Maschitsky Vitaly Lvovich biography. Maschitsky Vitaly Lvovich: biography, achievements, family and interesting facts

Business and connections of Vitaly Maschitsky: from AP with Borodin to Rostec (with Chemezov we “smoked together, we’ve been friends all our lives”)

Rinat Sagdiev, Bela Lauv

I have a group with whom I work - bankers, first of all: [Boris] Berezovsky, [Alexander] Smolensky, [Sergei] Pugachev and Maschitsky, and a number of other people,” the then Administrator of the President of Russia Pavel Borodin. If you don’t need to introduce the first three, then only a narrow circle of people knew Maschitsky. Maschitsky knew how to negotiate with everyone and achieve his goal. But at the same time he avoided politics and, perhaps, that’s why he was not public, recalls an acquaintance of the businessman in the early 1990s. More than twenty years later, the tactics remain the same. True, Maschitsky now prefers to work with the Rostec state corporation.

Investments at the start

In 1993, Borodin left for Moscow, becoming the first manager of the presidential affairs. By that time, Maschitsky had already lived in the capital for several years, although he conducted business mainly in his native Irkutsk: his Sibmix International supplied wood to China and Japan. Friendship grew into business cooperation and helped Maschitsky acquire a spacious office in Moscow. In 1996, his company, on a parity basis with the structure of the Presidential Administration (UDP), created the company Tsentrinvestservice, into which the management contributed the building of the former State Supply Agency next to the station. m. "Mayakovskaya". The dilapidated building needed reconstruction, and the UDP did not have money, explains the businessman. The house housed the offices of Maschitsky's structures. Two years later, Tsentrinvestservice carried out an additional share issue, which reduced the share of UDP to 23.9%.

In 2000, Borodin ceased to be the manager of the president’s affairs, and three years later the UDP demanded through the court that the building be returned. The officials won and the building had to be returned. This was planned from the very beginning, the court is only a return mechanism, Maschitsky explains now.

And in 1999, Maschitsky again had to sue over the UDP. Swiss and Italian prosecutors suspected that Borodin and people associated with him received commissions from the companies Mabetex and Mercata for contracts for the reconstruction of the Kremlin. Maschitsky’s ABC Trading Establishment was among the companies that received money from Mabetex along the chain: $7 million was transferred to it by Zofos Enterprises, which was involved in the scandal. These were not kickbacks, but payment for acquired shares of another company, Maschitsky proved in the courts. However, he complains, his lawyers are forced to show foreign banks a full folder of won cases every time, proving that the charges of foreign prosecutors were unfounded.

Oil tycoon

In 1992, Maschitsky created the Rosinvestneft company, which began restoring oil wells at the Samotlor field, receiving in return the right to sell oil to Nizhnevartovskneftegaz (NIS). Three years later, the government allocated the company an annual quota of 2 million tons of NIS oil in exchange for investment in production. In 15 months, Rosinvestneft managed to invest $159 million in the repair and restoration of equipment, Maschitsky assures. By that time, this company was one of the five largest oil exporters.

In 1995, the government created the Tyumen Oil Company (TNK), including the NIS, and a year later sold the state stake (91%). Maschitsky participated in the auction, but lost to the alliance of Alfa Group and Renova. “I already had 9% of TNK, I bought it from Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s Menatep. Plus, we have already invested a lot in the company,” explains Maschitsky. He sold his stake to the winners.

But Maschitsky did not leave the industry, purchasing assets from one of the largest private oil companies of that time - Sidanco. The largest oil refiner in the Far East, the Angarsk Petrochemical Combine (ANHK), which is part of it, was among the clients of the NIS. The company was doing poorly, and it owed Maschitsky's companies $43 million. Therefore, when Sidanco offered Maschitsky to buy Far Eastern assets - ANKhK, Khabarovsk Oil Refinery and 14 sales companies, he immediately agreed. The purchase was inexpensive, the businessman recalls, without giving the exact amount. A couple of years later, he sold the ANHK to Khodorkovsky’s YUKOS “for several hundred million dollars,” and the sales companies and the Khabarovsk Oil Refinery to Musa Bazhaev’s Alliance.

