Nikolay Smolensky
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Nikolai Alexandrovich Smolensky (Russian: Николай Александрович Смоленский), (born 11 June 1980), is a Russian banker and businessman and current owner of British sports-car manufacturer TVR.[1]
Smolensky is the son of businessman Alexander Smolensky, the former head of large Russian bank Agroprombank/SBS-Agro-Bank which collapsed in 1998. He is an associate of fellow Russian businessman Roman Abramovich, and due to his wealth, youth and his oligarch father, has been dubbed in the press as the "baby oligarch".
Raised as “a sworn enemy of communism”, according to his father, Smolenski was educated in Austria and England. After his father's bank SBS-Agro collapsed in 1998, Alexander launched a new banking group, First OVK. In 2003, this was handed to Nikolai, who declared it would triple in size to 1,500 branches. Two months later, he sold the business for an estimated £80m to Rosbank, a member of Interros Group.
On 27 July 2004 Smolenski, claiming Greek/British citizenship, bought troubled British carmaker TVR.[2][3] He also has connections with Italian motorbike manufacturer Benelli.[4]
[edit] References
- ^ "Return of TVR". Auto Express. 21 June 2010. http://www.autoexpress.co.uk/news/autoexpressnews/253387/return_of_tvr.html#ixzz0rsDGNdYc. Retrieved Monday, 2 August 2010.
- ^ "Russian buys up British car firm". BBC News. Tuesday, 27 July 2004. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lancashire/3931155.stm.
- ^ "TVR tsar roars off". The Sunday Times. 7 January 2007. http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/article1290136.ece.
- ^ "TVR boss buys a bike company". Pistonheads. Thursday 4 August 2005. http://www.pistonheads.com/tvr/default.asp?storyId=11521.
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