Suleiman Abusaidovich Kerimov is a well-known Russian businessman, a member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation from Dagestan, the owner of the Russian football club Anji.

Early years. Family

Suleiman Kerimov was born in Derbent, a Dagestan city with a long history located on the Caspian coast. He became the third and youngest child in the family.

His father, Abusaid Kerimovich, was a lawyer, served in the Dagestan Criminal Investigation Department, while his mother worked as an accountant in the Savings Bank. Suleiman graduated from an ordinary Soviet school, like his older brother and sister. According to teachers and classmates, Kerimov loved mathematics and, unlike many schoolchildren, not only studied well, but also devoted a lot of time and effort to sports. Suleiman developed speed of reaction, agility and speed in judo training, and strength and endurance in training with kettlebells. And these were not momentary hobbies - later, at the institute, Kerimov became a CCM in judo, and in the army he won the championship of the kettlebell lifting division.


Karimov graduated from school in 1983, having received a certificate with honors. Success in the exact sciences helped him successfully pass the exams at the Dagestan Polytechnic Institute and enter the Faculty of Civil Engineering. In those years, full-time students did not have a deferment from the army, so in 1984 Suleiman went to serve in the Strategic Missile Forces. The decisiveness and responsibility of Kerimov were repeatedly noted by the commanders, and he successfully completed his service in 1986 with the rank of senior sergeant.

Upon returning from military service, Suleiman transferred from the Polytechnic University to the Dagestan State University, changing the Faculty of Civil Engineering to Economics. Classmates spoke of him as an intelligent, charming and responsible person. Karimov also developed responsibility and the ability to find a common language in public work, in particular, as deputy chairman of the university trade union committee.

Career and first capital

After graduating from the university, Suleiman Kerimov was hired as an economist at the Eltav plant in Makhachkala, one of the largest in Dagestan. For six years, Kerimov's career went uphill: from an ordinary economist, he went all the way to an assistant to the general director.


After the collapse of the USSR, the Eltav plant became one of the co-founders of the Federal Industrial Bank. The bank was necessary for the interaction of production with related enterprises and consumers located in different countries. Kerimov began to represent the interests of the plant in the bank, eventually moving to the capital completely.

That time, as well as the people who then earned the first capital, can be evaluated in different ways. But regardless of personal preferences and political convictions, everyone who knew Suleiman Kerimov at that time noted his attention to detail, lightning-fast reaction and ability to make non-trivial decisions.

Nafta Moscow

By 1999, Kerimov had acquired and increased to 100% his stake in Nafta Moskva, a Russian oil trader. From that moment, the process of reorganizing the company into a full-fledged investment holding began.

According to some counterparties, Suleiman Abusaidovich conducted his business rather harshly. But in business, as in politics, players are judged by a single criterion - by the result. And with this, Kerimov had no problems. In the shortest possible time, his company Nafta Moskva burst into the top three leaders in the mergers and acquisitions market, taking pride of place on a par with Oleg Deripaska's Rusal and Roman Abramovich's Millhouse, with whom he later began to cooperate. Such a neighborhood shows an undeniable result, and only profitability indicators can be more objective. With them, Kerimov is also all right - for some transactions, the indicators reached 600%.


Kerimov understood that huge sums of money could be made in the oil and gas industry. During the period from 2002 to 2008, the interests of Nafta Moskva concerned the acquisition of shares in various domestic enterprises. Representatives and managers of these companies spoke of Kerimov as a tenacious person who always achieves his goal. At the same time, many noted his oriental charm and the pronounced charisma of a born leader.

Since 2006, the interests of Suleiman Kerimov's structures have been reoriented to Western markets and work with foreign securities. By analogy with the financial participation of Sberbank and VTB in domestic projects, Deutsche Bank, Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse were involved in cooperation abroad. At that time, starting to buy shares of Western companies (including British Petroleum, Volvo, etc.), Kerimov personally met the directors of leading investment banks and largest companies, in particular, Microsoft founder Bill Gates.