Maschitsky invested the money in development projects in Moscow, becoming a partner with the brothers Alexander and Shalva Chigirinsky at ST group. “I was an investor and at the same time responsible for managing and creating a land bank,” he says, adding that his money bought “quite a lot of plots” at city tenders. After the 1998 crisis, he left ST Group, taking five buildings in Moscow to pay for his share. Since then, other real estate properties have been added to them, and now Maschitsky's structures have 100,000 sq. m. m (see).

After Borodin’s resignation from the post of manager of presidential affairs, Maschitsky moved to St. Petersburg. Here he tried to invest in cinema together with St. Petersburg actor and producer Alexander Polyakov and engage in development with son of the director of the Federal Security Service Evgeniy Murov Andrey. But the film studio went bankrupt, and the development companies were liquidated.

Bet on aluminum

In November 1998, Krasner, who by that time had resigned from Marc Rich, unexpectedly came to Mashchitsky and Alexander Chigirinsky in the office on Mayakovskaya and asked for help in returning the $2 million stolen from him: he transferred this money for the supply of aluminum to the bankrupt state company Non-Ferrous Metals and alloys,” which owned the Mtsensk Non-Ferrous Metals Plant, but received nothing. But Krasner kept silent about the fact that it was on this day that his assets were frozen by a London court at the suit of Marc Rich Investment. A former employer suspected several managers of multimillion-dollar theft. The trader demanded exactly $2 million from Krasner.

Chigirinsky and Maschitsky promised to negotiate with the external manager of Non-Ferrous Metals on the return of the money. All assets of the plant were transferred to the new company Mtsensk Aluminum, which at the end of 1999 was given to Krasner as debt. Then the structures of Chigirinsky and Maschitsky also became major shareholders of the plant. As a result, Maschitsky and Krasner sold shares in the plant to Chigirinsky, and Krasner was able to repay the debt to Marc Rich, Maschitsky says.

After this, his collaboration with Maschitsky expanded. A native of Irkutsk did not know how to build a business in the West and did not speak English, so Krasner became his guide. He chose and managed, and Maschitsky invested. The first experience was unsuccessful. First, the partners lost up to $6 million on the purchase of two IT companies. Then Krasner’s acquaintance, former trader Stefan Arnswald, said that the Romanian government, at the request of the World Bank, was preparing to privatize aluminum smelters in the country.

Maschitsky and Krasner decided to participate in the privatization of the Alro Slatina alumina refinery. But they did not have the necessary money, so the partners decided to gradually purchase shares from private shareholders. They hid their Russian roots: negotiations on the acquisition of shares were conducted first by the American Marc International Corp, and later by its “daughter”, the English Marco Acquisitions Ltd, noted in London court documents. Both structures belonged, of course, to Maschitsky and Krasner. They spent two years negotiating with Romanian officials, bankers and minority shareholders of enterprises. By 2000, the goal was achieved: Maschitsky and his partner collected almost 42% of the company's shares. And when the businessman sold his oil assets, he bought another 10% of Alro Slatina shares at a privatization competition. Next, the partners acquired the Alum Tulcea alumina refinery and the Alprom aluminum production plant, merging them into the Vimetco holding.

Krasner claimed that he helped Maschitsky become a partner of Gazprom. Their Romanian company Conef became a gas supplier to the country in 2002. According to Maschitsky, he began working with Gazprom at the request of “Turkish friends” - officials whom he met while supplying aluminum to Turkey from Romanian factories. They asked to fill the Blue Stream pipe, which was then operating at 30% capacity, and to set the same prices for all consumers, the businessman lists. Things went well. Until 2007, 5 billion cubic meters passed through Conef. m of gas, and in 2007 the company signed a contract with Gazprom for the supply in 2010-2030. 42 billion cubic meters m of gas.

In 2004, Krasner and Maschitsky separated. Krasner claimed 20% in Vimetco, but Maschitsky insisted that the partner had to invest his own funds in the project. A London court in 2005 rejected Krasner's claims to a stake in Vimetco.

A year later, Maschitsky exchanged a 15% stake in Vimetco for a small aluminum production in China and began building a holding company in this country. Investments in the project, according to his estimates, amounted to $3.3 billion, of which more than a third were his own funds.

