The head of Gazprom is building himself a luxurious palace in the style of the 18th century worth $50 million.
Project documentation for the proposed future residence of the head of Gazprom, Alexei Miller, which looks like a huge palace in the style of the 18th century.
Impressive, very similar to a mansion in Peterhof, suddenly grown on the banks of the Istra reservoir, the palace at first made a lot of noise in blogs.
But officially, the head of Gazprom, Alexei Miller, who was recorded as the real owner of the palace, did not admit that he had anything to do with it.
“Our company has nothing to do with the Istra Estate,” said Gazprom spokesman Sergei Kupriyanov. But at the same time belonging
Miller categorically refused to comment on the mansion, that is, neither confirmed nor denied.
The trick is that this palace used to be on, but now it's not there, see the pictures at the end.
One can only guess how serious this person is that even Google hides this palace.

All the inhabitants of the village of Berezhki, who agree to talk about the estate, are sure that Miller's palace is. There are basically no other versions.

“It's definitely Miller's Palace. He even came here three or four times,” says Sergey from Berezhkovka. The fact that Miller owns the palace was confirmed by a minority shareholder of Gazprom, Alexei Navalny, and a former State Duma deputy, leader of the Right Cause party near Moscow, Boris Nadezhdin, citing their sources.

In the village of Berezhki, the palace and park ensemble is visible from everywhere. The main house, as it appears in the project documentation, flaunts in the very center of a giant plot of 31 hectares. The blue pseudo-Baroque building is decorated with white vases around the perimeter of the roof. Most of the territory is surrounded by a high concrete fence. From the side of the water, the fence is mesh, and the rest of the buildings are clearly visible. An artificial canal leads from the palace to the pavilion (as long as there is no water in it), along both sides of it there is a French-style park with future fountains. There is also a garage and an unclear purpose of a turret with a weather vane.

The administration of the rural settlement of Sokolovskoye, to which Berezhki belong, claims that construction has been going on for about five years. The territory of 31.9 hectares (according to the federal real estate cadastre agency) was bought from local residents, who, as a result of privatization in the 90s, were given 1.5 hectares of land each. On November 5, 2003, the government of the Moscow Region changed the purpose of the site from “agricultural land” to “settlement land” (decree N 642/40), which allowed construction to begin on it. According to the head of administration, Marina Veremeenko, there were no complaints from local residents about the construction arrives. “Once upon a time, we went to the place with a check because of complaints about garbage, but since then everything is fine,” Veremeenko said. Residents of Berezhkov, indeed, say that they have nothing against the construction of the local Peterhof (the palace is very reminiscent of it), "the main thing is that the river is not spoiled."

Local resident Aleksey says that several years ago he worked at a construction site and was paid very well there. “At first there were 600 workers here, and now there are about 300,” he says. Next to the palace, behind the same fence, the cottage settlement “Istra Estate” is being built. The customer of the project, as the sign says, is Stroygazconsulting, and the general contractor is CJSC Delor. Both the palace and the cottages are guarded by the same private security company "Stone". One of their guards, escorting the Gazeta.Ru correspondent from the construction site, says that he is guarding an object of national importance, but what is it and to whom does it belong, to speak refuses. No more than six cottages and a church are being built in the village. In Delora, where the correspondent called, they do not deny the fact of construction, but refuse to comment further. Locals are sure that "Miller's friends" will live in the cottages around. Across the road, too, behind a massive fence, there are several more technical buildings and wagons for workers.

