Construction company of Luzhkov's wife. Biography, net worth of Elena Baturina according to Forbes. Childhood and education

By the way, Baturina’s first hotel was the Grand Tyrolia Hotel, built in 2009 in Kitzbühel, Austria and costing about 40 million euros. It is in Kitzbühel that Elena Nikolaevna’s headquarters is located. In total, by the end of 2015, it intends to own 14 hotels on the continent.

The Grand Tirolia Hotel hosts the traditional Laureus Award ceremony every 12 months. She is often called the “Oscar” of international sports journalism.

"Emigrant" Luzhkov

There former mayor and his wife, who once headed the country’s equestrian federation, created a real livestock complex on the basis of a German stud farm that collapsed in the 90s and breed sports horses. They also raise “Romanov” sheep, famous for their selected wool. During the Great Patriotic War, very warm and durable soldiers' sheepskin coats were made from this wool.

That is, Yuri Mikhailovich’s wife is only investing in her husband’s project, which is still far from profitable. But Luzhkov himself not only organizes and controls a very complex agricultural process on five thousand hectares and with the participation of one hundred people, but also takes an active part in it - at the helm of a German combine. And is very proud to have been included as a foreign member of the English Sheep Breeders' Union.

Daughters: from Moscow State University to UCL

Elena Luzhkova, in parallel with her studies, began and own business. In the Slovak capital Bratislava, she created a company called Alener, which deals with perfumes and cosmetics.

However, according to Luzhkov Sr., he does not intend to control the life and studies of his daughters. He also understands the sad fact that his wife is forced to often visit and even live in London, and not next to him.

Head of JSC "Inteko"

Wife of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov. A major entrepreneur, owner of the investment and construction corporation "Inteko", which occupies a leading position in the market for the production of polymers and plastic products, monolithic housing construction, and commercial real estate. In February 2007, she transferred 99 percent of Inteko shares to the closed mutual investment fund Continental. Deputy Head working group national project "Affordable Housing", member of the board of directors of the Russian Land Bank. Until 2005, she was the chairman of the Russian Equestrian Federation. According to Forbes magazine in 2008, she is the richest woman in Russia, with a personal fortune of $4.2 billion.

Elena Nikolaevna Baturina was born on March 8, 1963. According to other sources, in 1991 she was 25 years old, that is, she was born in 1966. After school (since 1980), Baturina worked for a year and a half at the Moscow Frezer plant, where her parents worked, as a design technician.

In 1982, Baturina graduated from the Moscow Institute of Management named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze (now a university). According to some reports, Baturina studied at the evening department of the institute.

In 1982-1989 she was a research fellow at the Institute economic problems integrated development National economy city ​​of Moscow, chief specialist of the Moscow City Executive Committee commission on cooperatives and individual labor activity. There is information that Baturina started her business with a cooperative that developed software.

In 1991, the company (cooperative) "Inteko" was registered, which began to produce polymer products. Baturina headed it together with her brother Victor, and later she was mentioned in the press as the president of Inteko, and her brother as the general director, vice president, and first vice president of the company. According to other data published in 2007, Baturina became the president and main owner of the Inteko company in 1989.

In 1991, Baturina married the future mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov (this was his second marriage), who in the past was one of the leaders of the Plastics Research Institute and the head of the department of science and technology of the USSR Ministry of Chemical Industry.

In 1992, Luzhkov became mayor of the capital. Subsequently, Baturina denied the connection between her marriage to Luzhkov and the beginning of her own career, although they practically coincided in time. A number of media outlets wrote that Luzhkov never specified how Inteko received lucrative municipal orders. Thus, it is known that in the early 1990s, the Inteko cooperative won a tender and received an order for the production of almost one hundred thousand plastic chairs for the capital's stadiums. Baturina herself, in a conversation with reporters, mentioned that 80 thousand plastic seats for the Luzhniki stadium were manufactured by her company. In 1999, Baturina, in an interview with Moskovsky Komsomolets, indicated that the stadium was reconstructed using the funds that the joint-stock company received from leasing space and through loans. “I don’t see anything reprehensible in the fact that the Luzhniki management decided to buy plastic chairs from me, rather than pay one and a half times more to the Germans,” she noted.

A few years later, Inteko's business in the production of plastic products was supplemented by its own raw materials production on the basis of the Moscow Oil Refinery (MNPZ), which was under the control of the capital's government. A polypropylene production plant was built on the territory of the Moscow Refinery, and almost all of the polymer produced by the Moscow Refinery belonged to Baturina’s company. The demand for polypropylene products has always been high, and in the absence of competition from other manufacturers, Inteko, according to data published by the Company magazine, managed to occupy almost a third of the Russian market for plastic products.

On February 3, 1997, Novaya Gazeta reported that part of the funds allocated by the Moscow government for the construction of the Prince Rurik brewery was transferred to JSC Inteko. The company filed a lawsuit, considering that the article discredited its business reputation. On April 4, 1997, the court ordered the newspaper to publish a refutation.

In the late 1990s, the President of Kalmykia, Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, put forward the idea of ​​​​building a Chess City (City Chess) to host international chess tournaments. One of the main general contractors for the construction of the city was Inteko. As a result, the company turned out to be one of the defendants in an investigation regarding the misuse of budget funds during the construction of the City of Chess. The republic, according to media reports, owes Moscow entrepreneurs a significant amount of money. At the end of 1998, co-owner of Inteko Baturin, at the suggestion of Ilyumzhinov, headed the government of Kalmykia. A few months later, under an agreement between the Ministry of State Property of Kalmykia and Inteko-Chess CJSC (a “daughter” of Inteko), the Moscow company became the owner of 38 percent of Kalmneft shares belonging to the republic (according to some reports, this happened without the knowledge of the remaining shareholders oil company). According to one version, in this way Baturin provided guarantees for the return of funds invested in the construction of City Chess. Soon, dissatisfied minority shareholders of Kalmneft filed a claim with the arbitration court against Inteko-Chess CJSC and the Ministry of State Property of Kalmykia to declare the transaction invalid. The transfer of shares was canceled, and already in February 1999, Baturin left the post of Prime Minister of the Republic of Kalmykia. In 2004, Baturina, in an interview with Izvestia, stated that many constituent entities of the federation owed her “numerous amounts of money,” including Kalmykia.

