Miller Alexey: fifteen years at the helm of Gazprom

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:46

Miller Alexey Borisovich (born January 31, 1962) is Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors and Chairman of the Management Board (CEO) of the energy company Gazprom, the world's largest natural gas producer.

Origin and education

Where was Alexey Miller born? His biography began in Leningrad, in an ordinary family, where he was the only child. Alexei's parents worked at the same enterprise (first at the Research Institute of Radio Electronics of the Minaviaprom, later at NPO Leninets), and his father, Boris Vasilyevich, was a worker, and his mother, Lyudmila Aleksandrovna, was an engineer. Unusual in this family was only that its members belonged to ethnic Germans. However, Russified Germans are not uncommon in St. Petersburg.

Alexey Miller was an excellent student at the specialized mathematical school No. 330. In 1979, he entered the Leningrad Institute of Finance and Economics, graduating as an economist in 1984.

Career in the Soviet period

The first position that Alexey Miller received was an engineer-economist in a plannedDepartment of the Research Institute of Civil Engineering "LenNIIproekt". In 1986, he became a graduate student at his native institute, and after studying for the prescribed three years, he defended his thesis and became a junior researcher.

Participation in the circle of Anatoly Chubais

In the mid-1980s, an informal circle of economists, graduates of various specialized universities in the city, formed around Associate Professor of the Engineering and Economic Institute A. Chubais in Leningrad. Aleksey Miller also entered this circle, although due to his youth he could not be among the leaders of this community, in which such bright personalities as Andrei Illarionov (future adviser to Putin), Mikhail Manevich (future chairman of the Economic Reform Committee of the Leningrad City Executive Committee) and others.

When Chubais in 1990 became the first deputy of A. Sobchak (then chairman of the Leningrad City Council), most of the members of his circle ended up in various positions in the Leningrad City Executive Committee. Alexey Miller was appointed to the committee headed by Manevich, to the department for organizing a free economic zone in Leningrad.

Work under the leadership of V. V. Putin in the mayor's office of St. Petersburg

In 1991, Miller went to work in the committee on external relations (FAC) of the mayor's office, which was chaired in June of that year by Vladimir Putin. Alexey worked in the foreign economic relations department of the KVS under the supervision of Alexander Anikin. The following year, he was fired by Mayor Sobchak on the recommendation of a special commission. Lensoviet as unable to cope with the assigned work, and Miller took his place. In this position, he oversaw the creation of the city's first investment zones Pulkovo (with the Coca-Cola and Gillette plants) and Parnassus (with the B altika brewery). Also, through his efforts, such large banks as Lyon Credit and Dresden Bank were attracted to the city.

Shift to work in the energy sector

After A. Sobchak was not elected mayor in 1996, his team broke up. V. V. Putin, who had already been the first deputy mayor since 1994, left for Moscow to work in the presidential administration, and Miller went to the seaport department, where he was involved in investment and development issues. But as soon as his former patron took the prime minister's chair in 1999, he remembered his former colleague, and in the same year Alexey Borisovich Miller was appointed general director of the B altic pipeline system under construction. Its first stage, designed to pump 12 million tons of oil products per year, involved laying an oil pipeline from the Kirishi refinery (Leningrad region) to the port of Primorsk (between St. Petersburg and Vyborg).

In 2000, Miller took over as Deputy Minister of Energy for Foreign Economic Affairs.

Working at Gazprom

Since December 1992, Rem Vyakhirev, who took over the reins of government of the state concern from Viktor Chernomyrdin after the latter's appointment as prime minister, was the general director of Gazprom. Using the patronage of Chernomyrdin, Vyakhirev pursued a policy of reducing the influence of the state on the work of the company,reducing its share in its share capital, with the goal of complete privatization of the enterprise. By the time Miller was appointed Chairman of the Management Board of RAO Gazprom, part of his profitable assets had been transferred to various companies, and the state's share was less than 40%.

After his appointment, Miller began to return the previously lost assets of Gazprom by buying them from new owners. As a result of these actions, by 2004 the state took over a controlling stake in the company, after which their market was liberalized. Five years later, Gazprom's capitalization grew 27 times. Today, the state owns more than 73% of the shares of the corporation.

During the leadership of Alexei Miller, Gazprom implemented the largest infrastructure project - a gas pipeline with a capacity of 55 billion cubic meters. m per year Nord Stream-1 along the bottom of the B altic Sea to the coast of Germany. An agreement was recently signed on the construction of a second gas pipeline of the same capacity, also under the B altic Sea, called Nord Stream 2.

This year, the construction of a new main gas pipeline from Yakutia to Primorsky Krai and China "The Power of Siberia" has begun.

Private life

What else does Alexey Miller live besides work? His wife Irina is a housewife. They have one son. There is almost no information about what Alexey Miller is like in his personal life. His family is a closed territory for the media.

It is known that Miller himself is a passionate football fan of the Zenit club. He is also fond of equestrian sports, owns two thoroughbreds.stallions participating in the races. This passion of his was the basis for the president to appoint Miller three years ago in charge of reviving the Russian equestrian industry.