And the gray cardinal of Russian business, the smartest of the rich and the richest of the smart. And this is all about him, Alexander Mamut - a man of legend.
Alexander Leonidovich Mamut is a native Muscovite. The businessman was born into an intelligent Jewish family in January 1960. Parents - professional lawyers. Father Leonid Solomonovich Mamut, Doctor of Law and Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation, is known for being the drafter of the new Constitution of Russia. Mom Tsitsiliya Lyudvigovna is a successful lawyer, she also acted as the head of the family and the center for making strategic decisions.
At first, the Mamutov family lived in a communal apartment on Taganka. There was enough space for everyone in one room, where grandmother lived with two generations. Then living conditions improved, and the family moved to the Stalinist house on Semenovskaya.
As a child, Alexander loved reading and socializing. Mamut gave preference to humanitarian subjects. He graduated from a prestigious metropolitan school, where he studied English in depth.
The son followed in the footsteps of his parents and also chose law. Having received a school certificate, Alexander Mamut entered Moscow State University and in 1982 became a student at the Faculty of Law.
Business
Having received a diploma from Moscow State University, the young lawyer began to build a career. Alexander received his first experience in the legal industry in a printing house, where he got a job as a legal adviser. Then no one even guessed that this young guy would soon turn into a media mogul. For 4 years, Mamut prepared and continued his studies in graduate school.
Vnesheconombank became the second place of work. According to Alexander Leonidovich, each person is obliged to constantly move forward and develop. This life principle, adopted in early youth, proved to be very effective. Already at the age of 30, Mamut became the founder of a legal bureau, which he called "ALM-consulting". The abbreviation of the first three letters is the initials of the name of the entrepreneur.
A few years later, the biography of Alexander Mamut received new bright pages in various industries: now, in addition to the banking sector, the businessman was known in trade, telecommunications, oil and publishing.
In the first decade of the 2000s, a banker, lawyer and financier became a board member of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. In close partnership with and Mamut establishes charitable foundation promotion of science and is one of the founders of CJSC Channel Six.
It seems that there are fewer and fewer industries in the country in which Alexander Mamut has not declared himself. In 2005, Mamut joined the Board of Trustees of the Praktika Theater, and a year later he opened his own restaurant, The Most.
In 2008, Alexander Leonidovich becomes the owner of the Euroset retailer. In the same year, Mamut entered the Forbes list and took a place among the richest people peace. In a similar Russian list in 2015, the Russian oligarch is in 36th position.
Mamut's empire continues to grow in different directions and spheres, and the state from a millionth to a billionth is rapidly transforming. Businessman buys British book chain Waterstones, acquires securities Nomos Bank and a 60% stake in Spar, a Dutch grocery chain.
The media empire of the entrepreneur is growing especially rapidly. Mamut received stakes in SUP companies (SUP), which bought out the Live Journal blogging service, Oriel Resources Plc, International Logistics Partnership and Corbina Telecom. The businessman has shares in the Atticus publishing group, the Bookbury bookstore chain, the Holiday Classic chain and the Mirumir film company.
In 2014, Alexander Mamut becomes the CEO of the Group of Companies, which includes about 50 Rambler & Co projects. The tycoon's fortune grows with a gold and silver mining company called Polymetal, where Mamut is the main shareholder.
In 2015, the oligarch's fortune was estimated at $ 2.5 billion. Alexander Mamut took 36th place in the list of the richest businessmen in Russia, compiled by Forbes magazine.
Personal life
The oligarch was married twice. The first wife of a businessman was a former classmate Maria Gnevisheva. In this marriage, a son, Peter, and a daughter, Esther, were born. But in 1993, the personal life of Alexander Mamut changed dramatically. He met a woman who is said to have been his first love during his school days. But then Nadezhda Lyamina preferred her grandson, Andrei, to Alexander.
When they met again, both had families and children. But now it was no longer an obstacle to their love. They divorced and created a strong family, in which a common son, Nikolai, was born. The sons of Nadezhda from their first marriage, Leonid and Dmitry, were given an excellent education by their stepfather.