In the fall of 1999, Baturina ran for State Duma deputy in the 14th Kalmyk single-mandate electoral district. Baturina’s opponent in the elections was one of the leaders of the Agrarian Party of Russia and the Fatherland - All Russia (OVR) movement, Gennady Kulik. The Kalmyk branch of the OVR approached Baturina with a request to run in the elections from Kalmykia, which, according to the Profile magazine, came as a complete surprise to Ilyumzhinov. The publication indicated that, according to unofficial information, after some time a meeting took place in Moscow between Ilyumzhinov, Kulik and the head of the Russian government, Yevgeny Primakov, who was asked to convince Luzhkov to dissuade his wife from running in Kalmykia. But Primakov’s intervention did not help - Luzhkov refused. Returning to Elista, Ilyumzhinov made a statement over the phone to Profile: “I respect and appreciate Elena Baturina and wish her good luck in the elections. If she wins, then the economy of the republic will win first.” At a rally in Elista, organized by activists of the OVR movement, Baturina made a speech, promising that if she wins, Kalmykia will heal no worse than Moscow.

Earlier, in July 1999, Luzhkov’s wife found herself at the center of a scandal involving the illegal export of capital abroad. According to FSB officers Vladimir region, her companies Inteko and Bistroplast (the head of which, according to Kommersant, was Baturin) collaborated with structures that were involved in capital laundering. According to media reports, these structures transferred $230 million abroad. Luzhkov immediately stated that Boris Berezovsky was behind this case, as well as “the administration of the President of the Russian Federation and general system, which is united by the political goal of maintaining power for as long as possible." Baturina herself sent an official protest to the FSB and the Prosecutor General's Office. In the fall of 1999, she met with FSB Director Nikolai Patrushev, who promised to apologize to her if the illegality of the seizure of documents by employees of the Vladimir FSB Directorate in company "Inteko". In addition, an audit conducted by the reputable company "Ernst and Young" confirmed: "Inteko" did not transfer funds to Vladimir banks suspected by security officers of financial fraud. Baturina herself stated on this matter: "The matter is developing in this way that it is the FSB that needs to think about its own security and how to get out of the current situation. But I have nothing to fear." Wife capital mayor denied that one of the motives for her participation in the parliamentary elections could have been the desire to protect herself from persecution by the FSB.

However, Baturina lost the election. A week before voting day, December 12, 1999, ORT TV presenter Sergei Dorenko told viewers that Baturina owns an apartment in New York. In response to this, she sued the journalist, demanding a refutation and the recovery of 400 thousand dollars from Dorenko and 100 thousand dollars from the ORT television channel. The trial, which lasted nine months, was adversarial, and in October 2000 the Ostankino District Court granted Baturina's claim. He ordered ORT to refute, and be sure to do so on Sunday in the Vremya program, the report that she has an apartment in New York. The court assessed the moral damage and moral suffering of the plaintiff at 10 thousand rubles.

According to Inteko vice-president Oleg Soloshchansky, the company entered the construction business back in the mid-1990s, creating the Intekostroy company and taking part in a development project in Kalmykia. However, in fact, the transformation of Inteko into a large investment and construction corporation began only in 2001, when the company bought a controlling stake in the leading house-building enterprise in Moscow, OJSC House-Building Plant No. 3 (the main manufacturer of panel houses of the P-3M series). Thus, Inteko managed to take control of about a quarter of the capital's panel housing construction market. A year later, a division appeared within Inteko monolithic construction. At the same time, the company began implementing large-scale projects: residential complexes "Grand Park", "Shuvalovsky", "Kutuzovsky" and "Krasnogorye". In mid-2002, the company acquired the cement plants OJSC Podgorensky Cementnik and OJSC Oskolcement, and later ZAO Belgorod Cement, Kramatorsk Cement Plant, Ulyanovskcement and the leader of the North-West region, Pikalevsky Cement. Thanks to this, Inteko has become the largest supplier of cement in the country.

In 2003, it became known about the bond project of Inteko CJSC. It was then for the first time that it became clear that Baturina owns 99 percent of the company’s shares, and 1 percent of the shares belongs to her brother (previously, in 1999, Baturina reported that her older brother owned half of the company’s shares). Inteko estimated its share in the capital's panel housing construction market at 20 percent, while, according to media reports, the company built up to a third of standard houses under municipal housing construction programs on city orders. Some time later, Inteko announced the creation of its own real estate structure, Magistrat, and launched its first advertising campaign. In February 2004, Baturina’s company placed a debut bond issue worth 1.2 billion rubles. The media indicated that investors were skeptical about Inteko's desire to borrow funds at an interest rate of no higher than 13 percent per annum, so less than a quarter of the issue was sold at the auction. The rest, according to experts from the NIKoil company, which conducted the placement, was sold by the underwriter through negotiated deals. In turn, independent analysts suggested that the rest of the Inteko loan (more than 900 million rubles at par) was bought by NIKoil itself.

On July 8, 2003, the Vedomosti newspaper published an article “The Elena Baturina Complex,” which, in particular, stated that the Moscow bureaucracy “makes a pleasant exception” for the business of the mayor’s wife. Baturina, considering that she was accused of using her marital status to gain advantages in entrepreneurial activity, filed a lawsuit, and on January 21, 2004, the Golovinsky District Court ordered the publication to publish a refutation.

In 2003, the Inteko-agro company, a subsidiary of Inteko, bought more than a dozen farms in the Belgorod region that were on the verge of bankruptcy. In an interview with Izvestia, Baturina said about her Belgorod business: “In Belgorod, we are building a large plastic processing plant - and the governor there ordered us to take over a livestock complex and bring it out of the red. We have to buy bulls and raise them for sale.” The governor of the Belgorod region, Evgeny Savchenko, initially supported Baturina. However, in 2005, regional authorities accused the agricultural holding of purchasing land using “gray” schemes and reduced prices for the purpose of their further speculative resale. Later it turned out that the activities of Inteko-agro interfered with the development of the Yakovlevsky mine, which belonged to Metal Group LLC, a company controlled by the Russian Ambassador to Ukraine Viktor Chernomyrdin and his son Vitaly (Baturina refused to transfer land to the regional authorities for the construction of a railway to the construction site mine). On October 9, in Belgorod, the executive director of Inteko-Agro LLC, Alexander Annenkov, was attacked, and the next day, Inteko lawyer Dmitry Steinberg was killed in Moscow. Baturina appealed to President Vladimir Putin with a request to dismiss the governor of the Belgorod region. After this, Savchenko, speaking on regional television, said that some “uninvited guests would like to change the government in the region,” and “their black PR specialists stop at nothing, even blood.” State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein and Deputy Rosprirodnadzor Oleg Mitvol openly spoke out in defense of the interests of Inteko-agro. However, at the federal level, no one began to publicly stand up for the Baturins. In the same month, elections to the regional Duma were held in Belgorod: United Russia, led by Governor Savchenko, won the party list vote. The LDPR, supported by the Inteko company, did not receive even seven percent of the votes.

