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Dzhabrailov Umar Alievich- famous Russian businessman, entrepreneur, philanthropist and public figure. Umar Alievich is one of the representatives of the board of trustees of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art and a talented academician of the Russian Academy of Arts. He develops dozens of new projects every year.

Dzhabrailov Umar is vice-president of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia. From 2004 to 2009, the popular entrepreneur was a representative of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation from the executive body of state power of the Chechen Republic. Dzhabrailov is also the founder and head of the Avanti Association of Entrepreneurs for the Development of Business Patriotism. A man is often the center of attention and is noticed at various events.

Businessman and politician Umar Dzhabrailov

Childhood and youth of Dzhabrailov Umar Alievich

Dzhabrailov Umar Alievich was born on June 28, 1958, where he spent his entire childhood and adolescence. Dzhabrailov is Chechen by nationality. Umar's father Alvi Dzhabrailov, was deported to Kazakhstan. Later, he nevertheless returned to his homeland to his family. Previously, Alvi worked in the district committee of the Komsomol and was a secretary. Umar’s father also worked in the oil sector and made every effort. Alvi also spent his free time writing poems. Umar's mother Rumi Sarakaeva, was a housewife and maintained a home. Umar also has three brothers and two sisters in his family.

In 1973 Umar Dzhabrailov graduated from school and received secondary education in Grozny. Then he moved to Moscow and became a student at the fur technical school. Later in the late 1970s, Dzhabrailov became a member of the missile forces in Korosten, Ukraine. During his service, Umar Alievich was a member of the CPSU until the end of the 1980s.

Umar Dzhabrailov in his youth

Later, the Chechen decided to continue his educational process and planned to enter the Moscow State Institute of International Relations. Unfortunately, he lacked a few points, but Umar did not despair. He began attending preparatory courses. The following year, Umar still managed to enter one of the best higher educational institutions in the Russian Federation. He decided to study economics. In 1985, Umar Dzhabrailov graduated from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations with honors. Then, for two years, the young student worked as a laboratory assistant at the department at MGIMO.

Business of Dzhabrailov Umar Alievich

Umar Alievich Dzhabrailov received his start-up capital through criminal means, which was common at that time. He earned a considerable sum from Chechen advice notes. Such scams were extremely popular in the 1990s. Dzhabrailov received funds from the Central Bank using bank orders that were actually missing.

Umar Dzhabrailov

In the early 1990s, Umar Alievich worked as an art inspector at the Moscow cooperative gallery. Later, the man developed and headed a trading company called Danako. It supplied various companies with refined petroleum products. A few years later, it became known about Dzhabrailov’s close partnership with a colleague from the United States of America Paul Tatum. They cooperated and formed a joint venture called "Intourist-RedAmer Hotel and Business Center". Soon Dzhabrailov became deputy general director. However, an unpleasant incident occurred and all ties between business partners were severed. Paul Tatum accused Umar of organizing the assassination attempt. That year, Tatum and his employees were shot in an underpass. Thus, Umar Alievich was prohibited from entering the territory of the United States of America. However, law enforcement agencies have not proven the Chechen’s involvement in the murder of his business partner.

Umar Dzhabrailov and Paul Tatum

Soon, Umar became the head of the Plaza group of companies and advisor to the acting general director of the Radisson-Slavyanskaya hotel complex. In the early 2000s, Dzhabrailov joined the banking industry and became a member of the board of directors of Russian Capital. A year later, the businessman became one of the representatives of the board of directors of the First OVK bank. In 2004, Umar achieved success and was elected senator of the Chechen Republic.

In 2009 The senator left his position and began a new activity. He became an adviser to Sergei Prikhodko, assistant to the head of the Russian state. In addition to his activities in the field of economics, Dzhabrailov was also an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts. He is considered a famous collector and philanthropist.

Security of Umar Dzhabrailov

Criminal case and offenses of Umar Dzhabrailov

In August last year, Umar Dzhubrailov was detained in one of the capital's hotels "Four Seasons". An unpleasant incident occurred involving hooliganism by a famous businessman. According to law enforcement agencies, Dzhabrailov began shooting from an award pistol right in his room. Dzhabrailov was released, but was informed that he was under written recognizance not to leave. During the investigation, holes in the ceiling and powder of unknown origin were found in the Chechen's room. Umar tried to justify himself and argued that this was all done unconsciously. According to him, the cause of this incident was the military actions in Chechnya that took place earlier.

Four Seasons Hotel

Dzhabrailov Umar shot from a combat pistol Yarygina. According to the Chechen, he had all the rights to use weapons. Moreover, Umar provided all the necessary evidence. In October, the court announced the verdict to the Russian businessman. He was charged with two counts. They are associated with hooliganism and the use of psychotropic drugs without a doctor’s prescription. For the consumption of narcotic drugs, the man received a fine of four thousand rubles. Moreover, the accused admitted his guilt in court regarding hooliganism and drugs.

Senator Umar Dzhabrailov

Condition of Dzhabrailov Umar

In 1999 Umar announced that he plans to run for president. According to the data contained in the declaration, the Chechen businessman owns a prestigious apartment in Moscow measuring 480 square meters. The Russian entrepreneur also purchased an elite car from the BMW brand. The income of Umar Dzhabrailov over the past two years exceeds eight and a half million rubles.

Umar Alievich is the founder of twenty different commercial structures. The man is also involved in the cultural sphere. He owns a restaurant "Just Cavalli" together with the popular Italian designer. Moreover, he designed one of the architectural monuments, which belongs to him.

Restaurant of Umar Dzhabrailov “Just Cavalli”

Personal life and hobbies of Umar Dzhabrailov

It is known that Umar Dzhabrailov has close ties with various Italian and Russian designers and artists. They develop many innovative projects every year. The Chechen entrepreneur is interested in architecture and collecting works of art. We are talking about paintings by Russian artists.

Umar Dzhabrailov and Ksenia Sobchak

Today there are many rumors about the personal life of Umar Dzhabrailov. The man was previously married; from his first marriage the man has two daughters named Danata and Alvina. They live with Umar's ex-wife in Monte Carlo in a luxurious mansion. Later, Dzhabrailov married a second time. According to journalists, his current wife is a Russian artist, but absolutely nothing is known about her.

Umar Dzhabrailov and Alexa

Despite having a wife, Umar Alievich loves to be the center of attention of women at various social events. A singer was spotted in his company Alexa and even - Naomi Campbell. These are not all socialites, about whose affairs there was a lot of information in the yellow press and in the news.

Umar Dzhabrailov and Naomi Campbell

Today, Umar Dzhabrailov is a famous Russian businessman, entrepreneur, philanthropist and representative of the arts. He is the organizer of various movements, including “Russian Islamic Heritage”, “Strength” and many others. In addition, Dzhabrailov is a representative of the Russian-Qatar Business Council and the developer of the Avanti Association of Entrepreneurs for the Development of Business Patriotism. He knows several foreign languages, including Spanish, Hungarian, French and Czech. The Chechen also speaks German, Italian and English.

Born on June 28, 1958 in Grozny, Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic, Chechen. In 1973 he entered the fur technical school in Moscow. In 1977 - 79 he served in the strategic missile forces in the city of Korosten, Zhitomir region. After the army, he entered the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs, but did not get a point. He graduated from preparatory courses at MGIMO. In 1985 he graduated from the Faculty of Economics of MGIMO with a degree in International Economic Relations. Received free distribution. I couldn’t get a job for about a year due to lack of registration. In 1986 - 88 - laboratory assistant at MGIMO. From 1989 to 1992 he worked as a representative of Western companies in Moscow. In December 1992 he founded his own company, Danako (supplying petroleum products to state-owned enterprises). In 1994, he met American entrepreneur Paul Tatum, founder of the Intourist-RedAmer Hotel and Business Center JV, and helped him win the case of eviction from the Slavyanskaya Hotel, which was rented by the Intourist-RedAmer JV. From July 1994 to 1997 - first deputy. general director, i. O. General Director of the joint venture "Intourist-RedAmer Hotel and Business Center". In 1996, P. Tatum accused Dzhabrailov of intending to kill him because of his desire to remove the American entrepreneur from among the founders of the joint venture. In November 1996, P. Tatum was killed. The International Arbitration Court in Stockholm upheld the claim prepared by Dzhabrailov to terminate the contract with Americom to manage the Radisson-Slavyanskaya joint venture. Since December 1996 - Deputy General Director, Director of Marketing and Leasing of Manezhnaya Square OJSC. Since October 1997 - advisor and... O. General Director of the Radisson-Slavyanskaya complex. Since 1997 - President of the PLAZA Group company. He was a member of the board of directors of the Russian Capital bank. On February 21, 2000, he was registered by the Central Election Commission as a candidate for the post of President of the Russian Federation. On February 29, 2000, the Moscow City Prosecutor's Office opened a criminal case on the facts of forgery of signature sheets in support of U. Dzhabrailov by initiative groups. In the presidential elections of the Russian Federation on March 26, 2000, he took the last, eleventh place. Divorced, has two daughters (Donata and Alvina, live in Monaco). Brother, Khusain Dzhabrailov, runs the Danako oil company instead of Umar. Speaks English, German, Italian, understands French, Spanish, Czech, Hungarian.

