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

He began working in 1975 as an electric fitter in Yuzhkuzbassugol.

In 1979 he graduated from the foundry faculty of the Siberian Metallurgical Institute with a degree in metallurgical engineering, and in 1984 - graduate school at UKRNIIMET. In 1990 he graduated from the Higher Commercial School at the Academy of 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 of Technical Sciences (topic of the doctoral dissertation: "Mathematical modeling of combined processes and optimization of technological characteristics of casting and rolling modules" (1996)). In 1979-1986 worked as a steelworker’s assistant, steelworker, operator of the continuous steel casting plant (UNRS), foreman, shift supervisor, site manager, deputy shop manager of the Tulachermet production association. From 1986 to 1992, he held the post of Deputy Chief Engineer, then - Deputy General Director of the 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, the manager of this company was Mikhail Cherny). He collaborated with Trans World Groop (TWG, one of the co-owners - Lev Cherny), with Trans Commodities Inc (TC), led by an emigrant from the USSR, Sam Kiesling. According to the press, it was Lisin who was one of the first to break in the aluminum tolling scheme, with the help of which Trans-CIS Commodities Ltd. and Trans World Groop (TWG) have conquered the Russian aluminum market. Since 1992 - Vice President of the International Union of Metallurgists. In 1992-94 He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Krasnoyarsk Aluminum Plant (KrAZ). Since 1993 - Member of the Board of Directors of AOOT 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 (an exclusive trader of NLMK, 37% of the shares). In 1996, he participated in the election campaign of Aleksey Lebed, who ran for the post of Prime Minister Republic of Khakassia. In 1997, he became the founder of Worslade Trading (registered in Ireland, exporting NLMK products). Since April 1997, he was a member of the Board of Directors of OJSC Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK). In December 1997, together with the General Director of Sayansk Aluminum Oleg Deripaska at a press conference announced his intention to create a transnational concern "Union metal-resource" (SMR). He said that one of the main goals of creating the concern is to concentrate "in the same hands" controlling stakes in the main metallurgical enterprises of Russia. In 1998, Lisin’s candidacy was considered for the post of head of the administration of the Lipetsk region, but he refused to nominate himself, supporting the candidacy of Mikhail Narolin. Since 1998, he is the founder and CEO of the management company LLC Rumelko (Russian Metallurgical Company), which coordinates the activities of a number of enterprises in the metallurgical complex. In March 1998, at an extraordinary meeting of NLMK shareholders, TWG representatives stated that Lisin, "trying to hold in his hands an informal influence on NLMK, is de facto blocking the adoption of the new charter of the enterprise, which makes it very difficult for the plant to operate in the current political and legal conditions." However, Lisin’s activity at NLMK was fully supported by Dmitry Bakatin, a member of the Board of Directors of NLMK, who stated that he would not allow "any one company to have any special advantages in Lipetsk." On May 22, 1998, at a meeting of shareholders, he was re-elected to the Board of Directors of MMK. He was a member of the MMK Board of Directors until May 1999. On August 1, 1998, he was re-elected to the NLMK Board of Directors, and in September of the same year, Chairman of the NLMK Board of Directors. From 1998 to 1999, he was a member of the Board of Directors of OJSC Novokuznetsk Aluminum Plant (NkAZ). On June 14, 2000, he signed a letter of guarantee from 17 large Russian businessmen with a request to change the preventive measure to the arrested Vladimir Gusinsky. November 10, 2000 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 SEC "Expert Institute" (director - Evgeny Yasin) under the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP). On June 8, 2001, he was elected to the Board of Directors of JSC Zenit. On August 9, 2001, he was re-elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of NLMK. In 2001, as a head-hunter, as well as a consultant and intermediary, he participated in the creation of the daily “Newspaper” (it was its actual owner). In 2001, responding to the proposal of the Metropolitan of Voronezh and Lipetsk