The global economic crisis of 2008, according to various experts, cost Kerimov $ 20 billion. Someone associates this with erroneous planning, someone with excessive excitement. But regardless of the attitude to what happened, everyone agrees that the huge losses did not unsettle Kerimov, in full accordance with the postulate of Nietzsche - "what does not kill us makes us stronger."

Kerimov's portfolio at different times included shares of a wide variety of companies, from monopolists such as Gazprom, Sberbank, Rosneft and Uralkali, to lesser known ones such as Varyoganneftegaz, Polymetal, Mostelecom, Mercado and others.

Polyus Gold

Kerimov acquired shares in Polyus Gold, the largest gold producer in Russia, in 2009. By 2012, the company entered an IPO on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), and in 2015 Kerimov's structures consolidated the rights to 95% of the company's shares by buying back shares from minority shareholders. In April 2016, Kerimov introduced two older children to the board of Polyus Gold.


The role of Kerimov in Charity

In 2013, the businessman transferred all his assets to the management of the Suleyman Kerimov Foundation, a charitable foundation he established, which closely cooperated with the largest Russian and international charitable organizations.


The Foundation has existed since 2007 and implements humanitarian, educational and cultural projects not only in Russia, but also in many other countries - Armenia, Belgium, China, Germany, Greece, Israel. The most impressive sums are invested in Dagestan.

Since 2006, Suleiman Kerimov has been contributing to the development of freestyle wrestling in Russia. His charitable foundation, together with the Russian Wrestling Federation and the New Perspective Sports Support Fund, finances the Fight and Win national program for the development of freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling.


He has been the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Russian Wrestling Federation since its foundation in 2006. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the educational center for gifted children "Sirius" in Sochi.

Politics

Since 2008, Kerimov has been representing the Republic of Dagestan in the Federation Council of the Russian Federation in the upper house of Parliament. Represents the legislative body of state power of the Republic of Dagestan in the Federation Council. Since September 2016, the businessman has been re-elected as a senator of the Federation Council from the Republic of Dagestan.


Prior to being elected as a representative to the Federation Council - Deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the IV convocation, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Physical Culture, Sports and Youth Affairs.

Personal life

Suleiman Kerimov has been married since his student years and has three children: the eldest daughter Gulnara (1990), the middle son Abusaid (1995) and the youngest daughter Aminat (2003).

Suleiman Kerimov now

In 2016, the Forbes business publication estimated the fortune of Suleiman Kerimov at $1.6 billion. The entrepreneur is one of the richest businessmen in the Russian Federation.

People who communicate with Suleiman Abusaidovich claim that it is difficult to talk to an oligarch. This person anticipates the answer. Mathematical mindset, Eastern wisdom and a subtle sense of benefit brought billions to the owner of a large Russian financial and industrial group. There are ups and downs in the biography of Kerimov Suleiman, but as a true chess player, he always quickly analyzed mistakes and played a new combination. Usually win-win.

The future oligarch spent the early years of his biography in Derbent, the oil capital of sunny Dagestan. Suleiman was born on March 12, 1966. He became the third child in the family of a criminal investigation worker. Abusaid Kerimovich, the boy's father had a higher legal education. Mother was involved in accounting in one of the local branches of Sberbank. At the time of birth, Suleiman had a brother, who now works as a doctor, and a sister who teaches Russian language and literature.

From an early age, Suleiman was addicted to sports. His main passion was judo and kettlebells. The boy excelled at chess and subsequently received the 1st category. While studying at the 18th school of Derbent, he admired the teachers with his mathematical abilities. However, other subjects were mastered by him without difficulty. The first educational institution of the future billionaire was graduated with honors, which gave him the right to enter a prestigious university.