Umar Dzhabrailov is a businessman, former senator from Chechnya and ex-candidate for the presidency of Russia. As sources told RBC, he was armed and warned the police that he would not surrender without a fight.

What is Umar Dzhabrailov famous for? - in the RBC review.

Photo: Frank Villagra / Kommersant

Umar Dzhabrailov is 59 years old. He was born in Grozny, Chechen-Ingush Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. His father Ali Dzhabrailov worked in the oil industry of the republic. Dzhabrailov studied in Moscow, at the Fur College of Rospotrebsoyuz and at MGIMO (graduated from the Faculty of Economics). Served in the missile forces.

In 1988, he began working at the Moscow cooperative gallery as an art inspector. In the early 90s, he founded the company Danako LLP, which was engaged in the supply of petroleum products to state enterprises.

In 1994, after meeting American businessman Paul Tatum, the founder of the joint venture Intourist-RedAmer Hotel and Business Center, he became the first deputy general director of this company. But in 1996, Tatum accused Dzhabrailov of intending to organize an assassination attempt on him. In November of the same year, he was shot dead in an underground passage near the Kievsky railway station. Dzhabrailov’s involvement in the murder could not be established, but he is prohibited from entering the United States.

Umar Dzhabrailov and Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov. 1999

(Photo: official website of the AVANTI association)

In 1997, Dzhabrailov became an acting adviser. General Director of the Radisson-Slavyanskaya complex and President of the Plaza group of companies. He was a member of the board of directors of the Russian Capital bank, and in April 2001 became chairman of the board of directors of the First OVK bank.

In December 1999, Dzhabrailov announced that he intended to run for president of Russia. He was nominated by the initiative group “Power of Reason”. In February 2000, the Moscow City Prosecutor's Office opened a criminal case into allegations of forgery of signature sheets in support of Dzhabrailov by initiative groups. As a result, he took last, 11th place in the elections, gaining 0.08% of the votes.

Hajj in Saudi Arabia, 2004. President of the Chechen Republic Akhmat Kadyrov (second from left) and Senator from Chechnya Umar Dzhabrailov

In 2004, Dzhabrailov became a senator from Chechnya, leaving his post as president of the Plaza group. In 2005, he created the Russian Islamic Heritage movement, the goal of which is to defend the rights of groups of Muslims studying Islam (jamaats).

Umar Dzhabrailov, Ramzan Kadyrov, Chairman of the Government of Chechnya Sergei Abramov. 2004

In November 2006, Dzhabrailov invited the then President of Chechnya, Alu Alkhanov, to leave his post, which he did in February 2007. Ramzan Kadyrov was elected in his place. In October 2009, Dzhabrailov, of his own free will, resigned early from his post as senator. From 2009 to 2013, he was an adviser to Sergei Prikhodko, assistant to the President of Russia (now Prikhodko heads the government apparatus). Dzhabrailov is a member of the United Russia party

Umar Dzhabrailov participates in Dmitry Dibrov’s show “Oh, Lucky!” on NTV channel, February 2000

(Photo: Sergey Mikheev / Kommersant)

According to SPARK-Interfax, Dzhabrailov is a co-owner of nine companies. The largest of them is LLC Investment and Construction Company Avanti Stroygroup. Among the company's facilities is the Zilart residential complex on the territory of the former ZIL automobile plant. Dzhabrailov also owns Avanti LLC, Agroresurs LLC, Umar Dzhabrailov Company LLC and others.

Umar Dzhabrailov and Joseph Kobzon

Dzhabrailov is the chairman of the general council of the public platform for the development of business patriotism in Russia “Avanti”. According to the Dozhd TV channel, the trip of Dmitry Peskov’s daughter to a shipbuilding plant in Crimea to resolve a business dispute was organized by this association.

Dzhabrailov is an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Arts (according to the charter of the academy, outstanding figures of foreign and Russian culture and art, as well as persons who, through their active charitable and sponsorship activities, make a significant contribution to the development of the academy and Russian culture as a whole, can be elected honorary members). He is known as a philanthropist and collector - he is on the board of trustees of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art (MMMA). In the announcement of the exhibition of selected works from Dzhabrailov’s collection “New Element” (held at MMSI in 2014), the businessman is called “one of the few serious and consistent collectors of contemporary art in Russia.”

Umar Alievich Dzhabrailov(born June 28, 1958, Grozny, USSR) - Russian statesman; since 2009, advisor to Presidential Assistant Sergei Prikhodko on a voluntary basis.

Umar Dzhabrailov
Russian statesman
Date of birth: June 28, 1958
Place of birth: Prague, Czech Republic

Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art, honorary academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, vice-president of the Creative Union of Artists of Russia for strategic special projects, philanthropist.
Representative in the Federation Council of Russia from the executive body of state power of the Chechen Republic (2004-2009), deputy chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs (2004-2009).

By nationality Umar Dzhabrailov- Chechen.
1973-1977 - Study at the Fur Technical School of Rospotrebsoyuz in Moscow.
1977-1979 - service in the ranks of the Soviet army in the strategic missile forces in the city of Korosten, Zhitomir region.
1979-1980 Umar Dzhabrailov- student of the preparatory faculty of the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
1980-1985 Umar Dzhabrailov- student at the Moscow State Institute of International Relations (MGIMO) of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
1985 Graduated from MGIMO with honors. Received free distribution.
In 1986-1988 Umar Dzhabrailov- laboratory assistant at MGIMO.
1988-1989 Worked as an art inspector at the Moscow cooperative gallery.
1989-1994 General Director of Danako LLP.
1994-2001 First Deputy General Director of the Joint Russian-American Enterprise "Intourist-RadAmer" Hotel and Business Center." In 1997, transferred to the position of Advisor to the General Director of the Radisson Slavyanskaya complex.
Since December 1996 Umar Dzhabrailov- Deputy General Director, Director of Marketing and Leasing of Manezhnaya Ploshchad OJSC.
On February 21, 2000, he was registered by the Central Election Commission as a candidate for the presidential elections in Russia, nominated by the initiative group of voters “Power of Reason”.
In the presidential elections of the Russian Federation on March 26, 2000, he took eleventh place, gaining 80,000 votes.
2001 Umar Dzhabrailov Appointed Chairman of the Board of Directors of OJSC Bank First Mutual Credit Society.

2001-2004 Umar Dzhabrailov President of Plaza Group LLC. Companies included in the Plaza Group provide comprehensive services for the operation and management of large real estate properties - hotels, retail residential and business complexes. Among such objects are the Chaika Plaza - I and Chaika Plaza - II office centers, Smolensky Passage, and the Kuntsevo residential complex. A member of the Plaza Group, the Millennium company is moving forward in the field of show business. This company also created the popular Moscow nightclub VI:RUS. The Association of Advertising Firms "Quiet Harbor" - a subsidiary of "Plaza" - specializes in outdoor advertising in Moscow. The association owns approximately 20% of the capital's billboard space.
From 2004 to 2009 Umar Dzhabrailov- Member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation from the executive body of state power of the Chechen Republic.
2004 Member of the Federation Council Committee on Economic Policy, Entrepreneurship and Property, Member of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs. From 2004 to 2009 Deputy Chairman of the Committee. On October 7, 2009, the Federation Council terminated its powers early Umara Dzhabrailova as a senator "based on his personal statement."
Since 2009, advisor to Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Sergei Prikhodko.

Umar Dzhabrailov was a member of the Russian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe
Member of the United Russia party.
Umar Dzhabrailov- Full member (academician) of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.
Candidate of Political Sciences. Defended his PhD thesis at the Russian Academy of Public Administration. Monograph - “Effective state in the context of globalization.”

Social activity
Trustee of the public movement “Russian Islamic Heritage”.
Organizer of the youth movement “Strength”, as an offshoot of the “Power of Reason”.

Awards of Umar Dzhabrailov
Awarded a certificate of honor from the Federation Council

Interesting Facts
Umar Dzhabrailov- has good relations with famous Italian and Russian designers and artists. Together with Roberto Cavalli, he opened the Just Cavalli restaurant on the site of the Prague restaurant. Umar Dzhabrailov's hobbies include collecting works of art, including paintings by Russian artists.

Personal life Umara Dzhabrailov A
Lives in Moscow, in Krylatskoye, in the elite village “Fantasy Island”. At various times, he was credited with having affairs with Ksenia Sobchak, Naomi Campbell, singer Alexa and others.
Divorced, has two daughters (Donata and Alvina, live in Monaco). Brother, Husain Dzhabrailov, runs the Danako oil company instead of Umar.