In 2002, Nadezhda Lyamina passed away: the woman fell ill with pneumonia and suddenly passed away. Alexander Mamut did not marry again, but a lot was written about his novels in the press.
Rumor has it that the media mogul caused two ruined marriages. Allegedly for the sake of relations with Mamut, the daughter of the famous director left her husband. So did the model, who left her husband Arkady Volk because of the billionaire. But Mamut did not call any of the named women as his wife.
The businessman was also credited with an affair with the wife of the Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. Alexander Mamut was often seen in the company of a woman, and evil tongues began to spread rumors about both love affairs and complex financial conspiracies between the oligarchs.
Sources close to Polina claimed that a woman could not divorce for fear that her ex-husband would transfer millions of debts to her, but she had not loved her husband for a long time. Journalists considered a possible romance from different angles, but soon the rumors, not supported by any development of events, died down as expected.
Alexander Mamut now
In 2017, Mamut's business network caused intense customer dissatisfaction. The billionaire owns two largest networks cinemas in Russia "Cinema Park" and "Formula Kino", as well as the service for selling tickets to the cinemas "Rambler.Kassa", also one of the largest in the country.
In 2017, after the entrepreneur bought cinema chains, Rambler.Kassa increased prices for all sessions by 10%, which caused misunderstanding and dissatisfaction with both viewers and distributors. Moreover, the above networks have stopped working with another major online ticketing service. At the same time, on the official websites of cinemas, the price of tickets available for online purchase was also shown with an extra charge.
Moreover, the distributors were outraged not even by the extra charge itself, but by the fact that the service decided not to share additional earnings with rental companies. According to established practice, cinemas and film distribution companies share the profit from ticket sales in half.
The distributor Universal Pictures International even stated that it was no longer ready to cooperate with the cinema chain on such terms. As a result, a number of the distributor's films were never shown in Cinema Park and Formula Kino cinemas. These are the films "Made in America", "The Snowman" and others. At the same time, experts agree that because of such a boycott, Universal will lose much more than the cinema chain.
At the end of January 2018, Alexander Mamut, or rather the Centromobile-Pioneer company, owned by the investment company of the oligarch A&NN Investments, bought a building on Kutuzovsky Prospekt in Moscow. This is the Pioneer cinema building, which Mamut's company had previously rented from the state for several years.
Mamut acquired Centromobile-Pioneer itself in order to obtain the right to lease the building of the cinema, which was practically closed in 2008. The lease term was set until 2017, and in 2017 extended until 2026.
At the same time, the purchase, which transferred the Pioneer cinema completely to the ownership of Alexander Mamut, took place less than a week after the premiere of the scandalous picture. The Pioneer cinema became the only cinema in Russia where, despite the ban on the film and the revocation of its distribution certificate, The Death of Stalin was screened. The cinema showed the film for two days and canceled screenings only when the Ministry of Culture directly promised sanctions to Pioneer.
Condition assessment
As you know, in addition to banks, most of the entrepreneur's assets are directly related to media, culture and art.
The cinema chain, owned by Alexander Mamut, owns about 600 screens, which is 18% of the total number of screens in the country, and an average of 20% of the film box office. In addition, the billionaire owns a large share of the Russian book business: the publishing group "Atticus", which brought together under its leadership the publishing houses "Makhaon", "Hummingbird" and "Foreigner", as well as a network of bookstores "Bookbury" and "Azbuka".
In 2017, the entrepreneur’s fortune was again estimated at $ 2.5 billion, but this time Mamut went down a couple of lines in the Forbes ranking of the richest businessmen in Russia and settled in 40th place.
A family
Father - Leonid Solomonovich Mamut, Doctor of Law, Honored Lawyer of the Russian Federation, one of the drafters of the new Russian Constitution. Mother - Tsitsily Lyudvigovna, lawyer.
Alexander Mamut is a widower after his second marriage. Has five children: his own son Nikolai, two adopted sons from the first marriage of his second wife Nadezhda Brezhneva- Leonid and Dmitry Brezhnev (great-grandchildren of L. I. Brezhnev) - and twins, who were born in 2013.
