1. Leonid Viktorovich Mikhelson is a Russian-Israeli billionaire oligarch, businessman, CEO, chairman and major shareholder of the Russian gas company Novatek.
12 Facts About Leonid Mikhelson
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Leonid Mikhelson is a business partner of Russian billionaire Gennady Timchenko, a close confidante of Russian leader Vladimir Putin.
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Leonid Mikhelson started working as a foreman at a construction and assembling company in the Tyumen area of Siberia.
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Leonid Mikhelson continued as managing director at the company, which has been renamed NOVA, until October 1994.
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Leonid Mikhelson then became General Director of its holding company, Novafinivest, which later became known as NOVATEK.
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Leonid Mikhelson currently holds the position of chairman of the Board of Directors of ZAO SIBUR and serves on the supervisory board of OAO Russian Regional Development Bank.
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Leonid Mikhelson is considered to be one of Russia's oligarchs.
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Leonid Mikhelson established his own foundation, the V-A-C Foundation, which promotes contemporary Russian art, and has international ties with the New Museum in New York, the Tate museums in the UK, and London's Whitechapel gallery.
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Leonid Mikhelson is a recipient of the Russian Federation's Order of the Badge of Honor.
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Leonid Mikhelson is married, with two children, and lives in Moscow.
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Leonid Mikhelson is one of many Russian "oligarchs" named in the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act, CAATSA, signed into law by President Donald Trump in 2017.
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Leonid Mikhelson was sanctioned by the British government in 2022 in relation to Russo-Ukrainian War.