Umar Dzhabrailov

Dossier: According to media reports, Dzhabrailov successfully graduated from MGIMO thanks to the fact that KGB General Philip Bobkov, who was called the “godfather of Moscow business,” drew attention to him. It was reported that the help of the head of the Fifth Main Directorate of the KGB of the USSR, the Directorate for Combating Ideological Sabotage, Philip Bobkov (who soon became the first deputy chairman of the KGB, and under Yeltsin headed the Security Service of Most-Bank and the association of former GB employees) allowed Umar to overcome difficulties with admission to the most prestigious university in the country (for example, a reference document certified by the same KGB was required), and successfully graduate from the institute. Umar Dzhabrailov received a residence permit in Moscow. They wrote that Bobkov’s Chechen protégé first carried out routine tasks to penetrate the “Moscow Chechen community.” But when, in the late 80s, the KGB leadership began to implement a program to seize the most important economic levers of the future “free” Russia, Dzhabrailov was among those people who were then prepared to take the places of the new Russian oligarchs. But Dzhabrailov failed to become an oligarch in the full sense of the word, for example, like Vladimir Potanin. The media attribute this to the fact that he did not have enough patience and decided to do it himself.

Source: http://www.peoples.ru/state/politics/dzabrailov/index1.html from 10/18/2008, "Sluxi.ru" from 10/25/2002
Umar Alievich Dzhabrailov

The media wrote that Dzhabrailov earned his initial capital from so-called Chechen advice notes, receiving money from the Central Bank using non-existent bank orders. Such scams were common in the early 90s, when a telegram with a password was enough to transfer funds. Due to the inability of the Soviet banking system to new conditions, non-cash money traveled within Moscow from one bank to another for weeks and even months. And one could wait even longer for a transfer from one city to another. In 1991-92 there were several banking crises, as a result of which money could not pass from bank to bank for three months. In order to prevent the economy from dying completely, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation made a decision: money can be credited to the accounts of companies by the receiving bank upon presentation of a bank order - an advice note, issued and signed in accordance with the necessary requirements by the sending bank. It was assumed that the money would be debited from the sending bank when issuing an advice note. In Chechnya, some of the advice forms were stolen, and the signatures and seals were forged. Taking advantage of the confusion, for several months it was possible to receive money from non-existent orders. This scam was called “Chechen advice notes.” The press expressed the opinion that in fact they should have been called not Chechen, but Moscow, since cash was withdrawn from Moscow state banks.

But the “business” was quickly brought under control by the Chechens, in particular, Umar Dzhabrailov. Apparently that is why the advice notes were called Chechen. In an interview, Dzhabrailov denied his participation in that story. In 1997, he told a correspondent of Argumenty i Fakty that the advice notes were created not by Chechens, but by those at the top of the banking system. He, they say, did not receive a penny from these advice notes, but on the contrary, he suffered: for the oil products sold, his company received bills with non-existent money. And the company went bankrupt. Dzhabrailov claimed that he earned money for the start-up capital legally: he took out loans from banks, because loans in the early 90s were profitable: there was a landslide fall in the ruble and an increase in the value of the dollar. So Umar, in his words, made money on the exchange rate difference. The media reported that it was because of the “Chechen advice notes” that Dzhabrailov had his first disagreement with his new friend, corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences Boris Berezovsky. They wrote that, according to eyewitnesses, the oligarch yelled at Dzhabrailov: “We gave you, the Chechens, a milk cow, and you slaughtered it!” The media interpreted the statement in the sense that, according to Berezovsky, the operation was carried out too crudely, drew too much attention to itself and did not bring much greater profits. Therefore, as reported, the new friends separated for a long time.
Source: www.peoples.ru/state/politics/dzabrailov/index1.html from 10/18/2008, "Sluxi.ru" from 10/25/2002

Umar Dzhabrailov first became widely known in Russia after in 1996, the co-owner of the joint venture (JV) "Intourist RadAmer - Hotel and Business Center" (created to manage the Radisson-Slavyanskaya Hotel), American Paul Tatum, publicly suspected the Chechen businessman who held the post of general director SP, with the intention of killing him. This happened against the backdrop of a serious conflict between them. The American believed that, according to the charter documents of the joint venture, the position of general director should have been occupied by a representative of the American side. Tatum stated that Dzhabrailov threatened him in order to remove him from among the founders of the joint venture. However, as reported, the American saw the real threat in the face of the Moscow authorities, who wanted to “throw out” the unwanted foreigner from the joint venture. Dzhabrailov denied everything. But, according to the press, the Moscow authorities (and especially the Moscow Property Committee (MKI)) really had a reason to dislike the American: according to information from Moscow officials, because of Tatum, the Intourist RadAmer joint venture owed the city authorities $80 for hotel rent and shared profits million. November 3, 1996, Paul Tatum received a call from an unknown person and made an appointment. The American, together with his bodyguard, went down into the Kievskaya metro station, where he was killed by machine gun shots. The killer was hiding behind one of the columns. Dzhabrailov was suspected of involvement in the crime for a long time. Shortly before the murder, Paul Tatum's people posted leaflets in Slavyanskaya accusing Umar Dzhabrailov of having connections with the mafia. Dzhabrailov was interrogated several times in connection with the murder of Paul Tatum, but he was not charged. For Umar, the scandal ended with him being banned entry into the U.S. Otherwise, the investigation into Tatum’s murder did not affect him in any way: together with his brother Husain, he continued to be involved in the hotel business in Moscow, real estate and oil, while being an almost constant character in the capital’s gossip column.
Source: “Kommersant” No. 038 dated 03/02/2001, “Vremya Novostei” dated 10/08/2009, “Kommersant” No. 223 (1181) dated 12/26/1996

After the story of the murder of Paul Tatum, European law enforcement agencies began to treat Dzhabroilov with distrust. There is information in the press that he was detained in Monaco, where his ex-wife and daughters live. The detention took place on the yacht of a famous thief in law nicknamed Petrik, in whose company Dzhabrailov spent time. Umar was detained until his identity was clarified and sent to prison for three days. According to media reports, investigators suspected that Dzhabrailov and Petrik discussed what to do with the then-alive Tatum. But Dzhabrailov denied the investigation’s assumptions, saying that he had heard a lot about Petrik, but had never met him in person. He stated that he only knew his wife Bella well. There is information in the press that there was hardly anything serious behind the relationship between Dzhabrailov and Petrik. The “Mazutkinskaya” organized crime group, which was headed by Petrik, was controlled by the late Otari Kvantarishvili and Vyacheslav Ivankov (Yaponchik), and they, according to the authors of the messages, did not really like the Chechens.

The media write that Interpol’s persistent interest in Umar Dzhabrailov is quite understandable. Indeed, in addition to Petrik, his name was associated with representatives of the Chechen criminal group, such as Lechi Islamov (Lechi Boroda, one of the leaders of the Chechen organized crime group in Moscow), Malik Saidulaev. But doubts are also expressed in the press about the strength of these connections: it is unlikely that Umar needed the same Beard to resolve his affairs. He himself could have done no worse. It was reported that Dzhabrailov also had business connections with Ricardo Fanchini, who was wanted by Interpol for a whole bunch of criminal offenses.
Source: "Sluxi.ru" from October 25, 2002, ari.ru, lujkov.com, autumn 1999

There are media reports that Dzhabrailov, including with money earned from business, supplied weapons to Chechen militants. There is such information about a possible relationship between Dzhabrailov and Chechen militants. In 1994-96, according to Moscow law enforcement officials, all Chechen entrepreneurs were taxed by the authorities of what was then Ichkeria. There is an assumption that Dzhabrailov also paid. This conclusion is made on the basis that he remained alive. There were rumors that two brothers of Vakha Arsanov, the then vice-president of Chechnya, worked in one of the banks, whose office was located on the territory subordinate to Dzhabrailov’s structures. There is an opinion that the struggle for the independence of Chechnya worried Umar to the extent that it was not part of his commercial plans. But what could worry him is the bad relationship with a loyal supporter of the federal government, the former mayor of Grozny Beslan Gantamirov. He considered Dzhabrailov a “huckster” and they did not like each other. After Gantamirov was sent to prison (either for embezzlement, or to simply disappear from the arena for a while), Dzhabrailov took several conciliatory steps towards his opponent. When Beslan was released from prison, Umar even spoke at some meetings of Moscow Chechens as Beslan's personal envoy. Then their paths diverged: Beslan went to lead in Chechnya, and Umar remained in Moscow. Since then, as reported in the media, Umar Dzhabrailov has demonstrated complete disinterest in what was happening in his homeland. There is information in the media that a criminal case was opened regarding the supply of weapons by “Dzhabrailov and company” to warring Chechnya. But it was stopped.
Source: lujkov.com, autumn 1999, http://www.peoples.ru/state/politics/dzabrailov/index1.html, 10/18/2008, "Sluxi.ru", 10/25/2002

According to media reports, in the late 1990s and early 2000s, Dzhabrailov actively participated in social life, he was called “a Moscow dandy and heartthrob.” One of his friends was Ksenia Sobchak. The press relished the story of the theft of jewelry donated by Dzhabrailov from a TV presenter. They wrote that the stolen necklaces, black pearl necklaces and the like cost either 200 or 600 thousand dollars. It was also reported that Dzhabrailov did not escape the hobby of using cocaine, which is characteristic of the bohemian environment.
Source: "Sluxi.ru" from October 25, 2002, http://www.peoples.ru/state/politics/dzabrailov/index1.html, October 18, 2008

