Vyacheslav Leibman: biography, family, photo

The personality of Vyacheslav Leibman is not completely open to the world, but this is not surprising, because few people would like to put on public display all their steps that led to career growth and success. And the fact that he could not hide under the veil of secrecy, as for this cute and successful businessman, about the bright moments of his biography and life in general, about that now the narrative will lead.

Biography Facts

Vyacheslav Leibman was born in the city of St. Petersburg, then called Leningrad, in 1970 in a beautiful autumn time - September 17. His mother, Yaroshevskaya Raisa Ivanovna, a geologist by education and by profession, went on expedition working tours every summer. The boy's father is Alexander Yakovlevich Leibman, a front-line soldier, a native of the northern capital and a communications engineer by education. During the war (1941-1945), Alexander Yakovlevich managed to command the battery "Katyusha". Well, in peacetime, Vyacheslav's father worked as the head of one of the Leningrad construction and assembly departments. Vyacheslav's childhood was held in St. Petersburg, here he went to school.

Leibman Vyacheslav Alexandrovich: the biography continues

After graduating from high school, Vyacheslav entered the Leningrad Electrotechnical Institute. The desire to follow in the footsteps of his father and get a technical profession probably was not what the young man really lay for, and therefore, after only 2 years, Vyacheslav moved from one educational institution to another. His training now continued at the St. Petersburg University of Economics and Finance. The same time was also marked by the accomplishment of his first steps in business.

The Leibman family. Brothers

His father Vyacheslav Alexander Yakovlevich has 4 sons: from the first marriage (Eugene and Vladimir) and from the second (Yakov and Vyacheslav). Thanks to the correct approach of the parents of the boys, the brothers, despite a very decent age difference (between the elder Eugene and the younger Slava - 20 years old) are very friendly and even adults, they maintain a warm family relationship, which turned into a family business. Family activity was the company "ECO Phoenix Holding", which the brothers have owned and run together for many years.

Vyacheslav Leibman, whose biography continued with a new head (marrying Svetlana Polushina and working in 1991 at the Kaliningrad commodity and stock exchange broker), this time does not really like to remember. Perhaps because the Future of Trade company was headed by his older brother, Yakov, and since it was a joint venture with ECO Phoenix, the broker's place was allegedly bought or granted by Vyacheslav. But it's also possible that it's just gossip or someone's guesses, because Leibman Jr.'s education is no less than that of the other people's chances to get into this position, especially since the guy had a desire to get to know in practice the trade and brokerage business.

Family business

His brother in Future of Trade, Vyacheslav worked for a long time. With his wife Svetlana, at the end of 1992 they organized their own company, which they called "Byte". The new firm had about the same essence of activity as that of the brother's company. And this is understandable, since for those times trade became the main engine of progress, any other business in the 90s could simply not survive. But now no one could blame the owner of his own company, that the place he got here just like that.

All profits from the work of "Byte" LLP were again put into circulation. And so it was necessary to do more than once for the growth of the company, which was headed by Vyacheslav Leibman. His family did not live very richly then, but the couple understood that they would have to spend some time with tightened belts. They rented a small apartment in the St. Petersburg district of Kupchino. The time of the initial savings ended only in 1994.

New project

The time for the collection of worthy initial capital passed when, in 1994, Vyacheslav Leibman and his brother Yevgeny created ZAO Phoenix Petrotrading. This company laid the foundation for the current family business "ECO Phoenix Holding", in which the former wife of Vyacheslav Svetlana is still the chief accountant. The history of the creation of PetroTrading because of the unusual turn of events became for the brothers something like a family legend.

Start a business

According to the "family tradition," Brother Eugene, who at that time worked as a ship mechanic on the ship of the Baltic Shipping Company, arrived home from another long-distance flight. Sailor's life was already a little tired of Eugenia, or perhaps a little tired, and he was more often visited by the idea of not switching to land activity. Of course, the sailor was very attracted to the business, but he also wanted him to somehow be connected with the sea, since completely abandoning the case in which he had worked for at least 20 years was beyond his strength.

Exit the brothers found. They came up with a plan and took up the implementation of the new case using Evgeny's connections and resources that Svetlana and Vyacheslav Leibman had saved up, whose biography had passed to a new stage. Taking on lease dry cargo category "river-sea", the brothers organized the export of timber from Russia to Sweden. Given that at that time the infrastructure of the port in St. Petersburg was far from in the best condition, the brothers had to take care of themselves and refueling the dry cargo ship for trouble-free transportation.

Success came not from exactly where it was expected

Other carriers, as it turned out, had constant, intractable problems with refueling ships. On the basis of their capacity, the brothers tried their best to help their colleagues by providing bunkering services at their request. On the basis of the financial balance for the first quarter, interesting facts were discovered: the export of the forest (their main activity) turned out to be unprofitable, but the side-by-side bunkering services, strangely enough, not only came into profit, but also repulsed losses in the timber trade. Quickly orientated, the brothers Eugene and Vyacheslav Leibmans immediately retrained to the bunkering company "Phoenix-PetroTrading."

