Mikhail Efimovich Fradkov

Place of work: Russian Foreign Intelligence Service

Positions: 1992-98 - Deputy Minister, Minister of Foreign Economic Relations, 1999 - Minister of Trade, 2000-01. - First Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, 2001-03. - Head of the Federal Tax Police Service, 2004-07. - Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, since 2007 - Director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service.

Participation in business: In 1998-99 - Chairman of the Board of Directors, then General Director of the successor to the Main Directorate of Foreign Insurance of the USSR - Ingosstrakh Insurance Company. While working at Ingosstrakh, he headed the insurance section of the Advisory Council on Foreign Investment under Russian Prime Minister Yevgeny Primakov.

Impact on business: He was noted by the press as a lobbyist for the so-called “Academy of Security, Defense and Law Enforcement Problems.” The president of the ABOP since its founding was the former head of military counterintelligence of the General Staff Missile Forces strategic purpose Viktor Shevchenko. ABOP, among other things, specialized in issuing paid academic orders to businessmen, outwardly practically indistinguishable from state ones. Being the first deputy chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Fradkov sent out sent a letter to the country's security forces with a request to support the ABOP; Viktor Shevchenko himself claimed that he headed the Academy precisely on Fradkov's instructions. In 2008, ABOP was liquidated by the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office.

Having headed the Federal Tax Police Service (FSNP), Fradkov initiated the filming of the television series “Maroseyka, 12”, dedicated to his employees, managing to convince FSNP-controlled businessmen to fully finance the project.

Continues to influence business after his appointment as director of the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service. In 2007, Alexander Blagov, an SVR employee close to Fradkov, became the deputy head of the international corporation Caspian Pipeline Consortium (CPC). By means mass media indicated Fradkov's possible connection with businessman Ruslan Valitov - owner of the Commercial Bank for Investment and Social Development (Investsotsbank), a person involved in the investigation of thefts in the Tomskneft company (formerly owned by the Yukos oil company) and the main prosecution witness in the case of the chief of the Main Directorate, convicted of bribery investigative department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Dmitry Dovgiy. In particular, Valitova called former leader one of the SVR departments, his bank - unofficial financial center Services.

Participation in property redistribution: During Mikhail Fradkov’s work at the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations, the USSR state-owned enterprises Novoexport, Prodintorg, Soyuznefteexport, Tekhmashimport, Tekhnopromimport, Technopromexport, Tyazhpromexport, which owned foreign property with an estimated value of $1 billion, were privatized under the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations. These organizations controlled over two-thirds of the volume of Soviet oil export agreements. "Soyuznefteexport" was transformed into OJSC "Nafta-Moscow", the shares of the enterprise were placed at the disposal of a major businessman, Suleiman Kerimov.

In 1995, a number of high-ranking employees of the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations were suspected of spending 4.9 billion rubles on personal expenses. from the ministry's income. During the audit, documents were discovered worth about 150 million rubles, which Mikhail Fradkov allegedly received from the extra-budgetary fund of the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations as a loan for the construction of a dacha. The investigation of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation did not produce practical results. The office in which the materials of the audit on financial violations at the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations were stored burned down, according to the official version - “due to a short circuit.” The main witness, head of the Main Control and Financial Directorate of the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations, Alexander Koltsov, died suddenly. Ultimately, the case was dropped, Minister Oleg Davydov resigned, Mikhail Fradkov took his place, repaying the dacha loan ahead of schedule.

In 2010, a man who identified himself as the director of the SVR, Mikhail Fradkov, called to the National Reserve Bank, owned by former KGB officer Alexander Lebedev. The caller asked to see his employee. He introduced himself as Konstantin Mikhailovich Yakovlev, stated that a criminal case had been opened against the NRB and offered to organize its closure for $1 million, presenting documents from the case as evidence. The SVR of Russia did not give any comments; the press discussed the opinion that in this way the NRB was provoked to give a bribe.

