The practice of recent years shows that the leaders and owners of large Russian companies "grew up" on the soil loosened during the Soviet Union. A vivid example of this is the career of Vagit Alekperov.
Starting conditions
Vagit Yusupovich Alekperov was born in September 1950 in a large and friendly family of oil workers. Parents lived in the village with the pathos name Stepan Razin, near the famous city of Baku. Vagit was the youngest, fifth child in the house. The head of the family, a front-line soldier, suddenly died when the boy was barely three years old. Mother, a hereditary Cossack, raised the children alone. Lived hard. They didn’t starve, but every penny in the family budget was on the bill. The youngest son got the hang of fishing and regularly returned home with a catch.
Alekperov studied well at school. Participated in public life. I did sports. He was friends with classmates. I carefully watched how his peers live, what they dream about and what they want to achieve in life. Having received a certificate of maturity, Vagit got a job as a driller in one of the oil producing enterprises. At the same time he entered the correspondence department of the local Oil Institute in order to receive a worthy education. In 1974, he received a diploma and the young engineer was transferred to the post of process engineer.
From production to entrepreneurs
Vagit Alekperov’s career developed without failures and disruptions. Aged, observant, with excellent production training, he successfully coped with the tasks. In the 70s, oil fields of Western Siberia were intensively developed. The time has come, and Alekperov was invited to take part in the implementation of a large-scale project. An experienced oilman and production organizer took the position of general director of the Kagalymneftegaz trust literally a year later.
Alekperov’s biography indicates that he served as deputy minister of the oil industry. When the process of transition of a planned economy to market rails and privatization of state property began, Vagit Yusufovich already knew what to do. To create a successful private company for the extraction and refining of oil, he had to make a titanic effort, organize and conduct many large-scale and small events. As a result, the Lukoil company appeared in the structure of the national economic complex of Russia.
