The oligarch is for a marriage

"A candidate for those who were on Bolotnaya." 2 meters 4 cm, 47th size of boots, $ 18 billion, 20 years non-stop success, pile of business and sexual scandals behind their backs. Who is he, Mikhail Prokhorov, actually - versed The New Times
“This is Putin,” Prokhorov said and markedly turned pale for the interlocutor. He got up, went out. About ten minutes later he returned in high spirits: “Everything is in order, asked to run for the president. And I thought I had problems. " It was the evening of December 9th: under the annual on Facebook “Saturday in Bolotnaya Square” there was a figure of 36 thousand people. Another 20 thousand pressed “I like” under the same appeal on the VKontakte social network. Prokhorov could not even know about this: he prefers water surfing - at best he reads prints from the Internet, does not have a mobile one and only recently began to master the iPad. The secretaries lead a live magazine for him: he only dictates, and then reads comments on paper.

On December 12, Prokhorov announced: “This is the most serious decision in my life. I am going to the presidential election. " “The application for the nomination was very spontaneous. There was no preparation,-confirmed The New Times in one of the PR structures. “It is also known that the radio stations and other media outlets were given a team to promote the news about the nomination of Prokhorov.” On December 10, there was no Prokhorov in Bolotnaya: whether it was in Novo-Ogarev (Putin’s cottage) is unknown. He did not meet and did not speak with Medvedev.

In childhood, Prokhorov, according to his sister, was the usual “glorious” child MDM - this is the name of the subordinates, Dmitrich - for the eyes - close ones. The school clicked - giraffe. Still-a long one, so Khloponin, now the Deputy Prime Minister and the President of the President in the North Caucasus, turned to him, whom Prokhorov met back in 1982 at the entrance exams at the Moscow Financial Institute (now the University). With the same Khloponin, he also entered into the CPSU together - already in perestroika, when decent people began to hand over membership tickets. “He did this exclusively for career reasons,” Prokhorov explained in a recent interview

* * "Result" No. 45–46, November 7–14, 2011. For a graduate of the faculty of international economic relations, membership in the CPSU “in Soviet times was a serious competitive advantage,” he used the terminology of the market era. Members' contributions paid from salaries in the International Bank of Economic Cooperation (this bank served the operations of the Warsaw Blok countries-the USSR satellites), lived with the fact that he earned on Varenki in the Regina cooperative: they bought a self-building jeans for a ruble, whitened in a stinking mixture of expanded clay-sulfite, sold for 15 rubles-over 12-over 12 thousand rubles a month or more (60 of the then monthly engineering salaries). Even from the nicknames - the horror flying on the wings of the night: it was so poetic called in Norilsk, where there is a unique factory for the production of non -ferrous metals, which made it a billionaire. He and Vladimir Potanin and Norilsk Nickel acquired at the notorious “mortgage auctions” for ridiculous money - $ 170 million, invested more than $ 300 million plus $ 100 - for the buying of shares of minorityans. The debts of the plant then, in 1995, amounted to $ 2 billion. The horror of the night-this is true, the tribute of local newspaper men with a long polar winter, the miners called it much tougher, they had their own reasons: turning the soviet nightmare into business, the leadership was all the same Alexander Khloponin, and then Prokhorov himself reduced more than 80 thousand people, but by the middle of 2000s, but by the middle of 2000s. The company's capitalization increased by almost 25 times (in 2007 it reached $ 60 billion, after the crisis of 2008 it collapsed half). Fans of the New York Basketball team New Jersy Nets (at the time of purchase was hung with $ 207 million in debts), which Prokhorov acquired last year, the name of his Proky, Misha-sister Irina Dmitrievna, editor-in-chief of the New Literary Fund and the Manager of the Charity Fund of his named after him. There are no other nicknames: on the Internet, he, the owner of the 96-meter yacht of Solemar, two aircraft-GULDSTREAM ($ 45 million) and Falcon ($ 28 million) and a house with an area of ​​2000 sq.m with Black Black marble foyer, is so far exclusively as a "candidate for marsh". And, curious, ideosincrazia, again, does not cause.

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The application for the nomination was very spontaneous. There was no training. Radio stations and other media outlets were given a team to promote the news about the nomination of Prokhorov

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Prokhorov honestly served 2 years in the army, although he had the opportunity to “ruin” the roots “the closest person with Prokhorov is his older sister Irina,” repeated everyone whom The New Times asked about the new presidential candidate. And in general, it is clear why: Prokhorov was 23 years old, when at first from a heart attack, not having lived to 60 years, his father left, after 11 months - mother. Maybe he is so fanatical and goes in for sports - two hours every day, 4–5 - on weekends.