Methodius, from his personal funds he began to pay the Makariyev Prizes for works on Orthodoxy, Russian history and Moscow history. At the presentation of prizes in September 2001, Patriarch Alexy II called it "an unselfish 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, to create the Non-Profit Partnership (NP) Russian Steel Consortium. He became president and chairman of the management committee of Russian Steel. Partnership Supervisory Board: Member of the Public Council on Russia's WTO Accession since November 2001. It was expected that Lisin would run for governor in the Lipetsk Region on April 14, 2002, where his main rival was to become incumbent governor Oleg Korolev. However, this did not happen. According to the Kommersant newspaper, Lisin refused this step, having felt that the Kremlin would support Korolev. As a result, the parties signed an agreement in which Korolev committed himself to ending the information war against NLMK, and Lisin - do not run for governor. (Kommersant, February 19, 2002) From June 2002 to June 20 04 years was a member of the Board of Directors of MMC Norilsk Nickel. In May 2004, Lisin bought a 33% stake in Stoilensky GOK owned by the family of Fedor Klyuki. According to the latter, he and his son ceased to be shareholders of the GOK: "We sold our stake to Lisin, and 76% of the Oskol Metallurgical Engineering Plant were bought from him." In March 2005, Forbes published another list of billionaires. Lisin took it 2nd place among Russian citizens 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) November 18, 2005 was registered as a candidate for the post of president of the Russian Olympic Committee (ROC). On November 24, 2005, the Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works announced the launch of a road show to list its securities on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). The share of Lisin's shares was less than 90%, which came as a surprise to the market. Based on quotes at the time of the announcement, its value amounted to more than $ 7.8 billion (Kommersant, November 25, 2005) In November 2005, companies of the Rubenov brothers filed a lawsuit against Lisin. From the documents of the Irish Supreme Court, it followed that in 1997 Lisin gained control of the Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works by transferring NLMK shares from the management of the nominee company to the control of another company, which personally belonged to Lisin. According to the Ruben brothers, to buy shares, Lisin used the money received on an automatically revolving loan, guarantees for which he gave on behalf of Intermetal (Rubenov company). According to Rubenov, he did not repay the debt. In both cases, a trial has begun. Rubens received compensation for the loss of a steel export contract; issues of debt payment were generally resolved out of court. However, there was another unresolved dispute in which Lisin was accused of violating his obligations under a joint venture agreement in 1999. ("The Observer" November 28, 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 bought Aberuchill Castle in Scotland for £ 6.8 million. On December 22, 2005, he withdrew from the election for the post of president of the Russian Olympic Committee. In 2005, he acquired Aberuchill Castle in Perthshire (Great Britain). (Gazeta.ru, November 13, 2006) In February 2006, Finance magazine estimated Lisin’s fortune at $ 9.35 billion (fourth in Russia after Abramovich, Deripaska and Friedman). In March 2006, another Forbes Magazine rating appeared, in which Lisin was ranked 41st in the world (a fortune of 10.7 billion). Since 2001 - Vice President, since June 2002 - President of the Shooting Union of Russia (SSR), Vice President of the National Federation of Sporting. In 2001, Lisin fulfilled the standard of a candidate for master of sports in compact sporting (booth skeet). 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. Gathers a collection of pre-revolutionary Kasli cast iron (small sculptures, household items, interior furniture - more than 200 cataloged exhibits in total). He loves cigars. Laureate of the Prize of the Council of Ministers of the USSR (1989). He was awarded the Order of Honor (2000). In May 2001, Patriarch Alexy II presented Lisin with the Order of Sergius of Radonezh of the 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 Lyudmila. 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 association “Yuzhkuzbassugol”. After graduation, he worked at the Tulachermet NGO, where he went from a steelworker to a deputy shop manager.