Biography
In 1982 he graduated Faculty of Law Lomonosov Moscow State University.
In 1990, Mamut created law firm"ALM-Consulting" and became one of the founders of JSCB "Business and Cooperation" (since March 1991 - bank "Imperial").
In 1993, Mamut took over as chairman of the board of CB Project Finance Company (KOPF).
The businessman himself believes that the entrepreneur helped him to earn solid money Andrey Melnichenko who invited him to work in MDM Bank. It was with his filing that Alexander Leonidovich began to succeed, and after a few years he turned into a large and influential businessman.
In the early 1990s, Mamut began to enter the inner circle Yeltsin, and he was accompanied by such famous figures as Valentin Yumashev, , Tatyana Dyachenko.
In the second half of the 1990s, Mamut appeared in the press as a "special confidant" Boris Berezovsky.
In 1998, Mamut was mentioned in the press as a member of the board of directors "Sobinbank". In the same year, he became an adviser on economic issues in the presidential administration of the Russian Federation, and in 1999 he took the post of a freelance adviser to the head of the presidential administration of the Russian Federation.
In 1999, Mamut was the founder of a number of companies - Naley LLC, Olla CJSC, Old Building Technology CJSC, Sibtrest CJSC, Slavyanka LLC and Clyft CJSC.
In August 1999, Mamut was elected chairman supervisory board MDM Bank ("Moscow Business World"). A little later, Mamut appeared in the media as a co-owner "Seventh Continent", and the network was mentioned among the major clients of MDM Bank.
In July 2000, Mamut joined the board of directors of an insurance company "RESO-Garantia". In the same year, Mamut was elected to the board Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs(RSPP).
At the same time, he is with Roman Abramovich and decides to create Foundation for the Promotion of National Science, which becomes the beginning of his affairs in the field of patronage.
In February 2001, Mamut joined the Council for Entrepreneurship under the Cabinet of Ministers. In the same year working group The bureau of the RSPP under the leadership of Mamut presented the theses of the reform of the banking system of Russia, which was never implemented.
In May 2002, Mamut became a co-owner of an investment company "Troika Dialog"(according to some reports, the deal amounted to about $60 million). In the summer of the same year, Mamut headed the board of directors of the company.
In December 2003, information appeared that three shareholders of Troika, including Mamut, were negotiating the sale of their shares in the company to another group of shareholders headed by Ruben Vardanyan.
In 2005, Vedomosti called Mamut one of the shareholders OSAO "Ingosstrakh"(According to the publication, in July Mamut's share in Ingosstrakh was almost 40%).
In October 2005, the businessman left the post of chairman of the board of directors of Troika Dialog Management Company and for the first time entered the board of directors of Ingosstrakh.
In 2007, Mamut sold his stake in Ingosstrakh joint venture the Italian financial group Generali Group and the Czech financial group PPF Investments.
In 2005, Mamut was first mentioned as a co-owner of a chain of bookstores. "Bookbury"(about 36% of shares).
In December 2005, it became known that Mamut acquired the shares of a telecom operator "Corbina Telecom"(CJSC "Kortek").
In May 2007, after the completion of the transaction for the sale of a controlling stake (51%) of Corbina Telecom to the Russian telecommunications company Golden Telecom, Mamut became chairman of the board of directors of Corbina.
As of April 2008, Mamut owned all the shares of the Cypriot company Inure Enterprises, which owns a 49% stake in Corbina Telecom.
In September 2006, Mamut was mentioned in publications devoted to the activities of the International Logistics Partnership holding (according to some reports, "structures close to him" owned approximately 30% of the company's shares).
In November 2006, Mamut became the owner of the publishing group "Foreigner", which includes the publishing houses "Foreigner" and "Hummingbird", as well as the book distributor "Libri". It was reported that together with the publishing house "Makhaon" already owned by Mamut, they would be merged into the Atticus Publishing group, and the financier himself confirmed that he would head its board of directors.
