterprises. Luzhkov was remembered by his former subordinates for his irrepressible energy. At one of the enterprises headed by Luzhkov, the future mayor of the capital acquired the nickname “Duce”. And not only for the external resemblance. In 1986, Luzhkov worked as head of the science and technology department at the USSR Ministry of Chemical Industry. Boris Yeltsin “pulled him out” from there. Having just been appointed first secretary of the capital city committee of the CPSU, Yeltsin was looking for “fresh” personnel for Moscow structures. Luzhkov received the position of deputy chairman of the Moscow City Executive Committee and at the same time - chairman of the Moscow City Agro-Industrial Committee, where he oversaw the provision of food to the population of Moscow. Well, at the same time, as a social burden, Luzhkov was entrusted with a commission on cooperatives.

At the time of meeting Baturina, Luzhkov’s first wife, Marina, was still alive, but seriously ill. She died in 1989 from liver cancer. The widower left two children - Mikhail and Alexander.

“No, it wasn’t love at first sight, we worked together for quite a long time and didn’t even particularly discuss our feelings. But at the subconscious level I always knew that I would be his wife“Elena Baturina later recalled about her “romance” with Yuri Luzhkov.

Yuri Luzhkov met the parents of his future wife about a week before the wedding. When he first came to visit the Baturins, an episode occurred that was later described by Viktor Baturin, Elena Baturina’s older brother.

Baturina's father, Nikolai Egorovich, invited his future son-in-law to play chess. Luzhkov agreed. As Viktor Baturin writes, Luzhkov started the game aggressively; it was clear that he did not consider the father of his future wife to be a serious opponent. But very soon Luzhkov found himself in a difficult position and began to think for a long time about every move. Soon Baturin Sr., deciding not to torment the guest, offered Luzhkov a draw, who happily agreed.

When Elena Baturina and her groom left, Viktor Baturin asked his father: “Why did you offer a draw, you had an almost winning position?” He just grinned in response and didn’t answer.

“Now, of course, I understand that my sister was 29 years old and my father was glad that she was starting a family,” writes Baturin.

Soon Yuri Luzhkov and Elena Baturina got married. They had two girls - Alena (1992) and Olga (1994). However, Baturina did not want to change her last name. “I was already seriously involved in business then – my name was already well-known. Changing my last name would have created certain technical difficulties for me,” Baturina later recalled.

What kind of business are we talking about? In 1991, Elena Baturina, together with her brother Victor, registered the Inteko cooperative.

While working on the commission on cooperatives, Baturina herself became imbued with the spirit of entrepreneurship. “Komsomolenko” Mikhail Khodorkovsky, as Baturina herself later said, she helped organize the first student cooperatives. She was familiar with all the prominent entrepreneurs from among the first legal “Soviet” businessmen - Artem Tarasov, Vladimir Gusinsky and others.

In other words, she was in the thick of the emerging cooperative movement and had an idea of ​​all the moves and exits.

“It was stupid to sit by the water and not get drunk,” summarizes Viktor Baturin, referring to the reasons for creating the Inteko cooperative.

What exactly the Inteko cooperative did in the first year after its creation is still not known exactly. The official version, repeatedly stated by Elena Baturina, states that software development. But what exactly did Inteko do?

Here is what Viktor Baturin writes about this in his memoirs:

“...How was the first “big” money made? Of course, not in pies and restaurants! I can tell you what I know from personal experience. For example, all Soviet enterprises, especially defense ones, had the so-called technical re-equipment fund and the new equipment fund. These funds had one feature - the money had to be spent within a year, otherwise it was lost. If you are not a complete idiot and you have friends at some enterprise, then call your friend and ask: “How much money do you have unused in funds?” For example, he answers: “One hundred thousand rubles.” You ask him what work is planned for this amount, draw up an agreement for the cooperative, and carry out the work. According to the agreement, non-cash money is received from the enterprise to the cooperative. They were cashed out at the bank by the cooperative, and computers were bought with the cash. The difference in prices (cash – non-cash) was colossal!”

In an interview with Vedomosti, Viktor Baturin described his Crimean odyssey: “I went to Crimea and set up computer classes there in two collective farms, at that time computer science was in fashion. They say they are still working. I remember I earned 150 or 160 thousand rubles from this. I took them from there in two suitcases. That's how it all began. There were no taxes then, except for income taxes, and there were no laws.” It was 1990 or early 1991.

But most detailed description launching the Inteko business is contained in the book by Viktor Baturin.