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

Since 1993, he was a member of the Board 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 NLMK.

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

Ranks 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.

Winner 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.

Knight 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 Metallurgical Plant. As of the beginning of 2010, he was the richest man in Russia (the state as of this date, according to Finance magazine, was estimated at $ 18.8 billion). Forbes magazine dated March 11, 2009 estimates Lisin’s fortune at $ 5.2 billion (93rd in the world).

Fluent in English. He is passionate about shooting sports. Gathers a collection of pre-revolutionary Kasli cast iron (small sculptures, household items, interior furniture - more than 200 cataloged exhibits in total). He loves 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 deputy director of the Karaganda Metallurgical Plant Oleg Soskovets (later Minister of Metallurgy of the USSR) established the Soviet-Swiss company TSK-Steel, which, using loopholes in the legislation and general chaos in the "rebuilt" country, drove abroad substandard metal of the Karaganda metallurgical plant. The percentage of marriage at that time at the plant sharply increased, which allowed Lisin to earn his first big money.

In 1991, Oleg Soskovets moved to Moscow. After him, Lisin also went to the capital. True, Lisin always denied his friendship with Soskovets, saying that he had crossed with him only a few times after the move. But be that as it may, but it was thanks to Soskovets that the future oligarch met those who helped him organize his own business. Brothers Michael and Leo Black, Sam Kislin. In the first years of cooperation, Lisin helped his foreign partners buying cheap products from the Krasnoyarsk, Novolipetsk, Magnitogorsk metallurgical plants, Sayansky and Novokuznetsk aluminum plants. Then Lisin joined the boards of directors of these enterprises. In addition, he first began to use the practice of tolling - the factories paid for the finished products with finished products (mainly ferrous metals), which Lisin and his partners sold for export, which is important, without paying customs duties. Turnover amounted to hundreds of millions of dollars.

At the end of 1992, Lisin was already engaged not only in ferrous, but also non-ferrous metals. A new companion helped him in this - David Ruben, who, together with the Black brothers, created the Rans World Group (TWG). Later they were joined by Oleg Deripaska, who then only took his first steps in business. In 1993, Lisin became a full partner of TWG. The majority of the country's largest metallurgical enterprises turned out to be under the control of the group. At the same time, Oleg Soskovets, who by that time had become deputy prime minister, was considered the main defender of tolling.

In 1995, several contract killings took place in the metals industry. The heads of firms with interests in aluminum smelters controlled by Lisin were killed. Almost killed the commercial director of the Sayan Aluminum Plant, in which Lisin was a member of the board of directors.
(The Lone Shooter - "Russian Forbes", December 2004)

But then he quite quietly (at least without shooting) broke up with his former companions. By then, the position of the TWG group had plummeted. It is noteworthy that the fall of the group occurred a few months after Oleg Soskovets with a scandal left his post in the government of the Russian Federation. 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. During the division of the business, it seized control of NLMK.

In November 2005, the Ruben brothers from Great Britain filed a lawsuit against Lisin, claiming that he had gained control of NLMK, secretly transferring shares from the management of the nominal holder to the control of his own company. However, this judicial story quickly ended. Lisin was able to resolve the conflict peacefully, calling for help Oleg Deripaska and Vladimir Potanin. The first prevented the Cherny brothers from going bankrupt. The second did not prevent Lisin from buying foreign shares of NLMK (Potanin owned 50 percent of TWG).

However, they still say that Lisin is only the nominal owner of all the "factories, ships, ships." Allegedly, the patron Soskovets, the Cherny brothers, and, together with them, the Izmaylovskaya organized crime group, which in the 90s "roofed" and "milked" NLMK, still stand behind it. It is believed that Lisin in the interests of the Izmaylovsky bandits acquired the Moscow plant "Rubin" and DC named after Gorbunova, better known as the "pinkie". Izmailovsky authority Anton Malevsky earned an income of up to $ 15 million. A certain Aksen also looked after the Izmailovsky shares, after the death of Malevsky (he was fond of exotic sports) he headed the organized crime group.
("Steel was bought this way. Metallurgical oligarch Vladimir Lisin knows how to shoot in every sense" - Stringer, 03/13/2002; "Lipetsk rigging" - Interlocutor, 10/15/2008)

