Dmitry Patrushev. Biography. Dmitry Patrushev: biography, personal life, family, photo Dmitry Nikolaevich Patrushev biography

Minister of Agriculture of Russia since 2018.

Patrushev family

Dmitry's great-grandfather, Ignatiy Patrushev, was from the Arkhangelsk region, from the village of Podomo. His son initially also followed the peasant path, but in 1938 he went to serve in the Navy and remained there. He took part in the Great Patriotic War, sailed on the destroyer “Threatening”, then was a party organizer and deputy commander of the “Active” crew. Platon Patrushev entered the reserve with the rank of captain 1st rank.

Dmitry's grandmother, Antonina Nikolaevna, trained as a chemist, but during the war she served as a nurse, survived the blockade, and after the war she went to work in a construction company.

Their son Nikolai at first also wanted to connect his life with the fleet: he graduated from the shipbuilding department of the Leningrad Shipbuilding Institute and for some time worked as an engineer at the university’s design bureau, but this did not last long. After graduating from the institute, Nikolai Patrushev went to higher courses of the KGB under the Council of Ministers of the USSR and then went to work in the authorities.

Son of a state security officer

By the time Dmitry was born, his father was already working in the counterintelligence unit of the USSR KGB in the Leningrad region. Mother, Elena Nikolaevna Ignashchenkova, worked as a doctor, and after perestroika she retrained as a businessman. Her husband remained in the civil service, and she, together with Nikolai Platonovich’s classmate, Boris Gryzlov, created Borg LLP, the company was engaged in the export of scrap metal. Elena Nikolaevna also worked at Vneshtorgbank.

As you can understand, the family was successful; Dmitry and his younger brother Andrei hardly knew what financial difficulties were.

Manager and Doctor of Science

After school, the eldest entered not just anywhere, but the State University of Management, from which he successfully graduated in 1999, receiving a diploma in the specialty “manager”. In 2004 he graduated from the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, mastering the specialty “World Economy”.

In 2003, during his studies - a rare case - Dmitry Nikolaevich defended his PhD thesis at the St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance. The work was devoted to the organizational and economic foundations of the development of the process approach in quality management of research organizations.

In 2008, it was the turn of the doctorate. At the same university, Dmitry Patrushev defended his dissertation entitled “State and market regulators in the formation and implementation of industrial policy: based on materials from natural monopolies of the fuel and energy complex.” He received the scientific title of Doctor of Economic Sciences at the age of 31.

According to some information, Dmitry Patrushev also graduated from the FSB Academy in 2006.

Working with study breaks

The year that Dmitry Patrushev graduated from the State University of Management, his father replaced Vladimir Putin as director of the FSB (since 2008 Nikolai Patrushev has been Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation). No one really hides the fact that his father’s high official position could have played a positive role in Dmitry’s career.

His first place of work was the Ministry of Transport. The young managerial specialist worked there for three years. And after receiving a second higher education, he went to work at Vneshtorgbank, this happened in 2004 (perhaps the choice of a university and specialty was precisely related to career plans). In 2006, the financial and credit organization received a new name - VTB Bank.

Three years later, Dmitry took the post of senior vice president of the bank. He was responsible for lending to oil companies/

At Rosselkhozbank

The appointment of Dmitry Patrushev as chairman of the board of Rosselkhozbank in May 2010 came as a complete surprise to analysts. His predecessor, Yuri Trushin, according to experts, actually created an entire system of agricultural lending. They called him a legend and believed that the reasons for his resignation were not directly related to business.

The decision to appoint Dmitry Patrushev was made by the supervisory board of Rosselkhozbank. As stated in the message, Yuri Trushin’s powers were terminated early at his request.

Under Dmitry Patrushev, the Russian Agricultural Bank received assistance from the state several times (the bank itself is a state organization, one hundred percent of its shares belong to the Federal Property Management Agency). It is believed that Patrushev inherited the bank’s problems from his predecessor, and he was unable to solve all of them. However, the share of problem loans has decreased, and expensive foreign funding, partly due to sanctions, has been replaced by customer deposits. Rosselkhozbank has become more universal, the share of lending to the agricultural sector has decreased from 90 to 48 percent. But it has not yet been possible to bring the bank to sustainable profit.

