Zyuzin, Igor Vladimirovich is a major Russia

Russia

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n businessman, Managing Director and a major shareholder of mining and metallurgical holding company "Mechel

Mechel

Mechel is one of Russia’s leading mining and metallurgical companies, producing coal, iron ore, nickel steel, rolled steel products, hardware, heat and electric power. Headquartered in Moscow, the company operates facilities in Russia, Romania, Lithuania, Kazakhstan, Bulgaria, and the United...

". According to Forbes

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 magazine on March 8, 2008 his personal fortune estimated at $ 13.1 billion. According to Forbes magazine on March 11, 2009 his personal fortune estimated at $1.0 billion. According to Forbes magazine on March 10, 2010 his personal fortune estimated at $6.4 billion.

Biography

Zyuzin was born in Kimovsk

Kimovsk

Kimovsk is a town and the administrative center of Kimovsky District of Tula Oblast, Russia, located at the watershed of the Don and Volga Rivers southeast of Tula. Population: -History:...

, Tula Oblast

Tula Oblast

Tula Oblast is a federal subject of Russia with its present borders formed on September 26, 1937. Its administrative center is the city of Tula. The oblast has an area of and a population of 1,553,874...

 on May 29, 1960. In 1982, he graduated from the Tula Polytechnic Institute. He received two diplomas of engineer in the field of mining and economics, as well as the degree of Kandidat

Kandidat

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 of technical sciences. In 1987 he began working at the mine Raspadskaya, but left the mine in 1993 because of disagreements with the new management, headed by Gennady Kozlov. In 1995, together with Vladimir Iorich organized a trading company "Uglemetkooperatsiya. In 2001, the businessmen bought a controlling stake in the Chelyabinsk Steel Plant (now the "Mechel"). In 2004 the group "Mechel" has posted a 10% stake in the New York Stock Exchange

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 (market capitalization was $ 2.9 billion). In 2006, bought the entire package (40%) from Vladimir Iorich.

Occupations

Igor V. Zyuzin has been the General Director of Mechel from December 2006. Since March 2003, when "Mechel" was formed, he held the position of Chairman of the Board of Directors. Since May 1999, Mr. Zyuzin is also the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the coal company "Southern Kuzbass”. From 1997 to 1999 Mr. Zyuzin has held the post of Chairman of the Board of Directors of the coal company "Mezhdurechenskugol", which is included in "Coal Company South Kuzbass”, and was a member of the Board of Directors of Kuzbass Central Processing Plant.

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