Entrepreneurship is one of the most complex and labor-intensive areas of activity. In order to succeed in it, you need to give everything of yourself, spend all your free time on work and constantly think only about the success of the work you have begun. In such conditions, many successful entrepreneurs and people who have just begun to take the first steps towards their success do not have time even for their closest people, let alone any third-party activities like hobbies or education.
However There are people who have a natural talent to do everything. They are engaged in business, devote time to their personal hobbies and education, and do not forget about the family. One of the richest entrepreneurs in Russia, Leonid Fedun, can be safely attributed to such people.
This man has reached great heights in his life, largely due to the fact that he is a very active and capable entrepreneur. He also advanced highly in military service and has been a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences for over 20 years. But first things first.
Education
His education was primarily military, as he graduated from a military school (Rostov), and then enteredpostgraduate course at the academy. F. E. Dzerzhinsky, where he remained to teach. There he also defended his Ph. D. thesis and became a candidate of philosophical sciences.
However, Leonid Arnoldovich Fedun did not complete his education on this. After receiving his PhD, he became interested in entrepreneurship and graduated from the Higher School of Entrepreneurship and Privatization in 1993.
Leonid Fedun met his future partner and one of the founders of the Lukoil concern, Vagit Alekperov, in 1987, and after graduation, he took the position of vice president of this company.
LUKOIL
Leonid Fedun and Vagit Alekperov met at one of the lectures for oil workers, which the hero of the article read in Kogalym. Fedun had not yet begun his studies at a special school, and Alekperov already had ideas about Lukoil in his head. Since 1991, the partners began active work on the creation of this concern, and by 1994 it was already functioning stably. Leonid Arnoldovich Fedun, after graduating from training, was appointed vice president of the company.
Leonid Fedun's contribution to the development of Lukoil will be difficult to overestimate. He is a very talented businessman. As soon as he took his position, the company began to actively develop. Largely thanks to his initiatives.
At the moment, Leonid Arnoldovich Fedun continues to work at Lukoil, but now he is in charge of strategic analysis and investment. In addition, Fedun, of course, is on the boarddirectors as one of the founders and the most significant people for the development of the company, owning 10% of the shares.
Spartak Football Club
Leonid Arnoldovich Fedun has been fond of football since childhood, and Moscow Spartak has always been his favorite club. In 2003, the team was almost on the verge of complete bankruptcy. For FC, this meant leaving the main Russian Premier League and the almost complete loss of the main players and coaching staff, since there was nothing to pay salaries.
At this difficult moment, Fedun Leonid Arnoldovich, whose family, like him, supported Spartak, invested a lot of money in the team, becoming its owner and providing the necessary funding. This actually saved the football club. He changed a lot, began to perform consistently in the Premier League and win medals. Leonid Fedun is still the owner of FC Spartak.
Private life
No matter how rich Fedun Leonid Arnoldovich is, his biography does not contain any high-profile scandals. He married only once and is still married to his wife, who bore him two children.
In conclusion
The value of entrepreneurship for the country as a whole is not only that businessmen pay high taxes. It is also in the fact that many of them, having achieved success, start doing charity work.
Leonid Fedun founded several charitable foundations and still supports their activities, so people like him really deserve attention and respect.
Now, despite the age of 60, Fedun Leonid Arnoldovich maintains a good state of he alth, actively doing business and charity. He is on the 22nd line in the list of the richest people in Russia with an income of $3,900 million.
