Biography:
Sergei Chemezov was born August 20, 1952 in the city of Cheremkhovo of Irkutsk Oblast.
In 1975 he graduated from the Irkutsk Institute of National Economy, and then worked in the Irkutsk Research Institute of rare and non-ferrous metals and experimental-industrial association "Luch".
In 1983-1988 he headed the office of EPO "Ray" in Dresden (GDR).
In 1989 he was appointed as a deputy general director of the foreign trade association "Sovintersport".
In 1996 he came to the Office of the President, where he headed the department of foreign economic relations, which oversaw Putin.
He became the CEO of "Promeksport" Federal State Unitary Enterprise in 1999.
In November 2000, he was appointed as its first deputy of Rosoboronexport.
In April 2004, he headed by Rosoboronexport.
In April 2006, he headed the "Russian Union of Mechanical Engineers' Office of Public Organization (PCM). In December of the same year he led the board of directors of AvtoVAZ. In the same month, at the Congress of "United Russia", he was elected to the bureau of the supreme council of the party offices.
April 28, 2007 elected as the Chairman of the Russian Engineering Union.
November 26, 2007, Putin appointed Chemezov as a General Director of the state corporation Russian Technologies.
Chemezov - an active member of the Academy of Military Sciences, PhD. Since September 2007 he held the post of the head of the board of trustees of Russian Cycling Federation (FBR).
Awards:
Order "For Merit" of IV degree
Order of Merit
Order of Legion of Honor (France).
Wife Ekaterina Ignatova. Four children.
According to published information Chemezov earnings for 2009 amounted to 34.5 million rubles, in his property there was a land plot under the individual building, an apartment, a garage and three commercial non-residential buildings, and another apartment in the gratuitous permanent use. He also owned four cars, three ATVs, two snowmobiles, off-road vehicles and tractors. Ekaterina Ignatova earned in the year 427.5 million rubles and owned an apartment, a garage-box and five land plots for individual construction.
Lentapediya
By the decree of the President of the Russian Federation on 26 November 2007 dismissed and appointed as a General Director of the State Corporation "Russian Technologies", which in late 2012 was renamed to Rostec.
December 2, 2006 at the VII Congress of the All-Russian political party "United Russia" Sergei Chemezov was elected to the Bureau of the Supreme Council of the party. At the VIII Congress, held May 26, 2012, the head of Rostec was re-elected to the Bureau of the Supreme Council of "United Russia". He is the coordinator of the "United Russia", "IT-breakthrough", implemented from December 2010 to identify and support the extraordinary projects of young innovators in the field of IT-technologies.
In 2014, included in the sanctions list of the European Union and the United States because of the war in the east of Ukraine and the Crimea accession.
A family
Chemezov have four children. The eldest son Stanislaw (b. 1973), according to May 2009, worked in the "Itera", owns 30% of the company "Medfarmtehnologiya" and has business interests, connected with major pharmaceutical supplies, funded from the state budget. Included in the company's "AvtoVAZenergo" board of directors, listed as the chairman of "Interbiznesgrupp" Holding Board of Directors. The latter company owns through the structural companies a business organizations LLC "Insurance Company" Independent Insurance Group", "Company "Oborontsement", LLC "Oborontsement-energy." "Independent Insurance Group» insures a business of major companies of GC "Rostekhnologii". Together with his son Vladimir Artyakov Dmitry since 2003 owns a hotel complex "Meridian" in Gelendzhik.
Stanislav Chemezov - is a companion of previously convicted citizen of St. Petersburg Viktor Petrik by JSC "Russian nanotechnology industry." Petrik and Sergei Chemezov are intimately familiar since the 1990s. According to press reports, they had a joint business interests at the time, related to import and export through the Russian-Finnish border.
As of May 2009, the middle son of Chemezov was a student at the Medical Institute. Junior went to school, and his daughter was graduating MGIMO.
Wikipedia
Dossier:
Chemezov does not renounce the fact of the long-standing service acquaintance with Putin: "Indeed, we have worked in the GDR at the same time ... We lived in the same house, and spoke in the service, and a neighbor."
Top Secret, April 2009
In 1996, firmly established in the Office of the President, Putin took an old friend to him. From that time began the rapid career of Sergey Chemezov that ensured him, in the end, the post of the head of Rosoboronexport. Friendship turned into cooperation. Chemezov come to the head of state's residence in Novo-Ogaryovo and received an hour audience every week.
Russian Forbes, October 2007
With the arrival of Chemezov to "Promeksport", export earnings fell by a half: if earlier they accounted for 230 -260 million dollars, when Chemezov - 120 -130 million dollars. Backlog of Rosvoruzhenie was 12-fold, and from the second place among Russian arms exporters "Promeksport" slipped to fourth.
Rossiyskaya Gazeta, 19.09.2000
Sergei Chemezov did not manage to be an "effective manager", but the first year of his presence in the arms business was marked by a grandiose scandal. Rosvooruzhenie, a competitor to "Promeksport", prepared a contract for the delivery to Colombia Mi-17 helicopters. But at the last moment, when everything was agreed with the buyer, messengers of Chemezov appeared in Bogota, offering the same helicopters cheaper. After that, all the Colombians refused the deal: information about this came to the Russian media.
Similar stories have occurred in other countries - a serious blow was caused to the reputation of the Russian arms that including the impact on the income Rosvoruzhenie.
The New Times, 10.09.2007
Rosoboronexport involved absorption of already existing plants, rather than building new ones. The expansion started in 2002, when Rosoboronexport has established OJSC "OPK" Oboronprom", through which basic organizing events were carried out. In summer 2004 Sergey Chemezov openly admitted that sets the task to receive shares of military enterprises, "Not necessarily blocking stakes. Our task - is to have a minimum number, in order to receive our representation in the board of directors. The best option, of course, that the state has transferred to us in managing their shares of these companies. "
In addition to the military industry, interests of the Rosoboronexport also affected the "citizen."
Financial news, 19.07. 2004
In 2005, Chemezov got AvtoVAZ almost for nothing. Having achieved the resignation of most of the top management of Togliatti auto giant, Rosoboronexport appointed their representatives in the plant's board of directors first, and then to all the key positions on the board. According to the words of Sergey Chemezov, management bias looked like a full-scale troop campaign using operational and even combat capabilities of the Russian special service (FSS and the Interior Ministry), and the General Prosecutor's Office.
As the American edition of The Wall Street Journal wrote, in order to convince the old team to leave, after the resignation of Kadannikov a group of investigators and prosecutors arrived in Togliatti. Soon, the three chief accountants of AvtoVAZ were charged on embezzlement and tax evasion (a few weeks later the charges were dropped).
To bring order the new owner of AvtoVAZ had to change almost the entire police in Togliatti and in the factory. "We very much doubts that any private strategic investor would be able to do it," - said Chemezov.
In December 2005, a half-hour meeting of shareholders, where a new board of directors was elected, been carried out in