In 2004, the press named among Inteko's largest projects its participation in the construction of residential microdistricts on Khodynskoye Field, in the area of ​​Moscow State University and Tekstilshchiki. The total cost of construction projects was estimated at $550 million. At the same time, the media noted that the cost of housing in the capital since the purchase of Baturina construction company"DSK-3" increased by 2.4 times. In the same year, the online publication Izvestia.ru published information that Baturina allegedly acquired 110 hectares of land along the Novorizhskoye Highway outside the Moscow Ring Road for the construction of an elite microdistrict, for the sake of rising prices for apartments in which the Moscow authorities forced the construction of Krasnopresnensky Prospekt - he must was to connect the highway with the city center, which would make it possible to cover the path from Krasnogorsk to the Kremlin in half an hour - without traffic jams or traffic lights.

On February 15, 2004, as a result of a partial collapse of the roof of the Transvaal Park water park building in the Yasenevo district of Moscow, 28 visitors to the entertainment complex were killed and more than 100 were injured. In March 2004, Kommersant, in the article “Oil workers surfaced in the water park: change of owners of Transvaal-Park” park "was financed by the relatives of the Moscow mayor" reported that at the time of the disaster the water park business was completely controlled by the Terra-Oil company, and the deal to purchase shares from the previous owners of Transvaal Park, the company "European Technologies and Service", was financed by two presidents of the company "Inteko" - Baturina and her brother. The publication concluded that de jure Inteko was not part of the founders of the companies managing Transvaal Park, but its shareholders in February 2004 were the largest creditors of Terra Oil. In March 2005, the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow partially satisfied Baturina’s claim for the protection of honor and dignity against the Kommersant Publishing House and its journalists Rinat Gizatulin and Andrey Mukhin. The court found the information published in the newspaper to be untrue and discrediting the honor and dignity of Baturina. At the same time, the court recovered 10 thousand rubles from each defendant in favor of Baturina as compensation moral damage. In addition, the Tverskoy Court of Moscow satisfied another claim by Baturina, brought against the newspaper Kommersant over the publication of the article “The Mayor with Complexes” (dated January 29, 2004). This article reported that Baturina decided “the fate of Moscow vice-mayor Valery Shantsev” (after the election of the capital’s mayor, Luzhkov reorganized the mayor’s office, relegating Shantsev, who had previously overseen the capital’s economy, to a less significant post). This information was also found by the court to be untrue and subject to refutation.

On January 29, 2005, journalist Yulia Latynina, speaking on radio Ekho Moskvy, stated that Baturina is a co-owner of the Transvaal Park that collapsed on February 14, 2004, and the Inteko company received $200 million for the construction of the Moscow State University library, which was declared as a gift. On February 28, 2005, Baturina sent a request to the editor-in-chief of the radio station, Alexei Venediktov, to refute this information, which was subsequently done.

In 2005, Inteko sold all its cement enterprises to Filaret Galchev's Eurocement for $800 million, and after some time Baturina sold DSK-3 to the PIK Group of Companies. After the sale of the plant, Inteko left the panel housing construction market. According to a number of media reports, Inteko claimed that the sale of DSK-3 and cement plants was part of a strategy to consolidate resources for the development of monolithic housing construction and the creation of a pool of commercial real estate. Within 5-6 years, the company promised to build more than 1 million square meters of office space and create a large national hotel chain covering the territory from Central Europe to the Asia-Pacific region. However, market participants expressed doubts about Inteko's intentions to become one of the largest players in the commercial real estate market in Moscow and the regions.

In the spring of 2006, Inteko returned to the cement market, purchasing the Verkhnebakansky cement plant from the SU-155 group in Krasnodar region. In December 2006, the vice-president of the Inteko company, Vladimir Guz, told Vedomosti that Inteko had acquired another cement plant in the Krasnodar region - Atakaycement, located near Novorossiysk. Experts estimated the purchase of a small enterprise with a capacity of 600,000 tons per year at $40-90 million. Guz did not name the sellers of the enterprise or the amount of the transaction, but the publication, citing market participants and a source in the administration of the Krasnodar region, the main former owner“Atakaycement” was the name given to the president of the Samara “Wings of the Soviets” Alexander Baranovsky. “Inteko plans to create, on the basis of two factories, the largest cement production association in Russia total capacity over 5 million tons of cement per year," said Guz. In addition, Inteko, according to him, plans to build several more factories in Russia. Vedomosti drew the attention of readers to the fact that Baturina is the deputy head of the working group of the national project "Affordable Housing". She, according to the newspaper, has repeatedly noted that shortages and high prices for cement are holding back the implementation of the project. UBS analyst Alexey Morozov noted: "It's a good time to invest in cement... Those who start building first will get a share in the market and will shorten the payback period of their investments."

In July 2006, Baturina was elected to the board of directors of OJSC AKB Russian Land Bank.

On December 1, 2006, information was published that the Axel Springer Russia Publishing House refused to print an article about Baturina and her business, destroying the entire circulation of the December issue of the Russian magazine Forbes. The management of the publishing house explained this step by saying that the publication “did not comply with the principles of journalistic ethics.” One of the employees of the publishing house told Vedomosti that on the eve of the publication of the magazine, Ilya Parnyshkov, vice president of Inteko for foreign economic relations, came to the Forbes editorial office with a copy of the statement of claim. The newspaper indicated that Inteko representatives threatened the publisher with lawsuits to protect business reputation. In its turn, American Forbes demanded that Axel Springer release the current issue as printed. As a result, the December issue of Russian Forbes was published in its original form, and cost 20 percent more than before the scandal began.

At the beginning of February 2007, Vedomosti, citing the lawyer of the editor-in-chief Maxim Kashulinsky and the editors of the Russian Forbes Alexander Dobrovinsky, reported on lawsuits by the Inteko company against the magazine and its editor-in-chief. The claims were filed in different courts: against Kashulinsky “On the dissemination of untrue information discrediting a business reputation” - in the Chertanovsky Court of Moscow, and “On the refutation of untrue information discrediting a business reputation and the recovery of intangible losses caused as a result of the dissemination of data information" to the editors of the Russian version of Forbes magazine - to the Moscow Arbitration Court. As Inteko press secretary Gennady Terebkov told Vedomosti, the amount of each claim amounted to 106 thousand 500 rubles (1 ruble for each copy of the December issue of Forbes magazine).