Education

After graduating from school in 1983, the young man successfully passed the exams at the Dagestan Polytechnic University, where he studied at the Faculty of Civil Engineering for a year. In 1984, the educational process was interrupted in connection with the call for military service. Until 1986, Kerimov repaid his debt to his homeland, servicing strategic missiles. The years spent in the army hardened the young man and revealed in him the trait of a leader.

He returned from service with the rank of senior sergeant. Suleiman continued his higher education at the Dagestan State University. As a future specialty, he chose economics.

The student combined brilliant academic performance with active social work, and by the end of DSU he was the deputy chairman of the local trade union committee.

Career and business of Suleiman Kerimov

Suleiman Kerimov Having received a diploma in economics, in 1989 Suleiman Kerimov began to work. His first place of work in his biography was the Makhachkala plant "Eltav". Obtaining a position at a prestigious enterprise was not without the participation of Nazim Khanbalaev, who headed the Dagestan Council of Trade Unions and by that time was Suleiman's father-in-law. Thanks to diligence and abilities, as well as connections, within 5 years the young specialist made a dizzying career and rose from an ordinary economist to the deputy general director of the plant. In the middle of this five-year plan, the management of the enterprise created a bank registered in Moscow. Representing the management of the plant, Kerimov managed to seize a controlling stake in this organization. Fedprombank provided loans to industrial enterprises in crisis. Since that time, the entrepreneur has settled in the capital of Russia.

Since 1995, the businessman has been the head of the Soyuz-Finance trading and financial company, and after 2 years he is a researcher at the Moscow International Institute of Corporations.

Suleiman Kerimov's real business begins in 1999, with the acquisition of shares in NTC Nafta-Moskva, which, with the advent of a new owner from a mediocre oil trader, began to transform into a powerful holding.



In the management of a large enterprise, Kerimov revealed himself in all its glory. His intuition and precise calculation made it possible to raise the company to the level of Millhouse and Rusal, which set the tone for the Russian oil market. During 2002-2008, Nafta-Moskva actively replenished its assets by acquiring shares in promising industrial enterprises. Initially, loans from Vnesheconombank and later from foreign financial organizations are used as start-up capital. The holding acquired shares in Volvo, British Petroleum, etc. During this period, Kerimov met with the most famous financial tycoons, in particular, Bill Gates became one of his friends.

In 2009, Kerimov expanded the scope of his holding and began to engage in real estate. The “breakthrough of the pen” was the reconstruction of the Moskva Hotel, which became a five-star Four Seasons hotel. At the same time, an organization controlled by a businessman takes possession of a quarter of the shares of the PIK group of companies, which was the main developer of the country and was in a crisis situation. Kerimov improves the business of this enterprise and, having sold its assets, receives a solid profit.

Another significant event in 2009 is the purchase by Nafta of a 37% stake in the gold mining company Polyus Gold, and after 3 years Suleiman Kerimov takes almost complete control over it (95%). Since 2016, the son of an oligarch has been on the board of Polyus Gold.

In 2011, the oligarch became the owner of the Anji football club (Makhachkala), and in 2014 he got rid of most of his assets.

Of the "dark bands" in Suleiman Kerimov's entrepreneurial activities, mention should be made of the entrepreneur's friction with Belarusian law enforcement officers, which arose in 2007 in connection with dark cases around the largest fertilizer producer, the Uralkali company. Unsuccessful investments in foreign enterprises became major losses for the businessman. An attempt to save capital during the global crisis in 2008 cost Kerimov and his organization $20 billion.

Political life

The life of Suleiman Kerimov is closely connected with politics. Twice being a deputy of the State Duma of Russia (1999 - 2007), the oligarch successfully defended the interests of Zhirinovsky's party. Since 2008, the billionaire has been a member of the committee of the Council of Federations, where he deals with financial problems and represents the Republic of Dagestan.

