Igor Alexandrovich Putin, a Russian businessman and cousin (on the paternal side) of the leader of the Russian state, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, was born in 1953 on March 30 in the city of Leningrad.
He studied at the Higher Automobile Command School in Ryazan in 1974. According to media reports, his father worked in him, Alexander Putin, who is the brother of the father of the current Russian president. From the same year, Igor Alexandrovich began his career in the armed forces, stopped at the post of deputy head of the department at the Volsky Military School of Logistics (Saratov Region). In 1998, the cousin of the president resigned.
Party
Since 2002, Igor Alexandrovich Putin began his career in the political field. This year he was appointed to the post of chairman of the coordinating council of United Russia in Ryazan. Since October 2006, he joined the ranks of members of the Just Russia party.
Work in companies
His career has gone uphill since 1998. Igor Alexandrovich Putin worked as a chief specialist in the Ryazan Regional Committee of State Statistics, then he was approved for the position of deputy chairman of the committee. In 2000, he left this post, was appointed chairman of the Ryazan licensing chamber, in the same year Igor Alexandrovich entered the civil service at the academy. The president’s brother worked in the license chamber until 2005, in parallel with this, in 2003 he entered the Moscow University - Institute of Economics and Law.
In 2005, I. Putin was elected chairman of the board of directors of the plant producing steel tanks for oil products, part of the Volgoburmash complex.
Igor Alexandrovich Putin continued his career in top management and was appointed president of Surguttruboprovodstroy, the largest supplier company. Having worked in this position for about a year, in December 2011, I. Putin left this post in favor of implementing his own business projects.
Banker
A career in banking started with the president’s brother in 2007, when he was offered a position on the board of directors of AvtoVAZbank. He began work in May of that year.
Further, in 2010, I. Putin was included in the top managers and acquired the status of a member of the board of directors of a major Russian player in the financial market - Master Bank. The appointment as vice president of a credit organization occurred in the fall. In this position, he planned to develop a bank strategy and engage in its development. Information does not appear anywhere, why Igor Alexandrovich Putin chose this organization, bank representatives do not comment on this information. In the first decade of December of that year, he resigned.
Three months later, in early March 2011, I. Putin returned to the top leadership of Master Bank, worked for about two years, and in 2013 left his post, just after the license was withdrawn from this credit organization.
In 2012, cousin of the head of the Russian state Igor Putin was appointed chairman of the board of directors of the Russian Land Bank (RZB). Previously, the bank was owned by Elena Baturina, the wife of the ex-mayor. According to official figures, this credit organization was part of the largest financial and industrial group, which sponsored such powerful state-owned developments as the Yuzhno-Sakhalinskaya CHPP, connecting the Kola motorway and St. Petersburg, as well as the Murmansk Sea Port.
Since October 2012, Putin has become a full member of the board of directors of another large financial organization, the Industrial Savings Bank (PSB).
According to unspecified data, at the end of October 2013, Igor Putin left the management of the Russian Land Bank. Unfortunately, his plans were not realized, the possibility of implementing projects, for example, to provide affordable housing for the population, was overestimated.
In February 2014, he resigned from the board of directors of PSB.
Own business
The president’s brother is implementing his own projects. Since 2011, a new stage has begun in the biography of Igor Alexandrovich Putin, in which, having built up the base and experience, he begins his own business and proceeds to implement his ideas. In particular, I. Putin bought a 51% stake in NPK Energia LLC, on the basis of which batteries are produced for the needs of Russian Railways.
By 2012, the businessman already owned seven companies, one way or another connected with production and the oil sector.
Igor Aleksandrovich in 2012 became the head of major construction - a large project in the Murmansk region on the construction of the seaport of "Pechenga" is now in his charge. In the same year, in August, I. Putin took up a post at the Maritime Board - a structure under the government.