Stroygazconsulting is a large company (it employs almost 30 thousand people), specializing in infrastructure projects for Gazprom, in particular, it is engaged in the construction of gas pipelines (Nord Stream and others). The company's president is Ziyad Manasir, who is on the latest list of the most wealthy businessmen of the Russian version of Forbes magazine occupies the 75th position with a fortune of $ 500 million. The magazine calls Manasir a man from Putin's entourage. The co-owner of Stroygazconsulting is Olga Grigorieva, the daughter of the ex-deputy director of the FSB and friend of Putin Alexander Grigoriev (the former head of the State Reserve, who died suddenly in December last year). palace”, but for our own purposes. “We are building an 18th century palace for ourselves. It is not a copy of Peterhof, rather it was taken from all known palaces. We have money, and we decided to spend it in this way. Most likely, we will hold receptions here, receive delegations, ”said Viktoria Mironova, head of the public relations department, to Gazeta.Ru. According to her, the palace has nothing to do with Miller personally or with Gazprom as a whole. . Why a rather highly specialized contractor would need a gigantic reception house remains a mystery.

The author of the project for the improvement and landscaping of the Istra Estate park is the Bruns-Park company. In the list of its clients, Gazprom is in the first place. The company confirmed that in 2006-2007 they developed a project for the park, and it was accepted, but they refused to name the customer. It is interesting that Mironova does not know anything about the construction of the cottage village. According to her, Stroygazconsulting is building only a palace on the banks of the Istra reservoir. At the same time, the department of Stroygazconsulting, which is responsible specifically for this project, confirmed the fact of construction, stating that “the cottages are not for sale, since they already have owners.” which Stroygazconsulting is. The settlement was divided into three sections, the total area of ​​which was more than 37 hectares (5.8 hectares of which are occupied by communications), of which the building occupies about 9 thousand square meters. m. In total, 26 buildings were to be located on the territory of the cottage settlement, of which 6 were residential buildings. According to the agreed project, only 25 people were supposed to live in the village.

However, on October 23, 2008, the town planning commission again considered and agreed on a slightly modified project of the Istra Estate. The area remained the same, but the number of residential buildings increased and amounted to 11. There are just five houses on the territory of the palace and park ensemble itself. Unlike cottages still under construction, the palace and other buildings of the ensemble have already been completed. Vladimir Zaitsev, deputy head of the administration of the Solnechnogorsk district, who gave permission for the advanced construction of these five houses in the village, in an interview with Gazeta.Ru, could not remember either the palace or the park, although the Stroygazconsulting project itself recalls. “Nothing has been heard from them lately,” said Zaitsev. The approximate cost of the Istra Estate, as Gazeta.Ru calculated with the help of real estate specialists, is $50 million, even with the market downturn.

The General Director of the Analytical Group of G.M. The cost of development, which the expert compared with a good country hotel, was estimated at $3,000 per square meter, i.e., only $27 million. The cost is seriously increased by complex hydraulic structures that will form a cascade of fountains, as well as the creation of a landscape park. An additional rise in price can be caused by exclusive finishing works “a la Peterhof”. According to Stroygazconsulting's Mironova, "the palace costs no more than a standard panel house." Gazprom's minority shareholder Navalny is confident that Gazprom can even hide a skyscraper under another legal entity. “Maybe it was built for him, but in fact it was issued to another person or company. Legally, you can’t dig in any way,” Navalny said.

Every Russian oil and gas oligarch or top manager of an oil and gas state company has something that they are proud of more than barrels and cubic meters and their own billions. These are their children. We decided to show you what those whose fathers decide or decided the country's oil and gas fate look like.

A year ago Yusuf Alekperov, son of the president of Lukoil Vagit Alekperova, took first place in the ranking of the richest heirs of Russian businessmen, compiled by the Finance magazine. According to the publication, Yusuf will become the heir to a fortune of $ 7.6 billion.

Places from the second to the sixth inclusive in the 2009 ranking were occupied by the children of the former governor of Chukotka and co-owner of the metallurgical Evraz Group Roman Abramovich from ex-wife Irina. Their total inheritance is estimated by "Finance" at 13.9 billion dollars - 2.78 billion for each of five children.

The published rating of the richest brides in Russia should be in your pocket for every single man in Russia who believes that places come true. It is symbolic that the daughter of the head of NOVATEK won this rating. Leonid Michelson appropriately named Victoria.

Her dowry is estimated at $5.9 billion. An enviable bride is also considered the daughter of the founder and vice-president of Lukoil Ekaterina Fedun.

