Vladimir Lisin is a very rich man who has gone from a simple locksmith to a shareholder in a metallurgical giant. The first in the list of billionaires Vladimir Lisin

He started working in 1975 as an electrician in Yuzhkuzbassugol.

In 1979 he graduated from the foundry department of the Siberian Metallurgical Institute with a degree in metallurgical engineering, in 1984 - postgraduate study at UKRNIIMET. In 1990 he graduated from the Higher Commercial School at the Academy foreign trade. In 1992 - the Academy of National Economy. G.V. Plekhanov, in 1996 - doctoral studies at the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys (MISiS). Doctor technical sciences(topic of doctoral dissertation: "Mathematical modeling of combined processes and optimization technological characteristics casting and rolling modules "(1996)). In 1979-1986 he worked as an assistant to a steelmaker, a steelmaker, an operator of a continuous casting plant (UNRS), a foreman, a shift supervisor, a section head, and a deputy head of a workshop at the Tulachermet production association. Since 1986 until 1992, he held the post of deputy chief engineer, then - deputy CEO Karaganda Metallurgical Plant (general director - Oleg Soskovets). Since 1992 - Vice President of the offshore company Trans-CIS Commodities Ltd (TCC is registered in Monte Carlo, Mikhail Cherny was the manager of this company). Collaborated with Trans World Group (TWG, one of the co-owners - Lev Cherny), with Trans Commodities Inc (TC), headed by Sam Kisling, an emigrant from the USSR. According to the press, it was Lisin who was one of the first to "run in" the aluminum tolling scheme, with the help of which Trans-CIS Commodities Ltd. and Trans World Group (TWG) won Russian market aluminum. Since 1992 - Vice-President of the International Union of Metallurgists. In 1992-94 was a member of the Board of Directors of the Krasnoyarsk Aluminum Plant (KrAZ). Since 1993 - Member of the Board of Directors of JSC "Sayan Aluminum Plant" (SaAZ), from November 1994 to 1999 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of SaAZ. On April 26, 1996, at a meeting of shareholders of OJSC Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant (NLMK), he was elected to the Board of Directors of NLMK as a representative of Intermetal (exclusive trader of NLMK, 37% of shares). In 1996, he participated in the election campaign of Alexei Lebed, who ran for the post of Prime Minister Republic of Khakassia.In 1997, he became the founder of Worslade Trading (registered in Ireland, exports NLMK products).Since April 1997, he has been a member of the Board of Directors of OAO Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK).In December 1997, together with the CEO of the Sayansk Aluminum plant Oleg Deripaska at a press conference announced his intention to create a transnational concern "Soyuz metal-resource" (SMR). He stated that one of the main goals of creating a concern is to concentrate "in one hand" controlling stakes in the main metallurgical enterprises of Russia. In 1998 Lisin's candidacy was considered for the position of head You are the administration of the Lipetsk region, but he himself refused to be nominated, supporting the candidacy of Mikhail Narolin. Since 1998 - Founder and CEO management company LLC "Rumelko" ("Russian Metallurgical Company"), which coordinates the activities of a number of enterprises of the metallurgical complex. In March 1998, at an extraordinary meeting of NLMK shareholders, TWG representatives stated that Lisin, "trying to keep informal influence on NLMK in his hands, is de facto blocking the adoption of a new company charter, which makes it very difficult for the plant to operate in modern political and legal conditions." However, Lisin's activities at NLMK were fully supported by Dmitry Bakatin, a member of the NLMK Board of Directors, who said that he would not allow "any one company to have any special advantages in Lipetsk." On May 22, 1998, at the meeting of shareholders, he was re-elected to the Board of Directors of MMK. He was a member of the Board of Directors of MMK until May 1999. On August 1, 1998 he was re-elected to the Board of Directors of NLMK, and in September of the same year - Chairman of the Board of Directors of NLMK. From 1998 to 1999 - Member of the Board of Directors of OAO Novokuznetsk Aluminum Plant (NkAZ). June 14, 2000 signed a letter of guarantee of 17 major Russian entrepreneurs with a request to change the measure of restraint for the arrested Vladimir Gusinsky. On November 10, 2000, he was elected to the Board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (Employers) (RSPP). Since November 2003 - Member of the Bureau of the Board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (Employers). In early 2001, he participated in the creation of the non-profit association "Russian Steel". In April 2001, he joined the Board of Trustees of the Scientific Research Center "Expert Institute" (Director - Evgeny Yasin) under Russian Union industrialists and entrepreneurs (RSPP). On June 8, 2001, he was elected to the Board of Directors of JSCB Zenit. On August 9, 2001, he was again re-elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of NLMK. In 2001, as a head-hunter, as well as a consultant and intermediary, he took part in the creation of the daily "Newspaper" (he was its actual owner). In 2001, responding