On March 21, 2007, the Chertanovsky Court of Moscow satisfied the claim of Inteko against Kashulinsky, collecting 109 thousand 165 rubles from the editor-in-chief of the Russian version of Forbes magazine, and not 106 thousand 500 rubles, since the legal costs of Baturina’s company were estimated at 2 thousand 665 rubles. Kashulinsky's lawyer said he intends to appeal this decision in a court. On May 15, 2007, the Moscow City Court refused to consider Kashulinsky’s request to declare the decision of the Chertanovsky Court illegal.

The litigation with the publishing house turned out to be protracted. On May 21, 2007, at the request of the defendant to conduct a linguistic examination of the published materials, the Moscow Arbitration Court suspended the proceedings on the claim of Inteko CJSC. In September 2007, he nevertheless recognized the validity of the company’s claims against the publishing house, but already in November 2007, the Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal overturned this decision.

Then, in December 2007, representatives of Inteko decided to change the subject of the claim, claiming damage to Inteko's business reputation. The company demanded that not only Axel Springer Russia, but also the authors of the material, Mikhail Kozyrev and Maria Abakumova, be held jointly and severally liable, as well as recover a total of 106 thousand 500 rubles from journalists and the publishing house. In January 2008, the same Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal considered the claim according to the rules of first instance. He decided to satisfy Baturina’s claim, obliging the magazine to publish a refutation of the article that became the reason for the trial, and to collect 106 thousand 500 rubles from the defendants (35 thousand 500 thousand rubles each) for damaging Inteko’s business reputation. Commenting on the court's decision, lawyer Dobrovinsky announced his intention to appeal this decision to the Court of Cassation. However, already in April 2008, the publishing house submitted a written petition to the Federal Arbitration Court of the Moscow District to abandon the cassation appeal against the decision of the arbitration court of appeal on the claim of Inteko CJSC.

In 2006, Victor Baturin sold his share in the company to his sister and finally left the business, receiving “compensation” in the form of 50 percent of the shares of Inteko-agro, as well as the entire Sochi business of the company. According to other sources, at the beginning of January 2006, Baturin retained his 1 percent stake in Inteko. In January 2006, the Inteko press service, citing Baturina, reported that her brother “is no longer the vice president of the company and is not authorized to make any statements.” According to a number of media outlets, his dismissal was a consequence of events in the Belgorod region. According to experts, the owners of Inteko did not agree on the further development of the business. Baturin himself claimed in January that he left Inteko voluntarily. In March 2006, the Inteko corporation officially announced that back in February, Baturina’s brother had left the company. On March 17, the shareholders of Inteko (that is, Baturina herself) at an extraordinary meeting decided to buy out the block of shares that belonged to him from Viktor Baturin.

However, on January 18, 2007, media reports appeared that back in December 2006, Baturina’s brother Viktor filed a lawsuit against Inteko CJSC in the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow. According to him, he was fired from the company illegally. Baturin demanded that he be reinstated and paid 6 billion rubles as compensation for unused vacation for 15 years of working for the company. Observers suggested that we're talking about about a “fictitious claim”, but in fact Viktor Baturin is claiming a quarter of the shares of Inteko, which, according to him, he was deprived of illegally. According to some reports, the cost of this package at that time could be up to one billion dollars. On February 12, 2007, the Tverskoy Court of Moscow rejected Baturin’s claim to reinstate him in the Inteko company. He also refused to pay the compensation demanded by Baturin.

On February 14, 2007, Elena Baturina, in turn, filed four lawsuits against her brother and his companies. The first lawsuit challenged Viktor Baturin’s right to own the Ivan Kalita management company, to which he had once promised to transfer all his assets. The head of Inteko demanded that the company be returned to itself. Three more claims motivated by “failure to fulfill obligations under contracts” contained property claims against Baturin’s companies - Inteko-Agro-Service (for 48 million rubles) and Inteko-Agro (for 265 million rubles). Baturin did not comment on the first lawsuit, but called the amounts of claims against his companies “insignificant” and stated that these claims were “filed as a distraction.” Baturin also said that he had begun preparing new claims against his sister, including a claim regarding the 25 percent of Inteko shares, which, in his opinion, continues to belong to him. However, already on February 18, 2007, Inteko press secretary Terebkov stated that “the parties renounce mutual property and other claims.”

On February 19, 2007, it became known that Baturina transferred 99 percent of Inteko shares to the closed mutual investment fund (ZUIF) Continental, managed by the company of the same name. The media reported that the fund in terms of net asset value (82.8 billion rubles) became a leader in the Russian market. Advisor to the President of Inteko, Alexey Chalenko, noted that “this was done as part of the company’s strategy.” Continental Management Company, according to RBC, declined to comment. Analysts did not come to a consensus on why Baturina took such a step. The following assumptions were made: the transfer of Inteko's assets to a closed-end mutual fund could insure the company against possible hostile takeovers, could also provide it with additional tax benefits, and could also give Baturina the opportunity to quietly change the property ownership structure. In 2007, in an interview with Vedomosti, Baturina confirmed that the Continental mutual fund belongs to her 100 percent. She called the structuring of Inteko through mutual funds “simply a method of packaging assets” (“How money is in a bag, and not in a wallet - that’s the whole difference”).

On January 15, 2008, the Russian Land Bank named Baturina, who owned more than 20 percent of its shares, as the main buyer of the bank’s additional issue of shares worth 1 billion rubles. It was reported that after the repurchase of shares, Baturina’s share in the bank would exceed 90 percent. Analysts also suggested that it would buy out the remaining shares of the bank's other shareholders.

In July 2008, Kommersant wrote about Inteko's participation in several development projects in Morocco through an affiliated company Kudla Group. With reference to the words of the representative of the Department of Tourism of the Tetouan region of the Kingdom of Morocco, Mustafa Agunjabe, the publication reported that the company will invest more than 325 million euros in the construction of resort real estate in the country.

In December of the same year, ZAO Inteko Baturina won a lawsuit against the newspaper Gazeta for the protection of business reputation. The Federal Arbitration Court of the Moscow District ordered Gazeta to refute information about the conspiracy of the Moscow authorities with three leading development companies - Mirax Service (a subsidiary of Mirax Group), Inteko and the PIK group of companies - with the aim of dividing the capital's housing and communal services market. The court did not find the guilt of State Duma deputy Galina Khovanskaya, on the basis of whose words the journalists made such a conclusion (Khovanskaya herself insisted that her words were quoted inaccurately in the article).