Family:

Spouse, Elena Olegovna Fradkova, economist. According to one of the registrations, she is a neighbor of the former director of the FSB of Russia, head of the Security Council of the Russian Federation Nikolai Patrushev and the chairman State Duma Boris Gryzlov. She was listed as a leading marketing specialist at OJSC International Trade Center (Sovincenter), worked in the structures of Vnesheconombank and Gazprom, and is currently officially retired. Declared income for 2009 is 190 thousand rubles, property is a land plot with an area of ​​1466 square meters. m and shared ownership in an apartment of 19 sq. m. Spouse's income- 5.53 million rubles, Mikhail Fradkov owns land plot with an area of ​​10300 sq. m, a dacha of 301 sq. m and a 587-meter apartment in Moscow.

Eldest son, Pyotr Mikhailovich Fradkov, banker. Graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations with a degree in world economics. In 2000-2004 have worked in various positions in the state corporation “Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs” (Vnesheconombank). In 2004, being deputy representative of VEB in the USA, he was appointed deputy general director of the Far Eastern Shipping Company. In 2006, he returned to work at VEB. He held the positions of Deputy Head of the Investment Banking Operations Directorate and Director of the Structured Finance Department. Currently - Deputy Chairman of the Board of VEB, member of the Board of Directors of OJSC Terminal. The enterprise was created by Vnesheconombank, Aeroflot airline and VTB Bank, and is engaged in the construction of the Sheremetyevo-3 terminal. Andrei Chikhanchin, the son of the head of the Federal Service for Financial Monitoring, Yuri Chikhanchin, works at Terminal OJSC. In 2009, the income of Peter Fradkov made up 10 million 952 thousand 606 rubles. 81 kop. The property has an apartment with an area of ​​219 sq. m. m, garage and Lexus-350. According to the registration database, the Mercedes benz and BMW 318iA cars registered to Pyotr Fradkov are not included in his declaration. The wife's ownership is listed as an Alfa Romeo and a Harley Davidson motorcycle.

Younger son, Pavel Mikhailovich Fradkov, diplomat. In 1995 he entered the St. Petersburg Suvorovskoe military school, about which the father informed his friend, Vice-Mayor of St. Petersburg Vladimir Putin. In 1996, simultaneously with the gubernatorial elections lost by Putin’s team and the dismissal of friend Mikhail Fradkov from the mayor’s office, 15-year-old Pavel Fradkov was transferred to the Moscow Suvorov Military School. He graduated from the FSB Academy (he studied with Andrei Patrushev, the son of Nikolai Patrushev) and the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Foreign Ministry. As a student, I registered two Mercedes Benz cars. Since 2005, he has been employed as 3rd Secretary of the Department of Pan-European Cooperation of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Closest friends

In December 1991, the Minister of Foreign Economic Relations Peter Aven allowed the head of the Committee external relations(KVS) of the St. Petersburg City Hall, Vladimir Putin, to issue licenses to commercial organizations to sell raw materials abroad in exchange for supplies of food products to the city. Subsequently, a working group of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg discovered that some exporting firms cannot be controlled, and most contracts are deliberately drawn up with gross errors that allow exporters to evade fulfilling their obligations. Deputies recommended removing Vladimir Putin from the post of chairman of the KBC, but the mayor of St. Petersburg, Anatoly Sobchak, refused to fire him. In turn, Petr Aven retained the right to issue licenses for Putin and instructed Mikhail Fradkov to oversee this process from the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations. This episode served as the beginning of financial cooperation between Vladimir Putin, Mikhail Fradkov and Pyotr Aven, since 1994 co-owner of Alfa Group (together with Mikhail Fridman and German Khan).

According to a number of experts, Fradkov contributed to the realization of the interests of this holding, continuing in 1992-98. work at the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations. Alfa Bank received permission to buy Russia's foreign debts at 25-30 percent of the cost, and then receive the original amount from the budget for them. The Alfa-Eco company was given the opportunity to purchase imported goods to pay off the debts of Russian producing countries, as well as a government contract for the annual supply of 1.5 million tons of Russian oil in exchange for 500 thousand tons of Cuban sugar.

The press indicated that, most likely, not without the participation of Mikhail Fradkov, Alfa-Eco acquired 40% of the shares of OJSC Tyumen Oil Company. According to the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation, a maximum of 46.8% of the actual value of the shares was paid during the transaction. The criminal case opened by the prosecutor's office as a result of the auction was soon closed. Alfa-Eco also became a foreign economic commission agent for the West Siberian Metallurgical Plant, using this opportunity to export oil.