Children are surprisingly similar to their father Mikhail Khodorkovsky. At the ceremony of presenting the literary prize of the Znamya magazine, which was awarded to Mikhail Khodorkovsky, his daughter Anastasia called meeting with her father "the saddest and most long-awaited moments." Now she is 19 years old. In addition to her, Khodorkovsky has three sons. The son from the first marriage with Elena Dobrovolskaya - Pavel (born in 1985) and two twins from the second marriage - Ilya and Gleb(born April 17, 1999).

Very little data on
son Alexey Miller, but, apparently, he, like a high-ranking father, is more for the St. Petersburg Zenith. And probably. for the German Schalke?

The eldest son of Sergei Bogdanchikov, the head of Rosneft, Alexey Bogdanchikov, worked for this company for a long time, but then left it. "The only reason for leaving are ethical considerations: my further career growth in Rosneft is limited by my family ties with its leader," he said at the time. Alexei Bogdanchikov is 30 years old, he graduated from MGIMO in 2002, after which he worked for two years in the credit department of the Russian branch of the Dutch bank ABN Amro. In June 2004, he joined Rosneft, where he first worked in the Asset Valuation and Operations Department.

Well, a small sketch of a happy family life Vladimir Putin. Pictured is his daughter Maria. And the reference is a sketch from pre-presidential life Dmitry Medvedev, his wife and son Elijah.

Miller Alexey Borisovich- Chairman of the Management Board and Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of OAO Gazprom. PhD in Economics

Photo: http://forums.drom.ru/garazh/t1151474477.html

Alexey Miller, biography

Alexey Miller was born on January 31, 1962 in Leningrad, his parents were "Russian Germans". Miller studied at school-gymnasium No. 330 in the Nevsky district of Leningrad, after school he entered the Leningrad Financial and Economic Institute. ON THE. Voznesensky, who graduated in 1984 with a degree in economics and got a job at LenNIIproekt. In 1986, Miller entered the graduate school of LenNIIproekt, from which he graduated in 1989 with a Ph.D.

Miller Alexei Borisovich in the eighties of the last century was a member of the circle of Leningrad reformist economists, in which Anatoly Chubais was the informal leader. Since 1987, Alexey Miller has also been a member of the Sintez club, which, in addition to him, included Dmitry Vasilyev, Mikhail Dmitriev, Andrey Illarionov, Boris Lvin, Mikhail Manevich, Andrey Lankov, Andrey Prokofiev, Dmitry Travin and others. The club gathered at the Leningrad Palace of Youth.

Alexey Miller's career

Alexey Miller in 1990 worked at LenNIIproekt as a junior researcher. In the same year, Miller was invited to work in the Economic Reform Committee of the Lensoviet Executive Committee. From 1991 to 1996, he worked in the Committee for External Relations of the St. Petersburg City Hall under the direct supervision of Vladimir Putin (who at that time served as head of the Committee for External Relations of the City Hall), Alexei Miller was Putin's deputy and head of the foreign economic relations department. Alexey Borisovich Miller was involved in the development of the first investment zones in the city, in particular Pulkovo (construction of the Coca-Cola and Gillette plants) and Parnassus (construction of a complex of buildings for the Baltika brewing company).

Alexey Miller left Smolny after Anatoly Sobchak lost the election of the mayor of St. Petersburg to Vladimir Yakovlev in 1996. Miller joined Sea Port of St. Petersburg OJSC as Director for Development and Investments. In 1999, Miller was appointed General Director of OAO Baltic Pipeline System. A year later, in 2000, Alexey Borisovich Miller became the Deputy Minister of Energy of Russia, supervised the issues of foreign economic activity. Miller is credited with the fact that, thanks to the cooperation between the Ministry of Energy and OPEC, he managed to maintain a fairly high price for oil on world markets.

In January 2001, information appeared in the media that Alexey Miller could become the successor to Energy Minister Alexander Gavrin, but on May 30, 2001, Miller was elected Chairman of the Board of Gazprom.

