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Financial interests
Shareholdings of most companies "Alfa Group", including Alfa Bank and "VimpelCom". As of 2010, he was a shareholder of the telecommunications holding Altimo (7.021%), ABH Holdings (13.8%), which combines the financial and oil assets of Alfa Group.
Biography
Petr Aven was born on March 16, 1955 in Moscow. In 1977 he graduated from the Faculty of Economics Moscow State University. 1989 – Researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, Advisor to the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs (until 1991). In 1991-1992 - Minister of Foreign Economic Relations, representative of the Russian President for relations with industrialized countries (G7).
1993 – founded and headed the company "Finance of Peter Aven". Since 1994 President of Alfa Bank. Since 1998 - member of the board of directors of Aviakor OJSC and chairman of the board of directors of the television holding company Alfa-TV CJSC; CJSC Network of Television Stations (STS). In 2007, he was elected co-chairman of the board of directors "STS Media" together with the director of MTG Hans-Holger Albrecht.
In 2000-2001 - member of the Entrepreneurship Council under the Government of the Russian Federation. Since 2001 – Chairman of the Board of Directors of the holding "Golden Telecom Inc.". Since 2002 - member of the board of directors of Latvijas Balzams.
Petr Aven has headed the Board of Directors of the Banking Group since January 2014 "Alfa Bank".
In mid-April 2015, Alfa Bank filed a "Uralvagonzavod" the first claim for an amount of more than 6 billion rubles and $39.7 million. On May 8, Alfa Bank warned the corporation's creditors that it was going to apply to the arbitration court for its bankruptcy.
On May 12, the arbitration court seized funds worth 523.5 million rubles as part of the second claim of Alfa Bank to collect debt from the company. A week later the arrest was lifted. Uralvagonzavod received government guarantees to repay the debt.
On May 25, 2015, Aven was awarded Order of Friendship. This award is awarded for a great contribution to the socio-economic development of the Russian Federation, achieved labor successes, active social activities and many years of conscientious work, according to the presidential decree.
Peter Aven's net worth, according to Forbes, in 2015 is estimated at $5 billion.
Touches to the portrait
One of the world's most famous collectors of Russian avant-garde. Member of the Board of Trustees of the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A. S. Pushkin; member of the board of trustees Bolshoi Theater.
In 2004, Institutional Investor magazine recognized Aven as the best manager in the financial services sector in Russia.
Board member Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs(RSPP); Member of the Presidium of the Russian International Affairs Council (since 2011); Professor of the State University - High School of Economics(SU - HSE/NIU-HSE), one of the trustees of the Russian School of Economics (NES) and the Center for Economic Policy (CERP) in the UK.
Loves alpine skiing, tennis, hunting.
He supports FC Spartak and is ready to buy the football club from Leonid Fedun.
Married, has two children.
Scandals, rumors
While still a student, I met my future business partner, who was the head of the informal youth club "Strawberry Glade".
According to media reports, in 1992, Aven, being the Minister of Foreign Economic Relations of Russia, by his order transferred the functions of the representative of the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations in St. Petersburg Vladimir Putin.
American intelligence agencies developed Peter Aven and Alexandra Shokhina on the subject of fraud with the Tanzanian debt to the USSR. The money ended up in Swiss banks.
As Minister of Foreign Economic Relations, Aven “did not hesitate to accept commissions and even expensive gifts for assisting foreign companies and Russian enterprises in concluding and implementing foreign trade transactions.” However, no official charges of corruption were brought against Aven.
As minister, Aven intensified arms trade– they began to supply it to Iran, the United Arab Emirates, China, and Korea. Aven was also responsible as minister for organizing the supply of meat, sugar and other food products to Russia. A Russian emigrant became a partner in this business Sergey Mazharov, lived in France. Aven transferred funds from sales to his accounts in the Cayman Islands.
In the early 1990s, Aven assisted Friedman when the latter purchased sugar, tea and carpets from India through Alfa-Eco. Purchases were made at the expense of government debts.
The intelligence services checked Minister Aven for embezzlement, connections with Israeli intelligence services and even organizations drug transit from Southeast Asia to Europe. The results of these checks were reported Boris Yeltsin, after which Aven resigned as minister, media claim. Aven challenged this publication by journalists in court and won. In Aven’s own words, he resigned as minister because he did not see for himself “an opportunity to work in the government Viktor Chernomyrdin".