And this summer, the wife of Maschitsky’s friend, Mikhail Shlosberg, became a co-owner of Vimetco. Her Castle Investment Fund Ltd received 25% of the company in exchange for a debt restructuring. The story developed like this. Maschitsky was unable to repay a $200 million loan taken in 2010 to pay off Vimetco’s debts, according to London court materials. The businessman was not satisfied with the capitalization of the holding on the London Stock Exchange. Vimetco held an IPO in 2007, but after the crisis its capitalization fell 30 times to $66 million. Although only one of its Chinese “subsidiaries” was valued at $1.7 billion on the Shanghai Stock Exchange. Maschitsky wanted to delist in London and list in Hong Kong , but this required withdrawing the shares from collateral in banks. The businessman asked Schlosberg for a loan of $200 million for two years at 24% per annum.

Schlosberg gave $100 million himself, and borrowed another $100 million from his friend, Ukrainian businessman Vitaly Gaiduk. Maschitsky has not yet returned the money, and now Gaiduk is demanding millions from Schlosberg in a London court. Shlosberg refuses, citing, among other things, the fact that he himself is suing Maschitsky. But from the same court materials it follows that in June of this year, the structures of Shlosberg and Maschitsky signed an agreement to transfer a stake in the Castle Investment Fund company. Maschitsky showed Vedomosti the original extract, which indicated that the shares had already been transferred to the new owner. Gaiduk told the court that he considers this deal an attempt by Schlosberg to withdraw assets from the company.

At the same time, things have not yet improved for Vimetco: in 2013, it received a $150 million loss on revenue of $2.2 billion, its liabilities are estimated at $4.6 billion.

Investment in friendship

In 2009, Rostec, for the sale and rental of non-core real estate of all its companies, established a subsidiary, RT - Construction Technologies, of which Maschitsky became the permanent chairman of the board of directors. The holding owns 30 million sq. m of real estate and more than 400,000 hectares of land. In 2012-2013 In terms of the planned volume of real estate for sale (243 buildings in Moscow with an area of ​​more than 600,000 sq. m), the company entered the top five along with the Russian Federal Property Fund, the Moscow Property Department and the Ministry of Defense. The company has not yet announced data on the results of the sale.

Maschitsky is an independent director of RT - Construction Technologies, the press service of Rostec reported. The state corporation is creating a new corporate governance system. The goal of the reform is to “contribute to increasing the efficiency and investment attractiveness of holding companies and other organizations” of Rostec.

In 2010, when Rostec decided to also engage in cement production, top managers of Maschitsky’s companies joined the board of directors of the Russian Cement Company, established by the state corporation together with Oleg Sharykin’s Siberian Cement. Maschitsky says that he has already withdrawn from this deal. The press service of Rostec reported the same thing.

In May 2011, Rostec became interested in the Buryat jade deposits, which account for 90% of the proven reserves of this semi-precious stone, valued in China. A year later, his structure received a license for a small area of ​​the deposit, and inspectors began visiting the owners of the main areas - the Evenki family community "Dylacha". Based on the results of inspections, the community’s license was revoked in 2013 and temporarily transferred to the Transbaikal Mining Company, controlled by Rostec. Maschitsky also heads its board of directors.

In 2011, VI Holding Maschitsky received the right to develop 65 hectares in Tushino, next to the recently opened Spartak stadium. Investments in the project are estimated at $2 billion. In 2013, the vice-president of Lukoil, co-owner of Spartak, Leonid Fedun, told RBC that Rostec was behind Maschitsky’s Vi Holding Development company. Negotiations are underway with Rostec about the construction of a business center, which could become the new headquarters for the corporation, Maschitsky says. The press service of the state corporation only confirmed that “the project is going through the necessary corporate procedures.”

But the businessman’s biggest plans for cooperation with Rostec are still not in Russia, but far beyond its borders. In August 2014, the Minister of Mining of the African Republic of Zimbabwe, Walter Chidakwa, announced that Maschitsky’s VI Holding, Rostec and VEB would invest $1.6 billion in the development of a platinum deposit in the Darwendale Valley, the second largest in the world. This is only the first stage, the total investment in the project will exceed $3 billion, Maschitsky says. As of this year, he and his partners own a stake in Ruschrome Mining, a joint venture with the Zimbabwean government that holds the license for the deposit. Each participant has 50%. The license will be reissued to the Afromet company, and Rostec and VEB will become its co-owners.