Alexey Miller, Gazprom

Alexey Miller joined Gazprom in 2001, replacing Rem Vyakhirev as chairman of the board. In the same year, Miller for the first time took the post of Chairman of the Board of Directors of CJSC CB Gazprombank (later - CJSC Joint Stock Bank Gazprombank; OJSC Gazprombank). There was information in the media that the company's management found out about Miller's appointment an hour before the start of the board meeting - during a conversation with the president in the Kremlin. On May 6, 2002, the government appointed Alexey Miller as a representative of the state as a shareholder to participate in the annual meeting of the company's shareholders.

In late 2004 - early 2005, Gazprom, under the leadership of Alexei Miller, advocated an increase in the price of gas supplied abroad. At the end of October 2005, a group of minority shareholders in the Yukos oil company filed a class action lawsuit in the Washington District Court against the Russian Federation and a number of Russian energy companies, as well as their leaders (including Alexei Miller) and ministers, they were accused of conspiring to "actually nationalization of the company.

On May 7, 2008, Dmitry Medvedev took office as president of Russia, after which Alexey Miller became acting chairman of the Gazprom board of directors for the period until a new board was elected by the annual meeting. On June 27, 2008, Viktor Zubkov, First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, was elected the new head of the board of directors of the gas monopoly, and Alexey Miller took over as his deputy. In March 2011, Alexey Borisovich Miller was re-elected Chairman of the Board for a five-year term. In November 2012, Russian Forbes compiled a rating of the highest paid top managers in Russia, and Miller took second place in it. According to the publication, Miller's income is about $25 million a year.

Alexey Miller, awards

• Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (2006);
• Order of Alexander Nevsky (2014);
• Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II degree;
• Order of the "Cross of the Hungarian Republic", II degree (Hungary) - for merits in energy cooperation;
• Order of Saint Mesrop Mashtots (Republic of Armenia);
• Order of Dostyk II degree (Kazakhstan) - awarded on the basis of the Decree of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated October 2, 2006 for his contribution to the strengthening and development of cooperation between the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation;
• Order of Honor (South Ossetia, August 24, 2009) - for merits in strengthening friendship and cooperation between peoples, a great personal contribution to the construction of the Dzuarikau - Tskhinval gas pipeline;
• Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (Italy, February 12, 2010);
• Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh II degree (ROC);
• Order of St. Seraphim of Sarov, I degree (ROC, 2009);
• Order of Glory and Honor II degree (ROC, 2013) - in consideration of the work for the benefit of the Russian Orthodox Church and in connection with the 300th anniversary of the founding of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra;
• Honorary citizen of the city of Astrakhan (2008);
• Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology (2010);
• Order of the Nizhny Novgorod region "For civil valor and honor" I degree (2010);
• Order of Labor, 1st class (Vietnam, 2011);
• Honorary diploma of the President of the Russian Federation (February 6, 2012) - for merits in the development of the gas complex and many years of conscientious work.

Alexey Miller's personal life

Alexey Miller is married and has a son. Alexey Borisovich Miller is fond of horse riding, he owns two thoroughbred stallions.

Alexey Miller was born on January 31, 1962 in St. Petersburg. The boy grew up in a Russian German family. Mother, Lyudmila Alexandrovna Miller, father, Boris Vasilyevich Miller. Alexei's parents worked in a closed military enterprise of the Scientific and Production Association "Leninets".

The guy studied at a specialized gymnasium with a mathematical bias No. 330 in his hometown. Football was Miller's only hobby. Alexei passionately supported Zenit and did not miss a single game of his favorite club.

After graduating from school with excellent grades, he managed to enter the local financial and economic institute the first time, which he successfully graduated in 1984 and received a diploma of "engineer-economist". For several years after receiving his diploma, Miller worked in his specialty at the St. Petersburg Research and Design Institute, however, being a capable student, in 1986 he decided to continue his studies in graduate school. Three years later, Miller became a candidate of economic sciences.