At the same time, Aven became an adviser to the president JSC "LogoVAZ" Boris Berezovsky. It was rumored that it was Aven who lobbied for the important decision for Berezovsky to sharply increase customs duties on imported cars.
After the opening of the company "Finance of Peter Aven", support was provided to the businessman Anatoly Chubais, Sergey Glazyev, Alexander Shokhin And Oleg Davydov.
In 1998, the media accused Aven of illegally acquiring a dacha Alexei Tolstoy in Barvikha, near Moscow, at a reduced cost and without paying taxes. The lobbyists for the deal were the general director of Zhukovka, Vladimir Ryabenko, and the head of the State Property Agency.
Peter Aven’s business partners were accused of hostile takeovers of a number of enterprises. Alfa Group used acquisitions through bankruptcy. The most high-profile raider takeovers of "Alpha" - West Siberian Metallurgical Plant, Achinsk Alumina Refinery, Trading house "Smirnov", pulp and paper mills "Volga" and "Kama", beer company SUN Interbrew, mobile operator "Megaphone". The government structures lobbied for these takeovers, Valentin Zavadnikov And Hovhannes Ohanyan.
In addition, Aven, Friedman and Vekselberg accused of kidnapping "Tyumen Oil Company", and here too it could not have happened without the participation of Chubais, Koch, as well. Former people from the Alfa Group have established themselves in power structures, for example, Alexander Abramov, Andrey Popov, Andrey Rappoport.
At one time, Alfa Bank was the only creditor that refused to provide "Rusal" deferment of payments. Aven accused Deripaska of violating corporate ethics and, if the requirements were not met, he planned to begin bankruptcy proceedings for the industrialist’s company.
In 2008, Aven wrote a devastating review of the writer’s novel “Sankya” for the Russian Pioneer magazine, which caused a heated public debate.
Being “half Latvian” (Aven’s grandfather, a native of Latvia, was repressed), the businessman joined the company’s board of directors Latvijas Balzams. In February 2009, Advisor to the Chairman of the Board of Alfa Bank Alexander Gafin declared Aven’s readiness to head the Latvian government if such a proposal was received by the banker. Aven called Gafin’s statement “a bad joke.”
Aven owns a house on Wentworth Estate in Surrey, England.
Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Alfa-Bank Banking Group, Pyotr Olegovich Aven, was born on March 16, 1955 in Moscow.
His grandfather was a Latvian rifleman, his father, Oleg Ivanovich, is a computer specialist, a teacher at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics at Moscow State University (MSU). M.V. Lomonosov, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences.
Petr Aven graduated from the Physics and Mathematics Special School No. 2 in Moscow in 1972, the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University (MSU). M.V. Lomonosov in 1977, graduate school at Moscow State University in 1980.
In 1980 he received the academic degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences.
In 1981-1988, Aven worked as a junior, then a senior researcher at the All-Union Scientific Research Institute for System Research of the USSR Academy of Sciences (VNIISI AS USSR).
From 1989 to 1991 he was an adviser to the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs; at the same time - an employee of the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Laxenburg, Austria).
In the fall of 1991, Petr Aven joined the “government of reforms” as Chairman of the Committee for Foreign Economic Relations (KFER) - First Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the RSFSR.
In January-December 1992, Aven headed the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations of the Russian Federation, at the same time being the representative of the President of the Russian Federation for relations with industrialized countries (the G7).
In July-December 1992 - Deputy Chairman of the Monetary and Economic Commission of the Government of the Russian Federation.
From May to December 1992, he was Chairman of the Interdepartmental Commission on the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT).
From December 1992 to February 1993 - Advisor to the President of LogoVAZ JSC.
In the spring of 1993, Peter Aven created and headed the financial consulting company "FinPA" ("Finance of Peter Aven"), specializing in consultations on working with various types of securities. In the spring of 1993, Aven first began to consult and then collaborate with representatives of the Joint Stock Commercial Bank (JSCB) Alfa-Bank.
On December 12, 1993, Aven was elected as a deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation on the list of the electoral association “Choice of Russia”. On January 4, 1994, he refused his deputy mandate, motivating his decision by his reluctance to leave the post of general director of the FinPA company.
From 1994 to June 2011, Petr Aven served as President of Alfa-Bank. Responsible for the overall development strategy of the Bank and for maintaining relations with business and government circles in Russia and abroad.
