Andrey Molchanov (businessman)

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Andrey Yuryevich Molchanov
Андрей Юрьевич Молчанов
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Member of the Federation Council from Leningrad Oblast
In office
30 January 2008 – 17 April 2013
Nominated byValeriy Serdyukov
Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on the Commonwealth of Independent States Issues
In office
December 2009 – 2013
Personal details
Born (1971-09-24) 24 September 1971 (age 50)
Saint Petersburg, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
NationalityRussian
Alma materSaint Petersburg State University
ProfessionPolitician

Andrey Yuryevich Molchanov (Russian: Андрей Юрьевич Молчанов; born 24 September 1971) is a Russian businessman. He is the founder and major shareholder of LSR Group (OJSC) and a former representative of Leningrad Oblast in the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation (2008-2013).

Education[]

In 1993 Molchanov graduated from the economic faculty of the Saint Petersburg State University, in 1998 graduated from the under the President of the Russian Federation (RAPA). Andrey Molchanov also holds a doctorate in Economic Sciences.[1]

Business[]

In 1993 Molchanov founded and was president until 2007 of Open Joint Stock Company LSR Group, one of the leading real estate development, construction and building materials companies of Russia.[2] Originally, at the LSR Group, his friends Grigory Vedernikov, Georgy Bogachev, Igor Levit, and Yevgeny Yatsyshin were the top management who received support from Mikhail Romanov, who was the general director of Stroydetal OJSC (Russian: ОА�� "Стройдеталь") and is an uncle of Andrey Molchanov (Russian: Михаил Романов; b. 1957).[3][4][5] While Molchanov was in the Federation Council, Mikhail Romanov was the Chairman of the Board at the LSR Group.[6]

After leaving his post on the Federation Council in 2013, Molchanov returned to the LSR Group and became chairman of the board of directors from April 2013 until April 2015 and again from August 2018 to 2019.[3] He has been Chairman of the Strategy and Investment Committee with the LSR Group since April 2015 and, since May 2015, the General Director, Chairman of the Management Board at the LSR Group.[3] In 2015, he became a member of the board of directors with Razvitie LLC, and, between March 2016 and 2019, he was the President of the Association of National Association of Builders.[3]

In April 2019, he reduced his ownership shares of the LSR Group to 50.33% by selling shares (9.71%) after which Forbes listed his wealth at $950 million.[7]

He has been the General Director of the LSR Group since June 2019.[3]

During the Trump Tower Moscow deal before Donald Trump became United States President, Andrey Molchanov owned the property at the location for the new Trump Tower in Moscow.[8][9]

Politics[]

In 2007 Molchanov was appointed the Assistant of the Russian Federation public health services and social development Minister.[2]

Andrey Molchanov was a member of the Federation Council representing Valeriy Serdyukov, the Governor of Leningrad Oblast (elected in January 2008),[1] and the Chairman of the Council of Federation Committee on the Commonwealth of Independent States Issues (elected in December 2009).[1] Representing Leningrad Oblast, he was on the Council of the Federation of the Federal Assembly for the Russian Federation from 2008 until 2013.[3]

Oligarchs list[]

In January 2018, Andrey Molchanov was placed on the United States Department of Treasury "Oligarchs List" of persons who are close to Vladimir Putin.[10]

Family[]

Andrey Molchanov is married, has six children.[3][11]

His stepfather, Yuriy Molchanov, was a vice rector for international relations at Leningrad State University (LSU).[12] He was the Deputy Governor of Saint Petersburg between 2004 and 2012.[13]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c "Molchanov Andrey Yuriyevich" МОЛЧАНОВ АНДРЕЙ ЮРЬЕВИЧ. совет федерации / Члены Совета Федерации website (Federation Council / Federation Council Members website) (in Russian). Archived from the original on 4 April 2008. Retrieved 23 August 2008.
  2. ^ a b Лоссан, Алексей (Lossan, Alexey) (28 January 2008). Андрей Молчанов: дома из песка и тумана [Andrey Molchanov: houses made of sand and fog]. Rospres (in Russian). Archived from the original on 22 January 2009. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g "Molchanov Andrey Yuriyevich" Молчанов Андрей Юрьевич. Delovoy Peterburg (in Russian). Archived from the original on 21 February 2020. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  4. ^ Школин, Андрей (Shkolin, Andrey); Арановская, Маргарита (Aranovskaya, Margarita) (16 June 2010). Лидеров первой десятки теснят "друзья Путина" во главе с Геннадием Тимченко [Leaders of the top ten are crowded by "friends of Putin" led by Gennady Timchenko]. Финанс. (Finance.) (in Russian). Archived from the original on 18 June 2010. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  5. ^ Жданова, Татьяна (Zhdanova, Tatyana) (27 June 2017). Волны приватизации: что надо было купить в 1994 году, чтобы стать миллиардером: Редакция "ДП" к 25-летнему юбилею первых приватизационных сделок в Петербурге изучила судьбу 130 крупных городских объектов, попавших в первые две крупные волны приватизации в 1992 и 1994 годах. Многие из них стали основой для капиталов будущих петербургских миллиардеров. [Waves of privatization: what you had to buy in 1994 to become a billionaire: The editors of DP on the 25th anniversary of the first privatization deals in St. Petersburg studied the fate of 130 large city facilities that fell into the first two large waves of privatization in 1992 and 1994. Many of them became the basis for the capital of future St. Petersburg billionaires.]. Delovoy Peterburg (in Russian). Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  6. ^ Pribylovsky, Vladimir. "Molchanov Andrey Yuriyevich" Молчанов Андрей Юрьевич. anticompromat.org (in Russian). Archived from the original on 20 November 2019. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  7. ^ Voronova, Tatiana; Golubkova, Katya (29 May 2019). "Main Shareholder in Russian Homebuilder LSR to Keep Control". US News. Reuters. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  8. ^ Alexander, Dan; Behar, Richard (23 May 2019). "The Truth Behind Trump Tower Moscow: How Trump Risked Everything For A (Relatively) Tiny Deal". Forbes. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
  9. ^ Alexander, Dan; Behar, Richard (23 May 2019). "Trump Tower Moscow: TowerGate Relationships". Forbes. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
  10. ^ "Russian Individuals Named on US 'Oligarch List'". VOA. 30 January 2018. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  11. ^ Молчанов Андрей Юрьевич [Molchanov Andrey Yuriyevich] (in Russian). Archived from the original on 25 June 2010. Retrieved 9 April 2010.
  12. ^ "Молчанов Андрей Юрьевич". Forbes.ru. 15 April 2011. Retrieved 16 May 2021.
  13. ^ "Молчанов Юрий Вячеславович биография и пресс-портрет". whoiswho.dp.ru (in Russian). Retrieved 16 May 2021.

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