Vice President of Vnesheconombank

Biography

Son of the Director of the Foreign Intelligence Service Russian Federation M. E. Fradkov, who worked as Chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation from March 5, 2004 to September 12, 2007.

Born on February 7, 1978 in Moscow. Graduated from MGIMO with a degree in world economics (2000), Kingston University Business School (London, 2007), and the Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation (2007). Candidate of Economic Sciences since 2006, the topic of the dissertation is “Strategic directions for the integration of the Russian economy into the world economy.” He worked as a deputy representative of Vnesheconombank in the USA, then as deputy general director for new projects at OJSC Far Eastern Shipping Company. Since February 2006 - Deputy Director of the Directorate of Vnesheconombank. Since June 2007 - Member of the Management Board - Deputy Chairman of the State Corporation "Bank for Development and Foreign Economic Affairs (Vnesheconombank)". In 2007 joined the board of directors subsidiary company Aeroflot - JSC Terminal, created for the construction of the third terminal of Sheremetyevo Airport.

Since 2011 - Director of OJSC Russian Agency for Insurance of Export Credits and Investments.

He is a professor at the Department of International Business, Faculty of World Economy and World Politics, National Research University Higher School of Economics.

Family

• Married, has a daughter (b. 2005). Wife - Victoria Igorevna Fradkova, teacher of the English language department at MGIMO Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Russia.

Proceedings

• Fradkov P. M. Systemic conditions for Russia’s accession to the WTO: balance of losses and gains // Investments in Russia, 2003. No. 10
• Fradkov P. M. Geoeconomic resource of Russia and problems of its implementation // National Export Today, 2005. No. 4
• Fradkov P. M. Increasing the competitive potential of agricultural production in Russia // APK: Economics, management, 2006. No. 8
• P. M. Fradkov VEB sets up ECA prototype // Global Trade Review, 2008. P. 25 (English)
• Fradkov P. M. Optimistic proposal // Expert, 2008. No. 47. P. 64-66
• Fradkov P. M. Unified system support and stimulation of exports in Russia currently does not exist // Energy of Industrial Growth, 2009
• Fradkov P. M. Optimistic proposal // Expert, 2009. No. 12

The eldest son of Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov decided to try his hand at the shipping business. 26-year-old Pyotr Fradkov has been appointed deputy general director of one of the largest shipping companies in the country - the Far Eastern Shipping Company (FESCO). Until this moment, Fradkov Jr. had no connection with the transport business. A graduate of MGIMO with a degree in world economics, he served as deputy representative of Vnesheconombank (VEB) in the USA. Nevertheless, according to experts, Petr Fradkov is able to help FESCO organize work with banking structures. FESCO General Director Evgeny Ambrosov denies Fradkov Sr.’s involvement in this appointment. And informed sources claim that Ambrosov knew the prime minister’s son even when he was the first deputy general director of Sovmorflot, with whom VEB had a partnership.

"It will come in handy"

Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov publicly showed interest in the problems of maritime shipping a week ago - he held a meeting of the Maritime Board in Arkhangelsk. However, few could have imagined that just a week later, Mikhail Fradkov’s eldest son, 26-year-old Peter, would be appointed deputy general director of one of the largest Russian shipping companies - the Far Eastern Shipping Company (FESCO). Pyotr Fradkov moved to this position from the post of deputy head of the Vnesheconombank representative office in the USA. However, unlike the state-owned VEB, FESCO is a private company. More than 60% of the shipping company's shares belong to the Cyprus company SVG Holding Ltd, whose interests in Russia are represented by the Industrial Investors group, controlled by ex-Minister of Fuel and Energy Sergei Generalov. 19.8% of the shipping company's shares belong to Federal agency for the management of federal property, the remaining shares are distributed among minority shareholders. As Generalov told Gazeta, the new appointment in the shipping company is connected with the need to develop the company’s business and attract external financial resources, where the banking experience of Pyotr Fradkov “will come in handy.” In addition, he will be responsible for the work of the shipping company's foreign offices.