In December 2006 the shareholders British company Oriel Resources Plc approved a reverse takeover deal with structures controlled by Mamut and co-owner of the ICT group Alexander Nesis, as a result of which entrepreneurs, according to experts, after the completion of the transaction may become owners of 63.3% of the company's shares.
In May 2007, Mamut and an independent producer, one of the founders of the television company "ViD" Alexander Lyubimov, registered a joint film company "Mirumir" and announced their intention to shoot films "at the junction of art-house and commercial cinema."
In July 2007, Mamut was mentioned in the media as a co-owner of a network operating in the Novosibirsk, Tomsk regions and Altai Territory. "Holiday Classic". There were also reports of a merger of this chain with the Kemerovo chain Kora and the forthcoming acquisition of eight supermarkets of the Novokuznetsk chain Leader (the combined company's expected turnover in 2007 was to be more than $600 million).
In the summer of 2006, Mamut and the businessman Andrew Paulson created a company "Soup" (SUP) and became its shareholders, having received 90% of the shares.
In October 2006, Soup and Six Apart (the owner of the American blogging service LiveJournal) announced a strategic partnership, as a result of which Soup received the right to develop Learn in all countries using the Cyrillic alphabet.
In December 2007, Soup became the owner of all LiveJournal(the amount of the transaction was not disclosed).
In May 2008, Atticus Publishing merged with the Azbuka publishing house, as a result of which the Mamuta group became the only holding company in Russia that owns a publishing company and a printing complex.
In June 2008 "Soup" and the publishing house "Kommersant" agreed to expand their partnership and exchanged online assets, as a result of which Kommersant received up to 50% of Sup and the ability to appoint two members of the company's board, and Sup became the owner of 100% of the online publication "Gazeta.ru".
In September 2008, it became known that the investment company ANN, controlled by Mamut, acquired from Evgeniya Chichvarkina and Timur Artemyev 100% of the company's shares Euroset- Russia's largest seller of cell phones.
In October 2008, Mamut's structures sold 49.9% of Euroset to VimpelCom.
In July 2009, Mamuta ANN acquired control of a 61% stake in Spar Moscow Holding, which owned grocery stores Spar, opened in Russia under the license of the Dutch trading network of the same name.
In 2009, for a symbolic $1, Alexander Mamut bought football club "Torpedo-ZIL".
In 2009 he became the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Institute of Media, Architecture and Design "Arrow", as well as its main sponsor. The goal of the Institute is to change the landscape of Russian cities. Strelka offers free curriculum in urban planning and urban development English language for specialists with higher education, free summer program public events, Strelka Press publishing house. The Institute also participated in the development of a renovation model Gorky Park.
In 2014, Strelka became the curator of the Russian pavilion at the XIV International Architecture Biennale in Venice, receiving a Special Mention.
Became a shareholder in 2011 Nomos Bank.
In May 2011, A&NN Capital Fund Management Limited, a trust-controlled company in which Alexander Mamut holds a stake, acquires the British bookstore chain Waterstone's. In December 2012, he became the sole owner (100% of shares) of SUP Media.
In April 2014, the managing shareholder of the Rambler&Co group of companies (formerly a combined company "Afisha-Rambler-SUP") Alexander Mamut personally led the group in the status of General Director.
He is a shareholder of Polymetal with a 9.2% stake, on September 10, 2014 he increased his stake in the silver producer Polymetal by 0.9% and brought it to 10.13% of the shares.
In January 2015, Mamut began looking for a partner in the company LLC "Khariaga", which owns two licenses for exploration and production of oil in the Krasnoyarsk Territory through Cyprus offshore companies.
On February 24, 2015, Mamut transferred his 3.6% stake in silver producer Polymetal to his children - 15.1 million shares (3.6%) of Polymetal were transferred under the control of A & NN Capital Management Fund Limited, the beneficiaries of which are the children of billionaire Nikolai Mamut, Petr Mamut and Esther Mamut. The cost of this package on the London Stock Exchange is about 87.7 million pounds ($136 million).
In October 2015 Alexander Mamut and Alena Vladimirskaya presented a recruiting project Find. As conceived by the owner of the investment fund ANN and creator of the Internet hunting project Pruffy new company will be engaged in the selection of top managers and key employees for Russian companies abroad. Fynd office is already open in USA.
