Alexey Ulyukaev. During the arrest, Alexei Ulyukaev tried to get through to his patrons

FLB: The most detailed biography of ex-Minister Alexei Ulyukaev

Ex-minister Alexei Valentinovich Ulyukaev was born on March 23, 1956 in Moscow (according to other sources, his birthplace is Lyubertsy near Moscow). Now it doesn’t matter how much the baby weighed, we only note in passing that the weight of an adult Ulyukaev in his best times was 92 kg. Let us mentally bring this weight and height of 177 cm together, and “round and decent forms” will appear before us, or, as the classic wrote, “of course, Chichikov is not the first handsome man, but he is the way a man should be, whether he is a little thicker or rather, it would be bad.”

Old man grandfather

A third-generation Muscovite, his grandfather Khusain Ulyukaev, arrived in the capital at the beginning of the 20th century from the remote Tatar village of Staraya Kulatka, located 220 km from Simbirsk. The village was founded at the beginning of the 18th century by serving Tatars, and now it is an urban-type settlement, the administrative center of the Starokulatkinsky district of the Ulyanovsk region. “Babai Khusain” is still remembered here with reverence at every Sabantuy. According to the villagers, Ulyukaev Jr. does not forget his roots - a few years ago he ennobled a local spring.


Old Kulatka. At the entrance to the ancestral village of the Ulyukaevs, a work of monumental art meets

In Moscow, then still golden-domed, Khusain, before hanging a janitor's token on his leather apron, was engaged in another traditional Tatar craft of a junk dealer. He walked along the humpbacked streets of Moscow, shouting: “Shurum-burum, we take junk, we take bones and rags.” In 1931, his son was born, who was given the Tatar name Vali. The Moscow yard punks, laughing, condescendingly explained to the naive Tatar boy that on a criminal hair dryer "shurum-burum" means fraud.

Land management of parents

Just in case, 25-year-old Vali Ulyukaev did not insist on a Tatar identity when it came time to issue a birth certificate for his first child, who was given the Russian name Alyosha. In the column "Patronymic", at the request of the father, instead of "Valievich" they entered "Valentinovich". Perhaps this decision to slightly retouch Tatar roots was influenced by the Russian mother Raisa Vasilievna Ulyukaeva. In 1960, the youngest son, Sergei Valentinovich, was born.

Until 1978, the Ulyukaev family lived in Lyubertsy, on Kirov Street, then moved to Moscow, to a new three-room apartment on Novoyasenevsky Prospekt, in the residential area of ​​Yasenevo. By that time, Vali Ulyukaev had already completed his postgraduate studies at the Moscow Institute of Land Management Engineers (“Shrew”, as students say) and defended his dissertation, receiving a PhD in Economics. Let's give him his due: you need to have remarkable abilities and firm perseverance in order to go from the janitor's office to the professorial department of the State University on land management and write several textbooks on land law. His wife and colleague, Raisa Vasilievna, worked for a long time at the RosNIIzemproekt, which is located in Lyubertsy.

In 1992, Vali Khusainovich Ulyukaev purchased an apartment in the Butovo-15 housing and construction cooperative, on Starobitsevskaya Street. In the apartment on Novoyasenevsky, his youngest son Sergei will remain with his family - his wife Alla and sons Pavel (b. 1983) and Sergei (b. 1985). In the 1990s, Alexei Ulyukaev's younger brother would become the "new Russian", become a co-founder of the Zebra trading house, and become famous for opening the first B-Ba-Bo bowling club in Moscow.

On the "Snake Hill" Chubais

When the Ulyukaevs moved to Yasenevo, Alexei was finishing his studies at the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University. Lomonosov. He got into this prestigious university only on the second attempt, since at school he did not differ with special zeal, because of the deuces and triples in the diary he did not complex. For a year (1973-1974) he worked as a laboratory assistant at the department of physics in "Zemleroyka", under the wing of his father-professor.
He received a diploma in economics in 1979 and immediately entered the graduate school of the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University. In 1982, he quickly and without delay defended his Ph.D. For six years, until 1988, this unpromising activity lasted in a non-core university.

