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He used his contacts with Russia's steel mills, which used high-temperature technologies, and offered his services not as a scientist but as a metal trader. Trading was a popular and quick way to make money in Russia in the early 1990s. The economy was shrinking, non-payment was a chronic problem and
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While the first wave of Russian oligarchs grabbed whatever assets they could, Mr Abramov acquired them in a much more focused way. He decided to build a monopoly for rail and steel construction products and looked for factories that would give him synergies. The only other big factories making these
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In 2000-s Evraz-Holding has emerged as one of the most aggressive vertically integrated business groups in Russia and worldwide. Its assets now include ore mines and steel mills in Russia, steel mills in North America and Kazakhstan, as well as Russian coal company PJSC Raspadskaya.
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any offer of cash from a trader was welcomed by factories. By 1997, trading was less profitable and many trading companies, including Abramov's, were owed large sums by producers. Abramov began buying factories and
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As a state creditor, Tuleev would help appoint external managers loyal to EvrazHolding to run the steel mills. Abramov would pay salaries and taxes, guarantee jobs and support Tuleev's social projects.
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and Abramov is representative of the second wave of Russian magnates who went into business after the best assets had been taken. Unlike the first wave of politically connected oligarchs, such as
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with a degree in physics and mathematics. He first worked for Russia's space and defense program before becoming a metal trader after government funding declined.
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The two factories Abramov was interested in were in bankruptcy in 1998. Salaries had not been paid for up to eight months and strikes were breaking out.
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He is married with three children, and lives outside of Russia. His hobbies include fishing, swimming, tennis.
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Abramov was born in 1959 in Moscow, Russia, USSR. He is of Jewish descent. He graduated from the
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steel mill, while also buying stakes in its rail-producing plant from other shareholders.
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Tuleev needed good managers. Abramov needed the two factories and soon a deal was made.
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Pitching job creation in the vacuum of bankrupt factories
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as having an estimated net worth of $ 8.0 billion.
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Alexander Konstantinovich Abramov

Moscow
USSR
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
Evraz
Order of Friendship
‹See Tfd›
Russian
Evraz
Russian oligarch
Aleksandr Frolov
Roman Abramovich
Forbes
Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology
1998 financial crisis
Mikhail Khodorkovsky
Vladimir Potanin
privatisation
London Stock Exchange
swapped debt for equity
Nizhny Tagil
Kemerovo
Aman Tuleev
Oregon Steel Mills
Claymont Steel
Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act
UK
Russo-Ukrainian War
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