After graduate school, the young specialist continued his work at the St. Petersburg Research and Design Institute as a junior researcher, and in 1990 he transferred to the executive committee of the St. Petersburg Council, where he headed the Committee on Economic Reforms.

The next step in the career ladder of a successful Russian economist was the Committee on Foreign Relations in the mayor's office of St. Petersburg, in which Vladimir Putin was Miller's immediate supervisor. This collaboration was a key moment in the further successful biography of Alexei Borisovich.

Thanks to Miller, the development of the first investment zones in the city took place: Pulkovo and Parnassus, where the Gillette, Coca-Cola, and Baltika factories were built. At the same time, Alexei Borisovich introduced the first foreign banks, Lyons Credit and Dresden Bank, on the territory of St. Petersburg. Miller also developed the hotel business and headed the board of directors of the Europe Hotel.

From 1996 to 2000, Alexey Miller held the position of Director for Development and Investments of JSC "Sea Port of St. Petersburg", and was also the General Director of the Open Joint Stock Company "Baltic Pipeline System".

After Vladimir Putin's victory in the presidential elections in 2000, many of his colleagues in the St. Petersburg administration received senior positions in the Government and state enterprises of Russia. Alexey Miller, who received the post of Deputy Minister of Energy, was no exception. For his successful work in his position, experts and politicians predicted the successful economist the post of Minister of Energy of Russia, but their assumptions did not come true. In 2001, Miller became the head of the board of OAO Gazprom.

In 2002, Miller took the position of Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of OAO Gazprom. By this time, the organization had undergone major personnel changes. Being far from energy, Miller needed people for whom this area is 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 managed to keep their posts.

In 2010, the American magazine Harvard BusinessReview ranked Miller in third place in the ranking of the world's most effective top managers. In 2013, he took third place in the Forbes list, and was named one of the most expensive Russian managers.

During Miller's tenure, Gazprom became the global energy business leader in the world. The gas giant received large assets in the oil and energy sectors, strengthened its position in the export direction, created strong economic ties with Italian and German corporations, began implementing projects to diversify supplies, and signed strategic agreements for gas supplies to the countries of the Asia-Pacific region. At the same time, Miller managed to eliminate the actual competition of Gazprom in the gas sector.

In 2018, Miller oversaw the construction of Nord Stream 2, which runs along the bottom of the Baltic Sea, and also supervised the launch of the Turkish Stream, laid through the Black Sea. In the autumn of the same year, he reported on the construction of 200 km of the proposed 1200 km of the Nord Stream and the laying of the Turkish Stream pipe with the final joint.

As of January 2019, Alexey Borisovich is fond of football and remains a fan of the St. Petersburg club Zenit. He is the Vice President of the Russian Football Union. Miller also likes equestrian sports. Over time, the hobby grew into the fact that the manager holds the position of head of the Russian Hippodromes JSC. The main task set by the President is the revival of national equestrian sport.

Alexey Miller Awards

Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 1st class (2017)

Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (2006)

Order of Alexander Nevsky (2014)

Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland", II degree (March 2, 2002) - for great services in strengthening the Russian statehood and many years of conscientious service

Order of the "Cross of the Hungarian Republic", II degree (Hungary) - for merits in energy cooperation

Order of Saint Mesrop Mashtots (Republic of Armenia)

Order of Dostyk II degree (Kazakhstan) - awarded on the basis of the Decree of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated October 2, 2006 for his contribution to the strengthening and development of cooperation between the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation.

