Deputy head of Gazprom. Gazprom is a Russian gas giant. Privatization of the company. Attempts at reform

Childhood, youth and family of Alexey Miller

Now a successful top manager, chairman of the board of the largest Russian energy company, he was born in Leningrad into a family of employees of a closed military enterprise. Miller studied at gymnasium No. 330, demonstrating excellent academic success from an early age. After school, he easily entered the Leningrad Financial and Economic Institute. N.A. Voznesensky, who successfully graduated in 1984 with a degree in economics and engineering.

For several years after receiving his diploma, Miller worked in his specialty at LenNIIproekt, however, being a capable student, in 1986 the future Gazprom employee decided to continue his studies in graduate school. In 1989 Miller became a candidate of economic sciences.

In 1990, he continued his work at LenNIIproekt, where he now holds the position of junior researcher. Part of 1990 and early 1991 - Miller works on the Economic Reform Committee of the Lensovet Executive Committee.

Alexey Miller’s career rise: from St. Petersburg mayor’s office to Gazprom

In 1991, a fateful acquaintance took place for Alexei Borisovich. This year he began his work in the Committee for External Relations of the St. Petersburg City Hall, where the current President of the Russian Federation V.V. Putin held the position of his head. Miller worked on the Committee for five years. During this time, the organization managed to establish contacts with the largest Western banks.

Alexey Miller (OJSC Gazprom) in the oncoming lane. A593MR 97

The change of power forced Alexei Miller to leave his home. Having risen high through the ranks of the External Relations Committee, Miller became a sought-after candidate for senior positions in major Russian companies. His new place of work was the company OJSC Sea Port of St. Petersburg, where Alexey Miller worked for three years.

Since 1999, the successful top manager took the place of general director at OJSC Baltic Pipeline System.

According to the results of the Russian elections in 2000, Vladimir Putin occupied the presidency. Following his former boss, his former subordinate Alexey Miller also moved to the capital. He was appointed to the post of Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation, but remained in office for only a year.

In 2001, Miller became chairman of the board of Gazprom. The dismissal of Rem Vyakhirev, who served as chairman for almost ten years, promises the largest energy organization rapid reforms, which were not long in coming. From this moment, Gazprom becomes completely controlled by the state, and work begins to return assets lost during Vyakhirev’s rule.

Alexey Miller: crests are messing with Russian gas

In 2002, Alexey Miller became Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of OJSC Gazprom. By this time, the organization had undergone major personnel changes. Being far from the energy sector, Miller needed people for whom this field was not alien. A number of leadership positions went to people with whom the new chairman of the board had already worked; other appointments came from the Kremlin; some members of Vyakhirev’s team managed to retain their posts.

However, despite the reforms being carried out, evil tongues foreshadowed Miller's imminent resignation. The beginning of his work was not active enough, and, according to some experts, the personnel changes that began should have ended with the resignation of the new leader. No matter what rumors circulate, and no matter what is whispered about on the sidelines, Alexey Miller has firmly strengthened his position. By 2004, the formation of a renewed management apparatus came to an end. In 2006, Miller's work contract was extended for another five years.

No matter how controversial and dubious the start may seem, Alexey Miller achieved good results as chairman of the board. In 2010, the American magazine Harvard Business Review ranked Miller third in the ranking of the world's most effective top managers. In 2013, the chairman of the board of OJSC Gazprom took third place in the Forbes list, and was named one of the most expensive Russian managers.

Personal life of Alexey Miller

Alexey Miller is a busy man, which is why he doesn’t have time to communicate with journalists, so the few interviews with the head of Gazprom are devoted mainly to the work of the company, its prospects and development. Miller prefers not to talk about his personal life, but it is known that he has been married for many years.

He and his wife Irina are raising a son. The top manager prefers to spend his free time with his family. He is no stranger to sports hobbies, such as cycling and skiing. Miller is also passionate about equestrian sports.

He owns several thoroughbred stallions. However, like any business person, Miller’s hobby resulted in active work. In 2012, he assumed the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors of OJSC Russian Hippodromes. According to the presidential decree, Alexey Miller faces the responsible and difficult task of breathing life into domestic equestrian sport and contributing to the revival of the industry.

In 2016, the entrepreneur admitted that as a child he passionately wanted to go to the concert of his beloved Deep Purple. It was impossible then, so now he attends every performance of his youth idols whenever possible.

Alexey Miller today

In 2016, Alexey Miller for the first time topped the ranking of the highest paid top managers, presented by Forbes. His annual remuneration was estimated at $17.7 million.

As of October 26, 2006, the company's shareholders were the state represented by the Federal Property Management Agency (38.37%) and Rosneftegaz (10.74%); NPF Gazfond (3.02%), Gazprombank (0.37%), Vostok Nafta fund (1.3%). E.ON Ruhrgas (a subsidiary of E.ON) controls 6.43% of Gazprom shares, companies friendly to Alisher Usmanov - 1.5%, GNK Nafta-Moscow - 4.5%, Inteko - about 1%, Deutsche UFG - about 3%. Gazprom shareholders also include its chairman of the board Alexey Miller (0.0027%), as well as top managers Alexander Ananenkov (0.002%), Andrey Petrov (0.004%).

