Konstantin Babkin | |
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Константин Бабкин | |
![]() Babkin in 2017 | |
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Nationality | Russian |
Citizenship | Russia |
Alma mater | Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology |
Occupation(s) | Businessman and politician |
Political party | Party of Business |
Konstantin Anatolyevich Babkin (Russian: Константи́н Анато́льевич Ба́бкин; born 13 February 1971) is a Russian businessman and politician. He is the chairman of the Federal Council of the political party Party of Business, which supports the Vladimir Putin regime in Russia.[1]
He supported Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.[2] After Russia's annexation of Crimea, Babkin said to a crowd at a rally, "We should not stop at Crimea!"[1]
He is the president of CJSC Novoe Sodruzhestvo and the president Rosspetsmash association. Member of the board of directors of Rostselmash, Empils[3] and formerly Buhler Industries.[4][5][6] chairman of the board of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation on Industrial Development and Competitiveness of the Russian Economy.[7]
Babkin was born in 1971 in Miass (Chelyabinsk region; USSR) in the family of the State Rocket Center engineers. In 1994, graduated from the department of molecular and chemical physics of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.[8][9]
In 1992, Babkin became the co-founder of the Joint-Stock Company Industrial Association Commonwealth. Since 2005 he has been the president of the CJSC Production Association Novoe Sodruzhestvo.[10] The company includes 20 enterprises located in the Rostov region, Moscow, Kazakhstan, Ukraine, Canada and the United States. Key assets of the holding are Rostselmash, Empils and Buhler Industries[11][12] (Farm King,[13] Versatile[14]). The annual turnover is more than 1 billion dollars.
The main shareholders of Novoe Sodruzhestvo are its three founders and managing directors: Babkin, Dmitry Udras and Yuri Ryazanov.[15][16]
In conjunction with Dmitry Udras and Yuri Ryazanov withdrew Empils (1998) and Rostselmash (2000) plants from the crisis of the 1990-s.[17]
On the brink of failure in the 1990s, these days Rostselmash has been enjoying a revival. ... Rostselmash now sells to more than 35 countries and opened its first office in (Germany) last year. When Vladimir Putin gathered his advisers for a meeting on the development of regional industry earlier this year, they met at Rostselmash.
– The Economist, 8.11.2018.[18]
In November 2004, Babkin was elected the president of Rosspetsmash association,[19] renamed in 2017 in Rosspetsmash. He is the member of the Bureau of the Central Council of Russian Engineering Union.[20]
On 8 October 2006, he was elected the deputy of Novgorod Regional Duma of the fourth convocation in the Free Russia party list, which he headed (11.03%). He is a member of deputy group Veche, and a member of the budget, finance and economy committee.[21]
On 3 September 2010, Babkin initiated the creation of the organizing committee of all-Russian political party Party of Business. On 14 October 2010, at the constituent congress, he was elected the chairman of the Federal Political Party Council.[22]
chairman of the board of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of the Russian Federation on Industrial Development and Competitiveness of the Russian Economy.[7]
One of the organizers and a co-chairman of the Moscow Economic Forum.[23]
On 2 March 2022, Buhler Industries announced that Babkin had resigned as chairman and from the board of directors of the company.[24][25]
Author of the book Sound Industrial Policy, or How can we manage to overcome the crisis? /"Razumnaya promyshlennaya politika, ili Kak nam vyyti iz krizisa"/ (Moscow: 2008. — ISBN 978-5-9901585-1-1), which has survived several editions[26][27] and was translated into English (2012).
Married. With five children: three sons and two daughters[8]