[...] As the FESCO press service reported, in his new position Pyotr Fradkov will oversee promising areas of the shipping company’s work. One of them is a joint project with Russian Railways (RZD) to create the Russian Troika container company: Russian Railways President Gennady Fadeev announced it back in March of this year. FESCO will deliver containers from Southeast Asian countries to Far Eastern ports. There they will be reloaded onto Russian Railways platforms and delivered to Europe via the Trans-Siberian Railway. The volume of the Russian container transportation market today is several hundred million dollars, and in the future it can grow to a billion.

"Family ties have never bothered anyone"

The news that the prime minister's son Pyotr Fradkov will take up this particular project was received with enthusiasm by Russian Railways. “Family ties have never stopped anyone from working well,” said GAZETA’s interlocutor at the company. “Although for Pyotr Fradkov this is a very big responsibility - there is more demand from such people than from others. The Russian Troika is a very serious project, and it will not be easy for him “The main thing is that the specialist is good.”

Native blood

Relatives of major Russian officials quite often occupy high positions in the civil service or in business. Thus, the son-in-law of the first Russian President Boris Yeltsin, Valery Okulov, has headed Aeroflot - Russian Airlines since 1997. The son of Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin worked in the system of his father’s native Gazprom - Vitaly Chernomyrdin was deputy director of the Stroytransgaz company, which carried out almost all of Gazprom’s construction orders. Chernomyrdin's nephew - also Viktor - headed the marketing department at Gazprom. It is curious that when Viktor Chernomyrdin Jr. was dismissed in December 2002, his successor in the department was the son of another Russian leader, State Duma Speaker Gennady Seleznev. Age - 28 years - did not become a hindrance, as well as for Pyotr Fradkov. The wife of another head of government, Sergei Stepashin, Tamara, soon after her husband’s high appointment, became deputy chairman of the board of the St. Petersburg Promstroibank. Relatives of ministers also had successful careers. For example, the nephew of the head of the Ministry of Railways, Nikolai Aksenenko, Sergei, headed the Eurosib company, which was engaged in freight rail transportation and received considerable discounts on tariffs from the railway department. When Aksenenko was dismissed in January 2002, his brother-in-law, Gennady Fadeev, received the post of minister. In turn, Fadeev’s son-in-law, Pyotr Kozlov, works at the ZHASO insurance company, where he insures cargo transported by Russian Railways OJSC. Relatives of regional leaders also work in prominent positions. The wife of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, Elena Baturina, heads the Inteko company, one of the most influential in the capital's construction market. Finally, this year Marina Rogacheva, the daughter of Oryol Governor Yegor Stroev, became a senator from the Oryol region.

"I don't know his father"

General Director of the Far Eastern Shipping Company Evgeniy Ambrosov- about his new subordinate Petre Fradkov

The general director of the Far Eastern Shipping Company (FESCO), Evgeny Ambrosov, has a new deputy - the son of the head of government, Pyotr Fradkov (read more about this on page 01). Evgeny Ambrosov told GAZETA correspondent Andrei Kovalevsky about what the new appointment was connected with and what role Mikhail Fradkov himself played in this.

- Is your new deputy Pyotr Fradkov really the son of the prime minister?

- Yes, Pyotr Mikhailovich Fradkov was appointed on July 19, 2004 as my deputy for new projects.

- Was Father Fradkov behind this appointment?

- He did not lobby for this appointment in any way. I have never met Pyotr Fradkov’s father at all. I don't know the father, I know the son. Peter is a very talented guy, a very modest person, with great knowledge. He speaks three languages, knows the banking system very well, and the work of the company's foreign representative offices. We have about 50 representative offices abroad alone. I expect a very big return from him as a specialist.

- Will Peter oversee the company’s financial flows?

- No, I have a financial director to control financial flows - this is the first vice president of the company, who, by the way, is also not from Vladivostok. He is the former financial director of the Northern Shipping Company.

- What will fall within his competence?

- We have a lot of projects, and I don’t want to reveal them. All of them are related to the development of Russia's transport infrastructure.

- But he has no experience working specifically in shipping companies.

- I think that talented people are talented in everything.

- With the arrival of Fradkov, it will be easier for you to lobby the government for the interests of the shipping company...