"I believe that Russian scientists and specialists should return and work in their homeland", - said Mamut.
Income
In March 2008, Forbes included Mamut for the first time in the list of the richest people on the planet.
In 2012, the businessman occupied the 601st place in it with a fortune of 2.1 billion US dollars. Representatives of the business community noted that Mamut is primarily a financier: he prefers to invest in a variety of industries and does not seek to create any serious structure.
In 2014, according to Forbes, Mamut's fortune was estimated at 2,3 billion dollars. In the rating of "The richest businessmen of Russia" he took 42 line.
Alexander Leonidovich Mamut is a businessman, media mogul. In 2015, his fortune was estimated at $ 2.5 billion. Since 2008, he has been included in the Forbes list of the wealthiest people in the world. In a similar domestic list of the two hundred richest entrepreneurs in 2012, he occupied the 40th position, in 2015 - the 36th.He was a co-owner or owner of many companies. Among them are the Rambler&Co group of companies, the Euroset retailer, Corbina Telecom, mining companies Oriel Resources Plc, Polymetal, the Pioneer cinema, the Atticus publishing group, the Strelka Institute, the Praktika Theater, night club The Most and others.
In the media, Mamut is spoken of, on the one hand, as an intelligent, intelligent, modest, benevolent and outstanding person, on the other hand, as a complete cynic, adventurer and hypocrite, capable of betraying with ease and with feigned horror in his eyes.
The childhood of Alexander Mamut
The future billionaire was born on January 29, 1960 in Moscow in an intelligent family. His mother, Tsitsily Lyudvigovna, was a lawyer and the head of the family - she made decisions that could not be appealed. Papa, Leonid Solomonovich, had a more accommodating character and was mainly engaged in scientific research in the field of the theory of state and law. He had degree Doctor of Law and was one of the compilers of Boris Yeltsin's speeches and the draft Constitution of the Russian Federation. 
Their family, together with one of the grandmothers, lived in a communal apartment on Taganka in the same room. As a child, Sasha was very fond of reading, fortunately in their house there was good library. He studied well, giving preference to literature and language, but had an explosive character.
And, interestingly, he loved to go to school, but not so much for the sake of knowledge, but because of the desire and opportunity to communicate. Later, Mamut noted that he was in favor of teaching schoolchildren not isolated facts, for example, the names of the planets or capitals of all countries, but the ability to build relationships with people, make a career, make friends.
Study of Alexander Mamut
In 1977, the young man graduated from high school and entered the law faculty of Moscow State University. The choice of another specialty was out of the question in a family where conversations were only on legal and political topics. Due to the presence of a military department at the university, Sasha did not serve in the army. After graduating, he worked as a legal adviser in a printing house for 4 years.During this time, Alexander, as a lawyer, gained experience, prepared himself and entered graduate school. Then he went to work at Vnesheconombank.
In an interview, Mamut noted that, according to his firm conviction, every person must constantly develop, move and believe that the best is sure to come. He also believes that a romantic relationship is a joint run, and the withering of love occurs when one of the couple begins to slow down.
The beginning of entrepreneurial activity of Alexander Mamut
At the age of 30, an aspiring businessman founded a law office called ALM and ALM-consulting. The name consists of the entrepreneur's own initials. Then, raising the bar, he created the bank "Lefortovsky", "Business and Cooperation" (later "Imperial"), the Commercial Bank "Project Finance Company" and others. 
After 3 years, he became a co-owner of the Seventh Continent network. In 1998 he founded ALM-development and also became an adviser to the head of the administration of the head of state.
At the beginning of the millennium, he was engaged in business in various fields - banking, trading, telecommunications, financial, oil, publishing. In particular, Alexander was a member of the management of MDM-Bank, Sobinbank, insurance and investment companies Ingosstrakh, RESO-Garantia, Troika Dialog.
