In the world of banking business in Russia, a man by the name of Kogan Vladimir Igorevich is quite famous. In addition to the financial sector, he was also noted as a statesman, occupying several important posts. Recently, the surname of Kogan is often mentioned in the media in the context of publications about the Uralsib bank.
Childhood
On April 27, 1963, Vladimir Kogan was born in Leningrad. His biography was largely determined by the influence of the grandmother Stella Efimovna - an accountant by education. The boy's parents worked as design engineers at a classified defense enterprise, and often disappeared for days at work. Therefore, his grandmother raised him mainly. Little Volodya did not go to kindergarten - Stella Efimovna taught him to read, write and, most importantly, to count. It is not surprising that the boy showed the ability to mathematics, and after the eighth grade of a regular comprehensive school, he switched to physical and mathematical. This educational institution No. 239 was considered very prestigious. At one time, his graduate was the famous Perelman.
Education
Having received a school certificate, Vladimir Kogan enters the Leningrad Polytechnic, but he did not have to finish his studies here. There is information that the young man was expelled after the first year for refusing to join the construction team. Allegedly, Vladimir saw his summer in a completely different way, and went with friends to the Pamirs to relax, and he did not particularly want to spend warm days at the construction site. And the administration of the institute did not forgive him such willfulness. Still, in the courtyard was still the era of the Soviet Union with its own rules and principles.
Departing from a higher educational institution, Vladimir immediately fell under the "sight" of the military enlistment office. In the air defense of the Soviet Army, he served the prescribed two years - from 1983 to 1985. And then he repeated his attempt to get a higher education by entering the Leningrad Civil Engineering. Received a diploma in mechanical engineering in 1989. They say that classmates called Kogan "Great." Even then, his grip on business showed itself.
Carier start
Kogan Vladimir began his career, working as a specialist in the motor depot of VAO Intourist. But in all his life he was not going to remain a mechanical engineer. Moreover, the nineties came, opening up many opportunities for active and proactive citizens. And the future banker was one of those. Already in the ninetieth year, without leaving Intourist, Kogan began his entrepreneurial activity by opening the Magic store.
Just then, in St. Petersburg, young economists created an underground club, to which Vladimir Kogan was related. In particular, it is known that he financed it. All club members "professed" radical liberal ideology. Among them were such famous people today as Anatoly Chubais and his brother Igor, Alexei Kudrin, Peter Aven Peter Mostovoi and others.
The next brainchild of Kogan was the Petrovsky Trade House JV, which was opened in the ninety-second year. One of the activities of this enterprise was the supply of "Promstroybank" office equipment. So began the introduction of a businessman in the banking sector.
Banker
In 1994, Petrovsky Trade House was already one of the shareholders of the aforementioned bank, and at the same time Vladimir Kogan joined the board of directors of this financial institution. Legally, he served as deputy chairman, but actually managed the bank, since the head of the supervisory board was only nominally.
PSB is developing steadily, receiving large loans - its activities are successful in all respects. In 1996, Kogan officially took over as chairman and did not stop there.
A year later, he was elected president of the Vita association, which included the bank headed by him, Vitabank, and also fifty food industry enterprises.
And in the ninety-seventh Vladimir Kogan was already the head of the newly created association "Banking House" St. Petersburg ", which included PSB," Petrovsky "and" St. Petersburg "banks. The entrepreneurial entrepreneur, having initiated this union, planned to gain control over the last two financial institutions.
"Promstroybank" very hard suffered the crisis of 1998. He was literally a millimeter from default, having huge debts. But the talented financier Kogan nevertheless saved the PSB by conducting several reforms, including personnel. Thanks to this, as well as an aggressive policy of luring customers of other banks, also pretty battered by the crisis, the institution managed to survive.
In subsequent years, Vladimir Kogan, whose bank remained afloat, served on the boards of directors of several other financial institutions. Such, for example, as OJSC "Arkhangelsk PPM", "Petersburg Forestry Bank", etc. And in 2004, he became a member of the Council on Entrepreneurship under the Russian government.
