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Sergei Pugachev
Russian-born French business magnate (born 1963) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sergei Viktorovich Pugachev, also spelled Sergey Pugachyov (French: Sergueï Pougatchev; Russian: Сергей Викторович Пугачёв; born 4 February 1963), is a Russian-born French business magnate.[1] He is a doctor of technical sciences and a member of the International Engineering Academy.
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Born | Sergei Viktorovich Pugachev (1963-02-04) 4 February 1963 (age 61) Kostroma, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
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Spouse | Galina Arkhipova (divorced) |
Partner | Alexandra Tolstoy (2008–2016) |
Children | 6 |
Russian Federation Senator from the Republic of Tuva | |
In office 24 December 2001 – 4 January 2011 | |
Preceded by | Office established |
Succeeded by | Galina Munzuk |
Website | www |
Pugachev moved to the United States in 1994. Before that, he lived primarily in France and the United Kingdom. He has major real estate development projects in the United States, France, Luxembourg, Russia and the United Kingdom.
At the start of the 2000s, Pugachev gained a reputation in the Russian mass media for allegedly having introduced Russia's new president Vladimir Putin to the governor of the Sretensky Monastery in central Moscow, Archimandrite Tikhon Shevkunov, with whom Pugachev had been in close relationship as a major sponsor of the monastery.[2]