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

Lisin has repeatedly clashed with the Lipetsk governor. The last conflict occurred in 2008, when Lisin claimed the governorship. By the way, Lisin has been striving for a 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 once again run for the gubernatorial elections, but the businessman backtracked - according to Kommersant’s information, Lisin felt that the Kremlin would support Oleg Korolev. The parties even signed a settlement agreement. Korolev pledged to end the information war against NLMK, Lisin - not to run for governor.
(Kommersant, February 19, 2002)

But in 2008, the oligarch still decided to catch up. However, the matter was not only in unrealized ambitions. It was said that Lisin, having gone to the gubernatorial elections, tried to get out of Izmailovsky’s control, which, after the death of his leader Malevsky, began to behave especially impudently. They even said that, like in the "good old" times, lads in jeeps came to the plant, demanding to leave the plant, as well as hand over the management of the company Rumelko (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 workers. Lisin conducted the election campaign on the verge of a foul. One of the pre-election episodes almost cost the governor Queen of the chair. On November 7, during a rally in the central square of Lipetsk, two unidentified men began stamping their feet on the Russian flag. Directly opposite the rostrum on which Korolev stood, the flag was burned. The governor's amazed face was shown throughout the country. The comment was one - Korolev does not control the situation in his field. As it turned out later, the vandals who had abused the flag turned out to be NLMK employees who acted on behalf of certain image makers Lisin. 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 got an audience with Putin, he proved 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 company profitably, but he did not pay off loans to the state). As a result, the billionaire limited himself to the role of the "gray cardinal" of the region.

Lisin never went to 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 affairs Vladimir Kozhin. Their friendship began at the Higher Commercial School of the Academy of Foreign Trade, in which Kozhin and Lisin studied back in Soviet times.

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

Vladimir Sergeyevich Lisin is an oligarch who made a billionaire fortune in steel and cargo transportation, the head of the industry giant, Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant (NLMK), the owner of the USL corporation, the Lisya Nora sports 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 Trans-World Group, an international provider of multimodal integrated logistics services, and a member of the collective leadership of many specialized companies.

Childhood and the family of Vladimir Lisin

The future tycoon of metallurgy was born in the city of Ivanovo on May 7, 1956. In school, he studied well, was a calm, persistent and somewhat withdrawn child. In 1973, a 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.


At the end of the university in 1978, the young specialist was sent to Tula at a metallurgical plant, where at first he worked as a steelworker, and then became the deputy head of the workshop. In addition to practical activities, the enterprising engineer was engaged in scientific work - in 1984 he graduated from Kharkov in postgraduate study at UkrNIImet.

Career development of Vladimir Lisin

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


Since 1993, he has been a business partner in the TWG (Trans-World Group) of the Rubenov and Cherny clans. As a representative of this company since 1993, he has been on the Supervisory Boards of a number of large specialized plants - Magnitogorsk, Krasnoyarsk, NLMK, Bratsk, Novokuznetsk aluminum smelters.

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

Business of Vladimir Lisin

After the resonant resignation of Soskovets from the post of deputy prime minister (who oversaw 14 ministries), TWG broke up. At that time, the businessman owned 13 percent of NLMK’s shares, and in TWG - 34 percent. His former partners intended to bankrupt the company and sell it, sharing the profit. However, Lisin decided to intercept a controlling stake in the plant.


He established an offshore company, Worslade Trading, and conducted financial transactions through it during the export of metal. Then, as if in agreement with Vladimir Potanin (his structures controlled the shares of foreign investors, including American George Soros and one of the richest New Zealand residents Chandler brothers), he redeemed their 50 percent stake and became the owner of a 63 percent stake. Since 1998, he became the head of the HLMK.

Vladimir Sergeyevich unexpectedly sold his shares in TWG to Potanin. Lisin decided not to buy them at an unreasonably high cost, and 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 insidious, Potanin's partner. In 2001, he again surprised - stopped unfriendly actions and yielded disputed securities at the price of their purchase.


