Sergey Galitsky brief biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. The philanthropist sponsored two football stadiums and a large public park in Krasnodar. Childhood Sergei Galitsky was born on August 14 in the Krasnodar Territory, in the urban type of Lazarevskoye, which is now belonging to the Greater Sochi. According to his mother’s line, he is Russian, according to his father’s - on one fourth Armenian, at birth he wore his surname - Harutyunyan.

In the year, Sergey had a younger brother Andrei. In school years, the boy was interested in football and played it very actively for some time. However, at some point, he realized that he could not become a great football player, and changed his focus. At the age of 14, chess appeared in his life, which he began to engage in much more diligent. Two years later, he managed to become a candidate for master of sports.

In addition to football and chess, Sergey was also engaged in collecting and selling a hazelnut in the market. He gave his earned money to his parents.

Education after school Sergei did not enter the university at once. Instead, in the year he joined the army, where he served for two years. In the year, he submitted documents to the Kuban State University in Krasnodar at the Faculty of Economics, the specialty “Finance and Credit”, and in the first courses worked in parallel. The first steps in business, while studying at the University, Galitsky began working at the bank.

It turned out by chance: Sergey wrote an article on the topic of finance and sent it to the journal Finance and Credit. The editors of the publication and the director of one commercial bank liked it so much that he was immediately invited for an interview. Thus began his career in the world of economics and finance. The young man received a university diploma and lingered to the bank for another year.

At that time, he was already a deputy manager. Nevertheless, this work seemed unpromising to him, he believed that the bank's days were numbered, so he quit of his own free will. Sergei Galitsky in his youth instead Sergey decided to do his own business. To open the company, he took a loan from his acquaintances of bankers, and called former classmates to his partners. However, Galitsky wanted to move on.

He left the company for partners, and he began to engage in food business. The businessman fundamentally rented small rooms and opened small shops in small cities - did not want to compete with large retail outlets. Over time, these stores were combined into one network - Magnit. The name is the abbreviation from "Low Tariffs stores." His brainchild was positioned as shops at a house with low prices.

In the year in Russia, there were already stores of the Magnit chain. In the year, the man took the post of general director of the Magnit network. The first Magnit hypermarkets appeared in the year, and the number of supermarkets reached the year of stores in the year of stores, Rouge Cosmetics and perfumes - it was included in the Magnit network. In the year Magnit became the absolute leader of Russia in the field of food products.

The man explained his decision to some reasons: with age, it became difficult for him to devote himself to work completely and invent more and more ideas for business development. He compared himself to 50 with him at 35 and understood that the comparison was not in favor of the first. He also did not want to constantly interact with government agencies, and this is inevitable for the head of any large company.

According to Sergey, he is "not imprisoned." In addition, Galitsky is very tired of the fact that the Magnit is associated directly with it. If there were some unpleasant situations in production, he was always to blame for consumers. At the same time, it was simply not possible to control absolutely everything. Galitsky emphasized that the sale of shares was his decision.

It has been cultivated for quite some time, and the man is glad that everything turned out in this way. Although football did not come out of the professional football player from Galitsky, he carried his love for this sport through his whole life. It is not surprising that in the year he acquired a football club. Galitsky FC is called "Krasnodar". In the year, he entered the Premier League of Russia's football clubs.

The businessman says that he bought a club to motivate himself to make money further. In the year, Sergei invested his own funds in the construction of a football stadium in Krasnodar. According to media calculations, he spent about 20 billion rubles on him. A children's football academy was also built in the city. Sergey Galitsky is a big fan of football after the sale of Magnit network in the year, Sergey almost completely switched to football in the year and continued to develop his football club and popularize this sport in his hometown.

So, in the summer of the year, a new modern stadium created under the leadership of Sergei opened in Krasnodar. A wine business in the year, a man decided to do wine business. He acquired vineyards near Anapa 68 hectares and together with Shurin founded the Galitsky and Galitsky brand. The winery focuses on the production of wines of the varieties of Chardonete, Cabernet-Sovignon, Rining, Merlo.Wine belongs to the middle and premium segment and is sold in premium restaurants in specialized wine stores.

For the first time on the windows, it appeared in the year. According to experts, on average, the Galitsky winery can produce 66 thousand bottles per year. At the time of active work at Magnit, other companies created other companies and other companies: a chain of stores and factories for the production of food products TD-Holding LLC, Optil LLC, as well as PR agency art-Side, a hotel, and restaurants.

Now they are all part of the Magnit grocery business. In addition to the stadium and the Academy of Football, Sergey initiated the construction of a large public park in Krasnodar, which received a prize of the International Large Urban Parks Awards in the Eurasian Park Awards. 2.5 thousand coniferous and deciduous plants are planted in the park, and it is a favorite place for walking of the Krasnodar.

He is unofficially called the Galitsky Park. Galitsky’s park, for the first time in the list of richest businessmen according to the Russian version of Forbes magazine, Sergei Galitsky was in the year. They met while studying at the university. Victoria studied for an accountant. Victoria Galitskaya, when exactly Sergey and Victoria got married, is unknown because the businessman does not like to spread about his personal life.

He did not talk about why he took his wife’s last name. In the year, she was on the list of the richest Russian heirs, being in 5th place. The girl graduated from the same university as her father. Polina Galitskaya on June 22 became known about the death of Victoria Galitskaya. The woman passed away on June 14th. In recent years, she was very ill, supposedly, she had cancer.

In it, he talked about football: he said that now his main goal is to change the structure of his football club so that the leadership is no longer concentrated in the hands of one person. An interview with Sergey Galitsky Galitsky admitted that he was seriously ill, and because of this he could not devote all the time to his FC, but did not specify what exactly was sick, not wanting to immerse the public into personal problems.

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