Full name:
Smirnov Vladimir
Smirnov Vladimir Date of Birth
29 January 1957
Smirnov Vladimir Citizenship
Russia
Smirnov Vladimir Professional field/official position
Member of the Board of the National Space Bank, First Chairman of the Ozero Cooperative
Smirnov Vladimir biography:
SMIRNOV Vladimir Alexeyevich (born in 1957 in Pskov) graduated from the Leningrad Institute of Aviation Instrumentation with a degree in electrical engineering in 1980. From 1980 to 1989, he worked as an engineer and a junior researcher at the Leningrad Institute of Aviation Instrumentation. In 1988, he was honored with the State Prize for Young Scientists for exceptional contributions to science and technology.
- In 1990, Smirnov established one of the initial joint ventures in St. Petersburg, Inform-Future, which was a Russian-German collaboration and developed the first office center for foreign companies in the city. In 1991, he met Vladimir Putin in Frankfurt. In 1992, he was involved in setting up the St. Petersburg Currency Exchange, co-founded by the Committee on Foreign Economic Relations led by Putin. That same year, together with Putin, he persuaded a group of Frankfurt investors to create the German company S. Peterburg Immobilien und Beteilgungen Aktiengesellschaft (also known as SPAG), which began investing in St. Petersburg real estate through its Russian-German subsidiaries.
- Putin and Smirnov often vacationed with their families at Lake Ladoga, and in 1996, they established the Lake dacha cooperative, headed by Smirnov.
Since 1996, Smirnov led or was a board member of Petersburg Fuel Company. From 2002 to 2007, he was the CEO of Tekhsnabexport (Tenex), which was involved in exporting goods and services for the Russian nuclear industry. Tenex held a 35-50% share of the global initial nuclear fuel cycle products market. During this time, Tenex also secured long-term contracts for supplying low-enriched uranium to the world’s largest nuclear power plants. In 2005, Vladimir Smirnov was appointed as an advisor to the head of the Federal Atomic Energy Agency (ROSATOM) and Atomenergoprom. - In 2007, he became the chairman of the Board of the Kovrov Mechanical Plant, which is a machine-building and instrument-making complex enterprise producing gas centrifuges for uranium enrichment. Since 2012, Vladimir Smirnov has been a member of the Board and a beneficiary of the National Space Bank.
Smirnov Vladimir crimes
Connections with organized crime, money laundering, cross-border corruption, illicit enrichment.
Vladimir Smirnov has been a link between Vladimir Putin and organized crime since the early 1990s. Smirnov was reportedly one of the associates of the notorious mafia boss Vladimir Barsukov-Kumarin, the leader of the Tambov gang. Allegedly, Smirnov served as Kumarin’s deputy for economic affairs, as indicated by publicly available information.