The state owns 50% plus 1 share of Gazprom (April 2006, before 2004 - only 38.37%). According to the list of affiliates of Gazprom, as of December 31, 2005, companies affiliated with it owned 7.79% of the shares, of which on the balance sheet of Gazfond - 3.16%, Gazprombank - 1.1%. Nafta-Moskva has 5.3%, E.ON Ruhrgas controls 6.5%, clients of Deutsche Bank and OFG control more than 3%, Vostok Nafta fund - 1.3%.

E.ON sold its stake.

Gazprom's capitalization as of May 8, 2008 amounted to $347.6 billion (the third public company in the world by this indicator at that time). By September 9, 2008, the company's capitalization had decreased to $191.76 billion. On September 1, 2009, Gazprom's capitalization amounted to $122.0 billion.

There are a total of 23,673,512,900 common shares outstanding.

Corporate governance

The highest governing body of Gazprom is the meeting of shareholders. The board of directors, which exercises general management, and the board, which has the functions of the executive body, are directly subordinate to the meeting of shareholders.

Viktor Alekseevich Zubkov - First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Chairman of the Board of Directors
Alexey Borisovich Miller - Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors

Members of the Board of Directors:

Alexander Georgievich Ananenkov
Burkhard Bergmann
Farit Rafikovich Gazizullin
Elena Evgenievna Karpel
Valery Abramovich Musin
Elvira Sakhipzadovna Nabiullina
Mikhail Leonidovich Sereda
Sergey Ivanovich Shmatko
Igor Khanukovich Yusufov

Read more: Board of Directors of OJSC Gazprom.

Chairman of the Board of Directors of RAO Gazprom, since 1998 OAO Gazprom

Rem Ivanovich Vyakhirev (1993-1996, 2001-2002)
Alexander Ivanovich Kazakov (1996-1998)
Farit Rafikovich Gazizullin (1998-1999)
Viktor Stepanovich Chernomyrdin (1999-2000)
Dmitry Anatolyevich Medvedev (2000-2001, 2002-2008)
Viktor Alekseevich Zubkov (since 2008)

Governing body

Alexey Borisovich Miller - Chairman of the Board
Alexander Georgievich Ananenkov - First Deputy Chairman of the Board

Deputy Chairmen of the Board:

Elena Alexandrovna Vasilyeva
Valery Alexandrovich Golubev
Alexander Nikolaevich Kozlov
Andrey Vyacheslavovich Kruglov
Alexander Ivanovich Medvedev
Sergey Fedorovich Khomyakov

Board members:

Oleg Evgenievich Aksyutin
Yaroslav Yaroslavovich Golko
Nikolai Nikolaevich Dubik
Viktor Vasilievich Ilyushin
Olga Petrovna Pavlova
Vlada Vilorikovna Rusakova
Kirill Gennadievich Seleznev
Igor Yurievich Fedorov
Vsevolod Vladimirovich Cherepanov

Read more: Management Board of OJSC Gazprom.

Chairman of the Board of RAO Gazprom, since 1998 OAO Gazprom

Rem Ivanovich Vyakhirev (1993-2001)
Alexey Borisovich Miller (since 2001)

Departments

The departments are structural divisions of the Gazprom administration and are directly subordinate to the board. Most department heads are also members of the board of directors, or management board:

Department of Automation of Process Control Systems
Accounting Department
Department of Foreign Economic Activity
Department of Internal Audit and Control over Financial and Economic Activities of Subsidiaries and Organizations
Department of Investments and Construction
Department of Marketing, Gas and Liquid Hydrocarbons Processing
Department for Gas, Gas Condensate and Oil Production
Information Policy Department
Department for work with regions of the Russian Federation
Department for Transportation, Underground Storage and Use of Gas
Property Management and Corporate Relations Department
Business Administration Department
Human Resources Department
Strategic Development Department
Department of Economic Expertise and Pricing
Financial and Economic Department
Central production and dispatch department
Legal Department

The light jet Beechjet 400A, tail number ES-NXT, worth approximately $7 million with a blue stripe on the fuselage and tail, did not look like an outsider at the business aviation exhibition at Vnukovo-3 in the fall of 2014. It has just been modernized by the American Nextant Aerospace for an unknown owner from Russia. Light beige swivel chairs by the large windows, wide tables and a sofa in the cabin - everything for a comfortable flight for eight people with a maximum speed of 833 km per hour. This compact but comfortable aircraft was registered in Estonia and operated by the Estonian company FortAero.

Beechjet 400A aircraft interior

On its website, FortAero admits that it does everything for high-profile clients, “including heads of international companies and leading government officials, as well as their partners and family members.” And he notes how convenient and profitable it is to register aircraft in Estonia - low taxes, liberal political environment...