to the proposal of Metropolitan Methodius of Voronezh and Lipetsk, he began to pay Makarievsky Prizes for his work on Orthodoxy from his personal funds, national history and Moscow studies. At the presentation of the awards in September 2001, Patriarch Alexy II called it "a selfless act of a true Orthodox Christian, a citizen of his country." (Labor, September 26, 2001) On October 4, 2001, he signed an agreement with the head of the Nizhny Tagil Metallurgical Plant Alexander Abramov on the creation of a Non-Commercial Partnership (NP) "Russian Steel Consortium". He became president and chairman of the managing committee of Russian Steel. He was also elected to the Partnership Supervisory Board Member of the Public Council on Russia's accession to the WTO since November 2001. In early 2002, it was expected that Lisin would put forward his candidacy in the gubernatorial elections in the Lipetsk region on April 14, 2002, where his main opponent was to become acting Governor Oleg Korolev. However, this did not happen. According to the Kommersant newspaper, Lisin refused this step, feeling that the Kremlin would support Korolev. As a result, the parties signed an agreement in which Korolev undertook to stop the information war against NLMK, and Lisin - do not run for governor (Kommersant, February 19, 2002) From June 2002 to June 20 04 was a member of the Board of Directors of OAO MMC Norilsk Nickel. In May 2004, Lisin bought a 33% stake in Stoilensky GOK, which belonged to the family of Fyodor Klyuka. According to the latter, he and his son ceased to be shareholders of the Mining and Processing Plant: "We sold our stake to Lisin, and we bought 76% of the Oskol Metallurgical Machine Building Plant from him." In March 2005, Forbes published another list of billionaires. Lisin took 2nd place in it among the citizens of Russia after Roman Abramovich. The magazine estimated his fortune at $7 billion. On November 18, 2005, European Business Magazine estimated Lisin's fortune at 8.1 billion euros. (RIA Novosti, November 18, 2005) On November 18, 2005, he was registered as a candidate for the presidency of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC). On November 24, 2005 Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works announced the start of a road-show for the placement of its securities on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). The share of shares owned by Lisin turned out to be less than 90%, which came as a surprise to the market. Based on quotes at the time of the announcement, its value was more than $7.8 billion. (Kommersant, November 25, 2005) In November 2005, the companies of the Ruben brothers filed a lawsuit against Lisin. From docs Supreme Court Ireland followed that in 1997 Lisin gained control of the Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works by transferring NLMK shares from the control of the nominee company to the control of another company owned personally by Lisin. According to the Ruben brothers, to purchase the shares, Lisin used the money received on a revolving loan, for which he provided guarantees on behalf of Intermetal (the Rubenov company). The debt, according to Rubenov, he did not return. Litigation has commenced on both claims. For the loss of the steel export contract, the Reubens were compensated; debt payment issues were generally resolved out of court. However, there was one more unresolved dispute in which Lisin was accused of violating his obligations under the joint venture agreement in 1999. ("The Observer" 28.11.2005) On December 9, 2005, NLMK announced the sale of a 7% stake in the company in London. As a result, Lisin received $609 million. (Kommersant, December 10, 2005) In December 2005, the Scottish newspaper The Scotsman reported that Lisin had bought Aberuchill Castle in Scotland for £6.8 million. On December 22, 2005, he withdrew his candidacy for the post of President of the Russian Olympic Committee. In 2005 he purchased Aberuchill Castle in Perthshire (UK). (Gazeta.ru, November 13, 2006) In February 2006, the Finance magazine estimated Lisin's fortune at $9.35 billion (fourth place in Russia after Abramovich, Deripaska and Fridman). In March 2006, another Forbes Magazine rating appeared, in which Lisin was in 41st place in the world (state - 10.7 billion). Since 2001 - Vice-President, since June 2002 - President of the Shooting Union of Russia (SSR), Vice-President of the National Sporting Federation. In 2001, Lisin fulfilled the standard of a candidate master of sports in compact sporting (skeet target shooting). In April 2001, he was elected president of the Lipetsk Metallurg sports club. Professor of the Department of Market Problems and the Economic Mechanism of the Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation. Collects a collection of pre-revolutionary Kasli iron castings (small sculptures, household items, interior furniture - more than 200 cataloged exhibits in total). Likes cigars. Laureate of the Prize of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1989). Awarded the Order of Honor (2000). In May 2001, Patriarch Alexy II presented Lisin with the Order of Sergius of Radonezh, III degree "for many years of support for the revival of Orthodox shrines, assistance in publishing the Orthodox Encyclopedia and other services to the Russian Orthodox Church." Married. Wife Ludmila. Has three children.