Since June 2011 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Alfa-Bank Banking Group.
Petr Aven is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of AlfaStrakhovanie OJSC, co-chairman of the Board of Directors of STS Media.
He is a member of the board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, a member of the presidium of the Russian International Affairs Council (RIAC), and a member of the council of the National Organization for Financial Reporting Standards.
He is a trustee of the Russian School of Economics and the Center for Economic Policy (CEPR, UK); member of the Board of Trustees of the State Museum of Fine Arts named after A. S. Pushkin.
In 2007, he was elected head of the Russian-Latvian Business Council.
Professor at the National Research University Higher School of Economics.
The Russian version of Forbes magazine estimated Peter Aven's personal fortune in 2011 at $4.5 billion. According to this indicator, he took 28th place in the list of the richest businessmen in Russia and 235th place in the world ranking.
In April 2005, by Decree of the President of the Russian Federation, he was awarded the Order of Honor for his labor successes and many years of conscientious work.
Speaks English and Spanish.
Peter Aven is married and has two twin children - son Denis and daughter Daria (born in 1993). His wife Elena is a historian by profession.
In 2008, the Peter Aven “Generation” Charitable Foundation was opened in Latvia, the priority areas of which were support for children's healthcare, projects in the field of “cultural exchange” between Russia and Latvia, scholarships and grants in the field of science. Its founders were Peter and Elena Aven.
Petr Aven actively supports art and theater in Russia, and is the largest collector of works of Russian art of the early 20th century.
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Petr Olegovich Aven is a representative of the galaxy of modern entrepreneurs in Russia. Known as one of the co-owners of Alfa Group, a statesman, art collector, philanthropist and businessman involved in charity. His biography is an example of a life path, proving that every person can achieve financial success. It is important not to miss the chance.
Childhood and youth
Pyotr Olegovich was born in Moscow, into a professorial family. The date of birth of the future oligarch is March 16, 1955. Among Aven’s ancestors were Russians, Jews and Latvians. Oleg Ivanovich, the father of the future entrepreneur, worked in computer technology and was a well-known specialist in this field. Later he taught at Moscow State University and was a corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences. Aven’s grandfather is known as a Latvian shooter who was put on the hit list during the repressions in the 1930s.
A successful career was destined for Peter Olegovich from childhood. The boy is sent to physics and mathematics school No. 2. The educational institution, which has graduated from many successful people, is called “a nursery for geniuses at Moscow State University.” Aven was an average student, was fond of music, and headed the school music club. Since school, he has made numerous acquaintances among musicians.
Then the young man enters the Faculty of Economics of Moscow State University. Three years after graduating from university, he defends his dissertation and becomes a candidate of science. As a student at Moscow State University, he meets his future business partner. Initially, they are united by musical interests, which later develop into a business partnership.
Carier start
The future businessman's first place of work was the Institute for Systems Research, where he works as a junior researcher. Peter worked at the institute for almost eight years, rose to the rank of senior researcher, and in 1989 went to Austria for an internship. Returning home coincided with a difficult economic situation in the country.
Aven becomes a member of the team, whom he knew from school. Holds two positions at the same time. One of them is the deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Later he heads the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations. With the arrival of Petr Aven, he resigns and immediately becomes an adviser to the president of LogoVAZ.
"Alfa Bank"
In 1993, Aven created and headed his own financial structure - a consulting company. Finance Peter Avena (FinPA) provided advisory services, had no assets and did not purchase anything. The company consulting with Aven was OJSC AKB Alfa Bank, founded by M. Friedman. Soon Pyotr Olegovich becomes its co-owner.
In 1993, Aven was elected to the State Duma, but he refused his deputy mandate in favor of his company. To become a co-owner of Alfa-Bank, he transfers half of the shares of his company to him, receives 10% of the bank's shares and in 1994 becomes its president.
Petr Aven at the head of Alfa-Bank After Aven’s arrival at Alfa Group, the holding’s position is noticeably strengthened. It successfully overcomes the 1998 crisis, continuing to pay money to investors and pay off other obligations. In May 1998, Aven became a member of the board of directors of Aviakor OJSC, in June he headed the board of directors of Alfa-TV CJSC, and in November - of Network of Television Stations CJSC.
