Altushkin Igor Alekseevich - a copper oligarch, one of the top 50 richest people in Russia

2024 Author: Henry Conors | [email protected]. Last modified: 2024-02-12 02:48

Altushkin Igor is an outstanding person. With a capital of $2 billion, he not only owns an 80% stake in RMK, the third largest company among copper producers, but also remains a resident of provincial Yekaterinburg, supports nationality and Orthodoxy. His portraits can be seen among the photographs of other large oligarchs: Igor Alekseevich has six children.

The start of the journey

The future entrepreneur was born in Sverdlovsk in 1970, on September 10th. The career of a graduate of the Institute of National Economy began in the 90s at the NPO Zenit. Already in 1992, he rose to the rank of deputy director.

But he was always attracted by entrepreneurial activity, and in the same year Igor Altushkin founded the Aeron company, engaged in the processing and marketing of non-ferrous metals. A little later, he headed an interconnected production - a commercial and industrial company that collected and processed scrap, cable and polymer products.

As a result, 50% of the region's needs for ferrous and non-ferrous metals were met by his enterprise. At the age of 25, the businessman became one of the shareholders of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company, headed by Iskander Makhmudov.

Achievements

Until 2004, Altushkin Igor went through an excellent school, entering the management of a number of factories and one of the local banks. In the future, having sold a 15% stake in UMMC, the entrepreneur establishes his own company - RMK. He managed to assemble an excellent team of professionals and complete the main task - to create a self-sufficient company that controls the entire process: from the extraction of raw materials to the manufacture of full-fledged products. The holding includes 9 solid enterprises, which account for 19% of all copper mining in the country.

Since 2007, RCC, with the support of the Governor of the Chelyabinsk Region, has been building the Tominsky Mining and Processing Plant, which is scheduled to be launched in 2018. True, public environmental organizations opposed this project by organizing a collection of signatures on Change.org. And in the fall of 2017, V. Putin personally spoke with the leader of the movement. A decision on this issue has not yet been made, the launch of the GOK has been officially postponed.

In July 2017, at the Innoprom exhibition, a businessman whose income, according to Forbes, amounted to $ 2 billion, personally presented the stand of his company to the president, talking about the prospects for "smart copper". In the same year, in the Catherine's Hall, he was awarded the Order of Friendship for outstanding achievements.

Charity

In November 2017, the copper oligarch was present in Simferopol at the opening of the monument to Alexander III, in the financing of which he took part. And this is not a tribute to fashion. Today, everyone knows that the ideas of Orthodoxy and nationality are actively supported by Igor Altushkin, whose wife is one of the developers of the Russian Classical School project.

She advocates a return to the roots - Soviet textbooks with their calligraphy lessons and other legacy of the educational process of the past. Tatyana Altushkina writes an opinion column, worrying about the fate of education in the country.

The oligarch's wife is one of the most influential women in the region. She pins her hopes on the completion of the "liberal bacchanalia" in education with the arrival of Olga Vasilyeva as Minister.

Igor Altushkin created a charitable foundation that is engaged in both the restoration of monasteries and churches, and support for the poor. With his direct participation, martial arts projects are financed, one of which is supervised by his son Alexander.

An Orthodox orphanage and a charity canteen have been opened in the region. It is felt that the whole life of a businessman is connected with the Sverdlovsk region, where he started his business and where he finally returned in 2015.

But this, by the way, did not prevent the oligarch from buying a mansion in London, which, according to the press, was once owned by Madonna herself.

Family

Altushkin Igor Alekseevich and his wife Tatyana are quite famous and influential people in the region. The businessman has been an Honorary Citizen of Yekaterinburg since 2017, and his wife, who is on the board of directors of the RCC, has a distinction for her contribution to charity. However, their children, who are six (not so long ago, the youngest appeared in the family - David), it is difficult to attribute them to majors. They are not involved in any scandals. Moreover, the daughter of Igor Altushkin in 2015 married the son of a priest.

The wedding of 18-year-old Elizaveta and Denis Velichkin took place in the Novo-Tikhvin Monastery, to which his father provided material support. The event became known after Elizabeth's friends posted photos from the wedding ceremony on Instagram.

The continuation of the banquet at the Hayatt Regency Ekaterinburg and the second day at the golf club were more in line with the level of the oligarch's daughter. Roman Bilyk ("Beasts"), Nyusha and Valery Meladze performed for 200 guests.