In 1978 he graduated from the Siberian Metallurgical Institute with a degree in metallurgical engineering.

In 1990 he graduated from the Higher Commercial School at the Academy of Foreign Trade

In 1992 - the Academy of National Economy with a degree in Economics and Management.

He began his career in 1975 as an electrician in the Yuzhkuzbassugol association. After graduating from the institute, he worked at the NPO Tulachermet, where he worked his way up from an assistant steelworker to the deputy head of the shop.

Since 1986 - Deputy Chief Engineer, and since 1989 - Deputy General Director of the Karaganda Metallurgical Plant O. N. Soskovets.

Since 1993, he has been a member of the Boards of Directors of a number of leading Russian metallurgical enterprises.

Since 1996 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Sayangorsk Aluminum Plant, member of the Board of Directors of the Novokuznetsk and Bratsk Aluminum Plants, Magnitogorsk and Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works.

Since 1998 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of OJSC NLMK.

In 2007, through the offshore company Silener Management, he acquired a 14.42% stake in Zenit Bank.

Titles and awards

Professor of the Department of Market Problems and the Economic Mechanism of the Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation, author of 16 monographs and more than 150 scientific publications.

Laureate of the Prize of the Council of Ministers of the USSR in the field of science and technology in 1990.

Honorary Metallurgist of the Russian Federation.

Commander of the Order of Honor,

President of the Shooting Union of Russia. Master of Sport.

Honorary citizen of Lipetsk (2009).

The main asset is a controlling stake in the Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works. As of the beginning of 2010, he was the richest person in Russia (according to the Finance magazine, his fortune at that date was estimated at $ 18.8 billion). Forbes magazine on March 11, 2009 estimates Lisin's fortune at $ 5.2 billion (93rd place in the world).

Fluent English language. Passionate about shooting sports. Collects a collection of pre-revolutionary Kasli iron castings (small sculptures, household items, interior furniture - more than 200 cataloged exhibits in total). Likes cigars. Married. Raises three children.
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Dossier:

For the first time, the name of Vladimir Lisin came to the attention of the media in the late 80s, when Lisin, being the deputy director of the Karaganda Metallurgical Plant Oleg Soskovets (later the Minister of Metallurgy of the USSR), established the Soviet-Swiss company TSK-Steel, which, using loopholes in the legislation and general chaos in the "perestroika" country, drove the substandard metal of the Karaganda Iron and Steel Works abroad. The percentage of marriage at that time at the plant increased sharply, which allowed Lisin to earn his first big money.

In 1991 Oleg Soskovets moved to Moscow. Lisin followed him to the capital. True, Lisin always denied his friendship with Soskovets, saying that he had crossed paths with him only a few times after moving. But be that as it may, it was thanks to Soskovets that the future oligarch met those who helped him organize own business. Brothers Mikhail and Lev Cherny, Sam Kislin. In the first years of cooperation, Lisin helped his foreign partners, who bought cheaply the products of the Krasnoyarsk, Novolipetsk, Magnitogorsk metallurgical plants, Sayan and Novokuznetsk aluminum plants. Then Lisin joined the boards of directors of these enterprises. In addition, for the first time he began to apply the practice of tolling - factories paid for raw materials finished products(mainly ferrous metals), which Lisin and his partners sold for export, which is important, without paying customs duties. Turnovers amounted to hundreds of millions of dollars.

At the end of 1992, Lisin was already engaged not only in ferrous, but also in non-ferrous metals. He was helped in this by a new partner - David Ruben, who, together with the Cherny brothers, created the Rans World Group (TWG). Later, they were joined by Oleg Deripaska, who was then only taking his first steps in business. In 1993, Lisin became a full partner of TWG. Most of the largest metallurgical enterprises of the country were under the control of the group. At the same time, the same Oleg Soskovets, who had become Deputy Prime Minister by that time, was considered the main defender of tolling.