Rostec is interested in developing cooperation with African countries. Therefore, when they offered to participate in the development of a platinum deposit, “we weighed all the risks and made a positive decision,” the press service of the state corporation reported. Rostec has strong enterprises that are ready to export their technologies and create joint ventures with foreign partners, the press service explains. However, “it is too early to talk about any other projects.”

Real estate connoisseur

In 2010, Mashchitsky’s company acquired the Format complex in Mytishchi (12,000 sq. m of offices and a furniture retail center of 24,000 sq. m.).

Biography:

Born June 2, 1954; graduated from the Faculty of Economics of the Irkutsk Institute of National Economy in 1975; worked in management positions in the capital construction system;

1980-1989 - head of one of the large self-supporting divisions of the Irkutsk DSK - the production and technological equipment management, then deputy head of the Irkutsk DSK, deputy manager of the Irkutsk large-panel housing construction trust and deputy head of Glavyakutstroy of the USSR Ministry of Vostokstroy;

1989-1990 - Deputy General Director of the joint Soviet-Finnish enterprise Primphex;

since 1990 - co-owner,

since 1991 - General Director of the joint Soviet-British timber enterprise Sibmix International, later - the holding company Sibmix International CJSC, which includes a number of timber processing enterprises and timber industry enterprises in the Irkutsk region;

since 1992 - President of ZAO Rosinvestneft; heads and is the founder and director of a number of other enterprises: Rosinvestnefteprodukt Company LLP, Center-investservice CJSC, Baikal-Intourist OJSC, MFPK Novy Gorod OJSC; in the ST Group holding he is a managing partner; member of the Government commission on CIS issues (1997);

in June 2000, he was elected chairman of the board of directors of the Angarsk Petrochemical Company; President, Chairman of the Board of Directors of OJSC Rosinvestneft; Member of the Board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs; married, has two sons. During the implementation of the investment program of the New City holding headed by V. Mashitsky,

in 1991-1997, 12 extra-class buildings with a total area of ​​60 thousand square meters were built in Moscow. m.

viperson.ru , 01.06.2015

In 1999, Rinco Holding, created by Vitaly Maschitsky on the basis of the Rosinvestneft company, took 50.3% of the Angarsk Petrochemical Company (ANHK) OJSC for debts from SIDANKO, which owned 8.5% of the shares of RUSIA Petroleum OJSC (holds a license to one of the largest in Russia Kovykta gas condensate field) and a controlling stake in the Khabarovsk Oil Refinery. After one and a half to two years, ANKhK was sold to YUKOS (now the petrochemical company is owned by Rosneft), the refinery was bought by the Alliance group of the Bazhaev family, and the share in RUSIA Petroleum was bought by TNK.

Businessman, 23.07.2007

Married with two children (Pavel and Leonid)

Dossier:

The RINKO company grew out of an Irkutsk logging enterprise. In 1989, a 35-year-old native of the capital construction system, Vitaly Maschitsky, created the Russian-British enterprise Sibmix International in Irkutsk for the logging of round timber. The company operated quite successfully. For a short time, Maschitsky even formed common projects with the presidential administration, in particular, together with the Enterprise for the supply of products to the presidential administration, the company "Centrinvestservice" was established. Unfortunately, we were unable to find out the nature of her business. Currently, Maschitsky’s share in this company is represented by three offshore companies, which are also listed as the founders of RINKO. In total, RINKO has five shareholders, and all are registered in offshore zones - however, Mr. Maschitsky does not hide the fact that, regardless of the formal names of the founders, control over the company belongs entirely to him.

Expert, 23.04.2000

At that time, thoughts about purchasing Irkutskenergo began to appear in some hotheads. Fortunately, then there were opportunities to make very good capital without much difficulty. Thus, Vitaly Maschitsky appeared among the applicants for the state block of shares in Irkutskenergo in 1995. At that time, his company Rosinvestneft specialized in supplying raw materials to the Angarsk plant.

