In 1978 he graduated from the Siberian Metallurgical Institute with a degree in metallurgical engineering.

In 1990 he graduated from the Higher Commercial School at the Academy foreign trade

In 1992 - the Academy of National Economy with a degree in Economics and Management.

He began his career in 1975 as an electrician in the Yuzhkuzbassugol association. After graduating from the institute, he worked at the NPO Tulachermet, where he worked his way up from an assistant steelworker to the deputy head of the shop.

Since 1986 - Deputy Chief Engineer, and since 1989 - Deputy General Director of the Karaganda metallurgical plant O. N. Soskovets.

Since 1993, he has been a member of the Boards of Directors of a number of leading Russian metallurgical enterprises.

Since 1996 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Sayangorsk aluminum plant, member of the board of directors of Novokuznetsk and Bratsk aluminum plants, Magnitogorsk and Novolipetsk metallurgical plants.

Since 1998 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of OJSC NLMK.

In 2007, through the offshore company Silener Management, he acquired a 14.42% stake in Zenit Bank.

Titles and awards

Professor of the Department of Market Problems and the Economic Mechanism of the Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation, author of 16 monographs and more than 150 scientific publications.

Laureate of the Prize of the Council of Ministers of the USSR in the field of science and technology in 1990.

Honorary Metallurgist of the Russian Federation.

Commander of the Order of Honor,

President of the Shooting Union of Russia. Master of Sport.

Honorary citizen of Lipetsk (2009).

The main asset is a controlling stake in the Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works. As of the beginning of 2010 - richest man in Russia (the state at that date, according to the magazine Finance, was estimated at $ 18.8 billion). Forbes magazine on March 11, 2009 estimates Lisin's fortune at $ 5.2 billion (93rd place in the world).

Fluent in English. Passionate about shooting sports. Collects a collection of pre-revolutionary Kasli iron castings (small sculptures, household items, interior furniture - more than 200 cataloged exhibits in total). Likes cigars. Married. Raises three children.
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Dossier:

For the first time, the name of Vladimir Lisin came to the attention of the media in the late 80s, when Lisin, being the deputy director of the Karaganda Metallurgical Plant Oleg Soskovets (later the Minister of Metallurgy of the USSR), established the Soviet-Swiss company TSK-Steel, which, using loopholes in the legislation and general chaos in the "perestroika" country, drove the substandard metal of the Karaganda Iron and Steel Works abroad. The percentage of marriage at that time at the plant increased sharply, which allowed Lisin to earn his first big money.

In 1991 Oleg Soskovets moved to Moscow. Lisin followed him to the capital. True, Lisin always denied his friendship with Soskovets, saying that he had crossed paths with him only a few times after moving. But be that as it may, it was thanks to Soskovets that the future oligarch met those who helped him organize own business. Brothers Mikhail and Lev Cherny, Sam Kislin. In the first years of cooperation, Lisin helped his foreign partners, who bought cheaply the products of the Krasnoyarsk, Novolipetsk, Magnitogorsk metallurgical plants, Sayan and Novokuznetsk aluminum plants. Then Lisin joined the boards of directors of these enterprises. In addition, for the first time he began to apply the practice of tolling - factories paid for raw materials with finished products (mainly ferrous metals), which Lisin and his partners sold for export, which is important, without paying customs duties. Turnovers amounted to hundreds of millions of dollars.

At the end of 1992, Lisin was already engaged not only in ferrous, but also in non-ferrous metals. He was helped in this by a new partner - David Ruben, who, together with the Cherny brothers, created the Rans World Group (TWG). Later, they were joined by Oleg Deripaska, who was then only taking his first steps in business. In 1993, Lisin became a full partner of TWG. Most of the largest metallurgical enterprises of the country were under the control of the group. At the same time, the same Oleg Soskovets, who had become Deputy Prime Minister by that time, was considered the main defender of tolling.

In 1995, there were several contract killings in the steel industry. The heads of firms that had interests in aluminum plants controlled by Lisin were killed. They almost killed the commercial director of the Sayan aluminum plant, in which Lisin was a member of the board of directors.
(Lone shooter - "Russian Forbes", December 2004)

But then he quite quietly (at least without shooting) parted ways with his former companions. By that time, the position of the TWG group was drastically shaken. It is noteworthy that the fall of the group happened a few months after Oleg Soskovets left his post in the government of the Russian Federation with a scandal. The then head of the presidential administration, Anatoly Chubais, and Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin were not going to support Lisin's business. But Lisin did not miss his. When dividing the business, he seized control of NLMK.

In November 2005, the Reuben brothers from the UK filed a lawsuit against Lisin, claiming that he had gained control of NLMK by secretly transferring shares from the control of a nominee to the control of his own company. However, this judicial history quickly ended. Lisin managed to resolve the conflict peacefully, calling for help from Oleg Deripaska and Vladimir Potanin. The first prevented the Cherny brothers from bankrupting the plant. The second did not prevent Lisin from buying NLMK shares from foreigners (Potanin owned 50 percent of TWG shares).

However, they still say that Lisin is only the nominal owner of all "factories-plants-steamboats." Allegedly, his patron Soskovets, the Cherny brothers, still stands behind him, and with them the Izmaylovo organized crime group, which in the 90s "protected" and "milked" NLMK. It is believed that Lisin, in the interests of the Izmailovo bandits, acquired the Moscow Rubin plant and the DK im. Gorbunova, better known as "hump". Izmailovsky authority Anton Malevsky received an income of up to 15 million dollars. A certain Aksen, who after the death of Malevsky (he was fond of exotic sports), also looked after the shares of the Izmaylovskys, who headed the organized criminal group.
("This is how steel was bought. Metallurgical oligarch Vladimir Lisin knows how to shoot in every sense" - Stringer, 03/13/2002; "Lipetsk fraud" - Interlocutor, 10/15/2008)

Lisin does not like high-profile public scandals, preferring to resolve all disputes quietly. The history of Lisin's relationship with Vladimir Potanin is indicative here. Having initially agreed on cooperation, the partners quickly became irreconcilable rivals. Potanin himself broke off relations, immediately going on the offensive - he challenged in court the sale of NLMK's non-core asset - the Stinol refrigerator plant, set auditors on the plant. Lisin, in turn, bought the securities of Norilsk Nickel. But then the oligarchs agreed, dividing the spheres of interest.

Lisin clashed more than once with the Lipetsk governor. The last conflict happened in 2008, when Lisin applied for the governor's post. By the way, Lisin has been striving for the governor's chair since 1998, when his candidacy was considered for the post of head of the administration of the Lipetsk region, but then Lisin himself refused to be nominated and supported the alternative candidacy of Mikhail Narolin. In 2002, everyone was waiting for Lisin to again run for governor, but the businessman backed down - according to Kommersant, Lisin felt that the Kremlin would support Oleg Korolev. The parties even signed a settlement agreement. Korolev undertook to stop the information war against NLMK, Lisin - not to run for governor.
("Kommersant", February 19, 2002)

But in 2008, the oligarch nevertheless decided to catch up. However, it was not only about unfulfilled ambitions. It was said that Lisin, having gone to the gubernatorial elections, was trying to get out of the control of the Izmaylovskys, who, after the death of their leader Malevsky, began to behave especially arrogantly. It was even said that, as in the "good old" days, brothers in jeeps came to Lisin at the plant, demanding to leave the plant, and also to hand over the management of the Rumelko company (Russian Metallurgical Company), in which shares of criminal authorities were placed.

The main rival of the head of NLMK in the elections was the current governor of the region, Oleg Korolev, a well-known defender of the working people. Lisin spent the election campaign on the verge of a foul. One of the episodes of the pre-election struggle almost cost the governor the Queen's chair. On November 7, during a rally in the central square of Lipetsk, two unidentified men began to trample on the Russian flag with their feet. Directly opposite the podium where Korolyov stood, the flag was burned. The astonished face of the governor was shown to the whole country. There was only one comment - Korolev does not control the situation in his area. As it turned out later, the vandals who desecrated the flag turned out to be NLMK employees who acted on behalf of some Lisin's image makers. Alexander Voloshin had to intervene in the conflict between the oligarch and the governor. Lisin was then offered the position of a senator, but he considered that this position was too small for him ... They even said that Lisin had obtained an audience with Putin, proving that he was ripe for regional politics. But the then president recalled to the businessman the story of the sale of the Stinol plant (Lisin sold the enterprise profitably, but did not pay off loans to the state). As a result, the billionaire limited himself to the role of the “gray eminence” of the region.

Lisin never went into conflict with the authorities - Putin even presented him with the Order of Honor. They say that the billionaire has close ties with the Kremlin - in particular, with the president's manager Vladimir Kozhin. Their friendship began at the Higher Commercial School of the Academy of Foreign Trade, where Kozhin and Lisin studied back in Soviet times.

Vladimir Lisin is credited with the "authorship" of the "Mechel case", which caused a real panic in the stock markets. Then Vladimir Putin sharply criticized the Mechel metallurgical plant, which sold coking coal to domestic enterprises at a higher price than abroad. Russian stocks began to rapidly fall in price. Many believed that the main client of Mechel, the head of NLMK, complained to the president.
("Lipetsk fraud" - Interlocutor, 10/15/2008; "Rvet and Mechel" - "Kommersant", 07/24/08)

Vladimir Lisin, Chairman of the Board of Directors of OJSC Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works (NLMK), is the richest man in Russia. At the end of 2011, Lisin takes 14th place in the list of the richest people on the planet, second only to such rich people as Carlos Slim, Bill Gates, Warren Buffett ..., Forbes magazine estimated his fortune at 24 billion dollars.