The liberal environment has a nuance. Data on licenses for on-board radios on business jets are publicly available in the Estonian business register. And the owners of the aircraft are mentioned there.

Novaya Gazeta found out that the license for the radio station of the Beechjet 400A aircraft, tail number ES-NXT, was valid since 2014 and was extended until the beginning of 2017. All this time, the aircraft was owned by the offshore company Firmon Overseas Holdings, registered in the British Virgin Islands.

Extract from the Estonian business register about the aviation radio installed on the Beechjet 400A aircraft, reg. ES-NXT number, which says that the plane belongs to Firmon

This company was mentioned in a report about the co-owners of Bank Russia, an acquaintance of Russian President Yuri Kovalchuk. According to the bank’s documents, Firmon Overseas was completely controlled by St. Petersburg resident Ivan Mironov, the half-brother of Gazprom board member Kirill Seleznev (Seleznev previously confirmed the relationship to the Vedomosti newspaper).

We decided to find out where the company of the brother of a Gazprom top manager got a business jet worth about $7 million? And what do other relatives and partners of Gazprom’s bosses own?

History of gas distribution

Novaya Gazeta reported on Ivan Mironov in 2014, when he, together with his friend Tatyana Svitova, received a total of 11.7% of the shares of Bank Russia from the subsidiary Gazprom Mezhregiongaz, which is headed by Seleznev. Gazprom then said that they had sold non-core assets. And Novaya and Vedomosti established a connection between Mironov’s former companies and Gazprom contractors, who received contracts worth billions of rubles.

At the same time, Mironov does not give the impression of an oligarch. He worked as deputy director of the St. Petersburg company Expoforum-International, which manages the Lenexpo exhibition complex, known mainly for the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. When Vedomosti asked Mironov about his big business in 2014, he stated that he was “far from all this.”

Mironov’s acquaintance is Tatyana Svitova, the daughter of the senior vice president of Bank Russia Elena Svitova and the sister of Natalya Svitova, who also had shares in Gazprom contractors.

As Novaya Gazeta found out, recent partners of the Mironov and Svitov companies own shares in the gas distribution organizations of the Gazprom system - gorgaz and raygaz throughout Russia, which transport gas from the main gas pipeline to the end consumer, service in-house gas equipment and design regional gas supply networks ( for more details, see the diagram).

Through Firmon Overseas Holdings, Mironov controlled an offshore company - CIS Strategic Industries Investment Fund in the Cayman Islands, this was also mentioned in the report of Bank Russia. The Cayman offshore, in turn, owned the Cypriot Exlaribo. And she owns the chain of companies that leads to the Epos-Capital company. Natalya Svitova owns companies that also lead to this “Epos” and a couple of other companies - “Profkapinvest” and “Biznesprofinvest”. The latter had contracts with gas distribution enterprises of Gazprom for 47 million rubles and, until 2014, a share in another Gazprom contractor (VAG company), which over five years received contracts worth 4 billion rubles.

Not only Mironov and Svitova owned Epos Capital, Profkapinvest and Biznesprofinvest. The co-owners there were five interconnected companies - the Moscow Investment and Financial Group Management. Investments. Development (MIR Group), Financial Analytical Center, Interindustry Bill House of the Fuel and Energy Complex (VD TEK), Investment Partner and Citytrade, which received shares in more than 30 gas distribution organizations. The total revenue of the 28 organizations that they now own has exceeded 40 billion rubles over the past two years. The expert estimates the value of their shares in Gazprom Gas Distribution Nizhny Novgorod alone at 6 billion rubles (for more details, see the inset).

At Gazprom this is the area of responsibility of Kirill Seleznev. He heads Gazprom Mezhregiongaz, a wholly owned subsidiary of Gazprom, which sells gas in Russia: provides supplies to all categories of consumers and participates in gasification of the regions. Gas distribution organizations are part of the structure of Gazprom Gas Distribution, a subsidiary and controlled organization of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz.

Seleznev is a long-time colleague and close acquaintance of the head of Gazprom, Alexei Miller, for more than 15 years (he confirmed this to Vedomosti), they worked together in the port of St. Petersburg and in the Baltic Pipeline System. Seleznev came to Gazprom at the age of 27 as Miller’s assistant, deputy chief of staff of the board.

In the late 1990s, Seleznev worked in the St. Petersburg MIR Group, which had the same general director as now the Moscow group of the same name.

The Moscow-based MIR Group has a long-standing relationship with Gazprom. According to the reports of the Gazprom Gazoraspredeleniye company for 2009-2010, this group, together with the Financial Analytical Center, provided it with loans of 850 million rubles. And later, in turn, MIR Group received a loan of 1.05 billion rubles from Gazprom Gas Distribution and another 253.3 million rubles from Gazprom Mezhregiongaz Nizhny Novgorod.

Gazprom has not yet explained the economic meaning of these transactions.

It was not possible to contact Mironov. Seleznev and MIR Group did not answer Novaya’s questions.