“Mashchitsky at that time earned a lot of money from the receivables of ANKhK,” says Yuri Faleichik. “And this is not strange. At that time, more than 20 people at the plant had the right to sign financial documents. This is how an agreement appeared, difficult for Angarka and very profitable for Mashitskiy. His company received the right to collect huge fines for insignificant delays in oil payments. The text stated that if a debt arises, then the interest is paid off first, and then the body of the debt.

irkutsk.aldana.ru , 26.09.2005

In April 2004, the Trento prosecutor's office issued an arrest warrant for the ex-general director of Rosvooruzhenie, Evgeny Ananyev, and his ex-wife Olga Beltsova. Ananyev was accused of receiving a bribe of $18 million in 1998 when he sold three MiG-29 fighters to Peru for $117 million. He transferred $5 million through Swiss banks to a joint account with Beltsova in Italy. As Trento prosecutor Stefano Dragone told RIA Novosti yesterday (translated from Italian, his surname means “dragon” and at the same time “well done”), he and his ex-wife also appear on the list of account owners where commissions from contracts concluded were transferred Mercata with the Presidential Administration. Besides them, this list includes Borodin’s daughter Ekaterina Siletskaya, US citizen Viktor Bondarenko and his wife Ravida, Russian citizens Andrei Nerodenkov with his wife Margarita and Milena Novotorzhkina, Israeli Vitaly Maschitsky, and Swiss lawyer Gregory Connor. The prosecutor's office issued an arrest warrant for all of these individuals, except Beltsova. According to Dragone, Ananyev laundered $2.7 million allocated for the reconstruction of the Kremlin, and Siletskaya laundered more than $5 million. A former Rosoboronexport employee expressed surprise that Ananyev was associated with Borodin’s daughter: “He was placed in Rosvooruzhenie not by someone from the inner circle of [ex-President Boris] Yeltsin, and in the company he was never associated with Borodin.”

Vedomosti, 09.11.2005

Many inhabitants of Akulinin are fond of hunting. In January 2012, Sergei Yastrzhembsky, Sergei Chemezov, Vladimir Artyakov, Igor Zavyalov, Sergei Lisovsky and Ruben Vardanyan created a non-profit partnership to promote the development of the Vremena Goda environmental zone (according to SPARK) - a kind of club that united lovers of hunting and tourism.

Old-timer Akulinina Yastrzhembsky is an avid trophy hunter, a member of the international safari club, and is among those awarded for hunting the “Big Five of Africa” (elephant, rhinoceros, buffalo, lion and leopard). Chemezov was interested in sports shooting while working in Germany, and then switched to hunting. Lisovsky has photographs posted on his personal website, including those of shot deer and wild boar. Neither the members of the partnership nor its director wanted to communicate with Vedomosti.

The founders of Vremena Goda also include the founder of the Mother and Child clinic Mark Kurtser, CSKA President Evgeny Giner and entrepreneur Vitaly Maschitsky. Residents of Akulinin say that these businessmen also have plots in the village - next to the rest of the hunters. But Vedomosti was unable to find data on this in Rosreestr. Giner and Kurtser did not answer Vedomosti’s questions, and it was impossible to contact Maschitsky.

Pomeranian Center for Public Policy, 01.07.2013

It is worth noting that Vitaly Maschitsky comes from the Irkutsk region. And as Irkutsk sources report, today he has considerable influence on local politics, including personally on the regional governor Sergei Eroshchenko. In the past, an oil producer who earned millions of dollars from black gold, Maschitsky was also involved in metals and collaborated with Gazprom. Today, most of his projects are based on cooperation with Rostec.

As Maschitsky himself admitted, they have been friends with Sergei Chemezov since childhood. It turns out that a serious person represents Buryatia’s jade as a state matter, although Rostec’s share is only 25 percent. This suggests a conclusion: private individuals are hiding behind Mr. Gevorkyan and Granit CJSC.

To summarize, we can say with confidence that Buryat jade is no longer a state matter. “Russian Technologies” is just a name. The jade redistribution has been completed, but in whose favor it is again unknown.

Maschitsky Vitaly Lvovich(born June 2, 1954, Cheremkhovo, Irkutsk region, RSFSR, USSR) - Russian businessman, founder and president of the Vi Holding group of companies, chairman of the board of directors of Vimetco. Through the company, Vimetco controls the Romanian aluminum producer Alro and the Chinese Henan Zhongfu Industry Co. The childhood friend of the general director of the Rostec corporation, Sergei Chemezov, is his secret “wallet”.

In 1975 he graduated from the Faculty of Economics of the Irkutsk Institute of National Economy. After graduating from the institute, he worked in construction organizations in the Irkutsk region. In 1980-1989 - head of the production and technological equipment department of the Irkutsk house-building plant (DSK), then deputy head of the Irkutsk DSK, deputy manager of the Irkutsk large-panel house-building trust and deputy head of Glavyakutstroy of the USSR Ministry of Vostokstroy.