Shareholder of Gazprom

In 2016, Dmitry Patrushev joined the board of directors of PJSC Gazprom. Since then, he has bought shares in the company several times. He now owns 0.001012524 percent of the company's shares.

Replaced Tkachev

After the inauguration of Vladimir Putin, who was re-elected as president, the government resigned. Some ministers retained their posts. However, the leadership at the Ministry of Agriculture has changed.

The appointment of Dmitry Patrushev to the post of head of the department was called one of the most resonant changes. The son of the Secretary of the Security Council was nominated for this post by Dmitry Medvedev, the president approved this appointment on May 18, 2018.

Patrushev replaced Alexander Tkachev, a big supporter of Russian counter-sanctions in the form of a food embargo as an incentive for the development of the domestic agro-industrial complex and the owner of the agricultural holding Agrocomplex named after. N.I. Tkachev”, who during his leadership of the Ministry of Agriculture became one of the five largest owners of agricultural land - this asset tripled in three years. It was rumored that Tkachev was using his official position to develop the family business. A government commission conducted an investigation into conflicts of interest and reported in April 2016 that no such conflicts had been found.

Dmitry Patrushev has already outlined the tasks that his department will have to solve. This is ensuring food security, increasing exports of agricultural products, increasing economic efficiency and developing agricultural science.

Personal life

Very little is known about the personal life of Dmitry Patrushev. He is married and has a son and daughter. However, in the only declaration available online for 2013, the spouses are not listed.

In 2013, the chairman of Rosselkhozbank earned 72,807,780 million rubles. At that time, Patrushev owned two land plots with an area of ​​1000 and 5745 square meters. meters, two large residential buildings, an apartment of 220 square meters, a garage and three objects of “other real estate”.

Head of Rosselkhozbank Dmitry Patrushev will head the Ministry of Agriculture in the new Russian government. His candidacy was introduced Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to President Vladimir Putin. Later that day, the president signed a decree appointing him head of the Ministry of Agriculture. Previously held this position Alexander Tkachev.

Dossier

Dmitry Nikolaevich Patrushev was born on October 13, 1977 in St. Petersburg. Father - Nikolay Patrushev, former head of the Federal Security Service, currently secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation. Mother is a doctor by training. Younger brother Andrey holds the post of Deputy General Director for Development of Offshore Projects - Member of the Board of Gazprom Neft PJSC.

Dmitry Patrushev. Photo: RIA Novosti / Alexander Astafiev

Education

In 1999 he graduated from the State University of Management with a degree in management.

In 2002-2004 he studied at the Diplomatic Academy of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, majoring in world economics.

Doctor of Science, defended his dissertation at the St. Petersburg State University of Economics and Finance.

Professional activity

Until 2002 he worked at the Ministry of Transport.

Since 2004, he worked at the Foreign Trade Bank (from March 1, 2007 - VTB Bank OJSC) and in 2007 became its senior vice president.

Since May 2010, he served as Chairman of the Board of Rosselkhozbank and a member of the Supervisory Board of JSC Rosselkhozbank.

Where, as a senior vice president, he was responsible for working with large state-owned companies.

Episode 1. Clearing frames

Patrushev took the place of Yuri Trushin and quickly replaced the heads of most of the bank's branches. “Criminal cases have been initiated against 11 of those whom we replaced,” he said in an interview with Vedomosti in 2014. In total, 1,500 criminal cases were initiated, 68 of which were against bank employees, the rest against clients. Patrushev estimated the total damage from their actions at 23.5 billion rubles.

The bank’s problems developed over a long period of time and were inherited by Patrushev, says Alexander Proklov, director of the ACRA bank ratings group. With him RSHB became more transparent, the principles of internal management and approaches to risk analysis changed significantly, the bank consolidated and rebuilt the principles of managing its branch network, he adds.

Patrushev transferred risk management, security and internal control services to the head office, and also reduced the powers of regional branches. Previously, without approval from the head office, they could issue up to several billion rubles, he complained in an interview with Vedomosti. “Our steps to centralize risks, security, and internal control allowed us to prevent possible damage in the amount of about 100 billion rubles in 2013,” he explained.