History with patriots

Five companies that hold shares in gas distribution organizations of Gazprom (Financial Analytical Center, Ustyuggaz, Citytrade, Investment Partner and VD TEK) are connected with each other and with the Moscow Investment and Financial Group Management . Investments. Development" (“MIR Group”), which appeared in 2007.

The office of this group is located in the center of Moscow in Arkhangelsky Lane, building 3, building 1. But the roots of the MIR Group go back to St. Petersburg. There has been a group of the same name there since 1994, now liquidated. She was connected with the Moscow one by the common general director and co-owner of the management company - Interindustry Bill House of the Fuel and Energy Complex (VD TEK), which is located in the same office on Arkhangelsky Lane.

The Moscow MIR Group is now owned by entrepreneurs with extensive connections in the church community. The lion's share belongs to Sergei Rudov's VD TEK. He is on the boards of trustees of large monasteries, as well as the Moscow Theological Academy, is a member of the Inter-Council Presence of the Russian Orthodox Church and chairman of the charitable foundation “Society of Friends of the Vatopedi Monastery on Mount Athos.”

Rudov was a co-organizer of the delivery to Russia of the Belt of the Virgin Mary in 2011 and the Gifts of the Magi in 2014, which were displayed in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior. He is also co-chairman of the board of trustees of the Russian Federation of Practical Shooting.

The co-owners of Gazprom enterprises have other interesting intersections. The sole owner and general director of Citytrade, Alexey Puchkin, not only controls the Ust-Luga Multimodal Complex in the port, which was associated with partners and acquaintances of the former head of Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin. But he also heads companies (for example, Agrostyle) that deal with land plots. Half of Agrostyle is owned by the companies of the Rota group of former State Duma deputy Dmitry Sablin. Sablin is the first deputy chairman of the public organization “Combat Brotherhood” and co-chairman of the “Anti-Maidan” movement, created in 2015, as stated, with the aim of opposing the “fifth column” and “color revolutions” in Russia.

Rudov, VD TEK and Puchkin did not answer Novaya Gazeta’s questions.

Real estate history

Deputy Chairman of the Board of Gazprom Andrei Kruglov became the owner of companies that deal with Moscow real estate and are associated with the financial and industrial corporation Garant-Invest of Alexei Panfilov.

At the beginning of 2017, Kruglov received a share (20%) in Hey. Pi. Trust Co., and in the summer - half of the Proletarsky-B company. All of them are associated with Garant-invest, which has several shopping and business centers in Moscow - TDK Tulsky on Serpukhovskaya Zastava Square, the Airport shopping gallery near the metro station of the same name, the Kolomensky, Moskvorechye, and "Moskvorechye" shopping centers. Retail Park and Prague Castle. The group also includes Garant-invest Bank. Alexey Panfilov and his father Yuri are also co-owners of Hey. Pi. Trust Co.

Minority co-owners of the bank and Garant-invest are Irina Biryukova and Ekaterina Biryukova. The first is called the daughter of the Deputy Mayor of Moscow for Housing and Communal Services, Pyotr Biryukov. Among the bank's minority shareholders is also former Moscow City Hall manager Viktor Korobchenko.

Before Kruglov received 20% in “Hey. Pi. Trust Co., this company had shares in companies that owned the Tulsky TDK, as well as the My Store retail chain and other assets of Garant-invest. Cypriot Vetturex, which together with Kruglov owns (25.9%) “Hey. Pi. Trust Co” also has a stake in the Garant-invest structure, which deals with commercial real estate. And in the Garant-Invest corporation itself, where the Biryukovs were minority owners.

The biography of Alexei Panfilov says that he was an adviser to the Deputy Mayor of Moscow Biryukov on a voluntary basis.

Biryukov’s relatives may be connected with contractors who are engaged in the reconstruction of Moscow, as RBC reported. Biryukov is responsible for the municipal services complex, which implements the plan for the improvement of Moscow streets. RBC found that Biryukov’s daughter, Irina and Ekaterina Biryukova, owners of 8.5% of the development company Garant-Invest, were also listed as co-owners of the Venta company, which leased trucks to city enterprises subordinate to Biryukov.

Novaya Gazeta found out that Irina and Ekaterina Biryukov owned (each 15%) the company Stroybusinessholding, which owned a Gazprom contractor, the Ugreshsky Pipeline Fittings Plant. Over three years, he received contracts worth 1.75 billion rubles from Gazprom structures.

The Ugreshsky plant also supplied its products to Mosgaz and Mosvodokanal, whose boards of directors included Biryukov. Since 2015, the plant has concluded contracts with them for 617.7 million rubles.

Kruglov, Garant-invest and the Moscow mayor’s office did not comment on the situation.

History of gas safety

Since April 2017, Gazprom Teplo-Energo has been headed by Artur Trinoga, the son of the head of the secretariat of the head of government, Mikhail Trinoga.

Arthur Trinoga, according to SPARK, is a co-owner (25%) of the Center for Modern Dentistry on Ostozhenka.

“We offer a wide range of services for treatment, restoration, dental prosthetics, bite correction, professional hygiene and aesthetic procedures,” the company’s website says.

