What the Luzhkov family is doing now. Biography, state of Elena Baturina according to Forbes Lena and Olya children of Luzhkov Baturina
Elena Baturina is one of the richest, most influential women on the planet. She is a billionaire, previously owned the Inteko empire, and today she is a co-founder. Also, Elena Baturina is the wife of the former mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov.
The achievements of this amazing woman can be listed for a very long time. Today her main occupation is the hotel business of an international scale. Under her "wing" are:
- GC "New Peterhof" in St. Petersburg;
- Quisisana Palace in Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic;
- Morrison Hotel in the center of Ireland.
Biography of Elena Baturina
Was born rich wife Yuri Luzhkov March 8 under the sign of Pisces. This year Baturina celebrated her 55th birthday. She is a native Muscovite, a successful entrepreneur, a philanthropist, a philanthropist, a true woman, a real business woman, an “iron lady”. Sharp mind, insight, strong will brought her to the first lines in Forbes. Hard work, entrepreneurial talent, leadership skills helped to achieve success.
Elena Baturina's parents are ordinary people, ordinary workers of "Fraser". Dad worked as a shop foreman, mom was a machine operator. As a child, Elena Baturina was often and very ill: according to the recollections of classmates, mostly complaints were about the lungs, so she herself never smoked and does not like people who have this bad habit... The main hobbies of Elena Baturina are tennis, horse riding, rifle shooting, alpine skiing.
The wife of Yuri Luzhkov has an older brother, Viktor Baturin. He is also a famous businessman. Together they graduated from the same school, the same university. Elena Baturina did not want to lag behind her brother. Since 1980, while still a student, she decided to go to work at the plant with her parents.
Elena Baturina's career
Elena Baturina's first serious job is as a design technician. In 1982 he was a senior design engineer in the department of the chief technologist.
1982-1989 - Elena Baturina works at the Institute for Economic Problems of the Complex Development of Moscow as a research fellow. Transformed scientific activity in the chairmanship, was appointed to the position of leading specialist. Soon she decided to open her own business.
Elena Baturina created a joint family cooperative. Her brother Victor became her faithful partner. Together they implemented modern technologies, creating and installing software, bought high-quality computer equipment.
In 1991, the Inteko company was established. In the first years, polymer products were made here. In the same year, Elena Baturina became a married woman: Yuri Luzhkov became the chosen one, who a year later received the chair of the mayor of Moscow.
Most likely, due to the fact that she got married profitably, and useful acquaintances appeared, Inteko began to receive orders at the municipal level, began to expand. The Moscow refinery passed into his possession from the prefecture. A large polypropylene production facility was built on its territory.
1994 - an enterprise producing plastic was joined to Inteko. Five years later, the plant found itself in the center of a scandal: it was attributed to embezzlement of budget funds. But soon the problems were resolved, a year later the plant became an investment and construction corporation. We began to buy up cement plants, invest in Gazprom, Sberbank and other large companies.
2005 - Inteko began to disintegrate. First of all, he left the concrete-panel construction market.
2006 - Viktor Baturin abandoned this company, and soon Elena Baturina herself, but became a co-founder.
2006-2011 - Inteko built modern complexes Dominion, Arco di Sole, Champion Park, ASTRA, New Peterhof, the building of the University named after M.V. Lomonosov.
2008 - Inteko was included in the TOP-300 backbone enterprises in Russia.
In 2011 it became known that Inteko was being sold to investors.
Elena Baturina decided to move to London and started developing the hotel business. After some time, with Yuri Luzhkov and children, she moved to Austria, and bought a house in Aurich worth 20 million euros. In Vienna, a woman owns a sales company real estate"Sappho GMBH". In Vienna, the family has a mansion in Dörling. Two years ago, Elena Baturina took possession of office buildings in Brooklyn.
Personal life of Elena Baturina
Nothing is known about Elena Baturina's personal life before she became the wife of Yuri Luzhkov. They got married with Yuri Luzhkov in 1991. Before her, Yuri Luzhkov had a family. From his first marriage, the ex-mayor is raising two sons.
Yuri Luzhkov and Elena Baturina have been married for 25 years. They got married two years ago. The couple are raising two daughters: Elena, born in 1992. and Olga born in 1994. The girls were educated in London.
Daughter Elena lives in Slovakia, owns a cosmetics and perfumery company Alener.
Elena Baturina has not communicated with her brother since 2007. He even sued her because of illegal dismissal from the post of vice president and misappropriation of Inteko shares.
In April of this year, Elena Baturina signed a deal for 45 million euros to sell the Grand Tirolia Group of Companies. This complex turned out to be unprofitable, it was bought by an Australian.
At the moment, Elena Baturina makes money on an international hotel chain and a development center in New York. Thus, the PE (net profit) from Morrison a year earlier amounted to 1.5 million euros. According to Forbes, in 2018, Elena Baturina's fortune is equal to $ 1.2 billion. In the TOP of the richest women in Russia, she is in first place, the richest entrepreneurs in Russia - in 79th.
The wife of the ex-mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov, an entrepreneur and former owner of the Inteko holding, Elena Baturina is one of the most influential business women in Russia. In the list of the richest compatriots of Forbes for 2008, she took first place. The Inteko holding owned by her controlled a fifth of the capital's construction market, and was the leader in the production of polymers and plastic products.
Elena Baturina was born in the capital in 1963. The future entrepreneur graduated from the Moscow Institute of Management, worked as a research assistant. In 1991, together with his brother Baturin, he made his first steps in business. They jointly open the Inteko cooperative and begin to promote the production of polymer products. A few years later, after marrying future mayor Yuri Luzhkov, the family business turned into a real holding. Full cycle polymer production took about 30% Russian market plastic products.
The beginning of the 2000s became a new milestone in the history of Inteko. It turned from a cooperative into an investment and construction corporation. The family enterprise was able to hold about 25% of the Moscow panel housing market. A year later, Inteko Corporation entered the monolithic construction market. In 2002, the activities of Inteko expanded due to the production of cement. In 2003, the management of Inteko officially announced its intention to issue a bond loan.