FESCO would never get to the point where someone would accuse us of something, of some kind of political interest. We are 100 percent Russian company without any twists, any foreign capital withdrawal.

Peter Fradkov. Born in 1978. Graduated from MGIMO with a degree in world economics. Speaks three foreign languages. His last job was as deputy head of the Vnesheconombank representative office in the USA.

© "Izvestia", 07/26/2004, “He is not like the Moscow majors...”

[...] He was officially appointed to the new position on July 20, but the company’s management tried to avoid publicity of such a high-profile appointment. Yesterday Pyotr Fradkov flew from Vladivostok to Moscow, where his main place of work will most likely be. Although the company emphasizes that the new “top manager will spend most of his time traveling to numerous subsidiaries of FESCO. [...]

Meanwhile, the Russian Prime Minister has another son, Pavel. He also went “the diplomatic route” and studies at the Diplomatic Academy. Pavel Fradkov's employment prospects are also likely to be brilliant - in addition to his diplomatic education, he has the FSB Academy behind him.

Original of this material
© "RBC", 04/02/2004, "M. Fradkov dismisses deputies from positions"

[...] Recently, Russian President Vladimir Putin finally explained why, among all the potential candidates for the post of prime minister, he chose Mikhail Fradkov. The main reason was the candidate's modesty. [...]

“I met him around 1995, when I worked in St. Petersburg and oversaw the city’s external economic relations. Mikhail Efimovich Fradkov was at that time the first deputy minister of external economic relations. We have no business relations there weren’t, they didn’t arise, and the acquaintance took place in the usual format - he came to St. Petersburg to visit his youngest son, who was studying at the Suvorov School.

I must say that this made quite a strong impression on me at the time. At a time when one of our senior leaders was engaged in construction new Russia, many of our elites were busy taking away everything that could be taken away and hidden somewhere under a snag. And when, under these conditions, a person does not place his own son somewhere warm, but sends him to study in another city, and even to the Suvorov Military School, I won’t hide it, it made a pleasant impression on me,” the president said.

The fates of the children of famous politicians are different. Some of them take full advantage of their starting capabilities to achieve heights in the most different areas, others become rock musicians, actors, and still others simply disappear from the sight of others. Among those who realized themselves in business is Fradkov Petr Mikhailovich, whose biography is the topic of this article.

Father

Mikhail Efremovich Fradkov was born in 1950 in the Kuibyshev region in the small village of Kurumchi. In 1981 he graduated from the All-Union Academy of Foreign Trade. Before Perestroika, he served as deputy head of the Main Department of Supplies of the State Committee for Economic Relations of the USSR.

The further career of Fradkov Sr. was no less rapid. In particular, in 1992 he was already deputy minister of the Russian wind economic system, and in 1997 he was appointed to head this department.

In 1998 M.E. Fradkov was elected chairman of the board of directors of Ingosstrakh, and soon he took the post of general director of this company. In May 1999, he joined the government as Minister of Trade of the Russian Federation.

The peak of Fradkov's career came in 2004, when he became the country's prime minister. Under him, administrative reform, monetization of social benefits were carried out, the national project “Health” was launched, housing and communal services reform began, etc.

In 2007, Fradkov Sr. turned to the President of Russia with a request for the resignation of his government. After it was accepted, he headed the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service.

At the moment, Mikhail Efimovich has been appointed director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies. Most likely, this will not be the last position of this successful politician and manager.

Fradkov Petr Mikhailovich: mother and brother

Our hero was born in the capital in 1978. He became the first-born in the family of Mikhail Efremovich and his wife Elena Olegovna. The businessman’s mother has a diploma in economics. At one time she worked at the World Trade Center. Today Elena Olegovna is only concerned with her family.

In 1981, Pyotr Mikhailovich had a brother, Pavel, who is currently the head of the affairs of the President of the Russian Federation.

Education

In 2000, Mikhailovich graduated from MGIMO with a degree in World economy" He then entered graduate school and in 2006 defended his thesis on the integration of the Russian economy into the world economy.

In 2007, Pyotr Mikhailovich studied at the business school of Kingston University (UK, London). At the same time, he worked in the government of the Russian Federation.

