Leonid Lebedev

Leonid Lebedev
Lebedev in 2013
Born (1956-05-02) May 2, 1956 (age 68)
Moscow, Russia
CitizenshipCypriot[1] Russian
Alma materD. Mendeleev University of Chemical Technology of Russia
Occupations
  • Businessman
  • former politician
Known forFormer owner of Sintez Group, film producer
SpouseWidowed
Children2 daughters

Leonid Lebedev (born May 2, 1956) is a Cypriot-Russian businessman, and a former elected representative in Russia's Upper House of Parliament.[1]

Lebedev is the former sole owner of Sintez Group, a privately held energy, oil and gas and property development company.[1][2] With Alexander Zhukov and Mark Garber who was a director and asset manager at Fleming Family and Partners,[3] he co-founded Soviet American joint venture SINTEZ International in 1988 and the Russia United Kingdom joint venture SINTEZ Corporation in January 1990, which he left in the early 2000s.[4][5] According to Forbes Russia Sintez ranked 154th among private companies in Russia in 2012.[6] According to Forbes, Leonid Lebedev is listed at position 162 with $750 million in 2021.[7]

He has also been a businessman in music and film, serving as a producer, during the 1980s and more recently, in creating independent films such as Hipsters and The Geographer Drank His Globe Away.

In 2002, he was elected to the Federation Council (Russia), Russia's Upper House of Parliament, representing the Republic of Chuvashia until he retired form politics in 2015.

  1. ^ a b c David Pegg (September 17, 2017). "The billionaires investing in Cyprus in exchange for EU passports". The Guardian.
  2. ^ "Sintez Group". Archived from the original on 2014-02-03. Retrieved 2014-02-01.
  3. ^ Thompson, Tony (8 December 2001). "UK banker's link to arms plot: Financier is accused of collaborating with Russian mafia to supply Serb fighters". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 26 October 2011. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
  4. ^ "ЛЕБЕДЕВ Леонид Леонидович" [Lebedev Leonid Leonidovich]. «Коммерсантъ» (in Russian). 9 November 2010. Archived from the original on 13 January 2012. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
  5. ^ "Operators of cargo terminal raise questions". OCCRP. 27 February 2013. Retrieved 25 October 2024.
  6. ^ "Zhizn' kak pesnya (Life is like a song)". Forbes Russia. February 2, 2009.
  7. ^ "200 bogateyshikh biznesmenov Rossii — 2021 Reyting Forbes". Forbes Russia. April 22, 2021.