Irina Prokhorova is 9 years older than her brother: she also has a deeply planted eyes, eyebrows, nose, cheekbones - only one blood is visible in everything, only her brother's shoulder is tall. Drowned: Steel silk blouse, gray cardigan, dark classic trousers, discreet decoration on the neck. Prokhorov, by the way, is also unpretentious in clothes - dresses as it is customary for rich and very rich Western people: he sews costumes to order from excellent cloth in England: the trained eye will immediately grab both the price and the style. He does not like excesses, does not chase the labels, so that the price tag on the forehead is written, is not afraid to seem incurred. He feels most comfortable in semi -sports clothes: “He seems to have one sweatshirt for life and a couple of T -shirts,” said Nikolai Uskov, the editor -in -chief of the GQ men's magazine, who knows Prokhorov, said The New Times.

Irina Dmitrievna Prokhorova, the elder sister of Prokhorova, has been to him the closest person for many years “The death of parents has very closely closer to us. An adult friendship of people close to each other began, ”says Irina Dmitrievna. And it is clear that the memories of the family are pleasant to her. Their parents were typical intellectuals of the Soviet era: the father worked in state sports of the USSR, however, headed the sweet management there - “international ties”, that is, he had the opportunity to break out for the iron curtain. Although the KGB, which, in such a position, was a rarity, seemed to have nothing to do. According to Irina Dmitrievna, in the late 1950s Dmitry Ionovich tried to recruit, but "mother said:" Only through my corpse. " Mom, Tamara Mikhailovna, worked at the Department of Polymers of the Moscow Institute of Chemical Mechanical Engineering. They say that Prokhorov in her is her eyes, hair. On the paternal line, the owner of the ONEXIM from the peasants: the grandfather had his strong economy in Siberia, where during the Stolypin reform of the beginning of the 20th century he moved from the poor Non -Black Earth Smolensk region. When dispossession began, the family was forced to quit and run. On the maternal line by Prokhorov, scientists: Grandfather, Mikhail Grigoryevich Kumaritov, was a doctor, director of the institute, grandmother, Anna Isaakovna Belkina-a microbiologist, engaged in vaccines, was a student of the famous professor Zilber, who, of course, when Stalin began to fight genetics and “Weisman-Morganists”. According to Irina Dmitrievna, the family legend says that the grandmother always had a knot with the necessary - in case she came for her.

The Prokhorov combinator, until 7 years ago he built in the suburbs, in Skolkovo, the same mansion of 2000 square meters. meters, and lived in a parental three -room apartment on Kibalchich Street - a stone's throw from the financial institution, which he chose, including because he was in walking distance from the house. In the apartment, there are now standing by parents of the collected works of classics - Prokhorov does not read fiction, only a special one, there is a selection of cassettes with films about his beloved Rimbo: American journalists from the Sunday application of The New York Times, who made a large essay about him, Prokhorov said that he was “reconsidered once every 5–7 years”.

According to Irina Prokhorova, they did not notice any special talents for his younger brother in childhood - he was an ordinary “glorious” child: “On the other hand, the talent that he has - organizational, financial - in the Soviet Union could not manifest itself, there was no soil for this.” True, almost from the diapers he played chess, many parties knew by heart: “He had a combinatorial mind,” the sister says.

Prokhorov repeatedly came to production in Norilsk

This "combinatorial mind" was more than manifested later. “There were many people on our course (in the financial institute) who later made a brilliant career,” says journalist Olga Romanova. In addition to the already mentioned Khloponin, Andrei Kozlov was also a classmate Prokhorov, in the future the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank, who was killed in 2006. “They had a common company with Prokhorov,” Romanova recalls. “Kozlov stood out with his mind, Khloponin - wit, and Prokhorov - growth.” Business on boiled jeans allowed Prokhorov to become a student to become the owner of his own “Lada”, which was then rare. “In his car under the seat, salads were attached so that it was possible to move away,” Romanova recalls. “Prokhorov was very offended if because of this they were bored with him.” According to Romanova, despite the outstanding appearance and good earnings, the girls Prokhorov at that time did not pay much attention: “I don’t remember at least he met someone,” says Romanova. - Everyone knew that he was in love with the beauty Elena Movyev, but in her last year she married a guide policeman by the name of Barbashev. Then, when Prokhorov had already become a rich and influential person, he took her to work in them with Potanin, but, as far as is known, she did not answer his feelings even then. ” In the ANEXIM group at Prokhorov, Elena Barbasheva is still working.