Vladimir Lisin is one of two "real" metallurgists among industry magnates. Where were his current colleagues 15 years ago? Anywhere, but not in metallurgy. Vladimir Potanin, co-owner of Norilsk Nickel, and Iskander Makhmudov, head of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company, worked as clerks in state foreign trade organizations. The owner of Severstal, Alexei Mordashov, and the founder of Evrazholding, Alexander Abramov, were engaged in scientific work. The owner of Russian Aluminum, Oleg Deripaska, was just studying at Moscow State University - in physics.

The main shareholder of NLMK in the late 80s was already a deputy general director - at the Karaganda Metallurgical Plant, where he came as a young specialist. Well, first things first.

Success Story, Biography of Vladimir Lisin

Vladimir Sergeevich Lisin was born on May 7, 1956 in the city of Ivanovo. He began his career in 1975 as an electrical fitter at Yuzhkuzbassugol. In 1979 he graduated from the Siberian Metallurgical Institute with a degree in metallurgical engineering. In 1979-1985. - steelmaker, operator of a continuous casting plant, shift supervisor, section supervisor, deputy shop supervisor at Tulachermet Production Association. In 1984 he completed his postgraduate studies at the Ukrainian Research Institute of Metallurgy. In 1985-1989 - worked in Kazakhstan as a deputy chief engineer of the Karaganda Metallurgical Plant, one of the 4 largest plants in the country.

THE FIRST COMMERCIAL EXPERIENCE OF VLADIMIR LISIN

By the beginning of the era of private capital, the director of the Karaganda plant was Oleg Soskovets, who became Lisin's patron in business. Under his leadership, Lisin gained his first commercial experience, which he still recalls with pleasure. The Karaganda Combine, together with Swiss partners, created a subsidiary company, TSK-Steel, whose general director was Lisin. The company took advantage of a loophole in the legislation: only state intermediaries had the right to export metals, but substandard metal (containing defects) was allowed to be exported freely. Abroad, such products were bought at a big discount, but TSK-Steel had its own $20-25 million in turnover per year.

In 1991, Soskovets became the Minister of Metallurgy - the last in the USSR, and in 1992 he entered the Russian government. Following him, Lisin moved to Moscow, where he met an American businessman of Soviet origin, the former head of the central grocery store in Odessa, Sam (Semyon) Kislin.

Kislin's Trans Commodities company supplied raw materials to metallurgical plants - partly Russian, partly imported. At some point, his business stalled - several factories at once, as if by agreement, told Kislin that they could not pay him with either money or metal. Kislin risked losing the $30 million invested in the case. It was then that Vladimir Lisin turned out to be next to the American, who promised to solve the problem.

It all ended with the fact that Lisin pulled out the money, although the story is silent about how exactly he managed to do this, he probably just used his acquaintances.

After the first successful experience, Kislin and Lisin started a joint business. They were the first to put the practice of tolling on a grand scale - in exchange for raw materials, they received finished products from factories (mainly ferrous metals) and sold them for export. Customs duties under this scheme were not paid. “I controlled alone, together with my secretary, 50% of the export of Russian pig iron, except for state foreign trade associations, I had no competitors,” recalls Lisin. Business turnover was already measured in hundreds of millions of dollars.

Despite successful work, Lisin remained only employee at Trans Commodities. The status of a partner, except for Kislin himself, had only one person - businessman Mikhail Chernoy, a native of Tashkent. And another "simple" hired employee of the company was Iskander Makhmudov, the current owner of the Ural Mining and Metallurgical Company, a large copper producer.

The meteoric rise of Trans Commodities looks unbelievably easy. Lisin explains this by the fact that Kislin was the first person who brought a lot of money to the industry. " We specifically paid, - Lisin explains, meaning that the shipment of goods was paid for with "live" money. “At that time, no one was interested in metallurgy anymore, it was a complete ass.”

But already at the end of the same 1992, Lisin and his Russian colleagues found a more weighty money bag. Their new foreign investor was the British non-ferrous metal dealer David Reuben. He was brought to Russia by the younger brother of Mikhail Cherny Lev. The two brothers, as well as Ruben, created the Trans World Group (TWG), whose sphere of interest included not only ferrous, but also non-ferrous metals. Lisin and Makhmudov became members of the group. And the brothers somehow persuaded Sam Kislin to leave the business - he left for the USA.

Later, Oleg Deripaska, a novice stock trader, also joined this group. He managed to convince Chernykh that he could organize the purchase of a controlling stake in the Sayan aluminum plant, and received money for this operation. (Now Deripaska, with his Russian Aluminum company, owns a dozen aluminum and alumina smelters.) So Lisin had new temporary allies.

THINGS ARE GOING UP

In 1992, Lisin joined the board of directors of Sayan Aluminum Plant JSC, in 1992-1993 he was chairman, then left this post, but remained a member of the board until 1997 inclusive.

Already in 1993 Vladimir Lisin received partner status in TWG. Soon, most of the country's largest metallurgical plants were under the control of the group. TWG became the third largest supplier of aluminum to the world market - annual sales in 1993 amounted to, according to various estimates, $ 4-5 billion, and the group at that time did not yet own a single plant. The tolling scheme made it possible to control enterprises without buying shares. And the main defender of tolling in the government was considered the same Oleg Soskovets, who had already taken the chair of Deputy Prime Minister.

Lisin, as a representative of TWG, was a member of the boards of directors of five plants: three aluminum and two steel - Magnitogorsk and Novolipetsk plants. Legally, the TWG group was not formalized as a single company. It was a conglomerate of Russian firms and offshore companies, typical for that time, formally independent of each other.

In 1995, a wave of contract killings swept through the industry. In April, an attempt was made (failed) on the commercial director of the Sayan aluminum plant Valery Tokarev - Lisin at that time was a member of the board of directors there. In the same year, the heads of firms that had interests in aluminum smelters were killed - the head of Yugorsky Bank Oleg Kantor, his deputy Vadim Yafyasov and the manager Russian business another major exporter of metals, AUS Felix Lvov. After these murders, the image of TWG in the business community became demonic.

However, TWG's meteoric rise was followed by an equally meteoric decline. Already in 1996, the group began to disintegrate. This happened a few months after the scandalous resignation of Oleg Soskovets from a government post. The most influential people at that time in the corridors of federal power - the head of the presidential administration, Anatoly Chubais and Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, did not favor TWG. The positions of the Blacks in Russia have become shaky, and their non-transparent business has become too vulnerable to the security forces. And then the brothers quarreled with each other and began to divide the business.

Vladimir Lisin did not miss out on dividing his own. While working at TWG, he took a closer look at one of the controlled plants - NLMK. In parallel with the Cherny brothers, he gradually bought up shares. By the time of the collapse of TWG, the brothers had accumulated 34% of the plant's securities, Lisin - 13%.

The plant was unprofitable, like many others. The tolling scheme allowed the structures that control exports to earn billions, but did not help the factories themselves much. The Cherny brothers, winding down the TWG business, decided to bankrupt the plant and sell its assets to someone. Vladimir Lisin was offered compensation for his work and 13% of the shares.

If Lisin had agreed, he would have become a multimillionaire, but he would never have made billions. However, he went against the former partners and began to implement own plan. He decided to seize control of NLMK.

« I had to concentrate on one thing, and in Lipetsk I already had a large package“, - so Lisin explained his choice in an interview. In addition, the plant had modern equipment by Russian standards.

In a word, everything led him to part with his partners. Without sentiment, but with litigation - “ with lawyers, lawyers, with all personal belongings“, - as Lisin himself says. To win this fight, he entered into a temporary alliance - with Vladimir Potanin (managing part of NLMK shares), with whom he reached an agreement on how he would buy out the rest of the shares. Lisin created his own offshore company to sell metal for export and transferred all of NLMK's financial flows to his own company, Worslade Trading, registered in Ireland.

In 1998, Lisin was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of OJSC Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works and has since been repeatedly re-elected to this post. According to Forbes magazine, it was in 1998 that Lisin agreed with foreign companies who owned NLMK shares. After buying securities from them, Lisin's stake grew to 63 percent.

THE OPPOSITION OF LISIN AND POTANIN

Lisin planned to take the next big step in 2000. The June meeting of shareholders was offered a restructuring program for $ 1.1 billion. They were ready to provide money to the plant to Lisin's own companies in exchange for an additional issue of shares. After their release, TWG's share would have halved.

Judging by the fact that the issue of the issue of new shares was included in the agenda of the meeting of shareholders, Lisin had reason to believe that former colleagues from the TWG will not or will not be able to object.

But on the eve of the shareholders' meeting, just before the closing of the register, Lisin was in for an unpleasant surprise: 34% of the shares owned by TWG changed hands. Vladimir Potanin's company Interros became the new owner.