Order of Honor (South Ossetia, August 24, 2009) - for merits in strengthening friendship and cooperation between peoples, a great personal contribution to the construction of the Dzuarikau - Tskhinval gas pipeline

Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (Italy, February 12, 2010)
Order of St. Sergius of Radonezh II degree (ROC)

Order of St. Seraphim of Sarov, I degree (ROC, 2009)

Order of Glory and Honor II degree (ROC, 2013) - in consideration of the work for the benefit of the Russian Orthodox Church and in connection with the 300th anniversary of the founding of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra

Honorary citizen of the city of Astrakhan (2008)

Prize of the Government of the Russian Federation in the field of science and technology (2010)

Order of the Nizhny Novgorod region "For civil valor and honor" I degree (2010)

Order of Labor, 1st class (Vietnam, 2011)

Honorary diploma of the President of the Russian Federation (February 6, 2012) - for merits in the development of the gas complex and many years of conscientious work

Order "For Merit to the Orthodox Church of Kazakhstan" (2012, Metropolitan District of Kazakhstan of the Russian Orthodox Church)

Order of Friendship (Armenia) (2015)

Badge of honor "For taking care of the beauty of the city" (Government of St. Petersburg, 2016)

Miller Alexey Borisovich

Place of Birth
Leningrad

Education

In 1984 he graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Finance and Economics with a degree in economics. Candidate of Economic Sciences.

Family status
Married, has a son.

The main stages of the biography

1984-1986 - engineer-economist of LenNIIproekt.
1986-1989 - post-graduate student of LenNIIproekt.
1990 - junior research fellow of the LenNIIproekt.
1990-1991 - work in the Economic Reform Committee of the Executive Committee of the Leningrad City Council.
From 1991 to 1996, he worked in the Committee for External Relations of the St. Petersburg City Hall under the direct supervision of Russian President Vladimir Putin.
He was engaged in the development of the first investment zones in the city, in particular, the Pulkovo zones (Coca-Cola and Gillette plants were built here) and Parnassus (the Baltika brewing company grew up here). He brought the first foreign banks to the city, such as Dresden Bank, Credit Leone. He was engaged in the hotel business, was the chairman of the board of directors of the hotel "Europe".

1996-1999 - Director for Development and Investments of JSC "Sea Port of St. Petersburg".
1999-2000 - General Director of OAO Baltic Pipeline System.
In July 2000, he was appointed Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation.
In the Ministry of Energy, he oversaw issues of foreign economic activity.
On April 30, 2001, he was elected as the new Chairman of the Management Board of OAO Gazprom.
The decision to appoint Miller instead of Vyakhirev was made at a meeting of the Board of Directors of Gazprom.
On May 6, 2002, the Russian government appointed Miller as the representative of the shareholder - the Russian Federation - to participate in the annual meeting of the company's shareholders.

On July 7, 2008, he was elected Chairman of the Board of Directors of OAO Gazprom Neft.
On May 18, 2010, he was elected Vice President of the Russian Football Union.

Third party ratings, characteristics

Alexey Miller, the newly elected Chairman of the Management Board of OAO Gazprom, has extensive experience in the fuel and energy complex both on the domestic and international markets, Oleg Smirnov, spokesman for the RF Ministry of Energy, believes. He noted the positive experience of Miller's work as the curator of the Baltic Pipeline System project. Smirnov also stressed that Miller, while working in the Ministry of Energy as a deputy minister, was the coordinator of the international activities of this department. In particular, while working in this position, Miller did a lot of work on cooperation with OPEC, Smirnov said. In addition, Miller's work with OPEC made it possible to maintain a fairly high price of oil on world markets, which will have a positive impact on the formation of the current budget and the implementation of government investment programs, Smirnov is convinced. (RIA News ")

The appointment of Alexei Miller to the post of chairman of the board of Gazprom was literally shocking for the company's management. The company's management found out about him an hour before the start of the meeting of the board of directors - during a conversation with the president in the Kremlin. At the meeting, it was a question of who would lead Gazprom in the next few years. It was there that the Gazprom workers learned the name of their new boss. And half an hour later, Rem Ivanovich had no choice but to support the candidacy of Alexei Miller. (“Nezavisimaya Gazeta”, May 2001)

In January 2001, the media reported that a successor had already been selected for Energy Minister Alexander Gavrin. This is Alexey Miller, who was appointed at the end of July 2000 as Deputy Minister of Energy. It is said in oil circles that Miller was introduced to Gavrin for the first time: "Meet your successor - the next Minister of Energy."