A ray of light in this teaching routine was the economic seminars "Snake Hill", organized by Anatoly Chubais and Yegor Gaidar at the beginning of perestroika. Gaidar studied at the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University a year older, so Ulyukaev was a little familiar with him from his alma mater. Future "young reformers" discussed the problems of the Soviet economy, offering non-Soviet methods.


Alexey Ulyukaev during the years of perestroika

In 1987-1988, Ulyukaev actively participated in the activities of the economic clubs "Perestroika" and "Democratic Perestroika", which were led by Gaidar. The main young reformer then already noted Ulyukaev as one of the most “advanced theorists” and invited him to work in the Kommunist magazine. From 1988 to 1991, Ulyukaev served in the editorial office as an economic consultant and deputy editor of the economic policy department. In 1991, he was appointed deputy director of the International Center for Economic Transformation Research, and he also managed to simultaneously work as a political observer in the Moscow News newspaper.

Member of the "Gaidar team"

In 1991, Ulyukaev was an economic adviser to the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation. In 1993, he was appointed assistant to the First Deputy Prime Minister (this position was held by Gaidar from 1993 to 1994). Ulyukaev actively participates in the development of Gaidar's "shock therapy". The first race to the power of Ulyukaev did not last long - only less than three years. But since then, he no longer fell out of the list of the personnel reserve of senior officials. The label "member of Gaidar's team" never closed the way to the top for him.

Leaving the vice-premier's office, Gaidar took the chair of the director of the Institute for the Problems of the Economy in Transition (IPETP), which he himself created. Ulyukaev is with him: in 1994-1996 and 1998-2000 he was deputy director of the IPEPP. In general, the 1990s are the years that Ulyukaev devoted to political activity. As part of Gaidar's team, he paved the way for the liberals to the organs of representative power. In 1995, he headed the Moscow organization of the Democratic Choice of Russia party.

In the elections to the State Duma in 1995, the "Democratic Choice" did not overcome the five percent threshold. In 1996, Ulyukaev was elected to the Moscow City Duma from the districts of Zyuzino, Kotlovka, Cheryomushki and Obruchevsky. Using his deputy mandate, he unsuccessfully tried to put his liberal ideas in the field of investment policy into practice. He constantly clashed with a colleague from the liberal camp, Sergei Yushenkov, who in 1997 replaced him as chairman of the Moscow organization "Democratic Choice".


Yegor Gaidar (right) and his team: Alexei Ulyukaev (left) and Evgeny Yasin

In 1999, Ulyukaev ran for the State Duma on the federal list of the Union of Right Forces (SPS). At the same time, he was nominated in the Chertanovsky single-mandate constituency. The Union of Right Forces even managed to agree with Yabloko that Ulyukaev be considered the "single candidate from the democratic forces." During the election campaign, Ulyukaev published a pamphlet entitled "Right Turn: A Program for a Good Life, a Healthy Economy and a Fair Politics." Subsequently, the well-known Russian nationalist Yegor Kholmogorov admitted in his blog that he was the author of this pamphlet - "from the first to the last line." “One of the best programmatic political texts that came out from under my pen (more precisely, the keyboard) does not belong to me,” Kholmogorov wrote, “and will never be published under my name. The funny thing is that it was not written for money, but as an ideological experiment.”

In March 1999, when Yevgeny Primakov was turning a government airliner over the Atlantic, having decided to interrupt his visit to the United States, a Kommersant correspondent turned to Ulyukaev with the question: “Would you turn the plane around?” “No,” Ulyukaev replied, “if you already flew, then fly and negotiate. And we can't reach an agreement. And that's the point, not Kosovo. That is why Primakov disavowed the meeting. It is even beneficial for him to present the case as it turned out. And he knew about the position of NATO in Moscow, he is not a boy. I am afraid that now Russia will have to pay more serious concessions to the West.”

