Arsen Avakov was born in Armenia and came to Ukraine at the age of two. Here he lived all these years and made a good career. Today Avakov is known as a politician and businessman. Over the years, he has opened the second hundred of the richest people in Ukraine.
Childhood and youth
Arsen was born in 1964 in the Kirov village of the Azerbaijani capital. My father was a military pilot, so the family often changed their place of residence. Two years after the birth of his son, his parents moved to Kharkov.
After graduation, Arsen entered the Polytechnic Institute and was educated as a systems engineer. Classmates remembered him as a person with an active lifestyle and leadership qualities. Starting from the 3rd year, he led the student construction team in Tyumen. In parallel with his studies, he combined work at the Research Institute for Water Protection.
Businessman
In 1990, Avakov headed the country's first joint-stock company under the name Investor. He was the head of the organization for 15 years. During this time, the JSC subjugated more than 40 enterprises of various industries: from food to energy. On the basis of the financial and industrial group, the Bazis commercial bank appeared, leading partners of the Kharkov region became its partners: heating networks, an alcohol factory, a tea factory, and a bakery.
In addition, a successful businessman engaged in the construction business, opened a brokerage and transport company, as well as a publishing house. With the arrival of Arsen Borisovich in public service, a new page in his biography began, and asset management passed into the hands of the family.
Politician
Since 2005, Avakov headed the Kharkiv Regional Administration. With the advent of the new government, five years later, he lost this post and was forced to hide from criminal prosecution in Italy. He was charged with the appropriation of a state-owned land plot. In 2012, the official returned to his homeland and continued his political career. From the party "Fatherland" he received a deputy mandate in the Verkhovna Rada. And a year later he stood on the side of the rally Maidan in the center of Kiev. Avakov personally engaged in the arrangement of a tent camp in the center of the capital. After the February events of 2014 in the new government, Yatsenyuk received the post of Minister of the Interior. Avakov’s first decision in the new position was the dissolution of the Golden Eagle division.
Unlike other members of the government, the official retained his post under the new Prime Minister Groisman. He holds this position today, in every possible way strengthening his own political influence in the Cabinet of Ministers.
Personal life
Avakov has been married to his wife Inna for many years. Since 1994, she has been actively involved in his business projects. For a long time, the wife headed the Bazis battery.
The couple raised their son Alexander. The young man served in a special battalion of the Ministry of Internal Affairs "Kiev-1". The unit was directly involved in the anti-terrorist operation in the south-east of the country. Today, the younger Avakov and his mother are Arsen Borisovich's main business partners.