Baturina is the richest woman in Russia. According to Forbes magazine published in 2004, her personal wealth was $1.1 billion. Forbes experts estimated the turnover of the Inteko group at $525 million. At the same time, they admitted that it was not possible to accurately assess Baturina’s assets, since, firstly, Inteko is a very closed company; secondly, it participated in almost all major capital projects as a co-investor, contractor or subcontractor. According to the same Forbes, published in 2006, Baturina’s fortune was already estimated at $2.3 billion. In August 2005, Inteko announced the purchase of shares in Gazprom and Sberbank. The company did not disclose exactly which stakes belong to Inteko (as of the first quarter of 2008, the share of Baturina - her mutual fund Continental - in Sberbank was 0.38 percent). In 2006, information was published that Baturina and businessman Suleiman Kerimov owned more than 4.6 percent of Gazprom shares between them (according to Vedomosti, they transferred the right to vote with their shares to the Chairman of the Board of Gazprom, Alexey Miller) . In February 2007, media reports appeared that at the end of 2006, Baturina acquired shares in the Rosneft company, although this fact was not reflected in Inteko's reporting for the last quarter of the year.

On April 19, 2007, the Russian version of Forbes magazine published a ranking of the richest citizens of Russia. As in 2006, Baturina became the only woman on the list: her fortune was estimated at $3.1 billion (in 2006 it was 2.4 billion). In the spring of 2008, she was number 253 on the list of the richest inhabitants of the planet: Baturina’s fortune, as reported by the American Forbes, at the time of compiling the rating, was estimated at $4.2 billion.

Baturina plays tennis and rides well alpine skiing. Drives a car and has a third rank in small-caliber rifle shooting. Baturina is also seriously involved in horse riding. The media wrote that she was once addicted to this activity by the famous ophthalmologist and businessman Svyatoslav Fedorov. In one of her interviews, Baturina recalled: “It so happened that I somehow immediately got into the saddle and rode off. Then they began to give horses to the mayor, and the animals had to be taken care of somehow. Since 1999, Baturina has been mentioned in the media as the chairman of the Equestrian Federation sports in Russia. During her 1999 election campaign for elections to the State Duma from Kalmykia, Baturina reminded at almost every meeting with residents of the republic that “a horse for a Kalmyk is more important than chess.” In January 2005, Baturina was removed from the post of president of the Equestrian Federation sports of the Russian Federation. The deputy who took her place State Duma Gennady Seleznev argued that the interests of Russian athletes were poorly taken into account by the previous leadership of the federation. Although many competitions were held, including high level, for example, the Moscow Mayor's Cup, which was one of the stages of the World Cup with big prize money, but, according to Seleznev, the organizers themselves chose those who were supposed to take part in them. The best athletes were invited from abroad, their arrival and accommodation in Russia were paid for by the organizing committee. The Russians invited by the organizing committee, whose number was limited, could not compete with the first numbers of the Old World. As a result, all the prize money was taken away by foreign guests. The Building Business publication noted that when Baturina was not re-elected as head of the federation, she was “purely offended as a human being,” but noted that she still wouldn’t give up her horses and would now take care of the affairs of the Moscow federation.

According to a number of media reports, even Baturina’s enemies noted that she invested a lot of money in equestrian sports. The media indicated that she has a thing for horses sincere feelings. “Ordinary horse owners,” according to them, said that Baturina keeps disabled horses in her personal stable and provides them with a decent existence. However, according to Building Business, horses for Baturina are not only a hobby, but also a business. Several years ago, Inteko bought dilapidated cowshed buildings in the Kaliningrad region in order to revive the Weedern stud farm, founded in the 18th century, where the Imperial Union of Private Horse Breeders, a partner of the largest Trakehner stud farm in East Prussia, was based until the 1920s. In the fall of 2005, the reconstruction of the factory buildings was completed (“with the preservation of historical facades”) and the first stage of Weedern was put into operation, and work began on the reproduction of Trakehner and Hanoverian horse breeds. It is expected that this enterprise will become a source of considerable income: the second phase of the project includes the construction of hotels, a restaurant, the creation of a bypass road and the improvement of nearby areas. All this should attract tourists.

From her marriage to Luzhkov, Baturina has two daughters: Alena was born in 1992, Olga - in March 1994. The media also mentioned Baturina’s sister, Natalya Nikolaevna Evtushenkova, head of the IBRD Office and wife of the chairman of the board of directors and the main shareholder of AFK Sistema, Vladimir Evtushenkov.

Family friend, billionaire Yuri Gekht tells

- says family friend, billionaire Yuri Gekht

Why aren't criminal cases brought against LUZHKOV? - Vladimir PUTIN was asked at one of the recent press conferences.

It's too early. And why do you think that there is nothing about Luzhkov? - the president answered slyly...

The trial of the ex-mayor of Moscow and his cunning@opoy Millions of people are looking forward to their spouse. And among them, of course, Yuri GEKHT is a friend of his youth and a former accomplice of Yuri Mikhailovich, and now his irreconcilable enemy. Hecht was once a member of the Supreme economic council under the Presidium of the Supreme Council of the Russian Federation and a major bourgeois. And now he is a simple Israeli pensioner and, in fact, a criminal wanted by Interpol.

On the eve of Elena Nikolaevna’s anniversary (she will turn fifty dollars on March 8), Yuri Hekht was visited in the Promised Land by the special correspondent of Express Gazeta.

I've always stood up for Luzhkova, - Yuri Georgievich assures. - Even in 1993, when angry deputies wanted to remove him from the post of mayor. The capital was then writhing in dirt and poverty! At a meeting of the Presidium of the Supreme Council, I managed to repel Luzhkov. In fact, he is a strong business executive. Everything that happened to him later was the fault of the seasoned boor Elena Baturina. Previous wife - Marina Bashilova, daughter of the first deputy minister of the chemical industry of the USSR, was created by Luzhkova. And this matron made Yura the founder of corruption in Russia! For example, I was personally present when Luzhkov bought land in Sochi for next to nothing...

According to Hechta Having come to power, Luzhkov made him his confidant. Out of gratitude to his old friend, he had to grit his teeth and endure communication with his eccentric wife.