Since 2001, Aven continues to hold senior positions in Alfa Group; in 2011, after purchasing 150.6 thousand shares for $3 million, he became a shareholder of the company. In 2004, he was named the best manager in the financial sector by Institutional Investor magazine. In 2005, for his success and conscientious work, the businessman received the Order of Honor from the President of the Russian Federation.
Collection
Peter Aven is also known as a connoisseur of painting and collector, who has amassed the largest collection of paintings by artists of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. At Christie's auction in 2012, it acquired Kandinsky's "Sketch for Improvisation No. 8" for $23 million.
The collection of Peter Aven consists of many masterpieces At the same time he became the owner of a pencil portrait of V. Meyerhold by Yuri Annenkov. He paid $1.7 million for the drawing. He owns a collection of majolica and a collection of Soviet porcelain, consisting of 1 thousand pieces.
Charity
In 2008, Peter Aven and his wife Elena opened the “Generation” charitable foundation. The foundation supports children's healthcare, cultural exchange between Russia and Latvia, scholarships and grants in science. Together with, and provide funding for the Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center, transferred to the Jewish community.
Concert grand piano by Raymond Pauls A concert grand piano was donated from the foundation's funds. The cost of the musical instrument is 120 thousand euros. Since 2012 they have been helping Madona Hospital (Latvia). The medical facility has a baby box for children abandoned by their mothers. Aven personally donated an EPIQ5 ultrasonograph to the maternity ward of the hospital. The businessman is a member of the trustees of the Bolshoi Theater, the Russian Olympians Support Fund and other organizations.
Personal life
Peter Aven is a widower, the businessman’s wife Elena died on August 25, 2015. The cause of his wife’s death was a blood clot. Before this tragic incident, everything was going well in the banker’s personal life. By profession, Elena was a historian. They lived together for more than 30 happy years. The couple has twin children: son Denis and daughter Daria. Studied in the USA, at Yale University.
Peter Aven with his wife Elena The banker loves skiing, football, tennis, enjoys hunting, and supports FC Spartak. Fluent in English, reads and communicates in Spanish. Loves poetry and literature. Among the last books he read, he names “Heavenly Harmony” by Peter Esterhazy and “Everything Can Be Fixed” by Alexander Kabakov.
State
Peter Aven is one of the richest inhabitants of the planet. In the 2007 ranking published by Forbes magazine, the businessman’s fortune was $3.6 billion, in 2008 - $5.5 billion (178th position), in 2009, according to Finance - $1.25 billion, in 2010 – returned to 2007 levels.
Peter Aven with children Aven owns 7.021% of the shares of the Altimo holding, 13.8% of the shares of ABH Holdings, which combines the oil and financial assets of Alfa Group. In 2016, the oligarch ranks 19th in the list of rich Russian businessmen.
Personal wealth, according to recent estimates, is $4.6 billion.
Peter Aven now
Today, the billionaire remains at the helm of Alfa Group, is engaged in charity work and writing. He is the author of articles and books on economics, a university professor, and teaches. The business tycoon's fortune continues to rise.
Giving an interview to journalists, Pyotr Olegovich proudly talks about his younger generation - his son and daughter. The children live in America, but dream of returning to their homeland. The son graduated with honors and a double degree in mathematics and economics, the daughter promotes the MAC brand at Estée Lauder.
Petr Aven is the chairman of the board of directors of the holding company of the Alfa-Bank banking group, a well-known collector and philanthropist. In Forbes magazine’s “Russia’s 200 Richest Businessmen 2019” ranking, he ranks 21st with a fortune of $5.2 billion.
Pyotr Olegovich was born on March 16, 1955 in Moscow into a family of teachers. My father, a computer science specialist, taught at the Physics and Mathematics Department at Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov.
Education
He graduated from the capital's physics and mathematics school No. 2. Then he entered the economics department of Moscow State University, where he completed his graduate studies in 1980, defended his dissertation and became a candidate of economic sciences.
Labor activity
After graduation, he worked for seven years at the Institute of System Research of the State Committee for Science and Technology and the USSR Academy of Sciences together with Yegor Gaidar.
In 1989, he was appointed advisor to the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, while remaining a researcher at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria.
In 1991, he became the Minister of Foreign Economic Relations of the Russian Federation in the famous “government of young reformers” of Yegor Gaidar and the representative of the Russian President for relations with the G7 countries.