Thus, Gavrin was given to understand that he had to work "until the first puncture." Miller came to the Ministry of Energy from the famous Baltic Pipeline System OJSC, which was created to finance and build BPS, where he worked as general director since October last year. And before that, in his career was the St. Petersburg seaport. There is nothing surprising in the fact that the choice may fall on Miller. He is well known personally to Vladimir Putin. When in 1995 the current president served as head of the foreign relations committee of St. Petersburg, Miller was his direct subordinate - the head of the foreign economic relations department. ("Vedomosti", January 2001)

Almost all representatives of the Russian fuel elite unanimously called Miller "Putin's man", which gave one more reason to compare his appointment with Gryzlov's ... However, Gazprom was not heard of as a possible step in Miller's career ladder until yesterday. At the same time, the appointment of a person from the outside to the main position in Gazprom fits perfectly into Putin's logic of phased resignations in favor of, as they say, his own people. (“Nezavisimaya Gazeta”, May 2001)

Prime Minister Mikhail Kasyanov reacted "very positively" to the appointment of Alexei Miller as head of OAO Gazprom. He stressed that Alexey Miller is not a new person in the industry, he held the post of Deputy Minister of Energy for a year, "was engaged in pipelines and international activities." Kasyanov believes that Miller "will easily master the whole range of issues." According to the prime minister, the company will be strengthened in the new construction of Gazprom's leadership, in which Rem Vyakhirev will hold the post of chairman of the Board of Directors. (RIA Novosti, 2001)

Khristenko believes that Miller is a "prepared figure" and his qualifications will be enough to fulfill the new duties assigned to him. The Deputy Prime Minister recalled that in the Ministry of Energy, Miller was in charge of gas issues and, within the framework of his authority, was involved in work with Russia's main strategic partners in the gas sector. The new chairman of the board of "Gazprom" has an economic education and a degree. "Nothing that he has no direct experience of working on gas wells," the vice-premier believes.

According to Vladimir Churov, deputy chairman of the committee on foreign relations of the administration of St. Petersburg, Miller came to work in the city hall when the committee on foreign relations, at the request of Anatoly Sobchak, was headed by Vladimir Putin. Was one of Putin's deputies. He was engaged in the development of the first investment zones in the city, in particular, the Pulkovo zones (Coca-Cola and Gillette plants were built here) and Parnassus (the Baltika brewing company grew up here). He brought the first foreign banks to the city, such as Dresden Bank, Credit Leone. He was engaged in the hotel business, was the chairman of the board of directors of the hotel "Europe". He left Smolny a month after Putin left in 1996. Worked as Deputy General Director of the Sea Port. In the port, a request to characterize Alexei Miller was answered with two figures - in the early 90s, the port's cargo turnover was less than 10 million tons per year, in recent years it has grown to 30 million. ("Izvestia", 2001)

According to Vedomosti's source in one of the federal departments, at the beginning of spring a draft decree on the appointment of Miller as energy minister lay on the president's desk. According to the source, the current head of Gazprom then refused the proposed post as unpromising. Then, according to a high-ranking White House official, the president had an idea to transfer Miller to Gazprom. "The decision was not spontaneous, but was prepared by the highest officials of the state with a high degree of confidentiality," explains the source of Vedomosti.