Together with Trinoga, the center is owned by the head of Gazprom Energoholding Denis Fedorov (he also has 25%). And their partner is entrepreneur Andrei Yunakov. By 2010, it had 40% of the dental center, but then its share declined.

In 2010, Yunakov controlled five companies - PJSC Gazokhrana-M, OP Gazokhrana, OP Gazzashchita, PJSC Krasnodargazbezopasnost and PSC Regiongaz-bezopasnost, which subsequently began to provide services to gas distribution enterprises of Gazprom and interregiongases. Over five years, they received contracts worth 210 million rubles from Gazprom enterprises.

Arthur Trinoga did not answer Novaya’s questions.

“Well, we’ve already gone completely crazy. Sorry, there are simply no other words…” Vladimir Putin could not stand it at a meeting of the government commission on the development of the electric power industry in December 2011. Then, on his instructions, the affiliation of energy sector managers with commercial organizations that had signs of a conflict of interest was revealed. He noted that there was no violation of the law, but called for attention to the fact that some managers of the state-controlled energy complex and their relatives are associated with companies that do business in the same area and receive income from energy enterprises run by their relatives.

More than five years have passed since then, and there have been no further mentions of conflicts of interest at the highest level.

People close to Gazprom believe that there is no question of a conflict of interest in these cases. And they assure that Gazprom enterprises that transport gas from the main gas pipeline to the end consumer are, in most cases, far from the most profitable business. They also pay attention to the fact that private investors are not rushing into it. And some Gazprom enterprises, co-owned by companies associated, for example, with the MIR Group, have ceased to be unprofitable.

“Such justifications are good at a conceptual level, but not at a legal level. There may be signs of a conflict of interest here,” Ilya Shumanov, deputy general director of Transparency International Russia, shares his opinion. — Gas distribution is a separate business that can be unprofitable and profitable. Gazprom executives already have large compensation and rewards for being present on the boards of directors of numerous Gazprom subsidiaries. If their relatives also intersect with the same area, they should pay attention to this and study whether there is a personal interest of top managers there.”

Minority shareholders of Gazprom enterprises are right to be concerned about this, the expert believes, since the natural question is: does all this affect the financial performance of the gas concern?

Present past

Old Gazprom workers. Heritage

The former Gazprom leadership from the time of Rem Vyakhirev, together with relatives, directly owned shares in companies associated with Gazprom.

“There was no violation here, since the law did not restrict this at all,” says a person close to the gas concern.

Some of the connections of former top managers and their family members with Gazprom enterprises lasted for quite a long time. Thus, the former general director of the gas sales company Mezhregiongaz (currently Gazprom Mezhregiongaz) Valentin Nikishin and members of his family owned the company Quorum-N. She owned half of the Central Investment Heat and Power Company (CITEK), which had shares (from 25% to 35%) in at least 16 Mezhregiongaz companies in different Russian cities. And shares in Management Company Regiongazfinance, which had shares in seven gas distribution organizations of Gazprom, according to SPARK. Nikishin died in a car accident in 2005. TsITEK came under the control of his former deputy at Mezhregiongaz, Marina Bezrukova, and ceased to operate only in March 2017.

TsITEK also owned a share in Gazenergoprombank, which was first transferred to Gazprom structures, and in 2010 merged with Bank Russia owned by Yuri Kovalchuk.

The daughter of the former head of Gazprom, Rem Vyakhirev, Tatyana Dedikova, and the son of former Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, Vitaly, were co-owners of the Promek-MG company, which until 2003 owned 24% of the Resurs-MRG company, registered at the Moscow office of Gazprom. on Nametkina Street, 16. Resurs-MRG owned shares (from 10% to 80%) in at least 37 Mezhregiongaz throughout Russia, according to SPARK. The company Agrokhimtex also had its own share in Resurs-MRG, where Nikolai Isakov, deputy general director for government relations at Gazprom Mezhregiongaz, owned a small share. And also from the company Verta-Techinvest, which was owned by members of the family of the former deputy general director of Gazprom Mezhregiongaz Alexey Veremenko.

The decision to exclude the inactive “IWG Resource” from the register was made in July 2017.

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Courts with shareholders

In 2013, Gazprom, by decision of the government, bought out shares of gas distribution enterprises from the state-owned Rosneftegaz.

Minority shareholders of some of Gazprom's gas distribution enterprises hoped that they would be sent an offer and would be required to buy their shares, as happens in such transactions. But that did not happen.

“In 2013, we turned to the Bank of Russia, and it issued binding orders to Gazprom,” said Alexander Klimenko, head of the legal service of Myriad Rus, which represented the interests of minority shareholders of Gazprom Gas Distribution Nizhny Novgorod. — At the same time, we appealed to the Federal Property Management Agency, the Ministry of Economic Development, the Ministry of Energy and the government with a demand to develop and approve a directive obliging Gazprom to fulfill the requirement of the law. But our requests only resulted in unsubscribes.”