In 2000, Dzhabrailov participated in the presidential elections of the Russian Federation. During the election campaign, a scandal broke out. In February, employees of the UBEP of the Northern District of Moscow discovered a company on the territory of the Moscow Agricultural Academy that was engaged in forging signatures in favor of presidential candidates Umar Dzhabrailov, Konstantin Titov, Evgeny Savostyanov and Ismail Tagizade. It turned out that the students who worked for the company personally put down about 300 thousand signatures “for Dzhabrailov”, receiving about 700 thousand rubles. The capital's prosecutor's office opened a criminal case on this fact under the article "Falsification of election documents." Assistant Vice-Rector of the Academy Igor Konyshev and acting director of the Bureau of Employment and Social Information Igor Nadezhkin were suspected of organizing the crime. According to investigators, Konyshev received an offer to “collect” signatures in favor of Dzhabrailov. As an assistant, he recruited 5th year student Nadezhkin, who hired students. In August 2000, the case was closed: the law allowed criminal prosecution only of members of election commissions or initiative groups of candidates. The investigation was unable to prove the involvement of falsifiers in the candidates' headquarters. Dzhabrailov's campaign headquarters told reporters that they had nothing to do with the exposed company. Umar Dzhabrailov took the last, eleventh place in the elections with 0.08 percent of the votes. There are suggestions in the press that he participated in the election race for the sake of self-promotion.
Source: www.peoples.ru/state/politics/dzabrailov/index1.html, 10/18/2008, “Kommersant” dated 03/03/2000, “Kommersant” No. 8 (3825) dated 01/23/2008

In 2000, as they wrote in the press, Umar’s brother, first deputy general director of the Rossiya Hotel, Khusein Dzhabrailov, came to the attention of the police. It was reported that in one of the hotel rooms, GUBOP employees found an entire arsenal: a sniper rifle with a silencer and two magazines, an AKS-74U assault rifle, four TT pistols, two PM guns, a homemade submachine gun, a device for firing small-caliber cartridges, 17 magazines for machine guns and pistols, two optical sights and more than 300 rounds of various calibers. Valentin Stepanov, Khussein Dzhabrailov’s senior assistant, called the weapon “his” and put forward the version that he found a bag with a weapon at the door of the room and, thinking that the owner had forgotten it, brought it inside. This version looked unconvincing, but the rest of the work on the “Chechen trace” led nowhere.
Source: "Newspaper" dated June 23, 2002

There is information in the media about the relationship between Umar Dzhabrailov and the assassination attempts on the former Deputy Prime Minister of the Moscow government, Joseph Ordzhonikidze. Ordzhonikidze oversaw the foreign economic activities of the Moscow Government, and, first of all, hotels. Initially, Ordzhonikidze and Dzhabrailov, as the press wrote, were best friends. Dzhabrailov made money from his relationship with Ordzhonikidze: according to the standard Moscow scheme, city property was placed in trust for Dzhabrailov's management company - the Plaza group. Everyone made money and were happy. Dzhabrailov's problems began when the time came for the privatization of Moscow hotels. Umar wanted to get his “share” - his companies tried to participate in the privatization of the Belgrade Hotel. And then, as reported in the media, Ordzhonikidze considered Dzhabrailov superfluous. According to Umar’s own words, their relationship ended in early 2000. After which the first attempt on the life of Joseph Ordzhonikidze occurred.

On February 19, 2000, two killers armed with machine guns shot up a Nissan Maxima car in Leontyevsky Lane, 500 meters from the Moscow City Hall. The driver, Ivan Petrin, died on the spot, and Joseph Ordzhonikidze himself was seriously injured. According to media reports, the assassination attempt was explained by Ordzhonikidze’s economic problems associated with the Moscow-City complex. The identity of the killer could not be established. The name of Dzhabrailov was mentioned in versions, but only at the level of rumors.

And yet, in order to maintain good relations with the Moscow government, Dzhabrailov had to withdraw from two capital projects: give up management of the Okhotny Ryad shopping complex and the Kuntsevo elite residential complex.

As the media wrote, Ordzhonikidze began to put a spoke in the wheels of Dzhabrailov’s business empire, cutting off Plaza from the management of Moscow real estate and turning Yuri Luzhkov against Umar.

On June 20, 2002, under the railway bridge, the armored Volvo of Ordzhonikidze, who was driving to work from his country house in Barvikha, was cut off by a BMW 525 with a flashing light and blue police (as it later turned out to be fake) license plates. When the foreign cars stopped, three men in black mask caps with slits for eyes jumped out of the BMW and opened heavy fire. Each one fired with two hands: from five PMs and a Stechkin submachine gun. The deputy mayor and the driver were not injured because they were in an armored car. Security guard Andrei Golikov, who returned fire, was wounded, but managed to hit one of the attackers. Soon, law enforcement officers found the killers' car on fire, and near it - a corpse, with documents in the name of Salavat Dzhabrailov, Umar Dzhabrailov's cousin.

The media reported that immediately after the second assassination attempt, Deputy Prime Minister Ordzhonikidze said that it was the head of the Plaza group who was behind the assassination attempt. Dzhabrailov, in turn, announced that he was not the mastermind of this crime (although no one officially accused him of this). He called what happened on Rublevskoye Highway a provocation with the aim of ousting him from the hotel business. Dzhabrailov claimed that what happened was a staged act and he himself accused Ordzhonikidze of murdering his cousin Salavat. Umar expressed the opinion that Salavat was killed by Ordzhonikidze’s people, and then thrown to the scene of the staged assassination attempt. Dzhabrailov's lawyers asked to initiate a criminal case on this fact, but they were refused.

Meanwhile, as the press wrote, the investigation was working on the version of Umar Dzhabrailov’s involvement in the crime. Against this backdrop, the entrepreneur hastily left Moscow and flew to Italy. Before the flight, he called a Kommersant correspondent and made it clear that he feared not only for his life, but also for the safety of his relatives, and was also afraid of arrest. But a couple of days later, at a press conference, he “edited” his “leak” to the journalist, saying that he had been misunderstood, he was not hiding anywhere, and had left for Italy on a long-planned business trip.

After the second attempt on Ordzhonikidze’s life, the mayor of Moscow promised that the city government would terminate all contracts with companies controlled by the businessman. And already at the end of June, Slavyanskaya Hotel and Business Center LLC, a company owned by the Moscow government and AFK Sistema and owning the Radisson-Slavyanskaya hotel complex, sent a letter to Plaza Group to terminate the contract for hotel management. Umar Dzhabrailov is losing one of his most profitable businesses. Journalists called this fact a signal for the beginning of a redistribution of spheres of influence in the capital's hotel business.

In the fall of 2002, Umar Dzhabrailov's company Plaza Gruppa was removed from the management of the Sokolniki hotel under construction. Apparently, the press wrote, the capital’s authorities decided to keep their word to oust Dzhabrailov from the hotel business.

Despite statements by the Moscow prosecutor that the assassination attempt on Ordzhonikidze has been “practically solved”, and reports of the capture of the perpetrators of the crime (allegedly from a group of Chechen killers), the names of those who ordered both this and other contract killings in which Dzhabrailov appeared, never became known.

/ Ilya Pitalev

Businessman Umara Dzhabrailova, who carried out a shooting at the Four Seasons Hotel in the center of Moscow. The police, called by the hotel security, detained the man, and in his room 633 they saw numerous bullet marks on the ceiling and floor. Dzhabrailov was taken to the Kitay-Gorod police station. A criminal case for hooliganism was opened against him. In addition, the police found white powder in Dzhabrailov’s room, which was sent for examination.

What is it famous for?

Umar Dzhabrailov is the founder of the association of entrepreneurs for the development of business patriotism “Avanti”, a former member of the Federation Council (ex-senator from Chechnya).

In 1977 he graduated from the fur technical school in Moscow.

In 1977-1979 he served in the Strategic Missile Forces.

In 1985 he graduated with honors from MGIMO University of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

In 1986-1988 he worked as a laboratory assistant at MGIMO.

In 1988-1989 - art inspector at the Moscow cooperative gallery.

In 1989-1994 - General Director of Danako LLP.

In 1994-2001 - First Deputy General Director of the joint Russian-American enterprise Intourist-RadAmer - Hotel and Business Center. In 1997, he became president of the Plaza group, which manages large real estate properties in Moscow, in particular, the Radisson-Slavyanskaya hotel and the Smolensky Passage and Okhotny Ryad shopping complexes on Manezhnaya Square.

In 2000, Dzhabrailov was a candidate for the presidency of Russia. In the elections, 80 thousand voters (0.08%) voted for him.

In 2001-2004 - President of Plaza Group LLC. Companies included in the Plaza Group provide comprehensive services for the operation and management of large real estate properties: hotel, retail, residential and business complexes.

In 2004, the first president of Chechnya Akhmat Kadyrov nominated Dzhabrailov as a senator from the Chechen Republic in the Federation Council. The businessman himself at that time was the president of the Plaza group.

In 2007, another president of Chechnya - Ramzan Kadyrov— again proposed Dzhabrailov’s candidacy as a senator from the republic to the Federation Council of the Russian Federation. He also served as Deputy Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs and was a member of the Russian delegation to the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe

In 2009, Dzhabrailov, at his personal request, resigned as a senator in the Federation Council.

