Kogan Valery Mikhailovich

Kogan Valery Mikhailovich

Kogan Valery Mikhailovich - co-owner and chairman of the supervisory board of Domodedovo Airport. The chairman of the board of directors of the East Line group, the management company of Domodedovo airport, the ^[1].

It is a member of the founders of the Russian-American joint venture ZS Indestriz International, Communication Systems in Industry LLC, Transit + M Company LLC, MOKK LLC, O.S.D. LLC, as well as a number of foreign^[2]

The head of Varriat LLC was a member of the founders of Komtorgbank (the license was revoked), as well as Valery^[2], Free Capital LLC^[2]

Aktivs

The main assets of Valery Kogan are concentrated:

• transport (Domodedovo).

State

It ranks 64th in the ranking of the Russian-language version of Forbes "The Richest Businessmen of Russia - 2012." Valery Kogan's fortune is estimated at 1.6 billion dollars^[3].

He took 47th place in the ranking of the Russian-language version of Forbes "The Richest Businessmen of Russia - 2011." Valery Kogan's fortune was estimated at $2 billion^[4].

Biography

Born in 1951 in Zhdanov (now Mariupol), Donetsk region, Ukraine.

He served in units of the Soviet Navy.

Career

1990s - Co-founder of Moscow CJSC Yugtrastinvest.

1996 - President of CJSC Yugtrastinvest^[2]

2004 - Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Domodedovo Airport ^[5].

Interesting facts

2008 - was refused by the American authorities to build a house with an area of ​ ​ 5,000 sq.m. The refusal is motivated by the fact that the house will interfere with the neighbors of^[1]

2012 - it became known that Valery Kogan is building a luxurious mansion in Keisaria, which, upon completion of work, promises to become the most expensive house in Israel^[6].

2008 - acquired for 17 million dollars five villas located next to each other on Adar and Kalanit streets in Keisaria, Israel^[7]

2009 - purchased the most expensive apartment in Israel at that time - a penthouse in the SEA ONE project, located near the shore of the sea between a-Yarkon and Herbert Samuel streets near the David InterContinental Hotel in Tel Aviv.

Kogan also owns real estate in Manhattan in New York and California^[7]

Valery Kogan's neighbor in Tel Aviv is Alexander Mashkevich, a citizen of Israel and Kazakhstan, President of the Eurasian Jewish Congress (EAEC)^[8]

2025 - The assets of the management company of Domodedovo Airport were transferred to state ownership by decision of the Arbitration Court of the Moscow Region, adopted on June 17, 2025. The court satisfied the claim of the General Prosecutor's Office and recognized as justified the appeal of the property of DME Holding LLC to the state. The reason for the nationalization of the airport was foreign control over the management company DME Holding. As reported in the Prosecutor General's Office, the owner of the holding Dmitry Kamenshchik is a resident of Turkey and the UAE, and his partner Valery Kogan is a resident of Israel. According to the court, these states follow the Western policy of defeating Russia. According to the prosecutor's office, Kamenshchik and Kogan withdrew funds from Russia under the guise of paying debts to foreign creditors and dividends. Read more here.

Marital status

Married, two children^[9].

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