Yuriy Molchanov

Yury Molchanov
Юрий Молчанов
Born	(1952-06-19) June 19, 1952 (age 72) Kolomna
Nationality	Russian
Occupation(s)	Businessman and politician

Yury Vyacheslavovich Molchanov (Russian: Юрий Вячеславович Молчанов; born July 19, 1952) is a Russian businessman and politician.

Career

From 1987 to 1999, he was the Deputy Rector of Saint Petersburg State University (LSU). In 1990, he as vice rector for international affairs of LSU which is a post for plain clothes KGB and Vladimir Putin as Molchanov's assistant which, according to Oleg Kalugin, is a post for the KGB rezident formed a Joint Venture between Procter & Gamble (P&G) with a 99% share and LSU with a 1% share[a] allowing P&G to locate in a mansion on Universitetskaya Embankment (Russian: Университетская набережная) in the Rector's wing in the same place as the international department.[1][2][3] Of course, both Putin and Molchanov received American soap, washing detergent, and money from P&G.[1] Since 2004 he has been the Deputy Governor of Saint Petersburg.

As of 2017, he owns the Ostrov shopping and office complex on 36/40 Sredniy Prospekt Vasilyevsky Island in St. Petersburg.[4]

He is the adoptive father of the Andrey Molchanov, the Russian billionaire who owns LSR Group, one of Russia's largest construction firms.[5][6]

Notes

1. Both Molchanov and Putin kept this 1% share.[1]

References

1. Досье на Путина в Санкт-Петербурге. Наркотики, бандиты, воровство и КГБ [Dossier on Putin in St. Petersburg. Drugs, bandits, theft and the KGB]. Rospres (in Russian). 15 January 2010. Archived from the original on 16 January 2010. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
2. Юрий Молчанов: человек с выгодными знакомствами-1 [Yuri Molchanov: a person with profitable acquaintances-1]. Rospres (in Russian). 12 February 2004. Archived from the original on 11 December 2011. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
3. Юрий Молчанов: человек с выгодными знакомствами-2 [Yuri Molchanov: a person with profitable acquaintances-2]. Rospres (in Russian). 12 February 2004. Archived from the original on 7 December 2011. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
4. Жданова, Татьяна (Zhdanova, Tatyana) (27 June 2017). Волны приватизации: что надо было купить в 1994 году, чтобы стать миллиардером: Редакция "ДП" к 25-летнему юбилею первых приватизационных сделок в Петербурге изучила судьбу 130 крупных городских объектов, попавших в первые две крупные волны приватизации в 1992 и 1994 годах. Многие из них стали основой для капиталов будущих петербургских миллиардеров. [Waves of privatization: what you had to buy in 1994 to become a billionaire: The editors of DP on the 25th anniversary of the first privatization deals in St. Petersburg studied the fate of 130 large city facilities that fell into the first two large waves of privatization in 1992 and 1994. Many of them became the basis for the capital of future St. Petersburg billionaires.]. Delovoy Peterburg (in Russian). Retrieved 13 March 2020.
5. "The World's Billionaires: #260 Andrei Molchanov". Forbes. 5 March 2008. Archived from the original on March 9, 2008. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
6. Лоссан, Алексей (Lossan, Alexey) (28 January 2008). Андрей Молчанов: дома из песка и тумана [Andrey Molchanov: houses made of sand and fog]. Rospres (in Russian). Archived from the original on 22 January 2009. Retrieved 15 February 2020.

External links

• Biography (in Russian)