For the first time in biographies of Vladimir Lisin strategic partner I broke off my relationship with him. Yes, and began hostilities. At the shareholders' meeting, Potanin's representatives voted against the issue of new shares. After that, Interros struck blow after blow. In October 2000, NLMK announced the sale for $119.3 million of a 100% stake in the Stinol refrigerator plant to the Italian Merloni Elettrodomestici. Potanin's lawyers immediately began to challenge (without success) this deal. And a little later, auditors from the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation raided the plant and calculated the damage in the amount of more than $160 million, which NLMK allegedly inflicted on the state. However, this was even before Lisin - the Accounts Chamber found that in authorized capital the company did not take into account the funds that the state once invested in the construction of Stinol, and besides, educational institutions were illegally (according to the Accounts Chamber) included in the NLMK property.

The actions of state auditors had no consequences, but it all looked like an attempt to create maximum problems for Lisin.

Vladimir Potanin at that time felt quite confident. He was not afraid to wage war on two fronts: in addition to the Novolipetsk Combine, he fought for control of the Sidanko oil company against the Tyumen oil company(TNK).

Lisin accepted the challenge and even launched a counterattack. He preferred not to overpay Potanin for NLMK shares, but to use the money to buy securities of Norilsk Nickel, Potanin's main asset. Then 8% of the shares of Norilsk Nickel, bought by Lisin, cost almost half as much as 34% of NLMK.

And in 2001, Vladimir Potanin seemed to have been replaced. The co-owner of Interros stopped all corporate conflicts. He sold the disputed Sidanco shares to TNK for $1.1 billion. And he offered NLMK shares to Lisin for the same amount that he paid for them in 2000. (Analysts of the United Financial Group estimated this deal at about $180 million.) Lisin also sold his shares in Norilsk Nickel in 2003 - on the open market through the Swiss bank UBS.

Since then, both metallurgical magnates have been interested only in their factories. And earn a new reputation. Increase business transparency and management efficiency.

Lisin succeeded in this matter. Having invested about $30 million in the reconstruction of his own thermal power plant, which provides almost half of the plant's energy needs, he reduced production costs. Energy now costs him 15% less.

BIG BUY TIME

In 2004, Lisin received an influential partner, Boris Ivanishvili. In February of this year, NLMK bought the Stoilensky Mining and Processing Plant (GOK). For a controlling stake in GOK, Lisin gave it former owner, the founder of the Russian Credit Bank, Boris Ivanishvili, 15.5% of his 97% stake in NLMK. However, later, for some unknown reason, the deal was modified. For Stoilensky GOK, Boris Ivanishvili earned $510 million. The purchase of Stoilensky GOK provided NLMK with its own ore for many years - the main raw material for metallurgical production.

Finally, in October, Lisin bought a package of licenses for the exploration of gas condensate fields on the shelf of the Kara Sea. In the same month, Kakha Bandukidze bought Severnaya oil and gas company”, whose main asset is a 62% stake in the small Samara oil company Volganeft. In a press release, NLMK stated that the purpose of this transaction is to create new site for future energy investments. It was also said that NLMK considers investment projects in the energy sector promising, meeting the objectives of providing energy resources to the entire production complex of the NLMK Group.

In December 2005 Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works completed the initial public offering of its shares on the London stock exchange. 609 million dollars were received for a 7% stake in the steel plant.

As a result of the IPO, the company's capitalization amounted to 8.7 billion dollars. According to some reports, shares for placement were provided by one of the offshore companies of Vladimir Lisin, the main owner of NLMK. The latter, according to the investment memorandum of the steel plant, owned 89.85% of NLMK shares before the public offering.

REAL ESTATE

In July 2005, it became known about biggest deal on the Moscow real estate market - the sale of 38% of the shares of OAO City. The value of the signed contract is $130 million. The Guta group acted as the seller, while the buyers were structures close to businessman Vladimir Lisin, who controls NLMK.

OJSC "City" is the managing company of the project of the Government of Moscow, the Moscow International Business Center (MIBC) "Moscow-City". Within the framework of the project, a grandiose construction is being carried out on the Krasnopresnenskaya embankment; it is expected that this area will become the largest business center of the capital of Russia. The total investment is estimated at 11-12 billion US dollars.

And this is not the first time Lisin has shown interest in real estate investment capital Cities. In October 2000, he acquired control over the Moscow plant "Rubin" and DK im. Gorbunov with the territory adjacent to it, the so-called "hump", About 60% of the shares of OJSC MTZ Rubin, the entrepreneur bought for $ 10 million from Alexander Milyavsky, who collected this package in the mid-90s.

Over time, Rubin sold its television production, but retains the ownership of the Gorbushkin Dvor shopping center.

LOGISTICS

In June, the Novolipetsk plant bought two seaports to "protect its export channels." A 69.4% stake in OAO Tuapse Commercial Sea Port was purchased for $190 million from Severstaltrans. In addition, subsidiaries passed under the control of NLMK: JSC Tuapse Shipyard”, OJSC “Tuapsegrazhdanstroy” and other assets. This transaction made it possible to ensure the unimpeded transportation of NLMK products to Asia and Africa, as well as to reduce the costs associated with port operations.

Again, in June 2004, the structures of Vladimir Lisin came to the port of St. Petersburg. The Danish company Jysk Staalindustri Aps, friendly to Mr. Lisin, acquired a 50.01% stake in Morport SPb OJSC from the offshore company Nasdor, which, according to unofficial data, is controlled by State Duma deputy Vitaly Yuzhilin and his partner Andrei Kobzar. Market participants valued the deal at least $100 million. And in November 2005, Chupit Limited, an offshore company close to Mr. Lisin, bought another 49% of the port's shares at a privatization auction from the state for $30 million. This purchase guaranteed an export channel to Europe and America.

In July 2006 Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works completed the acquisition of a 30% stake in LLC Independent Transport Company (LLC NTK). After completion of this transaction, NLMK's share in the charter capital of LLC NTK amounted to 100%. The seller of the stake was Evroaziatskaya LLC transport company».

LLC NTK is NLMK's key logistics asset, ensuring the timely supply of raw materials for metallurgical production and delivery finished products consumers, both in Russia and abroad. LLC "NTK" coordinates interaction with JSC "Russian Railways" and port administrations in the field of export deliveries.

RECENT GAINS AND LOSSES

Now, without losing control over his main asset, Mr. Lisin received more than $600 million in his hands. In addition, investment analysts in 2005 indicated that the company's bank accounts at that time had about $2 billion more, which together gave Mr. - Well, Lisin has excellent opportunities to finance his new projects.

Part of the funds was invested in the beginning of the construction of 5 new container terminals in the St. Petersburg Seaport, about which in February 2005 an investment program was approved until 2010 with the government of the "northern capital".

In January 2006, NLMK sold an 11.96% stake in Lebedinsky GOK to the structures of its main shareholder (Alisher Usmanov) for $400 million.

In the same month, NLMK acquired a 100% stake in the Danish steelmaker DanSteel A/S (Dunsteel) for $104 million.

In February 2006, Lisin acquired 90% of the shares of two large coal assets: Prokopyevskugol and Altai-koks, which will increase NLMK's mobility and independence. For them, he paid about $800 million to structures close to Iskandar Mahmudov. Previously, he acquired a license for Zhernovskoe coal deposit in Kuzbass, the development of which will fully cover all the needs of NLMK in coking coal (this project is scheduled to be completed by 2009) .

In August 2006, NLMK acquired a new asset - the Ekaterinburg company VIZ-Stal. For 100% shares Ural enterprise Lisin paid $550 million to the international concern Duferco.

In September 2006, OJSC NLMK completed the sale of a stake in the amount of 92.04% of the ordinary shares of OJSC Kombinat KMAruda to OJSC Koks for $302.5 million. OJSC Koks is part of the management company Industrial and Metallurgical Holding , which belongs to the deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Boris Zubitsky. This transaction was carried out as part of the previously announced plan for the Company's internal restructuring, one of the key aspects of which is the optimization of the asset structure. IN currently The company's strategy is focused on the development of NLMK's key iron ore asset - Stoilensky GOK.

On November 27, 2006, the Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works and the Swiss steel company Duferco announced a partnership. On this day, documents were signed on the creation of a joint venture Steel Invest & Finance S.A., registered in Luxembourg. Each of the parties received 50% in this joint venture. NLMK paid $805 million for its half own funds, and Duferco contributed production assets to the JV's capital: a steel plant in Belgium and five steel rolling plants in France, Belgium, Italy and the United States. The new structure also began to own affiliated undertaking Duferco Transformation Europe (DTE), which operates nine metal service centers in France, Belgium and the Czech Republic. In addition, the parties signed an agreement on the implementation of a $401 million expansion and technical development program for the enterprises included in the joint venture. NLMK will raise these funds, while Duferco will manage them. In this way, NLMK is entering the consumer markets of Europe and the US and is increasing the production of high value-added products. At the same time, analysts believe that the owner of NLMK, Vladimir Lisin, managed to gain access to Western assets at a certain discount.

In December 2006, Immenso Enterprises Limited, controlled by Vladimir Lisin, bought out the minority stakes previously owned by NLMK in OAO Lipetskenergo (14.11%), OAO Lipetsk Energy Retail Company (14.11%), OAO Lipetsk Trunk Grids (14 11%), OJSC Lipetskoblgaz (19.39%), OJSC Territorial Generating Company No. 4 (2.7%), as well as a controlling stake in LLC Lipetsk City Energy Company (51%). All blocks of shares are valued at $78.56 million. Most likely, then these shares will be resold to an outside investor. Back in February 2006, NLMK's Board of Directors decided that minority stakes in energy companies are non-core assets and do not provide an impact on the Company's activities.