In 1995, there were several contract killings in the steel industry. The heads of firms that had interests in aluminum plants controlled by Lisin were killed. Nearly got killed commercial director Sayan aluminum plant, in which Lisin was a member of the board of directors.
(Lone shooter - "Russian Forbes", December 2004)

But then he quite quietly (at least without shooting) parted ways with his former companions. By that time, the position of the TWG group was drastically shaken. It is noteworthy that the fall of the group happened a few months after Oleg Soskovets left his post in the government of the Russian Federation with a scandal. The then head of the presidential administration, Anatoly Chubais, and Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin were not going to support Lisin's business. But Lisin did not miss his. When dividing the business, he seized control of NLMK.

In November 2005, the Reuben brothers from the UK filed a lawsuit against Lisin, alleging that he had gained control of NLMK by secretly transferring shares from the control of a nominee to the control of his own company. However, this judicial history quickly ended. Lisin managed to resolve the conflict peacefully, calling for help from Oleg Deripaska and Vladimir Potanin. The first prevented the Cherny brothers from bankrupting the plant. The second did not prevent Lisin from buying NLMK shares from foreigners (Potanin owned 50 percent of TWG shares).

However, they still say that Lisin is only the nominal owner of all "factories-plants-steamboats." Allegedly, his patron Soskovets, the Cherny brothers, still stands behind him, and with them the Izmaylovo organized crime group, which in the 90s "protected" and "milked" NLMK. It is believed that Lisin, in the interests of the Izmailovo bandits, acquired the Moscow Rubin plant and the DK im. Gorbunova, better known as "hump". Izmailovsky authority Anton Malevsky received an income of up to 15 million dollars. A certain Aksen, who after the death of Malevsky (he was fond of exotic sports), also looked after the shares of the Izmaylovskys, who headed the organized criminal group.
("This is how steel was bought. Metallurgical oligarch Vladimir Lisin knows how to shoot in every sense" - Stringer, 03/13/2002; "Lipetsk fraud" - Interlocutor, 10/15/2008)

Lisin does not like high-profile public scandals, preferring to resolve all disputes quietly. The history of Lisin's relationship with Vladimir Potanin is indicative here. Having initially agreed on cooperation, the partners quickly became irreconcilable rivals. Potanin broke off relations himself, immediately going on the offensive - he challenged in court the sale of a non-core asset of NLMK - the Stinol refrigerator plant, and set auditors on the plant. Lisin, in turn, bought securities Norilsk Nickel. But then the oligarchs agreed, dividing the spheres of interest.

Lisin clashed more than once with the Lipetsk governor. The last conflict happened in 2008, when Lisin applied for the governor's post. By the way, Lisin has been striving for the governor's chair since 1998, when his candidacy was considered for the post of head of the administration of the Lipetsk region, but then Lisin himself refused the nomination and supported the alternative candidacy of Mikhail Narolin. In 2002, everyone was waiting for Lisin to again run for governor, but the businessman backed down - according to Kommersant, Lisin felt that the Kremlin would support Oleg Korolev. The parties even signed a settlement agreement. Korolev undertook to stop the information war against NLMK, Lisin - not to run for governor.
("Kommersant", February 19, 2002)

But in 2008, the oligarch nevertheless decided to catch up. However, it was not only about unfulfilled ambitions. It was said that Lisin, having gone to the gubernatorial elections, was trying to get out of the control of the Izmaylovskys, who, after the death of their leader Malevsky, began to behave especially arrogantly. It was even said that, as in the "good old" days, brothers in jeeps came to Lisin at the plant, demanding to leave the plant, and also to hand over the management of the Rumelko company (Russian Metallurgical Company), in which shares of criminal authorities were placed.

