Ismailov, Telman Mardanovich

Telman Ismailov was born in 1956 in Baku to a family of mountain Jews ^[1] . He was the tenth of twelve children in the family of Mardan and Peri Ismailov. Telman's father worked in trade (a large Baku trader ) ^[2] , his son helped him from the age of fourteen and soon became the director of the only commercial store in Baku.

Study and Work

From 1973 to 1976 he studied at the Azerbaijan National Economic Institute. Dadasha Buniat Zade . After serving in the army he transferred to the Moscow Institute of National Economy. Plekhanov , who graduated in 1980 . After that, he worked as an economist at the Ministry of Commerce , as well as an expert at Vostokintorg. In 1989, he registered the group ACT, whose president is to this day.

Famous patron

The first commercial enterprise of Ismailov in Moscow in 1987 was a cooperative under the controversial name “Commercial charitable company”. Developing it, Telman closely became acquainted with the then chairman of the commission of the Moscow City Executive Committee on cooperative activity, Yuri Luzhkov ( Elena Baturina was the secretary of this commission) ^[2] .
In 1989, he creates the first of the AST group of companies. The group of companies in equal shares belongs to Telman Ismailov, his two sons and nephew. At various times, the group included more than 30 companies. For example, AST-Tour travel agency, AST-Gof hotel complex on Bolshaya Filyovskaya Street, Prague Restaurants on Arbat and Slavyanskaya Meal on Leninsky Prospekt, Safisa Celebration House, development companies KBF AST and AST-Kapstroy "," AST-Agroprom "," AST-Moscow Printing House ", security organization CHOP" AST-Shchit "," AST-Trans-Service "(transportation)," AST-Gold "(production of jewelry), “AST Photovideo”, “AST-music”, “AST Dental Center”, “AST-Cargo” (warehouses) and others. In fact, AST also owned the Cherkizovsky market in Moscow . Ismailov previously owned the five-star Mardan Palace Hotel in Turkey ^[3] . The restaurant “Slavic meal” (on Leninsky Avenue), which belonged to Telman’s nephew, went bankrupt and was closed in the 2000s. In 2016, the security company Telman Ismailov LLC chop "AST-Shield" was closed.

As of November 2015, he was involved in the lawsuits of banks declaring it bankrupt ^{[4] [5]} . In December 2015, by the decision of the Arbitration Court of the Moscow Region, it was declared bankrupt, becoming the first bankrupt under the new Law on Bankruptcy of Citizens from the Forbes list participants; bankruptcy proceedings were opened against him. ^{[6] [7] [8]} In March 2017, he was again declared bankrupt by a decision of the Arbitration Court of the Moscow Region; The procedure for the sale of his property was opened. ^{[9] [10]}

Before the 2009 holiday season, Ismailov inaugurated the Mardan Palace hotel in Antalya, Turkey, which was rated by the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung as the most expensive hotel of the continent ^[3] .

A businessman has spent over a billion dollars to build it. At the opening came Richard Gere , Sharon Stone , Tom Jones , Monica Bellucci , Paris Hilton , Joseph Kobzon , Philip Kirkorov . Ribbon cut Yuri Luzhkov and his wife. The hotel is named after the father of Telman Ismailov - Mardan. On the opening day the hotel would have turned 100 years old. After the opening of the hotel, Ismailov asked for Turkish citizenship ^[3] .

In November 2015, it became known that the Turkish Halkbank purchased at auction the Mardan Palace hotel for 361 million Turkish liras (123 million dollars), although the hotel was originally valued at 719 million liras ^{[11] [12]} . Before buying a Mardan Palace, he experienced financial difficulties, he had a debt to Halkbank and Garanti Bankası, 67 criminal cases were initiated due to the hotel’s debts.

In 2007, Ismailov occupied 76th place in the list of Russian businessmen according to Forbes magazine. Then the magazine estimated his fortune at 620 million dollars. At the peak of success, Ismailov’s condition was estimated at about a billion dollars. For 2012, the state of about 800 million dollars, is 121 in the Forbes Russian ratings: Russia's richest businessmen - 2012.

Ismailov is considered an approximate and close friend of the former Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov ^{[13] [14] [15] [16]} .

In December 2015, the Arbitration Court of the Moscow Region declared Telman Ismailov bankrupt ^[8] .

Family

• Wife - Samira.
  • Son - Sarkhan - a student at the University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation ^[17] .
  • Son - Alekper ^[18] .

• Brother - Fazil Mardanovich Izmailov (born November 24, 1951), in 2009 was and. about. Prefect of the Northern Administrative District of Moscow ^[19] .
  • Nephew - Alexander.

• Brother - Rafik Mardanovich Ismailov.

• Brother - Vagif Mardanovich Ismailov - a former officer of the Main Criminal Investigation Department (GUUR) Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Hobbies

Telman Ismailov’s hobby is collecting watches, which he collected about 2,000.

• Ismailov, Telman - an article in Lentapedia . year 2012.
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