Vavilov, Andrei Petrovich

Early Period

In 1983 he graduated from the Moscow Institute of Management named after Sergo Ordzhonikidze , specializing in cybernetics economist.

In 1983-1984 - Software engineer at the Computing Center of the USSR Ministry of Health.

In 1985 he graduated from graduate school at the Moscow Institute of Management. Sergo Ordzhonikidze. He defended his thesis for the degree of candidate of economic sciences.

From 1985 to 1988 - Engineer, junior researcher at the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences . During work at CEMI, an acquaintance with Yegor Gaidar took place.

From 1988 to 1991 - Senior Researcher, Institute of Economics and Forecasting of Scientific and Technical Progress (IEPNTP), USSR Academy of Sciences .

In July-August 1990, under the leadership of academician Stanislav Shatalin and head of the consolidated economic department of the Council of Ministers of the USSR Grigory Yavlinsky (since 1995 the leader of the Yabloko party ), he participated in the development of the 500 Days program - an unrealized plan for the gradual transition of the Soviet Union to a market economy.

In 1991 - head of the laboratory of the Institute for Market Problems of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR .

In 1991-1992. He worked as a research fellow at the Peterson Institute of International Economics (Washington, USA) - a reputable expert and analytical center of world level.

Period of work in the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation

According to his own statement ^[4] , “in September 1992 he was appointed head of the Department of Macroeconomics of the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation. ... From November 1992 to 1997, he was First Deputy Minister of Finance. ”

However, according to official sources ^[5] , A. P. Vavilov was appointed First Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation on April 2, 1992 . Vavilov’s area of ​​responsibility included the development and implementation of an effective macroeconomic policy, the solution of the problems of the federal budget and the building of relations with international financial organizations, such as the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development .

From 1992 until leaving the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation in 1997 , A.P. Vavilov was a member of the Government Commission on State External Debt and Financial Assets of the Russian Federation, which approved on October 31, 1994 a list of priority payments for repayment of external debt made since 1995. through the Consortium of Authorized Russian Banks to which appropriate funds have been allocated for this.

On November 11, 1992, he was appointed a member of the Control and Supervisory Council under the Government of the Russian Federation. He held this position until 1994.

On July 8, 1992, he was appointed Deputy Chairman of the Monetary and Economic Commission of the Government of the Russian Federation.

From October 7, 1992 to August 2, 1993 - Executive Secretary of the Government Commission on Credit Policy.

Since December 15, 1992 - Member of the Advisory Expert Council on Economic Reform.

Since March 19, 1993 - Member of the Interdepartmental Commission for the Promotion of Industrial Export.

Since June 20, 1993 - Member of the Interdepartmental Commission for the implementation of the State target program "Housing".

Since October 3, 1993 - Member of the Government Commission of the Russian Federation for Cooperation with International Financial Organizations and Technical Assistance.

From October 23, 1993 to March 3, 1995, he was a member of the Interdepartmental Commission for Military-Technical Cooperation of the Russian Federation with foreign countries.

Since November 30, 1993 - member of the Interdepartmental Commission on the socio-economic problems of coal mining regions.

In 1993, he was a member of the organizing committee for the organization of the Russian Bank for Reconstruction and Development.

After the so-called “Black Tuesday” (the collapse of the ruble at the exchange trading on October 11, 1994) and the removal of the acting Minister of Finance S. Dubinin in connection with this , he was appointed acting Minister of Finance on October 13, 1994 .

On November 4, 1994, he was relieved of his duties as Acting Minister of Finance in connection with the appointment of Vladimir Panskov as Minister of Finance, and on November 5, he was again appointed First Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation. At the same time, he was severely reprimanded for allowing the October crisis.

Since December 13, 1994 - Member of the Government Commission on Financial and Monetary Policy.

February 20, 1995 appointed Secretary of State - member of the Representative Office of the Government of the Russian Federation in the Federal Assembly. He was in this position until 1997.