And in the fall of 2015, the board of directors and the main shareholder of Nizhegorodoblgaz, the Gazprom group, approved an additional issue in the form of a closed subscription in favor of three companies, at that time affiliated with the MIR Group. The issue price is 51 rubles per share, three times lower than the market price, which is confirmed by an independent assessment, Klimenko believes.

“The Gazprom enterprise received, in our opinion, three times less money than it could have received. The share of minority shareholders was diluted by more than two times,” Klimenko assures. In his opinion, there were no economic grounds for the issue: Nizhegorodoblgaz is a profitable organization with free cash on deposit in the bank (2.7 billion rubles at the end of 2015-2016).

“How could it happen that thanks to such an issue, Gazprom lost control in Nizhegorodoblgaz (the share decreased from 75% to 32%) and did not receive money for it?” — Klimenko is surprised. In his opinion, this led to losses not only for Gazprom, but also for its shareholders. The result was also the cancellation of regulations obliging Gazprom to send proposals to minority shareholders to buy out their shares, since the Gazprom group’s share in the enterprise became less than 50%. “How else can this be explained if not by an administrative resource?” - asks the lawyer.

“We have not assessed the value of all the assets related to the listed companies, but the value of the shares in Nizhegorodoblgaz alone, which they received into ownership, could be about 6 billion rubles,” the expert believes.

People close to Gazprom explained the situation by saying that the gas concern did not have enough funds to pay both Rosneftegaz and minority shareholders, so a legal way was found to resolve this problem.

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Estonian wings

Estonian FortAero - operator of the Beechjet 400A (Nextant 400XTI) aircraft with registration number ES-NXT, owned by Ivan Mironov's company, has a very interesting history. In 2013, the now abolished national airline of Estonia, Estonian Air, sold its subsidiary, Estonian Air Regional, to the little-known FortAero, registered at the end of 2012. The deal surprised the Estonian market because no one understood who was behind it.

The Estonian Delovye Vedomosti then published the headline “Nominee Holders”, revealing that three people were listed as the owners of FortAero - Aaron Reichstein, Vadim Opryshko and Lyalya Mikhailova. Reichstein previously worked in Moscow, at the Kommersant publishing house, in 2003 he was the director of the Gazeta newspaper in St. Petersburg, headed the Trekhgornaya Manufactory, and in 2006 - the Kommersant Ukraine publishing house. In Estonia, his name was associated with two dozen companies; the local press reported that, according to him, he came to Tallinn by chance, having come to visit a friend.

The Estonian company responded that they had no relation to the half-brother of Gazprom board member Ivan Mironov and Gazprom board member Seleznev.

There is another interesting intersection. The Terramart Development company, which, according to the Bank of Russia report, was controlled by Mironov, had an Estonian branch (now in liquidation). The manager of this branch was Natalia Astashova, who, according to the Estonian registry, manages only two companies, including business aircraft operator Aviasole Business Aviation. This Aviasole offers customers the Falcon 900LX aircraft. Having contacted the manager of Aviasole, Novaya Gazeta found out that they knew about the Beechjet 400A aircraft with registration number ES-NXT and were redirecting it to FortAero about it.

Aviasole and Astashova did not answer questions from Novaya Gazeta.

Seleznev did not comment on the situation.

The Russian Federation has rich mineral reserves. Almost all elements of the periodic table are hidden in the depths of our country. Hydrocarbons, in particular natural gas, are especially important for the country's economy. The total volume of natural gas reserves in Russia is, according to various sources, 45-50 billion m³. Who controls this wealth?

The birth and development of a gas giant

By the time of its collapse, the Soviet Union had firmly established itself among the leading countries in terms of proven natural gas reserves. From the moment of their discovery, all gas fields were transferred to the jurisdiction of the USSR Ministry of Gas Industry, which organized the production and transportation of the energy carrier.

In August 1990, the ministry was transformed into a single state gas production concern Gazprom. The management was headed In November 1992, the company became a joint stock company. In just 5 years, more than 60% of the organization's shares were sold to private investors.

In the early 2000s, Vladimir Putin initiated the reform of the company and its return to state control. Already in 2004, the state's share in Gazprom's stake was more than 50.2% instead of 38.7% a few years earlier.

In 2005, Gazprom began supplying liquefied gas to the USA, and a year later to Japan, the UK and South Korea. The organization has subsidiaries that supply and transport gas in Belarus, the Netherlands, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Ukraine, Slovenia, Hungary, Germany and other countries.

The oil production market was actively developed, and in 2004 it became part of Gazprom, covering 24% of the European Union's consumption with gas supplies. The dependence of some European countries on gas supplies from Russia reached 100%. During this period, rapid development of supplies to Asian countries began. By the end of 2007, Gazprom enterprises provided production of 85% of Russian and 20% of global gas volumes.

By 2010, the company had international projects for the development of gas and oil fields in Venezuela (360 billion m³ of gas and 640 million tons of oil), India (375 million tons of fuel equivalent), Algeria (30 million tons of oil) and other countries.