In 2009-2013 - advisor Assistant to the President of the Russian Federation Sergei Prikhodko.

Member of the United Russia party.

Full member of the Russian Academy of Natural Sciences.

Candidate of Political Sciences. Defended his PhD thesis at the Russian Academy of Public Administration. The topic of the dissertation is “Trends in the development of an effective state as an actor in modern international relations: based on materials from the foreign policy of the Russian Federation.” Monograph - “Effective state in the context of globalization.”

Collects works of art, including paintings by Russian artists. Now Dzhabrailov heads the Russian-Qatar Business Council and the Board of Trustees of the Moscow Museum of Modern Art.

What was he suspected of?

In mid-1996, an American businessman and head of the joint venture “Intourist-RadAmer - hotel and business center” Paul Tatum stated that Umar Dzhabrailov threatened to kill him in order to remove him from the list of founders of the joint venture. In November of the same year, Tatum was killed in an underground passage near the Kievsky railway station in Moscow. Umar Dzhabrailov's involvement was not proven, but he was banned from entering the United States. Dzhabrailov was also a witness in the case of another murder - the head of the Ator advertising company. Vladimir Kanevsky, who was shot and killed in February 2002.

10.25.2002, "Like a squirrel in a wheel"

Mamlakat Nakhangova in Chechen

During the reign of the CPSU, personnel officers (all personnel officers from the personnel departments of enterprises to the KGB, where, ultimately, the most important personnel decisions were made) spent a lot of time compiling and writing all kinds of questionnaires, finding out under a magnifying glass all the little things in the life of almost every person. There could be no “white spots” in the biography. The personnel officers knew everything about everyone. Now this is no longer the case, everyone can come up with a legend for themselves, equip it with more or even less plausible details and become a hero or a dissident according to their choice.

Umar Dzhabrailov is no longer young and has seen the times when personnel officers were in power. It may seem that not a single personnel officer in those days would have ever allowed a Chechen to take a responsible position. Unreliable nationality. However, there were exceptions. In the Soviet Union, from the moment of its founding, they loved to talk about the equality of all the peoples of the great country, as well as the strong and selfless friendship between them. To convince anyone of this, it was necessary to present representatives of all the most colorful peoples of the country of that time, then everyone could point a finger at them and say, here he is, who achieved everything thanks to the Soviet Motherland and the Communist Party. Equal chances for everyone, just like Rockefeller - a shoeshine boy in the USA. One should not think that such lucky ones were chosen from some nomenklatura or their faithful offspring. All-Union Personnel Service, i.e. KGB, preferred worker-peasant biographies. Therefore, when the girl cotton grower Mamlakat Nakhangova, who found herself in the Soviet epic, sat in the arms of the father of all nations, her biography and the biographies of her parents and other relatives, equipped with the appropriate resolutions and seals, had long been lying in the local KGB office. The Father of Nations did not like liberties.

After the death of the leader of the peoples, his successors were imbued with the corrupting influence of the West and left the matter of creating national personnel and national signs, not just completely to chance, but so, they handed it over to the local, very specific, national nomenklatura. Nevertheless, such successful national cadres (let the readers forgive me, but I don’t know a better term for this phenomenon) were still fabricated. The unreliable Chechens also had them. Let us at least remember General Dzhokhar Dudayev. The Soviet general is a Chechen, commander of a long-range aviation division (strategic bombers), a member of the CPSU and its various party committees, a darling of fate, capable of opening the door to many bureaucratic offices with his foot. All the stories of Western radio voices about the expulsion and oppression of the Chechens seemed like idle fiction, one had only to look at the valiant mustachioed face. But there was also the most important dancer of the Union, Makhmud Esambaev, and Hero of the Soviet Union, Ruslan Aushev (not a Chechen, but almost). It so happened that Umar Dzhabrailov was lucky; he managed to fit in behind Mamlakat Nakhangova.

Umar Alievich was born on June 28, 1958 in Grozny. His father in his youth was the secretary of the district committee of the Komsomol, however, thanks to the tortuous history of all Chechens in the Soviet Union, he did not advance far in party work. Umar was a smart guy, studied well, was fond of mathematics and easily completed his eighth year. Then his family made a seemingly strange decision - Umar went to Moscow, where he entered in 1973. at the Fur College. As funny as it may seem, it was easier for Umar to get a secondary technical education in Moscow than in Checheno-Ingushetia. Firstly, there was less competition, and secondly, at that time Chechens were almost unknown in Moscow and therefore they were treated more indifferently. At the same time, anyone more or less familiar with the personnel policy of that time understands perfectly well that such a trip to Moscow could not have been made without the sanction of the right person.

To become a full-fledged national cadre, it was necessary to serve in the army. Dzhabrailov ended up in 1977. into the elite troops of the Strategic Missile Forces and served quite quietly until 1979. in Zhitomir. Education and love for the exact sciences helped Umar get into these troops. In the army he joined the CPSU. Then it was the easiest way to merge with the leadership and direction. Dzhabrailov served brilliantly.

And here the fate of our hero takes a sharp zigzag. Umar Dzhabrailov enters MGIMO University of the USSR Ministry of Foreign Affairs to study the most prestigious specialty “International Economic Relations”. The competition for the faculty of the same name with this specialty exceeded 20 people per place. For example, in order for the now well-known TV presenter Alexander Lyubimov (and he studied at MGIMO only a year younger than Dzhabrailov and, as their then classmates say, Sasha and Umar even in those days had mutual sympathy for each other) enter this faculty . Kryuchkov, was forced to use all his influence. Beloved son Sasha needed the protection of the powers that be. Umar Dzhabrailov arrived without any visible help. The help was invisible. In order to receive it, the future businessman had to study at the preparatory department. Because he didn’t get one point in the exams (in fact, completely different points were counted there). As he himself says: “...I was lucky, my documents were accepted at the preparatory department...”. Usually, this preparatory department of MGIMO accepted those who had work experience in their specialty; not just anyone was accepted immediately after the army. Why is Umar Alievich so lucky?

Personnel employee

Even then, the head of the Fifth Main Directorate of the KGB of the USSR, the Directorate for Combating Ideological Sabotage, drew attention to Dzhabrailov. Philip Denisovich Bobkov. The same Philip Bobkov, who soon became First Deputy Chairman of the KGB, and later, under Yeltsin, headed the Security Service of Most Bank and a bunch of associations of former GB employees. Such necessary help allowed the smart Chechen young man not only to overcome all sorts of entrance obstacles (for example, a character reference certified by the same KGB was required), but also to successfully graduate from college. By the way, since his studies, Umar Dzhabrailov has been able to speak Russian not with a Chechen accent, but with a soft southern Russian accent, which is very unusual for a Chechen. Dzhabrailov worked like a man possessed on languages, not only Russian, but also foreign ones. It was obvious that he could make a high-flying national shot. After graduating from MGIMO in 1985, he received free placement. According to the version he himself circulated, he could not get a job due to the lack of Moscow registration.

It should be noted that many (if not all) KGB personnel had a hole in their biography the size of one year, when the uninitiated in these subtleties could not understand what they were doing. Naturally, every regular KGB officer needs time for special training. After a pause, Umar Dzhabrailov received a residence permit in Moscow and in 1986 - 88. worked as a laboratory assistant at the same department of MGIMO.

At the end of the 80s of the 20th century, it became obvious that Gorbachev’s perestroika was gradually developing into the abolition of socialism. And then the far-sighted leadership of the KGB began to implement a program to seize the most important economic levers of the future “free” Russia. The same Philip Denisovich Bobkov was put at the head of this program, who attracted a group of promising clients from the same Fifth State Administration to its implementation; his Chechen protégé, who by that time had begun to turn sour, was also included in this group, performing rather routine tasks for the next penetration to the “Moscow Chechen community” (this is what was then called what we now call with masochistic pleasure the “Chechen mafia”). Among those people who were then prepared to take the places of the new Russian oligarchs, first of all, the names of Vladimir Gusinsky, Vladimir Potanin, Alexander Lebedev and some others come to mind. It was precisely these people that the corresponding special services (the KGB, in all its guises: FSK, FSB, etc., and less often the GRU) provided most favored nation treatment in the creation of their economic enterprises.

We know these names, they succeeded, but, without a doubt, there were also people who turned out to be failures, or at least those who did not fully realize such opportunities. Our hero failed to become an oligarch in the full sense of the word, such an oligarch as, for example, Vladimir Potanin. Umar Dzhabrailov did not have enough patience. He decided to make himself. His former bosses did not interfere. For what? Everyone who has ever worked for them always comes back. Sooner or later. Then it seemed so to them, they didn’t know that the system they had been building all their lives could fall apart or, at least, change beyond recognition.

Missing years

The official biography of Umar Dzhabrailov speaks rather sparingly about the early 90s. Even less is written about where Umar Alievich got his notorious initial capital and by what pike command he ended up being a representative of the Moscow State Property at Radisson-Slavyanskaya. Dzhabrailov seemed to jump out of oblivion and appear out of nowhere. This is usual for Russian business. Let's try, however, to restore the connection between times.