The appointment of A. Miller means only one thing. Vladimir Putin takes control of the gas empire into his own hands. This assumption is confirmed by the fact that five members of the board of directors, including R. Vyakhirev, lost the right to be re-elected to the board by a court decision. Russian sources, not without reason, believe that over time, their places will be taken by faithful comrades, in whose biography St. Petersburg is mentioned. (Business & Baltic)

Political views, positions

Alexei Miller, the new chairman of the board of Gazprom, promises to increase gas production by 10-15% by 2010. According to RIA Novosti, Miller said that the increase in production is expected to be achieved through the development of deposits in the Arctic. In addition, the head of the gas company said that Gazprom, given the predicted increase in gas consumption in Europe in the next 10 years, "is ready to provide this consumption with its supplies under existing agreements." At the same time, Miller recalled that Gazprom had been a reliable gas supplier to Europe for 25 years. (RIA News")

But despite many years of closeness with Vladimir Putin, the welcoming reaction of the markets, the accomplished appointment raises more questions than it answers. And the main question is whether the new head of Gazprom has enough strength and experience to "straighten" the company's financial flows and stop the asset withdrawal process, the scale of which frightens the state and investors. The main partners of the concern are still commenting on the change of power diplomatically.

"The management of Ruhrgas positively assesses the fact that the election of the new head of Gazprom, Mr. Miller, took place on the basis of a unanimous decision. The second important question is how the Gazprom system, which has always been characterized by a high degree of corporatism, will accept Alexei Miller. This problem is further aggravated by the fact that Gazprom's own managers really stand behind many of Gazprom's "independent" suppliers and consumers. And in the event of their dismissal, they from Mr. Miller's subordinates may unexpectedly turn out to be his inevitable partners. ("Vremya Novostei", 2001)

Miller himself told news agencies that he intends to ensure continuity and strengthen the role of the state in the company. A White House source clarifies that the task of the new head of Gazprom is "to figure out whether there was a withdrawal of assets from Gazprom." According to him, "Miller will retain continuity for some time, but changes in the composition of the monopolist's board will follow in the future." ("Vedomosti", 2001)

The new director of OAO "Sea Port of St. Petersburg" (1999) essentially has to create BTS from scratch: the company was registered in August 1999, and at the first stage the company's staff will consist of 30 people who have yet to be recruited. Miller is a fairly well-known person in St. Petersburg: before joining the "Sea Port of St. Petersburg" he headed the department of external relations of the committee on external relations of the city government. The political orientation of Miller, who was appointed to the post of a "controversial" company (we recall that the decision to build a pipeline, which will be operated by BTS, is not supported by LUKoil and a number of other companies), is unclear: on the one hand, he was supported by the current directors of Transneft, controlled by the team of Nikolai Aksenenko, and on the other hand, sources in the administration of St. Petersburg speak of Miller's good relations with the management of Surgutneftegaz, a company that is extremely interested in BTS.

(Magazine "Company", 1999)

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The ladies who worked together with Alexei Miller in Smolny remember him from their female side and therefore asked them not to reveal them incognito: "He always said hello, smiled." "A good official, it is noticeable that a careerist, although he modestly kept himself, is always in the shadows. You know, one of those that" sounds more than it seems. "(Izvestia, 2001)

One of Miller's former FAC colleagues said: "Alexey is very diligent and obedient.

What he is told, he does. There is nothing bad to say about him, but nothing good either.

He has no opinion of his own and is very convenient to deal with some other "Media Bridge". And stealing from Miller's hand will not rise. Unless it's for yourself."

("Vedomosti", 2001)

Awards

Order of Merit for the Fatherland, 4th class
Medal of the Order "For Merit to the Fatherland" II degree
Order of the Cross of the Hungarian Republic, 2nd class (Hungary) - for merit in energy cooperation
Order of Saint Mesrop Mashtots (Republic of Armenia)
Order of Dostyk II degree (Kazakhstan) - awarded on the basis of the Decree of the President of the Republic of Kazakhstan dated October 2, 2006 for his contribution to the strengthening and development of cooperation between the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation.
Order of Honor (South Ossetia, August 24, 2009) - for merits in strengthening friendship and cooperation between peoples, a great personal contribution to the construction of the Dzuarikau-Tskhinvali gas pipeline
Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic (Italy, February 12, 2010)
Order of the Russian Orthodox Church of St. Sergius of Radonezh II degree and the Patriarchal letter.
Order of St. Seraphim of Sarov, I degree (2009)
Honorary citizen of the city of Astrakhan (2008)