The main rival of the head of NLMK in the elections was the current governor of the region, Oleg Korolev, a well-known defender of the working people. Lisin spent the election campaign on the verge of a foul. One of the episodes of the pre-election struggle almost cost the governor the Queen's chair. On November 7, during a rally in the central square of Lipetsk, two unidentified men began to trample on the Russian flag with their feet. Directly opposite the podium where Korolyov stood, the flag was burned. The astonished face of the governor was shown to the whole country. There was only one comment - Korolev does not control the situation in his area. As it turned out later, the vandals who desecrated the flag turned out to be NLMK employees who acted on behalf of some Lisin's image makers. Alexander Voloshin had to intervene in the conflict between the oligarch and the governor. Lisin was then offered the position of a senator, but he considered that this position was too small for him ... They even said that Lisin had obtained an audience with Putin, proving that he was ripe for regional politics. But the then president recalled to the businessman the story of the sale of the Stinol plant (Lisin sold the enterprise profitably, but did not pay off loans to the state). As a result, the billionaire limited himself to the role of the “gray eminence” of the region.

Lisin never went into conflict with the authorities - Putin even presented him with the Order of Honor. They say that the billionaire has close ties with the Kremlin - in particular, with the president's manager Vladimir Kozhin. Their friendship began at the Higher Commercial School of the Academy of Foreign Trade, where Kozhin and Lisin studied back in Soviet times.

Vladimir Lisin is credited with the "authorship" of the "Mechel case", which caused a real panic in the stock markets. Then Vladimir Putin sharply criticized the Mechel metallurgical plant, which sold coking coal. domestic enterprises more expensive than abroad. Russian stocks began to rapidly fall in price. Many believed that the main client of Mechel, the head of NLMK, complained to the president.
("Lipetsk fraud" - Interlocutor, 10/15/2008; "Rvet and Mechel" - "Kommersant", 07/24/08)

Vladimir Sergeyevich Lisin is an oligarch who made a billion-dollar fortune in steel and cargo transportation, the head of the industry giant, the Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works (NLMK), the owner of the UCL corporation, the Lisya Nora sporting complex, and the head of the supervisory board of the Rumedea media holding.

Previously, he served as Deputy General Director of MK Karaganda, was a partner of the international supplier of multimodal integrated logistics services Trans-World Group and a member of the collective management of many specialized companies.

Childhood and family of Vladimir Lisin

The future metallurgy magnate was born in the city of Ivanovo on May 7, 1956. V school years he studied well, was a calm, persistent and somewhat withdrawn child. In 1973, the young man - a student of the Siberian State Metallurgical Institute. S. Ordzhonikidze in the city of Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo region. Since 1975, he got a job as an electrician at the Yuzhkuzbassugol mine.


After graduating from the university in 1978, the young specialist was sent to Tula to a metallurgical plant, where at first he worked as a steelmaker, and then became the deputy head of the shop. In addition to practical activities, the enterprising engineer was also engaged in scientific work - in 1984 he completed his postgraduate studies at UkrNIImet in Kharkov.

Career development of Vladimir Lisin

At the age of 30, Vladimir became the chief engineer of a metallurgical giant in Karaganda, at the age of 33 he received the post of deputy to Oleg Soskovets, who at that time was the general director of this enterprise. In 1991, he was appointed head of the Minchermet, and his deputy moved to the capital after his boss. There he acquired contacts useful for business (with Cherny, Sam Kislin), studied at high school Ministry of Economic Development. The following year, he was included in the management of the aluminum smelting plant in Sayanogorsk.


Since 1993, he has been a business partner in the TWG (Trans-World Group) of the Reuben and Black clans. As a representative of this company since 1993, he has been in the ranks supervisory boards a number of large specialized plants - Magnitogorsk, Krasnoyarsk, NLMK, Bratsk, Novokuznetsk aluminum smelting plant.

In addition, he continued to engage in raising the level of education, science, and his own developments in the field of casting and steel rolling. In 1994, he earned another diploma from the Academy of National Economy (RANEPA, after merging with educational institution civil service). Then he studied for 2 years at the doctoral program at the National Research Technological University MISiS.

Business of Vladimir Lisin

After the resonant resignation of Soskovets from the post of Deputy Prime Minister (who oversaw 14 ministries), the TWG broke up. At that time, the businessman owned 13 percent of NLMK shares, and 34 percent in TWG. His former partners intended to bankrupt the company and sell it, dividing the profits. However, Lisin decided to intercept a controlling stake in the plant.


He established Worslade Trading offshore and conducted financial transactions through it when exporting metal. Then, allegedly, in agreement with Vladimir Potanin (his structures managed the shares of foreign investors, including the American George Soros and one of the richest residents of New Zealand, the Chandler brothers), he bought out their 50 percent stake and became the owner of a 63 percent stake. Since 1998, he has become the head of HLMK.

