The wife of the ex-mayor of the capital, Yuri Luzhkov, is one of the most influential and wealthy women on the planet. Her parents did not help her get her fortune, but only her own hard work and talent.
Biography
Baturina Elena Nikolaevna was born in an ordinary poor Moscow family. Father and mother worked all their lives at the Fraser plant; He is a foreman, she is behind the machine. The date of birth of Elena Nikolaevna coincided with the celebration of International Women's Day - March 8, 1963. This happened 7 years after the birth of the eldest child - Victor's son; in the future he also became an entrepreneur.
Elena Nikolaevna grew up a sickly child and could show her love for sport only at an older age. She is now involved in skiing, horseback riding, golf and tennis, and also knows how to handle a rifle.
After graduating from the same school that her brother attended, she followed him to the evening department of the Sergo Ordzhonikidze Institute of Management. She was not able to enter the day, and according to Soviet standards, in this case, she needed to get a job. And in 1980, Elena Nikolaevna went to the factory, where her mother and father worked, becoming a design engineer.
In 1982, she left the Fraser to the displeasure of her superiors and with a decrease in her salary, already being a senior design engineer in the department of the chief technologist. Later, she became an employee of the Institute of Economic Problems of the Development of the National Economy of the capital, received the position of head of the secretary department of the Union of United Cooperators. And in 1986 he graduated from high school. It was the position of a researcher at the Institute that became a key step in the future fate of Baturina.
Acquaintance with Luzhkov
Having come to power after Chernenko, Mikhail Gorbachev decided to carry out reforms to bring the USSR out of a deep crisis. In particular, several decisions were passed that allowed private enterprise in the country. The "Commission on Individual Labor and Cooperative Activities" became the new body that was supposed to control the new type of activity.
The deputy chairman of the Moscow city executive committee, Yuri Luzhkov, was appointed chairman of the commission, and a working group of two people was created on the basis of the Institute of Economic Problems of the Development of the National Economy of the capital, which included Elena Baturina. In the summer of 1987, Elena Nikolaevna and Yuri Luzhkov met at a meeting of the commission.
At the time of his acquaintance with Baturina, Luzhkov was married and had two children. In 1989, Marina's first wife dies of liver cancer, leaving Luzhkov as a widower. There is almost no information about the origin and development of the novel that led to the wedding in 1991. Rare statements by spouses shed little light on this part of their biography. It is also known that two girls were born in their marriage: Elena (1992) and Olga (1994).
Business
Working in a commission on cooperatives, Elena Nikolaevna was maximally involved in the very thick of the movement that had begun to emerge. She had an idea of all the details, nuances and rules, was familiar with all the first legal entrepreneurs. And therefore, the first project of Baturina was a joint family cooperative, established in partnership with her brother. They specialized in the creation, implementation and promotion of software and equipment in all areas of activity.
In 1991, Elena Nikolaevna, together with her brother Viktor, created the Inteko company. Initially, she was engaged in the production of polymer products, but later new types of activities were added, which became more and more popular: construction, commercial real estate, investments in shares of state enterprises. The company provided financial support to various sports, educational, cultural and charitable projects.
Since 2005, the gradual disintegration of Inteko begins. In 2006, Victor Baturin left the company, then Elena Nikolaevna, remaining only a co-founder.