The morning of August 19, 1991, when millions of Soviet citizens learned about the State Emergency Committee, Viktor Baturin met in Riga, at the gates of the headquarters of the Baltic Military District. The day before, he arrived from Moscow and managed to pay bills on the debited military equipment– cars, power plants, trailers, etc.; On the 19th he was supposed to receive invoices in order to go to the unit and pick up the purchased property. Although the equipment was written off, it was in fact practically new - it was stored at storage bases and was not used. The Ministry of Defense decided to sell part of it. Baturin learned about this opportunity from his acquaintance at the district headquarters, the rest was not difficult.

If the putschists had acted more confidently in Moscow, Viktor and Elena Baturin would most likely have been left without money and without equipment. And in other endeavors they would hardly have been successful. After all, it was during the days of the putsch that Yuri Luzhkov showed himself to be one of Boris Yeltsin’s most loyal and, moreover, effective allies.

Contrary to the demands of the State Emergency Committee, Luzhkov refused to issue an order banning rallies and demonstrations. He began calling the heads of Moscow enterprises, demanding that they provide equipment and building materials for the construction of barricades.

If the “putschists” had gained the upper hand, the fate of Yuri Luzhkov and his newly acquired relatives would have been unenviable.

Meanwhile, Victor Baturin, having learned in Riga from his friend about the introduction state of emergency, immediately got into the car and by the morning of August 20 was in Moscow. At the entrance to the capital, he met columns of armored vehicles. But after a couple of days the situation in Moscow calmed down. Transactions with military property were completed.

“This “business” brought me and my sister several million rubles in 1991. It is from this “military” money that Inteko began,” recalls Viktor Baturin today.

However, a more significant event for the future business of Inteko occurred on June 6, 1992. By decree of Boris Yeltsin, Yuri Luzhkov, who in reality already had complete control of the capital’s government, was appointed mayor of Moscow. He worked in this position for 18 years, 3 months and 22 days, losing it only in September 2010. Well, Elena Baturina, in 1992, an aspiring cooperator who made her first start-up capital through intermediary operations, today occupies 27th place on the list of the richest Russians and has a fortune of $2.9 billion.

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Despite the fact that Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov has not been the mayor of the Russian capital for several years, his name, nevertheless, continues to be associated with Moscow. It was under him that during the 18 years of his reign it reached its greatest prosperity. Why did he leave this post? Yuri Luzhkov was removed from his post by order of the current Russian President Dmitry Medvedev in 2010. The reason given was: “Due to loss of trust.”

Further in the article we will talk about the childhood, youth, activities of the former mayor of the capital of the Russian Federation and try to figure out what caused this “mistrust”. In addition, we think you will be interested to know what Yuri Luzhkov is doing today, where he lives now and what he does. Of course, another person of his age would have been sitting quietly in his dacha, fishing, or traveling around the world, enjoying the years God had given him. However, the former mayor of Moscow is not made of such stuff. He can’t spend a day without work, he’s such a workaholic.

Yuri Luzhkov, biography: the beginning

The future mayor of Moscow was born in the capital of the USSR in 1936 into the family of carpenter Mikhail Luzhkov. From time immemorial, my father’s ancestors lived in the Tver province, in the village of Luzhkovo, which is now not on the map. Yuri’s parents met near Tver at the Novy Trud plant. Mom was a native of Bashkortostan and worked as a laborer. They soon got married, and when the woman became pregnant, the young family moved to Moscow to escape hunger. Here my father got a job at an oil depot. Then Yuri was born, and when he grew up a little, he was sent to his grandmother in Konotop.

Education

There he graduated from the seven-year school and returned to Moscow to his parents for further studies. He studied grades 8-10 at Moscow school No. 529, after which he entered the Gubkin Institute of Petrochemical and Gas Industry. In parallel with his studies, Yuri Luzhkov worked first as a janitor and then as a loader. Naturally, he did not have time to study perfectly, but he was a hardworking and diligent Komsomol member, a skillful organizer of various student events. In 1954, he enrolled in a student detachment that went to Kazakhstan to explore virgin lands.

Working career

The life of Yuri Luzhkov after returning from Central Asia, where he stayed for about 4 years, took a scientific path. He received a position as a junior researcher at the Plastics Research Institute. After working here for 5 years, he moved up career ladder to the post of deputy head of the laboratory that dealt with automation technological processes. In parallel with his work, he was actively involved in social and political activities and headed the Komsomol cell of the institute. In this new position, he was noticed by the State Committee on Chemistry, and a few years later he became the head of the entire automation department. In the same 1968, he joined the ranks of the CPSU. A few more years passed, and now Yuri Luzhkov already holds the post of head of the control automation department at the Ministry of Chemical Industry of the Soviet Union.