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

Vladimir Lisin - "I Dream" to sell NLMK

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

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 is referred to persons who are not inclined to advertise family information, for example, there is no data on the profession of parents, age and occupation of children in the global network. 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 over 10 years. She owns the chamber gallery of the Seasons painting, located at the Sretensky Boulevard metro station in Moscow. It often hosts interesting exhibitions, usually works from private private collections.

The idea to engage in collecting paintings came from her after her husband gave her the work of the original artist of the genre Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. In an interview, she admitted that she constantly strives to expand her circle of knowledge in the field of art, exalting the world of our being.


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


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

Vladimir Lisin today

After the financial difficulties associated with the crisis, in 2010, the tycoon, able to think globally and make the right decisions, was again able to increase the financial performance of NLMK. In 2011, with a capital of $ 24 billion, he became the most wealthy man in the Russian Federation.


In 2012, the oligarch completed the purchase of state shares of the domestic railway carrier - “First Freight Company”, including it in its UCL logistics concern. The company has 3 divisions - railway, stevedore and shipping, and combines the seaport of the Northern capital, the shipyard in Shlisselburg, Leningrad region, Oksky shipyard and others. The deal was valued at $ 5.8 billion.

The oligarch is a supporter of the association of metallurgical companies. In particular, earlier, together with Alexander Abramov, head of the Nizhny Tagil MK (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 Sports Shooting Organization (ISSF), in 2014, he became its vice president, and also held a similar position in the Russian Olympic Committee. He is also the head of the Russian Shooting Union, the European Shooting Confederation (ESC).

Who does not know the name Vladimir Lisin in Russia 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 has earned all his money with his mind and work.

First job duties

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

Then he was enrolled in the Siberian Metallurgical Institute at the foundry faculty. After graduating from the institute in 1979, he received a degree in metallurgical engineering. Vladimir’s career was quite intense and began as an electrician in 1975 at a coal mine in Kuzbass.

In 1978 he became assistant steelmaker at the Tula plant (NPO Tulachermet). After some time, he holds the position of deputy head of the workshop. The desire to learn and discover something new, these qualities made it possible to complete the graduate school of the Ukrainian Research Institute of Metallurgy in 1984.

At work, he was constantly promoted, as a result of which in 1989 Vladimir Lisin became the deputy head of the workshop in Karaganda. 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 of the Trans World Group and is a member of the Board of Directors in the Novolipetsk, Krasnoyarsk, Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works and the Novokuznetsk Aluminum Plant. But Vladimir does not stop there, he understands that it is necessary to achieve new heights in business. He devotes more and more time to studying. In 1994, he graduated from the Academy of National Economy and became chairman of the board of directors in the SAZ. Then he completes doctoral studies at the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys.

Purchase of shares of the Novolipetsk plant

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

This was what Vladimir was doing, although this metal was much cheaper, but the company received its good regular income. All these events led to a break with Trans World Group. All income goes to a foreign company. Gradually, Lisin bought up the shares of large Russian enterprises, thereby acquiring controlling stakes. As a result, he becomes the owner of NLMK.

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 damaged 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, carries out various changes in his business.

And by 2010, he became the richest man in Russia. According to Finance magazine, his fortune was more than $ 18 billion, and in 2011 $ 24 billion. Are you interested in the stories of the richest people? Then we recommend reading an article about a successful entrepreneur.

Current success

He is currently a successful businessman, owns the metallurgical company OJSC NLMK, the owner of UCL Holding, which consists of the seaports of St. Petersburg, Tuapse, Taganrog, the first freight company. It is a shareholder of Zenit Bank. Doctor of Economic and Technical Sciences. Lisin is the author of books, patents of the invention, many publications. Winner of a large number of 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 products. Now his collection is more than 200 exhibits. He is 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 a master of sports, an honorary metallurgist of the Russian Federation, an honorary citizen of the city of Lipetsk. He was awarded the Order of Honor.