This was followed by the property conflicts of the Baturins, condemnation in society and higher circles, which laid the first brick in the emergence of "distrust" to Yuri Luzhkov and his subsequent removal from the post of mayor. Meanwhile, his wife continued to conduct business and achieved considerable success in this. According to Forbes, in 2006, a business woman owned a fortune of $ 2.3 billion. This figure has grown slightly over the year. At the same time, Baturina was the only woman on the list of the richest Russians. 2008 brought Elena Baturina an increase in welfare to $ 4.2 billion. A number of large transactions with blocks of shares are also known, the amount of which was not disclosed for obvious reasons.
Elena Baturina leads a sports lifestyle. Her interests include tennis, horseback riding, shooting, and travel to ski resorts.
According to unconfirmed information, in 2008, the wife of the ex-mayor acquired a luxurious Whitanhurst mansion with an area of 3,700 square meters in London, second in size only Buckingham Palace... The deal was worth $ 100 million. The former owner of the estate was the English developer Markus Cooper. The deal turned out to be very profitable for him, as he initially invested $ 72 million in the purchase of real estate.
Despite repeated denials of the validity of the deal by Ms. Baturina herself and the emergence of information that the luxurious mansion does not belong to her, but to the owner of the PhosArgo holding, ex-Senator Andrei Guryev, this was not officially reported anywhere. Moreover, Guryev's representative gave clear indications that Witanhurst is not directly owned by Guryev. Given Baturina's interest in this property, which realtors spoke about, and Luzhkov's uneasy relationship with the Russian political elite, it can be assumed that the deal was made in secret, with all the necessary precautions taken so as not to arouse suspicion and noise in the press. Whether it is true or not, it is impossible to say unequivocally. However, the presence of financial schemes in the Witanhurst purchase is suggestive.
Elena Baturina's house in Gorki-2
Elena Baturina is also the owner of an estate in the elite village near Moscow "Gorki-2" in the Odintsovo district. The cost of real estate here starts at 50 million rubles. With the center of the capital "Gorki-2" share 14 km of the Rublevo-Uspenskoe highway.
Despite the proximity of the city, the village pleases its residents clean air... Residents spend time surrounded by centuries-old pine trees and can walk along the picturesque bank of the Moskva River. Luxury and privacy are the main aspects that create a special atmosphere here.
The cottage settlement "Gorki-2" with a total area of 120 hectares is under supervision and protection, refined, equipped with centralized communications. There are educational institutions, shops, medical institutions and other infrastructure facilities.
Elena Nikolaevna Baturina. Born on March 8, 1963 in Moscow. Russian entrepreneur, philanthropist, philanthropist. President of Inteco Management. One of the richest women in Russia. The wife of Yuri Luzhkov.
Father - Nikolai Baturin, was a foreman at the Frezer plant.
Mother worked at the machine, also at the Fraser plant.
The elder brother is a businessman. In 2007, he sued his sister's company for $ 120 million for wrongful dismissal, but lost the case, they signed settlement agreement... Since then, Baturina has not maintained contact with her brother. In July 2013, Viktor Baturin was convicted of a bill fraud committed as part of his attempts to get additional money from his sister, in addition to that provided for by the settlement agreement, and non-residential premises. The court sentenced him to 7 years in prison.
In 1980, Elena graduated from high school, then worked for a year and a half at the Fraser plant as a design technician in the technology department.
In 1986 she graduated from the Moscow Institute of Management named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze.
She worked at the Institute for Economic Problems of Complex Development of Moscow.
With the beginning of perestroika and the cooperative movement, she became the head of the secretariat of the All-Russian Union of United Cooperatives. From this organization she was delegated to the Moscow City Executive Committee commission for cooperative activities, where she held the position of chief specialist.
Since 1989, she began to engage in entrepreneurial activity, creating a cooperative with her brother Viktor Baturin.
In 1991, Elena made a cameo in the crime film "Genius" with the title role.
Elena Baturina in the film "Genius"
On June 5, 1991, the Krasnopresnensky District Executive Committee of Moscow registered the Charter belonging to Baturina LLP "Inteko" specializing in the manufacture of various kinds plastic products. Subsequently, for some of their types, the share of the products of this company accounted for up to a quarter of the Russian market. In the 1990s, the Inteko company, expanding its capacity, went into construction business in the capital and other regions of the country. During the crisis of 2008-2009, Inteko entered the list of 300 strategic enterprises Russian Federation who can count on government support.
Since 1994, Inteko began to engage in petrochemistry - plastics processing and the production of plastic products. In 1998, the company won the open competition a large tender for the supply of 80 thousand plastic seats for the Luzhniki stadium. Until 2000, the main business was the production of plastics and plastic products.
In the mid-1990s, Inteko entered the construction business, developing the following areas: development of modern finishing materials and technologies for facade work, cement production, panel and monolithic housing construction, architectural design and real estate business.
In 2001, CJSC Inteko acquired from a private person a controlling stake in one of the leading house-building factories in Moscow, OJSC Domo-building plant No. 3. In June 2005, OJSC House Building Plant No. 3 was sold.
In the early 2000s, Baturina acquired the highly profitable blue chips of the largest Russian corporations Gazprom and Sberbank. This far-sighted step allowed the entrepreneur in the crisis year of 2009 to sell these shares with a significant profit and due to this, early return to the banks of the loans taken earlier for business development and to keep her business afloat.
At the end of 2008, along with Gazprom, Russian Railways and other large companies, Inteko was included in the list of 295 backbone enterprises.
In 2009, ZAO Inteko acquired 60% of the shares of ZAO Moscow Engineering Company, which specializes in engineering construction. In the same 2009, the company began cooperation with the outstanding Spanish architect Ricardo Bofil within the framework of a program to create fundamentally new prefabricated housing systems in Russia for the purpose of integrated development of territories for the purpose of mass housing construction.
