Parents Prokhorov Biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. Childhood and youth years of Mikhail’s childhood passed in the usual high-rise building in the north-east of Moscow, where his parents and older sister Irina lived. Father, Dmitry Ionovich, was a major sports official, headed the department of external relations of state sports. Mom, Tamara Mikhailovna, led one of the departments of the Institute of Chemical Engineering.

Mikhail Prokhorov in childhood, despite the fact that the Prokhorov family was quite wealthy, Mikhail cannot be called a textbook representative of the Golden Youth. He was seriously involved in sports, gradually graduated from a school with an in -depth study of foreign languages ​​and stood out among peers, except for high growth, for which he was teased with a “giraffe”. Having received a certificate, the young man became a student at the Faculty of International Economy of the IFFI, from where he went to serve in the army a year later.

For the high growth of Mikhail Prokhorov, they teased the “giraffe” demobilized, he returned to the institute and received a red diploma in the year. By this time, he and his sister had lost both parents who, with a difference of one year, died of heart disease. Mikhail Prokhorov during the army service in the foreground, Mikhail became the main breadwinner in the family and, thanks to the innate entrepreneurial vein, coped well with this function.

Having not worked for a long time as a loader, he made a small start -up capital and with his classmate Alexander Khloponin organized an enterprise for the production and sale of “boiled” jeans. The business brought a stable income, and soon he already traveled around the capital on the “Zhiguli” model. Mikhail Prokhorov and Alexander Khloponin in business, after graduation, Prokhorov got a manager in the International Bank for Economic Cooperation, where he worked for three years, combining this employment with the promotion of his own business.

In M, fate brought him to Vladimir Potanin, who for many years became his faithful ally and business partner. In M, fate brought Mikhail Prokhorov with Vladimir Potanin during privatization, the bank favorably bought up the shares of the Norilsk Nickel, the Novolipetsk plant and other major state -owned companies, thereby increasing its capital. In M, Prokhorov acquired shares of a large gold mining company and organized OJSC Polyus Gold, which he himself headed.

Mikhail Prokhorov invested a lot of money in the creation of an “e-mobile” shortly after this road Prokhorov and Potanin dispersed, Mikhail sold his share to the former companion and adequately survived the financial crisis of the year, without losing the central capital. For the proceeds, he acquired several media companies, including RBC, where his sister Irina is now working, he bought the New Jersey Nets basketball club and invested a lot of money in the creation of an “E-mobile”, a car of the future.

Mikhail Prokhorov participated in the presidential race of the year in the year, Prokhorov decided to engage in politics and established the party’s party, but soon left it due to internal disagreements. A few months later, the billionaire decided to run for the presidential post and eventually became the third in the election race, gaining almost 8 percent of the vote.

After that, he created the Civil Platform party and was going to go to the Duma with it, but in the year he changed his mind and “tied” with politics. The scandals more than once Mikhail Prokhorov became the hero of scandalous news, the most loud which belongs to the party in Courchevel in the year. The local police arrested a billionaire for several days on charges of organizing sex services in France.

The guardians of order were embarrassed by the huge escort of young girls who accompanied the oligarch on vacation. Only two years later, Mikhail managed to fully justify and remove all the accusations. More than once, Mikhail Prokhorov became the hero of scandalous news in the year, a protracted trial began between Prokhorov and his former business partner Vladimir Potanin.

Potanin accused Mikhail of non -compliance with the agreements of a deal with Norilsk Nickel. According to Potanin, Prokhorov promised him and another oligarch Usmanov to sell Norilsk and acquire a “pole”, but he could not restrain the word. In response, Prokhorov filed a lawsuit against Potanin demanding that give a refutation. The lawsuit of Mikhail was satisfied.

Mikhail Prokhorov about Navalny Politics in April Mikhail Prokhorov said that he intends to sue Alexei Navalny in the list of terrorists and extremists of Rosfinmonitoring or his organization of the FBK is recognized as undesirable and extremist and its activities were prohibited in Russia for accusations in a bribe to his longtime, deputy chairman of the Government of the Russian Federation, Alexander Harvest.

According to the opposition, Prokhorov bought from Khloponin a more than modest villa in the Italian town for 35 million. Prokhorov announced his intention to sue Navalny. Charity activity in the year entrepreneur established the charity foundation of Mikhail Prokhorov, led by his sister Irina - literary critic, editor -in -chief of the journal New Literary Review.Mikhail Prokhorov and his sister Irina Fund supports cultural, educational and scientific initiatives.

During the work for charitable projects, about 2 billion was allocated. Mikhail Prokhorov visiting Ksenia Sobchak. The interview Mikhail Prokhorov has now been “in the shade” for several years and does not give reasons for gossip and gossip of the yellow press. He is still not married, lives with his sister's family in a luxurious near Moscow mansion, devotes a lot of time to sports and occasionally “breaks” at noisy parties.