Eduard Taran is a well-known domestic entrepreneur and industrialist. He also engages in social activities. He made his fortune by becoming president and founder of the multidisciplinary RATM Holding. The company is engaged in the production of products for the defense industry, as well as optoelectronic instrumentation.
Biography
Eduard Taran was born in 1967. Even at school, I realized that only through knowledge can you achieve a lot in life, so I regularly worked on improving my skills.
Thus, he received as many as two higher educations. Today, Taran Eduard Anatolyevich has a diploma from the Novosibirsk State Technical University as an economist and manager in enterprises, primarily those associated with the fuel and energy complex.
He received his second education at the Novosibirsk Humanitarian Institute. This time, specializing in economics. He is a candidate of economic sciences, defended a thesis.
Own business
The labor career of Eduard Taran began to develop after 1989, when he returned from the army. He fit in well with the perestroika process, starting with becoming the head of the Youth Initiative Fund at the local Promstalkonstruktsiya plant.
The key to the life of Eduard Taran was 1992, when he founded the company RATM, which still exists successfully. The abbreviation of this organization stands for Regional Association of Fuel Materials. Initially, Taran began to supply energy coal to enterprises operating under the auspices of the Russian Ministry of Defense, the Ministry of the Interior, as well as structures that were officially part of the RAO UES holding.
Business development
Eduard Taran, whose biography is directly related to the energy complex, in the beginning of the 90s creates a joint Kemerovo-Novosibirsk enterprise on this profile, which he calls KeNoTEK. At the same time, he is actively investing money in the development of the Karakansky-Yuzhny coal deposit, as well as the creation of all the relevant infrastructure, including a freight railway.
Around the same time, his company, in which his main assets are located, begins to discover new markets. Taran Eduard Anatolyevich, whose biography has repeatedly been associated with risk, is trying himself in various sectors of the economy. His company is engaged in the glass industry, cement production, optoelectronic instrumentation (this is one of the most efficient areas as a result), as well as investments in construction in the Novosibirsk region and the European part of Russia.
In the early 2000s, RATM became a holding company. Taran becomes the president and owner of a controlling stake in it. His corporation includes Iskitimcement, the largest cement enterprise once in the region, located in the Novosibirsk Region. He managed to restore it.
Currently, the company's assets have grown significantly. He has his own enterprises in Moscow, Yaroslavl, Kurgan regions and, of course, Novosibirsk.
Famous social activist
In addition to the role in the business that Taran takes, he is widely known as a public figure. For example, he owns the “Live” charity foundation, founded on his initiative. The fund provides financial assistance to minors who suffer from oncology. It is part of several All-Russian charitable organizations. For example, the "Life Line", which provides medical care to seriously ill children.
In the early 2000s, Taran founded his own fund called "Citizen of the Fatherland." With his help, he supports social and business activity in the country, trying to influence the institutions of civil society.
Through his charitable foundations, he also finances culture and sports. With its help, tranches receive the Academic Opera and Ballet Theater in Novosibirsk, Zelensky Foundation, engaged in the development of ballet art.
During the Olympics in Sochi, Taran helped equip prayer rooms, and organized ballet performances for athletes.
With his direct support, the Spartak Stadium in Novosibirsk was seriously reconstructed, where the team of the Sibir National Football League holds its matches. He organized a tennis tournament in Novosibirsk.
Criminal prosecution
In 2010, it became known about the detention by police officers of Taran at the Moscow Sheremetyevo Airport. Less than a day later, the court arrested the owner of the holding for two months.
The hero of our article was accused of trying to bribe law enforcement officials. However, many believed that the case was fabricated. In particular, such a version was expressed by the chairman of the national anti-corruption committee, Kirill Kabanov, who stated that the case, in his opinion, was ordered.
After spending some time in jail, Taran was released. And after six months, the criminal prosecution was suspended due to the lack of corpus delicti.