Since 1989 - Deputy General Director of the joint Soviet-Finnish enterprise Primphex. Since 1990 - co-owner, and since 1991 - general director of the joint Soviet-British timber enterprise Sibmix International (later on - the holding company Sibmix International CJSC), which included a number of timber processing enterprises and timber industry enterprises in the Irkutsk region.

In 1991-1997 he owned the construction company "New City" in Moscow. In 1992, he founded and headed the oil company ZAO Rosinvestneft. In 1999, Rinco Holding, created by Vitaly Maschitsky on the basis of the Rosinvestneft company, took 50.3% of the Angarsk Petrochemical Company (ANHK) OJSC for debts from SIDANKO, which owned 8.5% of the shares of RUSIA Petroleum OJSC (held the license to one of the largest Kovykta gas condensate fields in Russia), as well as a controlling stake in the Khabarovsk Oil Refinery. In 2001, ANKhK was sold to YUKOS, the refinery was bought by the Alliance group of the Bazhaev family, and the share in RUSIA Petroleum was bought by TNK. With the proceeds, Maschitsky acquired assets in Romania (aluminum smelters Alro S.A. and Alprom S.A., alumina refinery Alum S.A.) and China (100% shares of EEverwide Ltd).

In 2008, Vimetko (rebranded Rinko Holding) acquired the Sierra Leone bauxite mining and processing company SHML. In 2010, Vimetko acquired a number of coal assets in China, and in 2011, it built a rolling mill in China. Since 2015, Vimetko has been conducting geological work at the Darwendale platinum group metal deposit in Zimbabwe, and the development structure of the holding - Vi Holding Development LLC - is implementing a project for the comprehensive development of the territory of the former Tushino airfield, as well as the construction of a new office for the Rostec company. .

Since 2015, Vitaly Maschitsky has been one of the participants in Forbes magazine's ranking of "Russia's 200 Richest Businessmen." In 2017, he took 144th place in this ranking with a capital of $700 million.

Married, has two sons (Pavel and Leonid).

Pavel Maschitsky holds the post of managing partner of the Vi Holding group of companies, first vice president of the Vi Holding group of companies, and a member of the board of directors of Vimetco. Responsible for real estate portfolio management and development. Leonid Mashitsky is the managing partner of the Vi Holding group of companies.

Few people monitor the replenishment or contraction of the ranks of oligarchs in Russia. But their biography, life path and business success may well attract the attention of ordinary users. So, recently, Vitaly Lvovich Maschitsky, a native of Irkutsk, joined the unfriendly and unimportant family of the wealthiest people in Russia. We will tell you more about his career, business projects and even his personal life further.

Brief information about the oligarch

There are a lot of white spots and gaps in the biography of Vitaly Lvovich Maschitsky. Most likely, this is due to the fact that a wealthy and quite successful person prefers to disclose only the information he needs.

So, the businessman was born in early July 1954 in Irkutsk. Here he graduated from school and entered the local Institute of National Economy. According to preliminary information, he was interested in the Faculty of Economics. At the end of 1975, Vitaly Lvovich Maschitsky graduated from high school, received a diploma and went, as they say, into free swimming.

Fast career growth and first management positions

After college, Vitaly Lvovich Maschitsky almost immediately got on the right track. And this is where it’s unclear why such rapid career growth is connected. Judge for yourself, a person who has graduated from a higher educational institution looks more like a lightly fledged chick, but not a predatory kite. Anyway. In a word, in the same year Maschinsky got a job, and took one of the leading positions in the capital construction system. According to the oligarch himself, he got the position of deputy head of the Irkutsk house-building plant.

In the period between 1980 and 1989, Vitaly Lvovich Maschitsky managed to head one of the largest self-supporting divisions of DSK in his city. Then there was the position of deputy head at DSK and manager at a large-panel housing construction trust. At the same time, he was the second person after the head of Glavyakutstroy and Minvoskstroy under the USSR.

Memories of working at Glavyakutstroy

According to Vitaly Lvovich Maschitsky (his date of birth is 07/02/1954), work at Glavyakutstroy gave a certain impetus to his future activities. At that time, the businessman was involved in the organization and logistics of the entire enterprise.