Umar Dzhabrailov earned his first big money in a trivial way. He earned them from “Chechen advice notes.” For those who have forgotten, let me remind you that in the early 90s, the Soviet banking system, unadapted to new conditions, began to fail. Non-cash money began to travel from one bank to another for weeks and even months. And this is within Moscow, and transferring money from one city to another has generally become a chore. In 1991 - 92 There were actually several banking crises, as a result of which money could not pass from bank to bank for 3 months. And then, in order for the economy not to die completely, the Central Bank of the Russian Federation decided that money can be credited to the accounts of companies by the receiving bank upon presentation of a bank order - an advice note, drawn up and signed in accordance with the necessary requirements by the sending bank. It was meant that in any case, the money would be debited from the sending bank when issuing an advice note. The state banks of that time (all sorts of menateps and bridge banks were exotic back then) seemed to be reliable.

In Chechnya, they didn’t think twice and stole some of these advice forms, and forged the signatures and seals. And thus, for several months, taking advantage of the confusion, they received purely specific money on non-existent orders. This scam was called “Chechen advice notes.” It must be said that even then it was said that the advice notes were in fact not Chechen at all, but Moscow. Since the state banks from which cash was withdrawn were precisely Moscow ones. However, this business, so to speak, was quickly brought under the control of the Chechens, in particular, Umar Dzhabrailov.

Of course, Umar Alievich now publicly denies such things. Back in 1997 in an interview with the newspaper “Arguments and Facts” (the interview was conducted by a journalist with the characteristic surname Batuev) he said:

The advice notes were created not by Chechens, but by those at the top of the banking system. I did not receive a penny from these advice notes, but on the contrary, I suffered. For the petroleum products sold, my company received bills with non-existent money. And the company went bankrupt (or re-registered and renamed “DANACO”? Huh? - editor’s note). I earned the money for the start-up capital quite legally and therefore today I am not hiding somewhere abroad and not sitting with my tail between my legs. I just took out loans from banks. Loans in the early 90s were fabulously profitable because the ruble was falling precipitously and the value of the dollar was increasing. And he made money on the exchange rate difference.

I can’t believe that someone sold Umar Alievich bills without money. They returned them as nicely, but why companies go bankrupt can also be easily understood by asking the simplest questions. But did that company pay all the taxes (even though they were ridiculous, according to the same Dzhabrailov) and did they pay the suppliers back for the oil? But I’m not the only one who hasn’t forgotten how bank loans were taken out in the early 90s. Somehow it didn’t work out for free, no one did. As for the specific recipients of bags of money on Chechen advice notes, you really can’t find them anymore. Why does anyone need extra witnesses? And Umar himself, of course, did not substitute himself.

However, here he did not have enough measures. It was not without reason that it was then that the first disagreement arose with a new friend - corresponding member of the USSR Academy of Sciences Boris Berezovsky. As eyewitnesses of that meeting remember, the not yet completely bald oligarch yelled at Dzhabrailov in a thin falsetto: “We gave you, the Chechens, a cash cow, and you slaughtered it!” Boris Abramovich meant that the operation was carried out too crudely, drew too much attention to itself and did not bring much greater profits. Therefore, the new friends separated for a long time.

Dancer time

Makhmud Esambaev - dancer

Nevertheless, Umar Alievich had a lot of money. And he wanted to make them even more. Former patron Philip Bobkov, who is actively developing the vein of Vladimir Gusinsky and is now tied to too close relations with one of the highest ranks of the Israeli military intelligence "Aman" Yakov Nimrodi (who could not stand any Chechens), got off with smiles and meaningless hints. He had no time for Umar. And then Umar Dzhabrailov came to the only Moscow Chechen who was not barred from entering the top of the Moscow Government.

Makhmud Esambaev has been a legend of Soviet art since the 60s of the last century. And the Moscow upstarts - the parvenu, the retinue of the new Moscow mayor Luzhkov, even then tried to imitate in everything the gilded - pompous style of the collapsed state. It seemed to them that this is the only way real empires look, where they are destined to become patricians. And a fragment of a real empire - the old dancer Makhmud Esambaev - received entry to all the new bosses from Tverskaya. They still love the same pseudo-imperial style - the remodeled Cathedral of Christ the Savior, the Tsereteli statues - this is now, but then instead of castles with turrets there was Esambaev. The same one, without stooping to the brink of a buffoon, knew how to be not only pleasant, but also smart, acting as an adviser not only in matters of art.

Almost ninety-year-old Makhmud Esambaev affectionately received the young man. And he became his guru. And Umar Dzhabrailov again went to school as before. Esambaev understood perfectly well that in order to advance in a city like Moscow, an unknown Chechen had to be not so much very rich as very cunning. Umar was not the only one who came to the dancer for the same thing, but not everyone had the strength and patience to follow all his instructions. What were they like? Makhmud Esambaev acted as a born PR man. He was talented not only in dancing. Understanding full well that his life was short and he would have very little to guide his young student through the life, Esambaev ordered Umar to be public. Every single day he must prove to everyone around him that he strives for the light, participates in all social events, in charity, patronizes the arts, and cares for pretty women. And in general, a helipad and a dandy. Only such an image could help the then inexperienced Dzhabrailov become part of the Moscow crowd. However, Esambaev was an artist, and therefore instilled in his student an overly theatrical style. Hence Dzhabrailov’s love for short jackets and skinny trousers. What looks already comical on a man over 40.

So, he had to become rich and harmless, imposing and understandable, smart and necessary. Necessary for their new partners on the Moscow stage. So that no one would have the idea that he was communicating with a bandit. In the literal sense, Umar Dzhabrailov was never a bandit. He had no need for this, he solved all his affairs without noisy “bazaars” and “shooters”. However, for some cases there was, as they said then, a brigade on hand. Its remains (about 40 people) have survived to this day, rather as a nostalgic tribute to the past.

"Blue" period

Our hero quickly managed to become one of the people who were doing the most important things in Moscow at that time. Management and privatization of property. Unlike the nasty Chubais, the resourceful Luzhkov did not give away city real estate and other property forever; he liked to give everything to management, to a trust. This then and now is invariably led by Oleg Mikhailovich Tolkachev. And Umar Dzhabrailov quite easily managed to please him. It is not only beneficial to cooperate with him, but also to please him. Here Umar managed to take advantage of one human weakness of Oleg Tolkachev and his friends.

Alas, Russia is not America or Europe, and we are very suspicious of same-sex love. And for government officials this is compromising evidence, just like for Duma deputies or editors of newspapers of national renown. Because of this, in Russia such people are forced to flock together. And create what is called the “blue” mafia. What it is? It’s quite difficult to explain, you have to feel it yourself. If you do not have access to the Mosimushchestvo, to some Duma deputies from the Union of Right Forces, or to the editorial office of the newspaper Argumenty i Fakty, then you will have to look for some less high-ranking community. Naturally, Umar Dzhabrailov was not gay, to which there are many witnesses, or rather female witnesses. However, his viciously sophisticated style, his constant appearance at all sorts of glamorous parties created a feeling of comfort in communicating with him for these people, who were not entirely happy in Russian conditions.

And Umar Dzhabrailov was recommended by “someone” from the Mosimushchestvo as first deputy, and then acting. General Director of the joint venture "Intourist - RedAmer Hotel and Business Center". This is what is now called the Radisson-Slavyanskaya Hotel. However, in order to become the head of such a prosperous enterprise like this, relations with the Department of External Relations of the Moscow Government were also needed. And Joseph Nikolaevich Ordzhonikidze has been handling all external relations in Moscow for many years now. Then Joseph Nikolaevich and Umar Alievich were friends.

Joseph Ordzhonikidze

It so happened that the relationship between Umar Dzhabrailov and Joseph Ordzhonikidze became dominant during his journey through the wilds and thickets of Moscow. When everything was fine with Umar Alievich and Joseph Nikolaevich, everything was fine with our hero, and when everything was not fine in the relationship, then not everything was fine at all. Who is this the all-powerful Deputy Prime Minister of the Moscow Government Joseph Ordzhonikidze?

Joseph Nikolaevich is ten years older than Umar; he was born on February 9, 1948 in an ordinary Georgian family. His family had nothing to do with Stalin's People's Commissar. After graduating in 1971 Tbilisi Polytechnic Ordzhonikidze was assigned to the Tbilisi Aircraft Manufacturing Plant. It was there that he became a Komsomol organizer and followed the well-worn Komsomol ladder. Already in 1973 he became secretary of the Factory district of the Komsomol of Tbilisi. Thanks to the patronage of the then second secretary of the Tbilisi City Committee of the CPSU Boris Nikolsky (former Deputy Prime Minister of the Moscow Government, and now a member of the Federation Council from the capital), Ordzhonikidze gets an internship in Moscow, where he serves in a small position as an instructor. Then he becomes first the secretary, and then the first secretary of the Georgian Republican Committee of the Komsomol. Next, Joseph Nikolaevich is transferred to Moscow and becomes one of the secretaries of the Komsomol Central Committee. At the time of perestroika, Ordzhonikidze oversaw all commercial projects of the Komsomol, one of his consultants was the future Moscow mayor Gavriil Popov.

