Khachaturyants will be driving the RPL for the time being. What do we know about him?

Become. O. after Pryadkin left.

Sergei Pryadkin resigned from the post of head of the RPL. Ashot Khachaturyants, head of the RFU refereeing corps, was appointed acting president of the league.

“I think Khachaturyants will be president. What is the point of appointing a person to perform duties temporarily when he has a job on the judging committee? Since he is acting, he is trusted by the RFU and the clubs. If nothing happens, then Ashot Khachaturyants will be elected president of the RPL “, – the forecast of Vyacheslav Koloskov.

New elections will be held on October 22.

The main points in the biography of Khachaturyants – from our material for 2019 .

• Khachaturian is 53 years old, he was born in Kislovodsk. From 2008 to February 2020, he served as CEO of Sberbank Capital – a subsidiary of Sberbank “, Which collects assets, collecting them from debtors, and then tries to invest or just make money on them.

• In 1991, Khachaturyants graduated from the Moscow Institute of Oil and Gas named after Gubkin (now he is an honorary graduate of the university, since 2011 he has regularly donated money and is a member of the board of trustees of Gubkin residents) and started work at Gazexport, a subsidiary of Gazprom, which, as the name implies, specialized in gas export.

• Two years later, Khachaturyants moved to the Sideka company (such a biography is given on the university website, excerpts and excerpts from there) – there are very few references to her in Russian, Apparently, we are talking about an Argentine company engaged in ferrous metallurgy – later it was bought by the Japanese. He did not stay there – almost immediately went into his own business, taking up the oil trading business, and until 2000 no one remembered about him at all. It is not known what Khachaturyants actually did in all the nineties: he is as non-public as possible, gave only a couple of major interviews and occasionally spoke exclusively on work issues.

• In 2001, Khachaturyants unexpectedly quit his successful business and became an advisor to German Gref , who had headed the Ministry of Economic Affairs a year earlier. development. Here is how Khachaturyants himself explained it: “We have already built a good business in the field of oil refining and oil trading, further growth was limited, since a significant market share was occupied by large and much stronger players. I had already solved the financial issues for myself at that time. I was young and I needed a drive, something new. Drive, in a good way, is my driving force in life.

I decided to try myself in a completely different sector. I have always been interested in how the state machine works, especially in a situation when interesting people with a new perspective come to civil service, such as, for example, German Gref. I was introduced to Gref at one of the events. Working with such people is immediately exciting. Therefore, I did not hesitate to accept the offer to work in the Ministry of Economic Development. ”

Board of Directors of Gazprom.

• But in 2004 there was another unexpected turn: Khachaturyants left for the FSB for four years . He became the head of the Department of the Federal Target Program “State Border”. As Khachaturyants himself said, he was invited there by Vladimir Pronichev, FSB general, who from 2003 to 2013 was the head of the Border Guard Service (you could probably hear his name if you support Dynamo – he was the chairman of the board of directors of VFSO Dynamo for a long time who ran the club)

“It took the experience of the MEDT (Ministry of Economic Development and Trade), combined with good expertise in finance. To implement the FTP (federal target program), a special department was created within the FSB, which on a daily basis was engaged in organizing the construction and arrangement of the border in the Caucasus. I was the head of this department. In less than four years, it was possible to equip the state border throughout the North Caucasus, from sea to sea. construction of outposts. I went there constantly, supervised the distribution of money, construction. ”

In 2008, when the project was completed, the businessman received the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, III degree, and Pronichev picked up a new occupation for Khachaturyanets: developing the infrastructure of Dynamo in the regions, and at the same time a place in the Central Council of the society.

, who had become the CEO of Sberbank a year earlier, invited him to the newly formed subsidiary of Sberbank Capital.

For two years of operation, the portfolio of assets of Sberbank’s subsidiary reached $ 14 billion – we worked with developers ( PIK, Don-Stroy and a couple of complexes in Moscow), with Urals Energy, which transferred the oil subsidiary Dulisma. “Why be afraid of us – we are not raiders,” Khachaturyants described the work of Sberbank Capital at the start of work.

By 2013, according to Khachaturyants’ estimates, Sberbank Capital returned about 60 billion rubles, having rescued them from the sale of assets and shares in companies. Khachaturyants said that all the assets, except one – Alpi, were sold by the company at a profit.

• Khachaturyants in 2009-2010 was a member of the board of directors of RussNeft ( however, now he is not listed there.)

• After leaving Sberbank Capital, he headed Eurocement Group for a year and a half.

• And since 2018, Khachaturyants was present in the RFU Referee Committee. Since 2019, he has become its head. It is reported that Ashot will now leave this position.

How was you connected with sports before working in the RFU?

and football, – Khachaturyants told Vedomosti. – At one time I played for the city’s national football team. But now there is no time for sports. I work 14-16 hours a day. The strongest emotions outside of work are when I come home and can talk to the children. ”

And here is the conversation in the program“ Insiders ”by Nobel Arustamyan (summer 2020):

– At one time I played for the Kislovodsk national team in football, played left hava. At the age of 17, we became champions of the region, received the first sports category. That is, I can tell the puck from the ball.

– Why did you choose such a direction of football?

– I had a memory from my youth when the judges buried us. Sometimes from resentment – and you’re a child, you react very emotionally to injustice – I wanted to cry. ”

What Khachaturyants said about the situation in Russian football before?

In recent years, Khachaturyants actively participated in the discussion of judicial decisions and commented on high-profile episodes.

In December 2019, after being appointed head of the RFU Referee Committee, Khachaturyants spoke with Kommersant. Here are important quotes from there in the general context of the RPL: ​​

1. “Changes were clearly required. The first thing that caught my eye was the lack of consistency. Would It is not clear how many processes are built. And in the absence of consistency, the most important thing is lost – the transparency of decisions and their clarity and predictability for all participants in the process. ”

2. “I’m interested in football. After all, I work as an anti-crisis manager (at that time Khachaturyants was the CEO of Sberbank Capital), and together with the rest of the RFU team, it is a very interesting challenge for me to deal with such an advanced crisis situation. I am equidistant from the clubs, so they will not be able to influence me in any way. ”

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