Business of Alexander Mamut
In 2000-2008 Mamut became a member of the board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP). In 2001, in partnership with Roman Abramovich and Oleg Deripaska, he established the charitable Foundation for the Promotion of Science. A year later, he became one of the founders of Channel Six CJSC.Alexander Mamut and Alexei Kudrin: From the oil needle to human capital
In 2005, Alexander became the head of the board of trustees of the theater of the new drama Praktika, a year later he opened The Most restaurant in Moscow. In 2008, he acquired the Euroset retailer, bought and reconstructed the Pioneer cinema, and in 2009, he was the main sponsor and trustee of the Strelka media institute.
Personal life of Alexander Mamut
The media mogul was married twice, from two marriages he has 5 children. These are Nikolai, Peter, daughter Esther and adopted sons Leonid and Dmitry.The first wife of Alexander was his classmate Maria Gnevisheva. True, he was in love with another girl from school, Nadezhda Lyamina. She became his second wife. She graduated with honors from high school, and then from MGIMO.
Their romance began in 1993, and the fact that both of them already had families did not stop him. Alexander felt sympathy for Nadezhda from his young school years, but the girl then preferred Andrey, Leonid Brezhnev's grandson, to him and gave birth to two sons, Leonid and Dmitry, in marriage with him.
They met by chance in 1993, which was the beginning of their long and warm relationship. After the divorces, they got married and lived in love and friendship. In marriage, their common son Nikolai was born, Alexander also took care and gave an excellent education to his wife's children from his first marriage. Nikolay studied at the Moscow School of Economics, and higher education received in the UK.
However, the family idyll ended in 2002, when Nadezhda fell ill with pneumonia and passed away.
After her death, Alexander did not marry again, but he had romantic relationships, and it is worth noting that his passions were married women. Among his chosen ones was Anastasia, the daughter of director Pavel Chukhrai. She went to Mamut from her husband Anton Tabakov.
Then Mamut again became the reason for the divorce of his new passion, Alena Akhmadullina, with her husband Arkady Volk, with whom they lived together for 7 years. Alexander also soon lost interest in her.
Mamut is a caring son and father. He bought his parents an apartment on the Arbat with a view of the House-Museum of the sculptor Alexander Burganov, in February 2015 he transferred 3.59 percent of the shares in Polymetal to the children.
From his student years, he continues to be friends with Roman Kolodkin, who became a diplomat, and also communicates closely with Roman Abramovich. The oligarch and his wife Dasha Zhukova were among Mamut's guests at the celebration of his 55th birthday at the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center.
Interview of Alexander Mamut for Dozhd TV channel
With childhood friends, many of whom have become famous people he still communicates. Several times they almost all of the former class went on a steamboat for barbecue. Moreover, as a rule, he himself finances the events. He often plays football with his university friends.
Mamut admitted that he loves cinema, theater, books, football, cars, and travel. He spends about three months of the year abroad.
Alexander Mamut today
Continuing to adhere to the principle of constant development, in 2011 the businessman acquired the securities of Nomos Bank, then more than 60 percent of the shares of the Dutch grocery chain Spar, bought the British book chain Waterstones. In 2012, he became the sole owner of the international media firm SUP Media. 
In 2014, the tycoon became the CEO of the Group of Companies of about fifty Rambler & Co projects (including the Rambler, Gazeta.ru, Lenta.ru resource, the Championship, Afisha portals, the Kanobu.ru social network, the LiveJournal blog, the Price.ru service, the site for parents of Letidor.ru and other projects). He is also a shareholder in gold and silver mining company Polymetal.
At present, there is no need for the personal participation of representatives of the business elite in power structures. At the same time, they are in no hurry to completely withdraw from "state affairs", using this leverage to lobby their own interests. Power and business in Russia have been inextricably linked for more than a decade. A clear confirmation of this is Russian entrepreneur Mamut Alexander Leonidovich, who could easily enter the corridors of the Kremlin of the Yeltsin era. He was called the gray cardinal of domestic business. Today he is considered the largest patron of the arts, despite the fact that his personality is shrouded in veils of secrets, secrets and intrigues.