Suleiman Kerimov's fortune

The current political activity has distracted Suleiman Kerimov from business. Having handed over the reins of government to his companies and got rid of foreign assets, the oligarch remains a prominent person in financial circles, his photos and videos are often found in the media. Including in connection with the participation of the senator in the affairs of his native Dagestan.

Karimov helps the republic a lot, not only as a representative of the region in the upper house of parliament, but also as an investor and philanthropist. In particular, on his initiative, large-scale transformations began in the hometown of Suleiman Kerimov - Derbent.

The task is to make this ancient city in Russia the center of a tourist cluster, in which, while maintaining the unique architecture and historical appearance, ultra-modern functionality would appear. At the beginning of August 2019, the finalists of the Open International Competition for the development of a master plan for Derbent were determined, including the largest experts in their field from around the world.

It was also announced the resumption of work in Dagestan of the branch of the Commission of the Russian Federation for UNESCO. It will be headed by the mayor of Derbent, Khizri Abakarov, who is considered a person close to the senator, capable of implementing the ideas of transforming the city conceived by Kerimov. In addition, a member of the Federation Council from Dagestan in 2018 announced the decision of his family to register a business in Derbent - in this way, the local budget will receive additional funds for development, and this is billions of rubles of additional income in the form of tax deductions. The senator had helped the republic a lot before, taking a lively part in all development projects.

So, with the direct participation of Suleiman Kerimov, a branch of the presidential center for gifted children, Sirius-Altair, was opened in Dagestan. It became one of the first branches of the Sochi "Sirius" in the country and a role model for other regions. The dynamics of a businessman's entrepreneurial activity can be analyzed on the basis of data provided annually by Forbes magazine (year - $, billion / place in Russia):

  • 2004 – 0,58/48;
  • 2005 – 2,6/16;
  • 2006 – 7,5/11;
  • 2007 – 12,8/7;
  • 2008 – 18,4/8;
  • 2009 – 3,1/13;
  • 2010 – 19/5,5;
  • 2011 – 7,8/19;
  • 2012 – 6,5/19;
  • 2013 – 7,1/20;
  • 2014 – 6,9/19;
  • 2015 – 3,4/31;
  • 2016 – 1,6/45;
  • 2017 – 6,3/21;
  • 2018 – 6,4/20.

Being directly related to the power structures of the Russian Federation, Suleiman Abusaidovich could not avoid the April 2018 sanctions. The oligarch's losses amounted to $1.4 billion, which is equal to more than a fifth of the businessman's fortune.

Yachts, aircraft

From 2005 to 2016, Suleiman Kerimov owned the magnificent Ice yacht. The ninety-meter four-deck vessel is made using the latest technology. Its approximate price is $160 million.



The second yacht of the oligarch "Millenium" looks somewhat more modest, three times smaller than the first, but it impresses with its speed, which reaches thirty-one knots. This "toy" cost the billionaire €8.9 million.

Until recently, Suleiman Abusaidovich used the Boeing Business Jet (BBJ) 737-700 as an air vehicle, which was sold in 2018.



Wife

About personal life from the biography of Suleiman Abusaidovich it is known for certain that he found his soul mate while still a student. His chosen one was a classmate Firuza Nazimovna Khanbalaeva. It was thanks to her father that the current oligarch began his successful career. The wife gave the businessman three children.

In 1990, the eldest daughter was born, whom her parents gave the name Gulnara. After 5 years, the family was replenished with a son, Abusaid, and in 2003, the businessman became a dad for the third time. His youngest daughter's name is Aminat.

Charity

Suleiman Kerimov's charitable activities were marked by the transfer of €1 million to the Pinocchio children's burn center. The reason for this was a car accident in which the oligarch got in 2006. Then he went through a long course of rehabilitation. The billionaire's concern for children also manifested itself in work on projects to provide targeted assistance to orphans and sick children.

Since 2013, the international charitable foundation created by Kerimov has been operating. It was here that the Dagestan senator donated the lion's share of his assets.