By the way, it was a powerful complex with tens of thousands of employees. The company was engaged in construction work of varying degrees of complexity. Among his main creations were poultry farms, combines, factories and even preschool educational institutions in the Yakut region.

According to the hero’s story, it was at this enterprise that he managed to discover his leadership and organizational qualities. After all, by and large, he had to organize the entire business characteristic of the old Soviet era. After this, Vitaly Lvovich Maschitsky (his family, of course, supported him) decided that he was already fully matured to start his own business. For the same reason, at the beginning of 1989, he left this enterprise, inspired by a small number of new ideas.

The first enterprise with foreign capital

After a short period of time, Maschitsky created one of the first Soviet-Finnish enterprises with a certain share of foreign investment. He called it "Fexima". It is interesting that there were no analogues to such enterprises in the Union. According to the businessman, his organization was listed at number five. Consequently, there were practically no competitors in this industry. What did the organization do?

The company, organized by Vitaly Lvovich, specialized in the design and supply of building materials, various production equipment necessary for the development of the domestic construction industry. Moreover, Fexima representatives carried out their work mainly on a turnkey basis.

By the way, even then the entrepreneur was noticed by representatives of the famous international publication Forbes. At that time, Vitaly Lvovich Maschitsky was already on the radar of agency employees. A little later, it will write a large article about him and include him in the ranking of the richest Russian businessmen. It is interesting that in this rating our hero will take an honorable 135th place, and his total fortune will be estimated at 0.65 billion US dollars.

How were other organizations created in the businessman’s empire?

Throughout his life, the businessman took part in various projects, including the aforementioned Fexima enterprise. During all this time, he knew how to negotiate and find a way out of any situation.

Thus, participation in a project with foreign investment, the businessman says, began around him. According to him, while working at Glavyakutstroy, he was able to acquire useful connections and even gain fame as the most enterprising employee of the organization.

As it turned out, ours was in contact with the right people, knew how to negotiate, and made connections abroad. During the implementation of another construction project in Yakutsk, our hero made a significant acquaintance with an Englishman. At that time he had excellent connections with the Finns.

Later, in tandem with an Englishman, he managed to open a new joint venture, Simix International. It began to engage in the procurement of domestic timber with its subsequent sale abroad, mainly to China and Japan.

The difficult road to a comfortable life

However, before the system was established, entrepreneurs had to purchase specialized equipment, their own timber collection, and even buy cars for removing finished timber. And when the organization acquired its timber processing plant, the businessmen’s turnover had already exceeded tens of millions of rubles.

Later Rosinvestneft was organized. According to preliminary data, exactly four years later this enterprise became one of the five largest oil exporters in the Russian Federation. Even later, the entrepreneur met with the Chigirinsky brothers, who run the S+T company.

In partnership with them, he created a real estate company called ST Group. At that time, the businessman acted as an investor, and also created and managed a land bank. During the period of work in this enterprise, the businessman managed to earn good money and also acquire personal land.

Even later, Vitaly Lvovich became interested in the construction of gas stations. As a result of his efforts and international investors, he managed to create a company. This is how the oligarch Vitaly Lvovich Maschitsky built his empire. "Russian Technologies" is also partly his brainchild. At least he invested in it very intensively, albeit out of friendship, but we’ll talk about that later.

Difficult but friendly relations with Rostec

Since 2009, our businessman has been actively cooperating with the state corporation Russian Technologies, which was later renamed Rostec. According to the entrepreneur himself, this interest in the enterprise is directly related to its director Sergei Chemezov. As it turned out, the oligarch had known him since childhood.

So to speak, in support of friendship, but not without some financial gain, the businessman opened a small company, RT, which he called a “daughter” of Rostec. Along with this enterprise, the newly created organization was engaged in the sale and rental of non-core real estate properties owned by the former Russian Technologies.

Later, at the direction of Vitaly Lvovich, the company began producing cement and mining jade in Buryatia. Even later, the “tentacles” of the enterprising tandem reached the African continent, where a platinum mining company was organized. Later there were factories in Romania and even China.

Fragile and graceful wife

Despite his apparent business acumen, Vitaly Lvovich is not a very public person. That's why he doesn't like to talk about himself, as well as about his family members. For the same reason, he tries to avoid questions concerning his wife. Vitaly Lvovich Maschitsky is a sociable person, but prefers not to talk about his personal life.