In March 2008, Lisin's fortune was estimated by the Russian version of Forbes magazine at $ 20.3 billion, but the global crisis that began in the fall of 2008 dealt a serious blow to him. In April 2009, Forbes estimated his fortune at $5.2 billion (fifth among Russian billionaires), and in February 2010, Finance named Lisin the richest person in Russia with a fortune of $18.8 billion. In April of the same year, Lisin topped the list of the richest businessmen in Russia according to the Russian Forbes, which estimated his fortune at $15.8 billion. And according to the results of March 2011, Forbes magazine estimated his fortune at 24 billion dollars. Vladimir Sergeevich Lisin – The richest man in Russia!

Today, he does not see attractive companies for investment in the face of falling markets and the outflow of capital from the country. " Now everything will fall, but the question is how long it will fall, and how long it will go out. I don't think there's a "gold chip" right nowwhere can you invest money ", Lisin shared with reporters.

LIFE OF VLADIMIR LISIN OUTSIDE BUSINESS

Lisin - Doctor of Technical and Economic Sciences, Professor of the Department of Market Problems and the Economic Mechanism of the Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation. Laureate of the Prize of the Council of Ministers of the USSR in the field of science and technology, Vice-President of the International Union of Metallurgists and Honorary Metallurgist of Russia, holder of the Order of Honor and holder of the Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh.

In early 2001, Lisin became vice president of the National Federation of Sporting (shooting at plastic plates), and in 2002, president of the Russian Shooting Union. Even in his youth, he was addicted to shooting, and now he actually supports the national team, heading the Shooting Union of Russia. He even built in the suburbs - for himself and professional athletes - the shooting complex "Fox Hole".

Another personal project of the businessman, which he himself calls "social", is the release of the daily newspaper "Gazeta". It has been out since 2001, but still does not make a profit. Lisin says that he was glad to create an "independent mass media" and that he doesn't need anything else from Gazeta.

In business and sports circles, Lisin is well known, but keeps his personal life a secret from the media. It is only known that he is married and has three children.

Lisin is a collector. He collects furniture, household items, small sculptures of Kasli cast iron (he is considered the owner of one of the most complete private collections of pre-revolutionary Kasli castings, which has more than 200 exhibits, despite the fact that the entire pre-revolutionary assortment of the plant was a little more than 300 types of various products. The most rare the exhibits of the Lisin collection are estimated at 3-5 thousand dollars).

Statements by Vladimir Lisin

I understand for sure that I was right when I did not go down this path - take, take, take.

I am always surprised when people who appear out of nowhere suddenly start talking about purely professional problems. Without getting an education and reading only a couple of books, it is impossible to talk about how to manage an enterprise.

Real professionals should work in key positions, not people who understand a little bit of everything. It is important not only to have experience, education and pass additional vocational education , but just the same desired self-criticism and the ability to change and adapt. In sum, this is professionalism.

Strategy is not a set of immutable rules. It depends on the situation.

We carefully watch our words. There is such a principle in the company: it is better not to say anything, and if you have said, then do it. Many of our colleagues will ring out there, then they will chime in, and then what? Nothing.

Let's say I take the path of downsizing and raising the salaries of the remaining workers. Where will the rest go? I think they will stand behind the fence to rob their more fortunate colleagues of what they have earned.

The economic strength of a company depends on more than just its size.

The acquisition must have some pragmatic purpose. Either this is the pumping up of assets, which means it is a speculative factor, or it is the development of the market: presence or control. And the choice is not always easy.

I think that supermonsters are harmful - what a monopoly is and what it leads to is clear to everyone.

One of my colleagues joked: you will polish your assets endlessly. This was said with irony, of course, but it turned out that it was the polishing of assets that had the effect.

The optimization depth is infinite. The market never stops, and if you stop pedaling, then your path is in a losing zone.

You need to understand that the world has become different, you can’t hide information, you can’t hide it. But I am not a guru to predict what will happen next. Let's leave this matter to the analysts.

Many mistakes in business stem from an unwillingness to give up personal ambition. It is always very difficult to change a decision, be it technical, economic or political. But for any leader, personal ambitions should not close ultimate goal business.

Economic laws are immutable, any manager must know them.

All my work is aimed at improving the performance of the company.

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Lisin, Vladimir

Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works

Chairman of the Board of Directors of OAO Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works since 1998, owner of a controlling stake in the company. The owner of the transport holding Universal Cargo Logistics Holding B.V. since 2008. Owner of the United Media holding company since 2009. Previously, he held senior positions at the Karaganda Metallurgical Plant (1986-1991), was an employee of Trans Commodities and Trans World Group since 1992. Doctor of Technical Sciences, Doctor of Economics, Professor of the Department of Market Problems and the Economic Mechanism of the Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation. President of the Shooting Union of Russia since 2002. President of the European Shooting Confederation (ESC) since 2009, President of the All-Russian Association of Summer Olympic Sports and Vice-President of the Russian Olympic Committee since 2011.

Vladimir Sergeevich Lisin was born on May 7, 1956 in the city of Ivanovo,. As stated in the biography of the entrepreneur, posted on the official website of the Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works, labor activity Lisin began in 1975, getting a job at the Yuzhkuzbassugol association as an electrician. In 1979 he graduated from the Siberian Metallurgical Institute with a degree in metallurgical engineering. After graduation, he worked at NPO "Tulachermet": a steelmaker, then an operator of a continuous casting plant, a shift supervisor, a site supervisor, and a deputy shop supervisor. In 1984, Lisin completed his postgraduate studies at the Ukrainian Research Institute of Metallurgy, defending his PhD thesis, and soon moved to Kazakhstan.

Since 1986 (according to other sources - since 1985) he worked in Kazakhstan: he was deputy chief engineer, and then deputy general director of the Karaganda Metallurgical Plant, one of the four largest plants in the country. The plant was headed by Oleg Soskovets. Working under the leadership of Soskovets, Lisin gained his first commercial experience: the Karaganda plant, together with Swiss partners, created a subsidiary company, TSK-Steel, CEO which became Lisin. At the same time, Lisin studied at the Higher Commercial School, graduated from an educational institution in 1990.

In 1991, Lisin left the Karaganda Metallurgical Plant. According to some reports, in 1992 Lisin moved to Moscow. There he met an American businessman of Soviet origin - the former head of the central Odessa grocery store Sam (Semyon) Kislin (Sam Kislin). Kislin's company Trans Commodities supplied Russian and imported raw materials to metallurgical plants. At some point, several factories told Kislin at once that they could not pay him with either money or metal, so the businessman could lose the 30 million dollars invested in the business. Lisin undertook to solve this problem - and decided, after which Kislin began to cooperate with him. Soon after meeting Kislin, Lisin also met the Cherny brothers. Lisin explained the rapid rise of Trans Commodities by the fact that Kislin brought a lot of money to the industry just when metallurgy was no longer of interest to anyone. True, Lisin remained only an employee in Trans Commodities, and only Mikhail Chernoy had the status of a partner, except for Kislin himself. Chernykh and Lisin's cooperation with Kislin was short-lived: Cherny registered an offshore company Trans-CIS Commodities Ltd. in the Principality of Monaco, which took control of almost the entire business of Trans Commodities. The Chernoy came to grips with non-ferrous metals at the end of the same 1992, when Lev Chernoy brought two more foreign investors to Russia - the British non-ferrous metal dealers brothers Simon (Simon) and David Reuben (David Reuben). The Cherny brothers, together with David Ruben (according to other sources, the Ruben brothers, along with Lev Cherny) created the Trans World Group (TWG), and Lisin became its employee,. Trans-CIS Commodities Ltd also operated with the TWG. . Later, the group was joined by (then - a novice stock trader and general director of Rosalyuminprodukt). He was instructed by the Cherny brothers to organize the purchase of a controlling stake in the Sayan aluminum plant.

In 1992, Lisin entered the Plekhanov Russian Academy of Economics (REA) with a degree in economics and management,. In the same year, he joined the board of directors (the body responsible for strategic management enterprise) JSC "Sayan Aluminum Plant". From 1992 to 1993, Lisin headed the board of directors, then left the post of chairman, but remained a member of the board until 1997 inclusive. Already in 1993, he received the status of a partner in TWG, and soon most of the largest metallurgical plants in the country came under the control of the group. TWG became the third largest aluminum supplier to the world market (annual sales in 1993 were, according to various estimates, from four to five billion dollars). In 1993, Lisin, as a representative of the TWG, also joined the boards of directors of the Novokuznetsk aluminum plant, Krasnoyarsk, Novolipetsk and Magnitogorsk metallurgical plants. At the same time, legally, the TWG group was not formalized as a single company, but remained a conglomerate of Russian companies and offshore companies, formally independent of each other.

In 1994, Lisin graduated from the Russian Academy of Economics and entered the doctoral program of the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys (he graduated in 1996 with a doctoral dissertation in technical sciences). In addition, in 1994, Lisin was again elected to the board of directors of the Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works - already as a representative of Intermetall, the exclusive trader of NLMK. He was also elected chairman of the board of directors of SAZ, of which Deripaska became CEO in December 1994,.