Since February 24, 1995 - Deputy Head of the Interdepartmental Commission of the Russian Federation for Cooperation with International Financial and Economic Organizations and the Group of Seven.

In November-December 1995, on behalf of the Ministry of Finance, Vavilov signed documents on collateral auctions , which, according to experts and the media, represented the largest transfer of state property to private hands in Russia. He approached the president of ONEXIM Bank Vladimir Potanin , the author of the idea of ​​holding auctions.

February 8, 1996 , after the resignation of Chubais from the post of first deputy prime minister, he was introduced to the Commission of the Government of the Russian Federation on economic reform ^[6] .

In May 1996, he joined the Board of Directors of RAO Gazprom as a representative of the state.

Since June 1996, he has been the deputy head of the state-owned controlling share holding of Roseximbank .

A.P. Vavilov was also one of the founders of the Russian government debt market, first domestic ( state short-term obligations - T-bills) and then foreign ( Eurobonds ). As First Deputy Minister of Finance, he was responsible for organizing the issue of the first Russian Eurobonds in 1996-1997. and the so-called bonds of the Ministry of Finance. After the launch of this market, public debt management was one of the priorities of A.P. Vavilov as the first deputy minister.

In May 1996, he became treasurer of the election campaign of Russian President Boris Yeltsin . In an interview, he said that it was to him that Yeltsin "entrusted the election money." July 25, 1996 received thanks from President Yeltsin for his active participation in the organization and conduct of the election campaign ^[7] .

On October 29, 1996, a meeting of the Board of Directors of ORTV CJSC was held . The members of the Board of Directors decided to make a number of staffing recommendations, in particular, the shareholders were recommended to introduce Andrei Vavilov, First Deputy Minister of Finance of the Russian Federation, to the Board of Directors. At the meeting of shareholders on December 7, 1996 he was included in the Board of Directors of CJSC ORTV and became the first Deputy Chairman of the Board of Directors of ORTV.

On February 3, 1997, in the parking lot near the building of the Ministry of Finance, Vavilov’s official car was blown up; at that time, Vavilov himself was in the building of the Ministry and was not injured ^[8] . A number of media expressed confidence that the explosion was an attempt to assassinate the deputy minister.

In April 1997, on the eve of the reorganization of the Government of the Russian Federation, on May 1, 1997, he resigned and on April 17, 1997 he was relieved of his duties as First Deputy Minister of Finance “in connection with his transfer to another job” ^[9] .

Other activities

From May 15, 1997, he served as president of the International Finance Company (IFC) Bank, which was part of the Interros holding Potanin.

In June 1997, ONEXIM Bank - IFC was proposed by the IFC to the Board of Directors of RAO Gazprom , but did not receive the required number of votes at the meeting of shareholders.

At the end of 1996, A.P. Vavilov and his colleagues founded the Institute for Financial Research , an independent group of expert economists. The main part of the Institute’s staff consists of highly qualified economists and financiers who previously worked at the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the IFC Bank, including the head of the IFC analytical department. From 1998 to 2002, A. P. Vavilov was the director of the IFI, and from 2002, he was the chairman of the scientific council of the Institute. At the same time in 1998-1999. Advisor to the Chairman of the Management Board of RAO Gazprom on financial matters.

In 2000, A. P. Vavilov acquired a controlling stake in the small Russian oil company Severnaya Neft , whose largest shareholder was Komineft, which, in turn, was owned by Lukoil . As Chairman of the Board of Directors since April 2000, in less than four years he has made this company one of the leading independent Russian oil producers (among companies not owned by Russian oil holdings).

In June 2002, Vavilov resigned as chairman of the board of directors of Severnaya Neft, but remained its main owner.

In June 2003 , when Lukoil filed another lawsuit against Severnaya Neft, Vavilov announced the sale of the assets of the state corporation Rosneft controlled by him. Analysts estimated the total transaction amount at $ 500 million.

In 2002, he defended his thesis for the degree of Doctor of Economic Sciences at the Central Economics and Mathematics Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences (thesis topic: “Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Debt Management”).

