Today we will talk about Andrey Komarov, a well-known Russian politician and businessman. How did a man manage to achieve such results and at the same time remain an interesting versatile person?
Childhood
Komarov Andrei Ilyich was born in the autumn of 1966 in the city of Chelyabinsk. Some sources claim that the city of Ozersk was the birthplace of the child. Parents sent their son to a school with a mathematical bias so that the boy would grow up smart and quick-witted. In 1984, he graduates from it and becomes a student at the Moscow Institute of Chemical Engineering in the capital of Russia.
Army
In the same year, in the fall, he was called up by the ranks of the Soviet army. Whatever the guy's plans were, he had to repay his debt to the Motherland on time. There is practically no information about Komarov's stay in the service. It is only known that he successfully completed it and returned home in 1986.
First job and success
Since 1989, our hero has served as chief administrator at the Moscow Satyricon Theater. The team took the young man very cordially: he was loved and respected. This helped Andrei after some time to become an assistant director of the theater. In 1990, younga person successfully graduates from college. The following year, he gets a job in his speci alty. Komarov becomes the chief engineer at CJSC Spetsmetallkonstruktsiya, a plant that specialized in forwarding heavy special cargo for metallurgical enterprises.
From 1992 to 1996, Andrey Ilyich Komarov already personally supervised the work of commercial structures that were engaged in the forwarding of metal structures.
Until 1994, Komarov was the director of the Segment enterprise. Until 1996, he was a member of the board of directors of the Taganay Metal Werke company and was its chairman. This company specialized in the manufacture and export of metal parts and steel. At the same time, Komarov held the position of General Director of the Griff GmbH, whose head office was in Germany. Andrey Ilyich was in charge of the Russian branch. And on top of that, he served as chairman of the board of directors at the North Caucasian Transport Company.
In 1996, Andrei Ilyich was appointed deputy general director of a pipe-rolling plant in Chelyabinsk. Not wanting to lose the moment and miss his chance, Komarov begins to actively buy up the company's shares at the lowest prices. This allows him to move up the career ladder, which leads him to become Deputy General Manager. In this position, he was responsible for strategic planning. Having understood the prospects and opportunities of the company, Komarov becomes chairmanboard of directors of the pipe mill.
2000s
Andrey Komarov, whose biography is discussed in the article, did not want to waste his time. As we have already noticed, he constantly sets himself ever higher goals and successfully achieves them. The ambitions of the young man were far from being at the level of an administrator or an important deputy. This man wanted and could be the owner and manager. He wanted to rule himself, and for good reason. Komarov's organizational skills are well known. In addition, he gets along well with the team and knows how to motivate him. All these qualities were very useful to Komarov during his career growth. In 2001, a young man decides to team up with Anatoly Sedykh to run a joint business. To do this, he proposes to combine the assets of the enterprise named above.
Komarov's activities were very diverse and active, because he simultaneously held several important posts. In 2001, he is a member of the board of directors of the Vyksa Metallurgical Plant, and after that he holds the post of chairman of the board of directors in another metallurgical company. Soon Andrei Ilyich talks about his idea to create the "Alliance-1420". The purpose of this project was to produce large-sized metal pipes at the Vyksa plant. Anatoly Sedykh and Andrey Komarov got along very well as business partners. Their business was going up, which was evident from the results and liquidity of their joint business. It is known that the plans of this duo were also huge: they wanted to formalize their association legally.and go to IPO. Unfortunately, this was not destined to happen. After a year and a half of active and fruitful cooperation, which brought good profits, the partners nevertheless decided to go different paths. Incredibly, all of these events happened in just one year.
In 2002, Komarov became even more involved in his activities and took the post of co-chairman of the Pipe Industry Development Fund. A year later, Andrey Komarov becomes chairman of the board at United Pipe Plants CJSC (now ChTPZ Group). He remains in this position until 2004, and already in 2005 he becomes a member of the board of directors at the named enterprise.
The residents of Chelyabinsk saw perfectly well what success one of their fellow citizens was achieving. Komarov's affairs went up, he quickly and productively achieved his goals, each time raising the bar higher and higher. In September 2005, he begins to represent the Chelyabinsk region in the Federation Council of the Russian Federation. The decision to do so was made by the residents of the city in a vote. In 2005-2006, he appeared in the circle of members of the board of directors at the Pervouralsk New Pipe Plant. In addition to all this, from 2000 to 2010 Andrey Komarov takes an active part in the protection of nature and environmental protection, and even is a member of the government committee dedicated to these issues. Soon our hero becomes the head of the board of governors at the Center for Sustainable Energy Development.
In 2009 Andrey Komarov decides to sell the Chelyabinsk Zinc Plant. The new owners areAndrey Kozitsyn and Igor Altushkin. For this, Komarov receives state guarantees in the amount of 5 billion rubles. The reasons for the sale of the enterprise Andrey Ilyich Komarov did not disclose. There are some conjectures, but no one knows the real reasons for such an act. The possible crisis of the enterprise was hardly the reason, because it was in the prime of its economic potential.
Accusations
In the spring of 2014, employees of the Main Directorate for Combating Economic Crimes conduct an operation to detain Andrei Ilyich and his lawyer. A well-known businessman was suspected of bribing an official. The specific names are still not known to anyone. In the same year, a criminal case was opened against Komarov (article "Commercial bribery"). Already in May of the same year, it became publicly known that Andrei Ilyich was under house arrest, the term of which ends on August 11. This decision was made by the Basmanny Court of Moscow.
Family
Komarov Andrei Ilyich (biography is given above) - a married man. His wife is Anna Yurievna Komarova (Levitanskaya). In marriage, the couple had 5 children. The man also has two children (Klim and Artyom) from his first marriage, who live with their mother in Moscow.
Condition
And what is his short biography in financial terms? Andrey Komarov has been regularly on the Forbes list of the richest people since 2006. Only 2009 did not fit into the overall picture. Their rankings vary from4th to 89th position. To be more specific, it came in fourth place in 2007, when revenues were $13,000 million. He was ranked 89th in 2006 and 2008, when his net worth was $5,000 million. In 2012, Komarov broke his own record by finishing in 3rd place with $12,350 million in revenue. If you analyze, you can see that the income of the politician is only growing. The place in the magazine's ranking changes only when someone much richer than our hero appears.
As of 2009, Andrey Komarov owns $75 million and is included in the rating of Russian billionaires (56th).
Hobby
I wonder, Andrey Komarov - who is this? Only a successful businessman, entrepreneur and politician? A very smart, educated and progressive person? No, not only. Andrei Ilyich admires painting and theater. Also, the man is interested in psychology and is engaged in golf, motorcycling and hockey. He collected a collection of paintings of the 30s, the main theme of which is metallurgy. Andrei Ilyich admitted that his favorite artist is Petrov-Vodkin. In 2006, the businessman bought a Harley-Davidson motorcycle and said that from now on, motorcycles are his main hobby.
Interesting facts
Komarov Andrei Ilyich is a politician about whom you can learn something interesting. In addition to active business and many other interests and hobbies, Andrey invests in the construction of new temples in his hometown of Ozersk.