In 1995, the TWG began to fall apart. The brothers began to share the business. In particular, they were going to bankrupt the unprofitable Novolipetsk Combine and sell its assets (in total they owned 34 percent of the company's shares). However, they could not do this, since 13 percent of the company's shares already belonged to Lisin, who refused to give up his package. According to Forbes, Cherny offered several million dollars to Lisin, but instead of selling shares, the businessman entered into an alliance with.

Forbes claimed that Lisin approached Potanin with a proposal for cooperation. Potanin and his entourage always denied the existence of any agreement with Lisin, while the latter did not confirm the existence of an agreement, but did not refute it either. According to a source close to Lisin, both businessmen agreed that Potanin would not prevent Lisins from buying out 50 percent of NLMK shares from foreigners and, if possible, would interfere with the attempts of the Cherny brothers to bankrupt the plant. At that time, Interros supposedly even promised to go out of business after defeating TWG (but then did not do this). As a result, in December 1995, Lisin, together with the Potanin JSCB ONEXIM Bank (whose chairman of the board since 1993 was; the media claimed that he and Potanin had an equal position in the bank hierarchy) acquired 14.84 percent of the shares of the Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works.

In 1997, Lisin was included in the board of directors of JSC Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works (MMK) (remained a member of the board of directors until May 1999). In the same 1997, he began to discuss with Deripaska the possibility of creating a vertical structure in the metallurgical production of Russia and the CIS countries. The project for creating such a structure, called the Soyuz Metal-Resource Concern, was made public at a press conference in Moscow on December 18, 1997. It was assumed that the concern would include Siberian Aluminum, the Krasnoyarsk Aluminum Plant, the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, Uralelectromed, the Gaisky Mining and Processing Plant, the Kirovograd Copper-Smelting Plant, marketing and financial companies. Consent to join the work of the concern was given by some metallurgical enterprises of Ukraine, Tajikistan and Kazakhstan.

According to Lisin, the initiators of its creation saw the task of the concern as a departure from the practice of doing business according to the "bought and sold" scheme and the development of the Russian metallurgical industry. He argued that the new company will receive much better financial and technical capabilities to modernize existing facilities, develop research and development work, and strengthen its position in foreign markets. At the request of Lisin and Deripaska, the members of the concern severed all commercial ties with TWG, and Lisin called cooperation with this association "discriminatory" at a press conference.

By 1997, 25 percent of NLMK's shares belonged to the structures of the American financier, another 25 percent - to two citizens of Monaco, brothers Richard (Richard) and Christopher Chandler (Christopher Chandler). These shares were managed by the structures of Potanin and the financier Boris Jordan, and the plant itself was actually managed by Lisin.

In 1998, Lisin was elected chairman of the board of directors of Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works (and has since been repeatedly re-elected to this post),. In the same year, he founded the "Russian Management Metallurgical Company" ("Rumelko"), in which he attracted scientists and highly professional specialists with extensive practical experience in organizing and managing production processes And financial resources at the enterprises of ferrous metallurgy. Lisin became the CEO of this company.

According to Forbes magazine, it was in 1998 that Lisin agreed with Soros and the Chandlers. After buying NLMK securities from them, Lisin's stake grew to 63 percent of the shares (all these shares have since belonged to the Rumelko company, established by Lisin). The amount of the transaction was not disclosed, analysts estimated it at $200 million.

In 1998 and 1999, Lisin tried to negotiate with TWG as well. During this time, the Novolipetsk plant survived the crisis: after the devaluation of the ruble, the profitability of exports increased, for which 60 percent of NLMK's products went, the enterprise increased sales and raised the level of production. Then Lisin began to return financial flows from offshore companies to the enterprise itself. As a result, in 1999, for the first time after NLMK's privatization, it made a profit of 9.5 billion rubles on a revenue of 25.7 billion. In 2000, Lisin planned to convince the company's shareholders of the need for restructuring. Rumelko was ready to provide the plant with money in exchange for an additional issue of shares (after their issue, TWG's share, which was 34 percent, would have been halved), but shortly before the shareholders' meeting in June 2000, it turned out that TWG had sold its shares to the Interros holding. (according to other sources - Norilsk Nickel) Potanin,,. At the shareholders' meeting, Potanin's representatives voted against the issue of new shares. Soon Lisin launched a counterattack on Interros. He preferred not to overpay Potanin for NLMK shares, but to use the money to buy the securities of Norilsk Nickel, Potanin's main asset.

In May 2000, Norilsk Nickel sold a 34 percent stake in NLMK to the Interros holding, and it was from that moment that rumors began to appear in the press that Potanin intended to get rid of the shares in the metallurgical plant. In 2001, Potanin really sold NLMK shares to Lisin (it was previously reported that the block of shares was sold to an international investment consortium led by the Renaissance Capital IG, and only then it became known in whose interests the buyers acted) for the same amount that he paid for them in 2000 (analysts at the United Financial Group valued this deal at about $180 million). Since then, Lisin has managed approximately 97 percent of the shares of one of Russia's largest steel mills.

In November 2000, Lisin was elected to the board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP).

In 2001, Lisin left the post of general director of Rumelko. The company's stake in NLMK remained under Lisin's control, but the share of Rumelko decreased in favor of other companies subordinate to Lisin.

In April 2001, Lisin founded the newspaper "Gazeta", which he himself called his " social project". The businessman had his own view on the policy of the publication, which differed from the views of journalists. As a result, over the four years of the newspaper's existence, four editors-in-chief were replaced in it, and two of them, leaving their post, stated that the reason for their resignation was disagreements with the owner of the publication: editors, in particular, were not satisfied with the lack of a plan for the development of regional programs "Newspapers". According to Forbes, the "Newspaper" never brought profit to the businessman. Lisin himself stated that he was glad to create an "independent mass media" and nothing else to him from " Newspapers" is not needed. The paper version of the "Newspaper" ceased to exist in 2010, and on June 1, 2011 it closed and electronic version publications "Gzt.ru".

In April 2001, Lisin - at the invitation of the President of the RSPP Arkady Volsky and the director of the Expert Institute at the RSPP - became a member of the Board of Trustees of this institute (an organization created to conduct research work of practical value to Russian industry, as well as to analyze and forecast the economic and socio-political situation in Russia, to promote the development of entrepreneurship and the formation of mechanisms for the effective use of domestic and foreign experience management). The institute's Board of Trustees also included Bendukidze and Mordashov.

On June 8, 2001, Lisin was elected to the board of directors of OAO AKB Zenit. In October 2001, Lisin and the chairman of the board of directors of the Nizhny Tagil Iron and Steel Works signed an agreement on the creation non-profit partnership"Russian Steel Consortium", . This consortium, according to analysts' forecasts, was supposed to seriously compete with the union of Severstal and the Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, although it was created without the intention of combining the assets of the enterprises. Abramov and Lisin stated that the doors of the consortium are open to anyone who wishes to take part in the work of Russian Steel. According to them, ten enterprises of the metallurgical industry have already expressed their desire to participate in the activities of this structure. Lisin became the president-chairman of the steering committee of the partnership. The governor of the Sverdlovsk region, who was present at the signing of the document, announced that he considers the creation of the consortium to be very important for the Russian metallurgy as a whole. The Governor expressed confidence that Russian Steel would be able to effectively protect the interests of the industry on foreign market. Analysts, on the other hand, believed that Russian Steel would take an active part in discussing the conditions for Russia's entry into the World trade organization(On the part of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Alexei Mordashov, General Director of Severstal, was elected to oversee this process).

In November 2001, Lisin joined the Public Council on Russia's accession to the WTO. The head of NLMK called for negotiations with the WTO, through which Russia could choose the most beneficial way for itself to join this organization. At the same time, he expressed concern that joining the WTO could have undesirable consequences for his plant. Lisin stressed that if the Russian agricultural machine building and auto industry could not compete with foreigners, the domestic steel market in the country would shrink sharply. For NLMK, which supplies almost 30% of its products to this market, this was highly undesirable.

In late 2001 - early 2002, relations between the administration of the Lipetsk region and NLMK escalated. The newspaper "Kommersant" associated this circumstance with the fact that back in 2000, Lisin announced his claims to the governor's chair. Lisin himself, on the contrary, argued that the conflict began when NLMK, as the main taxpayer, became interested in how expediently budgetary funds were spent and why they were not enough to implement social programs. In response, Lisin assured, officials began to blame the plant. Korolev, in turn, in every speech carried the idea that the true owners of the region were regional politicians and industrialists, but by no means Moscow capital, and in the press, controlled by the regional administration, the topic of job cuts at NLMK and other enterprises began to be discussed, affiliated with the management of the plant. As a result, the region was divided into two irreconcilable camps. With this confrontation, observers linked the events around the Lipetsk television channel TVK in August 2001, the shareholders of which were divided into allies Lisin and Korolev and disputed their rights to manage the channel through the courts. The plenipotentiary representative of the president in the Central Federal District intervened in the matter, who in February 2002 persuaded both sides to end the conflict. Korolyov was re-elected governor of the region.

