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Suleyman Abusaidovich Kerimov is a Russian billionaire, oligarch, philanthropist and politician of Lezgin descent. Kerimov maintains close ties to Vladimir Putin's administration in Russia, and formerly enjoyed a close relationship with Ramzan Kadyrov, the strongman of Chechnya. More recently, Kerimov and Kadyrov have fallen out.
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business · Russian businessman and oligarch · politician · economist · businessperson · statesperson · also Suleyman Kerimov, Suleyman Abusaidovich Kerimov, Kerimov
Born 12 March 1966 · Q447250
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Published “FinnGen provides genetic insights from a well-phenotyped isolated population” in Nature — cited 3,808 times.
There were reports that he was the owner of the superyacht Amadea
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Kerimov's fortune doubled due to a sharp rise in gold prices
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Kerimov's share in Polyus Gold was transferred to his son, Said
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Kerimov drastically and abruptly reduced the team's funding, leading to a firesale of players
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The company held an IPO on the London Stock Exchange
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Bought the football club FC Anzhi Makhachkala, which subsequently made a series of high‑profile signings
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Kerimov purchased FC Anzhi Makhachkala, his hometown football club which competes in the Russian Premier League
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Kerimov sold control over Polymetal
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Career landmark: member of the Federation Council of Russia (2008).
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Kerimov established the Suleyman Kerimov Foundation in 2007.
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Took the company public on the London Stock Exchange, then sold 70% of his shares in 2008 before gold would go on to climb to an all-time high in 2011
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Kerimov invested billions in Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Credit Suisse and other financial institutions
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Kerimov and his associates expected that Russia would suffer more than the West from the 2008 financial crisis
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Kerimov was listed among the world's 100 richest people and as Russia's eighth richest man ranked by Forbes
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And is currently the 78th largest yacht in the world
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Sberbank, now the largest bank in Russia and Eastern Europe, provided Kerimov with a loan of $3
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Kerimov managed to secure a $43 million loan from the state-owned Vnesheconombank, which he invested in the oil and gas company Gazprom
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Career landmark: member of the State Duma (1999–2007).
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Kerimov was appointed to head the banking and trading company Soyuz-Finans, and by 1997, Kerimov had built a 50% stake in Vnukovo Airlines and used his leverage to take over Fedprombank, buying out his partners' shares
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Kerimov was put in charge of handling relations between Eltav and Fedprombank, a Moscow bank established by the electrical company
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Kerimov took a job as an economist at the Eltav electrical plant in Makhachkala, the capital of Dagestan
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Kerimov resumed his studies at Dagestan State University, from which he graduated with a degree in financial accounting and economics in 1989
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And subsequently enrolled in the Civil Engineering Department at the Dagestan Polytechnic Institute in 1984, although his obligatory military service in the Soviet Army interrupted his studies barely a year later
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Born 1966-03-12.
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