Since February 1998 - Head of the Economic Advisory Council under the Head of the Altai Republic .

In February 1998, he was nominated by the Gorno-Altai Passenger Transport Company as a candidate for deputies of the State Duma of the Russian Federation from the Gorno-Altai constituency. The initiator of the nomination of Vavilov was Semyon Zubakin. In March 1998, the Election Commission of the Altai Republic refused to officially register Vavilov as a candidate for deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation because Vavilov began campaigning through the media and holding meetings with labor collectives before registering. However, a few days later he was still registered as a candidate for deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation.

On May 31, 1998, he lost the election to Mikhail Lapshin , short of just 1,100 votes.

Since June 27, 2002 he is a member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation - a representative of the Legislative Assembly of the Penza Region.

Until January 2008, A. Vavilov was a member of the Committee of the Council of the Federation for Legal and Judicial Issues.

On April 3, 2003, he founded the Human Capital Foundation, an international charitable organization. The central office of the Foundation is located in London.

On March 17, 2010, the powers of Andrei Petrovich Vavilov, a member of the Council of the Federation of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, were terminated ahead of schedule in connection with his application to resign ^[2] .

Since March 2010, A.P. Vavilov has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of the innovative research and production company SuperOx CJSC ^[10] , which has been operating since 2006 “for the development of technology for the production of high-temperature superconducting wires”; has production offices in Russia and Japan ^[11] .

Since April 1997, Vavilov has been a witness in a case of embezzlement of a government loan worth 231 million US dollars. The loan allocated by MiG was to go to the production of combat aircraft for India. In 2000, the case was dismissed for lack of corpus delicti.

On May 28, 2001, he was summoned to the Prosecutor General’s Office, where he was notified that criminal proceedings could be instituted against him.

January 5, 2004 , at the request of the federal attorney for the Northern California District ( USA ), Vavilov's private plane made an emergency landing at the airport of Palm Beach; Vavilov was interrogated by the police, allegedly in the case of former Ukrainian Prime Minister Pavel Lazarenko , who was accused of laundering $ 114 million in the United States and was due to begin trial in the United States (in August 2006, Lazarenko was sentenced to nine years in connection with his disappearance in 1996 -97 years from Gazprom, 700 million dollars ^[12] .

On January 10, 2007, the Supreme Court of Russia granted the prosecutor's application for criminal prosecution against Andrei Vavilov ^[13] .

July 11, 2008 it became known that Vavilov agreed to terminate the criminal case against him about embezzlement of $ 231 million from the state budget “on non-rehabilitating grounds” (due to the expiration of the statute of limitations); The investigation’s resolution states that Vavilov’s guilt of fraud on an especially large scale, as well as abuse of official position, is “fully proven” ^[14] .

According to the newspaper Kommersant :

“The investigation concluded that Vavilov, who held the post of first deputy minister of finance, committed theft and abused his official position. In 1997, Vavilov arranged for a $ 231 million loan from the MAPO MiG from the budget, allegedly for the production of MiG-29 aircraft. However, the agreement with India on the supply of fighters, concluded in 1992, by that time ceased to be implemented. This amount as a result of a complex financial scheme was transferred to the accounts of shell companies in the offshore zone of Antigua and Latvia ” ^[15] .

Vavilov was charged under two articles: part 4 of article 159 and part 3 of article 285 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (embezzlement by fraud on an especially large scale and abuse of official position , entailing grave consequences).

However, as Kommersant writes:

“The head of the press service department of the Federation Council, Yuri Kozlov, told Kommersant yesterday that Andrei Vavilov continues to be an active member of the Federation Council - the investigating authorities do not insist on the resignation of the senator in connection with his conviction of theft. Nobody is going to recover the stolen sum from Mr Vavilov and other accused. ” ^[15]

In August 2008, Penthouse 2009 and Inc. Penthouse 2011 Inc., owned by Andrei Vavilov, has launched lawsuits against New York-based developer El-Ad for allegedly damaging purchases of $ 30 million to the buyer. The lawsuit relates to the purchase by Andrey Vavilov of two penthouses in the New York center of Hotel Plaza worth $ 53.5 million, for which Vavilov made an advance payment of 10.7 million ^[16] .