Expansion of the family business

The enterprise went on expansion due to the tightening of the partners, but not taken from outside, but due to the joining of the other brothers - Yakov and Vladimir. Business continued to remain within the family. This allowed the brothers to acquire fuel terminals, and then the tanker fleet. After the opening of the network of additional divisions, activities have spread even to Scandinavia and the Netherlands.

One of the problems that those who are engaged in bunkering business have to deal with is the stringent environmental requirements. And then the brothers found an interesting way out. They created on the basis of their own company an additional company specializing in eco-service, namely the cleaning of oily waters and liquidation of bottled oil products.

The progress of the family business and Vyacheslav's personality against this background

The perfectly fine-tuned business of the brothers allowed them to expand their sphere of influence. Subsidiaries based on "Phoenix" covered such areas as furniture production, construction of hotels, travel agencies and media. As for the plans for media projects, only one person from this family could start building and implementing them, of course, none other than Leibman Vyacheslav Alexandrovich.

As the brothers themselves admit, Vyacheslav stands out among them with his dynamism and breadth of views. Recognizing him as the most promising in the family, the brothers are not surprised at new ideas, for the embodiment of which the youngest among them decides to take. Seniors, by their nature, are inclined to hold on to a time-tested and well-run business. But for Vyacheslav, the conquered peak is the final result and a sign that it's time to conquer the new one. He is bored to work in a well-organized production, where everything is already clear and his organizational ideas have already been put into practice. The brain of Vyacheslav requires activity, solving new problems and puzzles.

What connects Vyacheslav Leibman with Ksenia Sobchak

This is an old story that got to the press, it was about the fact that Vyacheslav and Xenia had a serious relationship. At that time, Leibman was already the vice-president of Eco-Holding, which handled oil transshipment. And Xenia could not decide the choice between two rich men. On this occasion there were quarrels, as a result of which Vyacheslav Leibman and Ksenia Sobchak disagreed, then again reconciled and converged again. Xenia lived in the apartment of Vyacheslav, located on the Frunzenskaya embankment. Vyacheslav spoiled the girl with gifts, and once a day of reconciliation, even bought her a brand new Mercedes.

Parting

Xenia herself became known to a particularly wide audience after her statement to the police about the robbery of the apartment in Frunzenskaya. A very large sum, announced by Ksenia in the total count of the stolen, caused a lot of questions and assumptions in the press. As a result, her mother L. Narosova, as well as Vyacheslav and Ksenia's fans, had already had to get up to protect the girl, whom she had already acquired by that time. But Vyacheslav Leibman and Sobchak broke up for another reason. But this is a completely different story. When Xenia began to think about seriously associating her life with Vyacheslav, there was one who destroyed their relationship. This Xenia could not forgive razluchnitsu, promised that she would not get this man either.

New girlfriend

Many are interested in what the essence of the conflict is Xenia Sobchak and Anastasia Volochkova. And the reason for this was Vyacheslav Leibman. Mum Xenia herself introduced her daughter to Nastya Volochkova, and if she knew beforehand how all this will turn out, she would hardly have done it. And then she just wanted that, having as a friend refined, educated and possessing good manners Nastya, the daughter would take a pretty girl's coquetry and, maybe, become even slightly similar to Turgenev's young lady. But all people are different, one template does not fit them. Xenia had its pluses and minuses and to be like someone else she was disgusted with. But Vyacheslav Leibman almost immediately switched to the beautiful and easy to communicate Nastya.

Annoying Lessons

It is even possible to understand Xenia's resentment. A double betrayal by a man and a new girlfriend dumbfounded and embittered the girl. Maybe if Vyacheslav Leibman and Volochkova tried to solve the situation differently, talk, explain themselves, talk about the suddenly arising feeling, then everyone could disperse in an amicable way, but, alas, everything turned out as it happened. Xenia began to take revenge and wherever the pair Leibman and Volochkova appeared, Xenia turned out to be there, which necessarily poured Nastya with wine, then something else.

Tired of the inability to go out together without falling under the regular escapades of Xenia, Volochkova herself invited the guy to part. Vyacheslav agreed.

New Heights

It is possible that the above story with the girls prompted Vyacheslav to think of a new niche, to enter the media market. As far as the press can influence the opinions of people, Vyacheslav Leibman, photos and notes about which began to appear on the pages of newspapers, experienced on himself. For an active and educated businessman, this task is interesting, fresh and relevant. Now Vyacheslav is married, he has a son. The business tycoon is fond of hunting, playing sports and traveling with pleasure.