However, he does not always succeed. Thus, the oligarch’s wife Irina does not agree with her husband’s opinion. On the contrary, she decided to step out of his shadow. According to preliminary data, she owns the Tretyakov Gallery magazine, published in Russian and English.

By the way, his general sponsor is her husband, so Irina’s path to independence was not entirely successful. In addition, the businessman’s wife heads several charitable foundations and paints very original paintings. So, in 2009, the charming Irina organized her largest exhibition in the capital. According to critics, the artist skillfully communicates with the viewer, using the most unusual and daring color combinations.

Family ties and business

Let us recall that at a certain time in his career, our hero organized a large enterprise called Vi Holding. Both sons of the businessman work in this company: Pavel and Leonid. Moreover, the first is the vice president, member of directors and managing partner of the organization. And the second successfully manages the company’s real estate portfolio and resolves development issues for the Vi Holding organization. Maschitsky Vitaly Lvovich is the founder and president of this group of companies, as well as the chairman of the Board of Directors of Vimetco. As you can see, family ties play an important role in business.

Maschitsky Vitaly Lvovich(born June 2, 1954, Cheremkhovo, Irkutsk region, RSFSR, USSR) - Russian businessman, founder and president of the group of companies, chairman of the board of directors of Vimetco. Through the company, Vimetco controls the Romanian aluminum producer Alro and the Chinese Henan Zhongfu Industry Co. The childhood friend of the general director of the Rostec corporation, Sergei Chemezov, is his secret “wallet”.

In 1975 he graduated from the Faculty of Economics of the Irkutsk Institute of National Economy. After graduating from the institute, he worked in construction organizations in the Irkutsk region. In 1980-1989 - head of the production and technological equipment department of the Irkutsk house-building plant (DSK), then deputy head of the Irkutsk DSK, deputy manager of the Irkutsk large-panel house-building trust and deputy head of Glavyakutstroy of the USSR Ministry of Vostokstroy.

Since 1989 - Deputy General Director of the joint Soviet-Finnish enterprise Primphex. Since 1990 - co-owner, and since 1991 - general director of the joint Soviet-British timber enterprise Sibmix International (later - the holding company Sibmix International CJSC), which included a number of timber processing enterprises and timber industry enterprises in the Irkutsk region.

In 1991-1997 he owned the construction company "New City" in Moscow. In 1992, he founded and headed the oil company CJSC Rosinvestneft. In 1999, Rinco Holding, created by Vitaly Maschitsky on the basis of the Rosinvestneft company, took 50.3% of the Angarsk Petrochemical Company (ANHK) OJSC for debts from SIDANKO, which owned 8.5% of the shares of RUSIA Petroleum OJSC (held the license to one of the largest Kovykta gas condensate fields in Russia), as well as a controlling stake in the Khabarovsk Oil Refinery. In 2001, ANKhK was sold to YUKOS, the refinery was bought by the Alliance group of the Bazhaev family, and the share in RUSIA Petroleum was bought by TNK. With the proceeds, Maschitsky acquired assets in Romania (aluminum smelters Alro S.A. and Alprom S.A., alumina refinery Alum S.A.) and China (100% shares of EEverwide Ltd).

In 2008, Vimetko (rebranded Rinco Holding) acquired the Sierra Leone-based bauxite mining and processing company SHML. In 2010, Vimetko acquired a number of coal assets in China, and in 2011, it built a rolling mill in China. Since 2015, Vimetko has been carrying out geological work at the Darwendale platinum group metal deposit in Zimbabwe, and the development structure of the holding - Vi Holding Development LLC - is implementing a project for the comprehensive development of the territory of the former Tushino airfield, as well as the construction of a new office for the Rostec company. .

Since 2015, Vitaly Maschitsky has been one of the participants in Forbes magazine's ranking of "Russia's 200 Richest Businessmen." In 2017, he took 144th place in this ranking with a capital of $700 million.

Married, has two sons (Pavel and Leonid).

He holds the post of managing partner of the Vi Holding group of companies, first vice president of the Vi Holding group of companies, and member of the board of directors of Vimetco. Responsible for real estate portfolio management and development. Leonid Mashitsky is the managing partner of the Vi Holding group of companies.