Thanks to the funds of Suleiman Abusaidovich, Makhachkala acquired a modern Anji-Arena stadium. Under the patronage of the billionaire is the Wrestling Federation of the Russian Federation and the Sochi Center for Gifted Children "Sirius".

Suleiman Kerimov today

According to the latest news, Suleiman Kerimov recently suffered a heart disease. Now, after recovering, he is in France, where legal proceedings are ongoing over his tax violations.

Just like in his youth, the oligarch continues to be fond of sports today, of which he prefers wrestling and football.

Russian oligarch Suleiman Kerimov married his eldest daughter Gulnara. The grandiose wedding took place on June 25 at the elite golf club Agalarov Club in the Moscow region, the SUPER tabloid reports. The chosen one of 24-year-old Gulnara was a young man named Arsen.

Among the stars invited to the celebration were both Russian and foreign artists. The audience was entertained by the famous Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli, the LMFAO group, the hip-hop artist Flo Rida, the duet of Angelica Varum and Leonid Agutin. Philip Kirkorov surprised the newlyweds and guests with a song in the Lezgi language. Also at the wedding was seen the oligarch Mikhail Prokhorov.

The bride was dressed in an exquisite modest dress. The girl behaved in public with restraint and dignity, and the number of compliments addressed to her surpassed the uncountable number of fragrant fresh flowers in the hall, the newspaper notes.

According to Caucasian customs, the tables were bursting with treats. And a wedding cake several meters high was decorated with many flowers and pendants playing in the light. After enthusiastic exclamations, the guests were given chocolate bowls, inside of which there was the same raspberry filling as in the cake.

Suleiman Kerimov, 48, is a member of the Federation Council from Dagestan. Controls the financial and industrial group "Nafta Moscow", owns the football club "Anji". His fortune is estimated at 7.1 billion dollars. Married to Firuza Khanbalaeva. The couple have three children - daughter Gulnara (born in 1990), son Abusaid (1995), younger daughter Aminat (2003).

Suleiman Abusaidovich is a well-known billionaire (his fortune as of April 2019 is estimated at $ 6.3 billion), is a member of the Federation Council from the Republic of Dagestan, leads the Nafta-Moscow financial and industrial group, and owns the Anji football club.

Childhood

He was born on March 12, 1966 in Derbent, where Sulik (as his close friends called him) spent his childhood. His father, a lawyer by education, worked in the criminal investigation department, and his mother was an accountant in the Sberbank system. He has a brother, who is now a doctor, and a sister, a teacher of Russian language and literature.

In his youth, he was fond of judo and kettlebell lifting, he was repeatedly the champion of various championships.

Education and military service

He studied very well, and his favorite subject at school was mathematics. In 1983, he graduated with honors from secondary school No. 18 and entered the Dagestan Polytechnic Institute at the Faculty of Civil Engineering.

After all, he was drafted into the army. The young man served in Moscow, in the Strategic Missile Forces. In 1986, being a senior sergeant in the position of head of the calculation, he was demobilized.

Upon returning from the service, he continued his studies, but already at the Faculty of Economics at DSU.

Labor activity

After graduating, in 1989 he got a job at the Eltav plant as an ordinary economist, where in five years of work he managed to get the position of assistant general director for economic issues. In 1993, the management of the plant with partners established a bank and registered it in Moscow. Suleiman was sent to represent their interests in the new Fedprombank. Soon the banker already had a controlling stake in the credit institution.

In 1995, Suleiman Abusaidovich was appointed to the post of head of the Soyuz-Finance trading and financial company.

In the spring of 1997, he became a fellow at the International Institute of Corporations, and two years later he led this autonomous non-profit organization as president.

Business and investment projects

In 1999, a new stage in his life began - he bought shares in the Nafta-Moscow oil trading company and began to actively engage in investment and resale transactions. A year later, the company made its first purchase - Varyoganneftegaz.