Betrayal

I not only had access to the house, but also personally arranged for Baturina to go to the best Moscow maternity hospital named after Grauerman! - Hecht remembers. - Due to her young age, she was terribly afraid of the first birth. A week later, I gave Elena a watch for 300 dollars - then it was a decent amount - as a present for the newborn. Baturina had never tried on such elegant things: she ran around with a watch like a child. In those years, there were no imported goods in stores, and I often traveled abroad. Baturina's girls were dressed and shoed. I also kept in touch with Luzhkov’s children from a previous marriage. But Elena did not let them on the threshold. The younger Alexander could still come to his dad’s work, but the elder Mikhail was afraid. Elena arranged this for her husband! Misha took his father's betrayal seriously. Started drinking. Of course, Luzhkov did not like this. (My son, by the way, worked in the gas industry, and as soon as Luzhkov was removed, he was also asked.)

It was Hecht, according to him, who persuaded Luzhkov to begin competitive investment in capital real estate.

Luzhkov, having become mayor, did not know what to do, says Hecht. - There is no money, there is devastation, but the city needs to be rebuilt. In June 1992, at the height of Gaidar's all-consuming reform, I proposed to him the idea of ​​private investment in construction. Yura doubted: “Who will go? Such a risk! I say: “I am!” And he was the first to take part in a competition to invest in the construction of two prestigious buildings in the capital.

Yuri Gekht proudly calls himself a “hereditary papermaker” - since 1740, his ancestors have been producing paper. During perestroika he was lucky:

The Ministry of Forestry and Pulp and Paper decided to unite the most backward enterprises in the industry that were not feeding themselves. And I was appointed general director of Sokolniki Production Association. It also included the Serpukhov paper mill. In 1987, I rented it, and in ’89 the association was privatized. The ministry allowed me, as director, to receive 49 percent of the shares, the rest remained with the team. But then privatization began according to Chubais, and everyone who was not too lazy began buying shares from workers right on the streets. By decision of the general meeting, people did not sell to strangers, but trusted me to buy out the remaining shares. Since then, I have often heard whispers behind my back: “The first Soviet billionaire is coming.” But I couldn’t even touch this money, I never used the dividends - I directed everything towards the development of production. Now the enterprise has been destroyed, more than a thousand people have been laid off. Only one paper mill in Vladimir is operating, and the Serpukhov mill was captured by raiders...

Sperm

Luzhkov was afraid of his wife like fire, - says Yuri Georgievich. - He pulled me home every Saturday. Somehow we were sitting with them Tsereteli. It's almost midnight and he won't let us go. We understand: another scandal is brewing. Elena comes out in a hastily wrapped robe and says: “It’s time to go to bed!” Yuri doesn't react. Then she comes up, takes off her slipper and slaps him on his bald head!

And what did you do at the Queen’s reception in 2004 in London? Just came to power Tony Blair. Everyone has gathered, we are sitting and waiting for Baturina. Yuri is running around, nervous. Finally, Elena enters the hotel with a racket. Luzhkov: “Lena, the queen is waiting for us!” - “Nothing, he’ll wait.” Seven minutes later, Yuri jumps out into the hall in red spots: “We’re going without her!”

In the USA in mall Elena suddenly shouted at Luzhkov so loudly that the entire delegation burned with shame. And in Munich she went to a horse farm. There she was given the sperm of one of the best stallions. She immediately hid the priceless flask at the hotel, but when she began to pack her things to leave, she could not find it. City Hall employee Vladimir Lebedev offered to check her suitcase, but she got angry and gave young man a few slaps. In Moscow, after a customs inspection, we decided to see if all the things were in place, and we found a flask with sperm in her suitcase!

Boorish

Hecht had a serious conflict with Baturina in 2004 in the office of the first deputy mayor Vladimir Resin, who oversaw the construction.

There I learned: Lena wanted three old residential buildings near the Arbatskaya metro station, which belonged to me. (Now they are owned by Telman Ismailov.) I wanted to build a hotel on this land. I evicted 240 families, talked to each tenant personally - I didn’t receive a single complaint. Invested $23 million in the facility. But after the default, I couldn’t start construction. I understand: there is a formal reason to find fault, Lena will not back down. I agreed to sign an agreement on the transfer of objects, but only on condition of payment of compensation: “Lena, return what you spent!” But she told Resin: “Let his friend Luzhkov compensate him.” I couldn’t resist and hit the table with my fist: “You’re just a village boor!” Luzhkov first tried to help me out. But Baturina stood her ground. As a result, she brought contracts for the purchase of all objects, and the amount of compensation was 50 thousand rubles! Realizing that I would not sign, he and Resin offered me three dilapidated buildings on Arbat: garbage dumps bought by Caucasians that needed to be resettled. Even 150 million dollars would not be enough for me! I came to Resin and said: “Am I now going to resettle all of Moscow at my own expense?” He said that I would not sign the agreement until it stipulated that the eviction would be carried out at the expense of Moscow. But Luzhkov betrayed me and did not sign.

Setup

In 2004, Hecht suffered from severe kidney problems, and he decided to receive treatment in Israel.

And shortly before leaving, three people close to Luzhkov warned that an attempt was being prepared on my life, - says Yuri Georgievich. - The vice mayor was the first to call Joseph Ordzhonikidze- he oversaw the hotel and gambling business. He started talking about some nonsense. I told him: “Did you call me for this?” Suddenly he gets up from his chair and whispers: “Yura, leave immediately, I beg you!”

Events were not long in coming. First, Hecht had an accident: a truck blocked the way for his car. Hecht and the driver miraculously survived:

Soon I was accused of kidnapping a person, a certain Vladimir Baryshnikov-Kuparenko, who was supposed to deliver German equipment to my factory, but deceived me: the equipment did not arrive on time. I punched this Baryshnikov in the face and threatened to terminate the contract and collect the amount paid to him and damages. This scoundrel saw on my table the magazine “Kompromat.RU”, in the creation of which I participated. The latest issue described in detail how Baturina received land plots for construction without competition and how budget funds were transferred through Mosbusinessbank and Bank of Moscow to finance her ventures. Baryshnikov decided to take advantage of my conflict with Baturina and went to see her with this magazine. Elena immediately bought the entire circulation, and they developed a scheme to eliminate me from the market.

According to Hecht, the operation was supervised by the former chief of the Moscow police, Colonel General Vladimir Pronin.