Political activity

In 1975, Yuri Mikhailovich was elected as a people's deputy of the Babushkinsky District Council, and in 1977 - as a deputy of the Moscow City Council. In 1987, at the height of perestroika, he was elected as a deputy of the Supreme Soviet of the RSFSR, and immediately joined the team of Boris Nikolaevich Yeltsin, the First Secretary of the Moscow City Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR. Having proven himself in this field, he was appointed First Deputy Chairman of the Moscow City Executive Committee. At that time, the number of cooperatives in the country was growing every day, and at the same time he headed the commission for individual and cooperative activities, and then received the post of chairman of the agro-industrial committee of the capital

Towards a cherished dream

In 1990, the chairman of the Moscow City Council, Gavriil Popov, on the recommendation of Boris Yeltsin, nominated Yu. M. Luzhkov for the post of head of the capital's city executive committee, and in 1991 he was elected vice-mayor, that is, Popov's deputy, and then prime minister of the Moscow government - the new executive body . During the famous events of 1991, he and his pregnant wife were active participants in the defense of the White House.

Mayor of Moscow

In 1992, coupons were introduced throughout the country, and Moscow was no exception, due to spontaneous food shortages. Naturally, this led to discontent among the population. People poured into the streets, and the current mayor, Gavriil Popov, announced his resignation. The giant city was left without a leader, and then, by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation B. Yeltsin, Yuri Luzhkov became the new mayor of the capital. This, perhaps, became the most significant event of his life, because for the next 18 years the fate of one of the largest cities in the world was in his hands. He was re-elected to this post 3 times, and always with a huge margin over other candidates - his competitors. Everyone at the top knew and felt that Luzhkov was being patronized by Yeltsin himself. And he, in turn, always supported the president. He was among the founders of the NDR party “Our Home is Russia”, and in 1995 he was involved in promoting it in the elections to the People’s Duma.

Treason or political games?

In 1999, in the last year of the 2nd millennium, Yuri Luzhkov suddenly changed his position regarding the president of the country and teamed up with Primakov. They created the political party “Fatherland”, criticized Boris Nikolaevich and demanded his speedy resignation. By this time, Luzhkov was already a member of the Federation Council and was a member of the most important committees on financial regulation, taxes, banking, etc. In 2001, another party appeared in his life - “United Russia”. And Yuri Mikhailovich, two years ago one of the leaders of the Fatherland party, becomes its co-chairman. Since then, the main focus of his activities has been supporting Vladimir Putin. And he, for his part, patronized the mayor in every possible way, and even personally presented Luzhkov’s candidacy to the Moscow City Duma deputies as mayor of the capital. Well, who could go against the president of the country, and Yuri Mikhailovich again headed the leadership of Moscow for another 4 years.

Removal from the post of mayor

In the fall of 2010, during the reign of Dmitry Medvedev, suddenly several of the central TV channels broadcast documentaries, criticizing Luzhkov’s activities as mayor. Of course, this surprised many in the country, because he for many years was under the auspices of Putin, and here they are! Yuri Luzhkov was indignant and wrote a letter addressed to the president of the country, where he expressed dissatisfaction with Medvedev’s inaction in connection with the appearance of such slanderous and compromising programs. The subsequent actions of the president came as a surprise to the mayor of Moscow. Luzhkov was removed from office according to Medvedev's decree, citing lack of confidence in him as the reasons. Of course, for Yuri Mikhailovich it was with a strong blow, but not fatal.

Personal life

Luzhkov Yuri Mikhailovich was married three times. He met his first wife Alevtina at the institute. They had a student wedding, got a room in a dorm, but soon both realized that they were in a hurry to formalize the relationship and filed for divorce. Alevtina did not have time to give birth to children, so they parted quietly and peacefully.

His second wife Marina Bashilova was also his classmate. As you can see, Luzhkov enjoyed the favor of women, and maybe he knew how to properly care for him?! Nevertheless, this marriage, apparently, was “of convenience,” because the future father-in-law, Mikhail Bashilov, was a prominent party and economic figure, and soon after that he became the Deputy Minister of the Petrochemical Industry of the USSR. It is precisely the area where Luzhkov was able to make such a dizzying career. Yuri Luzhkov's second family was very strong. Marina bore him two sons - Mikhail and Alexander, but in 1988 she fell ill with liver cancer and passed away, leaving Luzhkov a widower.

