Vitaly Mashchitsky: biography, achievements, family and interesting facts

Few people follow the replenishment or reduction of the ranks of the oligarchs in Russia. But their biography, life path and success in business can quite attract the attention of ordinary users. So, from recent time in the unfriendly and insignificant family of the wealthiest people in Russia came the native of Irkutsk Vitaly Mashchitsky. More details about his career, business projects and even personal life, we will tell further.

Short information about the oligarch

In the biography of Mashchitsky Vitaly Lvovich, there are a lot of blank spots and gaps. Most likely, this is due to the fact that a wealthy and quite successful person prefers to disclose only the information he needs.

So, the businessman was born in early July 1954 in Irkutsk. Here he graduated from high school and entered the local institute of national economy. According to preliminary information, he was interested in the Economics Department. At the end of 1975 Mashchitsky Vitaly Lvovich graduated from the university, received a diploma and went, as they say, to free swimming.

Fast career growth and first managerial positions

After the institute, Vitaly Lvovich Mashchitsky almost immediately got in the right direction. And here it is just not clear why such a rapid career growth. Judge for yourself, a person who graduated from higher education institution, more like a slightly fledgling chick, but not a predatory kite. Anyway. In a word, in the same year Mashinsky got a job, and took one of the leading positions in the system of capital construction. According to the oligarch himself, he got the post of deputy head of the Irkutsk house-building plant.

Between 1980 and 1989 Mashchitsky Vitaly Lvovich managed to lead one of the largest self-supporting divisions of the DSC in his city. Then there was the post of deputy head in the DSC and the manager in the trust of the large-panel housing construction. At the same time he was the second person after the head of Glaviakastroy and Minvostokstroy under the USSR.

Memories of work at Glaviakastroy

As Vitaly Lvovich Mashchitsky (his date of birth - 02.07.1954) says, the work at Glaviakastroy made a definite impact in his future activity. At that time, the businessman was engaged in organizing and material and technical supply of the whole enterprise.

By the way, it was a powerful complex with tens of thousands of employees. The enterprise was engaged in construction work of varying degrees of complexity. Among its main offsprings were poultry factories, mills, factories and even pre-school educational institutions of the Yakutsk region.

According to the story of the hero, it was at this enterprise that he managed to uncover leadership and organizational qualities. After all, by and large he had to deal with the organization of all business peculiar to the old Soviet era. After that, Mashchitsky Vitaly Lvovich (his family, of course, supported) decided that he was already fully ripe for opening his own business. For the same reason, in early 1989, he left the enterprise, inspired by a small number of new ideas.

The first enterprise with foreign capitals

After a short time, Maschitsky created one of the first Soviet-Finnish enterprises with some share of foreign investment. He called it "Fekcim". It is interesting that there were no analogues of such enterprises in the Union. According to the businessman, his organization was recorded at number five. Consequently, there were practically no competitors in this industry. What did the organization do?

The company, organized by Vitaly Lvovich, specialized in the design and supply of building materials, various production equipment necessary for the development of the domestic construction industry. And the representatives of "Feksim" performed their work mainly "on a turn-key basis".

By the way, even then the businessman was noticed by representatives of the well-known international publication Forbes. Mashchitsky Vitaly Lvovich at that time had already been put on the pencil of the agency's employees. A little later, it will write about him a great article and include in the rating of the richest Russian businessmen. It is interesting that in this rating our hero will occupy an honorary 135 place, and his overall condition will be estimated at $ 0.65 billion.

How were other organizations created in the empire of a businessman?

Throughout his life, the businessman took part in various projects, including the aforementioned enterprise "Feksim". For all this time he was able to negotiate and find a way out of any situation.

So, participation in the project with foreign investments, the businessman says, began around him. According to him, working at Glavyakutstroy, he was able to acquire useful connections and even get the glory of the most enterprising employee of the organization.

As it turned out, our businessman successfully contacted the right people, knew how to negotiate and made connections abroad. During the implementation of the next construction project in Yakutsk our hero started a familiar acquaintance with one Englishman. At that time, he had excellent connections with the Finns.

Later, in tandem with the Englishman, he managed to open a new joint venture, Simix International. It began to deal with the procurement of domestic wood and its subsequent sale abroad, mainly to China and Japan.

A difficult road to a comfortable life

However, before the system was established, entrepreneurs had to purchase specialized equipment, their own forestry and even buy cars for the export of finished logging. And when the organization acquired its timber processing plant, the turnover of businessmen has already exceeded tens of millions of rubles.

Later, Rosinvestneft was organized. According to preliminary data, exactly four years later this enterprise became one of the five largest oil exporters of the Russian Federation. Still later, the entrepreneur had a joint business with the brothers Chigirinsky, managing the company "C + T".

In partnership with them, he created a company called "ST Group", dealing with real estate. At that time, the businessman served as an investor, and also created and managed a land bank. During the period of work in this enterprise, the businessman managed to make good money, as well as to acquire personal land.

Even later, Vitaly Lvovich became interested in the construction of gas stations. As a result of his efforts and international investors, he managed to create a company called British Petroleum. That's how the oligarch Mashchitsky Vitaly Lvovich built his empire. Rostekhnologii is also partly his brainchild. At least he invested in it very intensely, although for friendship, but we'll talk about it later.

Uneasy but friendly relations with Rostech

Since 2009, our businessman has been actively cooperating with the state corporation Rostekhnologii, which was later renamed Rostek. According to the entrepreneur himself, this interest in the enterprise is directly connected with its director Sergey Chemezov. As it turned out, the oligarch has known him since childhood.

So to say, in support of friendship, but not without some financial benefit, the businessman opened a small company "RT", which he called Rostekha's daughter. Along with this enterprise, the newly-founded organization was engaged in the sale and leasing of non-core real estate objects owned by the former Rostekhnologii.

Later, under orders of Vitaly Lvovich, the company began to produce cement and mining jade in Buryatia. Even later, the "tentacles" of the enterprising tandem reached the African continent, where a platinum mining company was organized. Later there were factories in Romania and even China.

Fragile and elegant spouse

Despite the apparent business grasp, Vitaly Lvovich is not a very public person. Therefore, he does not like to talk about himself, as well as about the members of his family. For the same reason, he tries to avoid questions concerning his wife. Mashchitsky Vitaly Lvovich is a sociable person, but he prefers not to talk about his personal life.

However, this does not always work for him. So, the wife of the oligarch Irina does not agree with the opinion of her husband. On the contrary, she decided to get out of his shadow. According to preliminary data, she owns the magazine "The Tretyakov Gallery", published in Russian and English.

By the way, its generic sponsor is her faithful, so that the path to independence of Irina was not entirely successful. In addition, the wife of a businessman heads several charitable foundations and paints very original pictures. So, in 2009 the charming Irina organized her biggest exhibition in the capital. According to critics, the artist skillfully communicates with the audience, using the most unusual and bold combinations of colors.

Family ties and business

Recall that at some point in his career, our hero organized a large enterprise called Vi Holding. This company employs both sons of the businessman: Pavel and Leonid. And the first is the vice-president, a member of the directors and the managing partner of the organization. The second successfully manages the portfolio of real estate of the company and solves issues of development of the organization "Vi Holding". Mashchitsky Vitaly Lvovich is the founder and president of this group of companies, as well as the chairman of the board of directors of Vimetco. As you can see, family ties play a significant role in business.