Baryshnikov staged his kidnapping, - explains Yuri Georgievich, - allegedly carried out on my order. He imitated an escape from my office, where the kidnappers allegedly locked him for Saturday and Sunday, and he supposedly went into the toilet, climbed out through the window and arrived by taxi to the reception of the mayor of Moscow, and then turned to law enforcement agencies with a statement. On the basis of this nonsense, they arrested the athletes with whom I was seen in the restaurant in the evening after the competition - I supervised sports in Serpukhov. They were made the perpetrators of this pseudo-kidnapping. They gave me eight years. I did my best to get them out. They were released after two years for a huge bribe.

After successful operation After a kidney transplant, Yuri Georgievich gained hope of returning to Russia.

“I’m not hiding,” says the exile. - I correspond with Interpol, but everyone is “looking” for me. I was denied a Russian pension and a Russian international passport, despite court confirmation that I am a Russian citizen. Through Telman Ismailov, Baturina took all my property. I haven’t communicated with Luzhkov since then - it’s useless: he, in fact, became her hostage. But I must return to Russia to prove my innocence. The only thing I ask the president Putin and premiere Medvedev, - to give me the opportunity to personally participate in the investigation of a criminal case.

Of course, the figure of Elena Baturina occupied, occupies and will occupy one of the key positions on the Olympus of Russian entrepreneurship. The wife of the former mayor of the capital is considered richest woman not only in our country, but also abroad. In 2010, Elena Nikolaevna had financial assets amounting to $2.9 billion.

Of course, without certain business qualities, she would hardly have been able to “make” such a huge fortune. And she has them: toughness, assertiveness, determination, cold-bloodedness... Largely thanks to these qualities, she succeeded in business. However, not everyone agrees that success in business would always have accompanied Baturina if she had not been married to an influential official.

Would Elena Nikolaevna really have achieved little if not for the help of her husband, who held a high position in the capital’s government? Let's consider this issue in more detail.

Curriculum Vitae

Baturina Elena Nikolaevna is a native of Moscow. She was born on March 8, 1963 in a working-class family. Father and mother worked at the factory from morning to evening to feed their large family. In addition to her brother Victor, Baturina has cousins and cousin. Elena Nikolaevna once let slip in an interview that she actively involves her relatives in management because she completely trusts them.

While still a child, the future wife of the capital's mayor was often ill: her lungs were weak. Nevertheless, this did not prevent the girl, who grew up in the proletarian district of Vykhino, from developing such an important quality for a businessman as determination.

Start of work

Having received a matriculation certificate, Baturina becomes a worker at the Frazer plant, since she did not enter the university.

After some time, Elena Nikolaevna becomes a student in the evening department of the Ordzhonikidze Institute of Management. In parallel with this, she works at the Institute of Economic Problems for the Integrated Development of the National Economy in Moscow.

Fateful meeting

Elena Nikolaevna Baturina in her youth became a member of the working group of the Moscow City Executive Committee commission on individual labor and cooperative activities. In a new capacity, she began to study the problems of the public catering system. It was then that she gained her first experience in conducting cooperative activities. At this time, a fateful meeting took place with Yuri Mikhailovich Luzhkov, who headed the commission in the executive committee. After some time, Yuri Mikhailovich becomes a widower, and Elena Nikolaevna marries him. It wasn't love affair at work: The relationship began at a time when they were no longer working together.

Starting a business

Elena Nikolaevna, whose biography contains many interesting and remarkable things, took her first steps in the entrepreneurial field in the early 90s.

Together with her brother Victor, she creates the Inteko cooperative. The production of polymer products was chosen as the activity profile. The political career of Baturina’s husband developed at a rapid pace, and he soon took the post of mayor of Moscow. Naturally, Yuri Mikhailovich helped his wife’s business develop in every possible way, providing Inteko with profitable municipal orders. Over time, Elena Nikolaevna’s company turned into a large supplier of plastics and organized a powerful production facility on the basis of the capital’s oil refinery. An enterprise for the production of polypropylene was built, and very soon Inteko conquered a third of the entire market for plastic products.

Business is booming

In the late 90s, the geography of entrepreneurial activity of the wife of the capital's mayor expanded significantly. For example, Inteko became the main developer of the Chess City (City Chess) project in Kalmykia. It was Baturina and her brainchild who became the subject of an investigation into the misuse of budget funds during the construction of the above-mentioned facility. Nevertheless, Elena Nikolaevna, whose photo in connection with the incident was published on the front pages of regional media, decided to participate in the parliamentary elections in Kalmykia, but did not win them.

Baturina focuses her efforts on business. Very soon, Inteko turned into a large investment and construction holding, which occupied almost 25% of the panel housing market. The company is establishing a monolithic construction division.

In 2002, Elena Nikolaevna (position - president of Inteko) buys several large cement plants. Some time later, the owner of the construction holding announced the issue. Most of the Inteko shares belonged to Baturina (99%) and only 1% valuable papers owned by her brother Victor. Later, Luzhkov’s wife announces the creation of her own real estate structure called “Magistrate”.

Scandals of an illegal shade

At the beginning of the 2000s, Baturina’s construction holding found itself at the center of scandals. In particular, in 2003, the sharks of the pen informed the public about the illegal activities of Elena Nikolaevna’s subsidiary (“Inteko-agro”), which was buying up agricultural land in the Belgorod region using “gray schemes.”

Then the “daughter” of Inteko invaded the sphere of commercial interests of the son, interfering with the development of the Yakovlevsky mine. Broad was caused by events such as the attack on the executive director and the murder of a lawyer for the Inteko corporation.

Russians were even more alarmed by the news of theft at the Bank of Moscow. Journalists could not help but ignore this fact. According to employees of the printed publication, Elena Nikolaevna (Ekaterinburg, Vechernie Vedomosti newspaper) was interrogated as a witness in a case of fraud in a banking institution. At the same time, Asnis’s lawyer had written evidence of her non-involvement in the commission of the crime.

Changing business priorities

In 2005, Baturina sold the cement plants and temporarily left the panel construction market. But after some time, Inteko returned to its profile again, purchasing the Verkhnebakansky cement plant in Kuban.

Then Elena Nikolaevna reported that her brother was “retiring from business” and was no longer the owner of the holding. Luzhkov's wife decides to buy out his shares and become the sole owner of Inteko. However, he considered this state of affairs unfair and wanted to return part of the shares to himself. As a result, a legal battle ensued, which ultimately ended in reconciliation between the parties.

After he was removed from the post of mayor of Moscow, Elena Nikolaevna began to sell off her business assets. In the fall of 2011, the commercial structure Inteko was put up for sale.