In 2010, ZAO Inteko began construction of the second educational building of the Lomonosov Moscow State University.
In 2010, Elena Baturina turned out to be one of the largest taxpayers in Russia, having paid taxes to the state budget for 2009 in the amount of 4 billion rubles.
At the end of 2010, Baturina sold her Russian Land Bank (RZB) to foreign investors.
The most significant completed projects of Inteko in Moscow during the period of ownership of the company by Elena Baturina are: residential quarter "Shuvalovsky" (270 thousand square meters), residential quarter "Grand Park" (400 thousand square meters), residential area "Volzhsky" (400 thousand square meters), the multifunctional complex "Fusion Park" with a museum of unique cars from private collections "Autoville" (100 thousand square meters), the Fundamental Library (60 thousand square meters), as well as the educational building of the humanities faculties (100 thousand square meters) of the Moscow State Lomonosov University, invested and built by Inteko.
Inteko sponsored the Russian Open Golf Championship, one of the stages of the European PGA Tour, and also supported the representatives of the Russian youth team during their participation in foreign competitions. In addition, Elena Baturina supported charity golf tournaments for the Russian President's Cup in Russia, as well as the Rottary Golf World Championship in Kitzbühel (Austria).
In early September 2011, the sale of the investment business Inteko was announced. Since 2011, Inteko has been part of the SAFMAR Group, owned by the Gutseriev-Shishkhanov family.
Having sold Inteko, in 2011 Elena Baturina moved her business abroad... The head of the company Inteco Management.
After the resignation of Yuri Luzhkov from the post of mayor of Moscow, Elena Baturina settled outside the Russian Federation and began to actively invest in the hotel business. The first object of the future hotel chain is the five-star Grand Tirolia hotel in Kitzbühel, Austria, whose construction was completed in 2009. Investments in construction amounted, according to various estimates, to € 35-40 million. The hotel is located in the center of the Eichenheim golf club, together they make up the Grand Tirolia Golf & Ski Resort. Since 2009, the hotel complex has received the honorary status of the first "Laureus House" in Austria, and is now the site of the annual ceremony of presenting the prestigious international Laureus World Sports Awards, called the Oscars in sports journalism.
In 2010, the New Peterhof hotel complex was opened in St. Petersburg. The hotel received a number of architectural awards: "Grand Prix" of the architectural competition "Architecton-2010" in the category "Buildings", "Golden Diploma" of the Green Awards competition in the category "Hotel Real Estate" and "Golden Diploma" of the International Architecture Festival "Zodchestvo- 2010 "in the category" Buildings ".
One of Elena Baturina's business areas in the United States is investing in investment development funds engaged in the construction of residential and commercial real estate in the United Kingdom and the United States. Baturina's representative office in the United States opened at the end of 2015. It provides support and control over investments made in the country.
In November 2016, the acquisition by the structures of Baturina was completed land plot in Limassol, Cyprus. The site is located directly on the coast and is intended for the construction of a complex of luxury residential real estate.
In 2015, Elena Baturina acquired a majority stake in the German company Hightex GmbH, which specializes in membrane construction. In April 2017, Hightex announced the launch of two international projects - in Qatar and the USA. In Qatar, Hightex will build the roof and façades of the Al Bayt stadium with membranes. The stadium, with a capacity of 60,000 spectators, will be one of the venues for the 2022 FIFA World Cup. In the USA, Hightex is implementing a project to install membrane elements at the construction of the "Canopy of Peace" facility, 50 meters high.
Elena Baturina's condition
In 2010, Forbes magazine named Baturina the third richest woman in the world with a fortune of $ 2.9 billion. In 2011, she moved to 77th place in the list of the richest businessmen in Russia with a fortune of $ 1.2 billion, while remaining the richest entrepreneur in the country. In 2012 - 86th place in the list of the richest businessmen in Russia with a fortune of $ 1.1 billion.
In 2013, she took 98th place with a fortune of $ 1.1 billion. In 2013, the Sunday Times included Elena Baturina in the Sunday Times Rich List - a list of the richest people in Great Britain. The Russian entrepreneur got 122nd place in the general list and 12th place in the list of the richest women. Since then, Elena Baturina has been on the list every year and is the leader among women in the country who have earned their fortune on their own.
At the end of 2015, Elena Baturina's fortune was $ 1 billion.
In 2017, her fortune amounted to $ 1 billion - 1940 place in the world ranking, 90 - in Russia.
Baturina's fortune was estimated at $ 1.2 billion.
Social activities of Elena Baturina
Since 2006, she held the post of deputy head of the interdepartmental group for the national project “Affordable and Comfortable Housing - for Citizens of Russia”. Elena Baturina was the only representative of the construction business in this group. In connection with the work on national project a special unit was created in Inteko, whose employees traveled to the regions of Russia, inspecting the state of the construction industry enterprises on the spot, determining the need for building materials, collecting demographic and sociological data. As a result, the concept of the Federal Target Program "Development of the Construction Industry and the Industry of Building Materials" was developed, on the basis of which the Government of the Russian Federation developed "Strategy for the development of the building materials industry for the period up to 2020".
In 2010, the president of the company, Elena Baturina, became one of the first representatives of large business who independently provided assistance to victims of fires - in particular, Inteko built a preschool institution in the Tula region free of charge.
In 2015, Baturina became one of the international ambassadors of the public program WE-Women for EXPO organized jointly with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Intalia. We-Women for EXPO is an international public project within the framework of the World Exhibition, created to find solutions to the most pressing issues raised at EXPO-2015. The project brings together prominent women from all over the world: Nobel Prize winners, politicians, cultural, scientific and sports workers, philanthropists and entrepreneurs. Status international ambassador was awarded to Elena Baturina for her contribution to the promotion of an innovative approach to solving social issues.
In 1999-2005, Elena Baturina served as President of the Russian Equestrian Sports Federation. During this time, the beginning of the organization of international dressage and eventing competitions for youths and juniors was laid, teams of riders of the corresponding age categories were formed, qualified to participate in the European Championships. Many competitions were held in Moscow, including the Moscow Mayor's Cup, which was one of the stages of the Cup. After a ten-year break, the Russian Championship, the Russian Cup and the Russian Championship among youths and juniors in triathlon were held.