Since 2007, the company's funds have been implementing the Gazprom for Children charity program, aimed at the construction of sports facilities in various cities of Russia. Over 10 years, more than 1,600 modern sports facilities were built in 73 regions of the country.

The Gazprom-Media holding, formed in 1998, is the owner of the television channels TNT, TV3, Pyatnitsa, 2x2, TNT4, MatchTV, NTV-plus, and the Avtoradio radio stations. , “Humor FM”, “Echo of Moscow”, publications “7 Days” and “Caravan” of stories and other resources.

At the end of 2017, the company's net revenue exceeded 6.5 trillion rubles, and profit - 714 billion rubles. 472.1 billion m³ of natural gas were produced. International projects for the construction of gas pipelines such as Nord Stream, Power of Siberia, etc. are actively developing.

The company's employees are 469,600 people. Gazprom is the largest energy company in the world.

Head of the Concern Board

Married. Has a daughter, whose second husband is the former Minister of Defense of Russia A. Serdyukov. Viktor Zubkov is a quiet family man, a lover of alpine skiing and athletics.

The Gazprom Corporation is one of the largest players in the Russian and global economy. How is the management structure of this corporation organized? In which cities does Gazprom carry out its main activities?

General information about the company

Before considering what the organizational structure of Gazprom is, let's study basic information about the company.

Gazprom is traditionally viewed as a global energy corporation. Its main areas of activity:

Mineral exploration;

Fuel extraction;

Gas transportation;

Processing and sale of fuel.

In addition, the corporation also produces and sells heat and electricity. Gazprom has at its disposal the world's richest natural gas reserves. The value of the corresponding reserves is about 18% of the world and 72% of the Russian ones. In turn, if we talk about that, the corporation’s share accounts for about 14% of its global volumes and 14% of Russian ones.

The company is actively developing projects in vast territories - in Yamal, on the Arctic shelf of Russia, in Siberia, in the Far East. Settlements whose economies are largely based on facilities owned by Gazprom - Urengoy, Astrakhan, Nadym, and many others. In fact, it may be one of the city-forming towns in these settlements.

Gazprom has a developed transport and industrial infrastructure at its disposal. The company is actively developing processing facilities. Gazprom's capabilities make it possible to almost completely satisfy the domestic demand of the Russian economy for natural gas.

In addition, Gazprom also has branches abroad. The activities of these structures are also largely related to the exploration and production of fuel. The corporation supplies gas to both the Russian and foreign markets.

The corporation is one of the key players in the European fuel market. Gazprom's largest projects for the development of fields abroad are being implemented in Venezuela, India, and Algeria. Managers of the Russian corporation actively interact with colleagues on a wide range of issues: investment, implementation of joint projects, exchange of experience in the application of fuel production and delivery technologies.

In the Russian Federation, Gazprom owns the Unified Gas Supply System. Its total length exceeds 168 thousand km. In fact, the company is the only manufacturer and exporter of liquefied gas in the Russian Federation.

Gazprom was founded as a public company in 1989. Its turnover during active periods of capitalization was recorded at values of about 3.9 trillion rubles.

The city where the main office of Gazprom is located is Moscow. The largest structures of the corporation are also located in St. Petersburg. It is known that it is planned to move the main office of Gazprom to the Northern capital in 2018.

history of the company

It will be useful to familiarize yourself with the main facts from the history of the company's development.

In the mid-20th century, Soviet specialists discovered a number of large gas fields in Siberia, the Urals, and the Volga region. They began to quickly develop, and, as a result, in the 1980s the USSR became one of the largest countries in the world in the field of gas production.

In 1965, the Ministry of Gas Industry was established in the USSR. He was in charge of mineral exploration, fuel extraction, delivery and sale to consumers. In August 1989, this department was transformed into an economic entity - the Gazprom concern.

In 1993 it was renamed RAO Gazprom. The corporation's ownership structure has changed significantly over time. Thus, in the 90s, a significant part of the corporation’s shares was sold off as part of the privatization mechanism. By 2004, the state owned 38.7% of shares in Gazprom. In addition, the Russian Federation had a majority within the company's Board of Directors. Subsequently, the state's share was increased to more than 50%.

In 2000, the corporation actively increased its turnover. In 2008, in terms of capitalization, it was among the top 3 largest global businesses. In 2009, Gazprom launched the first liquefied gas production plant in the Russian Federation. The European direction of business was actively developing. Thus, in 2012, the company launched the second branch of the Nord Stream highway. Soon, Gazprom officially launched production at one of the largest gas fields - Bovanenkovskoye.

In May 2014, Gazprom and the Chinese corporation CNPC signed a large contract for gas supplies to China. The contract price was $400 billion. The agreement is for 30 years.

Owners of the company

Who is the owner of Gazprom? The corporation's ownership structure has the following features.