Alas, nothing helped: the Union of Right Forces did not get the required number of votes, and in the single-mandate Ulyukaev lost to Sergei Shokhin, who came from the Fatherland-All Russia association. After that, he returned to the IET and until 2008 was a member of the scientific council of the institute. In May 2000, Chubais invited Ulyukaev to the post of First Deputy Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin in the government of Mikhail Kasyanov. In the ministry, he was responsible for financing law enforcement agencies and oversaw monetary policy issues. In 2004, when the government was headed by Mikhail Fradkov, Ulyukaev was transferred to the post of first deputy chairman of the Central Bank. Since the chairman of the board of the Central Bank, Sergei Ignatiev, did not like to appear in front of television cameras, Alexei Ulyukaev undertook to explain the policy of the Central Bank to the population. In particular, in 2006 he announced the readiness of the Central Bank to make the ruble convertible. In the spring of 2013, Ulyukaev was considered as a candidate for the post of chairman of the board of the Central Bank, but in the end, Elvira Nabiullina was recommended for this position by President Vladimir Putin. And Ulyukaev himself was appointed minister economic development.

home nests

Already in the late 1990s - early 2000s, Ulyukaev could not be called a modest researcher. In 1999, he buys two apartments - a 130-meter one on Koshtoyants Street and a 65-meter one in Lazorev Proyezd. Perhaps the time of the acquisition is connected with the default that happened shortly before, which brought down the real estate market throughout Russia. In 2002, Tamara Usik, Ulyukaev's first wife, acquired a one-room apartment on Pudovkina Street. Yes, and in 2001 the family moved into the deputy house on Olof Palme Street.

Ulyukaev also bought in 2001 two land plots of 15 acres each, for a personal subsidiary farm, in the village of Velednikovo, Istra district. He also owned a small stake in Avtobank. Another liberal economist was the owner of a white Toyota Chaser, released in 1985, and a coffee-colored nine, produced in 1995. Let's fix this level of wealth of the Ulyukaev family, reached by the beginning of the 2000s, that is, about ten years ago. At that time, Ulyukaev's real and movable wealth, at today's prices, did not exceed $5 million.
The members of his family in those years were: 1. wife Tamara Ivanovna Usik (b. 1951), 2. son Dmitry Alekseevich Ulyukaev (b. 1983), 3. stepson Taras Viktorovich Usik (b. 1977). Tamara Ivanovna, as you can see, was five years older than Alekseevich Valentinovich and had a son from her first marriage. In 1980, she still lived in Kharkov, in 1983, when their first child was born, Alexey Valentinovich was finishing his postgraduate studies, and Tamara Ivanovna was registered in the city of Elektrostal near Moscow.

In the 90s and "zero" Tamara Usik worked at the Institute for the Problems of the Economy in Transition, and the second wife of Ulyukaev, the same age as his son Dmitry, will work at the same institute. Dmitry graduated from the camera department of VGIK, his first work was the film "Life by surprise", which was released in 2006. One of the most successful projects of Ulyukaev Jr. was the painting "The Land of Oz" with Yana Troyanova in the title role. In this film, Ulyukaev acted not only as an operator, but as a producer. In total, over a ten-year career, Dmitry made 9 films, 3 of which are short films.


Dmitry Alekseevich Ulyukaev

The son is a man of a creative warehouse, nevertheless, from 2004 to 2006, he was the director of the offshore company Ronnieville Ltd, established in the Virgin Islands in November 2004 - seven months after Alexey Ulyukaev ceased to be Deputy Minister of Finance and began working as the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank. There is no formal violation of the law in that his son was then in charge of the offshore, but a curious detail attracts attention: Ulyukaev Jr. was only 21 years old at that time.

In 2006, a certain 23-year-old Yulia Khryapina became the director of the Ronnieville offshore. Journalists suggested that this person is the new wife of Alexei Ulyukaev. First, on the website of the Institute for Economic Policy. E.T. Gaidar indicated Yulia Sergeevna Khryapina works there as a researcher in the direction of "Real Sector". Secondly, family photos have already appeared on the Internet, in which a happy official with a baby in her arms. The woman next to him can be identified by a copy of her passport in the MF database as offshore director Yulia Khryapina. Ronnieville operated from November 2004 to May 2009. All this time, Aleksey Ulyukaev, we repeat, was the first deputy chairman of the Central Bank.