Deals with the support of culture and art. The first "Russian seasons" Elena Baturina organized in Kitzbühel, Austria, in 2008 - it was a celebration of Russian Christmas with the participation of Russian classical music performers and groups of Russian folk song and dance. The next stages of the "Russian Seasons" for several years were held not only in Austria, but also in a number of other European countries.
Sponsored the International Music Festival "Jazza Nova" in Kitzbühel. During different years it was headlined by the legends of world music Stevie Wonder and Carlos Santana, the participants were Liquid Soul and Brazzaville, "Turetskyo Choir", Sergey Zhilin. Attendance at the festival was free; invitations were distributed through public funds.
Elena Baturina is the founder of the charitable Foundation for the Support of Education (FPO) "NOOSFERA", whose activities are aimed at developing religious tolerance and tolerance in society and provides for the creation of a system of educational courses, information and leisure centers, grant and scholarship programs. The NOOSFERA Foundation is the initiator and one of the organizers of the Tolerance Team educational festival. Currently, the Noosphere Foundation is implementing an educational astronomical project in London with the support of the London Mayor's Foundation.
Elena Baturina initiated a charity project "Revival of the Russian tradition of collective help in building a house" ("Home by the Whole World")... This project was intended to unite the efforts of commercial organizations, individuals and authorities in various regions of Russia to solve the housing problems of people in dire need of improving their living conditions. Within the framework of the project "Home by the whole world" Inteko donated apartments to families in Moscow, Rostov-on-Don and St. Petersburg.
Has established humanitarian fund BE OPEN- a creative think tank / "think tank" whose mission is to promote ideas and personalities. It is a cultural and humanitarian initiative that aims to harness the energy of the global creative elite - the best minds from the arts, education, design, business - and channel it towards positively transforming society. Development and implementation creativity young people is carried out with the help of an expanded system of interrelated events: conferences, competitions, exhibitions, master classes, events in the field of culture and art.
Elena Baturina's height: 172 centimeters.
Personal life of Elena Baturina:
Married. Spouse - (born September 21, 1936), Soviet and Russian statesman and politician, for 18 years in 1992-2010 served as mayor of Moscow.
Luzhkov and Baturina met when both worked in the Moscow City Executive Committee, Elena - in the commission for cooperative activities. They got married in 1991. Then Elena Baturina was 28 years old, and Luzhkov - 55. Baturina said: “When we worked together, we didn't even think about it, it all happened a little later. Luzhkov is a real man in the best sense of the word. And we are very lucky - we love each other. We are a completely traditional family. "
In marriage, they had two daughters - Elena (born in 1992) and Olga (born in 1994).
Before the resignation of Yuri Luzhkov, his daughters studied at Moscow State University. Later they moved to London, where they studied politics and economics at University College London.
Baturina explained her move to London by her desire to be close to her daughters: “It’s so happened that I now have to live in England, my children study there and I will certainly always be attached to the place where they are. They will want tomorrow to live in Japan, I will go to Japan with them. Because these are my children - and they are more important to me than any business. "
Daughter Elena is engaged in business in Slovakia, founded Alener company in Bratislava, whose main field of activity is the development of cosmetics and perfumery.
Daughter Olga in 2010 entered the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University, then studied for two years at University College London. Then she graduated from the bachelor's degree at New York University, then studied in the master's degree in the direction of hospitality and food sciences. At the end of 2015, Olga opened the Herbarium bar next to the Grand Tirolia Hotel in Kitzbuhel, owned by Elena Baturina.
In January 2016, Baturina and Luzhkov got married after 25 years of marriage. The wedding took place in the home church of the Nativity of the Virgin, located on the site country house Yuri Luzhkov, it was led by the rector of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra, Archbishop Feognost - the former mayor of Moscow maintains friendly relations with him. The ceremony was attended by the couple's children and relatives, as well as close friends.
Elena Baturina is fond of horses. Baturina became interested in equestrian sports after Svyatoslav Fedorov gave her a horse for her birthday. In her personal stable, Baturina keeps disabled horses and provides them with a dignified existence.
According to Baturina, how a person mounts a horse, how he negotiates with her - this is how he builds relationships with people: “It is imperative to put a person on a horse in order to see how he will behave in a team: will he become a leader or not, he will be a dictator or will compromise. In general, it is easier for men with horses. They have a strong hand, and it is not difficult to stop an animal. Luzhkov can handle any horse. "
Also loves downhill skiing. Prefers skiing in Tyrol, Austria. This passion was the reason that the first object of the Baturina hotel chain, the Grand Tirolia hotel, was built in Tyrol.
In addition, Elena Baturina is fond of golf, which she plays with her husband and collects photographs from the countries she visits.
Collects Russian porcelain. Elena Baturina owns one of the largest private collections of Russian imperial porcelain. She gives preference to porcelain from the times of Nicholas the First.
In April 2011, Elena Baturina donated about 40 works of art to the Tsaritsyno Museum-Reserve in Moscow - part of her collection of rare porcelain. The exposition was timed to coincide with the 200th anniversary Patriotic War 1812
Filmography of Elena Baturina:
Elena Nikolaevna Baturina is the richest woman in the Russian Federation, billionaire, ex-owner and co-founder of Inteko, one of the capital's largest business empires, chairman of the supervisory board of Inteco Management, widow of Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov, who was dismissed in 2010.She is the creator of an international high-class hotel chain, including the Grand Tirolia complex with a golf course in the Austrian ski resort of Kitzbuhel, the New Peterhof hotel in the Northern capital of Russia, a hotel as part of the new generation Moscow Park business center in Kazakhstan (Astana ), Quisisana Palace in the Czech Republic (Karlovy Vary), Morrison Hotel in the capital of Ireland.
