The surname of the Generals is already leaving some kind of imprint on its carrier. Among its owners in the history of Russia there are retired major general, deputy of the State Duma, and colonel general of higher officer courses. From childhood, a minimum program was laid down for each of them - to justify their last name. This is the case when you want to do not want, but inevitably you will strive for the high rank of General Generals. The biography of each of our heroes is vivid proof of this.
Sergey Generalov, millionaire
State Duma deputy and oligarch Sergei Generalov began his career as a simple engineer, and today is part of the Forbes magazine's Golden Hundred in Russia.
Life path
Generalov Sergey Vladimirovich was born in 1963 in the city of Simferopol. In 1980, he entered the Energy Institute in Moscow (MPEI) at the Faculty of Radio Engineering, which he graduated with excellent marks in 1986, and then became a master at the same institute. In 1992, at the Ordzhonikidze Management School, he received a second higher education.
Career
He began his career as a simple engineer at the department at MPEI. He worked at the Institute of Generals until 1988, and in 1992-1993 he already held the post of deputy chairman of the Oil Bank.
In 1993, Generalov was the head of the department of Promradtechbank. In the same year, he became Executive Finance Director of Yukos.
At Yukos, Sergey Vladimirovich also held the position of senior vice president of securities. In 1997, he is a member of the Management Board of Menatep Bank and is a member of the Management Board of Rosprom-Yukos.
Generals is considered one of the closest people to Khodorkovsky. And it is no coincidence that in the midst of the crisis in 1998-1999 it was Sergei Vladimirovich who became the Minister of Fuel and Energy of the Russian Federation.
In 1999, he was elected as a deputy to the State Duma from the Krasnoyarsk Territory and remains them until 2003. At the same time, he was chairman of the standing committee protecting the rights of investors.
By the mid-2000s, Generalov controlled coal and machine-building companies, Russian Alcohol Holding and sugar factories.
From 2003 to the present, Generalov has been the chairman of the board of directors and president of Industrial Investors, which includes Dexter air taxi (with a controlling stake), Transas group (production and development of navigation equipment), and Morskoy Bank.
From February 2009 to April 2012, Generalov was president of the Fesco transport group (owner of assets for road, sea and rail transportation and transshipment of goods in port terminals).
The most expensive deals
In December 2012, Generalov sells his stake in Fesco (55.8%) to the Summa group, chaired by Ziyavudin Magomedov. The deal amounted to more than 1 billion dollars.
From December 2011 to May 2012, he was the head of the board and president of FESCO, and then became chairman of the board of directors.
In November 2013, Generalov bought 13% of the company’s shares from G. Timchenko, the head of the largest seismic exploration company. A few months later, using the offer, he sells half of his packages much more expensive.
After the sale of his main source of income - the company "Fesco", Generals begins to develop aviation assets. His only son, Anton, becomes the head of the board of directors of CJSC Aviation Management Group. And he began his career in January 2013 with the company as a deputy for general affairs.
He has the title of Honorary Worker of the Fuel and Energy Complex and Transport of Russia. He loves skiing and diving. Sergey Vladimirovich is well known on the market as a professional investor who can sell assets expensively. Employees of corporations knowingly call their chief General Generals. His biography, full of life achievements, is a vivid confirmation of this. Usually, Sergey Vladimirovich is included in the assets for several years and sells them profitably, on which he made his fortune (in 2014, according to Forbes magazine, it amounted to 450 million dollars).
General of the Generals. Biography
In the history of the collapse of the Soviet Union and in the events of the August putsch, another Generals took a direct part. At that time, the 9th Directorate of the KGB was served by a real General General. His biography was no different from the rest of the Security Service. He could always please the higher authorities, on which he made his career.
Vyacheslav Generalov was born in 1946. Russian, personal number E 112448. Since 1967 he has become a party member and security officer. In 1976 he graduated from the KGB Higher School (communications specialist). In 1980, he was deputy head of the 9th Directorate of the KGB and the head of the special economic and operational management at the KGB of the USSR.
In August 1991, he was seconded by Kryuchkov as head of Gorbachev’s security in Foros to isolate the president. After a failed coup attempt, he was under investigation and was released from custody for health reasons in 1992. In recent years, he served as Advisor to Region JSC of Sistema Financial Corporation.