Vladimir Gruzdev: life and biography

Gruzdev Vladimir Sergeevich is a well-known businessman and politician of the Russian Federation. Is a dollar millionaire. For five years he headed the Tula region as governor.

The beginning of the way

Vladimir Gruzdev was born on February 6, 1967 near Moscow, in the village called Bolshevo. The boy's mother taught biology and chemistry to high school students, and his father was a military man.

After school, Vladimir decided to follow in the footsteps of his father andentered the Suvorov Military School, which he graduated in 1984. Then he became a student at the Military Institute of Foreign Languages, and in 1991 received a red diploma. It was very interesting to study the young man here. As an interpreter, he repeatedly traveled to the Soviet delegation to the countries of Africa, for which he even has a medal.

Being already a graduate, Gruzdeventered the service in external intelligence, but lasted only 2 years - from 91st to 93rd. And then he started a completely different life. In the footsteps of my father I could not go.

Entrepreneurial activity

Saying goodbye to military service, Vladimir Gruzdevwith a head plunged into the world of business. His first job in the new field was in 1993, the chair of the deputy director of the company "OLBI-diplomat". But the punchy young man did not want to work for "someone else's uncle," but wanted to work for himself, and in the same 93-m along with his comrades, he created his own company called "The Seventh Petal", taking a loan of half a million dollars. This company became the first retail grocery chain in Moscow, which largely explains the success. Competitors from Gruzdev and Co almost did not exist, and the products at any time are a running product. In addition, the shops of the "Seventh Petal" worked around the clock, were distinguished by good service and a wide range of goods.

In 1994, Vladimir Gruzdev became general director of the company, in the ninety-seven he headed the board of its directors, and in 2001 became head of the "Seventh Continent-R" and "Metropolitan Deli".

In 2002, Gruzdev's cooperation withex-head of Sobinbank Alexander Zanadvorov, who was the main shareholder of JSC "Manezhnaya Ploshchad". It was to this man that Vladimir Sergeyevich sold his offspring in 2007, when he seriously took up politics.

With what state did Vladimir come out of businessGruzdev? His photo appeared in 2006 in the Russian version of Forbes magazine, which included an entrepreneur in the Golden Hundred of the Russian rich. In this ranking Gruzdev occupied the sixty-sixth place, having a fortune of 750 million dollars.

Political activity

Enter into a big politics Gruzdev tried in1995 year, but lost the elections to the State Duma. Six years later he managed to get into the Moscow City Duma, and then the second attempt was made to become a member of parliament. And again, failure! Due to the insufficient number of voters who came to polling stations, the elections were not deemed to be held.

The dream came true only in 2003. Vladimir Gruzdev received the mandate of a State Duma deputy from United Russia.

The second deputy term began for Gruzdev in 2007. In the summer of 2011, Gruzdev was appointed governor of the Tula region. In 2016, he left this post at his own request.

Interesting facts from the life of Gruzdev

With the name of a famous businessman and deputy associatedmany interesting stories. So, for example, in 2007 Gruzdev Vladimir Sergeevich participated in the expedition to the North Pole, during which the MP even dived to the bottom of the Arctic Ocean where the titanic Russian flag was installed by the crew of the Mir-1 bathyscaphe. To remove the procedure on camera entrusted the policy, which, according to some information, was the sponsor of the expedition.

Another interesting fact from the life of Gruzdev - hewas the first candidate from the Russian side to fly into space as a tourist. The event was to be held in the autumn of 2008, but for some reason it was not realized.

But the story associated with the thesis of VladimirSergeyevich, to put it mildly, is much less pleasant than the previous ones. The fact is that in 2000 the businessman received the second "tower", having graduated from law faculty of Moscow State University. And in 2003 he received his Ph.D. Later journalists found in his thesis a "glaring similarity" with the work of a certain P. Vostrikov, protected in 1998, and declared Grudzev to be a plagiarist. Whether the statements of the media were true or not, while it remains "behind the scenes."

Charitable activity of a businessman

Vladimir Gruzdev, whose biography began in a fairly simple family, managed to become a billionaire and more than once made noble gestures, participating in charity.

There is information that, saying goodbye to your brainchild,he planned to distribute $ 20 million to employees of the "Seventh Continent" as a reward for their diligent years of work. Whether this initiative was realized is not known.

But help the Assumption Cathedral (that in the territoryTula Kremlin) is a confirmed fact. Being at that time a governor, Gruzdev donated six million to repair the temple. In addition, the inhabitants of the region are grateful to him for hundreds of sites established for personal money.

Gruzdev Vladimir: a businessman's family

The businessman and the politician managed to achieve success in his personal life. He has a strong, happy family. With wife Olga they brought up three children: two sons and a daughter.

The wife of Grudzeva, like his mother, is also involvedin big business, being a co-owner of the largest companies. Probably, the children of the billionaire - Mary, Gregory and Leonid - will not remain in this world in the backyard either.