Carier start

In 2000-2004, having qualified as an expert of the first category, Fradkov Petr Mikhailovich was appointed deputy chairman of Vnesheconombank in the United States. Then (2004-2005) he served as deputy general director of the Far Eastern Shipping Company.

In the next two years, Fradkov was:

• First Deputy Directorate of Vnesheconombank of the USSR;
• Head of the structured financing department of VEB.

One of the large joint-stock companies headed by Fradkov Petr Mikhailovich is Eksar. export credit agency of the Russian Federation, created in 2011 to support domestic exporters.

In addition, at the beginning of 2006, information appeared that another large organization to which Petr Mikhailovich Fradkov is related is Vnesheconombank. It was confirmed, and it turned out that he was offered to become its deputy director.

Career in the last decade

Since June 2007, Fradkov Petr Mikhailovich has been the deputy chairman of the state corporation, better known as Vnesheconombank.

In the same year, he was included in the board of directors of OJSC Terminal (a subsidiary of Aeroflot), which was engaged in the construction of the 3rd terminal of the capital's Sheremetyevo Airport.

What is Fradkov Petr Mikhailovich doing today?

The Russian Export Center is a state institution for export support. It was created with the participation of the Russian government. Its mission is to provide comprehensive assistance to exporters in the field of financial and non-financial issues, including organizing interaction with relevant ministries and other departments. It is carried out in a convenient and efficient single window format. For this purpose, EXIAR and Roseximbank JSC are integrated into the REC group, headed by P. M. Fradkov.

Personal life

Pyotr Mikhailovich is married to Victoria Igorevna Fradkova. His wife teaches at the Department of International Relations and Higher Education of Russia at MGIMO. In 2005, the couple had a daughter.

Now you know who Pyotr Mikhailovich Fradkov is. According to experts, from the middle of the next decade the country will be ruled by a generation of politicians, public figures and managers born in the late 70s - early 80s. Most likely, one of its brightest representatives will be this successful manager, who received an excellent education and already has an impressive list of high-ranking positions behind him.

Of course, MGIMO

Pyotr Fradkov was born on February 7, 1978 in Moscow. It is difficult to understand what school he attended; official biographies only indicate the university - of course, this is MGIMO and the specialty “world economics”.

We say “of course” because his father is the prominent Russian statesman Mikhail Fradkov, and MGIMO has had a reputation since Soviet times as a university for the children of the elite. The entire further life path of Pyotr Fradkov can be called a rapid “upward movement.” Which is largely attributed to the influence and capabilities of his father.

Where did Mikhail Fradkov study?

How and when the special services appeared in the life of Mikhail Fradkov is difficult to understand from his official biography

At the time of the birth of his son, Mikhail Fradkov worked in the Tyazhpromexport department under the State Committee for Foreign Economic Relations (GKES) as a senior engineer. They say that in reality he “worked for the KGB,” and they justify this by the fact that this association was also involved in the export of weapons. How and when the special services appeared in the life of Mikhail Fradkov is difficult to understand from his official biography. He was born in the village of Kurumoch, Krasnoyarsk district, Kuibyshev region. And I went to school in Moscow, which means the family moved.

In open sources you can find that his parents worked at Kuibyshevgidrostroy and participated in the construction of the Zhigulevskaya hydroelectric power station and the Samara Luka railway. And this road, as people said, was for a long time under the jurisdiction of state security agencies and was designed to serve defense facilities.

If the school where Pyotr Fradkov studied is unknown to the public, his father’s school is mentioned in official biographies. Mikhail Fradkov studied at the unique gymnasium No. 710 in Moscow. In the 1960-1970s, school-laboratory No. 1 at the Academy operated on its basis pedagogical sciences, where a differentiated learning program was successfully developed - the individual characteristics of each student were taken into account.

Mikhail Fradkov did not choose the “coolest” university - he did not enter MGIMO or even Moscow State University, but the Moscow Machine Tool Institute, from which he graduated with honors with a degree in mechanical engineer. According to unofficial information, after graduating from university, he studied for a year English language at special KGB courses. Then he was sent to India as an employee of the office of the economic adviser at the USSR Embassy. In 1975 he returned, began working at Tyazhpromexport, and the eldest son Peter was born into his family.

