Mikhail Yuryev, politician, entrepreneur, publicist - a man of interesting fate and at the same time quite closed. Let's talk about how a successful businessman became a politician, and then a journalist and writer.
Childhood and family
Mikhail Yuriev was born on April 10, 1959 in Moscow. His family was unusual. His father, the famous science fiction writer Zinovy Yuryev, was quite popular on USSR TV, feature films were shot according to his scripts, and for many years he collaborated with the famous Crocodile magazine. However, Yuriev is not his real name. At birth, he was Greenman, but, wanting to cover up his Jewish origin, he took a new patronymic and surname. All his life, Zinovy Yuryevich emphasized his Belarusian roots. Mikhail's mother Elena Mikhailovna was a journalist. Therefore, writing was in the boy, as they say, in the blood. Mikhail grew up as an unusual child, he had a lot of talents since childhood.
Education
Mikhail Yuriev graduated from school at the age of 14, the reason for this is his undoubted talent combined with high efficiency and determination. The child prodigy was accepted with pleasure to the Moscow State University for biological studies.faculty, which he graduated in 1978.
Start in employment
After graduating from high school, 19-year-old Mikhail Yuryev comes to work at the Scientific Institute of Molecular Genetics at the USSR Academy of Sciences. For 10 years he was engaged in science, but he did not have any breakthroughs. Perhaps everything was ahead, but then social upheavals began in the country. They hit the academic infrastructure hard, research institutes lost funding and closed en masse, scientists were on the verge of poverty. Such a life did not suit the young and active Mikhail, and he decided to become an entrepreneur.
Business
In 1988, Mikhail Yuryev, whose biography is changing dramatically with perestroika, like many people in the country, read the law allowing self-employment, and decided to open his own business. He organizes the Inter cooperative, specializing in the production of chemical reagents. That is, he decided to monetize his scientific knowledge, and he succeeded, but soon he has a conflict with partners, and the cooperative breaks up. But Yuryev remains in business, his company began to engage in intermediary operations and very quickly grew into a large manufacturing enterprise. A year later, his company became one of the owners of a plant in Belarus that produced a food supplement for livestock, lysine, and then acquired several plants for the production of yeast. A year later, Yuryev creates the production association Interprom, establishes LLP Industrial GroupInterprom. His business is stable and brings in a good income, but Mikhail's seething energy and enterprise do not let him rest on his laurels, he intends to go into politics.
Later Yuryev had business interests in the insurance and banking business. In 2003, his industrial group bought a controlling stake in Azot Joint Stock Company.
Political activities
In 1992, Mikhail Yuriev, politician, businessman, headed the Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. He is a supporter of democratic reforms, an adherent of right-wing political views. For 3 years, he has served as vice president of the Union of Industrialists and has been involved in the activities of the Democratic Choice movement. In 1993, he is an active participant in the Russian Business Roundtable, an organization founded by banker Ivan Kivelidi. Yuryev was even tipped to be the Minister of Industry in the government of the Russian Federation, he had good support from industrialists and democrats behind him. But this did not happen. In 1995, on the lists of the Yabloko party, he ran for the State Duma of the second convocation and successfully won the elections. In 1996, he was elected deputy chairman of the Duma. In 1997, Yuryev again went to the polls from Yabloko, but did not get into the Duma.
Later he works in the League of Industrialists and Commodity Producers, in the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation, is a member of the Presidium of the League of Defense Enterprises.
Journalist Yuriev
In 2000, Mikhail Yuriev sharplychanges its area of activity. He parted with politics, continues to manage the business, but this does not take all his time and energy. He decides to follow in the footsteps of his parents and becomes a journalist. He writes for several magazines and newspapers, is a regular contributor to M. Leontiev's TV show "However", broadcasts "GlavRadioOnline" and "Yuryev's Day" on the radio. The topics of his programs and texts are the news of economics and politics, the international situation. His authorial journalistic style is built on irony and sarcasm.
Third Empire
In 2007, Mikhail Yuryev, whose fortune as a businessman totals more than one million rubles, publishes the book “The Third Empire. The Russia that should be. The genre is political fantasy. The author in his dystopia is trying to present a version of the alternative history of post-Soviet Russia.