In 2016, the businesswoman again, for the fourth time, topped the list of the richest women in the country according to Forbes. This publication estimated her finances at $ 1.1 billion. In 2008, according to the same magazine, she owned $ 4.2 billion.
Childhood and education
The first Russian woman billionaire was born into a Moscow working-class family on March 8, 1963, seven years after the birth of her brother Viktor. Parents, Tamara Afanasyevna and Nikolai Yegorovich, were ordinary Soviet workers, worked at the Frezer plant and lived in a house on Sormovskaya Street, where they gave out apartments to the plant workers.Elena attended the same as her older brother, comprehensive school... The neighbors described her as a businesslike and hard-headed girl who had no time to engage in stupid things. She studied and helped her parents with the housework. After graduating from school, Lena entered the evening department of the Institute of Management. Sergo Ordzhonikidze, where Viktor Baturin also studied earlier.
In 1980-1982. the girl worked at the largest enterprise of cutting tools "Fraser", at the same time she received higher education at the Institute of Management. Sergo Ordzhonikidze. It did not work otherwise - the family lived in poverty.
Later she became an employee of the Institute for Economic Problems of the Development of the National Economy of the Capital, head of the secretary department of the Union of Cooperators, and a member of the Moscow City Executive Committee commission for cooperative activities. In 1986 she received her diploma.
Acquaintance with Yuri Luzhkov
When in 1987 Elena Baturina met the future mayor of Moscow, her heart was occupied by another young man, a gymnast. At first, she had only a working relationship with Yuri Luzhkov. He was the second person in the executive committee of the Moscow City Council, where the 24-year-old graduate, who dealt with the problems of the cooperative movement, came to work. 
According to Elena, the first impression Yuri Mikhailovich made was a bossy one, but at the same time she already decided that she would become the wife of this man, who strictly distinguishes between personal and professional life. The boss appreciated Elena's leadership qualities and became close to her, but only in a friendly sense of the word. Luzhkov was married, but in October 1988 his wife Marina died of cancer. In 1991, Baturina moved to Luzhkov's home, and three months later they got married.
Despite the difference in age, the spouses were similar in temperament and shared their views on life, so they lived in perfect harmony. In 1992, their eldest daughter Elena was born, two years later - Olga. As for Luzhkov's sons from his first marriage, the elder Mikhail took his stepmother, who was younger than himself, into hostility, while the younger Alexander quickly found a common language with her.
Business
In the summer of 1991, Yuri Luzhkov headed the Moscow Government, and a year later he was appointed mayor of the capital to replace Gavrila Popov, who resigned due to problems with food supplies. It is not surprising that Baturina's success in business is often associated with the high position of her husband. However, Elena started doing business even before her relationship with Luzhkov began. 
Baturina's first business enterprise was launched in 1989. Like many enterprising Soviet citizens of the late 1980s, she partnered with her brother Viktor to found a cooperative. There was a desperate shortage of money, and the company was engaged in everything it had to: selling equipment, installing and developing software, and organizing jobs.
In 1991, my sister and brother founded the Inteko company, whose area of interest initially included the production of polymer products. The company quickly occupied this niche: according to experts, in certain categories of plastic goods, Inteko produced about a quarter of the total production. Ten years later, the company's field of activity included commercial real estate, construction and investments in shares of the largest state-owned enterprises, including Gazprom, Oskolcement, Atakaycement, Sberbank.
The company provided financial support in the implementation of projects in the field of education, culture, art, sports, including international golf tournaments. Elena Baturina initiated the initiative "Home by the Whole World" (the program provided housing to those in dire need Russian families in different cities), a sponsor of equestrian competitions (Elena was the president of the profile Russian Federation of Equestrian Sports). In 2006, she was promoted to Deputy Head of the Interdepartmental Team on the National Affordable Housing Program.
2006 was the most successful year in the life of Inteko - the company received 27.6 billion rubles in net revenue.
Viktor Baturin served as vice president of Inteko until he was fired in December 2005, and Baturin learned about the dismissal from the newspapers. No official reasons were given. One of the possible reasons for the conflict, the media called Viktor's claims due to insufficient compensation for his stake in Inteko (until May 2002, he owned 25% of the shares, and then all reports indicate that 99% of the shares belong to Elena Baturina). It was reported that in return, Baturina gave her brother half of the stake in the subsidiary company Inteko-Agro, and thus he received the company at full disposal. However, over the next few years, the value of Inteko, according to various estimates, is 3-4 times.Victor Baturin about his sister Elena Baturina and Yuri Luzhkov
Since 2007, Elena Baturina has revived the tradition of performances of our artists abroad, created in 1907 by Sergei Pavlovich Diaghilev and named "Russian Seasons". So, in 2008, with her assistance, in Austria, concert performances of domestic dance groups, classical musical works, and folk songs took place, timed to coincide with Orthodox Christmas.
In 2009, Inteko completed the construction of the Moscow-Park multifunctional complex in Astana. The complex included shopping and entertainment and business centers, a panoramic elevator, restaurants, cafes, office space and a 4-star hotel.
In 2010, Elena Nikolaevna opened the New Peterhof hotel complex in the Northern capital; within the framework of assistance to victims of fires, she financed the construction of a preschool educational institution in the Tula region, sold the Russian Land Bank to foreign investors.
In 2010, Forbes ranked Elena as the third richest woman in the world with her fortune of $ 2.9 billion.
99% of Inteko shares were owned by Elena Baturina until 2011. After the resignation of Yuri Luzhkov in 2010, the company's annual revenue fell by almost 2 times. Inteko for 600 million dollars was acquired by a subsidiary of Sberbank (Sberbank. Investments) in partnership with financier Mikail Shishkhanov.In 2011, information was made public about the donation by the billionaire to the Tsaritsyno Museum of porcelain from the Imperial Factory from her personal collection.
After the sale of Inteko, Elena Baturina went into the hotel business. In 2012, it became known about the opening of the Quisisana Palace hotel in Karlovy Vary, in 2013 - the Morrison hotel in the capital of Ireland.
