Filaret Galchev Explained

Filaret Galchev
Birth Name:Filaret Illitch Galchev
Birth Date:1963 5, df=yes
Birth Place:Tarson, Tsalka District, Georgian SSR, Soviet Union (now Georgia)
Citizenship:Greek, Russian
Occupation:Former owner & chairman, Eurocement group
Children:2

Filaret Galchev (Russian: Филарет Гальчев; Greek, Modern (1453-);: Φιλάρετος Καλτσίδης|Filaretos Kaltsidis; born 26 May 1963) is a Russian-Greek businessman[1] [2] who is former owner[3] and chairman of Eurocement group.[4]

Early life

Filaret Illitch Galchev was born into an ethnic Greek family in Tarson, a small village in Tsalka District, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, on 26 May 1963.[5] He graduated from Moscow Mining Institute.[5]

Career

In 1996, Galchev and his partner, Georgy Krasnyansky, created Rosuglesbyt which became a leading Russian coal enterprise. In 2002, Galchev sold his stake in the company to the MDM Group and immediately bought shares of Sterncement because he saw potential in the cement industry. By 2004, Galchev's cement holdings produced 9.6 million tons of cement.[6]

Then the Company was expanded and renamed in to Eurocement Group, becoming the largest cement producer in CIS region. Filaret Galchev sold Eurocement Group in 2020.

Filaret Galchev holds a position of professor at MISIS (University of science and technology).[7]

Personal life

He is married and has two children.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2021-07-16 . Сбербанк продал крупнейшего производителя цемента в России за 161 млрд рублей . 2023-10-25 . Forbes.ru . ru.
  2. News: 2011-10-10 . Russian Cement Billionaire Filaret Galchev Has Greek Citizenship . en . Bloomberg.com . 2023-10-13.
  3. Web site: 2020-10-29 . Сбербанк стал владельцем 100% «Евроцемента» . 2023-10-06 . Ведомости . ru.
  4. Web site: Филарет Гальчев . 2023-10-06 . Forbes.ru . ru.
  5. Web site: Филарет Гальчев. Vedomosti. Russian. 13 January 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20141111233509/http://www.vedomosti.ru/persons/9666/%D0%A4%D0%B8%D0%BB%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B5%D1%82%20%D0%93%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%B2#. 11 November 2014. dead.
  6. Web site: Почему состояние Филарета Гальчева рухнуло с $5,6 млрд до $305 млн. Vedomosti.
  7. Web site: Гальчев Филарет Ильич — Ученые — НИТУ МИСИС . 2023-10-06 . misis.ru . ru.