In July 2002, Lisin joined the board of directors of MMC Norilsk Nickel,. And in 2003, he sold his shares in the plant on the open market through the Swiss bank UBS. Since then, Lisin, according to experts, was only interested in his plant and its reputation. He invested about 30 million in the reconstruction of his own thermal power plant, which provided almost half of the plant's energy needs, and as a result reduced production costs, and the purchase of the Stoilensky mining and processing plant provided NLMK with ore. For a controlling stake in Stoilensky Mining and Processing Plant, Lisin gave it to its former owner - the founder of the Russian Credit Bank - 15.5 percent of his 96 percent stake in NLMK. As a result, the businessman not only ensured an uninterrupted supply of ore, but also acquired an influential partner. And two ports (in St. Petersburg and Tuapse), which Lisin acquired in 2004, allowed him to uninterruptedly supply metal for export. In addition, in October 2004, Lisin's company bought a package of licenses for the exploration of gas condensate fields on the shelf of the Kara Sea. As the businessman explained to journalists, this was done so that NLMK would not have problems with resources in the future. Meanwhile, NLMK continued to develop successfully. So, according to the Russian version of Forbes magazine, in 2004, the proceeds from the sale of products manufactured at the plant owned by Lisin in the first eight months of the year exceeded the proceeds for 2003 by 3.8 billion rubles (78.8 billion rubles against 75 billion, respectively) , and the profit for the same eight months of 2004 amounted to 39.3 billion rubles, which was almost twice as much as for the whole of 2003. On the whole, the company took second place in the world in terms of profitability among ferrous metallurgy enterprises, and in Russia it was ahead of everyone in the industry in terms of profitability. At the same time, NLMK's capitalization grew from $4.6 billion to $6.1 billion in the first six months of 2004 alone.

In 2004, Lisin began work on creating his own transport holding by purchasing a controlling stake in OAO " Sea port Petersburg". In 2005, he bought the remaining shares of the port from the state (according to media reports, in 2008, Lisin's structures owned 97.01 percent of the shares of the port). Subsequently, the businessman consolidated the assets of Taganrog (in 2006 he acquired 54.65 percent of the shares) and the Tuapse Sea Trade Ports (as of December 2008, Lisin's structures owned at least 69.41 percent of the company's shares.) In 2008, the billionaire became the owner of the port terminal in Ust-Luga, having bought 100 percent of the shares of the terminal owner, Universal complex". At first, the ports became non-core assets of NLMK, but by the end of 2008 Lisin included them in his registered in the Netherlands Universal Cargo Logistics Holding B.V. (UCL Holding, UCLH) , , , . -Balt Transport Holding Ltd (VBTH), 80 percent of which belonged to the Danish company Jysk Staalindustri controlled by the entrepreneur, controlled North-Western Shipping Company OJSC, Volga Shipping Company OJSC, Volga-Flot Tanker OJSC and Okskaya Shipyard OJSC. In the same year, it was reported that the Federal Antimonopoly Service was "considering an application to consolidate VBTH into UCLH", (as of February 2011, 80 shares of VBTH were owned by UCLH).

In November 2005, Lisin announced that he intended to run for president of the Russian Olympic Committee, and later registered as a candidate for committee president. The decision to nominate his candidacy for the post of head of the committee was made by the executive committee of the Shooting Union headed by him and the athletes who were members of this federation,,. As the newspaper "Kommersant" noted, the expression of intentions to run for the post of head of the committee was preceded by a meeting of the President of the Russian Federation with the leaders of Russian sports (and) and big businessmen. Interestingly, although the founders of the fund were 11 large companies, the leaders of only two of them were invited to a meeting with the head of state - the president of AFK Sistema Yevtushenkov and the head of NLMK Vladimir Lisin. In sports circles, this was seen as a show of support for Lisin by the Kremlin. The head of the board of directors of NLMK himself explained his consent to participate in the elections by the fact that over several years of work under his leadership, the federation has achieved significant success and that he personally has something to be proud of. He also noted that his nomination should be regarded both as strengthening the role of federations and as strengthening the role of business in the Russian Olympic movement. The businessman claimed that he had studied the problems of the Olympic Committee well and had an idea of ​​how to solve them. In addition to Lisin, six people applied for this post: the president of the Federation of Alpine Skiing and Snowboarding of Russia Tyagachev, the chairman of the All-Russian Voluntary Society " Sports Russia", Vice-President of the ROC Valery Kuzin, Vice-President of the All-Russian Swimming Federation Alexander Popov, Vice-President of the ROC Viktor Khotochkin and President of the All-Russian Federation of Athletics Valentin Balakhnichev. The elections were scheduled for December 22. However, immediately before the elections, Lisin refused to fight for the post head of the Olympic Committee, previously did the same Alexander Popov... President of the Russian Olympic Committee for new term Leonid Tyagachev was elected.

On November 24, 2005, Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works announced the start of a road-show (presentation of the issue of securities, in which the issuer comes to a large investor and talks about the offered securities) to place its securities on the London Stock Exchange (LSE). Then, for the first time, the share of NLMK shareholders was indicated. Lisin's stake was 89.85 percent, which was less than previously estimated by analysts based on the sum of the shares of shareholders listed in the NLMK register. Based on quotes at the time of the announcement, the value of this stake was $7.9 billion. NLMK placed its shares on the stock exchange in December of the same year. It was reported that Lisin was allowed to release 25 percent of the plant's shares into free circulation, but at the first stage he decided to sell only 7 percent. The listing was unsuccessful for the company: investors valued this block of shares at $609 million, $140 million cheaper than the company's management had expected. By the summer of 2008, 13 percent of NLMK's shares were listed on the stock exchange. According to the reports, 83 percent of the shares belonged to Lisin, and another 4 - to the managers of subsidiaries and members of the board of directors of NLMK. In 2009, it was reported that Lisin, through Fletcher Group Holdings and IFC LKB-Invest (a subsidiary of Rumelko), owns 84.6 percent of the shares, and management owns 2.5 percent.

In December 2005, the media reported that Lisin had bought himself a castle in Scotland for £6.8 million (about $12 million). Aberuchil Castle, built in the 16th century, is located in Perthshire. It was sold at auction and the new owner paid £800,000 more than the original price. According to the newspaper "Vzglyad", the governor of Chukotka Roman Abramovich could have been the former owner of the estate. As for the new owner, his name was not formally named, and the sale and purchase documents indicated that the castle was acquired by Forestborne Limited, located in an offshore zone in the Virgin Islands. Nevertheless, the Scottish newspaper The Scotman claimed that it was Lisin who bought one of the most expensive castles in Great Britain. Lisin himself did not refute this information. The media saw in this purchase signs that the businessman decided to retire, but Lisin did not retire from business. On June 6, 2006, Lisin was re-elected to the board of directors of the Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works. In 2006, according to the American edition of Forbes, Lisin was ranked 41st in the list of the hundred richest people in the world (and third in the list of the richest Russians, second only to Roman Abramovich and). His fortune was estimated at 10.7 billion dollars.

In January 2007, the Accounts Chamber of Russia published the results of another audit of NLMK's activities. Special attention This time the auditors were attracted by the environmental situation that has developed in the Lipetsk region in connection with the work of the metallurgical plant. According to the press service of the Accounts Chamber, the inspectors came to the conclusion that the plant grossly violated environmental legislation - in particular, it evaded payments for negative environmental impact and did not form a sanitary protection zone. In addition, during the entire audited period (from 2000 to 2005) NLMK actually did not have established standards for maximum permissible emissions of pollutants into the atmosphere. As a result, the auditors demanded to recover 280 million rubles from the plant - for damage caused environment, . As a result of court proceedings, NLMK's claims were withdrawn.

In September 2007, Lisin, through the offshore company Silener Management, acquired a 14 percent stake in Zenit Bank. The deal was rumored to have cost him $250 million.

In 2007, a conflict began between businessman Nikolai Maksimov and the Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works. The first sold NLMK a controlling stake in Maxi-Group, and then, accusing the plant of untargeted expenses, withdrew part of the funds from Maxi-Group. The parties filed numerous lawsuits against each other, which were considered by Russian arbitration courts with varying success for each of them. Several criminal cases were opened against Maksimov, but in 2011 a Yekaterinburg court refused to place Maksimov in custody. In March 2011, the International Commercial arbitration court(ICAC) at the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation recognized the businessman's right to demand payment of more than 9 billion rubles from the plant, which he did by turning to the district court of Amsterdam, which seized NLMK's shares in a subsidiary in the Netherlands in order to secure Maksimov's claims. The first instance refused to satisfy Maksimov's claims, due to the fact that the decision of the ICAC was canceled in Russia, the case continues to be considered by the Amsterdam Court of Appeal.

Since 2008, the press began to write that structures close to Lisin belong to the Chernomorneftegaz company, which is developing the shelf of the Black Sea and Azov Seas,.

In July 2009, Lisin acquired the media holding United Media and the radio stations Business FM, 98 hits and Kino FM, as well as the news site BFM.ru, from top managers. The deal was valued at $23.5 million.

