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Russian oligarch and politician (born 1952)
Sergey Viktorovich Chemezov is a Russian businessman and politician who is the CEO of Rostec Corporation, a state-owned defense conglomerate. A former KGB agent and high-ranking general, Chemezov befriended Vladimir Putin when both were stationed in East Germany in the 1980s. In 2007, Putin appointed him as CEO of Rostec.
Chemezov was born on 20 August 1952 in the city of Cheremkhovo in Irkutsk Oblast. Chemezov graduated with honours from Irkutsk Institute of National Economy (presently Baikal State University of Economics and Law) in 1975 and then completed his postgraduate education at the Military Academy of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Russia. Chemezov has a doctorate in economics and is also a professor and full member of the Military Academy. At the Irkutsk Scientific and Research Institute of Rare and Nonferrous Metals, Chemezov provided economic assessment of deposits as an engineer, a research associate, and chief laboratory assistant for six months from 15 October 1975 to 28 April 1976 while he was waiting for his paperwork to process to enter the ranks of the KGB.
Chemezov married his first wife Lyuba when he was 18 years old. Chemezov is married to Yekaterina Ignatova, who is a trained planning engineer. She is a co-founder and seventy percent stockholder of Kate LLC, a company that develops and manufactures automatic gearboxes. Ignatova is also the majority shareholder (along with Gor Nahapetyan, the managing director of Troika Dialog) of Étage, a chain of nineteen restaurants in Moscow. She has an apartment at 28 on Povarskaya Street (Russian: Поварская улица) in Moscow. Chemezov has four children. He is a thirty percent shareholder of Medfarmtekhologia, a member of the board of directors of AvtoVAZEnergo, and chairman of the board of directors of Interbusinessgroup, which holds via structural companies such commercial organizations as Independent Insurance Group LLC, Oborontsement JSC, and Oborontsement-energo LLC. Since 2003, Stanislav Chemezov has been the co-owner (together with Vladimir Artyakov's son, Dmitri) of the Meridian hotel facilities in Gelendzhik. Stanislav Chemezov is the only founder of Interbusinessgroup LLC (Russian: ООО «Интербизнесгрупп») which has the shares in several construction companies, Russian Industrial Nanotechnologies (Russian: «Русские промышленные нанотехнологии»), I.A.D. business industry (Russian: «И.А.Д. бизнеc индустрия») and shares in Natural and Organic Products LLC (Russian: ООО «Натуральные и органические продукты») which is one of several companies clustered around Andrey Dolzhich's (Russian: Андрей Должич) Virgin Islands firm Natural and Organic Products, Inc that sells soil improvers to Persian Gulf countries including the soil near Bahrain's Royal Palace which now have palm trees growing in soil improvers from Dolzhich's firm. According to other information accessed in May 2009, Chemezov's second son was studying in a medical institute. His youngest son Sergey was in primary school and his daughter was a graduate student at MGIMO University.
On 28 April 2014, he was barred by the Obama administration from entering the United States due to the annexation of Crimea by the Russian Federation. He was sanctioned by the UK government in 2014 in relation to the Russo-Ukrainian War. On 12 September 2014 as part of a much wider expansion of its programme, Chemezov was sanctioned by the European Union over the war in Ukraine. The same day, Chemezov was mentioned in a communiqué of the US Treasury because the firm he directs was subjected to sanctions as part of a sweeping ban on the Russian defence sector. The joint September 2014 sanctions packages had been agreed in principle at the 2014 NATO Wales summit. Through Serguei Adoniev's charitable contributions, Chemezov had become an influence in the Novaya Gazeta press since 2014. In February 2019, the Alexei Navalny linked Anti-Corruption Foundation discovered Chemezov's wife's Ekaterina Ignatova's apartment in the building located at the former site of the Moskva Hotel with a market value of about 5 billion rubles. On 3 March 2022, the United States imposed visa restrictions and froze assets of Chemezov, his wife, sons, stepdaughter due to the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. On 15 March 2022, Spain temporarily seized Chemezov's $140m yacht 'Valerie' in Barcelona because of the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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