Episode 2: Clearing the Balance

Another problem that Patrushev’s team had to face was the need to create huge reserves for problem assets, says Proklov. The state has allocated capital for these purposes gradually over recent years. In total, since 2010 the state has issued RSHB 278.6 billion rubles, and contributions to reserves amounted to 403.7 billion rubles, as follows from the bank’s reporting under IFRS.

With the arrival of Patrushev RSHB focused on the problem of returning problem loans issued by the previous team and adding additional reserves, says Moody’s analyst Olga Ulyanova. And although this problem has not been fully resolved to date, the achievements are noticeable, she says: the share of problem loans (including loans under supervision) decreased to 18% of the loan portfolio at the beginning of 2018 from 27% at the beginning of 2013, and their coverage reserves during this time improved to 58 from 31%.

“The bank was unable to quickly build up a new, healthier loan portfolio - both unfavorable macroeconomic conditions and the state of the bank itself prevented this,” she explains.

Episode 3. From scratch

RSHB under Patrushev’s team, it became more stable in terms of its resource base: the bank replaced expensive foreign funding with customer deposits. “On the one hand, this was the bank’s targeted strategy, on the other hand, US sanctions also had an impact,” says Ulyanova.

Patrushev wanted to do RSHB more universal, so that it is associated not only with lending to the agro-industrial complex (Roskolkhoz, as it was called in the market), whose share in the loan portfolio RSHB in 2014 it was 80%, and before that it was 90%. The bank's strategy was to reduce it to 70%. By the end of 2017 it was 48%.

New team RSHB we will have to continue to solve all the same problems: clear the balance sheet, bring the bank to sustainable profits and reduce the cost of funding - although it has become local, it is still expensive compared to other state banks, adds Ulyanova.

Now the bank is at the stage where it needs to demonstrate an increase in interest margins and become profitable, notes Proklov. This is partly a matter of business model: on the one hand, RSHB retains its political mandate as a bank for lending to the agro-industrial complex, on the other hand, it should develop as a universal bank and in such a model should not be planned to be unprofitable, he says.

The appointments in the government must have disappointed lovers of novelty - the prime minister is the same, and in the cabinet of ministers there are mostly familiar faces. However, some changes have occurred. In particular, two officials will now “steer” agriculture - the minister and the deputy prime minister.

Both are well known in the industry. Especially Deputy Prime Minister Alexei Gordeev. He moved to the government from the post of plenipotentiary representative of the President of the Russian Federation in the Central Federal District, before which he served as governor in the Voronezh region. From 1999 to 2009 he managed agriculture. Now, as they say, it’s back to square one. More precisely, they returned it.

It is known that as head of the Ministry of Agriculture, Gordeev did a lot of good for the industry. Under him, for example, the current system of state support for the agricultural industry was created. During the Gordeev decade, federal funding for the industry increased fivefold (from 9 billion to 43 billion rubles). And in 2006, also thanks to the efforts of the minister, the priority national project “Development of the Agro-Industrial Complex” was adopted.

RIA Novosti/Ekaterina Shtukina

In 2001, Russia again became an exporter of grain (wheat and barley), and a couple of years later, quotas were introduced on the import of meat products, which made it possible to protect domestic producers. It was then, when Gordeev was head of the Ministry of Agriculture, that we first heard the word “import substitution,” which by now has already set our teeth on edge.

Experts almost unanimously claim that all of Gordeev’s successors, including Alexander Tkachev, used the foundation laid by their predecessor. So, Gordeev returns to the agricultural industry, this time as Deputy Prime Minister. Probably, it will mainly begin to adjust the industry strategy. Its operational management is entrusted to 40-year-old Dmitry Patrushev. Before joining the government, he headed Rosselkhozbank (RSHB).

Many were shocked by Patrushev’s appointment - they say that the Kremlin has completely lost shame and conscience, ministerial posts are already being distributed on the principle of kinship. The father of the new minister, Nikolai Patrushev, is known to be a representative of the highest bureaucrats - Secretary of the Security Council of the Russian Federation.

