Bogoljub Karić

Bogoljub Karić (Serbian Cyrillic: Богољуб Карић, born 17 January 1954 in Peć, FPR Yugoslavia), pronounced [boɡoʎub kaːritɕ]) is a Serbian businessman and politician.

Bogoljub was born to Janićije Karić and Danica Kuzmanović. He earned a degree in Geography at the University of Pristina and his Master's Degree in economy at University of Niš. He married Milanka Babić and has four children. Nebojsa, Nadezda, Jelena and Danica Karic.

The Karić family have owned manufacturing business in Eastern Europe since the 1960s. The population knows him simply as a mechanic from Kosovo without a degree. He opened a workshop, starting with small operations of under ten employees. From this, Karić grew his business empire into multibillion-dollar corporation, now known as the Astra Group.

The Astra (BK) Group is composed of the following industry sectors:

In 1987 he established first private construction company in Moscow (ex USSR) which is nowadays one of the largest construction companies in Europe.

In 2002, Karić created the Association of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs of Yugoslavia, the first true association of private businessmen in Yugoslavia set up since World War II.

In 2006 he established another construction company named DANA HOLDINGS. Dana Holdings is a leading, fully integrated real estate, investment and development company of residential, industrial, commercial, educational and mixed-use projects as well as PPP investments in emerging markets. The company has successfully completed construction projects totaling millions of square meters for the Russian government, Moscow City Government, the Government of Yakutia, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia and other countries of the former Soviet Union. Value of the completed projects to date exceeds 5 billion Euros, while the volume of new projects is more than 6 million square meters.

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