Almost every Russian has heard about the scale financial condition this mysterious oligarch, but few people know what specific amount of money the millionaire Mamut Alexander Leonidovich is turning over. Today, he has already proved that capital can and should be invested not only in plants and factories, but also in the sphere of culture.
The businessman's entourage notices that he is endowed with such a rare and valuable quality as modesty, so he does not like to talk about his achievements in business to the press. Let's try to lift the veil of this mystery.
Biography
Mamut Alexander Leonidovich was born on January 29, 1960 in Russian capital. His parents were experienced lawyers: his mother, Tsitsily Lyudvigovna, took an active part in the famous Uzbek cotton business, and his father, Leonid Solomonovich, successfully defended his doctoral dissertation.
Childhood
Little Alexander was lucky: he was sent to a special school with an English bias.
However, from childhood, he showed his character, so teachers often caused trouble, and not all sciences were given to him easily. However, he overcomes difficulties and after school decides to become a lawyer.
Student life and the beginning of a career as an entrepreneur
In 1977, he applied for the law faculty of Moscow State University, passed the entrance exams, and for five years gnawed at the granite of science.
After graduating from the university, until 1990, Mamut Alexander Leonidovich worked in one of the legal consultation offices in the metropolitan metropolis.
Having gained invaluable experience in legal practice, he decides to open his own company with the unpretentious name "ALM-Consulting". Soon, on an equal footing with businessman Andrei Gloriozov, he establishes a banking structure. At first it was known as "Business and Cooperation", and then its name was changed to JSCB "Imperial". His clients were such oil giants as Gazprom and Lukoil.
It was from this time that Alexander Leonidovich Mamut, whose photo was not yet published in the media in the early 90s, began to gradually influence the state of affairs in the country. In 1993, he headed the Design Bureau "Company for Project Finance". A year later, he becomes a member of the Committee on Entrepreneurship and Industrial Policy under the Russian government.
The businessman himself believes that an entrepreneur who invited him to work at MDM Bank helped him to earn solid money. It was with his filing that Alexander Leonidovich began to succeed, and after a few years he turned into a large and influential businessman.
Power structures are getting closer and closer
It was in the early 90s that Mamut began to enter Yeltsin's inner circle, and he was accompanied by such well-known figures as Valentin Yumashev, Roman Abramovich, Tatyana Dyachenko. Subsequently, they began to say that he was a confidant of Boris Berezovsky.
Having the opportunity to influence the policy of the state, in the mid-90s he wanted to help in settling the debt obligations that India had to Russia. However, VEB and the Ministry of Finance did not allow him to realize what he had planned.
In 1998, the businessman becomes a member of the presidential administration, while overseeing the economic development of the country. Some time later, he joins executive body JSC "Sobinbank"
In the period from 1999 to 2001, he heads the supervisory board of MDM Bank.
In 2000, he became a member of the executive body of the RESO-Garantia insurance company.
At the same time, together with Roman Abramovich and Oleg Deribaska, he decides to create a Foundation for the Promotion of National Science, and this is only the beginning of his business in the field of patronage.
In 2001, he presented a project to modernize the banking system to Russian industrialists and entrepreneurs, and a few years later he organized the merger of Atticus Publishing with the Azbuka publishing house. As a result, a structure with printing equipment appeared - this made it possible to engage in publishing more efficiently. Now he heads the company Rambler & Go.
Personal life
It should be noted that Mamut Alexander Leonidovich, whose personal life is notable for the fact that he married a woman (Nadezhda Lyamina), who was married to the grandson of the Soviet General Secretary, was not a womanizer in his youth. He went to school together with his first wife. He beat off Nadezhda Lyamina from the grandson of Brezhnev himself and soon married her. However, a tragedy soon struck: Alexander's wife died of pneumonia. She left behind three children (two of them adopted), whom he is currently raising. After some time, he became interested in a young model whom the businessman simply spoiled with luxurious gifts: what is only a pompous boutique in the center of the metropolitan metropolis worth. These are the broad gestures Alexander Mamut is ready to make for the sake of love. "The second wife of a famous businessman!" - they said surrounded by the oligarch, referring to Alena Akhmadulina. However, later the businessman's feelings for the girl cooled, and he lost all interest in her. Here he is, Mamut Alexander Leonidovich. Today he officially does not have a wife.