They also started talking (apparently, not without reason) that as chairman of the board of one of the largest banks, which, by the way, was completely state-owned, Patrushev Jr. was not particularly successful. The state constantly pumps billions into the bank, saving it from collapse.

RIA Novosti/Grigory Sysoev

However, in fairness it must be said that under Patrushev, the loan portfolio of the Russian Agricultural Bank has grown noticeably. The bank does not stifle borrowers with high interest rates on loans and supports many industry projects. Even the most zealous critics of Dmitry Patrushev do not argue with this.

Many today are asking the question: how effective will the new configuration of agricultural industry management be? “It will be a good tandem - Gordeev and Patrushev: the first is a manager of a very high level and professionalism, the second is an experienced economist and financier,” says Alexander Korbut, vice-president of the Russian Grain Union. Well, we'll wait and see.

The matter, as they say, is a thing of the past, but to this day many are at a loss: why was Tkachev removed? After all, when he was a minister, he reported with such fervor on the successes of import substitution, promising that in 5-7 years we will be able to fully provide ourselves with all basic food products.

Perhaps Tkachev went too far with his promises. There were indeed successes at first, but then they faded away. Moreover, this was recognized in the Ministry of Agriculture itself on the eve of the resignation of the “old” and the formation of the “new” government. The industry headquarters came to the conclusion that the growth rate has been exhausted. If the volume of agricultural production increases this year, it will only be by 1%. As they say, within the statistical error! And this is under the greenhouse conditions of a food embargo, which relieves Russian farmers from competition from foreign agricultural producers.

The industry, which made an initial breakthrough, quickly fizzled out.

Minister Tkachev’s only achievement (and even then a relative one - the trend arose before him) was an increase in the production and export of grain and partly meat (pork and poultry). For example, milk production practically did not increase at all under Tkachev. They also failed to make a breakthrough in potato production. There is nothing to say about such a problematic product as beef.

Flesh of the flesh of large agricultural business, Tkachev went out of his way to support it. The farmer, who is the pillar of agricultural production throughout the civilized world, completely withered away under Tkachev. The owners of latifundias and giant agricultural complexes began to brazenly take away land from small producers with the complete inaction of law enforcement officers and industry headquarters. From Tkachev’s “ancestral patrimony”, from the Kuban, “tractor marches” stretched to the capital. Farmers protesting against the arbitrariness of local authorities and agricultural barons tried to reach the White House and the Kremlin.

kremlin.ru

The Russian consumer is also dissatisfied with Tkachev. When he was a minister, he too actively lobbied for the interests of large agricultural producers to the detriment of the ordinary Russian consumer, who received a constant increase in prices while the quality of food was steadily deteriorating.

The lack of competition due to food counter-sanctions allowed monopolists to inflate food prices. It is known that food inflation in our country is far ahead of any other inflation. Food prices began to grow at an accelerated pace in mid-2013. After the embargo was introduced in 2014, their gap from the average increased even more.

In the fight against imports, Tkachev clearly went too far. Not least through his efforts, they began to intensively squeeze Belarusian “milk” out of the Russian market, declaring it to not meet our quality standards. This, of course, is nonsense. Belarusians, unlike Russian manufacturers, strictly adhere to Soviet, very strict GOST standards. It seems that all the nonsense about the “inadequate quality” of Belarusian products was needed by industry lobbyists led by Tkachev so that Belarusians did not dare to compete with domestic farmers. The loser, as always, is the Russian consumer.

Tkachev was unable or unwilling to do anything to influence food pricing. As a result, almost a third of Russian citizens are simply undernourished. Not to mention the fact that the diet of Russians is dominated by potatoes and pasta that are not the healthiest.

Tkachev also failed to improve the quality of food, create deep processing of agricultural raw materials, and eliminate the imbalance between crop production and livestock production. The ex-minister’s priority remained grain, which he, as if undermined, was driving for export, everything else Tkachev, so it seems, worried only insofar as.

I would like to hope that the new leadership of the agricultural industry will make a turn towards the interests of Russian citizens and will tackle problems that their predecessor did not solve.