For the third time he married Elena Baturina. For several years now she has been the richest woman in Russia according to Forbes magazine. She bore him two daughters - Olya and Lena. They were educated in the UK and today are accomplished "businesswomen". After 25 years of marriage, Baturina and Luzhkov walked down the aisle in January 2016.

Luzhkov Yuri Mikhailovich: where is he now?

Luzhkov did not go abroad, as many people think. He still lives in his native country and, despite his advanced age, is engaged in business. Surely you will be interested to know how old Yuri Luzhkov is now? In the fall of 2016, he solemnly celebrated his anniversary - 80 years. On this day, she and Elena Baturina took part in a cleanup event, during which 450 fruit trees were planted in the Kolomenskoye Nature Reserve. The event was attended by the most powerful and wealthy people in the country. There is no information about whether Vladimir Vladimirovich was among the guests. However, the day before this significant date, he awarded the former mayor the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 4th degree.

But the day before New Year's holidays Trouble happened to Luzhkov. He arrived at the Moscow State University library, and suddenly, in the presence of rector Sadovnichy, his health worsened. I had to call an ambulance. There are rumors that he experienced clinical death that day, but his press secretary does not confirm this information.

But in January 2017, an article appeared in the press about the ex-mayor’s new enterprise for the production of buckwheat and cheese. Such a restless workaholic is Yuri Luzhkov - “the man with the cap,” as Muscovites called him.

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Biography, life story of Elena Nikolaevna Baturina

Baturina Elena Nikolaevna is a Russian businesswoman.

Childhood and youth

Date of birth: 03/08/1963 (Moscow).

Both of Elena’s parents worked at the Frazer plant. Mom worked at the machine, father was a foreman.

In 1980, Elena graduated from school and immediately went to work at the plant with her parents. For a whole year and a half, the girl worked as a design technician. Then Baturina entered State University management for the evening department. Elena received her higher education in 1896.

Professional activities. Briefly

In the period from 1982 to 1988, Baturina was a junior researcher at the Institute of Economic Problems of Integrated Development of the National Economy. After graduating from university, Baturina became a member of the working group of the Moscow City Executive Committee commission on individual labor and cooperative activities. Elena Nikolaevna studied public catering until 1988.

From 1989 to 1990 she worked as executive secretary of the Russian Cooperative Union. From 1991 to 1994 she was director of Inteko. From 1994 to 2011, she served as president of the same company.

A little about her

Elena Baturina is the wife of the former Moscow mayor, the most famous and successful manufacturer of plastic basins and chairs; her Inteko holding controlled 1/5 of the capital’s entire construction market. According to Forbes, her fortune was estimated at $1.1 billion.

"plays well at the net, Elena Baturina once said. – And I’m on the back line.”. Actually, it was about tennis. But if you look at how the roles are written in this family, it turns out life principle. The mayor's wife is just the family's wallet, while, as always, cutting edge. They hinted to him that his wife’s business was expanding year by year, not without his help: starting with the production of plastic products, the Inteko company grew into a large holding with its own bank, cement factories and construction companies. The husband had to be loudly silent every time his income was compared with her income, in which one salary of the weaker half is 154 thousand dollars a month. And after the story of the collapse of the capital’s water park and aggressive rumors that Inteko was either the owner of Transvaal or a creditor of its owners, he began to leave without comment any actions of Elena Baturina.

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"Ask Lena"

Elena Baturina’s family has two girls – ten and twelve years old. Their mother began her journey as a billionaire by working at the Freser plant and continued the family tradition. When she left for the Institute of Economic Problems of Integrated Development of the National Economy, the director of the plant urged her not to interrupt the labor dynasty. Then she studied at the evening department at the Institute of Management, and worked on cooperation in the executive committee, where she was the chairman of the commission. There they met. And when the future mayor of Moscow was widowed, they got married. There was no office romance, as both claim. The relationship developed when they no longer worked on the same team.

The Inteko company appeared in 1991 and was a small cooperative for the production of furniture, dishes and accessories made of plastic. Then it became a large business with thousands of workers employed in production, 99% of the shares belonged to Baturina herself, the rest to her brother Victor. In Moscow alone, 207 thousand Inteko seats were installed in 8 stadiums, including 85 thousand in Luzhniki, 40 thousand in Dynamo stadium, 25 thousand in Olimpiysky. At the end of the 90s. There was a popular joke: “I’m selling chairs. Ask Lena". But, besides them, Inteko was proud of the invented disposable glass. And many Moscow bistros and sports complexes used other disposable tableware, not to mention the fact that cups and plates were sold in almost all the capital’s shopping malls. According to the same Forbes, over time, plastic products began to occupy only 10% of the company’s annual turnover.

