Boris Abramovich Berezovsky - Soviet and Russian entrepreneur, statesman and politician, scientist-mathematician, physicist, author of many scientific works, doctor of technical sciences, professor. As of 2008, he owned a capital of $ 1.3 billion, being one of the richest Russians.
The biography of Boris Berezovsky is full of many interesting facts from his personal and political life.
So, before you is a short biography of Berezovsky.
Biography of Boris Berezovsky
Boris Berezovsky was born on January 23, 1946 in Moscow.
He grew up and was brought up in the family of engineer Abram Markovich and laboratory assistant of the Institute of Pediatrics Anna Alexandrovna.
Childhood and youth
Boris went to first grade at the age of 6. In the sixth grade, he transferred to an English special school.
After leaving school, Berezovsky wanted to enter Moscow State University, but nothing came of it. According to him, his Jewish nationality prevented him from becoming a student at a Moscow university.
As a result, Boris successfully passed the exams at the Moscow Forestry Institute, having received the education of an electronic engineer. Later, the guy will nevertheless enter Moscow State University, graduate from graduate school there, defend his dissertation and become a professor.
In his youth, Berezovsky worked as an engineer at the Research Institute of Testing Machines. At the age of 24, he was entrusted with managing a laboratory at the Institute of Control Problems of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Three years later, Boris Berezovsky got a job at the automobile manufacturing company AvtoVAZ, where he headed projects related to computer-aided design systems and software.
In parallel with this, the engineer was engaged in scientific activities. He has published hundreds of articles and monographs on a wide variety of topics. In addition, the publishing house "Soviet Russia" collaborated with him, for which Boris wrote articles on the restructuring of the economic mechanism in the Russian Federation.
Businessman
After Berezovsky achieved success at AvtoVAZ, he thought about creating his own business. Soon he formed the LogoVaz company, which was involved in the sale of VAZ cars that were recalled from foreign car dealerships.
Things were going so well that 2 years after the beginning of its existence, LogoVAZ received the status of an official importer of Mercedes-Benz cars in the Soviet Union.
The capital and authority of Boris Berezovsky grew every year, as a result of which banks began to open in the structure of his factories.
Over time, he became a member of the board of directors of the ORT channel. During the biography of 1995-2000. he served as deputy chairman of the TV channel.
In the late 90s, Berezovsky was the owner of the Kommersant media group, which controlled many media outlets, including Komsomolskaya Pravda, Ogonyok magazine, Nashe Radio radio station and Channel One television company.
Once among the directors of Sibneft, Berezovsky was a permanent participant in the government short-term bonds market, conducting many profitable transactions for himself.
According to the statements of representatives of the Prosecutor General's Office, the machinations of Boris Abramovich became one of the reasons for the default in 1998. Over time, it turned out that the businessman regularly privatized highly profitable companies, which later lost their competitiveness.
As a result, both for the budget of Russia and for its citizens, Berezovsky's actions caused noticeable damage.
Political career
At the end of the 90s, Boris Berezovsky plunged headlong into politics. In 1996, he was entrusted with the post of Deputy Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. Then he took up the post of the CIS Executive Secretary.
At that time in his biography, Berezovsky was no longer only a prominent politician, but also one of the wealthiest people in the state. In his interviews, he stated that he is a friend of President Boris Yeltsin.
In addition, the oligarch said that it was he who helped Vladimir Putin to come to power.
Answering journalists' questions, Putin admitted that Boris Abramovich was a very interesting and gifted person with whom it was always pleasant to talk.
Nevertheless, Berezovsky's friendship with Putin, if any, did not prevent him from providing material support to Viktor Yushchenko and Yulia Tymoshenko during the Orange Revolution.
Personal life
In the biography of Boris Berezovsky, there were 3 wives, from whom he had six children.
The future politician met his first wife during his student years. In this marriage, they had 2 girls - Catherine and Elizabeth.
In 1991, Berezovsky married Galina Besharova. The couple had a son, Artem, and a daughter, Anastasia. This union lasted no more than 2 years, after which the spouse flew to London with the children.
It is worth noting that the divorce was concluded only in 2011. An interesting fact is that Besharova managed to sue the ex-spouse for compensation in the amount of over 200 million pounds!
Elena Gorbunova was Berezovsky's third and last wife, although the marriage was never officially registered. In this union, the couple had a girl Arina and a boy Gleb.
When in 2013 the couple decided to leave, Gorbunova filed a lawsuit against Boris, as a common-law husband and father of 2 children, in the amount of several million pounds.
By nature, Berezovsky was a very disciplined and demanding person. He adhered to a certain daily routine, devoting about 4 hours a day to sleep.
Boris Abramovich often went to theaters, restaurants and entertainment venues. He loved when a noisy company of friends was around him.
Death
It is believed that the life of Boris Berezovsky was repeatedly attempted. In 1994, a Mercedes was blown up, in which the businessman was. As a result, the driver died, the guard and 8 passers-by were wounded.
In the assassination attempt, investigators suspected the crime boss Sergei Timofeev, nicknamed "Sylvester". In the same year, Timofeev was blown up in his own car.
In 2007, an assassination attempt on Berezovsky in London was averted at the hands of an alleged Chechen assassin. The police managed to accidentally arrest the killer, on a completely different suspicion.
Boris Berezovsky was found dead on March 23, 2013 in the house of Besharova's ex-wife. According to the official version, the cause of death was suicide. The body of the oligarch was found by his guard.
Berezovsky was lying on the floor of the bathroom, which was closed from the inside. A scarf lay next to him. The investigators did not record any traces of struggle or violent death.
It is known that at the end of his life Berezovsky was in a state of bankruptcy, as a result of which he suffered from a deep depression.
Material compensation for ex-wives, failures in geopolitics, as well as lost trials against Roman Abramovich, after which he had to pay huge legal costs, contributed to a sharp reduction in funds in the businessman's accounts.
A year before his death, Berezovsky published a text where he asked forgiveness for greed to the detriment of fellow citizens, as well as for his role in the rise to power of Vladimir Putin.
Photo by Boris Berezovsky