Joseph Ordzhonikidze moved to the Moscow City Hall back in 1990. Under Popov, he was an adviser on foreign economic relations, and in the Luzhkov administration, through the post of head of the Department of Foreign Relations, he rose to the rank of Deputy Prime Minister of the Moscow Government. Joseph Ordzhonikidze oversees the foreign economic activities of the Moscow Government. And what is it? These are, first of all, hotels in Moscow. Iosif Nikolaevich also oversees individual “large-tonnage” projects on behalf of Mayor Yuri Luzhkov. First of all, this is the construction of Moscow City. He also oversees Moscow gambling establishments. If there were brothels in Moscow, there is no doubt that they would be supervised by Joseph Ordzhonikidze. And opium dens. However, thank God, Moscow is not Amsterdam yet.

It is no secret that all these areas, due to the presence of a huge amount of cash, are under the close attention of various criminal groups. It is also no secret that the most powerful of these groups in Russia in general, and in Moscow in particular, are Georgian criminal groups. For example, the number of thieves in law of Georgian origin in Russia is greater than the number of thieves in law - Slavs. On the other hand, the Chechen mafia has long been the talk of the town. And the easiest way would be to explain the relationship between Ordzhonikidze and Dzhabrailov from the point of view of friendship and enmity of these criminal communities. There's probably something to it. But not all. As I already said, calling Dzhabrailov a bandit is a mistake. Tough, stopping at nothing and using any methods, yes, but a bandit, no. It's just not necessary. There are more highly effective methods of making money. Joseph Ordzhonikidze may also know anyone, but he is much more of a businessman and official than anyone else.

And therefore, the relationship between these friends and enemies has always been purely business in nature. Nothing personal, as the characters of Al Pacino and Marlon Brando said in the famous film. When it was profitable for Joseph Ordzhonikidze, he used Umar Dzhabrailov. It stopped being profitable - threw it away. It's a shame? Probably, but what can you do?

I will not retell in detail the history of relations around Radisson-Slavyanskaya and, following the precepts of Sergei Dorenko, I will not report that it was Umar Dzhabrailov who “ordered” his then partner Paul Tatum. This story was discussed too long and tediously, and therefore it was probably not forgotten. Not yet. I will only note that all accusations against Dzhabrailov are based on only one thesis - Quo vadis? That is, who benefits? You never know, to anyone's benefit, Paul Tatum was an overly smug and impudently active person, even for today's Russia. And he had plenty of enemies. By the way, Joseph Ordzhonikidze was one of them. Tatum interfered with him with his activities, oh, how he interfered.

Umar Dzhabrailov also made money from his relationship with Joseph Ordzhonikidze. A standard Moscow scheme was applied - city property was placed in trust by Dzhabrailov's management company - the notorious Plaza group. And I must say, Umar Dzhabrailov turned out to be quite a tough and qualified manager for the 90s. Everyone made money and everyone was happy.

However, privatization of Moscow hotels also began. And then Umar Dzhabrailov tried to get what he thought was his share. His companies tried to participate in the privatization of the Belgrade Hotel, which was the first to go under the hammer. And then Joseph Nikolaevich considered it necessary to throw Umar out of the joint business. As Dzhabrailov himself says, their personal relationship ended in early 2000, and then the first attempt on the life of Joseph Ordzhonikidze occurred. This story is well known - Ordzhonikidze was shot at the head office of AFK Sistema, located on Leontyevsky Lane, in the backyard of the city hall building on Tverskaya. Both then and now this assassination attempt was explained by Ordzhonikidze’s economic problems associated with the Moscow-City complex. Umar Dzhabrailov was not mentioned in any versions.

But during the second attempt on Joseph Ordzhonikidze, the corpse of Umar’s cousin, Salavat Dzhabrailov, was found near the scene of the assassination attempt. In fact, his name is Salaudi. The Chechens do not have Salavats, they are not Bashkirs. Salaudi Dzhabrailov was not the most dangerous Chechen. I must say, and not the luckiest. His commercial projects were never successful, and therefore he had to constantly change his occupation. In general, in his family, Umar is really the smartest; his brothers: Hossein, Husain and Eli are rather simple-minded guys, although reliable. That is why they are listed as general directors and founders in various Umar enterprises. In fact, Umar controls everything.

Let's return to Salaudi. He disappeared two days before his body was found next to documents at the scene of the assassination attempt. Umar’s nephew Nazim even gathered all his 40 fellows on this occasion; it seemed to the Dzhabrailovs that this was a regular showdown. And someone simply tried to “run into” them. Then the cheerful Russian media announced that it was Salaudi who tried to kill Ordzhonikidze. And he shot with a pistol at the armored Volvo of the Deputy Prime Minister, despite the fact that Salaudi’s cousin, Umar, helped buy this member. An anecdote, and nothing more. Then completely ridiculous versions appeared, they say that Salaudi fired a pistol at one point of the armored car in order to penetrate it. Yeah, at one point of a moving car, brilliant plan. Still, no one, not even the Deputy Prime Minister of the Moscow Government, should consider everyone a fool.

And then everything happened completely calmly. Slavyanskaya Hotel and Business Center LLC, a joint company of AFK Sistema and the Moscow Government, has terminated all relations with the Plaza group as a management company. On this occasion, a letter was sent signed by Gurami Mzhavanadze, naturally, the creature of Joseph Ordzhonikidze. Who would doubt it.

Dzhabrailov's trust business is ending. Although, no one evicted him from his office in the same “Slavyanskaya”; his stores operate there as well. All this is temporary. The East does not like a lot of sudden movements. Umar Dzhabrailov's hotel business has collapsed. Not because he worked poorly, no, it’s just that now the time has come to privatize all these numerous savoys and golden ears. And there is no need for an extra competitor here. Dzhabrailov is also not needed as a management company. The global chains Hyatt and Hilton have come to Moscow, and now they are already fighting for the right to be management companies of Moscow hotels. Nothing personal just business.

Shops and bandits

Umar Dzhabrailov was involved in many types of business. Here is a network of gas stations owned by his oil company DANACO, a business known to us in outdoor advertising, shops, etc. However, he never managed to break into the circle of the Berezovskys, Gusinskys and Abramovichs, where he aspired. It was not possible to get the desired dividends from the business with the former oligarch Alexander Smolensky, with whom Dzhabrailov, together, hoped to raise the bankrupt SBS-Agro bank, renamed by the hasty partners to 1 O.V.K. The ungrateful Smolensky did not believe in the purity of Dzhabrailov’s plans and mercilessly “threw” his partner. I just didn't do anything. Our hero never managed to get to the Smolensky Palace in Vienna. Although, they say, I really wanted to. But Austrian subjects (and Smolensky is now an Austrian) are not to be trifled with. EES.

Last year, at a time when the deterioration of relations with Ordzhonikidze was not yet so noticeable, Umar Dzhabrailov tried to sell someone what he had. In a flash, the now impoverished first Russian millionaire Artem Tarasov appeared, now playing the role of the elusive Joe and hiding from someone in London. Tarasov, a close friend of another Moscow illustrious Chechen entrepreneur Malik Saidullaev (owner of the Milan concern, which runs the Russian Lotto lottery), as usual, lied to Umar Dzhabrailov and promised that the shares of his Plaza group would be listed on the London Stock Exchange . The funny thing is that Umar bought it for a while, believing the swindler.

Nevertheless, attempts to sell everything to someone continued. In particular, Roman Abramovich personally could act as a buyer, according to our hero. However, Abramovich’s structures took an interest and realized that Dzhabrailov’s business is based on relations with Moscow officials, and if they do not exist, then everything turns out very sour. Only trusts, property is not enough.

Thus, Umar’s attempts to become one of the high-flying businessmen did not end in anything. It’s not without reason that at the prestigious Swiss and French ski resorts, where elite-fed oligarchs like to spend time, the hero of our story skis mostly with girls.

Moreover, after the old epic with Paul Tatum, once again remade in 1999. Sergei Dorenko, suddenly it turned out that Dzhabrailov’s entry into the United States was closed. They won’t give you a visa or, even worse, what they’ll do to Borodin. It seems that there is nothing wrong with this, the same Kobzon is also not allowed into the States, and even more serious people, such as the Cherny brothers. However, Dzhabrailov began to be pulled in Europe. The most unpleasant thing is that even in Monaco, where his ex-wife lives with their daughters, they somehow unfairly tried to grab Dzhabrailov by the gills and put him in jail for 3 days. Accused of links to organized crime. Specifically with the thief in law “Petrik”, i.e. Alexey Dinarovich Petrov. He is Mr. Suvorov, he is Lenya the Cunning. It is unlikely that there was anything serious behind this relationship. The “Mazutkinskaya” organized crime group, headed by Petrik, was controlled by the late Otari Kvantarishvili and the imprisoned Vyacheslav Ivankov (Yaponchik), and they did not really like the Chechens. In particular, as people who know this environment say, Otari warned Ordzhonikidze, whom we knew, against any transactions with any Chechens.