Vladimir Sergeevich unexpectedly sold his shares in TWG to Potanin. Lisin decided not to buy them at an unreasonably high cost, but in the form of a retaliatory strike, he bought the securities of Norilsk Nickel, the main asset of his former, who turned out to be treacherous, partner Potanin. In 2001, he again surprised - he stopped unfriendly actions and conceded the disputed papers at the price of their purchase.


Vladimir Sergeevich, accordingly, also sold his shares in Norilsk Nickel. Both oligarchs subsequently engaged not in corporate wars, but in increasing the efficiency of production and labor productivity at their enterprises.

Vladimir Lisin - "I dream" to sell NLMK

In order to diversify the capital structure, in 2007 the businessman became a shareholder of Zenit Bank through Silener Management.

Personal life of Vladimir Lisin

The billionaire has been married for many years to his classmate Lyudmila, with whom they even sat at the same desk. They are happily married. It belongs to persons who are not inclined to advertise information about the family, for example, data on the profession of parents, the age and occupation of children in global network no. It is known that the couple raised three sons - Alexander, Vyacheslav and Dmitry.


His wife has been creating a systematic collection of works by Russian artists for more than 10 years. She owns the chamber painting gallery "Seasons", located near the metro station Sretensky Boulevard in Moscow. There are often interesting exhibitions, usually works from closed private collections.

The idea to start collecting paintings came to her after her husband gave her the work of an original artist Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. In one of the interviews, she admitted that she constantly strives to expand the circle of her knowledge in the field of art, which elevates the world of our being.


According to the annual ranking of billionaires according to the American edition of Forbes-2016, the head of NLMK ranked 116th in the world and 8th among the richest Russians. Over the past 2015, his fortune has decreased from 11.6 to 9.3 billion dollars, that is, by $2.3 billion.


The tycoon loves his luxurious mansion in Scotland, cigars, reading literature, hunting and relaxing in his club in the Moscow region. His passion is not only shooting, but also a collection of more than two hundred samples of Kasli casting - architectural and artistic cast iron products made in the city of Kasli, Chelyabinsk Region.

Vladimir Lisin today

After the financial difficulties associated with the crisis, in 2010 the magnate, who knows how to think globally and make the right decisions, was again able to increase financial indicators NLMK. In 2011, with a capital of $ 24 billion, he became the wealthiest person in the Russian Federation.


In 2012, the oligarch completed a deal to purchase state shares in the domestic railway carrier, Freight One, including it in his UCL logistics concern. The company has 3 subdivisions - railway, stevedoring and shipping, and unites the seaport of the Northern capital, a shipyard in Shlisselburg, Leningrad region, Okskaya shipyard and others. The deal was valued at $5.8 billion.

The oligarch is a supporter of the unification of metallurgical companies. In particular, earlier, together with Alexander Abramov, head of the Nizhny Tagil Iron and Steel Works (including the metallurgical and mining company Evraz with assets in the Russian Federation, Ukraine, the USA, South Africa, the Czech Republic and other countries), he created and headed Russian Steel.

Interview with Vladimir Lisin about transportation

In 2013, he was included in the leadership of the International Shooting Sport Organization (ISSF), in 2014 he became its vice president, and also took a similar position in the Russian Olympic Committee. He is also the head of the national Shooting Union, the European Shooting Confederation (ESC).

Who in Russia does not know the name Vladimir Lisin and why is it constantly on the lips of major researchers in the field of economics? This is one of the richest people in the world who earned all his money with his mind and work.

First job responsibilities

Vladimir Sergeevich Lisin was born on May 7, 1956. His homeland is the Russian city of Ivanovo, where he spent his childhood. Successfully finished school.

Then he was enrolled in the Siberian Metallurgical Institute at the foundry department. After graduating from the institute in 1979, he received a specialty engineer - metallurgist. Vladimir's career was quite eventful and began as an electrician in 1975 at a coal mine in Kuzbass.

In 1978, he became an assistant to a steelmaker at a Tula plant (NPO Tulachermet). After some time, he took the position of deputy head of the shop. The desire to learn and discover something new, these qualities allowed me to complete my postgraduate studies at the Ukrainian Research Institute of Metallurgy in 1984.

At work, he was constantly promoted, as a result, in 1989 in Karaganda, Vladimir Lisin became the deputy head of the shop. Stormy labor activity took place in almost all regions of Russia. You will also be interested in the success story of an American engineer and inventor.