In November 2005, it acquired 70% of one of the largest gold and silver miners in Russia, Polymetal. A couple of years later, Polymetal was listed on the London Stock Exchange, after which Nafta resold its stake in this holding.

At the same time, his company continued to develop successfully and, through profitable investments made by him during the first years of her leadership, already had a stake in Gazprom and Sberbank (by 2008 it was 4.25% and 5.6%, respectively). However, by mid-2008, Suleiman Abusaidovich himself completely withdrew from the share capital of both structures.

In 2003-2008 Nafta developed the Rublyovo-Arkhangelskoye project, also known in the press as the "city of millionaires". In April 2006, she became a co-owner of Mosstroyekonombank, which owns Smolensky Passage, in June she gained control over SEC Razvitie, which unites three construction companies, and in July she announced that she owns 17% of Mospromstroy. All packages were then also resold.

In 2007, the entrepreneur invested in Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse and other foreign financial institutions. At the same time, Forbes named him the largest private investor in Morgan Stanley.

In parallel, he was engaged in completely different projects. So, in 2005, together with the capital's mayor's office, a joint telecommunications open joint-stock company Mosteleset was created - the only shareholder of Mostelecom. Two years later, these assets were merged into the National Telecommunications holding and a year later they were sold to a consortium of investors led by Yuri Kovalchuk's National Media Group CJSC for $1.5 billion.

At the end of 2006, together with the government of the capital, it was announced the creation of the United Hotel Company, to which the shares of more than 20 hotels on the balance of the city were transferred (including Balchug, Metropol, National and Radisson-Slavyanskaya ). Nafta was supposed to be one of the leaders in the Moscow hotel market.

Among the other Russian assets of the businessman at that time were the Metronom AG firms and the operator of the Mercado supermarket chain.

In February 2009, Nafta became the owner of 75% of Glavstroy SPb. In the spring of 2009, under the auspices of the entrepreneur, the reconstruction of the Moskva Hotel began, as a result of which a five-star Four Seasons hotel with offices and apartments was opened there, as well as the Fashion Season shopping gallery. In 2015, he first sold the gallery and then the hotel to Alexei Khotin.

In the second quarter of 2009, its structures bought 25% of PIK Group, the largest developer in Russia, whose financial position at that time was precarious. During the first couple of years of his leadership, the group regained financial stability and strengthened its position in the market. In the winter of 2013, the entire stake (which at that time was 38.3%) was sold to Sergey Gordeev and Alexander Mamut.

In the same 2009, Nafta-Moskva bought 37% of Polus Gold, the largest gold producer in the country, from Vladimir Potanin. Over time, this figure increased to 40.22%. In 2012, Polyus held an IPO on the London Stock Exchange (LSE), and at the end of 2015, the rights to 95% of the holding were transferred to it.

In April 2009, having bought out 19.71% of the shares, he became one of the owners of the IFC bank.

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In June 2010, together with partners, he acquired 53% of Uralkali (the size of the transaction was estimated at $5.3 billion). For this purchase, he had to take a decent loan from VTB. In December 2013, he sold his stake in Uralkali to Mikhail Prokhorov (21.75%) and Dmitry Mazepin (19.99%).

In January 2011, Anji Makhachkala, which is part of the Russian football Premier League, passed into his possession. In addition, near Makhachkala, at the expense of the billionaire, a modern Anji-Arena stadium was built with a functioning children's football academy.

In 2013-2014 he sold most of his resources, while his son, a young businessman Abusaid, bought Cinema Park, a large-scale chain of cinemas, from V. Potanin (the deal was valued at $300 million).

Political activity

From 1999 to 2003, he was a deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation of the III convocation, was a member of its security committee. Then, until 2007, he was a deputy of the Duma of the IV convocation, and also served as deputy chairman of the committee on physical culture, sports and youth affairs.

Since 2008, he has been a member of the Federation Council (SF), since March 2011 he has represented Dagestan in the upper house of the Russian parliament.