He is engaged in charity work and makes a lot of investments in the Russian economy. Vladimir keeps his personal life a secret. It is known that Lisin is an ideal family man, has three sons, his wife is beautiful and has always been 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 person who is only interested in money, for which he will stop at nothing. That he is one of those who acquired state property for next to nothing in the 1990s.
But it is precisely such people that Russian society needs, which 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 Count Monte Cristo himself, is divided between where he has his own castle and Russia, where, in addition to the metallurgical giant that he owns, he still has a special place with the ironic and somewhat unusual name “Fox Nora". It is here, in the Fox Hole, tired of numbers, calculations, faces, names and smiles, that the famous one puts on soundproof headphones over an ordinary baseball cap, charges his rifle with a firm hand and, as if defying the sky, accurately shoots at his serene height ...

Childhood of Lisin Vladimir

Vladimir Sergeevich Lisin was born on 05/07/1956. in the city of Ivanovo. Somewhat later, the family moved to Novokuznetsk. From an early age, the boy was laconic, focused and somewhat closed - a child and an old man in one person. The childhood was calm, which cannot but upset the lovers of delving into other people's crypts. For people who are distinguished by a very rich imagination, all the time it seems that it was Lisin’s childhood that kept the most secret secrets. However, it is stupid to look for a black cat in a dark room, especially if she is not there.

Vladimir studied well at school, and those things that he chose in childhood, later became his travel companions for life. So, at the age of 12, Lisin took up arms for the first time - a rifle from a school shooting gallery. Since then, he never betrayed his passion - shooting sports. Today Lisin considers shooting to be the best means that can make a person concentrate, but at the same time think nothing, because shooting accurately is impossible if one does not free one's head from unnecessary thoughts.

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

How Lisin became an oligarch

In total, the fate of Lisin Vladimir Sergeyevich was attended by some predetermination. His childhood and youth passed in the city of metallurgists - Novokuznetsk, in which there was, in principle, nothing to choose for himself the sphere of self-realization and interests. Therefore, the future entered the Siberian Metallurgical Institute, after which he acquired the specialty of metallurgical engineer. It is interesting that Lisin earned his first big money (almost 1000 rubles) in his student years, honestly working in the construction team at BAM. After graduating from the institute, Lisin got to Tula by distribution, where he began working at the Tulachermet NGO, and went through a difficult path from an ordinary steelmaker to deputy shop manager.

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

Not much time passed as 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 successful deal with the American company Trans Commodities, after which they started a joint business. They were the first to put on a large scale the so-called “tolling”, the essence of which is a virtuoso bypass of the customs regime and taxes.

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

In 1995 after a series of contract killings, the TWG disintegration began, and while the competitors fought, the cautious Lisin looked after the Novolipetsk Steel Plant for himself and began to slowly buy up its shares. Having gained 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 of 1998-1999, but in 2000 it turned into profitable production. And in 2003, Lisin Vladimir first appeared in the notorious Forbes magazine ranking, where he took sixth place among Russian billionaires. Today, Lisin’s fortune is estimated at approximately $ 15-16 billion.

The life of a quiet oligarch Lisin

Lisin Vladimir Sergeevich leads a quiet life, and even, paradoxically, it sounds modest. He prefers wars and business shooting on plates (by the way, issued 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 is hardly a “new Russian”, in fact, he is a great worker, 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 passion is books, a collection of Kasli cast iron, which the oligarch has been collecting for many years, and shooting sports. But Lisin considers his own family to be his most important asset: his wife Lyudmila and three sons - Alexander, Dmitry and Vyacheslav.

As for material goods, the only truly expensive purchase of Lisin is only an estate in Scotland, surrounded by a quiet, virgin nature. But this acquisition can only be connected with the desire to hide from prying eyes and fully enjoy privacy, because in Scotland, Vladimir needs to go beyond the threshold, as you can already start hunting or just take a walk in the graceful 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, sky, air, sea are the same for everyone, regardless of the amount of money,” he argues, and this is hard to argue with.

 

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