Statesman
In 2004, Kogan unexpectedly left the banking sector, having sold seventy-five percent of PSB shares to Vneshtorgbank owners, and served as deputy director of the Federal Agency for Construction and Housing and Public Utilities.
In this chair, a newly-made civil servant oversees one of the most high-profile and monetary construction projects of our time - the creation of the so-called “Putin Dam”. The defensive structure near Kronstadt consisted of eleven dams and other structures, including part of the ring highway.
In 2006, Kogan was introduced to the board of directors of Mosmetrostroy, and in 2008 he became deputy head of the Ministry of Regional Development.
Return to business
At the end of the tenth years, the hero of this article says goodbye to the world of officials and returns to business. At that time, the son of Vladimir Kogan Efim, while studying at St. Petersburg State University, was the owner of a quarter of the block of shares in PSB.
Kogan Sr., however, acquired several companies combined in the Neftegazindustriya and began to develop this area.
Also, a businessman with experience is involved in the activities of objects in other areas. For example, he is a member of the directors of a town planning company, Giprogor; has an influence in the Eagle Owl movie; partially supervises Interleasing, etc.
And in 2015, journalists again spoke loudly about a man named Vladimir Kogan. Uralsib was entrusted to him for reorganization, and this caused a lot of indignation. After all, a private sanatorium is a resonant case. In the same year, Vladimir Yurievich became the owner of eighty-two percent of the bank’s shares (that is, a controlling stake), having bought them, allegedly, at a symbolic price. And this also became the occasion for another scandal.
The secret of success
For all the time of active financial and managerial activity, Kogan has repeatedly become a defendant in high-profile scandals. One of them was associated with the postal business, which Vladimir Yurievich used to his advantage; another concerned accounts in the PSB of an official accused of corruption; the third flared up around the story with Finnish businessmen, from whom Kogan allegedly tried to take away a piece of land ... You can’t list everything. Searches were constantly being conducted in the offices of the PSB, even mysterious murders of employees of this structure took place.
But Vladimir Yuryevich always came out of the water dry and continued to grow rich. What contributed to this success? Many explain Kogan’s “fart” as his friendship with Putin, with whom the businessman had a close relationship during the formation of the PSB. However, the entrepreneur himself denies such a lobby.
But the fact that he knows how to easily make useful contacts is a fact.What are at least the comrades of Kogan in the St. Petersburg club, who later became influential people. This skill, most likely, has become the secret of the entrepreneur’s success.
condition
What does Mr. Vladimir Kogan own? Forbes as of 2016 ascribes to him capital in the amount of $ 0.6 billion. And in 2015, it was about 0.95 billion, and the businessman was assigned seventeenth place in the ranking of Russian rich.
Kogan and his family have five apartments, two mansions (one of them in Cyprus), an airplane, cars and yachts. Vladimir Yuryevich does not hide from anyone that he loves to live beautifully.
To date, a comfortable life is ensured by the Banking House St. Petersburg, which unites more than two hundred enterprises (insurance companies, polymer plants, poultry farms, banks, currency exchanges, the media and even the St. Petersburg football club Zenit), Neftegazindustriya , as well as Uralsib. Real empire!
Vladimir Kogan: businessman’s family
Vladimir Kogan is happy in marriage. With his wife Lyudmila, they met while still students. She is two years younger than her husband. By education Lyudmila Valentinovna is a civil engineer and lawyer. Owned a Versace fashion boutique. Today she is actively engaged in business with her husband.
The couple has four sons, the eldest of whom followed in the footsteps of his father and is currently a co-owner of BFA Bank, working under the supervision of his mother. Many of Kogan’s other relatives are brother, father, etc. - also engaged in the field of large business in Russia.
Analyzing the past and present of Vladimir Yuryevich Kogan, we can assume that the future of this person will be even more brilliant.
