Yumasheva Polina Valentinovna

Yumasheva Polina Valentinovna

Biography

Polina Yumasheva is a Muscovite, born into a family of journalists in January 1980. Mother Irina Vedeneeva and father Valentin Yumashev worked in Moskovsky Komsomolets, in different departments. Then my father moved to Komsomolskaya Pravda when perestroika came - he went to Ogonyok magazine, where he rose to deputy editor-in-chief, and directed the editorial office for a year.

Mother later wrote for the newspaper "Soviet Sport," made documentaries. The youngest daughter Masha grew up in the family. The girls were mainly raised by their grandmother, as their parents disappeared at work.

Polina's parents divorced, Yumashev went to work in the administration of the first president of Russia, Boris Yeltsin, and soon married his daughter Tatyana. The head of the Presidential Administration did not abandon his daughter and provided all kinds of support.

From the age of four, Polina was engaged in tennis, even got into the youth team of the country. On the court I met Anna Kournikova and Anastasia Myskina.

Upon graduation, her father paid for her studies in. At the Great Britain private school "Milfield," the girl studied with Boris Yeltsin Jr. In addition, Deripaska studied management sciences at Moscow State University and the Higher School of Business.

2001: Marriage to Oleg Deripaska

Oleg Deripaska Polina met her future husband while visiting Roman Abramovich. London In 2001, the wedding of the century took place - as the journalists dubbed the association of the Yumashev-Yeltsin and Deripaska clans.

Soon children appeared: in October of the same year - the son of Petya, in 2003 - the daughter of Maria. The oligarch's family lived in London, Deripaska visited infrequently.

2006: Start of publishing business at Forward Media Group

The profession of parents left an imprint on Polina's interests: the girl wanted to become a sports journalist, then a political columnist. Popular personalities came home to the Yumashevs - Boris Nemtsov, Viktor Chernomyrdin, Alexander Voloshin.

In the end, Polina became interested in publishing. In 2006, Deripaska opened her own business - she bought out the OVA-Press publishing house, which she then renamed Forward Media Group. The publishing house published the magazines "Interior + Design," Hello, "My Crumb and Me," "Empire."

In addition, Valentin Yumashev's daughter, together with Dasha Zhukova, owns the Spletnik.ru portal, a share in the fashionable Internet resource "Buro 24/7." Friends invested in a project by Fyodor Bondarchuk called Krolik.ru, but nothing is known about the prospects for the development of a social network for movie lovers.

2011: Participation in a rally on Bolotnaya Square

According to Spletnik.ru, Polina went to a rally on Bolotnaya Square in December 2011. By their own admission:

"I could not go, I did not understand how it was possible to put up with numerous and egregious violations at polling stations. It was impossible to impose United Russia like that.

After participating in the "March of Millions" in September 2012, Polina became disappointed in the protest movement in Russia, for the most part she appears at events such as the opening of an exhibition or the premiere of a play.

2016: Gaining control of Look At Me

In 2016, Polina Deripaska became a co-owner of the Russian-speaking part of the Look At Media holding. She created a joint venture that received licenses for the brands Wonderzine (women's magazine), Furfur (youth online magazine), The Village (online newspaper about urban life).

2017: Receiving a 6.9% stake in En +

In November 2017, En +, owned by Oleg Deripaska, held an initial placement of shares on the London Stock Exchange, according to Eg.ru, for $1.5 billion. Before that, En + issued a prospectus, from which it turned out that 6.9% of the shares were transferred to the billionaire's wife, Polina Deripaska.

According to RBC, in monetary terms, the billionaire's wife became richer by $500 million, second only to Elena Baturina, Elena Rybolovleva and Natalia Fileva in terms of fortune.

Vedomosti, citing Dmitry Klenov, managing partner of UFG Wealth Management, said that such transactions indicate the division of property in a divorce or the protection of assets from creditors.

2018: Divorce from Oleg Deripaska

In 2018, after the divorce, Polina abandoned the name Deripaska and again became Yumasheva.

2022: Buying a network of clinics "Chaika"

The Moscow network of Chaika clinics changed its owner - according to an entry in the Unified State Register of Legal Entities dated September 8, 2022, [[|Polina]] Yumasheva acquired 86% [[|of]] the company from entrepreneur Alexander Vinokurov. Read more here.