In 1993, he is a partner in the Trans World Group and is a member of the boards of directors at the Novolipetsk, Krasnoyarsk, Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works and the Novokuznetsk aluminum smelter. But Vladimir does not stop there, he understands that it is necessary to reach new heights in business. He spends more and more time studying. In 1994 he graduated from the Academy of National Economy and became the chairman of the board of directors at SAZ. Then he completes his doctoral studies at the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys.

Purchase of shares of Novolipetsk Combine

In 1996, he acquires a certain number of shares in the Novolipetsk Combine, then creates an offshore company Worslade Trading in Ireland and sells the metal for export. This was necessary, because Russian legislation At that time, it was forbidden to sell metal for export to private enterprises. They could only export metal with defects, there were no restrictions on it.

Vladimir did this, although this metal was much cheaper, but the company received its good permanent income. All these events led to a break with the Trans World Group. All proceeds go to the overseas firm. Gradually, Lisin is buying up shares of large Russian enterprises, thereby acquiring controlling stakes. As a result, he becomes the owner of NLMK OJSC.

How Vladimir Lisin became a billionaire

The financial situation is constantly increasing. In 2008, his fortune is $20.3 billion.
But the global crisis of 2008 seriously ruffled the nerves of all major entrepreneurs and dealt a serious blow to Lisin's business. By 2009, he has only $5.2 billion left. But the businessman does not despair, he continues to work, making various changes in his business.

And by 2010, he becomes the richest man in Russia. According to Finance magazine, his fortune was more than $18 billion, and in 2011 - $24 billion. You are interested in stories the richest people? Then we advise you to read an article about a successful entrepreneur.

Current successes

He is currently - successful businessman, owns steel company OJSC NLMK, owner of UCL Holding, which consists of the seaports of St. Petersburg, Tuapse, Taganrog, the first cargo company. He is a shareholder of Zenit Bank. Doctor of economic and technical sciences. Lisin is the author of books, invention patents, and numerous publications. Winner of many awards. He developed new methods for washing a blast furnace, processing steel in a ladle, and obtaining a coating on a metal strip. His hobbies are shooting sports and collecting pre-revolutionary cast iron items. Now his collection is more than 200 exhibits. Currently President of the Shooting Union of Russia and the European Shooting Confederation.

In the Moscow region in the Dmitrievsky district, he built the Fox Hole shooting range. Lisin was awarded such titles as master of sports, honorary metallurgist of the Russian Federation, honorary citizen of the city of Lipetsk. He was awarded the Order of Honor.

Engaged in charity work and makes a lot of investments in Russian economy. Vladimir keeps his personal life a strict secret. It is known that Lisin is an ideal family man, has three sons, his wife is beautiful and was always with her husband in the most difficult moments. Vladimir loves cigars. Included in the close circle of Putin. But he is not the only Russian with billions of dollars. One of the richest and most influential people in Russia is.

Many critics characterize him as a man who is only interested in money, for which he will stop at nothing. That he is one of those who in the 90s bought state property for next to nothing.
But it is precisely such people that Russian society needs, who have gone from a simple welder to a billionaire and have achieved everything exclusively with their own heads.


A life Lisin Vladimir Sergeevich- a mysterious and powerful man, like the Count of Monte Cristo himself, is divided between, where he has his own castle, and Russia, where, in addition to the metallurgical giant in his possession, he still has a special place with an ironic and somewhat unusual name"Foxy burrow". It is here, in the Fox Hole, tired of numbers, calculations, faces, names and smiles, that the famous puts on soundproof headphones over an ordinary baseball cap, loads a rifle with a firm hand and, as if challenging the sky, accurately shoots at its serene heights...

Childhood of Lisin Vladimir

Vladimir Sergeevich Lisin was born on May 7, 1956. in Ivanovo. Somewhat later the family moved to Novokuznetsk. From an early age, the boy was laconic, concentrated and somewhat closed - a child and an old man in one person. Childhood was calm, which cannot but upset those who like to delve into other people's crypts. For people who are very imaginative, it always seems that it is in Lisin's childhood that the most secret secrets are hidden. However, it is foolish to look for a black cat in a dark room, especially if it is not there.