Now Ulyukaev and his young wife are staying at Golden Keys-2, a Premium class residential complex. The complex is located in an ecologically clean area of ​​the Western Administrative District of the capital on Minskaya street, house 1G. Not far from Kutuzovsky Prospekt, in the nature protection zone of the Setunsko-Ramensky Reserve, on the floodplain of the Ramenka River.


Ulyukaev with his second wife Yulia Khryapova

Ulyukaev is still registered in the deputies' house on Olof Palme Street, together with his ex-wife. Their common apartment was robbed on the night of May 4, 2016. Cufflinks, silver coins, as well as a rare item - a treasury note of the Central Bank of the Russian Empire of the 19th century, a copy of Van Gogh's painting (although it was painted by a Russian artist) became the prey of thieves. Estimated damage was estimated at 1 million rubles.

Everything that is acquired ...

“I never imagined that a minister could “flatten” a business and extort money,” Senator Oleg Morozov writes on his Facebook page. - Yes, according to Bender, he has a million relatively honest ways to earn money! So extortion is insane. It is hard to believe. But I have read his poetry. Search online. Read. When you read, do not go far from the toilet. Cynicism and hatred for one's country."

What verses is the member of the Federation Council talking about? Maybe about these: “Go, my son, go from here. / On the ball you will find now / There are many places where a step forward / Not necessarily five hundred back.” So the minister wrote ten years ago in his poem dedicated to his son Dmitry. (At his leisure, Ulyukaev writes poetry, two collections of his poems can be found on sale: “Fire and Reflection” (2002) and “Alien Coast” (2012), published by the Vagrius publishing house. Critics noted that the statesman’s opuses are curious, although and do not carry great poetic value.)

According to 2014 data, Alexey Ulyukaev owns 112 thousand square meters of real estate, namely 15 plots of land (111 thousand sq. m.), 3 residential buildings (943 sq. m.), 3 apartments (331 sq. m.), and also three cars and one trailer. Income in 2013 was 85.7 million rubles, in 2014 - 51.5. In the name of his second wife, a plot of 1.4 thousand square meters was declared. m, 2 apartments (61 and 46 sq.m), as well as five land plots in Crimea with a total area of ​​1.8 thousand sq.m. m, two mansions (162 and 250 sq. m).


Income Declaration of the Minister of Economic Development

Since 2013, when Ulyukaev was the Minister of Economic Development, the size of his land plots has increased from 10 hectares to 15 hectares. According to the most conservative estimates, their cost is $ 20 million. Plus a mansion of 520 square meters and a Moscow apartment in the center of 224 square meters. How did an official who has not worked in business a day, got real estate for more than 25 million dollars?!


Growth of Ulyukaev's legal wealth in 2013-15

So, on the night of November 14-15, 2016, Economic Development Minister Aleksey Ulyukaev was caught red-handed while handing over a bribe of two million dollars. According to the Investigative Committee, Ulyukaev extorted $2 million for a positive assessment issued by the ministry, which allowed Rosneft to acquire the state-owned stake in Bashneft. The FSB listened to the minister's phone for several months, and in conversations with representatives of the oil company, threats were voiced. “During the arrest, Ulyukaev tried to get through to his patrons, but in vain,” the press center of the Investigative Committee was told. The case against the minister was initiated under Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (taking a bribe on an especially large scale). This article provides for imprisonment for up to 15 years, as well as large fines (up to a hundred times the amount of the bribe). On November 15, 2016, President Vladimir Putin dismissed Economic Development Minister Alexei Ulyukaev due to a loss of confidence.

