Fedun Leonid Arnoldovich

Fedun Leonid Arnoldovich

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According to Forbes, for 2020, Leonid Fedun is one of the twenty richest businessmen in Russia. The publication estimates his fortune at $6.3 billion.

Fedun is the vice president for strategic development of LUKOIL and the second largest shareholder, after the president of the company Vagit Alekperov. As of March 31, 2020, Fedun owned 9.28% of LUKOIL directly and through family trusts, follows from the prospectus for the issue of Eurobonds,

Biography

Leonid Fedun was born on April 5, 1956 in Kyiv.

• In 1977 he graduated from the military-political faculty of the Rostov Higher Military Command School. M.I. Nedelin.

• In 1984 he graduated from the postgraduate course of the Military Academy. F.E. Dzerzhinsky, where he remained to teach. From 1984 to 1992 he taught scientific communism and political economy at the Military-Political Academy. V.I. Lenin. He rose to the rank of colonel.

• In 1987, he came from the Knowledge Society to lecture in Kogalym, where he met with the general director of Kogalymneftegaz Vagit Alekperov. Then he was offered a job in this company.

• In 1992, he created his own company Neftkonsult.

• In 1993 he graduated from the Higher School of Privatization and Entrepreneurship in the specialties of "sociology" and "work with securities."

• In 1993-1994, he served as General Director of LUKOIL-Consulting JSC.

• Since 1995, he became vice president of LUKOIL and created the brokerage company Lukoil-Reserve-Invest (now IFD Capital). In the late 1990s, as vice president of LUKOIL, he participated in financing the All Russia social and political bloc, and then the Fatherland - All Russia electoral bloc.

• Since 2003 - the owner of the Spartak football club (Moscow). Fedun bought Spartak from Andrei Chervichenko, the deal is estimated at $70 million. During the period during which Fedun is the owner of Spartak, the team never became the champion of Russia ( only without a championship title since 2002 - 9 seasons - a repetition of the worst result in the history of the team (1970-1978)) and after 2003 never won the Russian Cup (8 seasons without a championship title or cup - the worst result in the history of the team).

Fedun's activities as the owner of Spartak are often sharply criticized by fans, journalists and veterans of the team. A positive point is the construction of the Spartak stadium, which the team has never had.

In May 2020, the vice president of LUKOIL and co-owner of Spartak Leonid Fedun were hospitalized due to the coronavirus COVID-19.