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 a village called Bolshevo. The boy's mother taught biology and chemistry to high school students, and the father was a military man.

After school, Vladimir decided to follow in the footsteps of his father and entered 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 often went to the Soviet delegations to the countries of Africa, for which he even has a medal.

Being already a certified specialist, Gruzdev entered the service in external intelligence, but held it for 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 Gruzdev plunged headlong 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 out 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, they were distinguished by good service and a wide range of goods.

In 1994, Vladimir Gruzdev became general director of the company, in 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 started cooperation with the ex-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 Gruzdev come out of business? 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.

Political activity

Log in the big politics Gruzdev tried back in 1995, 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! Because of 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 member of the State Duma 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

A lot of interesting stories are connected with the name of the famous businessman and deputy. 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 crew of the Mir-1 bathyscaphe installed a titanium Russian flag. 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 - he was the first candidate from the Russian side to fly into space as a tourist. The event was to be held in autumn 2008, but for some reason it was not realized.

But the story associated with the thesis of Vladimir Sergeevich, 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 did noble gestures, participating in charity.

There is information that, while saying goodbye to his offspring, 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 implemented is not known.

But the help to the Assumption Cathedral (which is on the territory of the Tula Kremlin) is a confirmed fact. Being at the time the 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, united family. With wife Olga they brought up three children: two sons and a daughter.

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