At the end of September 2016, it became known that the oligarch was re-elected to the Federation Council. The decision was made at the People's Assembly, all 86 deputies from the republic voted "for".

Charity and patronage

In November 2006, in Nice, he was in a car accident and received severe burns. After that, the entrepreneur donated 1 million euros to the Pinocchio charity, which helps children cope with burn injuries.

At the end of 2013, all the assets of the enterprises owned by him were transferred to the Suleyman Kerimov Foundation, which was founded by the billionaire in 2007. One of his most ambitious undertakings is the reconstruction of the Moscow Cathedral Mosque, the annual hajj for several thousand Muslims, international youth and cultural festivals, and more.

In 2014, according to Forbes magazine, he was the third richest person in Russia who provided financial assistance to charity projects in 2013.

Among other things, he has headed the board of trustees since the founding of the Wrestling Federation of the Russian Federation in 2006. For many years, his foundation has been the main sponsor of this organization, financing, along with the New Perspective support fund, the national program for the development of freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling.

Awards

On March 10, 2016, he was awarded the badge of honor of the Dagestan Republic "For the love of his native land."

In turn, FILA awarded him with its most prestigious award - the "Golden Order".

According to the Forbes list, the heyday of the businessman's material well-being came in 2007-2008: at first he was the seventh richest businessman in the Russian Federation - his fortune was estimated at $ 12.8 billion. The following year, he took eighth place in the rankings, while his fortune grew to $18.4 billion.

In 2016, he was in 45th place with a mark of $ 1.6 billion, in 2017 he became 21st, increasing his fortune to $ 6.3 billion. In 2018, he climbed one line, taking 20th place (the fortune was estimated at $6.4 billion).

Hobbies

In addition to football and martial arts, he loves to surf the sea - for this he owns two yachts - Ice and Millenium, acquired in 2005-2006. One curious fact is connected with the four-deck ninety-meter yacht Ice - for example, in 2012, her crew saved nine people whose pleasure boat capsized. In the media, the owner of the ship was credited with another medal for this - "For the salvation of drowning people."

To travel by air, they use an equally luxurious vehicle - the Boeing Business Jet (BBJ) 737-700.

Family status
He met his future wife, Firuza Nazimovna Khanbalaeva, at the university - they studied at the same faculty. The couple have three children. In 1990, a daughter, Gulnara, was born, five years later, a son, Abusaid. The youngest daughter, Aminat, was born in 2003.

The oil king abandoned the daughter of actor Archil Gomiashvili

Their romance lasted four years. One of the richest people in Russia, the owner of Nafta-Moskva, Suleiman KERIMOV, generously endowed Katya GOMIASHVILI, helping her enter the open spaces of big business. But the heart of the oligarch is prone to treason. The daughter of the famous actor who played Ostap Bender in Gaidai's unsurpassed comedy "12 Chairs" shared the fate of her predecessors - singer Natalya VETLITSKY, ballerina Anastasia VOLOCHKOVA, actress Olesya SUDZILOVSKAYA, and if you believe the rumors, then TV presenter Tina KANDELAKI and pop diva Zhanna FRISKE.

Elena ARONOVA

General public billionaire Suleiman Kerimov became famous after being in a car accident in Nice in December 2006. Then the Ferrari driven by the oligarch crashed into a tree and caught fire. Kerimov was badly burned. sitting next to Tina Kandelaki escaped with minor burns. True, the TV presenter herself later denied everything. But somehow Tina opened up:

I met Suleiman at the time when he was courting my girlfriend, an actress Olesya Sudzilovskoy. Suleiman loves beautiful women - it's true. Soon he left Olesya and became interested in another friend of mine - a fashion designer Katya Gomiashvili.

Sudzilovskaya was only an episode for him, and a tender relationship with Archil Gomiashvili's daughter lasted for four whole years.