In addition, Lisin continued to increase his transport assets. In mid-February 2011, the billionaire's holding UCLH at an auction purchased state-owned stakes in the Volga Shipping Company (33.65 percent of ordinary shares, thus consolidating about 91 percent of the shares) for 1.04 billion rubles, and the Western Shipping Company (25.5 percent of ordinary shares, the controlling stake was owned by LLC Freight Agency of the Western Shipping Company) for 86.5 million rubles. On March 1 of the same year, the Nafta T company, which is part of UCLH, acquired a 25% state-owned stake in Tuapse Marine for 1.6 billion rubles at an auction. trading port(TMTP), increasing its stake in TMTP to 90.9 percent. On the same day, the state block of shares Northwestern Shipping Company(25.5 percent of the shares) was bought for 934 million rubles by the Passenger Port OJSC, a member of VBTH. As a result of this transaction, Lisin's structure increased its share in the shipping company to 87.923 percent,,,,,. Thus, by the spring of 2011, the international transport holding UCLH united stevedoring (related to the performance of loading and unloading operations and stowage of cargo on the ship - ed.) companies of the Sea Port of St. Petersburg group and Universal Transshipment Complex LLC, Tuapse and Taganrog seaports, Volga, North-Western and Western shipping companies, as well as a number of shipbuilding, shipping, cruise and logistics companies.

At the end of the same month, Lisin's Independent Transport Company bought 75 percent minus two shares of Freight One, a Russian Railways subsidiary. The acquired company was the country's largest operator freight traffic on Russian railways. The shares were sold at an auction, and Lisin's representatives managed to win at it, taking only one step to raise the price to 125.5 billion rubles,,.

In early 2001, Lisin was elected vice president of the National Federation of Sporting (shooting on plastic plates). From his youth he was fond of shooting, and by this time he had already received the rank of master of sports. In April 2001, Lisin headed sport Club"Lipetsk Metallurgist", created in the late 1990s on the initiative of the businessman himself. By 2001, the club united two Sports Palaces (an athletics arena "Jubilee" and a swimming pool "Neptun"), a new boxing and kickboxing center "Ring", as well as a sports complex "Junior", a shooting and bench complex, two shooting ranges for bullet shooting, football base, health and rehabilitation centers. NLMK annually allocated up to 70 million rubles for the development of the club. In 2002, the businessman actually took over the country's shooting team, heading the Russian Shooting Union,,. Repeatedly re-elected to that post, he built the Lisya Nora shooting complex in the Moscow region.

Lisin holds the post of vice-president of the International Union of Metallurgists and is an honorary metallurgist of Russia. He wrote 47 scientific publications, 10 books (some of them have been translated into English language) on the problems of metallurgy, ecology and economics, has 49 copyright certificates and patents for inventions in the field of production of non-ferrous and ferrous metals, automation and mechanization of metallurgical processes. In particular, in the database of Rospatent, Lisin is listed as the author of new methods for washing a blast furnace, processing steel in a ladle and obtaining a coating on a metal strip.

Lisin - Doctor of Technical and Economic Sciences, he defended his doctoral dissertation in economics in 2005 on the topic "Formation of the conceptual foundations of the organizational and economic development of ferrous metallurgy in the context of global competition" . Since September 2001, Lisin has been a professor at the Department of Market Problems and the Economic Mechanism of the Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation, he has conducted master classes at the Young Businessman School at the State University - high school Economics (SU-HSE) . In 1989, he became a laureate of the USSR Council of Ministers Prize in the field of science and technology,,.

In 2000, the entrepreneur was awarded the Order of Honor - "for his great contribution to the development of the metallurgical industry and many years of conscientious work." In May 2001, the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' awarded Lisin the Order of Sergius of Radonezh III degree - "for many years of support provided to the revival of Orthodox shrines, assistance in publishing the Orthodox Encyclopedia and other services to the Russian Orthodox Church". As journalists were told in the press service of the Novolipetsk Combine, in 2000 NLMK spent 120 million rubles on charity, and in 2001 it planned to spend 200 million rubles. So, with the help of the Novolipetsk Combine in the Voronezh-Lipetsk diocese, 42 churches were restored, in addition, funds allocated by the Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works and Lisin personally received the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow, the Annunciation Cathedral in Voronezh, the Zadonsky male and female monasteries in the Lipetsk region , monasteries in Murom, Suzdal, Ryazan, Tambov, Bryansk. In addition, in 2001, Lisin, responding to the offer of the church, began to pay Makarievsky prizes for works on Orthodoxy from personal funds, national history and Moscow studies. He also became involved in the financial support of educational programs that were implemented by the Makariev Foundation, and was soon appointed a trustee of the foundation.

In April 2005, the Russian version of Forbes magazine estimated Lisin's fortune at $7 billion. According to the publication, the owner of NLMK then ranked second in the ranking of the richest citizens of Russia. In the first place was the governor of Chukotka with 14.7 billion dollars. According to Finance magazine, by 2007, Lisin's fortune was $ 13.9 billion. However, the Russian version of Forbes magazine cited other figures: in the list of the hundred richest Russians, Lisin ranked third, his assets were estimated at $ 15.1 billion.

In May 2008, Lisin's fortune was estimated by Forbes at $ 20.3 billion, but the global crisis that began in the fall of 2008 dealt a serious blow to him. The crisis forced him to abandon his planned purchase of the American pipe company John Maneely Company, but he completed a deal to acquire Beta Steel, its main supplier of rolled steel, for $350 million. In 2009, "Finance" placed Lisin in third place with a fortune of $ 7.7 billion (226.2 billion rubles), while in the Russian version of Forbes magazine he was in fifth place with a fortune of $ 5.2 billion. It also became known that NLMK's net profit in the first half of 2009 compared to the same period in 2008 decreased by 49.3 percent (from 44.32 billion rubles to 22.46 billion rubles) . In February 2010, Finance named Lisin the richest person in Russia with a fortune of US$18.8 billion. In April of the same year, Lisin topped the list of the richest Russian businessmen of the Russian Forbes, according to which the entrepreneur's fortune was $ 15.8 billion. In the rating of American Forbes billionaires, published in March 2011, Lisin took the fourteenth place, being the richest Russian; his fortune at that time was already estimated at 24 billion dollars. IN Forbes ranking in 2012, Lisin's fortune was estimated at $15.9 billion; he took 41st place among the world and second place among Russian billionaires, losing the championship (18.1 billion dollars),.

Lisin is married, his wife's name is Lyudmila, they are raising three children,. Lisin collects Kasli iron castings [

Undoubtedly, a prominent businessman Vladimir Lisin is a colorful and authoritative figure in Russian business circles. His financial condition is in the billions of dollars, and this is entirely his merit. Many entrepreneurs know Vladimir Lisin as the owner of a huge metallurgical concern. He lives in two states - Russia and Scotland. In the north of the British Isle, he owns a luxurious castle. At home, he prefers to spend a significant part of his leisure time in his own country club with the intriguing name "Fox Hole", where in a few hours he can create a mini-copy of Venice with its unique palaces and picturesque canals. It is within the power of a businessman to establish metallurgical production with and

Popular magazine"Forbes" has already identified him in the top twenty of the world, and printed edition"Finance" has repeatedly awarded him the status of "The richest man in Russia." So who is he, businessman Vladimir Lisin? What is the secret of his success in life? Let's consider these questions in more detail.

Facts from the biography

Of course, not everyone knows what kind of person Vladimir Lisin is? The biography of a businessman, of course, deserves separate consideration. He comes from Ivanovo, was born on May 7, 1956. In fairness, it should be noted that in childhood Vladimir Lisin was a rather phlegmatic child. He was reserved and laconic. The boy did not like to stick out his "I", trying to stay in the shadow of his classmates. The child was not a bully and a bully. But he was not devoid of positive qualities: his concentration and attentiveness helped him get fours and fives in subjects. There were also twos and threes, but there were not many of them. From a young age, his parents instilled in him such qualities as perseverance and determination. That is why in the future he could bring to the end all the things he started.

Start of work

The future oligarch Vladimir Lisin, whose nationality is Russian, began to earn money when he turned 19 years old.

He was accepted as an electrician at the Kuzbass coal mine. However, the young man quickly realized that without higher education his career would develop slowly, and entered the Siberian Metallurgical Institute. In 1979, Lisin was already a certified steelworker by profession.

Study goes hand in hand with work

He receives experience and skills in work at the Tulachermet enterprise, where he cooks steel. Gradually, he tries himself in other positions and after some time becomes an assistant to the head of the shop. In parallel with this, he is engaged in scientific work and in 1984 becomes a graduate student of the Ukrainian Research Institute of Metallurgy. After that, Lisin works at metallurgical plants located in various geographical points of Russia. He changed positions like gloves, was both an assistant chief engineer and deputy head, and was a member of the board of directors of a number of metallurgical plants. For five whole years he sat in the executive body of JSC Sayan Aluminum Plant, in parallel with this there was a membership in the Board of Directors of JSC Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works.

Subsequently, the entrepreneur was elected vice-president of the commercial structure Trans-Cis-Commodites Ltd, which was perceived as a serious competitor in the aluminum market. But also about scientific activity Vladimir Lisin, whose photo is often periodically published in popular business publications, does not forget.

In 1994, the future oligarch receives a diploma and two years later he graduates from the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys.

Business career

Since 1996, Lisin decides to take up entrepreneurial activity. Having acquired a certain amount of securities of the Novolipetsk Metallurgical Plant, he establishes an offshore company Worslade Trading, registered in Ireland, and begins to sell metal abroad. After that, the businessman begins to gradually acquire shares in the largest metallurgical plants, taking control of the shares.

In 1997, Vladimir Lisin became a member of executive body JSC Magnitogorsk Iron and Steel Works, works as the General Director and heads the Russian Management Metallurgical Company.

The well-being of a businessman is rapidly increasing.

