Yelena Baturina
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Yelena Nikolayevna Baturina 8 March 1963 Moscow, Russian RSFR, Soviet Union |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Occupation | Founder of Inteco and BEOPEN |
| Known for | Richest woman in Russia |
| Net worth | US$1.05 billion. |
| Spouse(s) | Yury Luzhkov (m. 1991) |
| Children | Elena (born 1992) Olga (born 1994) |
Yelena Nikolayevna Baturina (Russian: Еле́на Никола́евна Бату́рина; born 8 March 1963) is an international entrepreneur and philanthropist of Russian origin, currently based in London, UK. She used to own a major investment and construction company Inteco. At present her assets include a hotel chain (Ireland, Austria, the Czech Republic and Russia), a membrane construction enterprise (Germany), a renewable energy project (Greece and Italy), development projects (the US and Cyprus) and investments in number of real estate investment funds focused on residential and commercial construction and development in the UK and US.
Baturina is the founder of BE OPEN philanthropic foundation.According to Forbes, Baturina with the fortune of USD 1 billion remains for the 12th consecutive year the richest woman of Russia, and the only Russian female billionaire in the world.
Her husband, Yury Luzhkov, was mayor of Moscow from 1992 to 2010.
Baturina is a Moscow native who began working as a design-technician at the Fraser plant (where her parents worked) after graduating from high school. She later got a degree, graduating from the Moscow-based S. Ordzhonikidze State University of Management in 1986.
Baturina met her future husband, Yury Luzhkov, in 1987 when they were both serving at Mosgorispolkom, a Soviet-era municipal commission. At the period of their co-working the relationships were purely professional. In one of her interviews Baturina remembers: “We never even thought about anything like that when we were working together, it all happened much later”. Baturina and Luzhkov married in 1991. The next year he became mayor of Moscow. In 2010 he was dismissed by President Dmitry Medvedev amidst still unproven accusations of corruption and mismanagement voiced on state run television. Yury himself had at one time been tipped to run for president, though he never did.
After her husband’s dismissal Baturina moved to London. She explains the choice of the city by the fact that her two daughters were studying in London. She explains the choice of the city by the fact that her two daughters decided to study in London
In November 2010 Luzhkov gave an interview to the Telegraph newspaper stating that the couple was sending their daughters to study in London to protect them from possible persecution from the Russian authorities. He also said that a house had been bought in the west of the city for them and that he and his wife intend to visit them regularly. Luzhkov also claimed that the Russian authorities were planning to break up Baturina's business empire and that the couple would fight the attempt: "We will not give up. My wife will battle for her business and for her honour and self-worth. That is for sure.”.
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