Miller Alexei: fifteen years at the helm of "Gazprom"

Miller Alexey Borisovich (born January 31, 1962) is deputy chairman of the board of directors and chairman of the board of directors of the energy company Gazprom, which is the largest producer of natural gas in the world.

Origin and Education

Where was Alexey Miller born ? His biography began in Leningrad, in the usual family, where he was the only child. Alexey's parents worked at the same enterprise (first in the Research Institute of Radio Electronics of Minaviaprom, later in the NGO Leninets), and Father Boris Vassilievich was a worker, and Lyudmila Alexandrovna's mother was an engineer. Unusual in this family was only that its members belonged to ethnic Germans. However, in St. Petersburg Russified Germans are not uncommon.

In the specialized mathematical school No. 330 Miller Alexey was an excellent student. In 1979 he enrolled in the Leningrad Institute of Finance and Economics, which graduated in economics in 1984.

Career in the Soviet period

The first post, which Alexey Miller received, is an engineer-economist in the planning department of the scientific research institute of civil construction "LenNIIproekt". In 1986 he became a graduate student in his native institute, and after three years of training, he defended his thesis and became a junior research fellow.

Participation in the circle of Anatoly Chubais

In the mid-80s, an informal circle of economists was formed around Leningrad, an associate professor of the engineering and economic institute of A. Chubais, who were graduates of various profile universities in the city. Alexei Miller came into this circle, too, although due to his youth he could not be among the leaders of this community, in which such bright personalities as Andrei Illarionov (future adviser to Putin), Mikhail Manevich (future chairman of the Economic Reform Committee of the Leningrad City Council), Others.

When Chubais in 1990 became the first deputy of A. Sobchak (then still chairman of the Leningrad City Council), most of the members of his circle were in various positions in the Leningrad City Council. Miller Alexey was appointed to the committee headed by Manevich, to the department for organizing a free economic zone in Leningrad.

Work under the auspices of VV Putin at the mayor's office of St. Petersburg

In 1991, Miller moved to work on the Foreign Relations Committee (FAC) of the City Hall, which was chaired by Vladimir Putin in June of the same year. Alexey worked in the management of foreign economic relations KBC under the leadership of Alexander Anikin. The following year, he was dismissed by the mayor Sobchak on the recommendation of the special commission of the Leningrad City Council as not having coped with the work entrusted, and Miller took his place. In this position, he oversaw the creation of the first investment city Pulkovo in the city (with the Coca-Cola and Gillette plants) and Parnassus (with Baltika Brewery). Also, through his efforts, the city attracted such large banks as the "Lyons Credit" and "Dresden Bank."

Transition to work in the energy sector

After A. Sobchak was not elected as mayor in 1996, his team disintegrated. Vladimir Putin, who was the first deputy mayor since 1994, left for Moscow to work in the presidential administration, and Miller went to the seaport administration, where he was engaged in investments and development issues. But as soon as his former patron took over the prime minister's seat in 1999, he remembered a former colleague, and in the same year Miller Alexei Borisovich was appointed general director of the Baltic pipeline system under construction. Its first stage, designed to pump 12 million tons of oil products per year, suggested the laying of an oil pipeline from the Kirishi refinery (Leningrad region) to the port of Primorsk (between St.Petersburg and Vyborg).

In 2000, Miller took up the post of Deputy Minister of Energy for Foreign Economic Affairs.

Work in Gazprom

Since December 1992, the general director of Gazprom was Rem Vyakhirev, who took the reins of state concern from Viktor Chernomyrdin after the latter was appointed prime minister. Using the protection of Chernomyrdin, Vyakhirev pursued a policy of reducing the influence of the state on the company's work, reducing its share in its share capital, aiming at the full privatization of the enterprise. By the time Miller was appointed chairman of the board of RAO Gazprom, part of his profitable assets had been transferred to various companies, and the state's share was less than 40%.

After his appointment, Miller engaged in the return of previously lost assets of Gazprom through their repurchase from new owners. As a result of these actions, by 2004 the state took over a controlling stake in the company, after which their market was liberalized. Five years later, the capitalization of Gazprom grew 27 times. Today, the state owns more than 73% of the corporation.

During the management of Alexei Miller, Gazprom implemented the largest infrastructure project - a 55 billion cubic meter gas pipeline. M per year "Nord Stream-1" along the bottom of the Baltic Sea to the coast of Germany. An agreement on the construction of a second gas pipeline of the same capacity was also recently signed on the bottom of the Baltic Sea, named "Nord Stream-2".

In the current year, construction of a new gas main from Yakutia to Primorsky Krai and China "The Power of Siberia" has begun.

Personal life

What else besides work lives Alexey Miller? His wife Irina is a housewife. They have one son. Almost there is no information about what is in his personal life Alexey Miller. His family is a closed territory for the media.

It is known that Miller himself is a passionate football fan of the club "Zenith". He is also fond of equestrian sport, he owns two thoroughbred stallions participating in races. This his hobby became the basis for the president to appoint Miller three years ago responsible for the revival of the Russian equestrian industry.