Russian oligarchs

YEVTUSHENKOV Vladimir Petrovich (b. 1948) graduated from Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology in 1973 and the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University in 1980. In 1975-1982, he worked as the head of the workshop, deputy director, chief engineer of the Karacharovsky plastic plant.

YAKUNIN Vladimir Ivanovich (b. 1948) graduated from Voenmekh (Leningrad Mechanical Institute) in 1972 majoring in aircraft manufacturing. Later, Yakunin took part in the designing and maintenance of long-range ballistic missiles.

USMANOV Alisher Burkhanovich (b. 1953) graduated from MGIMO with a degree in international law in 1976. His fellow student was Sergey Yastrzhembsky, the future press secretary and assistant to Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin. He worked as a research fellow at the USSR Academy of Sciences, senior assistant to the Central Committee of the Komsomol of Uzbekistan.

TURCHAK Andrey Anatolyevich (b. 1975) and his political success are associated with his father, Anatoly Turchak, who used to go to the same judo club along with Vladimir Putin and the Rotenberg brothers. Apparently, such connections proved to be very useful for Turchak Sr., since having started his career as a simple mechanic at the Leninets factory, he soon became the general director of the enterprise, and then headed the Leninets Holding Company OJSC.

TRABER Ilya Ilyich (also known as Antiquarian) is a Russian businessman, mafia boss and an old friend of Vladimir Putin. Born in Omsk in 1950, he graduated from the Sevastopol Higher Naval School with the rank of lieutenant, served in the submarine fleet and was a member of the Communist Party.

TORSHIN Alexander Porfiryevich (b. 1953) graduated from the All-Union Correspondence Law Institute in 1978, after which he worked in various positions in the prosecutor’s office of the RSFSR, in the Soviet Association of Political Sciences, the Presidium of the USSR Academy of Sciences, the Academy of Social Sciences under the Central Committee of the CPSU, and the apparatus of the President of the USSR.