At school, Vladimir studied well, and those things that he himself chose as a child later became his companions for life. So, at the age of 12, Lisin picked up a weapon for the first time - a rifle from a school shooting range. Since then, he has never changed his passion - sports shooting. Today, Lisin considers shooting to be the best means that can make a person concentrate, but at the same time not think about anything, because it is impossible to shoot accurately if you do not free your head from unnecessary thoughts.

One of the journalists once said that if Lisin had been born in a different era, and not in our country, but in Japan, he would have become an ideal samurai - devoid of emotions, calm and striving to achieve perfection in everything.

How Lisin became an oligarch

In total, there was some predestination in the fate of Lisin Vladimir Sergeevich. His childhood and youth were spent in the city of metallurgists - Novokuznetsk, in which, in principle, there was nothing to choose a sphere of self-realization and interests. Therefore, the future entered the Siberian Metallurgical Institute, after which he acquired the specialty "metallurgical engineer". Interestingly, Lisin earned his first big money (almost 1000 rubles) while still a student, honestly working in a construction team at BAM. After graduating from the institute, Lisin was assigned to Tula, where he began working at NPO Tulachermet, and went through a difficult path from an ordinary steelmaker to deputy shop manager.

A new turn in the life of Vladimir Lisin coincided with the beginning of perestroika, when he, no longer seeing prospects in NPO Tulachermet, moved to Kazakhstan and began working at the Karaganda Metallurgical Plant, where the director at that time was the future Minister of Metallurgy Oleg Soskovets. It was under his leadership that Lisin gained his first commercial experience, which he still recalls with considerable pleasure. Soon Lisin became Soskovets' deputy.

Not much time passed before Soskovets's career rapidly went up, and he moved to Moscow, Lisin followed him. However, as he himself claims, this is a mere coincidence, according to him, Soskovets never invited him to the capital. But, one way or another, Soskovets and Lisin still managed to make a good deal with American company"Trans Commodities", after which they began a joint business. They were the first to put on a grand scale the so-called "tolling", the essence of which is a virtuoso bypass customs regime, and taxes.

In 1992, a new metallurgical empire “TWG” (“Trans World Qroup”) was born in Russia, where Vladimir Lisin went to work and literally a year later received partner status there. Soon the company took control of most of the country's large metallurgical plants and took third place in the supply of aluminum to.

In 1995 after a series of contract killings, the collapse of TWG began, and while the competitors were fighting, the cautious Lisin looked after the Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant for himself and began to slowly buy up its shares. Having acquired 63% of the shares, and becoming practically the owner of the plant, Lisin managed the almost impossible: the loss-making enterprise not only survived the crisis years of 1998-1999, but already in 2000 turned into profitable production. And in 2003, Vladimir Lisin first appeared in the notorious Forbes magazine rating, where he took sixth place among Russian billionaires. Today, Lisin's fortune is estimated at about 15-16 billion dollars.

The life of the quiet oligarch Lisin

Lisin Vladimir Sergeevich leads the life of a quiet and even, no matter how paradoxical it may sound, modest. He prefers business to wars and shooting cymbals (by the way, produced by his own metallurgical enterprise) in his own shooting club. The Lisin plant annually produces more than 1.5 million shooting plates, which go to the needs of the owner himself. By the way, in sports shooting Lisin fulfilled the standard of a master of sports.

Lisin can hardly be called a “new Russian”, in fact he is a great worker, a doctor of technical sciences, who created 10 books, 47 publications, almost 50 copyright certificates and patents for inventions.

Unlike many, Lisin does not compete in buying luxury real estate, does not collect yachts, he does not even wear expensive watches. His real passions are books, the collection of Kasli cast iron, which the oligarch has been collecting for many years, and sports shooting. But Lisin considers his own family to be his most important asset: his wife Lyudmila and three sons - Alexander, Dmitry and Vyacheslav.

Concerning wealth, then Lisin's only truly expensive purchase is only an estate in Scotland, surrounded by quiet, virgin nature. But this acquisition can only be associated with the desire to hide from prying eyes and fully enjoy solitude, because in Scotland it is enough for Vladimir to go beyond the threshold, as you can already start hunting or just take a walk in blessed silence. However, Lisin is sure that such simple joys of life are available not only to the rich, but also to the poor. “Big money can give more opportunities, but everything else: the sun, the sky, the air, the sea are the same for everyone, regardless of the amount of money,” he argues, and it’s hard to argue with him.

 

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