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Company type | Diversified industrial group Private company limited by shares |
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Industry | Energy, Manufacturing, Financial Services, Construction and Aviation. |
Founded | 1997 |
Founder | Oleg Deripaska |
Headquarters | Moscow, Russia (Head office) Jersey (Registered office) |
Key people | Valery Pechenkin (General Director) Gulzan Moldazhanova |
Revenue | US$27 billion (2012) |
Owner | Oleg Deripaska |
Number of employees | Approximately 150,000 (2014) |
Website | www |
Basic Element Ltd. (Russian: Ба́зовый элеме́нт, romanized: Bazovy element, IPA: [ˈbazəvɨj ɨlʲɪˈmʲent], or simply Базэл) is one of the largest diversified industrial groups in Russia. The company was founded in 1997 and is owned by Oleg Deripaska.[1] It is based in the British tax haven of Jersey[2] and is headquartered in Moscow.[3] It was known as Siberian Aluminum until 2001.[4]