Sergei Polonsky
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| Born |
Sergei Yurievich Polonsky 1 December 1972 St Petersburg, Russian SFSR |
| Residence | Koh Dek Koul Island, Cambodia |
| Alma mater | St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering |
| Occupation | Real estate entrepreneur, owner of Potok, formerly Mirax Group |
| Net worth |
 US$1.2 billion (2008) |
| Spouse(s) | Olga Deripasko |
Sergei Yurievich Polonsky (Russian: Сергей Юрьевич Полонский, born 1 December 1972) is a Russian businessman. Polonsky is the owner and head of one of the largest real estate companies, Mirax Group (2004–2011). He was one of the richest men in Russia before the late-2000s financial crisis. Now he is shareholder and investor of a number of commercial structures incorporated by the holding Potok (as of 1 December 2011), earlier Nazvanie.net (March – November 2011). In October 2011, Sergei Polonsky was noted by the Forbes magazine as one of the nine most unusual Russian businessmen. He is currently awaiting trial in Moscow on charges of fraud.
Polonsky was born 1 December 1972 in Leningrad, Soviet Union (now Saint Petersburg, Russia). Polonsky finished secondary school No. 99 of the Vyborg District of Leningrad. In 1989, he joined the Airborne Troops. He did his military service in the 21st Separate Air Assault Brigade (1990–1992), which was stationed in the time of the armed conflict between South Ossetia and Georgia in the combat zone at Tskhinval.
In 2000, Polonsky graduated from the St. Petersburg State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering. He qualified as an economist and manager with a specialization in economics and management of building enterprises. In 2002, he defended his PhD thesis "Formation of Functional Procurement Strategies in Construction".
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