In July 1992, he was appointed deputy chairman of the Monetary and Economic Commission of the Russian government, but resigned six months later.
In 1993, he created and headed the financial consulting firm in the field of securities “FinPA”. FinPA occupied a market segment in which at that time it had no competitors. At the same time, he was a member of the “Choice of Russia” party and entered the State Duma of the Russian Federation, but refused a deputy mandate.
In 1994, he took the post of president of Alfa-Bank and held this position until June 2011. From March 2015 to the present - Chairman of the Board of Directors of ABH Holdings S.A. Member of the board of directors of Alfa-Bank.
In October 2018, he took the post of Chairman of the Board of Directors of Alfa-Bank.
Social activities
He is a professor at the Higher School of Economics.
He is a member of the trustees of many Russian and foreign organizations: NES, the Center for Economic Policy in the UK, the Russian Olympians Support Fund, the State Museum of Inventive Arts. A. S. Pushkin.
He holds the post of Chairman of the Russian-Latvian Business Council.
Hobbies
The banker's main passion is fine art.
Owner of the country's largest collection of Russian paintings from the early 20th century. In 2012, at Christie’s auction, he purchased Wassily Kandinsky’s “Sketch for Improvisation No. 8” for a record $23 million for the artist. At the same time, at Sotheby’s he bought a pencil portrait of Vsevolod Meyerhold by Yuri Annenkov for $1.7 million.
Speaks English fluently. Among sports games, football comes first. He is a fan of FC Spartak.
Awards
Knight of the Order of Honor and Three Stars, III degree.
Family status
In 1994, he and his first wife Elena (1958-2015) had two twin children - Daria and Denis.
Aven Petr Olegovich is a shareholder and president of OJSC JSCB Alfa-Bank, a member of the supervisory board of Alfa Group, and he is also on the board of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs. In 2004, a well-known financial magazine named the businessman and banker the best manager in the field of economic services in the Russian Federation.
Peter Aven: biography
Pyotr Olegovich was born in the capital of Russia - Moscow - in March 1955. His father (Oleg Ivanovich) held a post at the institute at the USSR Academy of Sciences, then he went to work at the main Moscow university - Moscow State University. His grandfather was a shooter who was shot during the repressions of the thirties.
Young Peter had many friends, among them was Valentin Yumashev, who in adulthood took the post of head of the administration of the head of state of the Russian Federation.
School and student years
Pyotr Olegovich studied at school No. 2 in Moscow. Already at a young age, Peter Aven showed interest in art. At school he was the president of the music club, and already at this time Peter had many friends in the musical field. He graduated from school in 1972 at the age of 17. After completing secondary education, the young man enters Moscow State University, the Faculty of Economics. Peter’s interest in art does not disappear, and he becomes president of the Moscow State University music club. It was here that he met his future business partner, M. Friedman. Five years later, to defend his diploma, he will choose the famous economist S. Shatalin as his scientific supervisor. After receiving a diploma of higher education, Petr Aven enters graduate school and defends his dissertation. After this, he is awarded an academic degree. He becomes a candidate of economic sciences (specializing in econometrics).
Carier start
After graduating from Aven University, Peter gets a job at a research institute of the USSR, where he works first as a junior researcher, and soon as a senior researcher. In 1989, Pyotr Olegovich went to Austria, the city of Laxenburg, where he worked under a contract as a researcher at an international institute. At the same time, Petr Aven holds the position of adviser in the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Two years later, the future banker decides to join the government of reforms headed by Gaidar, whom he met at Moscow State University while studying in graduate school. Occupying high positions, Aven was able to carry out some transactions and increase his fortune. At the age of 37 years (1992), Pyotr Olegovich heads the Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations. At the same time, he becomes the representative of the head of state for relations with developed countries. While occupying this post, Aven Petr Olegovich was able to achieve considerable success. For example, as a result of a successful meeting with the Paris Club of Creditors (headed by Jean-Claude Trichet), the minister managed to improve Russia’s position and obtain a deferment in debt payments.
But at the end of 1992, the businessman resigned, arguing his step by his reluctance to work under the leadership of Viktor Chernomyrdin. However, Aven quickly finds a new place, becoming an adviser to the president of LogoVAZ JSC. Pyotr Olegovich met the president of the concern, Boris Berezovsky, back at Moscow State University, when he was a student’s supervisor. The press reported that in his new position, Aven contributed to an increase in customs duties on imported foreign cars.