Dzhabrailov was also accused of having connections with Lechi Islamov (Boroda), one of the leaders of the Chechen organized crime group in Moscow. It is unlikely that Umar Alievich needed Beard to resolve his affairs. He himself could have done no worse. Dzhabrailov also had business connections with Ricardo Fanchini, who was wanted by Interpol for a whole bunch of criminal offenses. However, many others also had relationships with Ricardo Fanchini, for example, those who placed advertisements for Kremlevskaya vodka on outdoor advertising modules. Because it was Ricardo Fancini who was the owner of this brand. Maybe, of course, they are all bandits, but it’s hard to believe.

Did it seem to you that our hero is just a victim of circumstances? No, his methods are varied. Any competitor or partner of his is always under the gun of not only the sharp gaze of narrowed eyes. Let us remember the story of the murder of the general director of “Quiet Harbor” (“ATOR”) Vladimir Kanevsky (there are other stories), the man who made Umar his business in outdoor advertising. But Vladimir Semenovich was Umar’s partner. He mastered the methods of Ordzhonikidze and Dzhabrailov to perfection. Only where the Deputy Prime Minister simply removes people he no longer needs from business, his former partner removes them from his life. Nothing personal just business.

Such a flair of a bandit continues to follow Dzhabrailov to this day. I must say that he sometimes flaunts them. But every medal has a downside, you have to pay for everything, and not everyone offers a hand.

From under the stick

One of the greats (to my shame, I don’t remember who) said that if you don’t engage in politics, politics will take care of you. This becomes increasingly true the higher status a person has. Umar Dzhabrailov always shunned politics; in his position, only such adventures were missing. How is it, an advanced reader will ask, who managed to read my work to this point and not lose his jaw from boredom? After all, Umar Dzhabrailov participated in the 2000 presidential elections?

Our hero's participation in the presidential elections is nothing more than PR and banter. On the one hand, Umar received very decent publicity (by the way, the same Artem Tarasov skillfully uses the status of a former presidential candidate in London, a swindler, but a presidential candidate), on the other hand, it never occurred to anyone in power that he was going to take this seriously. And the Chechen businessman mocked our democratic values ​​to his heart’s content. There was another reason: Umar did not at all like the role that was provided to him in 1999. his many past and present patrons. It would be nice if he was simply forced to finance the OVR, however, the insinuating Philip Denisovich Bobkov once again appeared on the horizon and reminded him of something. As a result, Dzhabrailov had to take a political position and hang up well-known posters about baoBABs, Roma and family. If only he knew that Roman Abramovich does not forgive this. Never.

Naturally, I would be wrong if I ignored the issue of Umar Dzhabrailov’s relationship with what we call Chechen militants. Especially in light of the events of the day before yesterday. In the period 1994-96. As any Moscow law enforcement officer knows, all Chechen entrepreneurs were taxed by the authorities of the then Ichkeria. Did Dzhabrailov pay him? Apparently, yes, because he remained alive. They also said that in one of the banks, whose office was located on the territory subordinate to Umar’s structures, two brothers of Vakha Arsanov, the then vice-president of Chechnya, who has now disappeared somewhere, worked. There was a lot of talk about the fact that Dzhabrailov’s close relatives also served in Chechnya as someone there.

Nevertheless, the struggle for the independence of Chechnya worried Umar insofar as. It was not included in his commercial plans. Another thing is that at that time he had very bad relations with a loyal supporter of the federal government, the former mayor of Grozny Beslan Gantamirov. Gantamirov was a tough and independent man and, unlike Dzhabrailov, he knew how to shoot from an AKM and lead his men into attacking machine guns. Dzhabrailov was a huckster for him, in general, they did not like each other.

However, after Beslan Said-Alievich was sent to prison (some say for embezzlement, and some say he simply disappeared from the arena for a while), Dzhabrailov took several conciliatory steps towards his opponent. When Beslan was released from prison, Umar even spoke at some meetings of Moscow Chechens as Beslan's personal envoy. Then their paths did not cross, since Beslan went to lead in Chechnya, and Umar remained in Moscow. Since then, Umar Dzhabrailov has demonstrated complete disinterest in what is happening in his homeland. The businessman himself never took the idiotic thoughts of his advisers that he should become the president of Chechnya seriously and only chuckled.

The genius and the slave of PR

In order to follow the precepts of the great dancer, Umar Dzhabrailov has to constantly be in sight. In the early 90s, Umar’s PR was simple: once again to get photographed by an idle photojournalist next to Yuri Luzhkov. Preferably a little to the side and behind. And then carefully spread the rumor that, they say, he, Umar, is especially close to the Moscow Government, and he is Luzhkov’s son-in-law and his “cashier.” And there was even a rumor that he was really a son-in-law, and he had the nickname “Son-in-law” among the Chechens. But everything ends quickly; now even Luzhkov’s security guards understand PR. Who mercilessly drive away from the retinue all those who should not be there.

I had to adjust my already theatrical image. Now he has become a full member of the bohemian party. Presentations, presentation of all sorts of dubious awards (for example, the “Silver Galosh” for dubious achievements in the field of Umar’s beloved PR), sponsorship of installations by supposedly contemporary artists (who publicly empty their stomachs on Red Square and run naked, pretending to be dogs), fashion shows and views. And everywhere Umar Alievich is one of the main characters. All this smacks of the same theatricality as the very strange and elaborate attire that he wears. Love for bohemia is a dangerous thing. And there are dangerous habits in use there. Cocaine, for example. Umar did not escape this hobby, which greatly increased his rating in such circles. And dropped it in others. But in this unreal world of the drug addict’s dreams, they got used to it. He is one of his own. Although, there are a lot of “new Russians” there, but they move around in this world at will, and Umar Dzhabrailov almost out of obligation.

Is everything out?

I even had to open my own club “Virus” and support a pop group of the same name. And hold special events in this establishment, during breaks looking under the girls’ skirts and slapping them on the butt. And what? Matches the image. What kind of helipad and dandy is it without feeling the charms of girls? He even has to choose high-status mistresses who are more famous, so that they are also difficult to name. At first, he used various cute photo models included in various top ratings there. Then it was the turn of the larger birds.

Dzhabrailov became the official lover of the daughter of the former mayor of St. Petersburg, or to be more precise, just one of them, Ksenia Sobchak. Of course, the ladies' man immediately showered her with a bunch of jewelry: all sorts of necklaces and necklaces made of black pearls and God knows what else. When the aspiring socialite Ksyusha was robbed, the theft cost either 200 or 600 thousand dollars in jewelry alone. But such reprimands do not bother the daughter of the current senator from Tuva Lyudmila Narusova; in addition to Dzhabrailov, there is also the failed publisher of the Russian “Penthouse” Alexander Shustrovich and St. Petersburg oil tanker Vladimir Leibman. There are probably others. In general, all these gentlemen look at least stupid in company with Ksyusha. As if none of them knew that the word “public”, when applied to Mademoiselle Sobchak, has a very distinct connotation. I won’t speak for Shustrovich and Leibman, but our hero understands everything perfectly well. But he is involved in this story.

The story of multiple loves between Dzhabrailov and Sobchak is just a promotion of Umar Alievich’s own name. And there is no doubt that they will still come together and separate, kiss and swear, and every glamorous audience will listen to this. And they will discuss for a long time that Umar Dzhabrailov came to the premiere of the next musical alone and was boring, and Ksenia Sobchak came not with Leibman or Shustrovich at all, but with some very pretty, but clearly “pinkish” girl. And at this time someone nearby was inconsolable. Just a soap opera. There is nothing personal in this love relationship either. With ordinary women, Umar is simple. And the employees of the same Virus club could see this more than once. And he is not shy even in front of his guards. However, this is already a “strawberry”.

Any attempts to use Ksyusha not only for its intended purpose, but as an opportunity to “make friends” with her influential mother and thus get the opportunity to jump to another high level, ended in nothing. Bed is not a reason for business. Yes, in general, mom is not having the best time right now. I had to leave the financial management of various funds, but in Tuva you can lobby a little. However, these are no longer the concerns of our hero.

Of course, Ksyusha herself is no stranger to PR, and she has to raise her image, during breaks trying to become a fashion model for advertising underwear. Well, I laugh at everything about this, but what is it like for Dzhabrailov himself? A man who is not only not poor, but also oriental? But in the East, the attitude towards women is still not so relaxed. Truly he became a slave to his mask. But somewhere far away, still in Monaco, live two beloved daughters: Alvina and Donata, and it is there that not the happiest father goes every year to celebrate his birthday or some simpler holiday in their company. I deliberately do not write about the ex-wife of the current bachelor; this is a topic for a separate story. In the meantime, Umar walks around Moscow as an eligible bachelor for all sorts of semi-secular things.

If Umar Dzhabrailov had been born 10 years earlier, he would no doubt have become an influential ambassador of our country to some notable foreign power. Or he would become a senior KGB officer, or maybe the party boss of Checheno-Ingushetia. If he had been born 10 years later, he could have become a brilliant manager of some transnational corporation with business not only in Russia. Or he could become a minister or a major publisher. But he was born in 1958, and his time was our time. He became who he is. With all its beautiful and scary features. You just can't imagine him happily lounging on the beach. At least in Hawaii, at least on the Black Sea coast of the Caucasus. This is the kind of person he is. Like a squirrel in a wheel. He runs and cannot stop. What will happen next? Let's find out.