• Gratitude of the President of the Russian Federation ( July 25, 1996 ) - for active participation in organizing and conducting the election campaign of the President of the Russian Federation in 1996 ^[17] .

He has more than 20 scientific publications ^[18] .

• Andrey Vavilov, The Russian Public Debt and Financial Meltdowns // Palgrave Macmillan, September 2010
• The author of the book (co-authored with O. Vyugin) “Trade Patterns in tһе Former Soviet Union. Five Years' Policy Experience and the Future ”(USA, ASPO, 1997).
• Vavilov A. Government debt: lessons from the crisis and principles of management. - M.: "Gorodets-Izdat", 2001. - 302 p.
• Vavilov A., Kovalishin E. Principles of state debt policy. // Issues of economics . 2001. No. 8.
• Vavilov A.P., Trofimov G.Yu. Growth at the end ?, Vedomosti, May 16, 2000.
• Vavilov A. P. “In undue debt”, an article in the weekly Kommersant-Dengi, published in No. 17 (270) on May 3, 2000.
• Vavilov A. P. “Internal problems of external debt”, an article in the newspaper Kommersant, published in No. 59 (1944) on April 6, 2000.
• Vavilov A. P. “The New Russian Crisis”, an article for the weekly newspaper Novaya Gazeta, published in No. 2 (525) from January 18-24, 1999.
• Vavilov A. P., Kovalishin E. A. “On the history of bankruptcies and defaults”, an article for the weekly newspaper Novaya Gazeta, published in issue No. 9 (532) from March 16-23, 1999.
• Vavilov A. P., Pomansky A. B., Trofimov G. Yu. Pension reform in Russia: analysis of the transition process, Issues of Economics, No. 2, 1999.
• Vavilov A., Kovalishin E. Problems of restructuring of Russia's external debt: theory and practice. // Issues of economics. 1999. No. 5.
• Vavilov A., Pomansky A., Trofimov G. et al. Financial crisis and public debt. // M .: Institute of financial research, 1999.

• In May 2005, Vavilov was named by the Russian Forbes magazine among the 100 richest Russians. His fortune was estimated by the magazine at 380 million dollars. Thus, he took 80th place in the ranking of Russia's richest businessmen. The businessman, in his own words, quoted by Forbes, preferred to place his money “according to various kinds of investment strategies in developed markets”, rather than in Russia, where he “now wouldn’t buy anything at all”. The media noted that the millionaire senator was registered in the village of Krivosheevka in the Nizhnelomovsky district of the Penza region on the date of publication of his last name on the Forbes list, and paid taxes on his income to the regional treasury.
• According to the May issue of Russian Forbes magazine, in 2006 Vavilov was already on the 95th line with a capital of $ 470 million in the list of Russia's 100 richest businessmen. Thus, over the year, the state of the senator-businessman increased by $ 90 million.
• In 2000, billboards appeared on the streets of Moscow with portraits of the wife ^{[19] of} Vavilov, the former actress of the Lenkom Theater , Maryana Tsaregradskaya (1972-2017) and the words “Hello, Maryana” and “Beloved, Beloved” ^{[20] [21]} . The campaign cost Vavilov $ 160 thousand and aimed at reconciliation with his wife. In 2005, Andrei and Maryana had a daughter who was named Goya-Vivien ^{[22] [23] [24]} , and in 2014, her son Dante Gabriel ^[25] . In 2017, Maryana died of cancer ^[26] .

• Personal site
• Vavilov, Andrey - an article in the Lentapedia . year 2012.
• Press kit
• Compilation of incriminating evidence in the press
• The Wall Street Journal, September 9, 2008
• The site of the Institute for Financial Research, whose supervisor is A. P. Vavilov
• The site of the Scientific Potential charity foundation, the founder of which is A. P. Vavilov