Eduard Taran is a well-known domestic businessman and industrialist. He is also involved in social activities. He made his fortune by becoming the president and founder of the diversified RATM Holding. The company is engaged in the production of products for the defense industry, as well as optoelectronic instrumentation.
Biography
Eduard Taran was born in 1967. Even at school, I realized that only through knowledge you can achieve a lot in life, so I regularly improved my skills.
Thus, I received two higher educations. Today Taran Eduard Anatolyevich has a diploma from the Novosibirsk State Technical University by profession as an economist and manager at enterprises primarily related to the fuel and energy complex.
He received his second education at the Novosibirsk Humanitarian Institute. This time, majoring in economics. He is a candidate of economic sciences, defended his dissertation.
Own business
Eduard Taran's career begandevelop after 1989 when he returned from the army. He fit well into the perestroika process, starting with the fact that he became the head of the Youth Initiative Fund at the local Promstalkonstruktsiya plant.
The key year in the life of Eduard Taran was 1992, when he founded the company RATM, which successfully exists to this day. The abbreviation of this organization stands for Regional Association of Fuel Materials. Initially, Taran began to supply energy coal for enterprises operating under the auspices of the domestic Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of Internal Affairs, as well as structures that were officially part of the RAO UES holding.
Business Development
Eduard Taran, whose biography is directly connected with the energy complex, in the early 90s creates a joint Kemerovo-Novosibirsk enterprise precisely in this profile, which he calls "KeNoTEK". At the same time, it actively invests money in the development of the Karakansky-Yuzhny coal deposit, as well as the creation of all the relevant infrastructure for it, including a freight railway.
At about the same time, his company, which houses his main assets, begins to open up new markets for himself. Taran Eduard Anatolyevich, whose biography has been repeatedly associated with risk, tries himself in various sectors of the economy. His company is engaged in the glass industry, cement production, optoelectronic instrumentation (it is this direction that turns out to be one of the most effective as a result), andalso investments in construction in the Novosibirsk region and the European part of Russia.
In the early 2000s, RATM turned into a holding company. Taran becomes its president and owner of a controlling stake. His corporation includes Iskitimcement, the largest cement production enterprise in the region, located in the Novosibirsk region. He managed to restore it.
Currently, the company's assets have grown significantly. He has his own enterprises in Moscow, Yaroslavl, Kurgan regions and, of course, Novosibirsk.
Famous public figure
Besides his role in business, Taran is widely known as a public figure. For example, he owns the charitable foundation "Live", founded on his initiative. The Foundation provides financial assistance to minors who suffer from oncology. It is a member of several all-Russian charitable organizations. For example, Life Line, which provides medical care to seriously ill children.
In the early 2000s, Taran founded his own foundation called "Citizen of the Fatherland". With its help, he supports social and business activity in the country, tries to influence the institutions of civil society.
Through his charitable foundations, he also funds culture and sports. With its help, financial tranches are received by the Academic Opera and Ballet Theater in Novosibirsk, the Zelensky Foundation, which is engaged in the development of ballet art.
During the Olympics in Sochi, Taran helped equip prayer rooms, organized ballet performances for athletes.
With his direct support, the stadium "Spartak" in Novosibirsk was seriously reconstructed, where the team of the Football National League "Siberia" plays its matches. Organized a tennis tournament in Novosibirsk.
Criminal prosecution
In 2010, it became known about the detention of Taran by police at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport. Less than a day later, the court arrested the owner of the holding for two months.
The hero of our article was accused of trying to bribe law enforcement officers. However, many believed that the case was fabricated. In particular, this version was expressed by the chairman of the National Anti-Corruption Committee, Kirill Kabanov, who said that, in his opinion, the case was custom-made.
After spending some time in jail, Taran was released. And six months later, the criminal prosecution was suspended due to the lack of corpus delicti.
Private life
Eduard Taran is very secretive in his private life. Very little is known about the family. The only information available in open sources is related to his wife. True, their marriage is not officially registered. Taran Eduard Anatolyevich and wife Irina Tsvetkova live in a civil marriage.
It is known that, most likely, they met closely just duringcriminal investigation. Tsvetkova was one of his lawyers. It was then that Eduard Taran met his love. Zhenya and his assistants managed to save him from prosecution.
Some Russian media, citing their own sources, report that the couple has a joint child. Others claim that Taran currently has five children. This became known at the hearing. This argument was used by his defenders to replace detention with house arrest or a written undertaking not to leave.
Currently, Taran returned to his business and still heads the RATM holding.