Generous Cavalier

When a girl is offered love and friendship by a man exhaling the smell of money, and Kerimov has as much as $ 14 billion, then it is impossible to refuse. So Katya Gomiashvili could not resist, although she herself is not from a poor family. Her dad, in addition to playing Ostap Bender superbly, was also a successful restaurateur in Moscow.

Catherine decided to make a career as a fashion designer. With the help of her father, she opened an atelier. Things were going the way they were. But since Kerimov appeared next to Katya, even world-famous couturiers envied her scope.

If a fashion designer has serious financial resources for brand promotion, he can be successful. You can buy everything now, - says Vyacheslav Zaitsev, having learned that Gomiashvili opens a boutique in London with the money of his lover. Designed by a Russian designer's shop, a very popular architect in England Ab Rogers. Katya's whim cost at least 3 million euros.

In the spring of 2006, at the height of her romance with Kerimov, a boutique "Mia Shvili" appeared on the Patriarch's Ponds in the capital, a little later she changed the sign to "Emperor Moth". At the same time, at the end of the house on Novy Arbat, to the envy of Katya's competitors, there was a giant banner on which the American film actress Chloe Sevigny flaunted in clothes from designer Gomiashvili. Another collection of the beloved oil king was advertised by top models Kate Moss And Devonian Aoki. Models of this level charge from $30,000 to 150,000 just for a fashion show. For participation in an advertising campaign, rates increase tenfold.

shook it off and left

In April, Katya unexpectedly announced the sale of the latest collection and closed boutiques. Everyone wondered why she turned the hyped case. It turned out that the reason is banal: the oligarch abandoned her. And what is the modeling business without his money? Another juicy detail came to light: Katya is pregnant.

And just the other day, the site Spletnik.ru dismantled Ekaterina Gomiashvili and her recent interview with Vogue magazine. The fashion designer shared with the "gloss" her longing for a certain oligarch:

He told me: “Katya, we are very strong. And if you do what I need, then break you. Do what you want - break me. It's impossible". …I have no grudge against him. It just hurts when a person who has done nothing but good to you does this to you.

Spletnik.ru figured out who this oligarch is, for whom the fashion designer suffers so much: “One of the versions says that this is the billionaire Suleiman Kerimov.” And as Spletnik.ru absolutely unambiguously hints, Katya is pregnant from him: “They say Kerimov has fully recovered from the car accident, but there are no rumors of new hobbies. And Katya Gomiashvili is expecting a baby. It is already known that it will be a girl.

Spletnik.ru knows what he writes about, because his mistress is the wife of another respected oligarch.

If the news on the site is true, then Katya had no chance. Suleiman has been happily married for a long time, he has three legitimate children. He just collects beautiful women. As one of the visitors to the Spletnik.ru forum wrote under the nickname blue eyes, "Suleiman ... he dusted himself off, ticked the box and went on."

However, according to information from other sources, Katya was going to marry some Italian not so long ago. But something didn't work out. Perhaps the groom just found out that the girl is slightly pregnant, but from another.

List of Don Juan

* The loudest was Suleiman Kerimov's romance with Natalya Vetlitskaya. The businessman, without hiding, appeared with the singer at social events, and many mistakenly considered Vetlitskaya his wife. On his 38th birthday, he presented Natalya with a diamond pendant for $10,000. And in parting, so as not to remember dashingly, he presented a plane and an apartment in Paris.

* Vetlitskaya was replaced by the ballerina Anastasia Volochkova. The predecessor, not wanting to put up with the loss, threatened her rival that she would pay her off with the help of bandits. Kerimov hired security for a new passion. But she soon did not suit her rich patron, and they parted. After their breakup, Nastya started having trouble in the theater.

* Forgetting the ballerina, Kerimov became interested in actress Olesya Sudzilovskaya, and then met with designer Katya Gomiashvili for a long time.

* The oligarch was also credited with close relations with Ksyusha Sobchak and Tina Kandelaki.