Leonid Fedun - owner of FC "Spartak" and vice-president of OAO "LUKOIL"

Fedun Leonid Arnoldovich is a well-known Russian businessman. Owner of FC "Spartak" and vice-president of OAO "LUKOIL". In this article we will describe a brief biography of the entrepreneur.

Childhood

Leonid Fedun (photo of a businessman presented in the article) was born in Kiev in 1956. The father of the boy Arnold Antonovich worked as a military doctor. Leonid's childhood was held in Leninsk (modern Baikonur). There he was sent to the service of his father. Soon Arnold Antonovich headed the department of the hospital at the Baikonur cosmodrome. Where the Fedun family lived, the checkpoint system operated (checkpoints). In a situation of strict secrecy, Leonid's father learned not to talk about working outside the service. Even his son, he did not talk about anything, but from childhood he taught the boy to tough discipline, as it should be in any military family. In the future, this greatly helped Fedun in building a career in LUKOIL. Clear execution of orders, devotion to the interests of the firm, pedantry were laid in its nature. In his childhood, Leonid often observed rocket launches. His path to power and financial heights was just as rapid.

Study and work

In terms of the profession, Leonid Fedun decided to follow his father's steps, having made a military career. In 1977, the young man graduated from the M.I. Nedelina (Rostov-on-Don). And then he entered the adjuncture at the Academy of Dzerzhinsky.

After defending his Ph.D. in Philosophy, Leonid taught political science and political economy for several years. Fedun was also interested in history. In addition to his versatile knowledge, the young man possessed excellent oratorical abilities. Leonid Fedun was always at work, spoke in classrooms before trade union activists, workers, schoolchildren and students.

In 1987, the future businessman was sent to Kogalym (a settlement of oil workers). There, Fedun had to read a few lectures to local workers. On one of them, Leonid met Vagit Alekperov, who at that time headed Kogalymneftegaz. He offered an exemplary speaker work in his company.

Life before "Spartacus"

Leonid Fedun had excellent analytical skills. They were very useful to him in the new workplace. Leonid was able to objectively and correctly assess almost any situation, starting from problems in the personnel department of a particular enterprise and ending with the difficulties in mutual settlements between oil companies on the scale of the whole country.

In 1990, Vagit Alekperov became deputy minister of the gas and oil industry of the USSR. Leonid Arnoldovich went with him to Moscow. In 1991 the concern "LUKOIL" was founded. Then this company was formally subordinated to the Ministry of gas and oil. At the same time, the hero of this article opened his company. "Petconsult" Fedun began to serve the new interests of the industry. But Leonid Arnoldovich was ambitious and wanted to develop further. At the first opportunity, the young leader entered the Higher School of Entrepreneurship and Privatization. There he deeply studied such a direction as "Securities." 1994 - the time when he became the vice-president of LUKOIL Leonid Fedun. The businessman's wife is currently co-owner of the company, and the board of directors is headed by Valery Grayfer.

Buying a club

In 2003, Leonid Fedun acquired FC "Spartak". The controlling shareholding was sold to him by Andrey Chervichenko (former president of the club). Fedun invested not only personal funds in the most titled Russian team. The businessman has attracted large sponsors to this. And it brought results. A year later, the club's budget reached $ 40 million. The funds received led Spartak out of a deep crisis. Not only issues of financial support for coaches and athletes were solved, but preconditions for the formation of an effective football structure on the basis of the club were created.

In 2005, FC "Spartak" took second place in the Russian championship. Thus, the team achieved the right to qualify for the Champions League.

In 2006, the construction of the stadium "Opening - Arena" began in Tushino. The sports complex numbered 45 thousand seats. The opening match took place in early September 2014. The hero of this article still owns FC "Spartak".

Personal life and family

Leonid Fedun, whose biography is presented above, is married. The spouse of the businessman is Marina. Together with her husband she manages the company "LUKOIL". Son Anton heads the London hotel Ampersand. Daughter Catherine lives in the capital of England and works in the PR-agency "Bacchus". She is married to Juhan Geraskin (manager of FC "Spartak").

Capital

Fedun's personal fortune is $ 7.1 billion. In 2011, he took 23rd place in the rating of 200 richest entrepreneurs of the Russian Federation, compiled by Forbes. Leonid Arnoldovich critically spoke about this list. The first time the businessman got into it in 2004. Even then, Fedun told a Vedomosti correspondent that not all company shares are his property. Often securities belong to completely different people, and the businessman himself only nominally controls them.