Filatov Andrey Vasilyevich

Filatov Andrey Vasilyevich

Filatov Andrey Vasilyevich - one of co-owners, the board member and the chief executive of the transport and infrastructure N-trance group. Advisor to director general of JSC Petrolesport.

Main sponsor of the World Cup in chess of 2012^[1]. Candidate for the Master of Sports of the USSR in chess.

Assets

Capital asset of Andrey Filatov are the shares in N-Trans group which go the Globaltrans and Global Ports companies which are quoted on the London Stock Exchange. The entrepreneur is also a beneficiary of JSC Mostotrest and one of shareholders of Transoil LLC (7%)^[2].

Status

Takes the 93rd place in the rating of the Russian-language version of Forbes "The richest businessmen of Russia - 2011"^[3].

Takes the 74th place in the rating of the Russian-language version of Forbes "The richest businessmen of Russia - 2012". Andrey Filatov's fortune is estimated in 1.1 billion dollars^[4].

Biography

Was born on December 18, 1971 in Kryvyi Rih, the Dnipropetrovsk region, Ukraine.

Education

1993 - graduated from Academy of physical training and sport of Republic of Belarus as "A teacher of physical culture and chess coach".

Sporting achievements

Candidate for the Master of Sports of the USSR in chess.

Career

1996 - together with partners founded Severstaltrans Ltd, from the moment of creation is the board member and the chief executive of the company (since 2008 - N-Trans group).

Social and political activity

Member of Economic Council of the French-Russian Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCIFR).

Member of the Board of trustees of Valaam Monastery.

Takes active part in program implementation of the social help, is engaged in philanthropic activity.

^[5] financed recovery of a gravestone monument to the world chess champion Alexander Alyokhin in Paris^[5].

Gives a financial support to children's and youth sports school No. 9 in Dnipropetrovsk.

In memory of the teacher, the chess teacher Alexander Valeryanovich Sinitsyn, based the international children's chess festival "Sinitsyn's Memorial" which is held in Dnipropetrovsk, since 2001. The tournament plays a noticeable role in chess life of Ukraine.

Andrey Filatov helps Morozovsky children's clinical hospital with Moscow.

Gives active support to modern Russian writers and creative figures, participates in financing of a number of humanitarian programs.

Finances recovery of monuments and places of burial of the Soviet soldiers of World War II in Estonia^[6].

Hobbies

Chess, history.

Interesting Facts

2012 - expressed the intention to hold a chess tournament in Louvre^[7].

Awards

1997 - it is awarded with the Medal "300 years to the Russian fleet".

On January 21, 2011 - it is awarded with the Certificate of honor of the President of the Russian Federation - for active participation in Preparation of transfer of a jack (flag) of the cruiser "Varangian" by the Republic of Korea of the Russian Federation.

Marital Status

He is married, three children^[6].

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