How rich is an oligarch
According to authoritative printed publications, which include the magazine "Finance", its financial well-being is steadily growing. According to the results of the year before last, he consistently occupied the fortieth position in the list of the richest entrepreneurs in Russia. Then experts calculated that he owns 2.1 billion dollars.
Mamut Alexander LeonidovichAlexander Mamut is a Russian entrepreneur and financier. Made a fortune by buying and reselling assets (usually minority stakes in companies) in a variety of industries: from retail to oil and gas and construction.
Assets
1993-1998 - founder, chairman of the board of CJSC " Commercial Bank Project Finance Company.
In 1998, Mamut was mentioned in the press as a member of the board of directors of Sobinbank. In the same year, he became an adviser on economic issues in the administration of the President of the Russian Federation.
1998-2001 - founder and shareholder of ALM Development.
In 1999, according to the Versiya newspaper, Mamut was the founder of a number of companies - Naley LLC, Olla CJSC, Old Building Technology CJSC, Sibtrest CJSC, Slavyanka LLC and Clyft CJSC. August of the same year, Mamut was elected Chairman of the Supervisory Board of MDM Bank ("Moscow Business World").
From 1999–2002, he headed the board of directors of MDM Bank.
In 1999, he took up the post of freelance adviser to the head of the presidential administration, Alexander Voloshin.
2002-2005 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of Troika Dialog Investment Company.
2005-2006 - Member of the Board of Directors of OSAO Ingosstrakh.
2006: Creation of the SUP Media company
Since 2006, Mamut has been in the Internet business. Then the president of the Afisha publishing house, Andrew Paulson, suggested that he jointly buy from Six Apart the rights to service the Cyrillic segment of the popular American blog platform LiveJournal. As a result, the SUP company was created, which in 2007 becomes the owner of the LiveJournal service.
Alexander Mamut believes in the prospects of LiveJournal
In 2007, he opened The Most restaurant in the center of Moscow, in 2008 he bought the rights to a long-term lease and reconstructed the Pioneer cinema on Kutuzovsky Prospekt. He is one of the founders of the Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design.
2008 - purchase by A&NN, headed by Mamut, from Yevgeny Chichvarkin and Timur Artemiev of 100 percent of the shares of Euroset. In October 2008, 49.9% of Euroset's shares were sold to Vimpelcom.
2009: Purchase of football club "Torpedo-ZIL"
In 2009, he bought the Torpedo-ZIL football club for a symbolic $ 1, at the end of the 2010 season he closed the project, the club ceased to exist.
2012: Status of $2.1 billion
2013: Consolidation of Internet assets with Vladimir Potanin
In April 2013, businessmen Alexander Mamut and Vladimir Potanin decided to merge their Internet assets - the combined company Afisha and Rambler with the company Sup Media, which owns the popular blogging service Livejournal.com and other projects. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, but it is known that Mamut will become the managing shareholder and chairman of the board of directors of the combined company. The deal was cashless, in the form of a pooling of assets. This is how the company "Afisha-Rambler-SUP" was formed, where each partner received 50%. She developed 20 projects, of which the Livejournal.com blog platform, the Rambler.ru information aggregator portal, Rambler News, online publications Lenta.ru, Gazeta.Ru, Afisha.ru and Championat had the largest audience. com, as well as the Rambler-mail service.
2014: Appointment as CEO of Rambler&Co
Until 2014, Mamut did not personally manage portfolio companies, preferring the less troublesome role of a financial investor. Attendance of Rambler & Co resources at this time is falling. The monthly audience of all sites of the holding, according to TNS Web Index, from April 2013 to April 2014 decreased by 15%, from 38.8 million to 33.6 million people. In April 2014 Alexander Mamut becomes CEO companies.
2017: Purchase of Potanin's share. Consolidation 100% in Rambler & Co
On January 16, 2017 Alexander Mamut's A&NN Investments fund announced that it became the sole owner of the media holding