The main shareholder of the corporation is the Federal Property Management Agency, which in this case represents the state. This department - in fact, the country - owns 38.373% of Gazprom shares. The next largest shareholder of the corporation is The Bank of New York Mellon. He owns 26.955% of the corporation's securities. Rosneftegaz owns 10.74% of Gazprom shares. The Rosgazification company has a share of 0.889% in the capital structure of the gas corporation. Other persons own 23.043% of the company's shares.

One way or another, the state owns 50% plus 1 share of the Gazprom corporation. The company's management structure is as follows.

Corporation management: General meeting of shareholders

The highest management body of the company is the General Meeting of Shareholders. Its formation is carried out annually. In addition, extraordinary General Meetings are possible. Owners of ordinary shares have voting rights.

All owners of the relevant type of securities, independently or through a representative, can exercise the right to participate in the General Meeting. An event of the corresponding type is recognized as valid if the attendance of shareholders, who together have more than half of the votes, is ensured.

The competence of the general meeting is represented, in particular:

Changing the provisions of the company's Charter;

Determination of the auditor;

Income distribution;

Election of members of the Board of Directors, as well as the Audit Commission;

Making decisions on changing the company's management structure;

Making decisions to change the amount of Gazprom's authorized capital.

The general management of the corporation's work is carried out by the Board of Directors. It will be useful to study its features.

The activities of the corporation's Board of Directors are regulated by separate Regulations. The considered internal corporate structure of the Gazprom company resolves business development issues if they do not fall within the competence of the higher management body of the corporation - the General Meeting. At the same time, among the relevant competencies is the election of members of the Board of Directors. This procedure is carried out annually.

The company's management structure under consideration is headed by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Gazprom. Main competencies of the relevant body:

Approval of the corporation's budget for the year;

Development of investment programs;

Making decisions on the formation of general meetings;

Legal issues.

Audit Commission of Gazprom

There is another important structure that is part of the management structure of the Gazprom corporation. We are talking about the Audit Commission. It is accountable to the General Meeting and is an elected body. The work of the company's Audit Commission is also regulated by a separate Regulation.

In addition, the corresponding structure of Gazprom is guided in its activities by the legislation of the Russian Federation, the company’s Charter, as well as decisions of the General Meeting. The main tasks that this structure solves:

Control over the preparation of reports and other information reflecting the indicators of the company’s economic development, as well as characterizing its property status;

Control over the compliance of accounting methods used in the corporation with the provisions of Russian legislation;

Ensuring timely reporting by the corporation to interested structures;

Preparation of proposals aimed at increasing the efficiency of disposal of corporation assets, as well as the implementation of other areas of financial and economic activities of companies;

Preparation of proposals to reduce economic risks and optimize internal control mechanisms in the corporation.

This is how one of the largest companies in the world is structured, this is how its management is organized. Gazprom is generally structured like other corporations of the same size. But taking into account the importance of the tasks that the company solves in the course of its activities, the organization of business management in this case requires the use of the most effective approaches to management.

De jure, the head of Gazprom - the chairman of the company's Board of Directors, as well as his subordinates, solve difficult problems of bringing the corporation's management system into compliance with this criterion.

Company branches

In the course of building the management model of Gazprom, its branches were transformed into independent legal entities. They began to function as regional corporations in the gas sector. Each Gazprom branch is thus de jure independent of the main company, although, of course, it develops in the context of the strategic priorities developed by the corporation's head office.

Migration of management to the Northern capital

The management of the largest Russian gas corporation is characterized by a very remarkable trend - the steady migration of Gazprom’s internal corporate structures to the Northern capital. We already know that the city where the main office of the Gazprom corporation is located is Moscow. But now St. Petersburg has every chance to become a key city in Russia in terms of brand presence at various levels of legal relations. With what it can be connected? What attracts a corporation like Gazprom to St. Petersburg?

First of all, of course, it is worth noting that the Northern capital of Russia is a wonderful city in itself, and this circumstance alone can become a factor in the desire of the country's leading managers to work there. According to experts, the largest Russian gas corporation now occupies about 20% of St. Petersburg offices in the luxury segment.

By 2018, it is planned to locate the company's headquarters in the Northern capital. It is assumed that the new main office of Gazprom will be located in the Lakhta Center building, which is currently being built in the Primorsky district of St. Petersburg. The building will consist of a skyscraper and an office complex. The total area of the structure will be about 400 thousand square meters. meters.

At what address in the Northern capital will the main office of Gazprom be located? The address of Lakhta Center is Lakhtinsky Prospekt, 2, bldg. 3. Construction of the structure began in 2013. It is expected that the center's skyscraper will be the tallest among buildings in Russia and Europe. In particular, it will be 88 meters higher than the Federation Tower, which is located in the Moscow City office complex.

Department address

Actually, where is the headquarters of the Gazprom company located now? Address of the current main office of the corporation: Moscow, st. Nametkina, 16. The building is therefore located in the South-West of the Russian capital. It is possible that after Gazprom moves (St. Petersburg and Lakhta Center are still waiting for this), competent structures involved in the management of the company will nevertheless continue to work in the building of the current headquarters of the corporation .

Gazprom's subsidiaries and departments operate in St. Petersburg.