“Today I woke up, and the first thing I learned was Ulyukaev! - wrote Senator Oleg Morozov. - First feeling: terribly ashamed! Second: what if a cartoon!? And then: no, they can’t joke like that. It's a terrible truth." The next day, Anatoly Chubais spoke about his colleague from the Gaidar team: “He did his job, which he knew how and knew, not really looking back at anyone.” Of course, the basics of shurum-burum, Mr. former minister knew how and knew.

He belonged to a group of young economists and sociologists, such as Yegor Gaidar, Pyotr Aven, Anatoly Chubais, who attempted to seriously comprehend the state of affairs in the country's economy, and was also among the members of the Perestroika social and political club.

The early years of Alexei Ulyukaev. Education

4 years after the birth of their first child, a second child appeared in their family - Sergey, Alexei's brother, who later became a successful entrepreneur, owner of several companies and one of the founders of the famous Moscow bowling center Bi-Ba-Bo.

Alyosha was an excellent student at school, but when in 1973 he received a certificate from one of the schools near Moscow and decided to enter the Faculty of Economics state university them. N.V. Lomonosov (Moscow State University), the first attempt was unsuccessful, but the next year he nevertheless entered the list of applicants who successfully passed the entrance examinations. In the interval between school and university, Alexei Valentinovich worked as a full-time laboratory assistant at the Department of Physics at the institute where Valentin Khusainovich was a professor. Alexey Valentinovich studied well, during his student days he also published his first collection of poems in the Student Meridian magazine.

Labor and scientific activity of Alexey Ulyukaev

In the mid-80s, Alexei Valentinovich was a participant in the economic seminars "Snake Hill", organized by Chubais and Gaidar. The seminars discussed ways to solve economic problems with innovative methods that go beyond the Soviet school.

From 1987 to 1988, Ulyukaev was a member of the economic clubs Perestroika and Democratic Perestroika. The head of the clubs, Yegor Gaidar, already singled out Ulyukaev as one of the most “advanced” economic theorists in his team.

In the period from 1988 to 1991, on the recommendation of Gaidar, Aleksey Valentinovich worked as an economic consultant, and subsequently took the chair of the deputy editor of the department responsible for covering the problems of political economy and economic policy in the then popular magazine Kommunist.

"Posner": Alexey Ulyukaev (2015)

In 1991, Ulyukaev was appointed deputy director of the International Center for Research on Economic Reforms, and at the same time worked for the Moscow News newspaper as a political observer.

From 1994 and (intermittently) until 2000, Ulyukaev served as director of the Gaidar Institute for Economic Problems in Transition. In 1998, Alexey Valentinovich successfully defended his thesis at the University of Pierre Mendes-France in Grenoble (France) and received a doctorate in economics.

In 2000, Ulyukaev began teaching at the Department of General Economics of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), where he taught for the next six years.

In the period from 2007 to 2010, he was entrusted with a responsible mission - he headed the Department of Finance and Credits of the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University.

Political career of Alexei Ulyukaev

In 1993, Alexey Valentinovich became an assistant to the First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation. Under the leadership of Gaidar, Ulyukaev participated in the development and implementation of reforms, which later became known as "shock therapy". When Yegor Timurovich resigned and later became head of the administration of the Institute for Economic Problems in Transition, Ulyukaev followed him and was appointed his deputy in the same IET.

Ulyukaev's activities were also inextricably linked with the political council of the Democratic Choice of Russia party - in 1995-1997 he headed its Moscow branch.

Alexey Ulyukaev about the Russian economy

In 1996-1998, Ulyukaev served as a deputy of the Moscow City Duma from the districts of Zyuzino, Kotlovka, Cheryomushki and Obruchevsky, dealt with the investment policy of the capital. After the expiration of his term of office, he returned to the IET and until 2008 was a member of its academic council.

In 1999, having two years of deputy experience in the capital, he ran for the State Duma on the lists of the Union of Right Forces (on the federal list), and also put forward his candidacy in the Chertanovsky single-mandate constituency. However, in both cases he was disappointed: the Union of Right Forces did not get enough votes for Ulyukaev, who was on the extended list of the party, to enter the Duma, as for the municipal district, Alexei Valentinovich lost to Sergei Shokhin, a nominee from the Fatherland - All Russia faction, whom he supported personally Yuri Luzhkov.