First job in the States

At the time Pyotr Fradkov entered MGIMO, his father was already working in the government as First Deputy Minister of Foreign Economic Relations of Russia. In April 1997, the influential father became even more influential by moving to the minister's chair.

Petr Fradkov graduated from the institute in 2000. That same year, his father resigned along with the rest of the government (as does any Russian government immediately after the next presidential election) and was appointed First Deputy Secretary of the Russian Security Council. He was in charge of economic security. And the son moved to the States, where he became a deputy representative of Vnesheconombank. He worked in this position for four years, and during this time his father managed to serve as director Federal service tax police of Russia, authorized representative Russia under the European Union in the rank of federal minister, special representative of the president on the development of relations with the European Union.

"A humble man with great knowledge"

In 2004, Mikhail Fradkov unexpectedly headed the Russian government

In 2004, Mikhail Fradkov unexpectedly headed the Russian government, and his son Peter, returning to Russia, became deputy general director of the Far Eastern Shipping Company.

According to the general director of the company, Evgeny Ambrosov, Mikhail Fradkov did not lobby for this appointment. “I have never met Pyotr Fradkov’s father at all,” he said in an interview. - I don’t know the father, I know the son. Peter is a very talented guy, a very modest person, with great knowledge. He speaks three languages, knows the banking system very well, and the work of the company's foreign representative offices. We have about 50 representative offices abroad alone. I expect a very big return from him as a specialist.”

VEB and school again

However, a year later Pyotr Fradkov changed his place of work, moving to Vnesheconombank. By 2011, he had worked his way up from deputy director of the directorate - director of the department to deputy chairman of Vnesheconombank (he took this position in 2007). His father was appointed director of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) that same year. And Peter also joined the board of directors of the Aeroflot subsidiary Terminal, which was created for the construction of the third terminal of Sheremetyevo Airport.

In 2007, Petr Fradkov devoted time to study and advanced training

In 2007, Pyotr Fradkov devoted time to study and advanced training: he studied at the business school of Kingston University in London and at the Academy of National Economy under the Government of the Russian Federation.

In 2015, Pyotr Fradkov, in parallel with his work at Vnesheconombank, took the post of General Director of the Russian Bank established by the government and VEB export center, which supports non-resource exports and interacts with relevant ministries and departments. In 2016, he left VEB. In the same year, Mikhail Fradkov was relieved of his post as director of the SVR and removed from the Security Council. He was offered to go to work at Russian Railways, but he refused. As a result, Fradkov Sr. became director of the Russian Institute for Strategic Studies, established by the President of Russia.

Promsvyazbank

A week ago, the Central Bank decided to rehabilitate Promsvyazbank, the third credit institution in the so-called Moscow ring. the site presents the history of one of the largest banks in Russia, which, in fact, until the end of 2017 was one continuous rise.

In January 2018, it became known that Promsvyazbank, which fell under the reorganization of the Central Bank in December 2017, would become the support bank for servicing state defense orders and large government contracts. It will be headed by Pyotr Fradkov. Apparently, he will have a lot of work, since part of VTB’s business in the field of government defense procurement may go to Promsvyazbank. VTB CEO Andrei Kostin told reporters about this at the World Economic Forum in Davos.

The bank itself has not been fully formed

“We evaluate this decision positively. Major contracts, especially with enterprises that are on the so-called SDN list (Specially Designated Nationals List), they will have to go there, but it is difficult to say how forced this will be. We have not received any strict instructions from the government. The bank itself has not been fully formed, but as soon as they are determined, we will interact, and some part of the business will leave us,” TASS quotes Kostin.

Family status

Both father and son Fradkov are family people, and their wives are also very successful in their careers. Mikhail Fradkov’s wife, Elena Olegovna, is an economist by training, previously worked as a leading marketing specialist at the International Trade Center, and is now a housewife. Peter Fradkov’s wife Victoria Igorevna is a teacher at the Department of International Relations and foreign policy Russia MGIMO. They have a 12-year-old daughter. Where she studies and what she wants to become is still unclear.

Mikhail Fradkov has another son, Pavel. Currently he is the Deputy Administrator of the President of the Russian Federation.

When preparing the publication, information from open sources was used.

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