Kirill Shamalov

Russian businessman, the ex-son-in-law of Vladimir Putin

Kirill Nikolayevich Shamalov (Russian: Кирилл Николаевич Шамалов; born 22 March 1982) is a Russian businessman, the ex-husband of Katerina Tikhonova and the ex-son-in-law of the Russian president Vladimir Putin. He was the former economic advisor to the Russian government.2

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Born Mar 22, 1982.1

About

He is the younger son of Nikolai Shamalov, a co-owner of Rossiya Bank and a close Putin confidant.

After marrying Putin's daughter in 2013, Shamalov was offered numerous lucrative and preferential business deals worth billions of dollars. He became Russia's youngest billionaire at the age of 32. Shamalov is a director and part-owner of Sibur, a Russian petrochemicals company. Shamalov's 21% stake in the company is reportedly worth $2 billion. The price for the stake and the circumstances behind the acquisition of the stake are unclear. Immediately after marrying Putin's daughter, he obtained a 3.8% stake (valued at $388 million) in the company for $100.

In 2018, the United States sanctioned him. After the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, Shamalov was sanctioned by the United Kingdom.

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Companies

Early life and education

  • Date not recordedSaint Petersburg State University3

Shamalov is the younger son of Nikolai Shamalov.

Shamalov was educated at Saint Petersburg State University, where he obtained a degree in law.

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Career

Occupation: Russian oligarch, civil servant, jurist, entrepreneur.5

  • Since 2008Vice president, Sibur4

After graduating at the age of 25, Shamalov was given an executive position at Gazprom-Media, Russia's largest media holding company.

Shamalov became an industry leader in 2012 when the owners of Sibur promoted him from Vice President of Business Administration to Deputy CEO. Shamalov owned a 0.5% stake in the company, while in June 2013 his offshore company Kylsyth Investments Limited based in Belize acquired a 3.8% stake in the company for only US$100. In August 2014, his Russian company Yauza 12, with the help of a loan from Gazprombank, purchased an additional 17% of Sibur from Gennady Timchenko, owner of Sibur, for roughly $2.2 billion.

According to the OCCRP, Shamalov owned a vast network of offshore companies by 2013.

In April 2017, Bloomberg reported that Shamalov sold his shares of Sibur that he purchased from Timchenko to Leonid Mikhelson, the other owner of Sibur.

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Personal life

  • BornMar 22, 1982, Saint Petersburg6
  • CitizenshipRussia7
  • SpousesKaterina Tikhonova 2013 to 20188 9; Zhanna Shamalova 2018 to 20228 10

In February 2013, Shamalov married Katerina Tikhonova, Putin's second daughter, at Igora, a small ski resort near Sosnovo in the Leningrad Oblast. In January 2018, Shamalov and Tikhonova separated. He allegedly lost 50% of his wealth due to this separation.

Later in 2018, Shamalov reportedly married Zhanna Volkova (Russian: Жанна Волкова). They have a daughter. The couple separated in mid-2021 and are in the midst of divorce proceedings. Shamalov filed a lawsuit to dismiss their marriage as invalid.

Shamalov owns millions of dollars' worth of real estate in Russia and France. On 14 March 2022, two Russian activists were arrested for breaking into and occupying Shamalov's villa in Biarritz, France; the activists had announced they intended to use the property to house Ukrainian refugees from the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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