In 2000, Anatoly Chubais invited Ulyukaev to the position of Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation (Aleksey Kudrin) in the government of Mikhail Kasyanov. The economist worked as part of the Federal Government Commissions, at the German Gref Center for Strategic Research, supervising work on the problem of reforming the sphere of interbudgetary relations.

In 2004, Mikhail Fradkov took over the government, and although Kudrin retained his post, Ulyukayev was promoted to the post of First Deputy Chairman of the Russian Central Bank. In May of the same year, his name was included in the Board of Directors of the Central Bank. In this position, Ulyukaev led the Monetary Policy Committee and appeared in the media as a speaker for the organization, regularly commenting on current economic issues, since the chairman of the board of the Central Bank, Sergei Ignatiev, did not like public appeals.

Subsequently, in 2013, Ulyukaev was one of the potential candidates for the position of chairman of the board of the Central Bank, but in the end, Vladimir Putin preferred to see Elvira Nabiullina in this post.

In December 2008, at a meeting of the board of directors of CJSC Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange, Ulyukaev was elected its chairman. In this post, he worked until 2011, later Sergey Shvetsov was appointed to his place.

On June 24, 2013, the politician was appointed Minister of Economic Development (MED) of the Russian Federation, replacing ex-Minister Andrei Belousov.

In January 2015, Alexey Valentinovich was nominated as a member of the Supervisory Board at VTB Bank.

In October 2015, by order of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, the candidacy of Alexei Ulyukaev was approved for inclusion in the new board of directors of the domestic "Federal Corporation for the Development of Small and Medium Enterprises" (SMEs). Later, it was he who was asked to head the board of directors.

Personal life of Alexei Ulyukaev

Alexey Valentinovich raised two sons and a daughter. One of the sons, Dmitry Ulyukaev (born 1983), connected his life with cinema. His name appeared in the credits of six films as a cinematographer.

According to 2014 data, the head of the department owns real estate of 112 thousand square meters, namely, 15 plots of land (111 thousand square meters), 3 residential buildings (943 square meters), 3 apartments (331 square meters), as well as three cars and one trailer. Income in 2013 was 85.7 million rubles, in 2014 - 51.5.

In his spare time, the politician and economic figure writes poetry. On sale you can find two collections of his poems called "Fire and Glow" (2002) and "Alien Coast" (2012), published by the Vagrius publishing house. Critics noted that the opuses of the statesman are curious, although they do not carry great poetic value. There were also more negative reviews about his work in the media, in particular, the poems "Go, my son, go away" were called shocking and anti-Russian.

In addition to literary creativity, the head of the Ministry of Economic Development is fond of tourism and rowing, loves swimming. In an interview with Posner, he admitted that in women, first of all, he appreciates sex appeal and attractiveness, and in men - kindness and decency. Prosperity, he considers an important condition for freedom. And he would take with him to a desert island: from books - "Robinson Crusoe", from films - "My friend Ivan Lapshin", and from interlocutors - Vladimir Pozner.

In 2006, he "became famous" for a scandal at the airport, after there was no business class seat for him and his wife on the plane. As a result of the incident, the departure of the aircraft was even postponed, but the official, outraged to the core, flew away on German Gref's own plane.

Alexey Ulyukaev now

Alexey Ulyukaev on the prospects for the Russian economy

In February 2016, during a meeting with Austrian Vice-Chancellor Reinhold Mitterlehner, the head of the department called on Austrian entrepreneurs to take part in the privatization of Russian assets. Earlier, the official informed the public that in 2016 the Russian authorities plan to cover the budget deficit by selling large state-owned stakes in about six enterprises, including Rosneft, VTB Bank, Bashneft, Sovcomflot, and the diamond mining company ALROSA.