At the end of the institute in 1989, Prokhorov was hired by the International Bank for Economic Cooperation (ICBC). “Mikhail left his car for two quarters from the bank, went to work. And then he was not only long, but also terribly thin, and all the aunts in the bank fed it with pies, ”says a classmate Pavel Fetisov, who rotated in the same company with Prokhorov and after the institute. - And at lunchtime, he returned to the car and went to the cooperative cafe “Week” on Oktyabrskaya Street, which not everyone could afford. In general, he did not advertise his earnings on jeans. ”

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The talent that he has - organizational, financial - in the Soviet Union and could not manifest itself, for this there was no soil

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"Divorce" of billionaires who together built a business for 16 years was a big surprise for everyone

Fast money from the “boots” to the banker and the first millions of Prokhorov passed in two years. In April 1991, he was introduced to Vladimir Potanin, a former employee of the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations with good ends in the right departments. Potanin had a private trading company Interros. Together, they opened the Joint-Stock Bank “International Financial Company” (IFC), sent letters to the clients of the dying state MBES: guys, the bank bends, therefore translate your deposits to us, tells the former bureau of the newspaper Washington Post David Hoffman in his book “oligarchs”. And - translated. So for 6 months they raised the start capital of $ 300 million. In 1993, the second bank was opened - ONEXIM. Further - hyperinflation, a game of converting rubles into dollars and vice versa, and rapid enrichment: by 1994, the cost of ONEXIM assets was already estimated at $ 2.1 billion. The collateral auctions brought the Sidanko oil company, from which there was more headache than arrived, and the norilsk nickel -carrying gold eggs. This crazy run for wealth has stopped only once: in the 1998 crisis, when just a few days ONEXIM-Bank became bankrupt, and lenders and customers fell on the chairman of his reign of Mikhail Prokhorov: “On Friday in the evening (August 14, 1998.-The New Times) I headed a successful bank with a cache pillow of almost a billion dollars. And on Monday, he turned into a bankrupt with a billion of a billion, ”Prokhorov said in a recent interview with the Family of Results. From bankruptcy, they and Potanin came out with colossal reputation losses - primarily in the West. Assets were hastily transferred to Bridge Bank, which was quickly created-Rosbank. We dealt with debts for several more years: they say, they returned 34 cents to customers for each dollar, which was dependent in bankruptcy. However, not everyone. Then there were other not too beautiful stories when they “threw” minoritarianes. And then again I had to wash the reputation. So, preparing to become the owner of the American basketball club, which suggested press conferences and answers to unpleasant questions, Prokhorov had to learn to “hold his face”-more precisely, his eyes: he, he said, even wore a special mask: this helped to develop the habit of not taking a look.

Prokhorov - Fan of Sports: basketball, kickboxing, mountain skis - far from a complete list of its sports addictions

Another life “there is some inevitable development vector-gifted people who have achieved a lot, from some point cease to think only about themselves. The brother has an understanding that a whole generation of young talented people who have no opportunities that his peers in the 90s have already grown up. And they need to create a favorable environment for development, ”explains Irina Prokhorova the departure of his brother into politics and his decision to run for president of Russia. Irina Dmitrievna was experiencing the story of the “right business” almost more than her brother, he believes that it was the “raider seizure of the party” and did not expect his quickly returning to politics - and said The New Times.

Actually, Nobody could imagine Prokhorov-Politics a year ago. It was known that he was fond of different sports - from water skis to jumping, surfing and kickboxing. Sports helped him in the army, where he thundered for two years at the institute (he could “ruin” - he did not want to), and in prison after Curshell history. According to Boris Nemtsov, Prokhorov is a perfectionist: he will not calm down until he masters a new sport one hundred percent.

However, according to the observation of American colleagues, sports in the Priority system of Prokhorov are in third place: in the first - food, then business, and in the fourth - women. However, still a bachelor. He has two cooks at home, in the basement of the mansion - a chic wine cellar, although Prokhorov himself almost does not drink. They say that he loves to dance: he often takes off the hall in some expensive club, invites friends. However, there is no addiction to expensive things - it spends a lot on what he considers necessary to ensure life comfort. For example, his watches are cheap in terms of ruble standards: Pierre Kunz wears $ 100 thousand: Golden Corps, Art Deco style of the 1930s

* So by the photograph, the chief editor of the Chronoscope.ru site Andrey Presnov determined. .

What else? Prokhorov - a workaholic, sleeps 6 hours a day, comes to work by about 10 in the morning, drinks a liter cup of vitamins, works until night with breaks for lunch, dinner and playing sports - he has a gym near the office. The first half of Saturday spends on signing documents. On the same day, it often makes business meetings. And relaxes on Sunday - reads, watches a movie, can get to the club or at a social event. He loves the “animals” group (one source claims that Prokhorov financed it), they tell, somehow “anneal” under “areas, quarters, residential massifs. I'm leaving, leaving beautifully. "

Now he comes to public policy. Himself-not by himself, for a while-forever, Putin’s sparring partner or his opponent, dial 5-10% or win, who knows. See.