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KOLBIN Peter Viktorovich (b. 1952) is Putin’s childhood friend who turned out one of his “wallets”. Peter Kolbin got a job as a butcher in a Leningrad deli. He worked at this place for a quarter of a century, and when his childhood friend became president, Kolbin’s life changed dramatically.
Kostin Andrey born on September 21, 1956, in Moscow. In 1979, he graduated with honors from the economic faculty of Moscow State University of Lomonosov, majoring in international economics. In 1982, he defended his thesis and received an academic degree of Candidate of Economic Sciences (his thesis was “Globalization as a form of internationalization of the economy”).
KOVALCHUK Mikhail Valentinovich (b. 1946 in Leningrad) graduated from the Physics Department of Leningrad State University in 1970 and joined the Institute of Crystallography as a research intern. In 1978, he defended his kandidat thesis, and in 1988, his Ph.D. dissertation.
KOVALCHUK Boris Yuryevich (b. 1977) was born in Leningrad in the family of Yuri Kovalchuk, a close associate of Vladimir Putin. He graduated from the Law Faculty of St. Petersburg State University in 1999, where Dmitry Medvedev was one of his lectors.
KUSNIROVICH Mikhail Ernestovich (b. 1966 in Moscow) graduated from the Moscow Institute of Chemical Technology with a degree in chemical engineering in 1989. Then, together with student friends Sergei Evteev, Evgeni Balakin, and Mikhail Vlasov, he created the East and West Moscow International House company, the first project of which was the organization of an amusement park in Gorky Park.
KUZMICHEV Alexei Viktorovich (b. 1962 in Kirov) entered the Moscow Institute of Steel and Alloys (MISiS) in 1983, where he met with German Khan and Mikhail Fridman, his future business partners. In the first year of study, Kuzmichev became a secretary of the Komsomol organization and joined the Communist Party. He graduated from the Institute in 1988 and until 1989, worked with Friedman, and then Khan in the cooperatives Courier, Alpha-photo, and Alpha-Eco (the last two provided the household services, the sale of carpets, copy machines, and computers).
LEBEDEV Igor Vladimirovich (b. 1972) graduated from the Moscow State Law Academy in 1996. From 1994 to 1997, Lebedev worked as his father’s assistant in the State Duma. In 1997-1998, he was an expert at the apparatus of the LDPR faction in the State Duma.
MAGOMEDOV Ziyavudin Gadzhievich (b. 1968 in Makhachkala) graduated from Moscow State University with a degree in World Economics in 1994.
MAKHMUDOV Iskandar Kakhramonovich (b. 1963 in Bukhara) graduated from the Arabic department of the Faculty of Oriental Studies of Tashkent State University in 1984. In 1984-1986, he worked in Libya as a translator of a group of Soviet military advisers and specialists from the Main Engineering Directorate
Mamut Alexander born January, 1960; His father Leonid Solomonovich J.D. was a former representative of Russian President in Constitutional court; His mother Tsetsilia Lyudvigovna was also a lawyer.