Hotel business

Since the end of Luzhkov’s political career, Baturina has lived abroad with her husband. However, even “in a foreign land,” Elena Nikolaevna did not lose her entrepreneurial acumen and invested in the hotel business. She acquired the Grand Tirolia hotel for almost 40 million euros. An annual award ceremony for the best journalists covering sports life takes place here. Baturina also owns the Morrison Hotel in Ireland and the Quisisana Palace mini-hotel in the Czech Republic.

Elena Nikolaevna's hotels are managed by Martinez Hotels & Resorts, which is located in Austria. The hotel owner plans to expand the geography of her business, in which about three hundred million dollars have already been invested.

Personal life

The wife of Yuri Luzhkov always tried to stay in the shadow of her influential patron. She reluctantly took part in the ceremonial events that were regularly held in the metropolitan metropolis. Sometimes there was a feeling that Elena Nikolaevna, whose personal life had developed in the best possible way, avoided publicity in every possible way. The businesswoman also ignored official receptions hosted by mayors of other cities.

Her non-business interests include golf, horse riding, skiing, and reading.

In her marriage to Luzhkov, she gave birth to two daughters - Elena and Olga. They study in England. Relations with brother Victor leave much to be desired, since they are still fresh in memory litigation, initiated by her relative in 2007.

After Yuri Mikhailovich was relieved of his post, the Luzhkov couple moved to the British capital. The ex-mayor expressed hope that the family will someday be able to return to Russia when the authorities change their anger to mercy.

Baturina Elena Nikolaevna is one of the richest and influential women planet, billionaire and former mistress of the empire of the capital's business environment "Inteko", who is its co-founder today, as well as the wife of the ex-mayor of the capital. Today she owns an international hotel chain business.

Childhood and youth

A bright and strong personality, a woman with an iron character, a sharp mind and a strong will, Elena Baturina is far from the heiress of wealthy parents. Her success story is based on leadership, hard work and entrepreneurial talent. She comes from an ordinary Moscow family, where her mother and father were employees of the Frazer plant. My father is a shop foreman, and my mother worked all her life at a factory machine.

The future businesswoman was born during the celebration of the international women's day, her date of birth is March 8, 1963. Elena Baturina does not indicate her nationality anywhere. Her biography is closely connected with her family; she involves relatives in the business, assuring them that she trusts them limitlessly.

Elena was a sickly child; classmates recalled that in childhood she had problems with her lungs, hence her hatred of smoking and her conscious love of sports - she plays tennis and horse riding, handles a rifle, and enjoys skiing.

Elena is the second child in the family; her older brother is an entrepreneur. They both graduated from the same school, and in terms of obtaining higher education, Elena did not deviate from her brother’s path - she was enrolled in the evening department of the Institute of Management named after. Along with her studies, in 1980, Elena went to work at the factory where her parents worked.

Career and business

The businesswoman's career began in her youth, as a design technician. By the time Elena decided to change jobs, in 1982, she was already working as a senior design engineer in the department of the chief technologist. When Elena became a research fellow at the Institute of Economic Problems of Integrated Development of Moscow, she was able to transform scientific activity to chair the Union of United Cooperatives, and then became a leading specialist there.

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Entrepreneur Elena Baturina

IN Austrian capital In Vienna, Elena Baturina has a real estate sales company, Safo GmbH, and there the family couple purchased another mansion in the prestigious Döbling district. Elena Baturina retained Russian citizenship, which gives her the right to retire.

In 2016, Baturina became the owner of a number of office buildings in Brooklyn (New York). Together with her husband, they run a concern for breeding thoroughbred horses, and also participate in charity. Under the leadership of Baturina, it has been operating since 2012 charitable foundation BE OPEN. This is a youth project that allows young talents to realize their ideas and talents in architecture, fine arts, literature, science and design. The fund is organized in the UK.

Personal life

Before marriage, the personal life of a billionaire woman is unknown. In 1991, Yuri Luzhkov became her husband. For the sake of Elena, he left a family in which he had two sons growing up.

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Elena Baturina and Yuri Luzhkov

The couple have been married for more than 25 years and celebrated their wedding in 2016, as evidenced by numerous photos. It is noteworthy that Elena honors family values above all and has repeatedly said that family and children are her most precious wealth. In 2010, there were rumors in the media that Elena was divorcing Luzhkov, but this information turned out to be false.

On December 10, 2-19, Yuri Luzhkov died at the age of 84 in one of the Munich clinics. According to journalists, the ex-politician went to Germany to undergo heart surgery. Elena and Yuri have two adult daughters, the first Elena was born in 1992, and a couple of years later the youngest daughter Olga was born. Both girls studied at Moscow State University, but after their father’s resignation they moved with their parents to Britain. They continued to receive their education in London, at the University College.

The younger Olga continued her studies at New York University, where she received a bachelor's degree and later a master's degree in hotel management. The girl’s first project was the opening of the Herbarium bar not far from hotel complex mother, the five-star Grand Tirolia hotel in the Austrian mountains, in Kitzbühel. The place is interesting because, in addition to the standard menu and drinks, they served herbal infusions and cocktails.

Elena, eldest daughter Luzhkov and Baturina, lives and works in Slovakia, where she organized her own company for the production of cosmetics and perfumes Alener. In 2018, Elena Luzhkova became a citizen of Cyprus, where her mother began construction of a residential complex.

Yuri Luzhkov and Elena Baturina / Evgeny Nachitov, Flickr

Baturina names horse riding, skiing, and collecting vintage cars as her favorite activities. Elena Baturina has her own plane, which she considers her own best buy. Owning businesses in different parts light, the business woman manages to control them all personally. Elena Baturina owns a collection of exclusive porcelain. In 2011, the entrepreneur donated some of the exhibits to the Tsaritsino Museum-Reserve.

Unfortunately, after a financial conflict in 2007, Elena stopped communicating with her brother Victor, and relations between the relatives were severed. The brother sued his sister for illegal dismissal from the post of vice president and appropriation of a stake in Inteko owned by Baturin. And in 2011, Elena sold the company. The new owners were Mikail Shishkhanov, who bought 95% of the securities, and the Sberbank Investments company.

Elena Baturina now

In April 2018, Elena Baturina made a deal to sell the Grand Tirolia hotel complex, which became an unprofitable enterprise for her. The transaction price was € 45 million. The new owner was an Austrian entrepreneur who will involve an international hotel operator in the rebranding of the hotel.