Guriev Andrey Grigoryevich - a famous domestic businessman. Currently owns a multi-billion dollar fortune. One of its key assets is PhosAgro Chemical Holding. Also involved in politics. Member of the Federation Council, representing the Murmansk Region in the Supreme Chamber of the Russian Federal Assembly. He also has a number of public posts. For example, he holds the post of vice president of the Union of Chemists of Russia. He also leads the nonprofit partnership DROZD. This is an abbreviation that stands for: Russian children are educated and healthy. In his youth, he actively and successfully went in for sports, has the title of master of sports of international class in judo. He even worked as a coach in this sport.
Biography of a businessman
Guriev Andrey Grigoryevich was born in 1960. He was born in the suburbs, in the small town of Lobnya.
After school he went to serve in the army. In the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, he repaid debt to his homeland from 1981 to 1983. He got into the Dynamo sports society due to his high results in judo. Therefore, he devoted most of his military service to sports training.
At the same time he studied at the Central Institute of Physical Culture, which he graduated in 1983. Two years later, Guriev Andrey Grigoryevich became a member of the Komsomol organization. He even became the secretary of the Dynamo sports society.
In 1989, he was promoted, becoming the first secretary of the Frunze district committee of the All-Union Komsomol organization.
In 1990, he began active social activities, heading a charity fund called Law and Order. In the period of perestroika, I realized that in order to become successful, you have to go into business.
Businessman career
He began his entrepreneurial career in 1990 at the State Cooperative Association Menatep. At first he became the head of the information storage service, and a year later he got the post of deputy director in the financial and credit company of the company.
In the mid-90s, Andrei G. Guryev continued to work for Menatep. But already the deputy head of the investment direction in a credit organization, which is part of the corresponding group of companies.
Careers in the chemical industry
The career of the hero of our article went up sharply in 1995, when he headed the mining and chemical department in a closed joint-stock company called Rosprom. This is the company that was responsible for managing Menatep's industrial assets. In the field of chemical industry, he successfully goes up the career ladder.
In 1997, he became the head of the Directorate for Mining and Chemical Production, and already since 1998, Manager of investment projects in the field of mining and chemical production.
In the early 2000s, the Rosprom company significantly expanded the scope of its activities, developing new assets. And Andrey Guryev, whose biography has been closely associated with this company for many years, gets a place at the head of the board of directors of Apatit Limited Liability Company. It is just part of the structure of Rosprom.
Political career
In 2001, Guryev began to represent the Murmansk region in the Federation Council. His senator is elected by the government of this Russian region. In the upper house of the national parliament, he is a member of the committee in charge of the development and preservation of the small northern peoples, as well as the commission for national Russian politics.
In 2002, he was included in the work of the Committee on Environmental Protection and Protection of Natural Resources. Two years later, the term of his senatorial powers of the government of the Murmansk region decides to extend.
At the same time, it continues self-development. So, in 2006, Guryev became a graduate of the Plekhanov Mining Institute, which is based in St. Petersburg.
With a senator's career, he breaks up in 2013. The hero of our article early resigns to become a member of the Board of Directors of PhosAgro Limited Liability Company. At the moment, is one of the leaders of this company.
Led by PhosAgro
Guriev Andrey Grigorievich in PhosAgro works in the management of the company. The headquarters of the company is located in Moscow.
This is a large domestic business holding, which specializes in the production and processing of mineral fertilizers. It is considered in Russia the leader in the production of phosphorus-based fertilizers. It accounts for up to half of the domestic market.
The holding itself is a developed structure with a full production cycle, starting from the direct extraction of phosphate raw materials, ending with the release on the market of final products - feed phosphates, various useful fertilizers and phosphoric acid.
At the moment, he successfully manages all this large complex Andrei Grigoryevich Guryev. Jobs at the enterprise are open almost all year round, as it is a very large company, the total number of employees in which reaches the mark of five thousand people.
Personal life
Guriev Andrey Grigoryevich has been married for a long time. His family consists of four people. He and his wife raised two children - their son Andrei, who currently holds the post of CEO of Fosagro, and his daughter Julia.
Guryev’s condition is highly estimated by experts. According to various ratings, since the mid-2000s, he has been one of the hundred richest businessmen in the country. The total value of its assets is estimated at approximately two and a half billion US dollars.
For example, in 2012, when he was still a senator, he took fourth place in the list of the richest domestic officials, with a total family income of one and a half billion rubles a year.