Elena Baturina about her business in Europe
Since 2010, Elena Baturina has also been involved in the development business. In addition to Russia, she sponsors projects in the United States, Cyprus and Kazakhstan. In 2016, she acquired a number of office buildings in the New York City area of Brooklyn, near the Barclays Center. In 2021, it is planned to complete the construction of an elite 23-apartment building in the capital of Cyprus, the cost of investments in the project exceeded 40 million euros. Among Baturina's projects in Kazakhstan is the luxurious Moscow business center.
Personal life of Elena Baturina
As noted above, Yuri Luzhkov and Elena Baturina got married in 1991. The husband, for whom their marriage became the second, was 27 years older than her. The couple raised two daughters - Elena (1992) and Olga (1994). 
Before Luzhkov left the post of mayor, they were both students of Moscow State University (the eldest daughter studied at the Faculty of World Politics, the youngest at the Faculty of Economics). In 2011, the girls moved with their mother to the British capital, where they continued their education at University College London.
Olga also earned a bachelor's degree from New York University and a master's degree in hospitality. In 2015, a woman with her usual marketing savvy opened her own bar Herbarium in Kitzbühel, near Grand Tirolia. In the new establishment, Baturina tried the long-standing idea that such an establishment could be a place where you can not only drink, but also enjoy herbal drinks in a comfortable environment.
Elena Baturina loves equestrian sports, is fond of tennis, golf, alpine skiing, collecting photographs, works of art (in particular, she owns a canvas by the English artist Francis Bacon) and classic cars (in her fleet there are about 50 units of vintage vehicles).
Elena Baturina today
The entrepreneur is engaged in the hotel business, the acquisition and construction of real estate (in the USA, in the UK), together with her husband - the management of the Weedern horse breeding concern. She finances a number of charitable organizations - "Noosphere" to provide disinterested assistance in education, tolerance for other faiths, lifestyles, customs, Be Open to promote progressive ideas of young creative people in different parts of the world.On December 10, 2019, Yuri Luzhkov died in a Munich clinic due to complications that began after a successful heart operation. Elena Baturina, accompanying her husband, plunged into a state of shock. At the funeral of the former mayor, the woman, as reported by the press representatives present at the ceremony, was in a stupor with grief.
Yuri Luzhkov's legacy consists of a 450-meter apartment in the center of Moscow, in a building built at the beginning of the 20th century on 3 Tverskaya-Yamskaya Street. Realtors have valued the property at $ 600 million. It is reported that it will be divided among themselves by the widow and children of Yuri Mikhailovich.
Did Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov help his wife raise a billion dollar fortune? What will happen to the Inteko company owned by Baturina after the scandalous resignation of Luzhkov? Who was Elena Baturina's grandfather and why was her uncle imprisoned? How did the future billionaire meet Yuri Luzhkov and what did they do together in the basements of the White House? This and much more - in the book of Mikhail Kozyrev, the very journalist whose scandalous article was the beginning of the "war" between Baturina and Forbs magazine. Trade in computers and used military equipment. The release of "consumer goods" and the invention of a disposable plastic shot for vodka. Development of the Khodynskoye field and the lands of the Moscow State University. Gambling on stocks and violent "showdowns" within the Baturin family. Year after year, the author analyzes the events and phenomena that made Elena Baturina the richest woman entrepreneur in Russia. For a wide range of readers.
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The given introductory fragment of the book Elena Baturina: how the wife of the former mayor of Moscow made billions (Mikhail Kozyrev, 2010) provided by our book partner - the company Liters.
Youth Baturina. Acquaintance with Luzhkov
Who is Elena Baturina? Where did it come from and in what environment did you grow up?
In her interviews, Baturina does not like to be frank about these topics (as well as in general, she does not like to be frank). But Elena Baturina has an older brother, Victor. Four years ago, in 2006, his sister kicked him out of business. Freed from the "routine", Victor Baturin wrote a book. Rather, he wrote it in co-authorship. The co-authors were the leader of the Liberal Democratic Party Vladimir Zhirinovsky and his fellow party member Sergei Abeltsev. A piece called "Chantera pas!" describes the world history and history of Russia, reducing it to the interaction of two social groups- people who are efficient and hard-working, on the one hand, and their antipodes, the so-called "shantrap", on the other.
I will not undertake to comment on the content of this "work", I will only say that it is, to put it mildly, controversial. But I was interested in numerous " lyrical digressions»About the past and present of the Baturin family, with which Viktor Baturin equipped his historiosophical story. The book came to me in a version of one of the pre-printed versions. I contacted Viktor Baturin and asked if the information in the book could be used. He muttered something like "you can use it, there are no secrets." I don’t know about the “secrets”, but something about the Baturin family becomes clear from the book.
So let's start from the very beginning. If you believe Viktor Baturin, then his (and Elena Baturina's) paternal grandfather was born in the village of Katino, Ryazan province, into a peasant family. Yegor Baturin and his wife Elena had nine children. The eldest son, born in 1915, became one of the first Komsomol members and then communists in the village. Participated in dispossession of kulaks, organized a local collective farm, fought against religion. Once, according to a family legend, Baturin the activist even burst into the parent's hut and began to chop icons. In response, the mother threw out a pot of hot cabbage soup on her son. He, badly scalded, turned around and left the hut, violently slamming the door. As often happened with the "activists", in 1939, Elena Baturina's uncle was arrested. He was tried, recognized as an "enemy of the people" and sent to camps in the north of the Komi Republic for 15 years.
Nikolai, the youngest of the brothers and the future father of Elena Baturina, was then 12 years old. In the village they began to look askance at the family of the "enemy of the people". The Baturins, fearing further persecution, moved to Moscow. There, Elena Baturina's grandfather got a job on the railway.
In 1944, Baturina's father was drafted into the army. But the war was already coming to an end, he did not get to the front, but was sent to restore the coal enterprises of the Tula region. Nikolai Baturin was demobilized from the "military miners" in 1951. He got a job at the Moscow plant "Frezer". He got married, graduated from the machine-tool technical school, became a foreman at the pipe equipment section. Things were going well. In 1963, the Baturins, who had previously been huddled in a communal apartment, were given a whole two-room apartment on Sormovskaya Street. Elena Baturina grew up in it.