The oligarch becomes a wealthy man

By 2008, he already owns more than $20 billion. However, the coming economic crisis caused serious damage to the financial assets of the entrepreneur, reducing his income to 5.2 billion dollars. But already in early 2010, Lisin's affairs went uphill again, and he was able to bring his profit to $ 18.8 billion. In 2013, he owned $17.2 billion. Of course, many tried to find out from him the secret, thanks to which he became a financially independent person. He emphasized that in many ways he was able to enrich himself at the expense of his business qualities: communication skills, ability to find compromises, think globally, understand market conditions.

Political ambitions

The entrepreneur took part in the election campaign of Alexei Lebed, who planned to take the chair of the head of the government of the Khakass Republic.

In 1998, Vladimir Sergeevich could head the administration of the Lipetsk region, but subsequently he refused to participate in the elections in favor of Mikhail Neirolin.

Journalists have repeatedly written that Vladimir Lisin, whose family strongly supports the businessman in all his endeavors, does not like to appear in corporate conflicts, trying to keep a distance from the Kremlin lobby.

The businessman prefers shooting sports in his spare time. He first took up arms when he was 12 years old. He himself planned to build a shooting base "Fox hole". Today Lisin leads the Shooting Union, while financing our team. He himself says that he invests about 90% of his personal money in the domestic economy. The oligarch also owns the Business FM radio station.

Vladimir Sergeevich also owns a newspaper of the same name. She comes out once a week. The businessman states that his task was to establish an independent print publication that would objectively analyze the facts and acquaint the reader with them.

Personal life

The oligarch Vladimir Lisin also had a successful personal life.

He is happily married and has three children. The businessman tries to hide facts about his personal life from journalists. We can say about him that he is an exemplary family man. Vladimir Lisin's wife is his classmate. She owns the chamber gallery "Seasons", which shows paintings by private artists for selected collectors. Lyudmila (that's her wife's name) collects the works of masters who worked in the 19th and 20th centuries. The pride of her collection is a painting by Petrov-Vodkin, which was presented to her by her husband himself, Vladimir Lisin. The businessman's children are Alexander, Vyacheslav and Dmitry. The oligarch recalls that it was the concern for his offspring that inspired him to engage in entrepreneurial activities in order to provide his family members with a comfortable life. Now every son of Vladimir Lisin has the right to count on a large inheritance.

Conclusion

The businessman's competitors, envious of his success, argue that the oligarch's main passion is money, and he is ready to do anything to achieve this goal. However, it is precisely such entrepreneurs that Russia needs to revive the national economy.

The person who passed thorny path from a simple steelworker to a billionaire, cannot but deserve respect, especially if he achieved everything himself. And Vladimir Sergeevich had to rely only on his own strength.

He does not compete with other rich people in buying luxury villas, luxury yachts, he does not even have the habit of wearing expensive watches. His passion is the collection of Kasli cast iron, collected by the businessman for many years. He loves to read scientific and fiction loves to smoke a quality cigar. The businessman is sure that rich people do not have much more joys than poor people.

“Financial independence can provide more opportunities, and nothing more, but such things as the sky, the sun, the sea, are available to everyone,” he emphasizes.

Vladimir Sergeevich Lisin is an oligarch who made a billion-dollar fortune in steel and cargo transportation, the head of the industry giant, the Novolipetsk Iron and Steel Works (NLMK), the owner of the UCL corporation, the Lisya Nora sporting complex, and the head of the supervisory board of the Rumedea media holding.

Previously, he served as Deputy General Director of MK Karaganda, was a partner of the international provider of multimodal integrated logistics services Trans-World Group and a member of the collective management of many specialized companies.

Childhood and family of Vladimir Lisin

The future metallurgy magnate was born in the city of Ivanovo on May 7, 1956. During his school years, he studied well, was a calm, persistent and somewhat withdrawn child. In 1973, the young man - a student of the Siberian State Metallurgical Institute. S. Ordzhonikidze in the city of Novokuznetsk, Kemerovo region. Since 1975, he got a job as an electrician at the Yuzhkuzbassugol mine.

After graduating from the university in 1978, the young specialist was sent to Tula to a metallurgical plant, where at first he worked as a steelmaker, and then became the deputy head of the shop. In addition to practical activities, the enterprising engineer was also engaged in scientific work - in 1984 he completed his postgraduate studies at UkrNIImet in Kharkov.

Career development of Vladimir Lisin

At the age of 30, Vladimir became the chief engineer of a metallurgical giant in Karaganda, at the age of 33 he received the post of deputy to Oleg Soskovets, who at that time was the general director of this enterprise. In 1991, he was appointed head of the Minchermet, and his deputy moved to the capital after his boss. There he acquired contacts useful for business (with Cherny, Sam Kislin), studied at the Higher School of the Ministry of Economic Development. The following year, he was included in the management of the aluminum smelting plant in Sayanogorsk.

Since 1993 he has been business partner in the TWG (Trans-World Group) of the Ruben and Black clans. Since 1993, as a representative of this company, he has been a member of the supervisory boards of a number of large specialized plants - Magnitogorsk, Krasnoyarsk, NLMK, Bratsk, Novokuznetsk aluminum smelting plants.

In addition, he continued to engage in raising the level of education, science, and his own developments in the field of casting and steel rolling. In 1994, he earned another diploma from the Academy of National Economy (RANEPA, after merging with an educational institution of the civil service). Then he studied for 2 years at the doctoral program at the National Research Technological University MISiS.

Business of Vladimir Lisin

After the resonant resignation of Soskovets from the post of Deputy Prime Minister (who oversaw 14 ministries), the TWG broke up. At that time, the businessman owned 13 percent of NLMK shares, and 34 percent in TWG. His former partners intended to bankrupt the company and sell it, dividing the profits. However, Lisin decided to intercept a controlling stake in the plant.

He established Worslade Trading offshore and conducted financial transactions through it when exporting metal. Then, allegedly, in agreement with Vladimir Potanin (his structures managed the shares of foreign investors, including the American George Soros and one of the richest residents of New Zealand, the Chandler brothers), he bought out their 50 percent stake and became the owner of a 63 percent stake. Since 1998, he has become the head of HLMK.

Vladimir Sergeevich unexpectedly sold his shares in TWG to Potanin. Lisin decided not to buy them at an unreasonably high cost, but in retaliation he bought the securities of Norilsk Nickel, the main asset of his former, who turned out to be treacherous, partner Potanin. In 2001, he again surprised - he stopped unfriendly actions and conceded the disputed papers at the price of their purchase.

Vladimir Sergeevich, accordingly, also sold his shares in Norilsk Nickel. Both oligarchs subsequently engaged not in corporate wars, but in increasing the efficiency of production and labor productivity at their enterprises.

Vladimir Lisin - "I dream" to sell NLMK

In order to diversify the capital structure, in 2007 the businessman became a shareholder of Zenit Bank through Silener Management.

Personal life of Vladimir Lisin

The billionaire has been married for many years to his classmate Lyudmila, with whom they even sat at the same desk. They are happily married. He is classified as a person who is not inclined to advertise information about the family, for example, there is no data on the profession of parents, age and occupation of children on the global network. It is known that the couple raised three sons - Alexander, Vyacheslav and Dmitry.

His wife has been creating a systematic collection of works by Russian artists for more than 10 years. She owns the chamber painting gallery "Seasons", located near the metro station Sretensky Boulevard in Moscow. There are often interesting exhibitions, usually works from closed private collections.

The idea to start collecting paintings came to her after her husband gave her the work of an original artist Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin. In one of the interviews, she admitted that she constantly strives to expand the circle of her knowledge in the field of art, which elevates the world of our being.

According to the annual ranking of billionaires according to the American edition of Forbes-2016, the head of NLMK ranked 116th in the world and 8th among richest Russians. Over the past 2015, his fortune has decreased from 11.6 to 9.3 billion dollars, that is, by $2.3 billion.

The tycoon loves his luxurious mansion in Scotland, cigars, reading literature, hunting and relaxing in his club in the Moscow region. His passion is not only shooting, but also a collection of more than two hundred samples of Kasli casting - architectural and artistic cast iron products made in the city of Kasli, Chelyabinsk Region.

Vladimir Lisin today

After the financial difficulties associated with the crisis, in 2010 the magnate, who knows how to think globally and make the right decisions, was again able to increase financial indicators NLMK. In 2011, with a capital of $ 24 billion, he became the wealthiest person in the Russian Federation.

In 2012, the oligarch completed a deal to purchase state shares in the domestic railway carrier, Freight One, including it in his UCL logistics concern. The company has 3 divisions - railway, stevedoring and shipping, and unites the seaport of the Northern capital, shipyard in Shlisselburg Leningrad region, Oka shipyard and others. The deal was valued at $5.8 billion.

The oligarch is a supporter of the unification of metallurgical companies. In particular, earlier, together with Alexander Abramov, head of the Nizhny Tagil Iron and Steel Works (including the metallurgical and mining company Evraz with assets in the Russian Federation, Ukraine, the USA, South Africa, the Czech Republic and other countries), he created and headed Russian Steel.

Interview with Vladimir Lisin about transportation

In 2013 he was included in the guide international organization Sports Shooting (ISSF), in 2014 - became its vice-president, and also took a similar position in the Russian Olympic Committee. He is also the head of the national Shooting Union, the European Shooting Confederation (ESC).