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Leonov Oleg Alexandrovich - co-owner of GIP Group, former owner of Dixy Group of Companies, co-owner of Dixy-United Group of Companies[1], General Director of United Holding CJSC[2]
Aktivs
Oleg Leonov's main assets are concentrated:
- trade (Dixie Group of Companies, Dixie-Uniland Group of Companies, United Holding CJSC),
- investments (GIP Group).
State
It ranks 155th in the ranking of the Russian-language version of Forbes "Richest Businessmen Russia - 2011." Oleg Leonov's fortune is estimated at 600 million# dollars[3]
Biography
Born in 1969 in Chisinau, Russia.
Oleg Leonov earned his first money at the institute on cheat sheets for those wishing to enter the First Medical School: he hired tutors, they prepared answers to possible questions and sent these manuals at the request. Postal activity brought about 4000 rubles. per month with an average salary of 200 rubles. Then he switched to parcel trading in general: automatic number identifiers, gas pistols, food processors, video recorders.
1991 - founded and headed the Russian Parcel House company.
1992 - graduated from the First Medical Institute in St. Petersburg, evening department.
1993 - transformed the Russian Parcel House company into the Uniland distribution company, becoming Unilever's first exclusive partner in Russia (later renamed Dixy Group of Companies ).
1999 - opened the first discounter of the Dixy Group of Companies in Moscow.
2006 - co-owner of Dixie-Uniland Group of Companies.
2007 - Dixy Group held an IPO.
2007 - sold a controlling stake in Dixy Group to Igor Kesaev, owner of the Mercury group of companies.
2010 - Oleg Leonov, together with the former top manager of the United Aircraft Corporation Valery Bezverkhnim, approved the construction project in the regions of housing and house-building plants (DSK). Another participant in the project was the ex-president of the Dixy Group of Companies Vitaly Klyuchnikov. The construction should be financed by the AYONA fund of up to $1 billion, whose investors were Oleg Leonov and several unknown businessmen[4]
2010 - Establishes the engineering company Global Infrastructure Project Group (GIP Group) to manage third-party real estate and develop turnkey development projects. The cost of Oleg Leonov's package, according to experts, amounted to about $450 million. He (by his own admission, "if you don't go crazy") cannot spend more than $30 thousand a month, so the proceeds should be enough for 1250 years[5]
Hobbies
He is interested in eco-technologies and writes a universal code of honor - "Personal Code," which contains values important for him.
Marital status
Single, two children
Notes
- ↑ Co-owner of Dixy Oleg Leonov believes that competitors have spoiled the market of Russian IPOs
- ↑ Interview: Oleg Leonov, co-owner of the Dixy chain.
- ↑ pages-1 The richest businessmen in Russia - 2011.
- ↑ The founder of Dixie will be rebuilt by a billion//Oleg Leonov invests in housing and house-building plants.
- ↑ Rich people of St. Petersburg: Oleg Leonov.