In total, Nikolai Baturin and his wife had three children - two sons and a daughter. However, the eldest son, Gennady, died at an early age from pneumonia. Elena, the youngest child, grew up with her middle son, Victor. Victor was six years older. There was no prosperity in the family. For example, when Vitya went to first grade, his mother could not get a white festive shirt. I had to sew myself - from my daughter's diapers.
In her interviews, Elena Baturina recalls every time that the family lived a bit poorly. She herself, as the youngest, had to sleep in the same room with her parents.
By the time the children grew up, Nikolai Baturin fell seriously ill - something connected with the spine. Victor studied at school for eight years, after which, at the insistence of his father, he entered the technical school. He wanted his son to get a profession before going to serve in the army. The family should not have been left without a breadwinner.
It is known from her own words about Elena Baturina that she was often ill at school. Doctors said she had weak lungs, so she never smoked. At school, unlike her brother, she finished her studies until the 10th grade. Baturina did not shine with success. After school, she went to work at a factory where her mother and father worked. However, Elena had no intention of staying on the Fraser.
“When I finished 10th grade, I simply could not find a place for myself - I was thinking all the time where to go. After all, I had to make a mistake at least a little - and nothing could be fixed, I could not catch up with those who will go five or six years ahead, and I will lag behind, ”she later said.
Summary? Unlike, say, billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, Elena Baturina does not come from a family that is part of the Soviet elite. But she was not a homeless orphan like Roman Abramovich. Baturina grew up in an ordinary working-class family. Both father and mother Baturina did not have higher education... The morals in the family were simple, I would even say, harsh. This is felt in an interview with Victor and Elena Baturin. I mean their real, not "written" interviews.
“I am not an intelligent person, I am a simple guy from a working-class factory family,” Viktor Baturin once said. “My father used to say: tell a man for three years that he is a pig, he grunts,” - this is Elena Baturina in an interview in October 2010 for The New Times magazine.
But here, in my opinion, best quote from the Baturins on this score. It belongs to Victor: “Kisses and hugs are not accepted in our family. For example, I don’t just call my mother. If she needs to, she will call herself, sit and wait. My sister and I were not accustomed to show kindred feelings, especially in public. "
In general, parents could not prepare (motivate) their daughter to enter a prestigious university right after school - the most common start to a good career in the late Soviet Union. But stubbornness, perseverance, it seems, managed to instill.
The girl, who grew up in the proletarian district of Vykhino, developed the ability to pursue a set goal. It is this and, it seems, the business acumen and peasant cunning inherited from the previous generation made Baturina not only the mayor's wife, but also the richest woman in Russia.
“Batura, translated from Old Slavonic, means stubborn. So I am a rather stubborn person, ”- this is how Baturina said about herself in one of the interviews.
After school, Baturina's stubbornness was very necessary. She managed to pass only to the evening department of the Institute of Management named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze. Baturina did not manage to enroll in daytime. And in order to be able to study in the evening, she, according to Soviet standards, needed to work. And she went to the same Frezer plant where her father and mother worked. This went on for a year and a half. Then Baturina left the factory.
She explained her act at different times in different ways. “Soon I left the factory because it was unbearable for me to get up early. I am an owl by nature, and waking up early is a tragedy for me, ”Baturina said in her 2005 interview.
Three years before 2002, Elena Baturina described the same circumstances in a different way: “It was terribly difficult for me to leave the factory. I was summoned to the director, and he gave a lecture about how immoral it is to interrupt the dynasty, since everyone worked at this plant: uncles, aunts, brothers, sisters. But I had nowhere to go - since I studied at an economic university, I had to work in my specialty. And I went to the Institute of Economic Problems of Integrated Development of the National Economy of the city of Moscow. I left with a terrible decline. For a salary of 190 rubles. "
But, be that as it may, the transition to work at the institute played a key role in further destiny Elena Baturina. And the point is not only that Baturina managed to get a job in a completely “warm place”. The institution where she now worked was the lead one for the development of programs for the development of the urban economy: where and which production facilities to locate, how to provide them with labor resources, etc. that she was paid 145 rubles right after school at the plant) more than compensated for the prospects for the future.
Reasoning in everyday life: what kind of husband could she find for herself in the factory floor? Another thing is one of the leading research institutions in the capital's urban economy. The chance was not slow to introduce myself. And Baturina did not miss it.
In 1987, the perestroika initiated by Mikhail Gorbachev reached the institute where Baturina worked. In the spring of that year, the USSR Council of Ministers adopted several resolutions that allowed private entrepreneurship in the country. At the same time, by the decision of the Moscow City Executive Committee, a special body with the long name "Commission for Individual Labor and Cooperative Activities" was created.
Yuri Luzhkov, then deputy chairman of the Moscow City Executive Committee, was appointed chairman of the commission. And to ensure the current activities of the commission, a special working group consisting of two employees of the institute of national economy subordinate to the Moscow authorities. One of them was Elena Baturina. In the summer of 1987, Luzhkov and Baturina met.
The future mayor of Moscow was 51 years old. Luzhkov made his career at petrochemical enterprises. Luzhkov was remembered by his former subordinates for his irrepressible energy. At one of the enterprises, which was headed by Luzhkov, the nickname "Duce" was assigned to the future mayor of the capital. And not only for the external resemblance. In 1986, Luzhkov worked as head of the Science and Technology Department at the USSR Ministry of Chemical Industry. It was from there that Boris Yeltsin "pulled" him out. Having just been appointed first secretary of the capital's city committee of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, Yeltsin was looking for "fresh" personnel for Moscow structures. Luzhkov was promoted to deputy chairman of the Moscow City Executive Committee and at the same time - chairman of the Moscow City Agro-Industrial Committee, where he oversaw the provision of food to the population of Moscow. And at the same time, as a social burden, Luzhkov was entrusted with a commission on cooperatives.
