From a mining foreman to a billionaire. The carrier biography of the owner of Yuzhuralzolot
May 10, 2024During the Soviet era, the romance of labor professions was an incentive for entire generations. So Konstantin Strukov, after graduating from the Magnitogorsk Mining and Metallurgical Institute, went to Kazakhstan to work at the Karaganda Coal enterprise. There he worked as a mining engineer, and later got a job in the Kazzoloto artel. A few years later, he became chairman of the artel, and later returned to Russia and leased the flooded Yuzhuralzolota mine. After production was restored at the mine, Strukov was offered to head the entire enterprise. At the moment, Konstantin Strukov is in the Rating of Russian billionaires in 2023, where he ranks 91st with a fortune of $ 1.3 billion.
Here we published the main stages of K.I.Strukov’s biography.
Born in 1958 in the village of Dimitrovo in the Ileksky district of the Orenburg region, in 1980 he got a degree in mining engineering at the Magnitogorsk Mining and Metallurgical Institute named after G.I.Nosov.
In the period from 1979 to 1997, he worked at enterprises in Kazakhstan and Bashkiria, first as a mining foreman, later became the head of the Kazzoloto mine, director of Kuprum LLP, and then headed the management of the Bashkir copper-bearing combine.…