The following year, 1993, he created his own company, which was named “Peter Aven Finance” (abbreviated as “FinPA”). The organization was engaged in consulting on transactions with securities. The decision to seek advice from Aven was made by companies wishing to legalize and take their place. The director of the company himself did not hide the fact that he feels comfortable in the role of a financial consultant, because he knows how the government of the country makes decisions.
OJSC JSCB "Alfa-Bank"
In 1993, Aven ran for the State Duma and became its deputy. But he has to resign from the position due to his reluctance to lose the opportunity to work at FinPA. At the same time, the leaders of Alfa Bank became interested in him. Initially, they turned to FinPA for advice, but then their interest changed. In 1994, shares were exchanged. The businessman gives up fifty percent of his shares in exchange for ten percent of the bank's shares. Soon a new shareholder is appointed to the position of president.
The new head of the bank has repeatedly confirmed that he took his post for good reason, and with him the bank was able to strengthen its position in the market. In the spring of 1998, Aven became a member of the board of directors of the Aviakor company. In the summer, he was elected to the position of chairman of the board of directors of Alfa-TV CJSC, and a little later of STS CJSC. In the following years, the banker held the posts of chairman of the board of directors of Alfa Group and STS Media. By the beginning of 2011, the successful businessman increased the number of his shares in the CTC Media company to two tenths of a percent. By 2006, Aven increased the number of shares in the bank to 14 percent and became fourth on the list of significant people in the Alfa Group company. In the same year, the banker became a member of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, taking a place on its board.
Merits and awards
During the development of his career as a successful businessman and banker, Aven was able to earn the Order of Honor, which he was awarded by decree of President V.V. Putin (2005). In 2004, the economic magazine named him the best manager in the field of economic services in the Russian Federation. In 2015, Aven was awarded the Woodrow Wilson Prize, which he received for his significant contribution to the development of relations between Russia and the United States of America. The award presentation took place in Washington.
Forbes
According to the famous Forbes magazine, Pyotr Olegovich Aven, whose biography and career growth developed very rapidly, took 178th place in the list of the wealthiest people as of 2008. His financial position was estimated at five and a half billion dollars.
Other interests of the banker
Petr Olegovich is engaged in writing. Thus, he is the author of a large number of articles and books on economics. He is a member of the board of trustees of the Russian School of Economics and holds the position of professor at the university where he teaches.
Businessman's hobby
The banker is known for his interest in art, which manifested itself in his youth. He is a great connoisseur and patron of the arts. Interested in theater, Aven became one of the trustees of the Bolshoi Theater. The businessman is a passionate art collector, preferring paintings by famous artists of the Silver Age. The collection of his paintings is the largest collection of paintings of the early twentieth century in Russia. And many pieces from his collection cost a fortune. Interest in painting was not limited to collecting; Pyotr Olegovich is on the Board of Trustees of the A. S. Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts.
In his free time, the businessman studies languages. He speaks English perfectly, and reads and speaks Spanish fluently. The banker is known for his love of skiing and tennis. He loves to hunt in good company and is also a member of the Moscow English Club. Aven is a big football fan and does not miss the games of the Spartak team.
Peter Aven: wife, children
The famous businessman is married. Peter Aven's wife, Elena, has a higher education. She graduated from the Moscow Institute, Faculty of History. Married to Pyotr Olegovich, she gave birth to twins in 1993 - a boy and a girl. In August 2015, Elena Vladimirovna Aven died. The children of Peter Aven, Daria and Denis, who are currently 23 years old, study in England, at Yale University. The family was friends with Yegor Gaidar, whom the future banker met as a student.
- Being a passionate football fan, Pyotr Olegovich made an offer to L. Fedun (owner of Spartak) in 2012 to purchase shares of the football club. However, the deal was not concluded due to the refusal of the club head to share power.
- Aven is the owner of real estate in England, in particular, he owns a mansion in an elite area in Surrey.
- In 2011, the businessman entered the list of the 200 richest people in the Russian Federation and took 28th place in it.
- In 2015, in New York, Aven and his partners organized an exhibition of paintings, where paintings from the businessman’s personal collection were presented. This event was held with the aim of strengthening relations with the country and raising the image of the Russian Federation.
- In 1998, a businessman purchased the dacha of the famous Russian writer Alexei Tolstoy.