On horseback

As the French say, it is impossible to hide your first-generation origins. Elena Baturina from a lady with a permanent hairline has turned into well-groomed woman middle aged. But she never looked like a billion dollars. Maybe because I always dressed in trouser suits, never liked jewelry, and almost never used makeup. She could be harsh and even a little rude. However, to women’s questions, such as who is the boss of the house, she invariably answered: "Husband". For a long time I did not publicly notice that Elena Baturina is a businessman. When his daughters were little, he was glad that his wife was not recognized on the streets. However, those days are gone forever.

Baturina's company developed, the mayor became a famous politician. At this time it was necessary family hobby horses. In the late 90s, Svyatoslav Fedorov first put Baturina on a horse, and she has been on a horse ever since. From 1999 to 2005, she was the chairman of the Russian Equestrian Federation, which, in fact, lived on the money of her company. She not only infected her family with a love of horses, but also, under the auspices of her husband, came up with the “Mayor's Cup,” which began to be held in Moscow on City Day. Baturina also believed that by the way a person sits on a horse, how he negotiates with it, one can determine how he builds relationships with people. And, as a rule, she immediately added that she could cope with any horse. And they began to be given horses so often that rumors began to spread about the mayor’s stable (I remember that in Bavaria the mayor was once given a can of sperm from the best local stallion. The press joked about this that during the “Days of Moscow in Munich” he even managed to milk stallions). In fact, there was no stable as such: some of the gifts were kept in Bitsa, the rest in the Moscow Sports Club. But the real stable was planned together with a stud farm near Kaliningrad - where the Imperial Union of Private Horse Breeders was located during the times of East Prussia. IN Soviet times on the site of the plant there was a collective farm cowshed. And in times of developed capitalism there will be hotels, restaurants - everything that is needed for a tourist complex.

Mandate history

Elena Baturina has always been reluctant to talk about her life as the First Lady of Moscow. And if it was possible not to take part in the ceremonial events, I did not. She often “skipped” her husband’s official visits to the mayors of other cities. It seemed that she did not need publicity. It was all the more interesting to watch her attempts to become a State Duma deputy from Kalmykia in 1999. This year turned out to be difficult for the family: they were looking for real estate all over the world, they threw mud at the capital’s mayor, and the Vladimir FSB tried to accuse Inteko of dubious transactions. Could the deputy compensate for moral damage? Who knows.

Baturina had something in common with Kalmykia. The growing construction company Inteko completed the construction of Chess City here, the famous chess village. Kalmyk President Kirsan Ilyumzhinov addressed her personally about this. Perhaps this was facilitated by the fact that Inteko co-owner Viktor Baturin headed the government of Kalmykia in late 1998-early 1999. Despite this, the Kalmyks still elected a fellow countrywoman - she became a deputy. Politics did not work out from Baturina. And she got back into business.

Cement bonds

After the acquisition of House-Building Plant No. 3, Inteko's active passion for construction began. And if at one time they said that the company was building 500 thousand square meters of housing per year and it was mostly panel, municipal, then a little later they were talking about 1 million square meters (of which a little less than half is an expensive monolith). And this was a fifth of all housing under construction in the capital. The acquisition of DSK-3 coincided with the cement crisis in the Moscow construction market. Several cement factories simultaneously increased selling prices for their products by 30%. Inteko, as they say, had to acquire its own. Among them are “Oskolcement”, “Belgorod cement”, “Podgorensky cement”, “Pikalevsky cement”. With the acquisition of the latter (in Leningrad region) Inteko could have 15% of the entire Russian cement market in its hands. True, in the long term, the position of the company is directly linked to the position of the husband. And they said that it would be difficult for her to maintain her previous positions when she ceased to be the capital’s mayor.

Another thing is interesting: in order to occupy a favorable position in the capital market, Inteko had to borrow 1.2 billion rubles. and open cards. That’s when everyone learned about the salary of the mayor’s wife and that the assets of her company were valued at 27 billion rubles. Elena Baturina’s income has since been compared with the income of oil oligarchs, which is not bad for real, sustainable production. But bad for my husband's career. In our country they don’t like the rich, no matter how the money is earned: honestly or not. And they especially don’t like it if a famous politician has a wife - bright personality. Or, by disclosing its trade secrets, did Inteko pursue some other goals besides receiving 1.2 billion rubles? Seems like transparency would be useful to the wife