By the time she met Baturina, Luzhkov's first wife, Marina, was still alive, but was seriously ill. She died in 1989 from liver cancer. The widower has two children - Mikhail and Alexander.
“No, it was not love at first sight, we worked together for a long time and did not even particularly discuss our feelings. But subconsciously, I always knew that I would be his wife", - later recalled Elena Baturina about her" romance "with Yuri Luzhkov.
Yuri Luzhkov met the parents of his future wife about a week before the wedding. When he first came to visit the Baturins, an episode occurred, described later by Viktor Baturin, the elder brother of Elena Baturina.
Baturina's father, Nikolai Yegorovich, invited the future son-in-law to play chess. Luzhkov agreed. As Viktor Baturin writes, Luzhkov began the game aggressively, it was clear that he did not hold the father of his future wife for a serious opponent. But very soon Luzhkov found himself in a difficult position, he began to think for a long time about each move. Soon, Baturin Sr., deciding not to torment the guest, offered Luzhkov a draw, he happily agreed.
When Elena Baturina and her fiance left, Viktor Baturin asked his father: "Why did you offer a draw, did you have an almost winning position?" He only grinned in response and said nothing.
“Now, of course, I understand that my sister was 29 years old and my father was glad that she was starting a family,” writes Baturin.
Soon, Yuri Luzhkov and Elena Baturina got married. They had two girls - Alena (1992) and Olga (1994). However, Baturina did not want to change her surname. “I was already seriously involved in business - my name was already well-known. Changing my surname would have created certain technical difficulties for me, ”Baturina later recalled.
What kind of business are we talking about? In 1991 Elena Baturina, on a share with her brother Victor, registered the Inteko cooperative.
Working on the commission on cooperatives, Baturina herself was imbued with the spirit of entrepreneurship. "Komsomolenk" Mikhail Khodorkovsky, as Baturina herself later said, she helped organize the first student cooperatives. She was familiar with all prominent entrepreneurs from among the first legal "Soviet" businessmen - Artem Tarasov, Vladimir Gusinsky and others.
In other words, she was in the midst of the incipient cooperative movement, had an idea of all the moves and exits.
“It was foolish to sit by the water and not get drunk,” concludes Viktor Baturin, referring to the reasons for the creation of the Inteko cooperative.
What exactly the Inteko cooperative was doing in the first year after its creation is still not known exactly. The official version, repeatedly stated by Elena Baturina, says that software development. But what exactly did Inteko do?
Here is what Viktor Baturin writes about this in his memoirs:
“… How did you make the first“ big ”money? Certainly not on pies and restaurants! I can tell what I know from personal experience... For example, at all Soviet enterprises, especially defense enterprises, there was a so-called fund for technical re-equipment and a fund for new technology. These funds had one peculiarity - the money had to be spent within a year, otherwise it would disappear. If you are not a complete idiot and you have acquaintances at some enterprise, then you call your friend and ask: “How much money do you have unused for funds?” He, for example, answers: “One hundred thousand rubles”. You ask him what work is planned for this amount, draw up a contract for a cooperative, do the work. Under the agreement, non-cash money is received from the enterprise to the cooperative. They were cashed out in a cooperative at the bank, and computers were bought with cash. The difference in prices (“cash” - “non-cash”) was colossal! "
Back in an interview with Vedomosti, Viktor Baturin described his Crimean odyssey: “I went to Crimea and made computer classes there in two collective farms, while the fashion was for computer science. They say they still work. I remember I earned 150 or 160 thousand rubles on this. I carried them from there in two suitcases. That's how it all began. There were no taxes then, except for income taxes, and there were no laws either. " It was 1990 or early 1991.
But the most detailed description of the launch of the Inteko business is contained in the book by Viktor Baturin.
On the morning of August 19, 1991, when millions of Soviet citizens learned about the State Emergency Committee, Viktor Baturin met in Riga, at the gates of the headquarters of the Baltic Military District. The day before, he arrived from Moscow and managed to pay the bills for the debited military equipment- cars, power plants, trailers, etc. On the 19th, he had to receive invoices in order to travel to the units and pick up the purchased property. Although the equipment was written off, it was actually practically new - it stood at the storage bases and was not used. The Ministry of Defense decided to sell part of it. Baturin learned about this opportunity from his acquaintance at the headquarters of the district, the rest was a simple matter.
If the putschists had acted more confidently in Moscow, Viktor and Elena Baturins would most likely have been left without money and equipment. And in other endeavors, they would hardly be accompanied by success. Indeed, it was during the days of the putsch that Yuri Luzhkov showed himself as one of the most loyal and, moreover, effective allies of Boris Yeltsin.
Contrary to the demands of the State Emergency Committee, Luzhkov refused to issue an order banning rallies and demonstrations. He began to ring up the heads of Moscow enterprises, demanding that they allocate equipment and building materials for the construction of barricades.
If the "putschists" had the upper hand, the fate of Yuri Luzhkov and his newly acquired relatives would have been unenviable.
Meanwhile, Viktor Baturin, having learned from his acquaintance in Riga about the introduction of a state of emergency, immediately got into the car and by the morning of August 20 was in Moscow. At the entrance to the capital, he met columns of armored vehicles. But after a couple of days, the situation in Moscow was defused. Deals with military property were completed.
“This 'business' brought me and my sister in 1991 several million rubles. It is with this “military” money that Inteko originates, ”Viktor Baturin recalls today.
However, a more significant event for Inteko's future business took place on June 6, 1992. By the decree of Boris Yeltsin, Yuri Luzhkov, who in reality already completely controlled the capital's power, was appointed mayor of Moscow. In this position, he worked for 18 years, 3 months and 22 days, having lost it only in September 2010. Well, Elena Baturina, in 1992, a novice cooperator who made the first start-up capital on intermediary operations, now occupies the 27th line in the list richest Russians and owns a fortune of $ 2.9 billion.