On the night of November 15, 2016, Ulyukaev was detained by the FSB. The minister was suspected of taking a $2 million bribe. It was reported that for this amount he had to approve the purchase by Rosneft of a controlling stake in Bashneft. In this regard, a criminal case was opened against Ulyukaev. The former minister was sentenced to 8 years in a strict regime and a fine of 130 million. “I consider the verdict unfair and I will continue to fight,” Ulyukaev said at the announcement of the verdict on December 15, 2017.

Ulyukaev Alexey

Illustration: Bank of Russia

Ulyukaev Alexey Valentinovich was born on March 23, 1956 in Moscow. Father - Vali Khusainovich Ulyukaev. Candidate of Economic Sciences, Professor of the State University for Land Management. Mother - Raisa Vasilievna Ulyukaeva.

In 1979 he graduated from the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University. M. V. Lomonosov. He combined his studies with work: in 1973-1974 he was a laboratory assistant at the Department of Physics at the Moscow Institute of Land Management Engineers.

In 1982, he completed postgraduate studies at Moscow State University, defended his dissertation on the topic “Objective Foundations and Ways of Development of Scientific and Industrial Integration in Agriculture”, and was awarded the degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences. In 1982-1988 he was engaged in teaching activities - first as an assistant, and then as an assistant professor at the Moscow Civil Engineering Institute. In 1988, he received a doctorate in economics (PhD) from the French University Pierre-Mendes France.

At the same time, Ulyukaev became a member of the Moscow-Petersburg school of young economists - along with Yegor Gaidar, Anatoly Chubais, Pyotr Aven, Sergei Ignatiev and others. In 1987-1988 he took part in the work of the Perestroika and Democratic Perestroika clubs.

In 1988-1991, at the invitation of Gaidar, he came as a consultant to the Kommunist magazine, later he was appointed head of the department. In 1991 he became a political columnist for the Moscow News newspaper.

In 1991-1992 he was an economic adviser to the government Russian Federation, in 1992-1993 - head of the group of advisers to the Prime Minister, in 1993-1994 - assistant to the First Deputy Prime Minister.

After leaving the government in 1994, Yegor Gaidar headed the Institute for Economic Problems in Transition (IET) and invited Ulyukaev to become his deputy. Alexey Valentinovich remained in this position until 2000 with a single break: in 1996-1998 he was a deputy of the Moscow City Duma from the Zyuzino, Kotlovka, Obruchevsky and Cheryomushki districts, where he oversaw investment policy. He went to the polls from the Union of Right Forces party, in which he was one of the leaders.

Even after Ulyukaev officially left the post of Deputy Director of the IET in 2000, he, nevertheless, did not lose touch with the institute, remaining a leading researcher and a member of the Academic Council. In addition, in 2000, Ulyukaev became a professor at the Department of General Economics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. Here he taught for six years. In the period from 2007 to 2010 - Head of the Department of Finance and Credit, Faculty of Economics, Moscow State University.

In 2000, Ulyukaev went to work at the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation as Deputy Minister of Finance Alexei Kudrin. And from April 2004 to June 2013, he became a member of the Board of Directors, First Deputy Chairman of the Bank of Russia Sergey Ignatiev. At the Central Bank, he headed the monetary policy committee. In addition, he is Deputy Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Sberbank, a member of the Supervisory Boards of VTB and SME Bank (former Russian Development Bank). From December 4, 2008 to 2011, Ulyukaev combines work at the Central Bank with the position of chairman of the board of directors of the Moscow Interbank Currency Exchange.

On November 14, 2016, Vladimir Putin dismissed Alexei Ulyukaev from the post of minister due to a loss of confidence. Ulyukaev was detained while receiving a $2 million bribe for a positive assessment issued by the Ministry of Economic Development, which allowed Rosneft to buy 50.08% of Bashneft shares from the state.

Alexey Valentinovich is constantly engaged in scientific and teaching activities. He is on the editorial board of the journals "Budget", "Economic Policy" and "National Banking Journal". Author of more than 50 scientific papers and several monographs: Reforming the Russian Economy: From Theory to Practice (1995), Reforming the Russian Economy (1996), On the Eve of the Crisis (1999), Economy in Transition 1999-2001 (2003) , "Problems of the state budget policy" (2004), "Modern monetary policy" (2008), etc.

He has the following awards: for his great contribution to the development of the domestic banking system and many years of conscientious work - the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, IV degree (2010); for services in the field of economics and financial activities in 2004 he was awarded the title of Honored Economist of the Russian Federation; for merits in financial activities and active participation in solving economic problems - the Certificate of Honor of the Government of the Russian Federation (2001) and the medal "For Contribution to the Creation of the Eurasian Economic Union" 1st degree (2015).

Married twice, three children. Hobbies: Hiking, rowing and swimming. Ulyukaev is also the author of collections of poems "Fire and Reflection", published in 2002, "Alien Coast" (2012), "Avitaminosis" (2013). Speaks English and French.

All information for the article is taken from open sources.

Ulyukaev Alexey Valentinovich(born March 23, 1956, Moscow, RSFSR, USSR) - Russian statesman and politician, Doctor of Economics, ex-Minister of Economic Development of Russia (2013-2016). Acting State Councilor of the Russian Federation, 1st class. Defendant in a high-profile criminal case on receiving a bribe in the amount of $ 2 million from the head of the Rosneft company. On December 15, 2017, he was sentenced to 8 years in a strict regime colony and a fine of 130 million rubles.

Graduated from the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University. M.V. Lomonosov (1979), postgraduate student of the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University (1982). Doctor of Economic Sciences. He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Pierre-Mendes France (Grenoble, France). Speaks English and French.

Scientific and teaching activities:

In 1982-1988 - assistant, associate professor of the Department of Political Economy of the Moscow Civil Engineering Institute.
In 1994-1996 and 1998-2000, he was Deputy Director of the Yegor Gaidar Institute for Economic Problems in Transition.
In 2000-2006, he was a professor at the Department of General Economics at the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.
In 2007-2010 - Head of the Department of Finance and Credit, Faculty of Economics, Lomonosov Moscow State University. M. V. Lomonosov (s / c for undergraduates "Modern monetary policy and the development of the banking system").

Activities in government structures:

In 1991-1992, he was an economic adviser to the Russian government. Member of the "team" of Yegor Gaidar. In 1992-1993, he was the head of the group of advisers to the Prime Minister of Russia. In 1993-1994, he was assistant to the First Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Yegor Gaidar. In 2000-2004 - First Deputy Minister of Finance of Russia Alexei Kudrin. From April 2004 to June 2013 - First Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation Sergei Ignatiev. Since June 24, 2013 Minister of Economic Development of the Russian Federation. In January 2015, he was nominated by the Government of the Russian Federation to the Supervisory Board of VTB Bank. He was elected on June 25, 2015.

On November 15, 2016, he was detained on suspicion of receiving two million dollars for a positive assessment issued by the Ministry of Economic Development, which allowed PJSC NK Rosneft to carry out a deal to acquire a state-owned stake in PJSC ANK Bashneft in the amount of 50 percent. By decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin, he was relieved of his post due to loss of confidence. Since his arrest, he has been under house arrest. Aleksey Ulyukaev considers himself a victim of a provocation organized "on the basis of a false denunciation" by the head of Rosneft and the former head of the security service of Rosneft, a general of the FSB of the Russian Federation. On December 15, 2017, the Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow sentenced Alexei Ulyukaev to 8 years in a strict regime colony and a fine of 130.4 million rubles.

Married with a second marriage to, born in 1983, a native of the Crimean region, has two sons and a daughter. Khryapina works as a researcher in the field of "Real Sector" at the Institute of Economic Policy named after E.T. Gaidar, owns five land plots and two houses in the Crimea. In the period from 2006 to 2009, she was the director of the offshore company Ronnieville Ltd (British Virgin Islands), replacing Ulyukaev's son, Dmitry, in this post.

Hobbies of Alexei Ulyukaev: writing poetry.